Gender and Economic Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region, 1920–1970

Dublin, Thomas; Licht, Walter

doi:10.1093/ohr/27.1.81

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“…Hazleton's other main industry-textile production-shifted to the Sunbelt states, which worsened the economic troubles. By the mid-1950s, unemployment in the city had reached 23% (Dublin and Licht, 2000). The decline of mining and textile industries not only led to a major exodus but also reconfi gured the age structure of the population in Hazleton.…”

Section: Class Downgrading and Loss Of Economic Controlmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Small-Town Defenders’: The Production of Citizenship and Belonging in Hazleton, Pennsylvania

Steil

Ridgley

2012

Environ Plan D

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Over the past five years an aggressive movement has emerged to return immigration enforcement powers to the local level in the US, and to some extent in Europe as well. Hazleton, PA, was home to the first local government in the US to pass an ‘Illegal Immigration Relief Act’ (IIRA), which subsequently became a model for other cities across the country seeking to implement their own immigration regulations. We argue that Hazleton's IIRA was as much productive of tensions over migration as it was the product of them. Neoliberal economic restructuring left Hazleton residents feeling a sense of ‘class downgrading’ but the ordinance itself was central in creating divisions between the native-born white population and recent Latino arrivals. As much as the ordinance served to exclude undocumented immigrants, it simultaneously served to unify native-born white residents by repositioning Hazleton as ‘small-town USA’, no longer marginal but, instead, central to the defense of American ‘quality of life’. Control over housing became a key form of spatial and territorial control through the creation of a location in which outsiders could be defined as not-belonging and local citizenship could be imbued with new meaning. The paper illuminates the ways in which ‘Americanness’ and citizenship are locally constructed and highlights the significance of territorial control and collective identity in addition to economic restructuring in the resurgence of local immigration regulations.

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Section: Class Downgrading and Loss Of Economic Controlmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Small-Town Defenders’: The Production of Citizenship and Belonging in Hazleton, Pennsylvania

Steil

Ridgley

2012

Environ Plan D

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“…In accordance with this, 40 studies reported outcomes within the primary job market-in our case, the coal industry-of which 24 reported job losses in general (usually mentioning that these mining jobs were largely occupied by men, e.g., Dublin and Licht 2000), 8 specifically reported job losses for men, and 2 reported reduced employment for women in the coal industry [45,59]. Furthermore, various studies emphasise the stark gender segregation of occupations, with men working in heavy industry, while women predominantly held factory jobs or performed care-based activities [66,67]. Before the transitions, gender differences in tasks and skills were rigid, as some of the coal regions had little other industry and thus scarce alternative employment opportunities for women, leading them to mainly perform unpaid work [68,69].…”

Section: Gendered Labour Market Effectsmentioning

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“…Four of the studies we evaluated even mentioned increases in domestic violence during the transition [9,60,71,82]. While the causes of domestic conflicts are manifold, the juxtaposition between women's traditional responsibilities in households and the changing nature of women's social positions through employment or political engagement and the resulting erosion of the traditional gendered order have to be seen among them [60,66]. One study mentioned that after the strikes against the mine closures in the UK were over, women were expected to return to their domestic roles as carers, which many refused to do [79].…”

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confidence: 99%

Strengthening Gender Justice in a Just Transition: A Research Agenda Based on a Systematic Map of Gender in Coal Transitions

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For climate change mitigation, a rapid phase-out of fossil fuels such as coal is necessary. This has far-reaching gender-specific consequences. This paper presents a systematic map of the literature that examines the impact of historical coal phase-out processes on women and their role in these processes. The search process consisted of screening over 3100 abstracts and reading 247 full-text studies. The analysis of the 73 publications ultimately included in the systematic map shows that past coal phase-outs meant both opportunities (e.g., increased labour market participation) as well as burdens for women (e.g., double burden of job and household). It becomes clear that agency within coal transitions was also gendered. For example, it was difficult for women to gain access to union structures, which led them to organise themselves into grassroots movements. Our research shows that policies aiming for a just sustainability transition should always be explicitly gender-responsive. However, the impact of sustainability transitions on women’s lives remains largely under-researched. Therefore, we propose a research agenda based on our findings containing six key issues that need to be addressed scientifically.

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“…Narrators' perceptions and understandings of their personal experiences also expose the broader network of social constraints and possibilities within which they acted (Dougherty, 1999;Dublin & Licht, 2000;Maynes et al, 2008, p. 10). Thoughtful analysis of oral histories can identify meaningful connections between individual and social experience, between "individual life trajectories and collective forces and institutions beyond the individual" (Maynes et al, 2008, p. 3).…”

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TFA and the magical thinking of the “best and the brightest”

Blumenreich

Rogers

2016

EPAA

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This article draws on oral history testimonies to examine the experiences of participants in the inaugural 1990 cohort of Teach For America (TFA)—a group of young people dubbed the “best and brightest” of their generation and tasked with “saving” urban education. For 25 years, TFA has operated according to the principle of the “best and brightest,” in which it is assumed that participants’ personal qualities and prior academic achievement can stand in for deep professional knowledge and experience. Yet as our data show, the presumptions—that any “smart” person should be able to pick up teaching by doing it, that there is no specialized knowledge needed in order to teach, and that “outsiders” with little knowledge of a school community and its families can “swoop in” and “rescue” underserved students—ultimately set up and demoralized the participants with whom we spoke when they could not live up to such unrealistic expectations. Through participants’ words and experiences, framed in historical context, we raise questions about the myth of the “best and brightest,” the theory of action promoted by TFA, and what it takes to teach in urban classrooms.

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Gender and Economic Decline: The Pennsylvania Anthracite Region, 1920–1970

Cited by 6 publications

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‘Small-Town Defenders’: The Production of Citizenship and Belonging in Hazleton, Pennsylvania

‘Small-Town Defenders’: The Production of Citizenship and Belonging in Hazleton, Pennsylvania

Strengthening Gender Justice in a Just Transition: A Research Agenda Based on a Systematic Map of Gender in Coal Transitions

TFA and the magical thinking of the “best and the brightest”

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