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Sto caricando le informazioni... American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears (2021)di Farah Stockman
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. The most memorable comment I found in this book was how America has entered the Walmart economy: where its employees are paid so little that shopping at Walmart is their only feasible alternative. ( ) I don't think this adds much to the "explain Trump to liberals" genre. Stockman herself seems to have a very limited, and privileged, position. Everything she finds novel I think is well known to anyone who's followed the news even slightly. There is nothing revelatory about the characters she follows. Ignorant and willfully misinformed, they are about as repulsive and ugly as the least-informed liberal might have expected from watching ten minutes of Fox propaganda. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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"Shannon, Wally, and John built their lives around their place of work. Shannon, a white single mother, became the first woman to run the factory's dangerous furnaces at the Rexnord manufacturing plant in Indianapolis and was proud of producing one of the world's top brands of steel bearings. Wally, a black man known for his initiative and kindness, was promoted to become chairman of efficiency, one of the most coveted posts on the factory floor, and dreamed of starting his own barbecue business one day. John, a white machine operator, came from a multigenerational union family and clashed with a work environment that was increasingly hostile to organized labor. The Rexnord factory had served as one of the economic engines for the surrounding community. When the factory closed, hundreds of people lost their jobs. What had life been like for Shannon, Wally, and John, before the factory closed? And what became of them after the factory moved to Mexico and Texas? American Made is a story about people and a community struggling to reinvent itself. It is also a story about race, class, and American values, and how jobs serve as a bedrock of people's lives and drive powerful social justice movements. This revealing book is also about this political moment, when joblessness and uncertainty about the future of work have made themselves heard at a national level. Most of all it is a story about people: who we consider to be one of us, and how the dignity of work lies at the heart of who we are"-- Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)331.13Social sciences Economics Labor economics Economics of labor Discrimination on the labor market, unemploymentClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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