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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.

?The 15 case studies are written to a uniformly high standard and provide a consistent approach to investigating each context's local cultural identity, which is increasingly important to maintain and acknowledge in this age of rapid globalization and homogenization of identity and economics. This analysis of specific regional examples of post-industrial history and the remembrance of an often romanticized, yet harsh, industrial identity will be of wide academic and regional interest?Recommended.? ? Choice

?This collection of well-focused essays takes an original approach to a subject of very wide interest. It has substantial cross-disciplinary appeal.? ? Chris Wrigley, Nottingham University

?Constructing Industrial Pasts is a timely volume on post-industrial history and the processes and politics of remembrance. It covers a richly detailed set of case studies and makes an invaluable contribution to the field.? ? Denis Byrne, Western Sydney University

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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 McIvor

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