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Worked Over is a book about large-scale social change seen at close range, through the lives of generations of working people in a small manufacturing center along New York State's old Erie Canal. Their compelling stories add a new dimension to current debates over corporate power and the public good. Dimitra Doukas draws on ten years of ethnographic and historical research on the Mohawk River Valley towns of Herkimer, Illion, Frankfort, and Mohawk, where the Remington company, maker of arms and typewriters among other things, was for many years the backbone of a thriving regional society. Corporate takeover of the varied Remington enterprises in 1886 sent shock waves through this society, ushering in a century of social distress and decreasing political autonomy. Since the 1970s, the area has suffered mightily from deindustrialization. Local experience, Doukas finds, has shaped an American culture of strongly egalitarian ideals. From this perspective, the region's present plight appears, to many in the region, as a betrayal of American values. Knitting together the ethnographic present, the remembered past, and the historical past, the author tracks today's discontent to the dawn of the modern corporate era for a revealing and intimate look at the rise of a new political and economic power structure.

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  • Title Worked Over: The Corporate Sabotage of an American Community
  • Author Dimitra Doukas
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cornell University Press, Ithaca & London
  • Publication date 2003-03-11
  • ISBN 9780801488610 / 0801488613
  • Weight 0.69 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.12 x 6.02 x 0.56 in (23.16 x 15.29 x 1.42 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Geographic Orientation: New York
  • Category Business / Economics / Finance
  • Library of Congress subjects E. Remington & Sons - History, Big business - Social aspects - New York
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2002014618
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.309

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Dimitra Doukas is Assistant Professor/Instructor in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Dalhousie University.

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