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

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• 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