Category: Week 9: Deindustrialization
-
Deindustrialization
In the article, the working class was transitioned by the decline of industrialized jobs and manufacturing jobs. These jobs were…
-
Results of Deindustrialization in America
As global competition increased in the manufacturing industry and reduction in employees was required to keep up, around 150,000 manufacturing…
-
Deindustrialization & Its Baggage
In “Enduring Disaster: The Recycling of the Working Class,” Gabriel Winant illustrates how the working-class, specifically steelworkers, were “recycled” following…
-
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: The Working Class’s Struggle in 1970’s and 1980’s America
Winant’s writing about the struggles of Pittsburgh steel workers in the 70s and 80s strikes a chord, especially in the…
-
Beyond the Breaking Point
Gabriel Winant’s “The Enduring Disaster: The Recycling of the Working Class” presents a compelling analysis of the persistent nature of…
-
The Pittsburgh Working Class: Unraveled in the Midst of Deindustrialization
Beginning in the late 1960s, Black workers—who often served as general laborers and second and third helpers in the Pittsburgh…
-
The Consequences of Deindustrialization
ABB During the 1970s and 1980s, Pennsylvania witnessed firsthand deindustrialization. A lot of steel industry factories closed and laid off…
-
The Economic, Social and Political Dimensions of Deindustrialization during the 1970s and 1980s
During the 1970s and the 1980s, the phenomenon of “recycling” was prevalent throughout the country; this “recycling” was a causation…
-
How was the working class “recycled” in the wrenching transition from an industrial to a service-based economy?
I think that the working class gets recycled in a way that it affects how they do their daily life…
-
How the recycling of the working class led to poverty
The economic strain experienced by Americans as a result of the collapsing steel industry, created the situation needed for the…