PUNCHING OUT: ONE YEAR IN A CLOSING AUTO PLANT
Book ID/图书代码： 11720010B40952
English Summary/英文概要： An elegy—angry, funny, and powerfully detailed—about the slow death of a Detroit auto plant and an American way of life.
How does a country dismantle a century’s worth of its industrial heritage? To answer that question, Paul Clemens investigates the 2006 closing of one of America’s most potent symbols: a Detroit auto plant. Prior to its closing, the Budd Company stamping plant on Detroit’s East Side, built in 1919, was one of the oldest active auto plants in America’s foremost industrial city—one whose history includes the nation’s proudest moments and those of its working class. Its closing also reflects the character of the country in a new era—the sad, brutal process of picking it apart and sending it, piece by piece, to the countries that now have use for its machines.
Punching Out is an up-close report, at once tender and angry, from the meanest, sharpest edge of America’s deindustrialization, and a lament for a working-class culture that once defined a prosperous America—and that is now on the verge of economic extinction.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书以哀歌详细记录了底特律汽车工厂以及美国人一种生活方式的衰亡进程。
一个国家怎么会拆毁拥有百年基业的工业遗产？作者对此进行了彻底的调查。然后发现，在底特律汽车工厂关闭前，在其东部新造了一个汽车基地，拥有国家的荣耀时刻以及工人阶级的支持。底特律的倒闭从某一面反映了新世纪国家的角色。它是美国工业化退化的缩影。(兼职翻译-XJJ)
Awards/获奖情况：纽约时报书评（The New York Times Book Review ）：“非常好的一本回忆录，真实风趣，直接点出了美国近年来的种族关系。”
About the Author/作者介绍： 保罗•克莱蒙斯（PAUL CLEMENS），自由撰稿人，见证了底特律的兴旺与衰亡。曾令数以万计工人引以为豪的旧址如今空空如也。自2006年歇业以来，作者决心找出致使其倒闭的原因以及旧址的未来。底特律近百年的汽车部件加工同样可以在墨西哥城由廉价的工人完成，这不足为奇。但是，作者也有惊人的发现，像是底特律原工厂仍在出产大型机械，然后运往墨西哥城装上制造的零部件销售，而底特律的失业工人却只能领政府救济金度日。真是讽刺。作者为我们呈现了一个卓有吸引力的故事，由于工厂的贪婪而造就的美国一个城市以及行业的衰退。 Freelance journalist Clemens (Made in Detroit: A South of 8 Mile Memoir, 2005) has seen Detroit thrive and then decline since his birth in 1973.The sites of automobile plants that used to employ thousands of proud workers now sit empty. After the Budd Company auto-parts stamping plant closed in 2006, the author decided to investigate why it closed and what became of the gigantic building afterward. It was no surprise that many of the automobile parts manufactured at the Detroit factory for nearly 100 years would be produced in a Mexican city by cheap labor. However, some of the author’s findings were surprising: Heavy machinery from the closed Detroit plant would be trucked to Mexico-plus automobile parts factories in other nations-to perform the same functions as before, while Detroit laborers drew unemployment checks from the state of Michigan and perhaps the U.S. government. When Clemens saw the machinery at work in Aguascalientes, Mexico, he felt the bitter irony of watching the machinery from the Budd plant-which had been located between two Chrysler automotive factories in Detroit-stamping parts in a foreign nation for none other than Chrysler’s Dodge Journey line. Throughout the narrative, the author proves to be a keen, tireless observer, and he provides vivid portrayals of the many recurring characters from the dismantling crew, many of them skilled itinerants.On-the-ground, compelling stories about the decline of an American city and industry due to corporate greed. (- from Kirkus)
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