Hinterland : America's new landscape of class and conflict / Phillip A. Neel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neel, Phillip A, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Working class--United States.

Working class.

Downward mobility (Social sciences).

Working poor.

United States.

Working poor--United States.

Downward mobility (Social sciences)--United States.

Equality--United States.

Equality.

United States--Social conditions--1980-2020.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

188 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Reaktion Books, 2018.

Summary:

Over the last forty years, the landscape of the United States has been fundamentally transformed. It is partially visible in the ascendance of glittering, coastal hubs for finance, infotech and the so-called 'creative class'. But this is only the tip of an economic iceberg, the bulk of which lies in the darkness of the declining heartland or on the dimly lit fringe of sprawling cities. This is America's Hinterland, populated by towering grain-threshing machines and hunched farmworkers, where labourers drawn from every corner of the world crowd into factories and 'fulfilment centres'. Driven by an ever-expanding crisis, America's class structure is recomposing itself in new geographies of race, poverty and production. 0Drawing on his direct experience of recent popular unrest, Phil A. Neel provides a close-up view of this landscape in all its grim but captivating detail, and tells the intimate story of a life lived within America's hinterland.

Contents:

Introduction: The cult of the city

Oaths of blood

Silver and ash

The Iron City

Oaths of water.

ISBN:

1780239025

9781780239026

OCLC:

1004758074