Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant: Bethlehem Steelworkers: Working Class Families in a Post-Fordist City

博士论文改进补助金：伯利恒钢铁工人：后福特主义城市的工人阶级家庭

• 批准号: 0822891
• 负责人: David Harvey
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: CUNY Graduate School University Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-09-01 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0822891&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Improvement; Grant; Bethlehem

Graduate student Jill A. Schenuum, with the guidance of Dr. David Harvey, will undertake research on former industrial workers and their families in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. These workers were displaced from their industry jobs as Bethlehem transitioned from being an industrial steel town to a town situated within a more flexible political economy. Although there is a robust social science literature on the deindustrialization of the 1980s, there are few follow-up studies of displaced industrial workers. This research addresses that gap.The researcher will focus particularly on how the economic changes altered the social landscape of everyday life in communities, families, and workplaces. She wishes to determine how these alterations at the micro-scale may have produced larger changes in class identity and relationships. She will collect qualitative data through interviews with former steel workers, participant observation in public events, and analysis of media. She will seek to determine how families make sense of the transition; how family forms, household structures, and gender roles influence and have been affected by the changes; and how working class morality and political action are shaped by and possibly shape, community organizations and urban social relations. The research will contribute to social science with a carefully carried out case study of the long-term social effects of deinudstrialization at the local level. It also will help to develop social policy to support workers in transition. In addition, the award supports the education of a social scientist.

研究生Jill A.Schenuum将在David Harvey博士的指导下，对宾夕法尼亚州伯利恒的前产业工人及其家人进行研究。随着伯利恒从一个钢铁工业城镇过渡到一个政治经济更加灵活的城镇，这些工人被迫离开了他们的行业工作。尽管关于20世纪80年代去工业化的社会科学文献很多，但很少有人对失业的产业工人进行后续研究。这项研究解决了这一差距。研究人员将特别关注经济变化如何改变社区、家庭和工作场所的日常生活的社会格局。她希望确定这些微观层面的变化如何可能在阶级认同和阶级关系方面产生更大的变化。她将通过对前钢铁工人的采访、在公共活动中的参与者观察以及对媒体的分析来收集定性数据。她将寻求确定家庭如何理解过渡；家庭形式、家庭结构和性别角色如何影响和已经受到变化的影响；以及社区组织和城市社会关系如何塑造并可能塑造工人阶级道德和政治行动。这项研究将对社会科学作出贡献，并对地方一级的除草剂的长期社会影响进行仔细的案例研究。它还将有助于制定社会政策，以支持转型中的工人。此外，该奖项还支持社会科学家的教育。