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His important book is a must read for scholars who are interested in the link between local communities and the wider economic world, for policy makers who need to know what not to do, and for anyone else who cares about economic fairness and political democracy in a world

• Title : Metal Fatigue: American Bosch and the Demise of Metalworking in the Connecticut River Valley (Work, Health and Environment Series)
• Author : Robert Forrant
• Rating : 4.88 (501 Vote)
• Publish : 2014-11-14
• Format : Paperback
• Pages : 198 Pages
• Asin : 0895033267
• Language : English

His important book is a must read for scholars who are interested in the link between local communities and the wider economic world, for policy makers who need to know what not to do, and for anyone else who cares about economic fairness and political democracy in a world stacked against both. Robert Forrant has written an insider's book about all of this that is absolutely riveting. --Professor Robert Nakosteen, University of Massachusetts Amherst Isenberg School of Management . Easily one of the lucid and accessible books ever written on the local cost of globalization. The compelling book should be read by historians, by urban and regional planners, and by anyone who mourns the disappearance of our industrial base. He writes about the decline of Springfield through his experience as a worker and union official of American Bosch, the enormous metalworking plant that closed its doors in 1986. --Bruce Laurie, Prof. Robert Forrant, a former machinist-turned-academic, recounts in living but tragic detail the impa

He has consulted on industrial development issues with the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the International Labour Organization, the International Metalworkers Federation, and the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers. His scholarly articles have appeared in several academic journals, including Cambridge Journal of Economics, International Review of Social History, Regional Studies, Journal of Industrial History, Industrial Relations Journal, and European Planning Studies. Robert Forrant received his Ph.D. He serves as a regional

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On February 4, 1986, the lives of thousands of workers changed in ways they could only begin to imagine. This book is a historical account of the profound economic collapse of the Connecticut River Valley region, with a particular focus on Bosch, its workers, and its union. The shutdown is placed in the context of the wider region's deindustrialization. The author, a former Bosch worker and the business agent for the union representing nearly 1,200 Bosch employees when the plant closed, interjects his personal recollections into the story.For more than 150 years Springfield stood at the center of a prosperous 200-mile industrial corridor along the Connecticut River, between Bridgeport, Connecticut, and Springfield, Vermont, populated with hundreds of machine tool and metalworking plants and thousands of workers. On that day, United Technologies Corporation ordered the closure of the 76-year-old American Bosch manufacturing plant in Springfield, Massachusetts, capping a nearly 32-year history of job loss and work relocation from the sprawling factory. The book also describes how the United States, in a ten-year period from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, went from being the world's leading exporter of machine tools to its leading importer, and how that sharp decline affected the region's leading city, Springfield, Massachusetts, which by 2005 was in danger of bankruptcy.. The closure marked the watershed for large-firm metalworking and metalw