Punching out
Subtitle: one year in a closing auto plant
By: Paul Clemens
Edition: 1st Anchor books ed.
Publisher: Anchor Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780767926935
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Automobile industry and trade; Automobile industry workers; Plant shutdowns; Automobile industry; Automobile industry employees
Description: Clemens investigates the 2006 closing of one of America's most potent symbols: a Detroit auto plant. "Punching Out" is an up-close report from the meanest, sharpest edge of America's deindustrialization, and a lament for a working-class culture that once defined a prosperous America.
Notes: "Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Random House., Inc., New York, in 2011"--Title page verso.
Table of contents: title: "Taint never gonna come back, McGee"; title: Settle labor issues; title: They just closed the door; title: Assets formerly of Budd Company Detroit; title: Surplus industry service providers; title: Picking the carcass; title: You from Detroit?