Description: Janesville : An American Story, CD/Spoken Word by Goldstein, Amy; Osmanski, Joy (NRT), ISBN 1508283966, ISBN-13 9781508283966, Brand New, Free shipping in the US * Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A New York Times Notabl * A Washington Post Notabl * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2017 * An Economist Best Book of 2017 * A Business Insider Best Book of 2017 * “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, WisconsinPaul Ryan’s hometownand a larger story of the hollowing of the American middle is the story of what happens to an industrial town in the American heartland when its factory stillsbut 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.
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Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication Year: 2019
Topic: Labor & Industrial Relations, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology / Rural
Book Title: Janesville : an American Story
Language: English
Genre: Social Science, Political Science
Author: Amy Goldstein
Format: Compact Disc
