Boom, Bust, Exodus
The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 27 October 2016
- ISBN 9780190608866
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages408 pages
- Size 140x208x27 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 25 b/w images 0
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Short description:
Following the story of the story of the displacement of a Maytag refrigerator plant from Galesburg, Illinois, to Reynosa, Mexico in 2004, Boom, Bust, Exodus puts a human face on globalization, exploring the social side of the fast-moving changes sweeping across the U.S. and Mexico.
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In 2002, the town of Galesburg, a slowly declining Rustbelt city of 33,000 in western Illinois, learned that it would soon lose its largest factory, a Maytag refrigerator plant that had anchored Galesburg's social and economic life for decades. Workers at the plant earned $15.14 an hour, had good insurance, and were assured a solid retirement. In 2004, the plant was relocated to Reynosa, Mexico, where workers sometimes spent 13-hour days assembling refrigerators for $1.10 an hour.
In Boom, Bust, Exodus, Chad Broughton offers a ground-level look at the rapid transition to a globalized economy, from the perspective of those whose lives it has most deeply affected. We live in a commoditized world, increasingly divorced from the origins of the goods we consume; it is easy to ignore who is manufacturing our smart phones and hybrid cars; and where they come from no longer seems to matter. And yet, Broughton shows, the who and where matter deeply, and in this book he puts human faces to the relentless cycle of global manufacturing.
It is a tale of two cities. In Galesburg, where parts of the empty Maytag factory still stand, a hollowed out version of the American dream, the economy is a shadow of what it once was. Reynosa, in contrast, has become one of the exploding post-NAFTA "second-tier cities" of the developing world, thanks to the influx of foreign-owned, export-oriented maquiladoras--an industrial promised land throbbing with the energy of commerce, legal and illegal. And yet even these distinctions, Broughton shows, cannot be finely drawn: families in Reynosa also struggle to get by, and the city is beset by violence and a ruthless drug war. Those left behind in the post-Industrial decline of Galesburg, meanwhile, do not see themselves as helpless victims: they have gone back to school, pursued new careers, and learned to adapt and even thrive.
In an era of growing inequality and a downsized middle class, Boom, Bust, Exodus gives us the voices of those who have borne the heaviest burdens of the economic upheavals of the past three decades. A deeply personal work grounded in solid scholarship, this important, immersive, and affecting book brings home the price and the cost of globalization.
Boom, Bust, Exodus brings to life the human impact of global industrial change on the people who live with it. Chad Broughton combines a journalist's eye for color and the telling detail with a scholar's grasp of his subject and skill in putting it all into context. There are heroes here, but few villains. Rather, Broughton tells in vivid prose what happens-both to people and their cities-when industry is ripped up from the places where it has always been and transplanted to places that weren't ready for it. Broughton knows the territory. He went to see and to listen, and he understands what he saw and heard. The result is a classic of post-industrial scholarship.
Table of Contents:
Prologue
Chapter 1: Boom Days in Appliance City
Chapter 2: Unrest in the Magic Valley
Chapter 3: An American Classic in the Global Era
Chapter 4: The Red-headed Stepchild
Chapter 5: Padre Mike and NAFTA Man
Chapter 6: Resist or Reinvent
Chapter 7: "Sin Maíz, No Hay País"
Chapter 8: "The End is HERE!"
Chapter 9: The Mike Allen Question
Chapter 10: Chiles, Coyotes, and Vanilla
Chapter 11: Frogs, Mules, and Life after Maytag
Chapter 12: "Esa es Mi Visión"
Chapter 13: Looking North from Barra de Cazones
Chapter 14: Getting Back to Work in the 'Burg
Chapter 15: Hojas, Blackberries, and the Tortilla King
Chapter 16: Treading Water in the Great Recession
Chapter 17: Little Detroit, El Cartel, and Aguamiel
Chapter 18: Reshoring Up
Epilogue
Notes on Method
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
