Superstack Nostalgia
Miners and Industrial Heritage in Sudbury, Ontario
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3983509 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Adam D K King, Adam Dk King (0000-0002-4121-2873, York University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 91 |
| Pages | 201-225 |
| Publication date | 2023-05-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Labour / Le Travail (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0700-3862 • E-ISSN: 1911-4842 |
| Publisher | Athabasca University Press (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.52975/llt.2023v91.0011 |
| OpenAlex | W4378193656 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 18 |
The growth of industrial tourism and heritage has both fascinated and frustrated scholars of deindustrialization. Frequently, workers and class conflict are obscured in or expunged from the official narratives of industrial heritage. This article makes an original contribution to research on deindustrialization and industrial heritage through fieldwork in Sudbury, Ontario - a region that has seen a decades-long process of industrial restructuring. The article draws on 26 qualitative interviews with current and retired nickel miners and analyzes workers' reflections on local mining history. It examines how workers understand the foreign takeover of the mines, job loss, and the transformation of Sudbury's regional economy away from blue-collar industrial employment. The article then explores the growth of regional tourism based around the mining sector, looking particularly at Dynamic Earth, an attraction that teaches visitors about the history of nickel mining through guided tours of a closed mine. On the one hand, workers critique what they see as an obfuscation of class conflict in industrial heritage, while on the other hand, they experience these sites as confirmation of the historic contributions nickel miners have made to Sudbury and the surrounding region
Art · Cultural heritage · Cultural heritage management · Deindustrialization · Economics · Economy · Heritage tourism · Industrial heritage · Narrative · Political science · Restructuring · Sociology · Tourism · Tourism geography · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Law
Yearning for yesterday
Capital Moves
The ‘New’ Sociology of Deindustrialisation? Understanding Industrial Change
Sights of sites
The Problem of Jobs
Corporate Wasteland
The Wounds of Class”
Remembering research
The Deindustrialization of America
Automation and the Future of Work—2
On “De-industrialization” and the Crisis of Male Identities
The end of the line
Superstack Nostalgia
The Challenge of Restructuring
When the Mines Closed
Machines and Ghosts
Remaking The Working Class
Deindustrialisation and the Historical Sociological Imagination
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |