Exit Zero Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago

Name: Exit Zero Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago
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ISBN: 9780226871806

ISBN-10: 0226871800

ISBN-13: 9780226871806

Edition: 2012

Authors: Christine J. Walley

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In 1980, Christine J. Walley’s world was turned upside down when the steel mill in Southeast Chicago where her father worked abruptly closed. In the ensuing years, ninety thousand other area residents would also lose their jobs in the mills—just one example of the vast scale of deindustrialization occurring across the United States. The disruption of this event propelled Walley into a career as a cultural anthropologist, and now, inExit Zero, she brings her anthropological perspective home, examining the fate of her family and that of blue-collar America at large. Interweaving personal narratives and family photos with a nuanced assessment of the social impacts of deindustrialization,Exit…

Book details

List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/17/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 0.60" wide x 0.92" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Christine Walley is associate professor of anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the author of Rough Waters: Nature and Development in an East African Marine Park.



Preface


Acknowledgments


Map of Southeast Chicago


Introduction



A World of Iron and Steel: A Family Album



It All Came Tumbling Down: My Father and the Demise of Chicago's Steel Industry



Places Beyond



The Ties That Bind


Conclusion From the Grave to the Cradle


Notes


Bibliography


Index