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Rosenzweig (1983:223) shows how Worcester's working class in their leisure pursuits call into question any thesis of cultural consensus. Many of the workers in the Pittsfield General Electric plant carry out elaborate projects in the home that redeem their own sense of skill and proficiency. In their family life, discussed in Chapter 9, workers express the individuality and autonomy that are often denied on the job. The studies that concentrate on the labor process divorced from the wider society tend to overemphasize the exclusive control of Page 20 employers and neglect the strategies of workers in shaping the labor process.
Finally the General Electric Company announced on November 22, 1986 that the entire division would be closed. Over half of the two thousand workers still working in the plant would be laid off in 1987, and the company could not promise that the remaining workers would continue to be employed making arrestors and bushings. The announcement came almost one hundred years after William Stanley formed the original company in 1890. It was not entirely a surprise, since the Power Transformer Division has laid off over 3,000 workers since 1974.
Following the war, the wave of strikes spread from auto and steel workers to the electrical machinery industry. Nationally organized trade unions confronted nationally integrated industries. The ethnic divisions and some of the racial divisions that split labor in the pre-war years were overcome by the patriotic commitment of second-generation Americans in the war effort. Wearing uniforms on the picket lines, young veterans let the managers of the corporation, who were often recruited from out of the city and out of state, know that they were the natives.