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Farewell to the Factory: Auto Workers in the Late Twentieth Century Paperback - 1997 - 1st Edition
by Milkman, Ruth
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Details
- Title Farewell to the Factory: Auto Workers in the Late Twentieth Century
- Author Milkman, Ruth
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
- Date 1997-05-01
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # N00N-01708
- ISBN 9780520206786 / 0520206789
- Weight 0.81 lbs (0.37 kg)
- Dimensions 9.04 x 6.1 x 0.62 in (22.96 x 15.49 x 1.57 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Mid-Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Geographic Orientation: New Jersey
- Library of Congress subjects General Motors Corporation, Automobile industry workers - New Jersey -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96022684
- Dewey Decimal Code 331.762
From the publisher
From the rear cover
"Part ethnography and part contemporary labor history, Milkman's wonderful book will be required reading for anyone concerned with the transformation American industry has undergone in the past twenty years and what this transformation has meant for American workers."--David Brody, author of Workers in Industrial America
"Behind all of the statistics on downsizing, the shrinking of our industrial base, and the folly of short-sighted management is the human drama of working women and men and their unions, struggling for dignity, fairness, and security. In Farewell to the Factory, Ruth Milkman tells us the stories of workers in a New Jersey auto plant. Milkman's scholarship makes a valuable contribution to the national conversation on restoring the American Dream for working families."--John J. Sweeney, President, AFL-CIO
"A fascinating case study of deindustrialization and restructuring by one of the leading social historians of the auto industry. The book is a great read and should be widely adopted in the classroom."--Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley
"Milkman's impressive study probes the contemporary meaning of work, freedom and dignity in a fashion both sociologically rigorous and culturally evocative. Avoiding liberal nostalgia over the demise of industial America, Milkman deploys a magnificantly textured set of interviews to demonstrate that auto workers hated the chronic stress and humiliation of factory work even as they clung to its high pay and good benefits."--Nelson Lichtenstein, author of The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit: Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor
Media reviews
Citations
- Booklist, 05/01/1997, Page 1468