Punching out : one year in a closing auto plant / Paul Clemens.
By: Clemens, Paul
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TextPublisher: New York : Doubleday, c2011Edition: 1st ed.Description: 271 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780385521154; 0385521154.Subject(s): Automobile industry and trade -- Michigan -- Detroit | Automobile industry workers -- Michigan -- Detroit | Plant shutdowns -- Michigan -- DetroitDDC classification: 338.4/76292220977434 | Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Two Weeks | Davenport Library Circulating Collection | Print-Circulating | 338.476292 C591 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 34284003739158 |
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"Taint never gonna come back, McGee" -- Settle labor issues -- They just closed the door -- Assets formerly of Budd Company Detroit -- Surplus industry service providers -- Picking the carcass -- You from Detroit?
Clemens investigates the 2006 closing of one of America's most potent symbols: a Detroit auto plant. "Punching Out" is an up-close report from the meanest, sharpest edge of America's deindustrialization, and a lament for a working-class culture that once defined a prosperous America.
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