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Working-Class Men's Patriarchal Nostalgia

ROCKING OUR PRIORS

CHAPTER

The Demise of Good Jobs

Working-class jobs were no picnic, but from America to Zambia and Eta-Z, they gave men pride. Fast forward to today we see the demise of good jobs. Western firms have cut costs by automating routine tasks once performed by middle-scale workers. In places where there was a premium for heavy manual labor like coal mining, Appalachia, or the Zambian cobalt, men as a group were substantially elevated.

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