The Deindustrialization of America
From kwharrison13.com · Anti-library
The Deindustrialization of America
| Full title | The Deindustrialization of America: Plant Closings, Community Abandonment, and the Dismantling of Basic Industry |
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| Author | Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison |
| Published | 1982 |
| Pages | 323 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Barry Bluestone and Bennett Harrison’s 1982 book that named deindustrialization while it was happening — plant closings, capital flight and the hollowing of the industrial base, forty years before it became the consensus diagnosis. |
Where I heard about it
- @aphysicist — posted it on X, September 2025, as “weekend reading, this was written in 1982” — the date being the point.
Connections
- Deindustrialization — the phenomenon this book named.
- Manufacturing — the base whose dismantling it documents.
- Industrial Policy — the response it argued for.
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.