Rusted dreams
hard times in a steel community
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Author
Contributions
- Lynch, Roberta. - Contributor
Publication
1988 - University of California Press, Berkeley, California
Language
English
Word Count
62,500 words, Guess
Page Count
250 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL2402330M
- ISBN-100520063023
- OCLC Control Number17107998
- OCLC Control Numberrusteddreamshard00bens
- Library of Congress Control Number87032619
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- Goodreads649175
- LibraryThing2633520
Classifications
- DDC330.9773/11
- LCCHC108.C4 B45 1988
Description
The larger consequences of the sharp decline of the American steel industry in the late 1970s and the 1980s are epitomized in the experience of a South Chicago neighborhood where two large steel mills shut down: mass unemployment and hardship; family tensions; deterioration of community institutions; decay of local businesses; and helplessness of business, political, and union leaders when confronted by the larger economic and political forces that had engulfed the industry. Bensman and Lynch believe that only a comprehensive strategy encompassing permanent import restrictions, industry modernization, and measures to widen the market for steel will save the industry and its workers. This is a perceptive and sympathetic account.
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