Abstract
While researchers have documented the disappearance of traditional blue-collar jobs and the shifts in the collective understandings of legitimate employment relationships, we know very little about the micro-level judgments and identities of those coping with such changes. Drawing on insights from cultural sociology and the negotiated order perspective, this research uses interviews with displaced steelworkers to examine organization members’ attributions of mismanagement and sensemaking following a plant closure. The findings suggest that individual interpretations and evaluations are influenced by the negotiated order in which workers are embedded. The article discusses the implications of an organizational approach to understanding micro-level culture in contexts of environmental and organizational turbulence.
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