Why the Garden Club Couldn't Save Youngstown The Transformation of the Rust Belt

Name: Why the Garden Club Couldn't Save Youngstown The Transformation of the Rust Belt
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ISBN: 9780674031760

ISBN-10: 0674031768

ISBN-13: 9780674031760

Edition: 2009

Authors: Sean Safford

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In this book, Sean Safford compares the recent history of Allentown, Pennsylvania, with that of Youngstown, Ohio. Allentown has seen a noticeable rebound over the course of the past twenty years. Facing a collapse of its steel-making firms, its economy has reinvented itself by transforming existing companies, building an entrepreneurial sector, and attracting inward investment. Youngstown was similar to Allentown in its industrial history, the composition of its labor force, and other important variables, and yet instead of adapting in the face of acute economic crisis, it fell into a mean race to the bottom. Challenging various theoretical perspectives on regional socioeconomic change, Why…

Book details

List price: $48.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 1/31/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 0.65" wide x 1.00" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English

Sean Safford is Visiting Professor of Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.




Cities That Worked



The Empirical Puzzle: The Postindustrial Divergence of Allentown and Youngstown



Historical Antecedents: The Divergence of Social Structures, 1743-1945



Two Critical Choices: Invoking Social Structure in Crises



How Allentown Got Its Groove Back: Rebuilding Social Infrastructure in the Wake of Economic Crisis



Conclusions and Implications



List of Interviewees



Chronology of Major Economic, Political, and Social Events, 1743-2003


Notes


References


Acknowledgements


Index