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Punching Out: One Year in a Closing Auto Plant

Punching Out: One Year in a Closing Auto Plant

An elegyâ€”angry, funny, and powerfully detailedâ€”about the slow death of a Detroit auto plant and an American way of life.

How does a country dismantle a centuryâ€™s worth of its industrial heritage? To answer that question, Paul Clemens investigates the 2006 closing of one of Americaâ€™s most potent symbols: a Detroit auto plant. Prior to its closing, the Budd Company stamping plant on Detroitâ€™s East Side, built in 1919, was one of the oldest active auto plants in Americaâ€™s foremost industrial cityâ€”one whose history includes the nationâ€™s proudest moments and those of its working class. Its closing also reflects the character of the country in a new eraâ€”the sad, brutal process of picking it apart and sending it, piece by piece, to the countries that now have use for its machines.

Punching Out is an up-close report, at once tender and angry, from the meanest, sharpest edge of Americaâ€™s deindustrializaÂtion, and a lament for a working-class culture that once defined a prosperous Americaâ€”and that is now on the verge of ecoÂnomic extinction.
Country USA
Brand Anchor Books
Manufacturer Anchor
Binding Paperback
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2012-01-17
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780767926935

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