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Andrew Guinn @arguinn.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

My coauthor Patrick Cooper-McCann and I spoke to the WSU Humanities Center about the origins of Metro Detroit’s fragmented municipal landscape. Parallel to our work on Detroit’s deindustrialization, we trace the city’s contemporary challenges to how its pre-WWII industrial boom was institutionalized

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Patrick and Andrew's Brown Bag Talk

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Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time @deindustrialpol.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

📝 From the Blog: Patrick Cooper-McCann and @arguinn.bsky.social share their research comparing deindustrialization in Detroit and Windsor deindustrialization.org/detroit-wind...

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Comparing Deindustrialization in Detroit and Windsor – Deindustrialization

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Andrew Guinn @arguinn.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

When did the US Rust Belt start to rust? Cooper McCann and I carefully reconstruct the geography of Metro Detroit’s industrial history, showing that the city’s oldest factory districts were declining by the 1920s—even as the auto industry was booming on the urban periphery. doi.org/10.1177/0096...

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When Did Deindustrialization Start? Reexamining Industrial Decline in Metro Detroit - Andrew Guinn, Patrick Cooper-McCann, 2025

This paper argues that the starting date of deindustrialization in the United States Rust Belt hinges on the scale at which it is studied. The term deindustrial...

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