Palgrave Studies in Oral History : Worker Narratives of Plant Closings and Job Loss - J. Hart

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Palgrave Studies in Oral History

Worker Narratives of Plant Closings and Job Loss

By: J. Hart, T. K'Meyer

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Hardcover | 29 January 2010 | Edition Number 1

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In this moving oral history, workers displaced by plant closings in Louisville, Kentucky tell their stories, emphasizing their agency, demanding respect for their skills, casting judgment on business and government for not showing that respect, and articulating the sense of alienation that has resulted from violation of their values and trust. Even as they acknowledge the negative consequences of the closings, however, they also reveal the positive outcomes they have seen in their own lives. The stories gathered here not only give the workers' side of the story of plant closings; they also help us understand how oral history narratives illuminate a sense of self, values, and responses to the violation of those values.

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"One of the great achievements of this work, in my opinion, is that the authors asked displaced workers not only to tell of the effects of job loss but to explain what happened and why. The why question is almost never asked of displaced workers and the results are fascinating . . . We therefore learn a great deal from these highly political explanations." - Steven High, Canada Research Chair in Public History, Concordia University, Canada

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Series Editors' Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
"This Plant's Going to Be There Forever"	p. 13
"The Dangers of Some of the Jobs Was Unreal	p. 35
"I Knew That Factory Wasn't Going to Last"	p. 61
"I Was Overjoyed, I Was Sad, I Was Hurt"	p. 97
"There's No Such Thing as Job Security Anymore"	p. 137
Conclusion	p. 155
Timeline	p. 163
Narrator	p. 165
Notes	p. 171
Bibiliography	p. 177
Index	p. 181
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Palgrave Studies in Oral History

Worker Narratives of Plant Closings and Job Loss

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