CHAPTER 4 The Steel Industry in Welsh History and Heritage

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures, Maps and Tables vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. INTRODUCTION Preconditions for the Making of an Industrial Past: Comparative Perspectives 1
6. CHAPTER 1 ‘Sooty Manchester’ (Re)Presenting an Urban-Industrial Landscape 27
7. CHAPTER 2 Where Is ‘Red Clydeside’? Industrial Heritage, Working-Class Culture and Memory in the Glasgow Region 47
8. CHAPTER 3 Industrial Heritage as Place Making: The Case of Wales 68
9. CHAPTER 4 The Steel Industry in Welsh History and Heritage 91
10. CHAPTER 5 Cornish Mining Heritage and Cornish Identity: Images, Representations and Narratives 107
11. CHAPTER 6 Industrial Heritage and the Remaking of Class Identity: Are We All Middle Class Now? 128
12. CHAPTER 7 The Agents of Industrial Heritage in the Midst of Structural Transformation of the Latrobe Valley, Australia 146
13. CHAPTER 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 160
14. CHAPTER 9 Between Dream and Nightmare: Political Conventions of the Industrial Past in the North of France 184
15. CHAPTER 10 Memory Culture and Identity Constructions in the Ruhr Valley in Germany 199
16. CHAPTER 11 Sounds of Decline Industrial Echoes in Asturian Music 216
17. CHAPTER 12 The Coal-Environment Nexus: How Nostalgic Identity Burdens Heritage in Romania’s Jiu Valley 228
18. CHAPTER 13 A Special Kind of Cultural Heritage: The Remembrance of Workers’ Life in Contemporary Hungary – Case Study of Ózd 242
19. CHAPTER 14 Ruins for Politics: Selling Industrial Heritage in Postsocialist China’s Rust Belt 251
20. CHAPTER 15 The Heritage of the Chinese Eastern Railway: Symbol of Colonization and International Cooperation 270
21. CONCLUSION Narrativizations of an Industrial Past: Labour, the Environment and the Construction of Space in Comparative Perspective 288
22. Index 306