Deindustrialized World

Steven High is a professor of history at Concordia University and the author of a number of books on deindustrialization, including Industrial Sunset and Corporate Wasteland. Lachlan MacKinnon holds a PhD in history from Concordia University and specializes in workers' experiences of deindustrialization in Atlantic Canada. Andrew Perchard is a senior research fellow at the Centre for Business in Society at Coventry University.Contributors: Andy Clark, Jackie Clarke, Sylvie Contrepois, Andrew Hurley, Arthur McIvor, Tracy Neumann, Seamus O'Hanlon, Andrew Parnaby, Jim Phillips, Cathy Stanton, Robert Storey, and Lucy Taksa

The 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)

• Introduction / Steven High, Lachlan MacKinnon, and Andrew PerchardPart 1: Living in and with Ruination1 Deindustrialization Embodied: Work, Health, and Disability in the UK since the Mid-Twentieth Century / Arthur McIvor2 Beyond the Body Count? Injured Workers in the Aftermath of Deindustrialization / Robert Storey3 Environmental Justice and Worker's Health: Fighting for Compensation at the Sydney Coke Ovens, 1986-90 / Lachlan MacKinnon4 Growing Up Even More Uncertain: Children and Youth Confront Industrial Ruin in Sydney, Nova Scotia, 1967 / Andrew Parnaby5 Afterlives of a Factory: Memory, Place, and Space in Alençon / Jackie Clarke6 Romance of the Rails: Deindustrialization, Nostalgia, and Community / Lucy TaksaPart 2: Urban Politics 7 Keeping "the Industrial": New Solidarities in Post-Industrial Places / Cathy Stanton8 Regeneration and Class Identities: A Case Study in the Corbeil-Essonnes-Evry Region, France / Sylvie Contrepois9 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 Hurley11 Selling "Lifestyle": Post-Industrial Urbanism and the Marketing of Inner-City Apartments in Melbourne, Australia, 1990–2005 / Seamus O'HanlonPart 3: Political Economy12 Deindustrialization on the Industrial Frontier: The Rise and Fall of Mill Colonialism in Northern Ontario / Steven High13 A Little Local Difficulty? Deindustrialization and Glocalization in a Scottish Town / Andrew Perchard14 The Moral Economy of Deindustrialization in Post-1945 Scotland / Jim Phillips15 "Stealing Our Identity and Taking It over to Ireland": Deindustrialization, Resistance, and Gender in Scotland / Andy ClarkAfterword: Debating Deindustrialization / Steven High, Lachlan MacKinnon, and Andrew Perchard