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Exit Zero: Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago

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Winner of CLR James Book Prize from the Working Class Studies Association and 2nd Place for the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing. 

In 1980, Christine J. Walley’s world used to be turned upside down when the steel mill in Southeast Chicago where her father worked impulsively closed. In the ensuing years, ninety thousand other area residents would also lose their jobs in the mills—just one example of the vast scale of deindustrialization occurring across america. The disruption of this event propelled Walley into a career as a cultural anthropologist, and now, in Exit Zero, she brings her anthropological point of view home, examining the fate of her circle of relatives and that of blue-collar The us at large.
 
Interweaving personal narratives and circle of relatives photos with a nuanced assessment of the social impacts of deindustrialization, Exit Zero is one part memoir and one part ethnography— providing a much-needed female and familial point of view on cultures of labor and their decline. Through vivid accounts of her circle of relatives’s struggles and her own upward mobility, Walley reveals the social landscapes of The us’s industrial fallout, navigating complex tensions among class, labor, economy, and environment. Unsatisfied with the notion that her circle of relatives’s turmoil used to be inevitable in the ever-forward progress of america, she provides a fresh and important counternarrative that gives a new voice to the many Americans whose distress resulting from deindustrialization has too continuously been ignored.

This book is a part of a project that also includes a documentary film and interactive website. For more info, and the chance to share your own stories, photos, and artefacts regarding the history of Southeast Chicago, please discuss with: http://www.exitzeroproject.org/


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