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Beyond the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization

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Availability:In StockContributor:Jefferson Cowie (Editor), Joseph Heathcott (Editor), Barry Bluestone (Foreword by)Series:Ilr Press BooksAudience:Young AdultPublish date:2003-10-15Pages:392
Language:EnglishPublisher:ILR PressISBN-13:9780801488719ISBN-10:801488710UPC:9780801488719Book Category:Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Political Economy, Labor & Industrial Relations, United StatesBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.20 x 5.82 x 0.96 inchesWeight:1.2214Product ID:SC7SHKWG30

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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:ILR PressISBN-13:9780801488719ISBN-10:801488710UPC:9780801488719Book Category:Political Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Political Economy, Labor & Industrial Relations, United StatesBook Topic:20th CenturySize:9.20 x 5.82 x 0.96 inchesWeight:1.2214Product ID:SC7SHKWG30

Jefferson Cowie is Assistant Professor at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. He is author of Beyond the Ruins and Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor, both from Cornell. Barry Bluestone is Russell B. and Andr'e B. Stearns Trustee Professor of Political Economy and Director of the Center for Urban and Regional Policy at Northeastern University.


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