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."
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