Industrial Sunset : The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984 / Steven High.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

High, Steven, Author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deindustrialization--Lake States--History.

Deindustrialization.

Deindustrialization--Ontario--History.

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

Displaced workers.

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

Lake States.

Ontario.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (318 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction

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

Conclusion

Appendix: interview guide.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Jun 2021)

ISBN:

1-4426-5852-5

1-4426-2090-0

OCLC:

903968094