The Deindustrialized World

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 *

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 OHanlon, Andrew Parnaby, Jim Phillips, Cathy Stanton, Robert Storey, and Lucy Taksa

Introduction / 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 Workers 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 Alenon / 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, 19902005 / Seamus OHanlon 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