(2020-2023)
The Industrial Closure Initiative is examining the political economy of deindustrialization, its emerging geographies of rise and decline, and the political efforts to stop, manage, and prevent mine, mill and factory closures. Shopfloor resistance is being analysed as is employee, community and public ownership schemes, trade union negotiating tactics, as well as state planning. Among our key research questions are: How have working people, their unions and governments responded to industrial closures, and how has it changed over time? Where has it made a tangible difference and why? How have these responses changed over time and across the project’s six-country study area? What “lessons” have been learnt by the trade union movement?
Affiliates:
- Paul Barnsley
- Stefan Backius
- Anna Calori
- Andy Clark
- Gabriel Ellison-Scowcroft
- James Ferns
- James Pattison
- Rory Stride
- Guillaume Tremblay-Boily
- Constanze von Wrangel
- Rebekah Chatellier
- Eric Michael Rhodes
- Tim Liebregt
- Indranil Chakraborty
- Pierre Toussenot
- Éric Donais
- Pete Hodson
- Nicholas Fast
- Alex Hubert
- Bea Andreotti
- Clara Casian
- Anna Bettini
- Eliot Perrin
- Thomas Baker