Roundtable: Deindustrializing Workers and Places

Deindustrializing Workers and Places

Friday March 29th at 9:30am (EST)

Join us as six DePOT-affiliated researchers share their work on the deindustrializing places and people they study across six different industrial and regional contexts. The event is free, but registration is required to get the Zoom link.

Chair: Greg Wilson, University of Akron

Speakers:

• Amber Ward, “Cultural motifs in deindustrialising Central Fife, Scotland, 1940s-1990s.”
• Valerio Caruso, “The Politicisation of Environmental Issues in the Deindustrial Areas of Naples”
• Bharat Sundararajan, “Deregulation and Nationalisation: debates around industrial closure in Pondicherry’s textile mills (1954-2000).”
• James Ferns, “Occupational Masculinity and Emasculation among Reemployed Scottish Heavy Industry Workers.”
• Zoé Konsbruck, “Deindustrialization in Luxembourg’s steel towns, 1970-1990”.
• Steven High, “Testing the ‘Failure of the Left’ Thesis: The Ontario NDP Confronts the Industrial Crisis, 1990-95.”