@article{718506,
      recid = {718506},
      author = {Broughton, Chad,},
      title = {Boom, bust, exodus : the Rust Belt, the maquilas, and a  tale of two cities /},
      pages = {399 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :},
      abstract = {"In 2002, the town of Galesburg, a slowly declining  Rustbelt city of 34,000 in western Illinois, learned that  it would soon lose its largest factory, a Maytag  refrigerator plant that had anchored Galesburg's social and  economic life for half a century. Workers at the plant  earned $15.14 an hour, had good insurance, and were assured  a solid retirement. In 2004, the plant was relocated to  Reynosa, Mexico, where workers spent 13-hour days  assembling refrigerators for $1.10 an hour. In Boom, Bust,  Exodus, Broughton offers a look at the transition to a  globalized economy, from the perspective of those who have  felt its effects most. In today's highly commoditized  world, we are increasingly divorced from the origins of the  goods we consume; the human labor required to create our  smart phones and hybrid cars is so far removed from the end  product we need not even think about it. And yet, Broughton  shows, the human cost behind the shifting currents of the  global economy remains a reality. Broughton illuminates  these complexities through a tale of two cities that have  fared very differently in the global contest to woo or  retain fickle capital. In Galesburg, the economy is a  shadow of what it once was. Reynosa, in contrast, has  become one of the exploding 'second-tier cities' of the  developing world, thanks to the influx of foreign-owned,  export-oriented maquiladoras. And yet even these  distinctions cannot be finely drawn: families struggle to  get by in Reynosa, and the city is beset by violence and a  ruthless drug war. Those left behind in declining of  Galesburg, meanwhile, do not see themselves as helpless  victims: many have gone back to school, scramble from job  to job, and have learned to adapt and even thrive. It is a  downsized existence, but a full-sized life nonetheless"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/718506},
}