Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time

Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time (DePOT) is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada-funded partnership project consisting of 33 partner organizations and 24 co-applicants and collaborators from six countries in Western Europe (Italy, France, Germany and the United Kingdom) and North America (Canada, United states). The partnership examines the historical roots and lived experience of deindustrialization as well as the political responses to it. The overall goal is to understand deindustrialization in transnational and comparative perspective, its causes, the responses to it, its effects, and its legacies.

Banner Image: Old Studebaker Plant in South Bend, Indiana. Photo Courtesy of David W. Lewis.