Praise

Corporate Wasteland is more than simply the best book on deindustrialization; it’s a transnational road trip through the rustbelt with everyone from Woody Guthrie to Walker Evans, Joseph Schumpeter to John Steinbeck along for the ride, pointing out the details, arguing about what happened, and digging into the rich complexity of truth itself. The transcendent photographs of rotting industrial hulks and the elegiac words of the workers sear with the intensity of the once red-hot blast furnaces, now long grown cold. This book is not a lament – it is an interrogation of entire landscape.

– Jefferson Cowie, Cornell University, author of Capital Moves: RCA’s Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor

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