I Saw it Coming

TRACY E. K'MEYER is Associate Professor in Recent US History and Co-Director of the Oral History Center at the University of Louisville, USA. JOY L. HART is Professor of Communication at the University of Louisville, USA.

"One of the great achievements of this work, in my opinion, is that the authors asked displaced workers not only to tell of the effects of job loss but to explain what happened and why. The why question is almost never asked of displaced workers and the results are fascinating ... We therefore learn a great deal from these highly political explanations." - Steven High, Canada Research Chair in Public History, Concordia University, Canada

• 'This Plant's Going to be There Forever' 'The Dangers of Some of the Jobs was Unreal' 'I Knew that Factory Wasn't Going to Last' 'I was Overjoyed, I was Sad, I was Hurt' 'There's No Such Thing as Job Security Anymore'