Deindustrialization And Globalization In The Wire

Within the second season of “The Wire”, we can begin to see the changes that deindustrialization and globalization are making to the experience of work and economic safety in cities for the working class. These changes have major effects on many characters in “The Wire”, specifically Lou, Frank, Nick, and Ziggy Sobotka. The Sobotkas are stevedores at the docks in Baltimore, and their experiences embody the key changes that a big city like Baltimore is experiencing, particularly in how a phenomenon like deindustrialization affects the poor and the working class.

Globalization had a huge effect on the working class. During the industrial era, there were plenty of well-paying blue-collar jobs available, in which one person could work and support

As people get older, they are much less likely to be involved in criminal activities due to the fact that they generally become more financially stable and less likely to take risks. Nick and Ziggy both get involved in crime relatively quickly, but Frank and Lou are much more hesitant. Lou refuses to get involved in any criminal activity, and Frank is very hesitant about what he’ll do, and tries to limit his illegal activities as much as possible.

There is also a clear relationship between what is going on in the lives of the stevedores in Baltimore and what is happening to workers in factories. As deindustrialization hits the working class, many lose their jobs and are driven into a life of crime to be able to make money or support their families. In the Koppers Company as described in The Hero’s Fight,

Between the stevedores, young black male drug dealers, and new immigrants, there is an almost line of succession that corresponds to criminal behavior. In many cities, when new ethnic groups arrive, they live in the poorest neighborhoods, often closest to the central city. Almost all of these new immigrant groups resort to criminal behavior as a means to make money in a new city at a disadvantage. As these ethnic groups make money, and as newer and poorer ethnic groups immigrate in, the older ethnic groups begin to move to better neighborhoods and find more legitimate work, as the new ethnic groups take their place. We see this with the stevedores like Frank, who don’t want to partake in criminal activity and are trying to thrive in legal blue-collar jobs, and young black drug dealers, who are still breaking the law but are beginning to try to exit the mold of criminals, which we can see in Stringer Bell taking courses to run the drug dealing operation like a “true business”. The Greeks, who are the newest immigrants to Baltimore, function almost as a mafia, and embrace criminality in its