As poverty and unemployment rates rose in small towns in the United States following the economic crisis, austerity measures decreased access to social programs for the most vulnerable populations. At the same time, investors and small business owners, concerned that the growing power of large-scale global corporations threatened these communities, responded by encouraging businesses to put long-term solutions to environmental destruction and economic decline above short-term profit. Based on ethnographic research conducted in the northeastern United States, this article demonstrates how different class-inflected economic development trends come together to shape response to economic decline. In this small town, social and environmental entrepreneurialism led to a rethinking of the role of businesses, but also tempered conflicts about the future of the region and encouraged a business-centric understanding of economic problems and solutions. The result is that poverty and the decline in social programs are addressed indirectly or are relegated to individual or cultural problems.

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革命无酬：小城镇创业经济发展的政治

随着经济危机后美国小城镇的贫困率和失业率上升，紧缩措施减少了最弱势群体获得社会计划的机会。与此同时，投资者和小企业主担心大型跨国公司日益增长的力量威胁到这些社区，因此鼓励企业将长期解决环境破坏和经济衰退的解决方案置于短期利润之上。本文基于在美国东北部进行的民族志研究，展示了不同的受阶级影响的经济发展趋势如何共同形成对经济衰退的反应。在这个小镇上，社会和环境企业家精神导致人们重新思考企业的作用，但也缓和了有关该地区未来的冲突，并鼓励以商业为中心来理解经济问题和解决方案。结果是贫困和社会计划的减少被间接解决或归咎于个人或文化问题。