Janesville: An American Story

Name: Janesville: An American Story
Author: Amy Goldstein
ISBN: 9781501102288

Amy Goldstein

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Janesville: An American Story

Amy Goldstein

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Janesville won the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, and was a New York Times Notable Book, Washington Post Notable Book, NPR Best Book, Wall Street Journal Best Book, Economist Best Book, and Business Insider Best Book. This is the story of what happens to an industrial town in the American heartland when its main factory shuts down—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–winning reporter Amy Goldstein spent years immersed in Janesville, Wisconsin, where the nation's oldest operating General Motors assembly plant shut down in the midst of the Great Recession. Now, with intelligence, sympathy, and insight into what connects and divides people in an era of economic upheaval, Goldstein shows the consequences of one of America's biggest political issues. Janesville 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.

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