Metal Fatigue: American Bosch and the Demise of Metalworking in the Connecticut River Valley - Work, Health and Environment Series 1st edition

Offers a historical account of the profound economic collapse of the Connecticut River Valley region, focusing on Bosch, its workers, and its union. This book describes how the US, in a ten-year period from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, went from being the world's leading exporter of machine tools to its leading importer.