In “Punching Out” (2011), Paul Clemens spends a year at the massive Budd Detroit Automotive Plant, Stamping and Framing Division in Detroit — the year after the plant has been shut down. He chronicles the plant’s press lines being disassembled and shipped off to the places where cars are made these days.
Interesting and thought-provoking, but deeply depressing. It’s hard to avoid thinking of the dismantling of a Detroit auto factory as a metaphor for the nation’s economy.
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