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The Routledge International Handbook of Deindustrialization Studies is a timely volume that provides an overview of this interdisciplinary field that emerged in response to the widespread decline of manufacturing and heavy industry from the 1980s onwards.

Tim Strangleman is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent, UK, where he is also Director of the Work, Employment and Economic Life research cluster. He has researched and published widely on issues of work, class, community, and deindustrialization. He has carried out work in the coal mining, rail, health, ship building, engineering, papermaking, and brewing industries, drawing on oral history, archives, and visual material. He is the author of Work Identity at the End of the Line? Privatisation and Culture Change in the UK Railway Industry (2004) and Voices of Guinness: An Oral History of the Park Royal Brewery (2019). He is also the co-author of Work and Society: Sociological Approaches, Themes and Methods (2008) and the co-editor of The Routledge Handbook of Working-Class Studies (2021). He is also a co-investigator on the Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time (DéPOT) project.

Sherry Lee Linkon is a Professor of English and American Studies at Georgetown University, USA, where, with campus and community colleagues, she developed the Steel Valley Voices digital archive of interviews and artifacts reflecting the experiences of 24 racial and ethnic groups in the Youngstown area. Her most recent book, The Half-Life of Deindustrialization (2018), examines early twenty-first century working-class narratives reflecting the continuing effects of economic restructuring in the US. With John Russo, she also co-authored Steeltown USA: Work and Memory in Youngstown (2002) and co-edited New Working Class Studies (2005). Her current research examines literature and photography reflecting Black women's perspectives on the legacies of deindustrialization. She is also a co-investigator on the Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time (DéPOT) project.

Steven High is Professor of History at Concordia University, Canada and Principal Investigator of the Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time (DéPOT) project. He has published extensively on the history and politics of deindustrialization in the US and Canada. His book, Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt (2003), won prizes from the American Historical Association and other organizations. He is also the author of Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization (with photographer David Lewis, 2007) and One Job Town: Work, Memory and Betrayal in Northern Ontario (2018), and the co-editor of The Deindustrialized World: Confronting Ruination in Postindustrial Places (2017).

Jackie Clarke is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Glasgow, UK, where she is also a member of the Centre for Gender History. She is also a co-investigator on the Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time (DéPOT) project. Her research explores questions about work, consumption, deindustrialization, and gender in contemporary France. She is the co-editor of a special issue on gender and deindustrialization in International Labor and Working Class Studies (2024).

Stefan Berger is Professor of Social History and Director of the Institute for Social Movements at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany. He is also Executive Chair of the Foundation History of the Ruhr and an Honorary Professor at Cardiff University, UK. He is the author of History and Identity: How Historical Theory Shapes Historical Practice (2022) and editor of Constructing Industrial Pasts: Heritage, Historical Culture and Identity in Regions Undergoing Structural Economic Transformation (2020). He is a co-investigator on the Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time (DéPOT) project, an international partnership project funded by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).