Janesville: An American Story
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (976 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1501102230 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Goldstein is a talented storyteller, and we root for her characters as, moment by moment, they try their hardest.”—The New Yorker“Brilliant, probing, and disturbing. Putnam, New York Times bestselling author of Bowling Alone and Our Kids“Goldstein provides a welcome addition to the conversation on the broken social contract. A gripping story of psychological defeat and resilience.”—Bob Woodward, The Washington Post“A superb feat of reportage, Janesville combines a heart-rending account of the implications of the closing on GM workers and their families wit
Amy Goldstein has been a staff writer for thirty years at The Washington Post, where much of her work has focused on social policy. . Among her awards, she shared the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. She has been a fellow at Harvard University at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Janesville: An American Story is her first book. She lives in Washington, DC
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.For this is not just a Janesville story or a Midwestern story. 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 winner Amy Goldstein has spent years immersed in Janesville, Wisconsin where the nation’s oldest operating General Motors plant shut down in the midst of the Great Recession, two days before Christmas of 2008. What sets it apart is the sophistication of its storytelling and analysis.” —The New York
A Sad Story Richard Newton This is a very sad story. It's about the failure of America. No one individual or organization can be blamed. This story is about the total meltdown of a society. I grew up in Flint Michigan so I got to witness this first hand. This may be the best description you'll read about what it's like to live in a failing economy.I also worked in job training programs. This book give a very accurate picture of those programs. People who participate in job training often end up worse off than those who do not. Job training programs are just a way for politicians to say they're doing something. They do very l. Powerful account of hard choices and extraordinary courage The economic changes of recent decades produce impacts that spread like a slowly branching crack in the foundation of a once close-knit town, transforming the lives of its members and the nature of its institutions. This remarkable book follows the lives of three families and an assortment of other community members over the five years following the closure of the giant GM plant in Janesville, Wisconsin, hometown of House Speaker Paul Ryan. It is an intimate account of the impossibly hard choices and extraordinary courage of people struggling to hold together families and community, as they gradual. Andrew S. Weber said Superb view into what's happening in the economy. A compelling account of the impact of the closing of a General Motors factory in Janesville, WI told through the lens of individuals and families who were affected by the closing; hint: it's not pretty, and it's not just the laid-off workers who are affected. The book also provides an interesting view into the impact (or not) of job training programs. Read this alongside EVICTED if you want to get a sense for the challenges many Americans face on a daily basis and how intractable the issues are.