Tag: postindustrialism
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France Plans an Extreme Makeover for Struggling Small Cities
FEARGUS O’SULLIVAN MAY 2, 2018 Source: CityLab Action Coeur de Ville aims to undo the damage of urban sprawl in more than 200 city centers across the country. France’s city centers are about to get one of the biggest makeovers in their history. Following…
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“The nothing factory” a movie on de-industrialization
It follows a group of factory workers who go on strike in an attempt to block the relocation of their workplace by its crooked owners. Vasco Viana was the cinematographer and the film was shot on 16mm. Cláudia Oliveira was the editor and João Gazua handled sound. According to a statement from Directors’ Fortnight artistic director…
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Book: “Hard Living on Clay Street: Portraits of Blue Collar Families”
In this revealing study of a white working class neighborhood in Washington, D.C., Howell shows us that there is more than one kind of blue collar worker in America today. Hard Living on Clay Street is about two very different blue collar families, the Shackelfords and the Mosebys. They are fiercely independent southern migrants, preoccupied…
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Book: “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis”
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America’s white working class Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The decline of…