Industrial sunset : the making of North America's rust belt, 1969-1984 / Steven High.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

High, Steven C.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deindustrialization--Lake States--History.

Deindustrialization.

Deindustrialization--Ontario--History.

Displaced workers--Lake States--Social conditions--20th century.

Displaced workers.

Displaced workers--Ontario--Social conditions--20th century.

Social conditions.

History.

Ontario.

Lake States.

Penn Provenance:

Katz, Michael B., 1939-2014 (former owner) (Storage copy)

Physical Description:

xi, 306 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2003]

Summary:

"Based on the plant shutdown stories told by over 130 industrial workers, and drawing on extensive archival and published sources as well as songs and poetry from the time, Steven High explores the central issues in the history and contemporary politics of plant closings. In so doing, he poses new questions about group identification and solidarity in the face of often dramatic industrial transformation."--Jacket.

Contents:

Gold doesn't rust: regions of the North American mind

Transplanted Identities

Back to the garden: redesigning the factory for a post-industrial era

The deindustrializing heartland

In defence of local community

'I'll wrap the f*#@ Canadian flag around me': A nationalist response to plant shutdowns.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-287) and index.

American Historical Association Albert B. Corey Prize in Canadian-American Relations, 2004.

ISBN:

0802037380

9780802037381

0802085288

9780802085283

OCLC:

51242860