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Informationen zum Autor Lachlan MacKinnon is an assistant professor in the Department of Humanities at Cape Breton University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgments List of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgments 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 NotesBibliographyIndex
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Lachlan MacKinnon is an assistant professor in the Department of Humanities at Cape Breton University.
