There’s a pervasive sense of betrayal in areas scarred by mine,
mill and factory closures. Steven High’s One Job Town delves into
the long history of deindustrialization in the paper-making town of
Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, located on Canada’s resource periphery.
Much like hundreds of other towns and cities across North America
and Europe, Sturgeon Falls has lost their primary source of
industry, resulting in the displacement of workers and their
families. One Job Town takes us into the making of a culture of
industrialism and the significance of industrial work for
mill-working families. One Job Town approaches deindustrialization
as a long term, economic, political, and cultural process, which
did not begin and simply end with the closure of the local mill in
2002. High examines the work-life histories of fifty paper mill
workers and managers, as well as city officials, to gain an
in-depth understanding of the impact of the formation and
dissolution of a culture of industrialism. Oral history and memory
are at the heart of One Job Town, challenging us to rethink the
relationship between the past and the present in what was formerly
known as the industrialized world.
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