Forced Choices

Class, Community, and Worker Ownership

von Charles S. Varano

396 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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 Title2000 Distinguished Scholarship Award presented by the Pacific Sociological AssociationWhat 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.

• Reihe: SUNY Press
• ISBN: 9780791441824
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 27.05.1999
• Größe: 229 x 153 mm
• Verlag: State University of New York Press