The award-winning 2017 book about the city of Janesville in the wake of the general motors plant closing is helping students at an ivy league school better understand business in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis.
Masters students at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business brought in Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author of “Janesville: An American Story” Amy Goldstein last month to speak in their series on economic inequality.
A pair of students started a book club ahead of her talk to raise awareness and engage more deeply with the material, and they raised $700 for a Vermont nonprofit by distributing copies of the book to other students.
“Janesville really resonated with me because of its valuable perspective,” student Julian Andreas Chomali Roozeveld van der Ven told Tuck News. “It shows how the decisions that businesses make can directly impact communities and employees and the way people live their lives.”
Another fellow, Joanna Gawlik, said she used what she learned about Janesville’s labor unions in one of her classes on negotiations.
Named best book of 2017 by The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Business Insider and NPR, “Janesville” and its story continue to resonate years after its publishing.
