Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984

by Steven High

Book Overview

Plant shutdowns in Canada and the United States from 1969 to 1984 led to an ongoing and ravaging industrial decline of the Great Lakes Region. Industrial Sunset offers a comparative regional analysis of the economic and cultural devastation caused by the shutdowns, and provides an insightful examination of how mill and factory workers on both sides of the border made sense of their own displacement. The history of deindustrialization rendered...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802085288
• ISBN13: 9780802085283
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher