Beyond the Ruins : The Meanings of

Beyond the Ruins: The Meanings of Deindustrialization moves the discussion of America's industrial decline beyond the immediate realities of plant shutdowns by placing it in a broader social, political, and economic context.

Foreword by Barry Bluestone

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Acknowledgments

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INTRODUCTION The Meanings of Deindustrialization

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JEFFERSON COWIE AND JOSEPH HEATHCOTT

Part I RUST

CHAPTER 1 "A Trail of Ghost Towns across Our Land": The Decline of Manufacturing in Yonkers, New York

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(25)

TAMT J. FRIEDMAN

CHAPTER 2 The "Fall" of Reo in Lansing, Michigan, 1955-1915

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(20)

LISA M. FINE

CHAPTER 3 Segregated Fantasies: Race, Public Space, and the Life and Death of the Movie Business in Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1945-2000

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BRYANT SIMON

Part II ENVIRONMENT

CHAPTER 4 Greening Anaconda: EPA, ARCO, and the Politics of Space in Postindustrial Montana

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(21)

KENT CURTIS

CHAPTER 5 From Love's Canal to Love Canal: Reckoning with the Environmental Legacy of an Industrial Dream

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(27)

RICHARD NEWMAN

Part III PLANS

CHAPTER 6 The Wages of Disinvestment: How Money and Politics Aided the Decline of Camden, New Jersey

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HOWARD GILLETTE JR.

CHAPTER 7 California's Industrial Garden: Oakland and the East Bay in the Age of Deindustrialization

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ROBERT O. SELF

CHAPTER 8 Deindustrialization, Poverty, and Federal Area Redevelopment in the United States, 1945-1965

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GREGORY S. WILSON

Part IV LEGACY

CHAPTER 9 Collateral Damage: Deindustrialization and the Uses of Youngstown

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JOHN RUSSO AND SHERRY LEE LINKON

CHAPTER 10 Envisioning the Steel City: The Legend and Legacy of Gary, Indiana

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S. PAUL O'HARA

CHAPTER 11 Monuments of a Lost Cause: The Postindustrial Campaign to Commemorate Steel

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KIRK SAVAGE

Part V MEMORY

CHAPTER 12 Making Sense of Restructuring: Narratives of Accommodation among Downsized Workers

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STEVE MAY AND LAURA MORRISON

CHAPTER 13 Worker Memory and Narrative: Personal Stories of Deindustrialization in Louisville, Kentucky

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JOY L. HART AND TRACY E. K'MEYER

Notes

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Contributors

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Index

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