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Punching Out - One Year in a Closing Auto Plant (Paperback): Paul Clemens

Punching Out - One Year in a Closing Auto Plant (Paperback)

Paul Clemens

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An elegy--angry, funny, and powerfully detailed--about the slow death of a Detroit auto plant and an American way of life.
How does a country dismantle a century's worth of its industrial heritage? To answer that question, Paul Clemens investigates the 2006 closing of one of America's most potent symbols: a Detroit auto plant. Prior to its closing, the Budd Company stamping plant on Detroit's East Side, built in 1919, was one of the oldest active auto plants in America's foremost industrial city--one whose history includes the nation's proudest moments and those of its working class. Its closing also reflects the character of the country in a new era--the sad, brutal process of picking it apart and sending it, piece by piece, to the countries that now have use for its machines.
"Punching Out "is an up-close report, at once tender and angry, from the meanest, sharpest edge of America's deindustrializa-tion, and a lament for a working-class culture that once defined a prosperous America--and that is now on the verge of eco-nomic extinction.

"From the Hardcover edition."

General

Imprint: Anchor Books
Country of origin: United States
Release date: 2012
First published: 2012
Authors: Paul Clemens
Dimensions: 203 x 133 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 978-0-7679-2693-5
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Social classes > General
LSN: 0-7679-2693-5
Barcode: 9780767926935

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