Over a period of six years, at factory and warehouse, at the tavern across the road, in their homes and union meetings, on fishing trips and social outings, David Halle talked and listened to workers of an automated chemical plant in New Jersey's industrial heartland. He has emerged with an unusually comprehensive and convincingly realistic picture of blue-collar life in America. Throughout the book, Halle illustrates his analysis with excerpts of workers' views on everything from strikes, class consciousness, politics, job security, and toxic chemicals to marriage, betting on horses, God, home-ownership, drinking, adultery, the Super Bowl, and life after death. Halle challenges the stereotypes of the blue-collar mentality and argues that to understand American class consciousness we must shift our focus from the "working class" to be the "working man."
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David Halle is professor of sociology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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Amazing Inside Look,
This review is from: America's Working Man: Work, Home, and Politics Among Blue Collar Property Owners (Paperback)
This book is a fascinating inside look at a hidden side of the American industrial complex. Having worked in a chemical company for 13 years, I can attest that David Halle's depiction of factory workers is very accurate. I'm amazed he was able to get inside.
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This review is from: America's Working Man: Work, Home, and Politics Among Blue Collar Property Owners (Hardcover)
It took David 7 years, as a research project, to "infiltrate" a NJ chemical plant, which is what it took to get the workers to trust him and reveal the secrets of how plants are *really* run. I worked for a chemical company for 13 years (not in a plant) and this book was an eye-opener. But then the behaviors of plant personnel made much more sense. The book helped me understand a very serious issue that went on in one of our plants. This information is very pertinent though may be less current due to increased automation of plant functions. A needed social project that involved a enormous commitment!
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Among the most striking features of the United States is the high rate of homeownership. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
class identification question, tertiary beliefs, thinning room, contradictory cosmology, primary cosmology, batch worker, car handlers, kettle room, joking relations, mechanization level, formula card, batch operators, nouvelle classe ouvrière, automated plants, monitoring type, life outside the workplace, batch plant, upper white collar, boiler operator, job features, leisure lives Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World War, United States, Memorial Day, New Jersey, Independence Day, New York City, Civil War, Super Bowl, World Series, Olympic Games, Scotch Plains, New Year's Day, Social Security, General Motors, Mickey Mouse, Old Bridge, Roselle Park, Santa Claus, Staten Island, Election Day, Frank Leiter, Frederick Taylor, Las Vegas, President Reagan, Sterling Forest New!
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class identification question, tertiary beliefs, thinning room, contradictory cosmology, primary cosmology, batch worker, car handlers, kettle room, joking relations, mechanization level, formula card, batch operators, nouvelle classe ouvrière, automated plants, monitoring type, life outside the workplace, batch plant, upper white collar, boiler operator, job features, leisure lives Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
World War, United States, Memorial Day, New Jersey, Independence Day, New York City, Civil War, Super Bowl, World Series, Olympic Games, Scotch Plains, New Year's Day, Social Security, General Motors, Mickey Mouse, Old Bridge, Roselle Park, Santa Claus, Staten Island, Election Day, Frank Leiter, Frederick Taylor, Las Vegas, President Reagan, Sterling Forest New!
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- American Occupational Structure by Peter M. Blau on 5 pages
- The class structure of the advanced societies (Hutchinson university library: sociology) by Anthony Giddens on 5 pages
- All Quiet On The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque on 4 pages
- In Search of the New Working Class: Automation and social integration within the capitalist enterprise (Cambridge Studies in Sociology) by Gallie on 4 pages
- Automobile Workers and the American Dream by Ely Chinoy on 4 pages
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