Description |
xv, 302 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-291) and index. |
Contents |
Days of theft : Pine Ridge, South Dakota -- Days of siege : Camden, New Jersey -- Days of devastation : Welch, West Virginia -- Days of slavery : Immokalee, Florida -- Days of revolt : Liberty Square, New York City. |
Summary |
Camden, New Jersey was once an industrial giant. It employed some 36,000 workers in its shipyards during World War II and built some of the nation's largest warships. It was the home to major industries, from RCA Victor to Campbell's Soup. It was a destination for immigrants and upwardly mobile lower middle class families. Camden now resembles a penal colony. In Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges and American Book Award winning cartoonist Joe Sacco show how places like Camden, a poster child of postindustrial decay, stand as a warning of what huge pockets of the United States will turn into if we cement in place a permanent underclass. |
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Two years ago, Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges and award-winning cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco set out to take a look at the sacrifice zones, areas that have been offered up for exploitation in the name of profit, progress, and technological advancement. They wanted to show in words and drawings what life looks like in places where the marketplace rules without constraints, where human beings and the natural world are used and then discarded to maximize earnings. The book starts in the western plains, where Native Americans were sacrificed for land and empire. It moves to the old manufacturing centers and coal fields that fueled the Industrial Revolution, but now lie in decay. It follows the steady downward spiral of American labor into the nation's produce fields and ends in Zuccotti Park where a new generation is revolting against a corporate state that has handed the young an economic, political, cultural, and environmental catastrophe.--From publisher description. |
Subject |
United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Poor -- United States.
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Crime -- United States.
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Social classes -- United States.
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Local Subject |
Poor people -- United States.
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Added Author |
Sacco, Joe.
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ISBN |
9781568586434 hardback $28.00 |
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1568586434 hardback |
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