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Goldstein, Amy, 1957-
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General Motors Corporation -- History.
Automobile industry and trade -- Wisconsin -- Janesville.
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
Working class -- Wisconsin -- Janesville.
Janesville (Wis.) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
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Goldstein, Amy, 1957-
General Motors Corporation -- History.
Automobile industry and trade -- Wisconsin -- Janesville.
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
Working class -- Wisconsin -- Janesville.
Janesville (Wis.) -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
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Janesville
: an American story / Amy Goldstein.
by
Goldstein, Amy, 1957-
Simon & Schuster, 2017.
Call #:
330.9775 G624j
Subjects
General Motors Corporation
--
History.
Automobile industry and trade
--
Wisconsin
--
Janesville
.
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.
Working class
--
Wisconsin
--
Janesville
.
Janesville
(
Wis
.)
--
Economic
conditions
--
21st
century
.
ISBN:
9781501102233 (hc.)
Edition:
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Description:
xiii, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.
Summary:
"A Washington Post reporter's account of the fallout from the closing of a General Motors' assembly plant in
Janesville
, Wisconsin - Paul Ryan's hometown - and a larger story of the hollowing of the American middle class. What happens to an industrial town in the American heartland when its factory stills, but it's not the familiar tale. Most observers record the immediate shock of vanished jobs, but few stay around long enough to notice what happens next, when a community with a can-do spirit tries to pick itself up. Amy Goldstein has spent years immersed in
Janesville
where the nation's oldest operating General Motors plant shut down in the midst of the Great Recession, two days before Christmas of 2008. Now, with intelligence, sympathy, and insight into what connects and divides people in an era of
economic
upheaval, she makes one of America's biggest political issues human. Her reporting takes the reader deep into the lives of autoworkers, educators, bankers, politicians, and job re-trainers to show why it's so hard in the twenty-first
century
to recreate a healthy, prosperous working class. This is not just a
Janesville
story or a Midwestern story. It's an American story"--Provided by publisher.
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