*SMLR-Net, the source of selected news on labor and employment relations and Human resource management* Title: Manufacturing Decline: How Racism and the Conservative Movement Crush the American Rust Belt

* Author: * Jason Hackworth

*Source:* Columbia University Press

*Date:* Sept 20, 2019 Summary: The debate about why the fortunes of cities such as Detroit have fallen looms large over questions of social policy. In *Manufacturing Decline*, Jason Hackworth offers a powerful critique of the role of Rust Belt cities in American political discourse, arguing that antigovernment conservatives capitalized on—and perpetuated—these cities’ misfortunes by stoking racial resentment.

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