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2 Formats: CD
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2 Formats: Library CD
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ISBN: 9781508283966
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ISBN: 9781508238898
Runtime: | 10.04 Hours |
Category: | Nonfiction/Political Science |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
Summary
Summary
A New York Times Notable Book of 2017
Winner of the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award
Washington Post Top 10 Book of Books That We Loved
“Moving and magnificently well-researched...Janesville joins a growing family of books about the evisceration of the working class in the United States. What sets it apart is the sophistication of its storytelling and analysis.” —The New York Times
A Washington Post reporter’s intimate 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.
This is the story of 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.
Pulitzer Prize winner Amy Goldstein has spent years immersed in Janesville, Wisconsin 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.
For this is not just a Janesville story or a Midwestern story. It’s an American story.
Editorial Reviews
Editorial Reviews
“Joy Osmanski reads the stories with passion. Listeners hear the emptiness of the once-bustling plant and the anxiety of the workers who once made twenty-eight dollars an hour.” —AudioFile
Details
Details
Available Formats : | CD, Library CD |
Category: | Nonfiction/Political Science |
Runtime: | 10.04 |
Audience: | Adult |
Language: | English |
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