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Janesville audiobook
- By: Amy Goldstein
- Narrator: Joy Osmanski
- Category: Labor & Industrial Relations, Political Science
- Length: 10 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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Janesville Audiobook Summary
* Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year * Winner of the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize * 800-CEO-READ Business Book of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2017 * An Economist Best Book of 2017 * A Business Insider Best Book of 2017 *
“A gripping story of psychological defeat and resilience” (Bob Woodward, The Washington Post)–an intimate account of the fallout from the closing of a General Motors assembly plant in Janesville, Wisconsin, and a larger story of the hollowing of the American middle class.
This is the story of what happens to an industrial town in the American heartland when its main factory shuts down–but it’s not the familiar tale. Most observers record the immediate shock of vanished jobs, but few stay around long enough to notice what happens next when a community with a can-do spirit tries to pick itself up.
Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Amy Goldstein spent years immersed in Janesville, Wisconsin, where the nation’s oldest operating General Motors assembly plant shut down in the midst of the Great Recession. Now, with intelligence, sympathy, and insight into what connects and divides people in an era of economic upheaval, Goldstein shows the consequences of one of America’s biggest political issues. Her reporting takes the reader deep into the lives of autoworkers, educators, bankers, politicians, and job re-trainers to show why it’s so hard in the twenty-first century to recreate a healthy, prosperous working class.
“Moving and magnificently well-researched…Janesville joins a growing family of books about the evisceration of the working class in the United States. What sets it apart is the sophistication of its storytelling and analysis” (Jennifer Senior, The New York Times).
“Anyone tempted to generalize about the American working class ought to meet the people in Janesville. The reporting behind this book is extraordinary and the story–a stark, heartbreaking reminder that political ideologies have real consequences–is told with rare sympathy and insight” (Tracy Kidder, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of a New Machine).
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Janesville Full Details
| Narrator | Joy Osmanski |
| Length | 10 hours 2 minutes |
| Author | Amy Goldstein |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| Release date | April 18, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781508238881 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Janesville is Simon & Schuster Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Labor & Industrial Relations, Political Science
Additional info
The publisher of the Janesville is Simon & Schuster Audio. The imprint is Simon & Schuster Audio. It is supplied by Simon & Schuster Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781508238881.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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