Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization
- ISBN-10
- 0801474019
- ISBN-13
- 9780801474019
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 193
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Authors
- David W. Lewis, Steven C. High
Description
Through a blend of oral history, photographs, and interpretive essays, 'Corporate Wasteland' encourages readers to look beyond nostalgia as the authors reinterpret our deindustrialised landscape as a historical and imaginative challenge to the ways in which we comprehend and respond to the profound disruptions wrought by globalization.
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