The Magic City : : Unemployment in a Working-Class Community / / Gregory Pappas.
Thirty-two million Americans have lost jobs because of permanent factory closings since 1970. Gregory Pappas here provides an intimate account of the economic, social, psychological, and medical consequences of one such closing.Once known as "the magic city" of economic opportunity, Barber...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018] ©1989 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1. Parade: An Introduction
- 2. Fragile Affiuence
- 3. Not Hiring
- 4. Not by Bread Alone
- 5. Providential Ancestors
- 6. Mark and Danny: Two Case Studies
- 7. Cheese Politics
- 8. Epilogue: Some Observations on Working-Class Culture and Unemployment
- Bibliography
- Index