For retired steelworkers in Youngstown, Ohio, the label "working
class" fits comfortably. Questioning the widely held view that
laborers in postwar America have adopted middle-class values,
Robert Bruno shows that in this community a blue-collar identity
has provided a positive focus for many residents.The son of a
Youngstown steelworker, Bruno returned to his hometown seeking to
understand the formation of his own working-class consciousness and
the place of labor in the larger capitalist society. Drawing on
interviews with dozens of former steelworkers and on research in
local archives, Bruno explores the culture of the community,
including such subjects as relations among co-workers, class
antagonism, and attitudes toward authority. He describes how,
because workers are often neighbors, the workplace takes on a
feeling of neighborhood. He also demonstrates that to understand
class consciousness one must look beyond the workplace, in this
instance from Youngstown's front porches to its bowling alleys and
voting booths. Written with a deeply personal approach, Steelworker
Alley is a richly detailed look at workers which reveals the
continuing strength of class relationships in America.
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