Lachlan Mackinnon

Closing Sysco

Industrial Decline in Atlantic Canada's Steel City

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Produktbeschreibung

Personal accounts are at the heart of Closing Sysco, where each story reveals the cultural, political, and historical ramifications of industrial closure in Sydney, Nova Scotia, the former steel city of Atlantic Canada.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9781487524029
• ISBN-10: 1487524021
• Artikelnr.: 55914542

Autorenporträt

Lachlan MacKinnon is an assistant professor in the Department of Humanities at Cape Breton University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Diversify or Die: Planned Obsolescence in the Dosco Years
2. Radical Reds and Responsible Unionism: Building a "Working-Class Town"
3. It Brought Us Joy, It Brought Us Tears: Black Friday and the Parade of
Concern
4. Decades in Transition: Modernization and Mechanization on the Shop Floor
5. Labour Environmentalism: Fighting for Compensation at the Sydney Coke
Ovens
6. Bury It, Burn It, Truck It Away: Remediating a Toxic Legacy?
7. From Dependence to Enterprise: Economic Restructuring at the End of the
Steel City
8. Making History from Sydney Steel, 2012-2016
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index