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Closing Sysco - Industrial Decline in Atlantic Canada's Steel City (Hardcover)
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Closing Sysco - Industrial Decline in Atlantic Canada's Steel City (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Atlantic Canada History
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Closing Sysco presents a history of deindustrialization and
working-class resistance in the Cape Breton steel industry between
1945 and 2001. The Sydney Steel Works is at the heart of this
story, having existed in tandem with Cape Breton's larger coal
operations since the early twentieth century. The book explores the
multifaceted nature of deindustrialization; the internal politics
of the steelworkers' union; the successful efforts to nationalize
the mill in 1967; the years in transition under public ownership;
and the confrontations over health, safety, and environmental
degradation in the 1990s and 2000s. Closing Sysco moves beyond the
moment of closure to trace the cultural, historical, and political
ramifications of deindustrialization that continue to play out in
post-industrial Cape Breton Island. A significant intervention into
the international literature on deindustrialization, this study
pushes scholarship beyond the bounds of political economy and
cultural change to begin tackling issues of bodily health,
environment, and historical memory in post-industrial places. The
experiences of the men and women who were displaced by the decline
and closure of Sydney Steel are central to this book. Featuring
interviews with former steelworkers, office employees, managers,
politicians, and community activists, these one-on-one
conversations reveal both the human cost of industrial closure and
the lingering after-effects of deindustrialization.
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