Archive for month: May, 2021
Abandoned workers' council assembly hall in a Porto Marghera chemical factory, 2017. Photo: Gilda Zazzara.Bridging divides: new perspectives on deindustrialization
By Steven High
DePOT recently organized the first of two roundtables on new publications in the international field of deindustrialization studies. Among the new perspectives that emerged, Steven High highlights three ways that the new scholarship is bridging old historiographic divides.
May Newsletter out now
This month’s newsletter covers the official launch of our website, student-directed initiative funding recipients, recent deindustrialization publications and events to come.
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 
