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Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on January 13, 2009
Enterprise and Society 2009 10(1):234-236; doi:10.1093/es/khn114
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Steven High and David W. Lewis. Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization

Steven High and David W. Lewis. Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007. viii + 193 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-7401-9, $18.95 (paper).

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Corporate Wasteland, written by Steven High with photographs by David Lewis, argues that deindustrialization is a cultural as well as an economic process, and that popular memory shaped the political response to plant shutdowns and job loss in the Great Lakes region. The authors use oral history, photography, and archival research to explore the role of landscape in forming that popular memory. The creation of the "Rust Belt" crossed national borders, and High and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Susan E. Hirsch

Department of History, Loyola University, Chicago


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