deindustrialization

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/16/2021
  

  The Rise and Fall of an American Tech Giant

  Writer Kaitlyn Tiffany considers the impact of the Kodak company's product on American culture and the city of Rochester where she grew up, and the way that digital technology has changed both. 

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  4/8/2021
  

  The Health Care Crucible (Review)

  Gabriel Winant's "The Next Shift" examines the shift from industrial manufacturing toward care work as the economic base of the Rust Belt, where profit comes from treating the old, sick, and poor of one generation of the working class through the labor of the next generation.

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  9/9/2020
  

  Neoliberal Hong Kong Is Our Future, Too

  by Macabe Keliher

  While orthodox economists like to point to Hong Kong as an ideal free market, the social consequences have been disastrous. Inequality is rising, wages are declining and working hours increasing, overall economic opportunity is dwindling, and housing is so unaffordable that office workers sleep in McDonalds. Is it any wonder that the streets are now burning?