Glass House - The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town (Paperback)

The Anchor Hocking Glass Company, once the world's largest maker of glass tableware, was the base on which Lancaster's society was built. As Glass House unfolds, bankruptcy looms. With access to the company and its leaders, and Lancaster's citizens, Alexander shows how financial engineering took hold in the 1980s, accelerated in the 21st Century, and wrecked the company. We follow CEO Sam Solomon, an African-American leading the nearly all-white town's biggest private employer, as he tries to rescue the company from the New York private equity firm that hired him. Meanwhile, Alexander goes behind the scenes, entwined with the lives of residents as they wrestle with heroin, politics, high-interest lenders, low wage jobs, technology, and the new demands of American life: people like Brian Gossett, the fourth generation to work at Anchor Hocking; and Eric Brown, a local football hero-turned-cop who comes to realise that he can never arrest Lancaster's real problems.

General

Imprint:	St Martin's Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2018
Authors:	Brian Alexander
Dimensions:	210 x 140 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	336
ISBN-13:	978-1-250-16577-0
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > History of specific institutions Books > History > History of specific subjects > History of specific institutions Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
LSN:	1-250-16577-6
Barcode:	9781250165770

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