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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-osu13219761102021-08-03T06:04:03Z Class and Culture among Unsettled Lives: Displaced Steelworkers’ Accountings for Job Loss Carruth, Paul While existing research suggests that changes in the U.S. economy have weakened the security and well-being of working-class men, little is known about how workers interpret the causes and consequences of these changes. Accordingly, we lack understandings of the cultural dynamics that may influence action among workers. The current study draws on recent work on symbolic boundaries and narrativity to examine the cultural work of individuals with coping with deindustrialization. Drawing upon interviews with 59 steelworkers whose plant had recently shut down, this research analyzes how displaced workers attribute their circumstances to two sets of actors: managers and government representatives. In contrast to claims that workers’ definitions of “us” and “them” are founded on moral rather than material criteria, the findings indicate that workers with unsettled lives make sense of their circumstances through counter-hegemonic narratives based on material concerns. These results demonstrate that attention to the exigencies of local contexts is necessary to explore working-class consciousness. 2011 English text The Ohio State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1321976110 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1321976110 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws.
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Class and Culture among Unsettled Lives: Displaced Steelworkers’ Accountings for Job Loss
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2011
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