Steve Bennish writes about business and economics for the Dayton Daily News. He’s also the author of the 89-page, self-published book, Scrappers: Dayton Ohio and America Turn to Scrap. It’s not an easy book to look at. It’s a sobering, disgusting, gut-wrenching thing to see—the photographic documentation of the rendering of a once-thriving, middle-class manufacturing base into scavengers.

Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to Ground Zero of what’s been done to our country in the name of hyper-globalization and unbridled free trade.

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