Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Dinçer E. M. (Yürütücü)
Diğer Uluslararası Fon Programları, 2012 - 2014
My research from September 2012 until August 2014 focused on an auto engine assembly plant outside of Buffalo, New York where I examined the changing characteristics of industrial work and working class culture in a reindustrializing Rust Belt city of America. The plant was the recipient of the 2009 government bailout. Specifically, I examined the meanings of the work and industry for both traditional hires/higher tier workers and the new hires/lower tiers by focusing on the differences between as well as among them. In the dissertation that is based on this research, I will show how meanings associated with and around work vary across generations and how these changes shop floor culture. I argue that these changes have significant implications for the future of industrial work in America. Moreover, as unions continue to lose ground and adopt and welcome more managerial rhetoric, we also see the narrowing of the gap between union and non-union industrial workplaces. Since the government bailout is key to this transformation, it is significant to understand the role of states and state-like structures in the making of American reindustrialization.