Industrial Valley: The Politics of Bureaucratic Socialism Contributor(s): McKenney, Ruth (Author), Nelson, Daniel (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0875461832 ISBN-13: 9780875461830 Publisher: ILR Press OUR PRICE: $28.76 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1992 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics |
Dewey: 813.52 |
LCCN: 92002696 |
Series: Literature of American Labor |
Physical Information: 0.88" H x 5.56" W x 8.47" (1.05 lbs) 408 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Midwest - Geographic Orientation - Ohio |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Ruth McKenney's compelling novel of class and industrial conflict in Akron, Ohio, first appeared in 1939 and was widely acclaimed. McKenney was a capable journalist who had spent a year and a half in Akron, the heart of the tire industry, a city that she said smells like a rubber band smoldering in an ashtray. Industrial Valley vividly portrays an industrial city crippled by the country's economic failures and also provides a stirring example of fiction predicated on social and political principles. It will intrigue readers for its contemporary as well as its historical implications. The images McKenney evokes of workers confused and enraged by a moribund economy seem startlingly relevant today. |