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Author Tabak, Lawrence, author.

Title Foxconned : imaginary jobs, bulldozed homes & the sacking of local government / Lawrence Tabak.

Publication Info. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, [2021]

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 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  338.7621 TABAK    Check Shelf
Description xxi, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Your dream house is blighted -- Foxconn comes to America -- What does the Foxconn say? -- Who made that TV? -- The land grab -- Racine, poster child of the Rust Belt -- Sherrard, Illinois -- Monkey business in the middle -- Wassily Leontief and input-output economic impact -- Flying Eagle economic impact -- A tea party for Foxconn -- A bright, shining object -- The problem with picking winners -- An ill wind blows -- All politics are local -- The trouble with TIF -- Following the money -- Foxconn on the ground -- Breaking the cycle -- Postscript: The new contract.
Summary "In 2018, the Republican-led State of Wisconsin signed a economic-development deal with Foxconn, the China-based electronics manufacturer, nominally securing 13,000 jobs. Yet as journalist Lawrence Tabak powerfully shows, the deal is a disaster in every dimension: economic, political, cultural, legal, and environmental. Disfranchising American citizens of power, money, and land, the Foxconn deal demonstrates all the ways that the pursuit of jobs can ruin American communities nationwide. Tabak demonstrates that such packages of incentives cannot make economic sense on this scale. Subsequently, the proposed size of the plant has shrunk and grown and shrunk again, and its purported function has changed repeatedly. It's possible most of Foxconn's plans will turn out to be mirage. Yet the story of the dealmaking is complete, and its impacts on Wisconsin and its people will be permanent"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Foxconn International Holdings Ltd.
Industrial development projects -- Wisconsin -- Racine County.
Economic development projects -- Wisconsin.
Industrial promotion -- Wisconsin.
Economic development projects -- Political aspects -- Wisconsin.
Economic development projects -- Social aspects -- Wisconsin.
Tax increment financing -- Wisconsin.
Foxconn International Holdings Ltd. (OCoLC)fst01913590
Economic development projects. (OCoLC)fst00901885
Economic development projects -- Political aspects. (OCoLC)fst00901930
Economic development projects -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00901933
Industrial development projects. (OCoLC)fst00970935
Industrial promotion. (OCoLC)fst00971549
Tax increment financing. (OCoLC)fst01143804
Wisconsin. (OCoLC)fst01204595
Wisconsin -- Racine County. (OCoLC)fst01205906
ISBN 9780226740652 (hardcover)
022674065X (hardcover)
9780226740799 (electronic book)
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