Exit Zero Quotes

“this chapter, in the end, emphasizes what is missing: the fact that working-class lives have been largely erased from public visions of the future in the United States. Standing back and taking stock of Southeast Chicago and other postindustrial landscapes, I argue, also means considering what the unevenly dying pasts and uncertain futures of such regions are likely to offer—and not offer—both residents and the nation as a whole.”
― Christine J. Walley, Exit Zero: Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago