Janesville

A Washington Post reporter provides an intimate account of the fallout from the closing of a General Motors assembly plant in Janesville, Wisconsin – which happens to be Paul Ryan’s hometown – and a larger story of the hollowing of the American middle class. This is not the familiar tale of immediate shock from vanished jobs, but rather the story of what follows when a community with a can-do spirit tries to pick itself up. Pulitzer Prize winner Amy Goldstein spent years immersed in Janesville, Wisconsin where the nation’s oldest operating General Motors plant shut down in the midst of the Great Recession, two days before Christmas of 2008. With intelligence, sympathy, and insight into what connects and divides people in an era of economic upheaval, she makes one of America’s biggest political issues human. Her reporting takes the reader deep into the lives of auto workers, educators, bankers, politicians, and job re-trainers to show why it’s so hard in the twenty-first century to recreate a healthy, prosperous working class. This is not just a Janesville story or a Midwestern story. It’s an American story.

作者简介

AmyGoldsteinhasbeenastaffwriterforthirtyyearsatTheWashingtonPost,wheremuchofherworkhasfocusedonsocialpolicy.Amongherawards,shesharedthe2002PulitzerPrizefornationalreporting.ShehasbeenafellowatHarvardUniversityattheNiemanFoundationforJournalismandtheRadcliffeInstituteforAdvancedStudy.Janesville:AnAmericanStoryisherfi...