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One Year in a Closing Auto Plant
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
January 2010
On Sale: January 18, 2010
288 pages ISBN: 0385521154 EAN: 9780385521154 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
An elegy—angry, funny, and powerfully detailed—about the
slow death of a Detroit auto plant and an American way of life. How does a country dismantle a century’s worth of its
industrial heritage? To answer that question, Paul Clemens
investigates the 2006 closing of one of America’s most
potent symbols: a Detroit auto plant. Prior to its closing,
the Budd Company stamping plant on Detroit’s East Side,
built in 1919, was one of the oldest active auto plants in
America’s foremost industrial city—one whose history
includes the nation’s proudest moments and those of its
working class. Its closing also reflects the character of
the country in a new era—the 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 America’s
deindustrialization, and a lament for a working-class
culture that once defined a prosperous America—and that is
now on the verge of economic extinction.
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