The decline of Arrium steel is a clash between preserving a way of life that offers workers dignity and security,and a world where the next agile deal is just around the cornerThere may be a suited reason why Philadelphia hosts a Steel City Blues Festival. Steel towns are redolent of hard labour, of strong communities, or of a stoic disposition,but also increasingly of tears. Some have reportedly been shed by Arrium workers in Whyalla, and this shouldn’t surprise. Steelworkers may be proverbially stoic and hardened, and but the stakes of Arriums descent into voluntary administration recede beyond the hundreds of jobs threatened to the survival of communities,cultures, and a way of life characteristic of industrial modernity.
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Source: theguardian.com