Case Study 18 Abraham Maslow Up F 199A rank is a 42-year-old, Native American, married factory worker with two children. He lives in a small town in westem Pennsylvania that is located about an hour away from the nearest major city. The factory he works at man- ufactures chairs. He has been working the graveyard shift (11 P.M. to 7 A.M.) for about six years now. The hours are terrible, and he has never really gotten used to them. He tries to sleep when he gets home in the early moming but finds it difficult because his children are getting ready for school at that time and his wife is getting ready for work. Even if he waits to go to bed until every- one leaves the house, Frank still has trouble sleeping in the daytime. He is tired all the time, but at least he gets some sleep on weekends, and the money eamed working the third shift is better than that for the first or second shift. Sometimes he thinks that if he could just get enough sleep, he would be a truly happy man. Between their two incomes, Frank and his wife have been able to support their family. They have been able to buy a small house; there is always food on the table, and their children have decent clothes to wear. The house, the clothes, and the food are not fancy but always adequate. That is, Frank and his wife have been able to support their family until recently. Frank has just lost his job. Frank's plant had been bought out by a rival out-of-state company, and initially there seemed to be no change in the production schedule. Then one Friday, Frank received a notice in his paycheck telling him that this was his last day of work and asking him to take all his personal belongings with him. The factory was to be closed immediately because of the buyout. Frank was devastated by the news, as were his coworkers. The workers were also surprised by the news. It seemed as though the chair company had always been there, and they thought it always would be. Their fathers had worked at, and retired from, the company. Some of the workers' grandfathers did too. They thought that their jobs were secure. They were wrong. Frank and his coworkers had always taken pride in their work. They crafted their chairs by hand, using tools their fathers had used before them. They 63