Cape Breton in the Long Twentieth Century: Formations and Legacies of Industrial Capitalism

by Lachlan MacKinnon and Andrew Parnaby

A reflection on industrialization and deindustrialization through the history of Cape Breton Island.

The emergence, dominance, and alarmingly rapid retreat of modernist industrial capitalism on Cape Breton Island during the "long twentieth century" offers a particularly captivating window into the lasting and varied effects of deindustrialization. Now, at the tail end of the industrial moment in North American history, the story of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771994045
• ISBN13: 9781771994040
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Athabasca University Press
• Length: 500 Pages