Deindustrialization and Reindustrialization in Modern Global History

Social, Economic, and Political Perspectives
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-3-032-33355-1
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements

This book takes a global approach to examining the concept of deindustrialization, incorporating perspectives from both the Global North and the Global South. Moving away from the traditional scholarly focus on deindustrialization in the Global North, the editors and authors of this collection highlight how processes of deindustrialization have often been connected to ideas and practices of reindustrialization in various parts of the world. The book addresses structural factors, as well as the agency of different groups of actors, in highlighting divergent outcomes of apparently similar processes. The chapters shed light on economic, social, cultural, and political aspects of deindustrialization and reindustrialization. Providing a comprehensive comparison across all continents, the editors seek to demonstrate how a truly global and transnational framework can bring value to the study of deindustrialization.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berger, Stefan

Brunnbauer, Ulf

Ther, Philipp

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: De- and Reindustrialization in Comparative and Transnational Perspective; Stefan Berger, Ulf Brunnbauer and Philipp Ther.- 2. Rethinking the Periphery: Deindustrialization in the Global North and South; Lachlan MacKinnon.- 3. The Fantus Company’s Influence on German and Japanese Auto Manufacturing Plants; Alyssa May Kuchinski.- 4. The Roots and Costs of Reindustrialization: Lessons from the Visegrad Countries; Imre Szabo and Vera Scepanovic.- 5. Memory Perspectives on Industrial Transformations in Eastern Europe; Joanna Wawrzyniak.- 6. Stories of Deindustrialization: Workers’ Narratives about Rupture, Adjustment, Continuity in Lodz and Detroit; Agata Zysiak.- 7. Deindustrialization, Worker Resistance and Work Culture in the Shipbuilding Industry: A Comparative Analysis of Two Shipyards in Argentina and Spain; Ruben Vega and Juliana Frassa.- 8. Cultural Representations in Lota, Chile and Asturias, Spain: Indigeneity and Workerism in Post-Industrial Contexts; Esperanza Rock Nunez and Irene Diaz Martinez.- 9. Between Extinction in Luxembourg and Resurrection in China: The History of the Three Belval Blast Furnaces after the Transformation of the Steel Site in the 1990s; Nicolas Arendt.- 10. Beyond the National: The Role of Indian Steel Companies in Reindustrializing the Global North; Indranil Chakroborty.- 11. Steel Turnaround, Long-term Unemployment, and New Coping Strategies: Self-Organization and Transnational Unemployed Networks in the 1980s; Stefan Hördler.- 12. Mining New Depths: Social Precarity among a Mining Boom in Sudbury, Ontario; Eliot Perrin.- 13. Conclusion: Towards the Development of a Global and Transnational Frame for the Study of De- and Reindustrialization; Stefan Berger, Ulf Brunnbauer and Philipp Ther.

Über Autor(innen)

Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr University Bochum, in Germany. Along with Holger Nehring and Nikos Papadogiannis, he co-edits the book series, Palgrave Studies in the History of Social Movements.

Ulf Brunnbauer is Academic Director of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg, and Chair of Southeast and East European History at the University of Regensburg, in Germany.

Philipp Ther is Professor of Central European History at the University of Vienna, in Austria, where he also guides the Research Center for the History of Transformations (RECET).