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A cultural study of the Flint community's response to its own deindustrialization, within the framework of the state, national, and international forces that produced it.

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This work will remain as a major study of a decisive period in American industrial and business history. It is an in-depth examination of the response of the Flint, Michigan, community to its deindustrialization-and examines that response within the framework of statewide, national, and international forces that led to its deindustrialization. This is the first study that applies empirically the critical theories of Benjamin, Horkheimer, Adorno, Habermas, and Marcuse and relates their work to a concrete situation of a conflict between 'capitalism' and human needs. - Arthur J. Vidich, New School for Social Research This is a well-written and provocative discussion of popular ideologies in Flint, Michigan, as revealed by a variety of 'texts,' including a dissident union movement, a General Motors-United Auto Workers cosponsored worker education project, and the popular film Roger and Me. Better than nearly any study with which I am familiar, Dandaneau's captures the anxiety underlying so many aspects of American culture at this time. - Larry Bennett, DePaul University

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Steven P. Dandaneau is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Dayton.

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