Niagara Falling: Globalization in a Small Town

By Carol Miller

Niagara Falling reveals what happens to a small community when it is forced into the global economy. This case study of the effects of "globalization in reverse," when foreign-based companies operate in a community in the United States, takes the reader to Niagara, Wisconsin, where the primary employer is the local paper mill, currently owned by a new, foreign company. Miller examines whether and how local government, civic engagement, education, and the environment are affected by this reverse globalization. Has Niagara changed because its main employer is now a huge, multinational company based in Finland? Or are many of the changes it has experienced simply the result of the natural progression of a small town? Niagara Falling is an accessible work for sociology scholars and students alike.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739121685
• ISBN13: 9780739121689
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.5" x 9.0"