Punching Out: One Year in a Closing Auto Plant | 
so-soThe first half of the book is really good. You follow the author around while he gives you a history of the automotive industry in Detroit. The second half gets a bit monotonous. Chapter after chapter of how a plant gets stripped and sold off. He does his best to make the limited cast of characters sound like outlaws and misfits, but it only goes so far. Decent read if you're into history or from the area but not something you'd read for pleasure
Chapter 2: They Just Closed The Door
Thinking about how large the Budd company was at it's highest, the largest sheet metal company in American in the 1920's, The largest automotive stamping facility in the world in the 1970's, closed in 2006. The Story of Budd, is the story of Detroit.
Started “Punching Out“ by Paul Clemens as he follows the year after the Budd Company stamping plant on Detroit‘s East Side, closed in 2006. One chapter in, he paints a picture of just how large the automotive industry was in Detroit and what a labor intensive process it was to “Stamp“ parts out for the assembly plants. Almost all of this has been replaced by automation and outsourced for cheaper labor.
