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Over the last forty years, the landscape of the United States has been fundamentally transformed. It is partially visible in the ascendance of glittering, coastal hubs for finance, infotech and the so-called 'creative class'. But this is only the tip of an economic iceberg, the bulk of which lies in the darkness of the declining heartland or on the dimly lit fringe of sprawling cities. This is America's Hinterland, populated by towering grain-threshing machines and hunched farmworkers, where labourers drawn from every corner of the world crowd into factories and 'fulfilment centres'. Driven by an ever-expanding crisis, America's class structure is recomposing itself in new geographies of race, poverty and production. 0Drawing on his direct experience of recent popular unrest, Phil A. Neel provides a close-up view of this landscape in all its grim but captivating detail, and tells the intimate story of a life lived within America's hinterland. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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This book did seem scattered, and it felt like Neel could have written more clearly edited books on every topic referenced here—the way that rural areas are decimated over time and the black markets that spring up there, the migration of rural people into urban areas and the process of becoming part of those places, and the urban organization of modern cities with an analysis of industrialized areas and demographic spread. The urgency carried this book beyond the scattered scope, but it feels like someone writing for the first time about issues, probably because I came into this knowing Neel is not from academia. He does not have the attitude that liberals should come in and change rural areas, which comes up when people from universities start this kind of analysis. Instead his writing sits on the edge of the coming revolution, looking over the groups that have succeeded elsewhere, at the rumblings of unrest in America. He doesn’t have a prescriptive solution, but he offers clues to what we might start to look for, which is in its own more honest way much more helpful. ( )