You Had a Job for Life: Story of a Company Town

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Absentee owners. Single-minded concern for the base line. Friction between workers and management. Hostile takeovers by the hands of avaricious and unaccountable multinational interests. The story of The us’s industrial decline is all too familiar—and yet, by hook or by crook, still hard to fathom.

Jamie Sayen spent years interviewing residents of Groveton, New Hampshire, about the century-long saga of their company town. The community’s paper mill had been its economic engine because the early 1900s. Purchased and revived by local ownership in the postwar decades, the mill merged with Diamond International in 1968. It fell victim to British financier James Goldsmith’s hostile takeover in 1982, then suffered through a series of owners and not using a roots locally until its eventual demise in 2007.

Drawing on conversations with scores of former mill workers, Sayen reconstructs the mill’s human history: the smells of pulp and wood, the injuries and deaths, the struggles of women for equal pay and fair remedy, and the devastating have an effect on of global capitalism on a small New England town. This can be a heartbreaking story of the decimation of industrial The us.

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