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Resource type
Book
Authors/contributors
Title
The Deindustrialized World: Confronting Ruination in Postindustrial Places
Abstract
Since the 1970s, the closure of mines, mills, and factories has marked a rupture in working-class lives. The Deindustrialized World interrogates the process of industrial ruination, from the first impact of layoffs in metropolitan cities, suburban areas, and single-industry towns to the shock waves that rippled outward, affecting entire regions, countries, and beyond. Seeking to hear the “roar ... on the other side of the silence,” scholars from France, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States share their own stories of ruin and ruination and ask others what it means to be working class in a postindustrial world. In Part 1, they explore the ruination of former workplaces and the damaged health and injured bodies of industrial workers. Part 2 brings to light disparities of experiences between rural resource towns and cities, where hipster revitalization often overshadows industrial loss. Part 3 reveals the ongoing impact of deindustrialization on working people and their place in the new global economy. Together, the chapters open a window on the lived experiences of people living at ground zero of deindustrialization, revealing its layered impacts and examining how workers, environmentalists, activists, and the state have responded to its challenges. --Publisher's description
Place
Vancouver, B.C.
Publisher
UBC Press
Date
2018
# of Pages
ix, 377 pages
Language
English
ISBN
978-0-7748-3494-0
Short Title
The Deindustrialized World
URL
https://www.ubcpress.ca/the-deindustrialized-world
Library Catalog
Open WorldCat
Extra
Book available at Internet Archive to people with print disabilities: https://archive.org/details/deindustrialized0000unse
Notes

Contents: Introduction / Steven High, Lachlan MacKinnon, and Andrew Perchard. Part 1: Living in and with Ruination. Deindustrialization Embodied: Work, Health, and Disability in the UK since the Mid-Twentieth Century / Arthur McIvor -- Beyond the Body Count? Injured Workers in the Aftermath of Deindustrialization / Robert Storey -- Environmental Justice and Worker's Health: Fighting for Compensation at the Sydney Coke Ovens, 1986-90 / Lachlan MacKinnon -- Growing Up Even More Uncertain: Children and Youth Confront Industrial Ruin in Sydney, Nova Scotia, 1967 / Andrew Parnaby -- Afterlives of a Factory: Memory, Place, and Space in Alencon / Jackie Clarke -- Romance of the Rails: Deindustrialization, Nostalgia, and Community / Lucy Taksa. Part 2: Urban Politics 7 Keeping "the Industrial": New Solidarities in Post-Industrial Places / Cathy Stanton --  Regeneration and Class Identities: A Case Study in the Corbeil-Essonnes-Evry Region, France / Sylvie Contrepois -- Goodbye, Steeltown: Planning Post-Steel Cities in the United States and Canada / Tracy Neumann10 The Transformation of Industrial Suburbs since the First World War / Andrew Hurley -- Selling "Lifestyle": Post-Industrial Urbanism and the Marketing of Inner-City Apartments in Melbourne, Australia, 1990-2005 / Seamus O'Hanlon. Part 3: Political Economy -- Deindustrialization on the Industrial Frontier: The Rise and Fall of Mill Colonialism in Northern Ontario / Steven High -- A Little Local Difficulty? Deindustrialization and Glocalization in a Scottish Town / Andrew Perchard -- The Moral Economy of Deindustrialization in Post-1945 Scotland / Jim Phillips -- "Stealing Our Identity and Taking It over to Ireland": Deindustrialization, Resistance, and Gender in Scotland / Andy Clark. Afterword: Debating Deindustrialization / Steven High, Lachlan MacKinnon, and Andrew Perchard.

Selected papers from a conference held in Montréal in May 2014, organized by Concordia University's Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling and the University of Strathclyde's Scottish Oral History Centre.

Citation
High, S. C., MacKinnon, L., Perchard, A., Storey, R. H., Parnaby, A., Clark, J., Taksa, L., Stanton, C., Contrepois, S., Neumann, T., Hurley, A., O’Hanlon, S., Phillips, J., & Clark, A. (2018). The Deindustrialized World: Confronting Ruination in Postindustrial Places (S. C. High, L. MacKinnon, & A. Perchard, Eds.). UBC Press. https://www.ubcpress.ca/the-deindustrialized-world
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