Insider's View Of Mormon Origins Pdf Download
Sonya Schmiesing
This dissertation is an interdisciplinary analysis of the resistance strategies developed by the steelworkers of western Pennsylvania and new left activist in response to an economic restructuring of the American steel industry. The study examines two main areas: how workers viewed themselves and their relations to changing economic conditions, their historical consciousness; and problems they encountered employing the classical proletarian model of social change introduced by new left activist in what was essence a post-industrial America. The scholarship draws on economics, political science, sociology, anthropology, history, cultural studies, critical theory and business management methods. Ethnographic research and oral history methodologies are used to document the experiences of fifty key participants. The participant observer methodology provides an extremely rich "insider's" view of the consciousness at this...