Category: Economics

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Jean Claude Cibenel of the Distillerie Cooperative of Cuxac.

The Failure of Plenty

It’s hard to find a better potato farmer in Southwest France than Jose Sanchez. He started from scratch ten years ago on about five acres of land, tearing up cypress wind barriers and planting new ones, filling in gulches with cart loads of dirt to

Part of Bethlehem Steel’s plant which hasn’t operated since late 1981.

Saving Steel

Chilly drafts of wind pour through cracked windows and holes in the roof of Bethlehem Steel’s tool shop. The interior looks like life had suddenly stopped, as though men had simply abandoned work stations and left their equipment to rot. Pigeon dirt covers rolling tables

Pepe Lopez’s mother and father in front of the stable.

The Modernization of Pepe Lopez

SANGUINEDO, Spain–Depending on how you look at it, Pepe Lopez came to farming by accident or by inescapable destiny. The accident was that he was caught without work papers and deported from Switzerland ten years ago. Destiny was waiting for him in the beautiful and

The Bethlehem Steel plant in Lackawanna is an industrial corpse, much of its equipment either sold off or scrapped.

City Without a Pulse

LACKAWANNA, N.Y.-It was early November, 1984, but I could already feel the chill of winter in the breeze off Lake Erie as I walked into the 8 a.m. mass at the Queen of All Saints church. The church, which fronts on Ridge Road and extends

Kimi Gray (in foreground) and two friends at Kenilworth.

The Kenilworth Estates

It was, Kimi Gray remembers, simply a matter of recognizing that things could not get any worse. Conditions at the Kenilworth Parkside public housing project in the District of Columbia had become abominable–dozens of apartments had been vacant for so long that desperate junkies just