General Motors Plant Closings

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Labor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book General Motors Plant Closings written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. Subcommittee on Labor and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeanie Wylie
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252061530
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poletown written by Jeanie Wylie and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 4,200 residents of Detroit's "Poletown" community lost their homes in the 1980s when the neighborhood was razed to accommodate construction of a Cadillac plant on land where generations of Polish immigrants had lived, worked, and worshipped. Poletown is the story of the only group in Detroit to oppose the construction plan: the Poles and blacks who fought side by side to save their neighborhood, one of the city's oldest integrated communities. "This book is about the ramifications of raw corporate power going unchecked." -- John Conyers, Michigan congressman "Racial class is a fundamental problem in America. But Poletown demonstrates that economic class is even more fundamental." -- Rev. Jesse Jackson

Author : Eric Mann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taking on General Motors written by Eric Mann and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sidney Fine
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472329489
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sit-down: the General Motors Strike of 1936-1937 written by Sidney Fine and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies the most significant American labor conflict of the 20th century

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Joint Hearing on Plant Closing written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gilda Haas
Publisher : South End Press
ISBN 13 : 9780896082120
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plant Closures written by Gilda Haas and published by South End Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the real causes of plant shutdowns: mergers, new technologies, and worldwide domination of production by multinational corporations.

Author : Amy Goldstein
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501102281
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Janesville written by Amy Goldstein and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * 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 Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * 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 * “A gripping story of psychological defeat and resilience” (Bob Woodward, The Washington Post)—an intimate account of the fallout from the closing of a General Motors assembly plant in Janesville, Wisconsin, 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 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. 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. “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” (Jennifer Senior, The New York Times). “Anyone tempted to generalize about the American working class ought to meet the people in Janesville. The reporting behind this book is extraordinary and the story—a stark, heartbreaking reminder that political ideologies have real consequences—is told with rare sympathy and insight” (Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Soul of a New Machine).

Author : John Portz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Plant Closings written by John Portz and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A paper reprint of the 1988 original. It is a political history that describes and analyzes the management of organized knowledge. Wheatley takes Flexner and the Carnegie Foundation of 1910 as the model. Portz (political science, Northeastern U.) combines a synthesis of the literature on urban politics and political economy with a close analysis of plant closings in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Louisville, Kentucky, and Waterloo, Iowa, to illuminate the complexity of, constraints upon, and range of local government efforts to control the economic damage caused by shutdowns. Paper edition (unseen), $12.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : LaToya Ruby Frazier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780941548793
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Cruze written by LaToya Ruby Frazier and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the General Motors plant in Lordstown, Ohio halted production and faced possible closure, displacing its workers, artist LaToya Ruby Frazier joined with these workers, their families, and their local union leaders to tell the story of the plant in its final days. After more than fifty years of automobile production and a commitment to manufacture the Chevrolet Cruze until 2021, the facility was recently "unallocated" by GM, as the company shifts its focus toward overseas manufacturing and the production of electric and autonomous vehicles. For many, this meant uprooting their families and giving up the support of a close-knit community. Those who turned down transfers to GM plants in other states lost their income, pensions, and benefits. The Last Cruze, which sets out to amplify the voices of the auto workers in Lordstown, introduces a new chapter to Frazier's work in investigating labor, family, community, and the working class. Exhibited at the Renaissance Society in 2019, this body of work includes over sixty photographs, alongside the written stories of the workers, and was staged within an installation that echoes the structure of the plant's assembly line. This substantial catalogue includes extensive documentation of the work and introduces new essays and dialogues by contributors including Coco Fusco, David Harvey, Werner Lange, Lynn Nottage, Julia Reichert, Benjamin Young, and members of the local chapter of the United Auto Workers.

Author : Francis A. O'Connell
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412830904
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plant Closings written by Francis A. O'Connell and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: