Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time (DePOT) examines the historical roots and lived experience of deindustrialization as well as the political responses to it.
DePOT is a SSHRC Partnership project consisting of 33 partner organizations and 24 co-applicants and collaborators from six countries in Western Europe and North America.
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. 
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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. 
