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This book evaluates the consequences of economic, social, environmental and cultural change on people living and working within Teesside in the North-East of England. It assesses the lived experiences, working lives, health and cultural perspectives of residents and key stakeholders in the wake of serious de-industralisation in the region. The narrative is embedded within the long-term industrial history of Stockton: an area once dominated by steel, coal and chemical industries. This past still continues to shape its future and influences the ways in which that future is conceived and envisioned. The author explores a ‘biography of place’ analytical framework to offer a holistic view of the area, which considers the interaction between the social, economic, cultural, visual and environmental legacy of the community, which is firmly grounded in the past, present and future prospects of those who live and work there.
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LEGACIES A Post-Industrial Geography
Industrial Teesside, Lives and Legacies
Jonathan Warren
Industrial Teesside, Lives and Legacies A post-industrial geography
Jonathan Warren Newcastle University Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
ISBN 978-3-319-64539-1 ISBN 978-3-319-64540-7 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64540-7 Library of Congress Control Number: 2017950863 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover credit: Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge © Michele Allan Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Springer International Publishing AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland
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Foreword
This is an important book that deals with something of enormous contemporary social and political significance—the cultural consequences of de-industrialisation as these are experienced and understood by people living in a place that was literally and exactly created by the industrial revolution. Much of industrial Teesside sprang from the ground in the nineteenth century and became a place to which people flocked for work in a new world system. Jon Warren notes that it was a zone of mass immigration. Richard Webber (2004) showed that much of this was from one of Europe’s poorest peasant peripheries—the congested districts of the West of Ireland. I am mostly a descendant of that immigration, although like many of the ‘White’ people of the