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This collaborative doctoral research with Glasgow Building Preservation Trust (GBPT) addresses a significant gap in our knowledge and understanding of how sustainability frameworks, policies, and everyday heritage practices intersect in small Scottish heritage organisations with social purpose. In the context of reduced funding and resources, such organisations are exploring how they can re-orientate to fulfil a wider range of public and social benefit agendas in addition to economic and urba...

Memory has become increasingly important in the study of deindustrialization over the last decade. The ways in which those who witnessed drastic socio-economic change reflect on their experiences decades later are crucial in understanding the ramifications. In this paper, I am concerned with the relationships between individual and popular/public memory for women manufacturing workers who participated in militant industrial action to oppose closure. Over a fourteen-month period in 1981 and 19...

This introduction sets out the context for the special feature on gender and deindustrialization. It briefly outlines the development of research in this field and the contribution made by the articles included in this issue, before pointing to some directions for future research.