On February 4, 1986, the lives of thousands of workers changed in
ways they could only begin to imagine. On that day, United
Technologies Corporation ordered the closure of the 76-year-old
American Bosch manufacturing plant in Springfield, Massachusetts,
capping a nearly 32-year history of job loss and work relocation
from the sprawling factory. The author, a former Bosch worker and
the business agent for the union representing nearly 1,200 Bosch
employees when the plant closed, interjects his personal
recollections into the story.For more than 150 years Springfield
stood at the center of a prosperous 200-mile industrial corridor
along the Connecticut River, between Bridgeport, Connecticut, and
Springfield, Vermont, populated with hundreds of machine tool and
metalworking plants and thousands of workers. This book is a
historical account of the profound economic collapse of the
Connecticut River Valley region, with a particular focus on Bosch,
its workers, and its union. The shutdown is placed in the context
of the wider region's deindustrialization. The closure marked the
watershed for large-firm metalworking and metalworking unions in
the Connecticut River Valley. The book also describes how the
United States, in a ten-year period from the mid-1970s to the
mid-1980s, went from being the world's leading exporter of machine
tools to its leading importer, and how that sharp decline affected
the region's leading city, Springfield, Massachusetts, which by
2005 was in danger of bankruptcy.
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