American Made What Happens To People When Work Disappears Farah Stockman by Farah Stockman 9781984801159, 9781984801166, 1984801155, 1984801163 instant download after payment.

In this real-life story of loss and reinvention, Farah Stockman takes us into the lives of three people who had built their lives around their place of work: the Rexnord steel bearings manufacturing plant in Indianapolis. She introduces us to Wally, a black man who dreamed of starting his own barbecue business; Shannon, a white single mother who became the first woman to run the factory's dangerous furnaces; and John, a white machinist whose multi-generational union family background clashed with a work environment increasingly hostile to labour organizing. Factories like Rexnord had served as an economic engine for the surrounding community. With its closure, hundreds of workers lost their jobs. What had life been like for three workers at this factory, and what became of them after the factory moved to Mexico and Texas? 

American Made is the story of a community struggling to reinvent itself. It is also a story about race, class, and American values, and how jobs serve as a bedrock of people’s lives and drive powerful social justice movements. This revealing book shines a light on this political moment when joblessness and uncertainty about the future of work have made themselves heard at a national level. Most of all, it is a story about people: who we consider to be one of us and how the dignity of work lies at the heart of who we are.