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- Title
Small Expectation and Great Adjustments: How Hamilton Workers Most Often Experienced the Great Depression.
- Authors
Archibald, W. Peter
- Abstract
Workers have been said to respond to depriving economic crises by either rebelling collectively (an Optimistic Scenario) or individually, by becoming preoccupied with surviving, competing with other workers, and making various psychic adjustments to deprivation (a Pessimistic Scenario). After analyzing interviews about the Great Depression with 200 retired Hamilton workers, the author finds that a plurality of workers neither overtly rebelled nor completely conformed covertly, and that both scenarios sometimes applied to the same individual workers. Nevertheless, the Pessimistic Scenario accounts for the data far better than does the Optimistic one. The author also suggests contingencies which may increase the likelihood of one or the other scenario of events.
- Subjects
CRISES; EMPLOYEES; PSYCHOLOGY; INTERVIEWING; DEPRESSIONS (Economics)
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Sociology, 1996, Vol 21, Issue 3, p359
- ISSN
0318-6431
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/3341771