Reply: Breaking the Heartland. Creating the Precariat in the U.S. Lower Rust Belt: a response to Joseph J. Varga

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Title:	Reply: Breaking the Heartland. Creating the Precariat in the U.S. Lower Rust Belt: a response to Joseph J. Varga
Author(s):	Wigger, A.
Publication year:	2015
In:	Johnson, M. (ed.), Precariat: Labour, Work and Politics, pp. 61-66
Publisher:	New York : Routledge
ISBN:	9781138803206
Publication type:	Part of book or chapter of book
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item : https://hdl.handle.net/2066/170740
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Editor(s):	Johnson, M.
Subject:	Distributional Conflicts in a Globalizing World: Consequences for State-Market-Civil Society Arrangements
Organization:	Politicologie
Book title:	Johnson, M. (ed.), Precariat: Labour, Work and Politics
Page start:	p. 61
Page end:	p. 66
Abstract:	Joseph J. Varga’s ‘Breaking the heartland’ makes a very important and astute contribution to understanding the socioeconomic processes that have led to the emergence of precariat in the ‘lower rust belt’ of Southern and Central Indiana. The demise of employment conditions is particularly interesting as back in the 1960s and 1970s, unionizations rates were one of the US’ highest in what is also known as the Lower Midwest. Alongside a profound de-industrialization of the region in the time between the 1980s and 2000, the number of unionized workers has dropped dramatically – well before the adoption of antiunion legislation in 2012, or what has been euphemistically disguised as ‘right to work’ laws.