Confronting Decline in Luxembourg's Steel Industry - CONDE

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Since the 1970s, deindustrialisation has fundamentally changed Western societies. Interestingly, Luxembourg has confronted the decline of its steel industry in a particular way. The CONDE project seeks to explore deindustrialisation in a systematic historical perspective and place it in wider political, economic, social and cultural contexts. The project is led by the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History (IfZ) in Munich. C²DH is one of nine collaborating institutions.
C²DH historians Stefan Krebs, Zoé Konsbruck and Nicolas Arendt, spoke to Hanna Siemaszko, the producer of the SciLux podcast on science in Luxembourg, about deindustrialisation in Luxembourg, its comparison to processes in Eastern Germany and how Luxembourgish deindustrialisation was presented as a success story.
Want to find out more?
DePOT podcast: https://deindustrialization.org/podcast/?lang=fr
C²DH website: https://www.c2dh.uni.lu/https://www.c2dh.uni.lu/projects/confronting-decline-challenges-deindustrialisation-western-societies-1970s
University of Luxembourg: https://wwwen.uni.lu
SciLux: https://scilux.buzzsprout.com/

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1. Confronting Decline in Luxembourg's Steel Industry - CONDE (00:00:00)

2. What is CONDE project about? (00:00:50)

3. Industrial towns in Luxembourg in mid-seventies (00:01:20)

4. Special case of Luxembourg (00:02:15)

5. ARBED in Luxembourg and Eastern Germany (00:03:09)

6. More specificities of the Luxembourgish case (00:04:29)

7. The Luxembourg model (00:05:24)

8. Starting from scratch (00:07:06)

9. Contemporary newspapers of workers (00:08:01)

10. More about Luxembourg model (00:08:32)

11. Lowering the unemployment rates (00:09:08)

12. Looking at individual stories (00:09:28)

13. Dudelange (00:09:50)

14. Esch-sur-Alzette (00:10:12)

15. Pétange (00:10:43)

16. Differences in development (00:11:26)

17. Eastern Germany case (00:12:27)

18. More of a shock and lack of alternative (00:14:38)

19. Debunking the idea of a success story (00:15:21)

20. National narrative in Luxembourg (00:16:11)

21. Reaction of Luxembourgish towns to the steel crisis (00:17:01)

22. More about the Eastern Germany approach (00:19:35)

23. Local level in Eastern Germany (00:21:43)

24. Lawsuit on a European level (00:22:35)

25. CONDE project - the future (00:24:04)