Images of the Rust Belt
Title | Images of the Rust Belt PDF eBook |
Author | James Jeffrey Higgins |
Publisher | |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 1999-01 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 0873386264 |
Voices from the Rust Belt
Title | Voices from the Rust Belt PDF eBook |
Author | Anne Trubek |
Publisher | Picador |
Pages | 227 |
Release | 2018-04-03 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 125016298X |
“Timely . . . [the collection] paints intimate portraits of neglected places that are often used as political talking points. A good companion piece to J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy.”—Booklist The essays in Voices from the Rust Belt "address segregated schools, rural childhoods, suburban ennui, lead poisoning, opiate addiction, and job loss. They reflect upon happy childhoods, successful community ventures, warm refuges for outsiders, and hidden oases of natural beauty. But mainly they are stories drawn from uniquely personal experiences: A girl has her bike stolen. A social worker in Pittsburgh makes calls on clients. A journalist from Buffalo moves away, and misses home.... A father gives his daughter a bath in the lead-contaminated water of Flint, Michigan" (from the introduction). Where is America's Rust Belt? It's not quite a geographic region but a linguistic one, first introduced as a concept in 1984 by Walter Mondale. In the modern vernacular, it's closely associated with the "Post-Industrial Midwest," and includes Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, as well as parts of Illinois, Wisconsin, and New York. The region reflects the country's manufacturing center, which, over the past forty years, has been in decline. In the 2016 election, the Rust Belt's economic woes became a political talking point, and helped pave the way for a Donald Trump victory. But the region is neither monolithic nor easily understood. The truth is much more nuanced. Voices from the Rust Belt pulls together a distinct variety of voices from people who call the region home. Voices that emerge from familiar Rust Belt cities—Detroit, Cleveland, Flint, and Buffalo, among other places—and observe, with grace and sensitivity, the changing economic and cultural realities for generations of Americans.
Steel Town
Title | Steel Town PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Deindustrialization |
ISBN | 9781913620066 |
In 1977, Stephen Shore travelled across New York state, Pennsylvania, and eastern Ohio - an area in the midst of industrial decline that would eventually be known as the Rust Belt. Shore met steelworkers who had been thrown out of work by plant closures and photographed their suddenly fragile world: deserted factories, lonely bars, dwindling high streets, and lovingly decorated homes. Across these images, a prosperous middle America is seen teetering on the precipice of disastrous decline. Hope and despair alike lurk restlessly behind the surfaces of shop fronts, domestic interiors, and the fraught expressions of those who confront Shore's 4x5" view camera. Originally commissioned as an extended photographic report for Fortune Magazine in the vein of Walker Evans, Shore's multifaceted investigation has only gained political salience in the intervening years. Shore's subjects - including workers, union leaders, and family members - had voted for Jimmy Carter the year preceding his visit; now he found them disillusioned with the new president, fated to leave behind the Democratic party and become the 'Reagan Democrats'. Through unfailingly engrossing images by one of the world's acknowledged masters, Steel Town provides an immersive portrait of a time and place whose significance to our own is ever more urgent. With a text by Helen C. Epstein, author, translator and professor of human rights and public health.--
Manufacturing Decline
Title | Manufacturing Decline PDF eBook |
Author | Jason Hackworth |
Publisher | |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2019-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780231193726 |
Manufacturing Decline argues that antigovernment conservatives capitalized on--and perpetuated--Rust Belt cities' misfortunes by stoking racial resentment. Jason Hackworth traces how the conservative movement has used the imagery and ideas of urban decline since the 1970s to advance their cause.
Rust Belt Vegan Kitchen
Title | Rust Belt Vegan Kitchen PDF eBook |
Author | Meredith Pangrace |
Publisher | |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 2021-12-07 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781953368119 |
The Rust Belt Vegan Kitchen is a community cookbook created by professional and home chefs living and working in the Rust Belt. Recipes represent the diversity of the region, and include vegan versions of Polish pierogis, Detroit coney dogs, Hungarian paprikash, Slovak kolaches, Mexican conchas, West African peanut stew, German sauerkraut balls, Cincinnati chili, Slovenian fish fry, chitterings, and many more. The cooks and chefs offer stories about their recipes, including family history, culinary traditions, and personal narratives explaining how they were created.The book also contains resources on how to stock a vegan pantry, guides to useful equipment, and basic how-to's for "veganizing" staples. Infusing old world recipes with a new level of creativity for a changing audience, the Rust Belt Vegan Kitchen is unpretentious, accessible, and fun.
American Independents
Title | American Independents PDF eBook |
Author | Sally Eauclaire |
Publisher | |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 1987 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN |
Fotografisk billedværk. 18 amerikanske fotografers billedberetninger om USA i dag
The Rusted City
Title | The Rusted City PDF eBook |
Author | Rochelle Hurt |
Publisher | Marie Alexander Poetry |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9781935210528 |
Set in a surreal, post-industrial wasteland, this fable is a striking addition to the Marie Alexander Series.