Historian Jeremy Brecher has been documenting the history of the Naugatuck Valley for 30 years. His new book Banded Together: Economic Democratization in the Naugatuck Valley documents the story of a group of “average Americans” from the towns and cities of the Naugatuck
Valley who “banded together” to build beautiful and affordable housing, train unskilled workers, clean up neglected neighborhoods and take control over their own economic lives.
