CITIZENSHIP AND THE POLITICS OF EXCLUSION IN A POST-FORDIST INDUSTRIAL-CITY

This article examines the experience of modernity for steelworkers and their families in Hamilton, Ontario who now face unprecedented insecu rity in production relations at the same time that they encounter shif ting ideas about the welfare state. The article argues tl-lat at a tim e when the material consequences of exclusion from entitlement are rea l and often frightening, these people draw on the discourse of moderni ty, and in particular ideas about state policies on immigration and so cial welfare, as well as their own situated historical experiences of class struggle, to reinforce their claims to entitlement and diminish those of others.