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Forced Choices: Class, Community, and Worker Ownership (SUNY series in the Sociology of Work and Organizations) - Softcover

Varano, Charles S.

 
9780791441824: Forced Choices: Class, Community, and Worker Ownership (SUNY series in the Sociology of Work and Organizations)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0791441822 ISBN 13: 9780791441824
Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1999

Synopsis

Examines the celebrated case of Weirton, West Virginia where steelworkers and area residents fought to save a steelmill, community, and way of life.

CHOICE 1999 Outstanding Academic Title
2000 Distinguished Scholarship Award presented by the Pacific Sociological Association

What happens to employees when their company decides to close? Thousands of workers across America have faced this prospect in the past twenty years, but relatively few have chosen to buy the company and operate it as a worker-owned concern. Forced Choices examines the celebrated case of Weirton, West Virginia, where steelworkers and area residents fought to save a steelmill, community, and way of life.

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About the Author

Charles S. Varano is Assistant Professor of Sociology at California State University, Sacrament.

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Publisher
State University of New York Press
Publication date
1999
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0791441822
ISBN 13 
9780791441824
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
396