Alumni Faculty Staff Luther College Press Collection.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-234) and index.
Contents:
The study, job loss, and the paper industry : Job loss in the pulp and paper industry ; Examples of job loss and recent mill closures -- Job loss at Verso : The communities involved ; Background to the present study ; What impact has the Great Recession had on locating new work? -- Responding to job loss : Earlier studies on job loss in the paper industry ; Employment options for displaced workers ; Studies on changes in health ; The timing of the search for replacement work ; Family impacts of job loss ; The continuing impact of the Great Recession -- Assistance provided to help dislocated workers : Worker adjustment and retraining notification ; The Workforce Investment Act of 1998 -- When women are job losers : Women on the work floor ; Downsizing and stress ; Older women and the future of work -- When couples lose their jobs : Interviews with the displaced couples ; Previous studies of dual-family earners ; Married couple respondents in our survey ; The ABCX model -- Islands in the storm: the plight of two communities : Do state differences affect displaced workers? ; Comparison of Sartell and Bucksport workers ; Problems and concerns facing those downsized -- A Canadian comparison : Understanding the differences between the Canadian and U.S. systems ; Paper manufacturing in Canada ; Programs to assist dislocated Mersey workers ; The Canadian labor market ; U.S. unemployment insurance characteristics -- The future of economic displacement for papermakers : Advice to a job loser ; Assistance to displaced individuals ; Verso advocacy for the pulp and paper industry ; Getting past the Great Recession in Minnesota -- The Verso acquisition -- Appendixes : A. 2012 Confidential survey of workers formerly employed by Verso in Bucksport, Main, and Sartell, Minnesota ; B. 2012 Confidential survey of workers displaced after the fire at the Sartell paper mill ; C. Methodological considerations ; D. 2013 Letter to married couples formerly employed by Verso in Sartell, Minnesota.
Summary:
Examines paperworkers displaced from two mills. Provides portraits that represent hundreds who lost their jobs. Follows their paths to reemployment, retirement, and the personal struggles that the ex-workers faced. Shows problems facing dislocated workers in contracting industries in the US.
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