Surviving Job Loss: Papermakers in Maine and Minnesota, by Kenneth A. Root and Rosemarie J. Park. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazo, MI, 2016, 251 pp., ISBN: 9780880995085, $19.99, paperback.
| Author | Stevie Marsden |
| Date | 01 December 2017 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/bjir.12278 |
| Published date | 01 December 2017 |
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Surviving Job Loss: Papermakers in Maine and Minnesota, by Kenneth A. Root and
Rosemarie J. Park. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazo, MI,
2016, 251 pp., ISBN: 9780880995085, $19.99, paperback.
In Surviving Job Loss: Papermakers in Maine and Minnesota, Kenneth Root and
Rosemarie Park present an in-depth comparative analysis of dislocated workers in
down-sized paper mills owned by the Verso Corporation in Sartell, Minnesota, and
Bucksport, Maine, USA. The downsizings took place in 2011 and the negativeimpact
of these layos (which saw 169 workers let go from the Sartell mill and 151 workers
from the Bucksport mill) was amplified by a fatal explosion and fire at Sartell soon
after. The accident led to Verso permanently closing the facility and 280 subject to
redundancy.This is the context in which Root and Park begin their analysis, focusing
on how the job loss aected the dislocated paper mill workers in terms of their family
and social life, mental and physical health and financial status.
Rootand Park gathered the bulk of the primary data for their analysis from10-page
questionnaires that were distributedto displaced workers fromSartell and Bucksport.
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