In the wake of the giant: Conflicting ideologies and uneven development in a New England community.

This work is about the restructuring of industry in a New England community and the reactions to that restructuring by various segments of the community's population. Specifically, the work concerns the community's attempts to adapt to the restructuring and to "redevelop" the area. It maintains that the current restructuring of industry in the United States is not a new phenomenon. Capitalist development requires periodic restructuring in order to confront class struggle and to renew and expand the avenues of profit required for the system to operate. The success or failure of community development efforts are rooted in ideologies that are representations of uneven development between corporate and community interests.