{"product_id":"manufacturing-decline-9780231193726","title":"Manufacturing Decline","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eManufacturing Decline\u003c\/i\u003e argues that antigovernment conservatives capitalized on—and perpetuated—Rust Belt cities’ misfortunes by stoking racial resentment. Jason Hackworth traces how the conservative movement has used the imagery and ideas of urban decline since the 1970s to advance their cause.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eManufacturing Decline \u003c\/i\u003eis a sobering yet essential read for anyone who is interested in the fate of America’s inner cities. This recovery of the politics behind—and, indeed, that created—the devastating decline of key cities such as Detroit is deeply unsettling but ultimately uplifting. As Jason Hackworth makes clear, just as America’s inner cities can be deliberately unmade to serve the political agenda of conservatives, so might they be remade in ways that could actually benefit all citizens equally. -- Heather Ann Thompson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eBlood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eManufacturing Decline\u003c\/i\u003e implicates conservative thought leadership, anti-urban interests, and elite—and ordinary—laissez-faire racism in a deliberate, decades-long degradation of U.S. cities via privation, demolition, and desertion. It is a thoughtful, stimulating, and efficient read at the intersection of urban geography, planning, and the social sciences. -- Michael Leo Owens, author of \u003ci\u003eGod and Government in the Ghetto: The Politics of Church-State Collaboration in Black America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eManufacturing Decline\u003c\/i\u003e convincingly argues that, while the disappearance of manufacturing jobs affected Rust Belt cities, their decline was not inevitable. Jason Hackworth provides a marvelous exposition of how this decline was largely produced by the rise of neoliberal policies emphasizing free markets while deliberately overlooking the region’s long history of racial disparities. -- Reynolds Farley, coauthor of \u003ci\u003eDetroit Divided\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTimely reading for troubled times...a sturdy exploration of a continuing problem. * Kirkus Reviews *\u003cbr\u003eThroughout \u003ci\u003eManufacturing Decline\u003c\/i\u003e, he demonstrates how even the most well-meaning plans maintain the austerity structures that became prevalent in the last half-century. These have immediate and long-lasting effects on the black populations of Rust Belt cities. * Cleveland Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003eIn this well-researched, data-driven book, Jason Hackworth makes a persuasive case that the devastating demographic and fiscal declines that have turned once-thriving rust-belt cities into quasi-wastelands were not simply the result\u003cbr\u003eof impersonal market forces or the supposedly spendthrift policies of left-wing mayors, but were the predictable, if not always intended, result of neoliberal nostrums such as ‘right-sizing.' * Survival *\u003cbr\u003eWhen you put this book down, you leave with a powerful understanding of the forces and whose choices made the Rust Belt what it is today. * Metropole *\u003cbr\u003eManufacturing Decline is an invitation to a long overdue discussion, and I hope that urban sociologist, urban geographers,\u003cbr\u003escholars of race, students of American political development, and others show up. * American Journal of Sociology *\u003cbr\u003eA valuable addition to the shrinking cities literature and should be required reading for anyone interested in the forces that contributed to, and continue to perpetuate, decline across the American Rust Belt. * Journal of Urban Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Organized Deprivation in the American Rust Belt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I. Othering the Deprived City\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Racial Threat and Urban Decline\u003cbr\u003e2. Urban Decline as Conservative Bonding Capital \u003cbr\u003e3. The Conservative Myth of Detroit\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II. Depriving the Othered City\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. Conservative City Limits \u003cbr\u003e5. Land-Market Fundamentalism\u003cbr\u003e6. Demolition as Urban Policy\u003cbr\u003e7. Saving the City to Kill It\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Urban Decline Was Planned\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400344969559,"sku":"9780231193726","price":75.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231193726.jpg?v=1730470445","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/manufacturing-decline-9780231193726","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}