William Adler's absorbing and affecting narrative history traces the postwar migration of one factory job as it is passed from the cradle of American industry, Paterson, New Jersey, to rural Mississippi during the turmoil of the civil rights movement, to the burgeoning border city of Matamoros, Mexico. This fascinating story follows the intersecting lives and fates of three women who held the same job, in each of three locales. The story of these women, their company, and their communities provides an ideal prism through which Adler explores the larger issues at the heart of the book: The decline of unions and the middle class, the growing gap between rich and poor, public policy that rewards companies for transferring U.S. jobs abroad, the ways in which "free trade" undermines stable businesses and communities, and how the global economy exploits workers on both sides of the border. Combining...
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