Constructing Industrial Pasts

Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and directs the Institute for Social Movements at the Ruhr University Bochum. He is also Chairman of the Foundation History of the Ruhr and Honorary Professor at Cardiff University in the UK. Before taking up his current position in Germany in 2011, he held the position of Professor of Modern German and Comparative European History at the University of Manchester.

• List of Figures, Maps, and TablesIntroduction: Preconditions for the Making of an Industrial Past – Comparative PerspectivesStefan BergerChapter 1. ‘Sooty Manchester’- (Re)Presenting an Urban-Industrial LandscapePaul PickeringChapter 2. Where is ‘Red Clydeside’? Industrial Heritage, Working Class Culture and Memory in the Glasgow RegionArthur McIvorChapter 3. Industrial Heritage as Place-making: The Case of WalesBella DicksChapter 4. The Steel Industry in Welsh History and HeritageLouise MiskellChapter 5. Cornish Mining Heritage and Cornish Identity: Images, Representations and NarrativesHilary OrangeChapter 6. Industrial Heritage and the Remaking of Class Identity – Are We All Middle Class Now?Laurajane SmithChapter 7. The Agents of Industrial Heritage in the Midst of Structural Transformation of the Latrobe Valley, Australia’Erik EklundChapter 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 GarruccioChapter 9. Between Dream and Nightmare: Political Conventions of the Industrial Past in the North of FranceMarion FontaineChapter 10. Memory Culture and Identity Constructions in the Ruhr Valley in GermanyStefan Berger and Jana GolombekChapter 11. Sounds of Decline. Industrial Echoes in Asturian MusicRubén VegaChapter 12. The Coal-Environment Nexus: How Nostalgic Identity Burdens Heritage in Romania’s Jiu ValleyDavid A. KideckelChapter 13. A Special Kind of Cultural Heritage - The Remembrance of Workers’ Life in Contemporary Hungary – Case Study of ÓzdTibor ValuchChapter 14. Ruins for Politics: Selling Industrial Heritage in Postsocialist China’s RustbeltTong LamChapter 15. The Heritage of the Chinese Eastern Railway: Symbol of Colonization and International CooperationZhao Xin and Qu XiaofanConclusion: Narrativisations of an Industrial Past – Labour, the Environment and the Construction of Space in Comparative PerspectiveStefan BergerIndex

“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