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OverviewDonald Trump and Bernie Sanders owed much of their unexpected popularity in the 2016 primaries to their respective stances on trade and immigration policy.Political elites and policy experts were bewildered by combative talk of building a wall and the ubiquity of anti-TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) sloganeering in what many saw as a bizarre election cycle. They have scrambled to explain both Trump's victory and the new political fault lines that have emerged in both major political parties, largely around trade and immigration.In struggling industrial towns and cities, the rise of Trump and Sanders was less of a surprise. These places have long weathered globalization's storm. Many feel left behind and sold short. They are anxious, and they're demanding answers.Galesburg, Illinois, is one such city. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Chad Broughton (Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, University of Chicago)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.60cm , Height: 4.30cm , Length: 15.70cm Weight: 0.739kg ISBN: 9780199765614ISBN 10: 0199765618 Pages: 408 Publication Date: 15 January 2015 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsPrologue Chapter 1: Boom Days in Appliance City Chapter 2: Unrest in the Magic Valley Chapter 3: An American Classic in the Global Era Chapter 4: The Red-headed Stepchild Chapter 5: Padre Mike and NAFTA Man Chapter 6: Resist or Reinvent Chapter 7: Sin Maiz, No Hay Pais Chapter 8: The End is HERE! Chapter 9: The Mike Allen Question Chapter 10: Chiles, Coyotes, and Vanilla Chapter 11: Frogs, Mules, and Life after Maytag Chapter 12: Esa es Mi Vision Chapter 13: Looking North from Barra de Cazones Chapter 14: Getting Back to Work in the 'Burg Chapter 15: Hojas, Blackberries, and the Tortilla King Chapter 16: Treading Water in the Great Recession Chapter 17: Little Detroit, El Cartel, and Aguamiel Chapter 18: Reshoring Up Epilogue Notes on Method Acknowledgments Notes IndexReviewsBoom, Bust, Exodus brings to life the human impact of global industrial change on the people who live with it. Chad Broughton combines a journalist's eye for color and the telling detail with a scholar's grasp of his subject and skill in putting it all into context. There are heroes here, but few villains. Rather, Broughton tells in vivid prose what happens-both to people and their cities-when industry is ripped up from the places where it has always been and transplanted to places that weren't ready for it. Broughton knows the territory. He went to see and to listen, and he understands what he saw and heard. The result is a classic of post-industrial scholarship. --Richard C. Longworth, author of Caught in the Middle: America's Heartland in the Age of Globalism Chad Broughton has written a deeply-observed and nuanced account of one of the stories of our time: the migration of a once-thriving American factory over the border into Mexico. When he learns of Maytag's plans to shutter its refrigerator plant, a move decried by a young Senator Obama, Broughton begins a decade-long dive into the drama that envelops both Galesburg, Illinois, where townspeople are losing their $15.14-an-hour livelihood, and Reynosa, Mexico, where the same jobs will pay $1.10 and come with a cost. The results are both epic and surprising. The pitfalls of such a project are many, but Broughton avoids pity and screed, delivering a story that is beautifully detailed and rich in human and historic dimension. Most of us talk about a global economy with a vague sense of what that really means. With Boom, Bust, Exodus Broughton has defined it indelibly. --Ann Marie Lipinski, Curator, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University Boom, Bust, Exodus brings to life the human impact of global industrial change on the people who live with it. Chad Broughton combines a journalist's eye for color and the telling detail with a scholar's grasp of his subject and skill in putting it all into context. There are heroes here, but few villains. Rather, Broughton tells in vivid prose what happens-both to people and their cities-when industry is ripped up from the places where it has always been and transplanted to places that weren't ready for it. Broughton knows the territory. He went to see and to listen, and he understands what he saw and heard. The result is a classic of post-industrial scholarship. --Richard C. Longworth, author of Caught in the Middle: America's Heartland in the Age of Globalism Chad Broughton has written a deeply-observed and nuanced account of one of the stories of our time: the migration of a once-thriving American factory over the border into Mexico. When he learns of Maytag's plans to shutter its refrigerator plant, a move decried by a young Senator Obama, Broughton begins a decade-long dive into the drama that envelops both Galesburg, Illinois, where townspeople are losing their $15.14-an-hour livelihood, and Reynosa, Mexico, where the same jobs will pay $1.10 and come with a cost. The results are both epic and surprising. The pitfalls of such a project are many, but Broughton avoids pity and screed, delivering a story that is beautifully detailed and rich in human and historic dimension. Most of us talk about a global economy with a vague sense of what that really means. With Boom, Bust, Exodus Broughton has defined it indelibly. --Ann Marie Lipinski, Curator, Nieman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University Chad Broughton's Boom, Bust, Exodus is a beautifully written, humanistic portrayal of globalization as is lived on a day-to-day basis. Using production as a through line, Broughton takes us from the Midwest to the border to the Mexican interior and back, unsentimentally but empathetically delineating the human consequences of capital mobility in North America in the 21st century. --Leslie Salzinger, University of California, Berkeley, author of Genders in Production: Making Workers in Mexico's Global Factories Author InformationChad Broughton is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy Studies at the University of Chicago. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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