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Williams, Barbara Butts.

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How does work create meaning and significance in the lives of nine, older, working-class African American men employed in the automotive and steel industries during the 1990s?

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	How does work create meaning and significance in the lives of nine, older, working-class African American men employed in the automotive and steel industries during the 1990s?/
Author:	Williams, Barbara Butts.
Description:	192 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-01, Section: A, page: 0377.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-01A.
Subject:	Black Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3040949
ISBN:	9780493544038

How does work create meaning and significance in the lives of nine, older, working-class African American men employed in the automotive and steel industries during the 1990s?
Williams, Barbara Butts.

How does work create meaning and significance in the lives of nine, older, working-class African American men employed in the automotive and steel industries during the 1990s? - 192 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 63-01, Section: A, page: 0377.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Fielding Graduate Institute, 2002.

This qualitative study describes how work creates meaning and significance in the lives of 9, older, working-class African American men employed in the steel and automotive industries during the 1990s. These industries share a long history of Black worker employment, and have seen dramatic changes in their manufacturing and global relationships, and in the nature of work. This study examines literature on political economy, sociology of work, labor and race, and developmental theories, helping to guide analysis of the data. Fieldwork was conducted over 4 months, included in-depth interviews and observations, using a three-tier framework---individual, institutional, and macro---to categorize the men's stories. Themes included Race and Racism, Respect and Responsibility, Real Work, Conditions of Work, Coping, and Political Economy. Both descriptive and interpretive techniques are used to tell the stories of these men. Findings show that work holds both extrinsic and intrinsic meanings for these men. Some men think and feel that their participation in the workplace is a game, expressing this as internal experience. Some, more so, or in addition, see their work as an outside observers might. Frequently, a man portrays himself, earlier in his career, as the rookie, while later, as the veteran who knows the game. Men of both extremes seek respect, responsibility and authority, and playing the game comes with risks and opportunity. Some men felt rage earlier in their career. Weary, today some express contempt. The significance of real work shapes their identity as real men. A role as a committeeman or shop steward offers some men a chance to obtain respect, responsibility, and authority, and others felt that a title could compromise values and lower others' trust. Race and racism remained a force and obstacle against them. Social and work friendships inside and outside the workplace helped them cope. Their reality combines the past and present, and the future can seem frightening, yet these men valued how others saw them in their roles as provider, husband, father, worker, and Black man.

ISBN: 9780493544038Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017673
Black Studies.

How does work create meaning and significance in the lives of nine, older, working-class African American men employed in the automotive and steel industries during the 1990s?
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