Interlacing various ethnographic methods, Exit Zero captures the damaging personal and economic effects deindustrialization has on the neighborhoods and families that make up Southeast Chicago—a region that served as a hub for the U.S. steel mill industry at the height of the manufacturing boom. The author, Christine Walley, employs three data collection methods to thicken our understanding of how shifting socioeconomic class status and stability, family lineage, neighborhood identity and land-value are all co-constitutive in identifying what is occurring in “America’s center (Walley, page x)” as the inequality gap in America expands. While the author focuses on the aftermath of deindustrialization and its impact on class and access to the…