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Remaking The Working Class: Experience, Class Consciousness, and the Industrial Adjustment Process
Author(s) -
Dunk Thomas
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.2002.29.4.878
Subject(s) - deindustrialization , rhetoric , unemployment , class consciousness , restructuring , hegemony , working class , consciousness , sociology , power (physics) , narrative , class (philosophy) , economic restructuring , gender studies , political science , economic growth , economics , psychology , economy , law , epistemology , linguistics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics , neuroscience , politics
In this article, I examine the interrelationships between experience, class consciousness, and unemployment counseling in displaced workers' narratives about the process of industrial adjustment Focusing on the rhetoric of unemployment counselors and trainers, I argue that the hegemony of neoconservative and neoliberal interpretations of industrial restructuring and economic change are secured—to the extent they are—through a microphysics of power that operates through the agents and agencies of assistance made available to displaced workers. [male working‐class culture, deindustrialization, Canada, discourse, experience, power]