A young man had worked many years in a car manufacturing plant. Starting in the
1990s, however, the plant started exporting the work overseas, and thousands were
laid off from their jobs, including him. Lacking new job skills and the money to pay
for new training, he fell into a depression, developed a drug addiction, and became
homeless, no longer able to provide for his family. Eventually, he was able to find
help through a local social services agency. Sociologists would likely analyze this
man's life circumstances according to: