The Magic City: Unemployment in a Working-Class Community
ISBN: 9781501724695
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Plant shutdowns -- Ohio -- Barberton; Unemployment Structural -- Ohio -- Barberton; Barberton (Ohio) -- Economic conditions;

Thirty-two million Americans have lost jobs because of permanent factory closings since 1970. Gregory Pappas here provides an intimate account of the economic, social, psychological, and medical consequences of one such closing.


Gregory Pappas is a Fellow at the National Center for Health Statistics.

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