Janesville, an American story, Amy Goldstein
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Janesville, an American story, Amy Goldstein
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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non fiction
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Janesville
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bibliography
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Amy Goldstein
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an American story
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"This is the story of what happens to an industrial town in the American heartland when its factory stills--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 ... 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. Now ... she makes one of America's biggest political issues human"--, Provided by publisher
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