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Changing Work and Community Identities in European Regions John Kirk

Changing Work and Community Identities in European Regions By John Kirk

Changing Work and Community Identities in European Regions by John Kirk


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This book juxtaposes the experiences of regions that have lived or are living through industrial transition in coal-mining and manufacturing centres throughout Europe, opening the way to a deeper understanding of the intensity of change and of how work helps shape new identities.

Changing Work and Community Identities in European Regions Summary

Changing Work and Community Identities in European Regions: Perspectives on the Past and Present by John Kirk

This book juxtaposes the experiences of regions that have lived or are living through industrial transition in coal-mining and manufacturing centres throughout Europe, opening the way to a deeper understanding of the intensity of change and of how work helps shape new identities.

About John Kirk

MARIA ARNAL Lecturer in the Sociology Department at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain E. ATTILA AYTEKIN Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey CARLOS DE CASTRO Lecturer at University of Murcia, Spain JOLANTA KLIMCZAK-ZIOLEK Senior Researcher at the University of Silesia, Poland ARTURO LAHERA-SANCHEZ Senior Professor at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain KRZYSZTOF LECKI Sociologist at the University of Silesia, Poland LARS MEIER Senior Researcher at the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg and is Teaching Sociology at the Technical University of Darmstadt and the University of Munich, Germany MARKUS PROMBERGER Head of Joblessness and Social Inclusion Research at the IAB, Lecturer at University of Erlangen, and Visiting Professor at the University of Munich, Germany JUAN CARLOS REVILLA Senior Lecturer in the Social Psychology Department at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain H. TARIK ?ENGUL Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey FRANCISCO JOSE TOVAR Researcher in the Social Psychology Department at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain CHRISTINE WALL Senior Research Fellow at the School of Architecture and the Built Environment, University of Westminster, UK and Deputy Director of ProBE (Centre for Research into the Production of the BuiltEnvironment) MACIEJ WITKOWSKI Senior Lecturer and Researcher at the Academy of Business, Poland KAZIMIERA WODZ Professor of Sociology, Head of Cultural Studies and of Social Work, Institute of Sociology, University of Silesia, Poland

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Approaching Regional and Identity Change in Europe; J.Kirk, S.Contrepois & S.Jefferys Industrial, Urban and Worker Identity Transitions in Nuremberg; L.Meier & M.Promberger Industrial Decline, Economic Regeneration and Identities in the Paris Region; S.Contrepois A Tale of Two Spanish Cities: Elda and Alcoy at the Crossroads; M.Arnal, C.Castro, A.Lahera-Sanchez, J.Revilla & F.Tovar De-Industrialisation in Upper Silesia; K.Wodz, K.L?cki, J.Klimczak-Ziolek & M.Witkowski The Zonguldak Coalfield and the Past and Future of Turkish Coal-Mining Communities; H.?engul & E.Aytekin Representing Identity and Work in Transition: The Case of South Yorkshire Coal-Mining Communities in Britain; J.Kirk, S.Jefferys & C.Wall A Skyline of European Identities; S.Contrepois, S.Jefferys & J.Kirk Bibliography Index

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NPB9780230249547
9780230249547
023024954X
Changing Work and Community Identities in European Regions: Perspectives on the Past and Present by John Kirk
New
Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
2011-10-27
265
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