Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time (DePOT) examines the political responses to deindustrialization as well as its historical roots and lived experiences.
DePOT is a partnership of over 35 research centres, industrial museums, labour archives, trade unions and other organizations across Italy, France, Germany, the UK, Canada and the United States.



Photo: Collettivo Gkn © Andrea Sawyerr
Portal of the machine hall at the former Zollern Collier. Photo: LWL-Industriemuseum.
Caption: protesting coal miners at the Friedrich Heinrich/Rheinland colliery in the town of Kamp-Lintfort in March 1997. There was a wave of miners' protests in Winter and Spring 1996/97 as the German Federal Government planned to cut subsidies which would have meant a loss of 60,000 jobs in less than ten years. The banner in front says "We want a perspective for our future". Credit: Betriebsrat Bergwerk West 


Abandoned workers' council assembly hall in a Porto Marghera chemical factory, 2017. Photo: Gilda Zazzara.
Figure 1. Buenaventura, Ollagüe, Chile. © Alto Cielo Archaeological Project


Cindy Follett Guldemond (Stonington: Fowler Road Press, 2012).
Photo: Alusuisse workers meet in Steg, January 1993 (Schweizer Fernsehen DRS, 27.1.1993
Bouchecl, Wikimédia, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license
Source: Store Norske Leksikon
Tenby, South Wales. Wikicommons. Used under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. 

Author's own
Mural in the Craft Village, Derry depicting Tillie and Henderson’s factory workers linking arms on their walk home from work. Photo: Naomi Petropoulos
Tower Colliery, December 1982. Photo: John Podpadec. 


