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Hinterland :

1780239025

9781780239026

Hinterland :

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America's new landscape of class and conflict /

Phil A. Neel.

London :

Reaktion Books,

2018.

©2018

188 pages ;

23 cm

Field notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-188).

Introduction: The cult of the city -- Oaths of blood -- Silver and ash -- The Iron City -- Oaths of water.

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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. Drawing 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.

Downward mobility (Social sciences)-- United States.

Equality-- United States.

Social classes-- United States-- History-- 20th century.

Social classes-- United States-- History-- 21st century.

Social classes-- United States.

Working class-- United States.

Working poor-- United States.

Downward mobility (Social sciences)

Equality.

Social classes.

Social conditions.

Working class.

Working poor.

United States, Social conditions, 1980-

United States, Social conditions, 21st century.

United States.

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