Punching Out: One Year in a Closing Auto Plant

210 Pages·2011·1.43 MB·English

by  Paul Clemens

ALSO BY PAUL CLEMENS
Made in Detroit

Copyright © 2011 by Paul Clemens
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Doubleday, a division of Random House,
Inc., New York, and in
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A portion of this work previously appeared in different form in the New York Times.
All illustrations courtesy of the author
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Clemens, Paul, 1973–
Punching out: one year in a closing auto plant/Paul Clemens.—1st ed.
p. cm.
1. Automobile industry and trade—Michigan—Detroit. 2. Automobile industry workers—
Michigan—Detroit. 3. Plant shutdowns—Michigan—Detroit. I. Title.
HD9710.U53D4725 2010
338.4′76292220977434—dc22 2010019970
eISBN: 978-0-385-53262-4
v3.1
The author wishes to acknowledge the generous support
of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
in the writing of this book.
FOR EDDIE AND THE GUYS
This was a very terrible and melancholy thing to see, and as it was a sight
which I could not but look on from morning to night (for indeed there was
nothing else of moment to be seen), it filled me with very serious thoughts of
the misery that was coming upon the city, and the unhappy condition of
those that would be left in it.
Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year
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