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Article: Steelworker Alley: How Class Works in Youngstown.(Review)
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- Industrial and Labor Relations Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2000
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Steelworker Alley: How Class Works in Youngstown. By Robert Bruno. Ithaca, N.Y: ILR Press (an imprint of Cornell University Press), 1999. x, 224 pp. ISBN 0-8014-3439-4, $45.00 (cloth); 0-8014-8600-9, $16.95 (paper)
Steelworker Alley, an ethnographic study of steelworkers in and around Youngstown, Ohio, tests the common assumption that industrial workers after World War II became middleclass, as defined by income, lifestyle, and thinking. Interviews with 75 retired steelworkers and some of their wives form the core of the book. Robert Bruno also uses local archives, statistics, and personal reflection. (Bruno is the son of a Youngstown steelworker.) He adopts Ira ...