Worked over
Subtitle: The Corporate Sabotage of an American Community
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: May 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780801440922
Subjects: American history: from c 1900 -; Industrial relations; Social & cultural anthropology; Sociology; Mohawk River Valley; Economic History; United States - State & Local - General; Social Science; Business / Economics / Finance; Social values; USA; New York (State); Anthropology - Cultural; United States - 20th Century; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Big business; Local government; Social aspects
Description: "Worked Over is about large-scale social change seen at close range, through the lives of generations of working people in a small manufacturing center [comprising the Mohawk River Valley towns of Herkimer, Ilion, Frankfort, and Mohawk] along New York State's old Erie Canal ... [T]he Remington company, maker of arms and typewriters among other things, was for many years the backbone of a thriving regional society. Corporate takeover of the varied Remington enterprises in 1886 ushered in a century of social distress and decreasing political autonomy. Since the 1970s, the area has suffered mightily from deindustrialization."--Back cover.