Chad Broughton is author of Boom, Bust, Exodus: The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities and contributor to The Atlantic magazine. Broughton is an American sociologist at the University of Chicago in the Public Policy Studies program in the College. His areas of specialty include ethnography, urban sociology, poverty and inequality, transnationalism and immigration, and labor studies and the sociology of work. Broughton, born in 1971, received his Bachelor of Arts from Indiana University Bloomington in 1993 and his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2001. He taught at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, from 2001 to 2006. Source: Wikipedia (en)