Archive for month: April, 2021
History and memory in gentrifying St-Henri Student Showcase
Over the course of the last few months, undergraduate History students at Concordia enrolled in the “History and Memory in Gentrifying Saint-Henri” course have been thinking through the brutal processes of deindustrialization and gentrification in the St-Henri neighbourhood in Montreal.
New Perspectives on Deindustrialization Roundtables
The Deindustrialization & the Politics of Our Time (DePOT) project has organized a two-part Roundtable Series that invites recent authors of books and special issues on deindustrialization to speak to their major findings and what their overall intervention is to the field.
Horizon Postdoctoral Fellow at Concordia
We’re excited to announce that Dr. Indranil Chakraborty will be joining the DePOT team this September.
Lauren Laframboise
Associate Director
LWL-Industriemuseum
Westphalian State Museum of Industrial Heritage
LWL-Museen für Industriekultur
Westphalian State Museum of Industrial Heritage
Fondazione ISEC
Istituto per la storia dell’età contemporanea
Laboratoire IDHE.S-Nanterre
Institutions et Dynamiques Historiques de l’Économie et de la Société

Illustration: Kerri Flanagan.
Abandoned workers' council assembly hall in a Porto Marghera chemical factory, 2017. Photo: Gilda Zazzara.
Steven High's Working Class Public History course in the final stage of developing an audio walk of the deindustrialized Point Saint-Charles district of Montreal. Photo: David Ward.

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". Photo: Betriebsrat Bergwerk West. 





Copyright Ruhr Museum. Photo: Brigida Gonzàlez 
Rally in the Fördehalle. Helmut Schlich from the national board of the DMB speaks. Banner texts from left: "[Tenants] demand your rights. You are not landlords' servants!"; "DGB Für ein soziales Mietrecht. DGB"; "Away with the "White C[...]". Photo: Gesellschaft für Kieler Stadtgeschichte


Caption: Women sewing in a garment factory in Montreal, early 20th century. Photo courtesy of the Centre d’histoire et archives du travail (CHAT).
Caption: The Centre des archives du monde du travail in the former Motte-Bossut plant. Roubaix, France. Photo: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Velvet


