Janesville : an American story / Amy Goldstein.

Author
Goldstein, Amy, 1957- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Published/​Created
  • New York : Simon & Schuster, 2017.
  • ©2017
Description
xiii, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    Summary note
    "A Washington Post reporter's intimate account of the fallout from the closing of a General Motors' assembly plant in Janesville, Wisconsin-Paul Ryan's hometown-and a larger story of the hollowing of the American middle class."--Amazon.com
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical resources (pages 317-341) and index.
    Contents
    • Part one. 2008
    • A ringing phone
    • The carp swimming on Main Street
    • Craig
    • A retirement party
    • Change in August
    • To the Renaissance Center
    • Mom, what are you going to do?
    • "When one door of happiness closes, another opens"
    • The Parker closet
    • Part two. 2009
    • Rock County 5.0
    • The fourth last day
    • Bidding war
    • Sonic speed
    • What does a union man do?
    • Blackhawk
    • Ahead of the class
    • A plan and distress signals
    • The holiday food drive
    • Part three. 2010
    • Last days of Parker Pen
    • Becoming a gypsy
    • Family is more important that GM
    • Honor cords
    • The day the White House comes to town
    • Labor Fest 2010
    • Project 16:49
    • Figuring it out
    • Bags of hope
    • Part four. 1022
    • The ambassador of optimism
    • The opposite of a jailer
    • This is what democracy looks like
    • On Janesville time
    • Pride and fear
    • Labor Fest 2011
    • Discovering the closet
    • After the overnight shift
    • Late night a Woodman's
    • Part five. 2012
    • SHINE
    • Janesville gypsies
    • A charity gap
    • Gypsy kids
    • Recall
    • A rough summer
    • The candidate
    • Labor Fest 2012
    • Pill bottles
    • Circle of women
    • First voe
    • HealthNet
    • Out of a job again
    • Part six. 2013
    • Two Janesvilles
    • Night drive
    • The ebb and flow of work
    • Glass more than half full
    • Graduation weekend
    • Epilogue.
    ISBN
    • 9781501102233 ((hardback))
    • 1501102230 ((hardback))
    • 9781501102264 ((pbk))
    • 1501102265 ((pbk))
    LCCN
    2016056605
    OCLC
    967580235
    Other standard number
    • 40027157099
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