Industrial Sunset
The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2003
- Category
- North America, Urban, Economic Conditions
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780802085283
- Publish Date
- Dec 2003
- List Price
- $42.95
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780802037381
- Publish Date
- Jun 2003
- List Price
- $87.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781442658523
- Publish Date
- Dec 2003
- List Price
- $41.95
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Description
Plant shutdowns in Canada and the United States from 1969 to 1984 led to an ongoing and ravaging industrial decline of the Great Lakes Region. Industrial Sunset offers a comparative regional analysis of the economic and cultural devastation caused by the shutdowns, and provides an insightful examination of how mill and factory workers on both sides of the border made sense of their own displacement. The history of deindustrialization rendered in cultural terms reveals the importance of community and national identifications in how North Americans responded to the problem.
Based on the plant shutdown stories told by over 130 industrial workers, and drawing on extensive archival and published sources, and songs and poetry from the time period covered, Steve High explores the central issues in the history and contemporary politics of plant closings. In so doing, this study poses new questions about group identification and solidarity in the face of often dramatic industrial transformation.
About the author
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.
Awards
- Winner, Albert B. Corey Prize, Canadian Historical Association and American Historical Association
- Short-listed, John Porter Memorial Book Prize, Canadian Sociology & Anthropology Association
- Winner, Raymond Klibansky Prize
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