ABSTRACT
The first wave of scholarly and political attention to deindustrialization focused on its scale and scope, and issued a clarion call for concerted resistance within the United States. Scholarship was soon re-oriented toward the cultural and representational aftermaths of deindustrialization. An extensive read into the English- and French-speaking secondary literature on deindustrialization in Latin America has identified three significant themes that hold promise for further transnational studies. An emerging neoclassical consensus on regional deindustrialization in Latin America would benefit from closer conversation with radical and other forms of deindustrialization scholarship. The concept of ruination has been extended in publications on deindustrialization in North America and Western Europe. Oral history accounts of former industrial workers deindustrialized cities and towns throughout North America demonstrate that there was something about work in the post-war factories, mills, and mines that many found deeply satisfying.
