You Had a Job for Life: Story of a Company Town

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By Jamie Sayen ’71

Published Nov. 30, 2017

Jamie Sayen ’71 has spent years interviewing the residents of a New Hampshire town. The community’s paper mill had been the main job-producer since the early 1900s but it merged with a national company in the ’70s and was part of a hostile takeover in the ’80s. You Had a Job for Life (University Press of New England) is the story of America’s industrial decline and the heartbreak that’s left in its place.

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