Forced Choices: Class, Community, and Worker Ownership (Sociology Work and Organizat)

Varano, Charles S.

ISBN 10: 0791441822 / ISBN 13: 9780791441824

Published by State University of New York Pre, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Forced Choices: Class, Community, and Worker Ownership (Sociology Work and Organizat)
• Publisher: State University of New York Pre
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791441822
• ISBN 13: 9780791441824
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Fine

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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.

About the Author

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