Why the Garden Club Couldn’t Save Youngstown: The Transformation of the Rust Belt

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In this book, Sean Safford compares the up to date history of Allentown, Pennsylvania, with that of Youngstown, Ohio. Allentown has seen a noticeable rebound over the course of the past twenty years. Facing a collapse of its steel-making firms, its economy has reinvented itself by transforming existing companies, building an entrepreneurial sector, and attracting inward investment. Youngstown used to be very similar to Allentown in its industrial history, the composition of its labor force, and other important variables, and yet as a substitute of adapting in the face of acute economic crisis, it fell into a mean race to the bottom. Challenging quite a lot of theoretical perspectives on regional socioeconomic change, Why the Garden Club Couldn’t Save Youngstown argues that the structure of social networks some of the cities’ economic, political, and civic leaders account for the divergent trajectories of post-industrial regions. It offers a probing historical explanation for the decline, fall, and unlikely rejuvenation of the Rust Belt. Emphasizing the power of social networks to shape action, decide get right of entry to to and keep an eye on over information and resources, define the contexts in which problems are viewed, and enable collective action in the face of externally generated crises, this book points toward present-day policy prescriptions for the ongoing plight of mature industrial regions in the U.S. and in a foreign country.

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