The immediate impact of deindustrialization—the suffering
inflicted upon workers, their families, and their communities—has
been widely reported by scholars and journalists. In this important
volume, the authors seek to move discussion of America's industrial
decline beyond the immediate ramifications of plant shutdowns by
placing it into a broader social, political, and economic context.
Emphasizing a historical approach, the authors explore the multiple
meanings of one of the major transformations of the twentieth
century.The concept of deindustrialization entered the popular and
scholarly lexicon in 1982 with the publication of The
Deindustrialization of America, by Barry Bluestone and Bennett
Harrison. Beyond the Ruins both builds upon and departs from the
insights presented in that benchmark study. In this volume, the
authors rethink the chronology, memory, geography, culture, and
politics of industrial change in America.Taken together, these
original essays argue that deindustrialization is not a story of a
single emblematic place, such as Flint or Youngstown, or a specific
time period, such as the 1980s. Nor is it limited to the abandoned
factory buildings associated with heavy industry. Rather,
deindustrialization is a complex process that is uneven in its
causes, timing, and consequences. The essays in this volume examine
this process through a wide range of topics, from worker narratives
and media imagery, to suburban politics, environmental activism,
and commemoration.
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