Rust Belt Reads

1.
Janesville: An American Story
Janesville: An American Story 4.09 avg rating — 7,525 ratings
2.
Detroit: A Biography
Detroit: A Biography 3.71 avg rating — 1,098 ratings
3.
Exit Zero: Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago
Exit Zero: Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago 4.05 avg rating — 124 ratings
4.
Detroit: An American Autopsy
Detroit: An American Autopsy 3.94 avg rating — 15,742 ratings
5.
Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class 4.11 avg rating — 958 ratings
6.
Blood on the Forge
Blood on the Forge 3.82 avg rating — 565 ratings
7.
Crisis In Bethlehem
Crisis In Bethlehem 3.96 avg rating — 56 ratings
8.
And the Wolf Finally Came: The Decline and Fall of the American Steel Industry (Pitt Series in Social and Labor History)
And the Wolf Finally Came: The Decline and Fall of the American Steel Industry (Pitt Series in Social and Labor History) 4.12 avg rating — 81 ratings
9.
Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town
Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town
by: Beth Macy
3.86 avg rating — 2,918 ratings
10.
Voices from the Rust Belt
Voices from the Rust Belt 3.68 avg rating — 306 ratings
11.
The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit
The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit 4.24 avg rating — 2,199 ratings
12.
The Ones Who Hit the Hardest: The Steelers, the Cowboys, the '70s, and the Fight for America's Soul
The Ones Who Hit the Hardest: The Steelers, the Cowboys, the '70s, and the Fight for America's Soul 3.95 avg rating — 575 ratings
13.
Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis
Detroit City Is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis 3.84 avg rating — 2,074 ratings
14.
Steel: The Story of Pittsburgh's Iron and Steel Industry 1852 - 1902
Steel: The Story of Pittsburgh's Iron and Steel Industry 1852 - 1902 4.09 avg rating — 77 ratings
15.
Out of This Furnace
Out of This Furnace 3.79 avg rating — 1,832 ratings
16.
Population: 485
Population: 485 3.93 avg rating — 5,837 ratings
16.
Steel: From Mine to Mill, the Metal that Made America
Steel: From Mine to Mill, the Metal that Made America 4.07 avg rating — 69 ratings
16.
Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia
Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia 4.31 avg rating — 753 ratings
19.
Once In A Great City: A Detroit Story
Once In A Great City: A Detroit Story 3.79 avg rating — 1,864 ratings
19.
American Steel
American Steel 4.13 avg rating — 262 ratings
19.
Desperate: An Epic Battle for Clean Water and Justice in Appalachia
Desperate: An Epic Battle for Clean Water and Justice in Appalachia 4.10 avg rating — 195 ratings
22.
Steel Town
Steel Town 3.42 avg rating — 142 ratings
22.
American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears
American Made: What Happens to People When Work Disappears 4.31 avg rating — 1,425 ratings
24.
Boom, Bust, Exodus: The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities
Boom, Bust, Exodus: The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities 4.14 avg rating — 196 ratings
25.
Their Life's Work: The Brotherhood of the 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers, Then and Now
Their Life's Work: The Brotherhood of the 1970s Pittsburgh Steelers, Then and Now 4.44 avg rating — 691 ratings
25.
The Hard Way on Purpose: Essays and Dispatches from the Rust Belt
The Hard Way on Purpose: Essays and Dispatches from the Rust Belt 3.95 avg rating — 496 ratings
27.
Rust Belt Chic: The Cleveland Anthology
Rust Belt Chic: The Cleveland Anthology 3.94 avg rating — 113 ratings
28.
Roots of Steel: Boom and Bust in an American Mill Town
Roots of Steel: Boom and Bust in an American Mill Town 3.80 avg rating — 75 ratings
28.
Harvey Pekar's Cleveland
Harvey Pekar's Cleveland 3.97 avg rating — 1,344 ratings
30.
The Fall of an American Rome: Deindustrialization of the American Dream
The Fall of an American Rome: Deindustrialization of the American Dream 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
31.
American Splendor and More American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar
American Splendor and More American Splendor: The Life and Times of Harvey Pekar 4.03 avg rating — 6,938 ratings
32.
Made in Detroit: A Memoir
Made in Detroit: A Memoir 3.23 avg rating — 452 ratings
33.
Devil's Night: And Other True Tales of Detroit
Devil's Night: And Other True Tales of Detroit 3.64 avg rating — 252 ratings
34.
Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line
Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line 4.01 avg rating — 1,757 ratings
35.
Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City
Teardown: Memoir of a Vanishing City 3.99 avg rating — 212 ratings
36.
Making Steel: Sparrows Point and the Rise and Ruin of American Industrial Might
Making Steel: Sparrows Point and the Rise and Ruin of American Industrial Might 4.07 avg rating — 27 ratings
37.
Wives of Steel: Voices of Women from the Sparrows Point Steelmaking Communities
Wives of Steel: Voices of Women from the Sparrows Point Steelmaking Communities 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
38.
Blast Furnaces of Sparrows Point One Hundred Years of Ironmaking on Chesapeake Bay
Blast Furnaces of Sparrows Point One Hundred Years of Ironmaking on Chesapeake Bay 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
39.
Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor
Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor 3.79 avg rating — 154 ratings