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Book SynopsisThe Deindustrialized World opens a window on the experiences of those living at ground zero of deindustrialization and examines confrontations with the ruination of people and places on a global scale.
Trade ReviewThe editors and contributors are to be commended for creating a multi-faceted study that shows that deindustrialization is far from a closed subject. -- Jeremy Milloy * The Canadian Historical Review *
Table of ContentsIntroduction / Steven High, Lachlan MacKinnon, and Andrew Perchard
Part 1: Living in and with Ruination
1 Deindustrialization Embodied: Work, Health, and Disability in the UK since the Mid-Twentieth Century / Arthur McIvor
2 Beyond the Body Count? Injured Workers in the Aftermath of Deindustrialization / Robert Storey
3 Environmental Justice and Worker’s Health: Fighting for Compensation at the Sydney Coke Ovens, 1986-90 / Lachlan MacKinnon
4 Growing Up Even More Uncertain: Children and Youth Confront Industrial Ruin in Sydney, Nova Scotia, 1967 / Andrew Parnaby
5 Afterlives of a Factory: Memory, Place, and Space in Alençon / Jackie Clarke
6 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
8 Regeneration and Class Identities: A Case Study in the Corbeil-Essonnes-Evry Region, France / Sylvie Contrepois
9 Goodbye, Steeltown: Planning Post-Steel Cities in the United States and Canada / Tracy Neumann
10 The Transformation of Industrial Suburbs since the First World War / Andrew Hurley
11 Selling “Lifestyle”: Post-Industrial Urbanism and the Marketing of Inner-City Apartments in Melbourne, Australia, 1990–2005 / Seamus O’Hanlon
Part 3: Political Economy
12 Deindustrialization on the Industrial Frontier: The Rise and Fall of Mill Colonialism in Northern Ontario / Steven High
13 A Little Local Difficulty? Deindustrialization and Glocalization in a Scottish Town / Andrew Perchard
14 The Moral Economy of Deindustrialization in Post-1945 Scotland / Jim Phillips
15 “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
