Steven High and David W. Lewis. Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization

Corporate Wasteland, written by Steven High with photographsby David Lewis, argues that deindustrialization is a culturalas well as an economic process, and that popular memory shapedthe political response to plant shutdowns and job loss in theGreat Lakes region. The authors use oral history, photography,and archival research to explore the role of landscape in formingthat popular memory. The creation of the "Rust Belt" crossednational borders, and High and