Corporate Wasteland
The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization
- Publisher
- Between the Lines
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2007
- Category
- Social History, Labor & Industrial Relations
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781897071243
- Publish Date
- Sep 2007
- List Price
- $24.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781926662077
- Publish Date
- Sep 2007
- List Price
- $23.99
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Description
Deindustrialization is not simply an economic process; it is also a social and cultural phenomenon. The rusting detritus of our industrial past-the wrecked halls of factories, abandoned machinery too large to remove, and now-useless infrastructures-has for decades been a part of the North American landscape. Through a unique blend of oral history, photographs, and interpretive essays, Corporate Wasteland investigates this fascinating terrain and the phenomenon of its loss and rediscovery.
About the authors
David W. Lewis is recognized internationally as one of the last surviving masters of the pigment-control process of bromoil and transfer. His photographs have been exhibited internationally and published in numerous books and magazines including Photo Techniques, View Camera, Camera Canada, Photo Life and more. He is the recipient of the prestigious Kodak Gallery Award.
Steven High is a professor of history at Concordia University in Montreal where he co-founded the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. He has authored a number of books and articles on structural and mass violence as well as deindustrialization as a political, socio-economic, and cultural process. He is currently the head of the transnational “Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time” (DEPOT) research project which brings together researchers, museum professionals, archivists, and trade unionists across Europe and North America.
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