The Politics of Industrial Closure: Transnational and Comparative Histories

·
· University of Toronto Press
Ebook
432
Pages
Tools

About this ebook

The Politics of Industrial Closure explores how the political consequences of neoliberal globalization have led to the decline of industrial regions across Western Europe and North America.
Co-editors and historians Steven High and Stefan Berger, and the team of contributors, depict that deindustrialization and its legacies have long-term impacts by diving into its ongoing manifestations and aftermaths. With collaboratively written chapters exploring Italy, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada, this volume examines the impacts of deindustrialization, demonstrating that it is an uneven geographical, spatial, and temporal process. This study transcends the local and regional investigations that often predominate deindustrialization studies, and the wider transnational and cross-national perspective of this work highlights the ways that geography matters in the deindustrialization process. This collection pursues diverse avenues of investigation into deindustrialization in hopes to understand the deep roots of recent, universal, and political phenomena.
The Politics of Industrial Closure considers deindustrialization as yet another form of dispossession within global capitalism and seeks to break out of a unitary understanding of the problem of deindustrialization.
The Politics of Industrial Closure explores how the political consequences of neoliberal globalization have led to the decline of industrial regions across Western Europe and North America. Co-editors and historians Steven High and Stefan Berger, and the team of contributors, depict that deindus...

Discover more

About the author

Steven High is professor of History at Concordia University and co-founder of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling.

Stefan Berger is a professor of social history and director of the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany.

Steven High is professor of History at Concordia University and co-founder of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling. Stefan Berger is a professor of social history and director of the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany.

Rate this ebook

Tell us what you think.

Reading information

Smartphones and tablets
Install the Google Play Books app for Android and iPad/iPhone. It syncs automatically with your account and allows you to read online or offline wherever you are.
Laptops and computers
You can listen to audiobooks purchased on Google Play using your computer's web browser.
eReaders and other devices
To read on e-ink devices like Kobo eReaders, you'll need to download a file and transfer it to your device. Follow the detailed Help Center instructions to transfer the files to supported eReaders.