Since the 1960s, nations across the “developed world” have been profoundly shaped by deindustrialization. In regions in which previously dominant industries faced crises or have disappeared altogether, industrial heritage offers a fascinating window into the phenomenon’s cultural dimensions. As the contributions to this volume demonstrate, even as forms of industrial heritage provide anchors of identity for local populations, their meanings remain deeply contested, as both radical and conservative varieties of nostalgia intermingle with critical approaches and straightforward apologias for a past that was often full of pain, exploitation and struggle.
Table of Content
List of Figures, Maps, and Tables
Introduction: Preconditions for the Making of an Industrial Past – Comparative Perspectives
Stefan Berger
Chapter 1. ‘Sooty Manchester’- (Re)Presenting an Urban-Industrial Landscape
Paul Pickering
Chapter 2. Where is ‘Red Clydeside’? Industrial Heritage, Working Class Culture and Memory in the Glasgow Region
Arthur Mc Ivor
Chapter 3. Industrial Heritage as Place-making: The Case of Wales
Bella Dicks
Chapter 4. The Steel Industry in Welsh History and Heritage
Louise Miskell
Chapter 5. Cornish Mining Heritage and Cornish Identity: Images, Representations and Narratives
Hilary Orange
Chapter 6. Industrial Heritage and the Remaking of Class Identity – Are We All Middle Class Now?
Laurajane Smith
Chapter 7. The Agents of Industrial Heritage in the Midst of Structural Transformation of the Latrobe Valley, Australia’
Erik Eklund
Chapter 8. ‘Hardly a Cause for Tears’: Job Insecurity and Occupational Psychology Culture in Italy – Oral Narratives from the Falck Steelworks in Sesto San Giovanni (Milan)
Roberta Garruccio
Chapter 9. Between Dream and Nightmare: Political Conventions of the Industrial Past in the North of France
Marion Fontaine
Chapter 10. Memory Culture and Identity Constructions in the Ruhr Valley in Germany
Stefan Berger and Jana Golombek
Chapter 11. Sounds of Decline. Industrial Echoes in Asturian Music
Rubén Vega
Chapter 12. The Coal-Environment Nexus: How Nostalgic Identity Burdens Heritage in Romania’s Jiu Valley
David A. Kideckel
Chapter 13. A Special Kind of Cultural Heritage – The Remembrance of Workers’ Life in Contemporary Hungary – Case Study of Ózd
Tibor Valuch
Chapter 14. Ruins for Politics: Selling Industrial Heritage in Postsocialist China’s Rustbelt
Tong Lam
Chapter 15. The Heritage of the Chinese Eastern Railway: Symbol of Colonization and International Cooperation
Zhao Xin and Qu Xiaofan
Conclusion: Narrativisations of an Industrial Past – Labour, the Environment and the Construction of Space in Comparative Perspective
Stefan Berger
Index
About the author
Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and directs the Institute for Social Movements at the Ruhr University Bochum. He is also Chairman of the Foundation History of the Ruhr and Honorary Professor at Cardiff University in the UK. Before taking up his current position in Germany in 2011, he held the position of Professor of Modern German and Comparative European History at the University of Manchester.
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