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X-WR-CALNAME:Bethlehem Steelworkers: Reshaping the Industrial Working Class
  by Jill Schennum
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DESCRIPTION:This talk will explore the moral economy forged inside Bethlehe
 m Steel’s flagship mill and experienced by the last\ngeneration of Bethl
 ehem steelworkers. Workers entering the mill in the 1960s and early 1970s 
 walked into what they described as a “different world\,” one in which 
 social relations built inside a unionized workplace gave strength to steel
  workers. This position of power was then eroded by 20 years of deindustri
 alization\, ending in bankruptcy\nof the corporation. Steelworkers’ stre
 nuous efforts to hold onto the hard-won benefits of the Fordist era were u
 ndermined by the contradictory dynamics of deindustrialization and by the 
 profitable liquidation of corporate\nassets. Ultimately\, a “new economy
 ” was redefined in the region.\n\n \n\nDr. Jill Schennum is a cultural a
 nthropologist and author of the new book\, As Goes Bethlehem: Steelworkers
  and the Restructuring of an Industrial Working Class. She has conducted e
 thnographic research on ex-steelworkers and processes of deindustrializati
 on in Bethlehem\, PA for the past 15 years. She Chairs the Department of S
 ocial Sciences at the County College of Morris. She has been engaged in pu
 blic anthropology in Bethlehem\, including\nserving as an Officer with the
  Steelworkers’ Archives.
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LOCATION:Humanities Center
SUMMARY:Bethlehem Steelworkers: Reshaping the Industrial Working Class by J
 ill Schennum
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 s-reshaping-the-industrial-working-class-by-jill-schennum
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