Who We Are Is Where We Are - Making Home in the American Rust Belt

Through the cases of the former steel manufacturing hub of southeast Chicago and a shuttered mining community in Iron County, Wisconsin, Amanda McMillan Lequieu traces the power and shifting meanings of the notion of home for people who live in troubled places.

List of contents

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Capitalism Makes Place: Constructing an Industrial Home
2. Home Without the Company: Deindustrializing the American Midwest
3. How to Stay in the Rust Belt: Work, Choice, and Home in the Decade After Company Closure
4. Stories of House, Landscape, Community: Narrating the Declining Action of Deindustrialization
5. Natural Resource Futures in Iron County
6. Tangled Landscapes in Southeast Chicago
Conclusion
Appendix A: Notes on Methods
Appendix B: Teach This Book
Notes
Index

About the author

Amanda McMillan Lequieu is an assistant professor of sociology at Drexel University.

Summary

Through the cases of the former steel manufacturing hub of southeast Chicago and a shuttered mining community in Iron County, Wisconsin, Amanda McMillan Lequieu traces the power and shifting meanings of the notion of home for people who live in troubled places.

Product details

• Authors: Amanda McMillan Lequieu
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.05.2024
• EAN: 9780231198745
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19874-5
• No. of pages: 384
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Chicago, Wisconsin, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General, Illinois, HISTORY / Social History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Sociology & anthropology, Sociology and anthropology, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Industrialisation and industrial history, social science; history