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A Town Abandoned: Flint, Michigan, Confronts Deindustrialization (suny Series In Popular Culture And Political Change) by Steven P. Dandaneau is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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A cultural study of the Flint community's response to its own deindustrialization, within the framework of the state, national, and international forces that produced it. "This work will remain as a major study of a decisive period in American industrial and business history. It is an in-depth examination of the response of the Flint, Michigan, community to its deindustrialization--and examines that response within the framework of statewide, national, and international forces that led to its deindustrialization. This is the first study that applies empirically the critical theories of Benjamin, Horkheimer, Adorno, Habermas, and Marcuse and relates their work to a concrete situation of a conflict between 'capitalism' and human needs." -- Arthur J. Vidich, New School for Social Research Hometown to both General Motors and the United Auto Workers, and the setting for the documentary film Roger and Me , Flint, Michigan, is a striking example of a declining city in America's Rust Belt. A Town Abandoned examines Flint's response to its own social and economic decline and at the same time pursues a broad analysis of class and culture in America's late capitalist society. It tells the sto

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Author

Steven P. Dandaneau

Publisher

Albany: State University of New York Press

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780791428771

Category

history

Subjects

Sociology, History, Economics

Rating

4 / 5 (6 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14