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Exit Zero Exit Zero Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago CHRISTINE J. WALLEY The University of Chicago Press Chicago and London Christine J. Walley is associate professor of anthropology at MIT and the author of Rough Waters: Nature and Development in an East African Marine Park. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 2013 by The University of Chicago All rights reserved. Published 2013. Printed in the United States of America 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 1 2 3 4 5 ISBN- 13: 978- 0- 226- 87179- 0 (cloth) ISBN- 13: 978- 0- 226- 87180- 6 (paper) ISBN- 13: 978- 0- 226- 87181- 3 (e- book) ISBN- 10: 0- 226- 87179- 7 (cloth) ISBN- 10: 0- 226- 87180- 0 (paper) ISBN- 10: 0- 226- 87181- 9 (e- book) Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Walley, Christine J., 1965– Exit Zero : family and class in postindustrial Chicago / Christine J. Walley. pages ; cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978- 0- 226- 87179- 0 (cloth : alkaline paper)—ISBN 978-0 - 226- 87180- 6 (paperback : alkaline paper)—ISBN 0-2 26- 87179- 7 (cloth : alkaline paper)—ISBN 0- 226- 87180- 0 (paperback : alkaline paper) 1. Steel industry and trade—Illinois—Chicago—History—20th century. 2. Working class—Illinois—Chicago—Social conditions—20th century. 3. Deindustrialization—Social aspects. 4. Walley, Christine J., 1965— Family. I. Title. HD9518.C4W355 2013 338.4'76691420977311—dc23 2012007587 o This paper meets the requirements of ANSI / NISO Z39.48-1 992 (Permanence of Paper). For my family CONTENTS Preface / ix Acknowledgments / xi Map of Southeast Chicago / xvii INTRODUCTION / 1 ONE / A World of Iron and Steel: A Family Album / 18 TWO / It All Came Tumbling Down: My Father and the Demise of Chicago’s Steel Industry / 57 THREE / Places Beyond / 89 FOUR / The Ties That Bind / 117 CONCLUSION / From the Grave to the Cradle / 153 Notes / 169 Bibliography / 199 Index / 209 Plate 1. The sack in which my g reat- grandfather, John Mattson, stuffed his memoir
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