TY  - BOOK
AU  - High,Steven
TI  - Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984 
T2  - Heritage
SN  - 9781442620902
AV  - HD5708.55.U62 L354 2003eb
U1  - 338.0977/09047 21
PY  - 2003///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Deindustrialization
KW  - Lake States
KW  - History
KW  - Ontario
KW  - Displaced workers
KW  - Lakes States
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 20th century
KW  - HISTORY / North America
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - 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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ER  -