Exit Zero Analysis

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Exit Zero is about the impact that deindustrialization has had on expanding class inequalities in the United States, but is told through the separate experiences of the old steel mill communities of Southeast Chicago where the author was raised. When several mills closed in the early 1980s, the tens of thousands of newly unemployed steelworkers in Chicago and the surrounding area had massive problems keeping themselves, and their families, afloat. US steel mills were not as profitable as other manufacturing firms, high tech industries, or high finance. After the shutdown, companies would buy manufacturing enterprises in leveraged buyouts, strip them of assets, direct cash flows into more lucrative enterprises, declare bankruptcy of the business, …show more content…
Chapter 2 talks about in 1989 the local newspaper, the Daily Calumet had reported that nearly 800 out of the 3400 Wisconsin Steel mill workers had died from alcohol-mental health issues, suicide, or lack of health care. This loss of culture and life leads to depression, which leads to suicide and alcoholism like Wally’s father faced depression and pain towards the corporations that destroyed his self-respect because he blamed them for costing his job. The author also went into everything from the self- respect with the employees being laid off to the breakdown of almost 25% of men who fell victim to mental health after being laid off. Deindustrialization is “about the reworking of social relationships in moments of historical flux in a way that benefits some at the expense of …show more content…
Her father even landed a security job, but it only lasted a few years before his contract did not get renewed. An income that continue long after the effort is has been expanding. Rich people understand a leveraging the effort of others is the key to wealth. The poor and the middle class is struck in time for money prison. This is where people pay you for your effort. This is what happens, you forward an effort and your job pay you money for that effort. That money go to your bills or your family like Christine. After half the money is gone on your bills, you go back to work to put effort in to get pay and to generate money. Then bills come back and you have to pay them again. This is called the rate race. Christine and her family is doing all this work but not getting a head. There is no upward