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Beyond the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization / Edition 1
- ISBN-10:
- 0801488710
- ISBN-13:
- 9780801488719
- Pub. Date:
- 10/15/2003
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- ISBN-10:
- 0801488710
- ISBN-13:
- 9780801488719
- Pub. Date:
- 10/15/2003
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780801488719 |
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Publisher: | Cornell University Press |
Publication date: | 10/15/2003 |
Series: | Ilr Press Books |
Edition description: | New Edition |
Pages: | 392 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Foreword by Barry BluestoneAcknowledgments
Introduction The Meanings of Deindustrialization
Jefferson Cowie and Joseph Heathcott
Part I RUST
Chapter 1 "A Trail of Ghost Towns across Our Land ":The
Decline of Manufacturing in Yonkers, New York
Tami J. Friedman
Chapter 2 The "Fall " of Reo in Lansing,,Michigan, 1955 -1975
Lisa M. Fine
Chapter 3 Segregated Fantasies: Race, Public Space,
and the Life and Death of the Movie Business
in Atlantic City, New Jersey,1945 -2000
Bryant Simon
Part II ENVIRONMENT
Chapter 4 Greening Anaconda: EPA, ARCO, and the Politics
of Space in Postindustrial Montana
Kent Curtis
Chapter 5 From Love 's Canal to Love Canal: Reckoning with
the Environmental Legacy of an Industrial Dream
Richard Newman
Part III PLANS
Chapter 6 The Wages of Disinvestment: How Money and
Politics Aided the Decline of Camden, New Jersey
Howard Gillette Jr.
Chapter 7 California 's Industrial Garden: Oakland and the
East Bay in the Age of Deindustrialization
Robert O. Self
Chapter 8 Deindustrialization, Poverty, and Federal Area
Redevelopment in the United States,1945 -1965
Gregory S.Wilson
Part IV LEGACY
Chapter 9 Collateral Damage: Deindustrialization and the Uses of Youngstown
John Russo and Sherry Lee Linkon
Chapter 10 Envisioning the Steel City: The Legend and Legacy of Gary,Indiana
S. Paul O'Hara
Chapter 11 Monuments of a Lost Cause: The Postindustrial
Campaign to Commemorate Steel
Kirk Savage
Part V MEMORY
Chapter 12 Making Sense of Restructuring: Narratives
of Accommodation among Downsized Workers
Steve May and Laura Morrison
Chapter 13 Worker Memory and Narrative: Personal Stories
of Deindustrialization in Louisville, Kentucky
Joy L. Hart and Tracy E. K'Meyer
Notes
Contributors
Index
What People are Saying About This
The term deindustrialization came into widespread use during the economic transformation of the 1980s. It signified a systematic shift in patterns of capital investment, frequently to the detriment of workers and communities. This collection of essays deals with the ongoing consequences of deindustrialization from a sociological and historic perspective... Altogether, the book offers a broad and insightful picture of the costs of economic restructuring. Summing Up: Recommended. Public, academic (lower-division undergraduate and up), and professional library collections.
Consciousness of historical change makes Beyond the Ruins an invaluable contribution both to the literature on deindustrialization and to recent American history.... Deindustrialization differs across communities because the factors common to all capitalist societies are mediated by a community's history and its politics, including the struggles by communities to control capital. Deindustrialization is not only what is done to American communities, it is what we do with ourselves. And a good place to start thinking about what we can do is this fine book.
Deindustrialization has been a reality in American life for at least a generation, to the point where it now seems commonplace. The announcement that a company was cutting thousands of jobs was once greeted with shock. Today such announcements are a regular event.... After a generation of this reality, the essays in Jefferson Cowie and Joseph Heathcott's Beyond the Ruins attempt to move the discussion of deindustrialization forward.... Beyond the Ruins contributes to a rethinking of deindustrialization and to our understanding of the complexity of the economic and social changes it has entailed.
In this landmark study, some of our smartest urban geographers and historians revisit the industrial graveyards of New Deal America. These case studies should be court-ordered reading for those civic boosters who think that the deep wounds of plant closure can be healed with a new office park or some 'dead tech' sculpture gardens.
The process of deindustrialization is explored from many different perspectives, including worker narratives, media imagery, suburban politics, environmental activism, and commemoration.
Beyond the Ruins chronicles the human stories beneath the statistics of plant closures and job losses. It is must reading for anyone concerned about the current wave of deindustrialization that is undermining the job security, good wages, and respect in the workplace once widely enjoyed by manufacturing workers.
This outstanding and thought-provoking collection describes the complex roles of the many players in tales of deindustrialization.
Beyond the Ruins is not principally about the causes of deindustrialization but rather the diverse dimensions of post-World War II urban and industrial crises. Its authors hail from many disciplines, and they offer a rich, expansive set of perspectives on the social, economic, environmental, and cultural dimensions of deindustrialization.
This important collection challenges us to think anew about the experience of post-World War II American cities, bringing historical depth and fresh disciplinary perspective to debates about the origins, meanings, and legacies of the process known as deindustrialization. In underscoring the importance of political and cultural factors, the authors uncover the varieties of collective, institutional, and above all human action that have shaped structural transformations in the past—and that can be mobilized toward a more equitable future.
The essays in Beyond the Ruins traverse America, with stops in rusted and reconstructed places as diverse as Atlantic City, Butte, Gary, Lansing, Oakland, Yonkers, and Youngstown. Collectively, these histories offer a powerful corrective to overdetermined accounts of economic change, reminding us that deindustrialization was the result of politics and public policy and often met with fierce, creative resistance. The authors represent the best of a new generation of American historians who research locally and think globally.