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The End of the Line (Paperback, New edition)
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The End of the Line (Paperback, New edition)
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An evocative and powerful portrait of America in transition, The
End of the Line tells the story of what the 1988 closing of the
Chrysler assembly plant in Kenosha, Wisconsin, meant to the people
who lived in that company town. Since the early days of the
twentieth century, Kenosha had forged its identity and politics
around the interests of the auto industry. When nearly six thousand
workers lost their jobs in the shutdown, the community faced not
only a serious economic crisis but also a profound moral one. In
this innovative study, Dudley describes the painful, often
confusing process of change that residents of Kenosha, like the
increasing number of Americans who are caught in the crossfire of
deindustrialization, were forced to undergo. Through interviews
with displaced autoworkers and Kenosha's community leaders,
high-school counselors, and a rising class of upwardly mobile
professionals, Dudley dramatizes the lessons Kenoshans drew from
the plant shutdown. When economic forces intrude on our lives, the
resulting changes in earning power, status, and access to
opportunity affect our sense of who we are, what we are worth, the
nature of the world we live in, and in particular, what it takes to
succeed. Dudley examines how ideas about self-worth - especially
those based on market ideologies of competition and the Darwinian
notion that only the fittest survive - become the subject of
intense cultural conflict. Dudley describes a community in conflict
with itself: while Kenosha's autoworkers struggle to regain an
economic foothold and make sense of their suddenly devalued place
in society, white-collar workers, professionals, and a new wave of
politicians see themselves at thevanguard of a new moral order that
redefines community as a "culture of mind" instead of the
traditional "culture of hands" long associated with the work of the
assembly line. This honest, moving portrait of one town's radical
shift from a manufacturing to a postindustrial economy will
redefine the way Americans across class lines think about our
families, communities, and future.
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