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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