San Antonio College Library

Discloses conditions of boredom, poverty and ill health in an American small town in 1890-1910 through selected contemporary photographs of Black River Falls, Wisconsin.

"A Washington Post reporter's intimate account of the fallout from the closing of a General Motors' assembly plant in Janesville, Wisconsin--Paul Ryan's hometown--and a larger story of the hollowing of the American middle class. This is the story of what happens to an industrial town in the American heartland when its factory stills--but it's not the familiar tale. Most observers record the immediate shock of vanished jobs, but few stay around long...