Industrial Sunset

The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984

By: Steven High

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Paperback | 15 December 2003

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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.

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List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction	p. 3
Gold Doesn't Rust: Regions of the North American Mind	p. 18
Transplanted Identities	p. 41
Back to the Garden: Redesigning the Factory for a Post-industrial Era	p. 74
The Deindustrializing Heartland	p. 92
In Defence of Local Community	p. 131
'I'll Wrap the F*#@ Canadian Flag around Me': A Nationalist Response to Plant Shutdowns	p. 167
Conclusion	p. 192
App.: Interview Guide	p. 201
Notes	p. 203
Bibliography	p. 261
Illustration Credits	p. 289
Index	p. 291
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