Why the garden club couldn't save Youngstown
Subtitle: the transformation of the Rust Belt
By: Sean Safford.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780674031760
Subjects: Industries -- Ohio -- Youngstown; Industries -- Pennsylvania -- Allentown; Deindustrialization -- Ohio -- Youngstown -- History; Youngstown (Ohio) -- Economic conditions; Allentown (Pa.) -- Economic conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The empirical puzzle: the post-industrial divergence of Allentown and Youngstown; title: Historical antecedents : the emergence and divergence of regional social structures, 1743-1945; title: Two critical choices : invoking social structure in crises; title: How Allentown got its groove back : rebuilding social infrastructure in the wake of economic crisis; title: Conclusions and implications.