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Since the 1970s, urban communities across the country have had to face the wrenching process of economic restructuring. As the media announce the latest plant closings and politicians slam each other for outsourcing jobs, events are too often framed with a kind of economic determinism that denies agency to individual communities. To what degree can industrial cities in such an era still imagine themselves as authors of their own economic fates? In Rust Belt Resistance, author Perry Bush explores this question by focusing on the small midwestern city of Lima, Ohio. When British Petroleum (BP) announced late in 1996 that it would close and demolish its refinery therewhich at the time employed 500 people with a $31.5 million payrolleconomic desperation loomed. Limas story, however, deviated from the usual sad narrative of other Midwest plant closures and began to assume a drama of its own. Led by an unlikely cast of charactersan uncommonly stubborn set of civic leaders, a conservative local newspaper publisher, and the citys determined and progressive mayorLima refused to take its place quietly on the industrial scrap heap. Instead of collapsing in despair, the refinerys workers conti

Who reads Rust Belt Resistance : How a Small Community Took on Big Oil and Won?

Author

Bush, Perry

Publisher

Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781606351178

Category

business

Subjects

Economics, Business

Rating

4.6 / 5 (14 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14