BBC News, Washington - March 25, 2014
Decades ago, the American
dream inspired employees, offering the promise of the good life. But
now, with jobs disappearing, that dream has become a nightmare for the
unemployed who see their joblessness as a personal - and shameful -
failure.
Victor Tan Chen studies some of the unluckiest people in the US.The sociology fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, researches car workers in cities like Detroit, hard-hit by the economic downturn and by long-term trends in the US industrial base.
"But they used to be the luckiest men in America," Chen says.
Decades ago, car workers lived the quintessential American Dream: they pursued stable, well-paying, union-backed jobs, often straight out of high school. They were able to build a middle-class life and provide the promise of something better to their children.
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