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Kelvin Fields 3400:470:001 Fall 03 Robert Bruno: Steel Worker Alley: How Class Works in Youngstown: Ithaca, New York Cornell University 1999. 222pgs. Beginning in the 1960s, labor history in the United States underwent a rather startling transformation, shifting its focus from historical studies of national economies, labor parties, and institutionalized labor movements to the social, cultural and political history of the working class. The means for this shift included the revitalization of multiple identities of workers through gender, …

…all the resources or certain topics he produce in the book. In conclusion his research help contribute to the debate on class-consciousness by examining how the similarity of steelworkers lives on the job, at home and in their neighborhoods created the basis for a shared sense of identity for steelworkers. By using such methods as Race, Religion, Neighborhoods and Leisure to support his argument that race did not necessarily hinder a worker's identification with class. .