The Author is a professional writer and his foot notes and writing are not to be questioned.

I was worried when I opened the book and on page two it said Steven Phd.
I think once you try and read this boring and strung out book with few details that are accurate is a loser.
I beleive this was Steven's Thesis for his Phd,
I am sorry he got my money.
But he got his title , I hope he does not try and write more books with this type of not well documented info , But then again if you were not from Flint youwould never know and fin it hard to beleive just how much more worse it is than he tries to write

I am 68 I was born and raised in the North end of this city and have lived in it from one end to the other.
I even owned and operated my own business for almost 30 years.
My Dad worked for GM for over 35 years

I am not here for the destroyed burned out Ghetto, the hookers , drug dealers and thiefs of anything not well bolted down. Not carrying a weapon here is like not carrying in Afganistan.....

I am here but for one reason to take care of my parents until they are gone and then I will leave, Forever and not look back

It's Congressman of to many decades Dale Kildee helped with it's demise..Finally he retired last term after wring out all of the cash he could.....It has had always had failed leadership and The History in this city could should have been incredible.
Greed and dishonesty have put it down. The gorgeous building and homes built when it was founded and that ran through the good times of GM have all been destroyed.
Knckedown for more cheap houing and junk yards.

Now we are stuck with Dale's Nephew Dan who is as useless and greedy as his Uncle and the current City leaders who have been replaced by a very knowledgeble Govenor who appointed a great rep to act as a person to run it in place of a newly Elected Mayor Duane Walling who needs to move on.
We hope to see this person help us some .
Obama can't send money to help us, Pakistand, Egypt and more of our enemies are more important to him while Flint and the cities of the rust belt are in total carnage

Unfortunately the standards for the Unions from the Schools to the UAW, Teamsters and then Nafta......has killed us.
We are being held hostage by Detriots sale of water to us (due to their bankruptcy) at $250 to $300 or more a month for a 1,000 square fo home are helping destroying it more
If there was a door set up for people entering and leaving we would not need air conditioning for the entire City and County it would suck the city try in a short time

Steven got his PHD I got shafted into buying a book about my home town that I though would have been written by a well versed Author with a Phd.

His writing far is far from the truth and details it should have contained and it's obvious it was a school subjuct why he wrote it but I will ask again that possibly if Steven can find a subject he finds worth putting the time into that will be a Real Book
This one was Very Boring!!!!!!! and far far from the details and truth his misleading title tries to represent

This book is a valuable piece of scholarship. Well-researched, it brings to light the structural forces of labor relations and ideology that helped to shape Flint in the 1980s and 90s. Even though one might disagree with Dandaneau's conclusions, this book remains useful for specialists seeking food for thought about the trajectory of class consciousness during deindustrialization.

With that being said, this book is not for everyone. It was written in the 1990s specifically for an audience of scholars involved in debates about culture within the structural relations of capitalism. For other readers seeking an excellent social history of class (and race) relations in Flint, I recommend Andrew Highsmith's "Demolition Means Progress."