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Corporate wasteland : the landscape and memory of deindustrialization
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Corporate wasteland : the landscape and memory of deindustrialization / Steven High & David W. Lewis.
ISBN
9780801474019 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0801474019 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Ithaca : IRL Press, 2007.
Physical Description
193 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Notes
"ILR/Cornell paperbacks"--P. [4] of cover.
Summary
Through a blend of oral history, photographs, and interpretive essays, 'Corporate Wasteland' encourages readers to look beyond nostalgia as the authors reinterpret our deindustrialised landscape as a historical and imaginative challenge to the ways in which we comprehend and respond to the profound disruptions wrought by globalization.
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 20, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-163) and index.
"Oral history interviews cited": p. 164.
Contents
Industrial demolition and the meaning of economic change in North America
"Take only pictures and leave only footprints" : urban exploration and the aesthetics of deindustrialization
From cradle to grave : the politics of memory in Youngstown, Ohio
Out of place : the plant shutdown stories of Sturgeon Falls (Ontario) paperworkers
Gabriel's Detroit
Deindustrial fragments
King coal : the coal counties of West Virginia
A vanishing landmark : Allied Paper in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
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