Today we meet with Naomi Petropoulos, a DePOT affiliate and PhD candidate at Queens University Belfast. Her work on the history of “The Original Derry Girls”– the workers of the women-dominated garment industry in Derry – led her to interview both her Grandmother and Mother in-law who had worked at the factories. We discuss the experience of interviewing family, both from the perspective of being a researcher and oral historian, but also as a granddaughter and daughter-in-law.
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Music: "Never Give Up" by Ketsa. Used under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0; https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/summer-with-sound/never-give-up.
Pension Pilled with Tom Fraser Host Amanda Marie Whitt joins Tom Fraser, a Masters Student at Concordia University, whose academic and journalistic work tackles the complicated relationships between Canadian Pension Funds and development projects around the world. See Tom’s articles for Jacobin and Canadian Dimension here. You can find out more about the DéPOT project at www.deindustrialization.org Music: "Never Give Up" by Ketsa. Used under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0; https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/summer-with-sound/never-give-up. ...
Dr. Indranil Chakraborty discusses his recent monograph Invisible Labour: Support Service Workers in India’s Information Technology Industry with MA student and DéPOT affiliate Gabriel Ellison-Scowcroft. Dr. Chakraborty also discusses his background in journalism covering the tech industry in India, the theorists and activists who have inspired his work, and his new postdoctoral project interviewing former Sears workers through DéPOT. You can find out more about the DéPOT project at www.deindustrialization.org Music: "Never Give Up" by Ketsa. Used under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0; https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/summer-with-sound/never-give-up. ...
Marion Henry joins Gabriel Ellison-Scowcroft to discuss her recent article "Des coulisses à la scène: la féminisation des brass bands dans les bassins miniers britanniques (1947-1984)" in Le Mouvement Social. Marion discusses the origins of the article and her methodological approach, the emergence of brass bands in British mining communities, and the relationship between deindustrialization and feminization in the second half of the twentieth century. You can find out more about the DéPOT project at www.deindustrialization.org Music: "Never Give Up" by Ketsa. Used under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0; https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/summer-with-sound/never-give-up. ...