Exit Zero: Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago

by Christine J. Walley

Book Overview

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 was turned upside down when the steel mill in Southeast Chicago where her father worked abruptly 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226871800
• ISBN13: 9780226871806
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"