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Confronting Decline in Luxembourg's Steel Industry - CONDE

April 08, 2024 Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) Season 1 Episode 8
Confronting Decline in Luxembourg's Steel Industry - CONDE
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C²DH Innovating & Sharing History
Confronting Decline in Luxembourg's Steel Industry - CONDE
Apr 08, 2024 Season 1 Episode 8
Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH)

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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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/

Thanks for listening! Follow us on Linkedin and on Instagram or find us on Facebook.

What is CONDE project about?
Industrial towns in Luxembourg in mid-seventies
Special case of Luxembourg
ARBED in Luxembourg and Eastern Germany
More specificities of the Luxembourgish case
The Luxembourg model
Starting from scratch
Contemporary newspapers of workers
More about Luxembourg model
Lowering the unemployment rates
Looking at individual stories
Dudelange
Esch-sur-Alzette
Pétange
Differences in development
Eastern Germany case
More of a shock and lack of alternative
Debunking the idea of a success story
National narrative in Luxembourg
Reaction of Luxembourgish towns to the steel crisis
More about the Eastern Germany approach
Local level in Eastern Germany
Lawsuit on a European level
CONDE project - the future