Closing: The Life and Death of an American Factory

In this day and age of mega-mergers, and company A buying company B, it is often hard to put into perspective that these changes affect real, everyday people. Today’s FamSite visits a site that looks at an event that puts a human perspective on change.

Called Closing: The Life and Death of an American Factory, it is the online photographic exhibit documenting the closing of the White Furniture Company in North Carolina in 1993. Here you see the real effect of what happens when a family owned business is purchased by a large corporation, and is then closed. They are the work of photographer Bill Bamberger, and are well shot, both in color and black and white.

This site shows what goes on at the nuts and bolts level of American industry, something is sometimes forgotten in the every day world of big business. It is a site that gives some food for thought.

http://www.emji.net/bamberger/