Robert Bruno is Assistant Professor in the Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations at the University of Illinois.
In marvellously well written passages, Bruno is able to really
evoke a feeling for the working and home lives of his
interviewees.... He builds up a picture of life experience that is
completely at odds with any notion of the disappearance of the
working class.
*The Journal of Industrial Relations*
Steelworker Alley suggests that the recent books on working-class
illiberalism do not tell the whole story.
*Industrial and Labor Relations Review*
Steelworker Alley is a compassionate book based on extensive
research chronicling the lives and identities of men who had been
steelworkers. Bruno offers a significant contribution to the debate
on class consciousness by examining how the similarity of their
lives on the job, at home and in their neighborhoods created the
basis for a shred sense of identity for steelworkers.... This
analytical account... raises troubling concerns regarding the
options people have to provide for their families in a economic
system so heavily weighed against them.
*Canadian Journal of Sociology*
This book combines the immediacy of personal recollection with
scholarly analysis to describe working-class life.
*Library Journal*
Bruno has provided a very compelling discussion of how class works
in Youngstown.... Steelworker Alley is an important contribution to
new working-class studies. Not only is it worker-centered, but it
attempts to deal with the contradictory expressions of class in
America. The book should be of interest to labour historians and
educators, social scientists, and cultural geographers.
*Left History*
For this well-written ethnography, Bruno interviewed 75 retirees,
wives and other residents.... Readers see everyday working-class
life.... Recommended for classes in stratification, social history,
and work.
*Choice*
In marvellously well written passages, Bruno is able to really evoke a feeling for the working and home lives of his interviewees.... He builds up a picture of life experience that is completely at odds with any notion of the disappearance of the working class.
-- Diane Fieldes * The Journal of Industrial Relations *This book combines the immediacy of personal recollection with scholarly analysis to describe working-class life.
* Library Journal *Bruno has provided a very compelling discussion of how class works in Youngstown.... Steelworker Alley is an important contribution to new working-class studies. Not only is it worker-centered, but it attempts to deal with the contradictory expressions of class in America. The book should be of interest to labour historians and educators, social scientists, and cultural geographers.
-- John Russo, Youngstown State University * Left History *For this well-written ethnography, Bruno interviewed 75 retirees, wives and other residents.... Readers see everyday working-class life.... Recommended for classes in stratification, social history, and work.
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