Caught in the Middle: America's Heartland in the Age of Globalism

Caught in the Middle: America's Heartland in the Age of Globalism

by Richard C. Longworth
Caught in the Middle: America's Heartland in the Age of Globalism

Caught in the Middle: America's Heartland in the Age of Globalism

by Richard C. Longworth

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Overview

The Midwest has always been the heart of America-both its economic bellwether and the repository of its national identity. Now, in a new, globalized age, the Midwest is challenged as never before. With an influx of immigrant workers and an outpouring of manufacturing jobs, the region that defines the American self-the Lake Wobegon image of solid, hardworking farmers and factory hands-is changing at breakneck speed. As factory farms and global forces displace old ways of life, the United States is being transformed literally from the inside out.
In Caught in the Middle, longtime Chicago Tribune reporter Richard C. Longworth explores the new reality of life in today's heartland and reveals what these changes mean for the region-and the country. Ranging from the manufacturing collapse that has crippled the Midwest to the biofuels revolution that may save it, and from the school districts struggling with new migrants to the Iowa meatpacking town that can't survive without them, Longworth addresses what's right and what's wrong in the region, and offers a prescription for how it must change-politically as well as economically-if it is to survive and prosper.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781596918474
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 08/09/2010
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 320
File size: 687 KB

About the Author

Now a fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Richard C. Longworth was an award-winning foreign correspondent and senior writer at the Chicago Tribune. His previous book, Global Squeeze, was lauded by Foreign Affairs as "an engrossing study of how advanced societies grapple with the disruptive forces of global markets." Twice a Pulitzer Prize finalist, Longworth lives in Chicago.
Now a fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Richard C. Longworth was an award-winning foreign correspondent and senior writer at the Chicago Tribune. His previous book, Global Squeeze, was lauded by Foreign Affairs as "an engrossing study of how advanced societies grapple with the disruptive forces of global markets." Twice a Pulitzer Prize finalist, Longworth lives in Chicago.

Table of Contents

Prologue 1

1 Caught in the Middle 5

2 The Midwest and the Globe 16

3 From Rust to Bust 26

4 Unplugged 43

5 Mega-Farmers 62

6 From Hometown to Slum 82

7 The New Midwesterners 101

8 New Blood for Cities 123

9 Global Chicago and Other Cities 144

10 Left Behind 168

11 Flunking Out 176

12 Betting the Farm 198

13 The Blue and the Red 221

14 Global Midwest 245

Epilogue 265

Postscript 269

Acknowledgments 276

Notes 279

Bibliography 299

Index 303

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