Punching Out
An elegyaangry, funny, and powerfully detailedaabout the slow death of a Detroit auto plant and an American way of life. How does a country dismantle a centuryas worth of its industrial heritage? To answer that question, Paul Clemens investigates the 2006 closing of one of Americaas most potent symbols: a Detroit auto plant. Prior to its closing, the Budd Company stamping plant on Detroitas East Side, built in 1919, was one of the oldest active auto plants in Americaas foremost industrial cityaone whose history includes the nationas proudest moments and those of its working class. Its closing also reflects the character of the country in a new eraathe sad, brutal process of picking it apart and sending it, piece by piece, to the countries that now have use for its machines. Punching Out is an up-close report, at once tender and angry, from the meanest, sharpest edge of Americaas deindustrializaAstion, and a lament for a working-class culture that once defined a prosperous Americaaand that is now on the verge of ecoAsnomic extinction. From the Hardcover edition.There were shelves of such manuals and binders, some of which had slipped or been swept to the floor. ... I liked knowing that the roof for the Ford Econoline van had come off of 1-line and that a stamping for its door had come off of 4-line.
| Title | : | Punching Out |
| Author | : | Paul Clemens |
| Publisher | : | Anchor - 2011-01-18 |
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