After the Factory Reinventing America's Industrial Small Cities By: James J. Connolly Publisher: Lexington Books Print ISBN: 9780739148242, 0739148249 eText ISBN: 9780739148259, 0739148257 Format: PDF Available from $ 26.10 USD SKU 9780739148259R120 The most pressing question facing the small and mid-sized cities of America's industrial heartland is how to reinvent themselves. Once-thriving communities in the Northeastern and Midwestern U. S. have decayed sharply as the high-wage manufacturing jobs that provided the foundation for their prosperity disappeared. A few larger cities had the resources to adjust, but most smaller places that relied on factory work have struggled to do so. Unless and until they find new economic roles for themselves, the small cities will continue to decline. Reinventing these smaller cities is a tall order. A few might still function as nodes of industrial production. But landing Download ebook: https://ouo.io/Hqd8GN7
