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After the Smoke Clears: Struggling to Get By in Rustbelt America

After the Smoke Clears: Struggling to Get By in Rustbelt America
Creator: Steve Mellon
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars 1 reviews
Sales Rank: 2193493

Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 8.8 x 0.6

ISBN: 0822959151
Dewey Decimal Number: 306
EAN: 9780822959151
ASIN: 0822959151

Publication Date: March 28, 2006
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Book Description
After the Smoke Clears takes readers into Homestead and Braddock, Pennsylvania; Lewiston, Maine; Matewan, West Virginia; and Flint, Michigan to focus on the strife caused by the departure of industry. Again and again, men and women relate how the blows to their sense of self and sense of community were more hurtful than the economic damage. Through words and photographs, Steve Mellon explores the relationship between work, loss, and identity, and offers a cautionary tale on the hidden costs of economic policies and business decisions made by multinational corporations to abandon the small towns that made them strong.


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5 out of 5 stars The rise and fall of the steel and mining industry   November 8, 2002
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After The Smoke Clears: Struggling To Get By in Rustbelt America by Steve Mellon (a journalist and staff photographer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) is an informed and moving chronicle of the rise and fall of the steel and mining industry in America. A tale of the communities surrounding the employment bounty of the steel mills, and the struggle to survive when the closure of this employment bounty left a void in people's ability to support themselves, After The Smoke Clears is a compelling and highly recommended saga of twentieth-century American history enhanced with black-and-white photography.

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