Between the 1960s and the 1990s, the share of the UK's labor force employed in industrial sectors dropped from approximately one half to one fifth of the total workforce. This was due to growth in the public and service sectors, the impact of automation on industrial jobs, and the affordability of foreign imports. The trend observed in the UK was reflective of the general trend across Western Europe, as the region de-industrialized in the late 20th century.

The dataset contains recordings of 21 interviews with trade union activists from 10 European countries (Poland, Germany, Sweden, Kosovo, Italy, Spain, Great Britain, Hungary, Slovenia, and Luxembourg). The recordings are available in audio or video format. The interviews were conducted in the interviewees' native languages.The data contained in the dataset was gathered during the project Remembering Deindustrialization: Autobiographical Narratives of European Trade Unionists.The project involved collecting narrative biographical interviews from representatives of the generation of European trade unionists born between the 1940s and 1960s, whose lives spanned a period of profound economic, social and cultural change associated with the processes of deindustrialisation. These changes took place at different pace depending on the political and economic systems of individual countries, simultaneously influencing the transformation of the working world and, consequently, the shape of European societies at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century. Trade unions were at the forefront of addressing the problems arising from the tensions of late modernity and conflicting social interests. At the same time, drawing on social, economic, technological and legal knowledge, they played an important role in the process of change. Conversations with trade unionists thus allow us to grasp the significance of the changes in the working world from the perspective of key custodians of social memory of the industrial era and its transformations.The project was carried out by an international and interdisciplinary research group based in the COST Network Slow Memory: Transformative Practices for Times of Uneven and Accelerating Change (https://www.slowmemory.eu/).

At the class with study topic “Oral History” with the professor Antonis Antoniou collected 19 biographical narrative interviews from the students of I.A.K.A. during the winter semester of 2018 for the subject of deindustrialization. The aim of the research was to record the changes in working life and their meaning by men and women who worked in factories during the last decades and experienced the closure of their business, the deregulation of employment after 1990, unemployment or even forms of resistance. of employees in these changes. The narrators interviewed were born between 1944 and 1972 and their working lives cover most of the period from the 1980s to the present, while the older ones have worked in a factory during the junta and the post-colonial era. That means that the biographical narratives have a great interest in the study of deindustrialisation, as the narrators' experiences often cover both an era of "prosperity" with abundant employment opportunities in the mid-1980s and the personal and professional immersion that took place in the following decades, and especially in the years of the crisis. The rapid changes in the world of work are mainly due to the deregulation of labor relations in the 1990s and the closure of many factories due to competition with cheap products from China, Bulgaria, etc. and due to the relocation of Greek companies to neighboring countries during the crisis. The interviews mainly concern metal and clothing companies that closed after 2006. Most of them concern the industrial area of Volos, but there are also interviews for Thessaloniki (Coca-Cola). Larissa (Raptex, BIOTEXTIL, Olympus), Lamia (carpentry) and Xanthi (sugar factory). The sample includes 15 men and 4 women. The interviews were conducted on a guided basis. Non-probability: Availability Face-to-face interview

At the class with study topic “Oral History” with the professor Antonis Antoniou collected 19 biographical narrative interviews from the students of I.A.K.A. during the winter semester of 2018 for the subject of deindustrialization. The aim of the research was to record the changes in working life and their meaning by men and women who worked in factories during the last decades and experienced the closure of their business, the deregulation of employment after 1990, unemployment or even forms of resistance. of employees in these changes. The narrators interviewed were born between 1944 and 1972 and their working lives cover most of the period from the 1980s to the present, while the older ones have worked in a factory during the junta and the post-colonial era. That means that the biographical narratives have a great interest in the study of deindustrialisation, as the narrators' experiences often cover both an era of "prosperity" with abundant employment opportunities in the mid-1980s and the personal and professional immersion that took place in the following decades, and especially in the years of the crisis. The rapid changes in the world of work are mainly due to the deregulation of labor relations in the 1990s and the closure of many factories due to competition with cheap products from China, Bulgaria, etc. and due to the relocation of Greek companies to neighboring countries during the crisis. The interviews mainly concern metal and clothing companies that closed after 2006. Most of them concern the industrial area of Volos, but there are also interviews for Thessaloniki (Coca-Cola). Larissa (Raptex, BIOTEXTIL, Olympus), Lamia (carpentry) and Xanthi (sugar factory). The sample includes 15 men and 4 women. The interviews were conducted on a guided basis.

This dissertation deals with the process of de-industrialization of the Lavrio area in the early 1990s, examining how social developments and changes are recorded in the life stories of affected industrial workers. The purpose of this work is to examine how the rapid changes brought about by the de-industrialization wave are recruited and experienced by industrial workers as well as by the crisis management techniques they employ. The study adopts the directions of interpretative research tradition and qualitative methodology in social research. In particular, the biographical approach is adopted. The study was based on empirical material collected in 1994 during a six-month field study in Lavrio.The types and sources of material vary. Includes all available demographics, prior studies on Lavrion, publications in the local and Athenian press, interviews with representatives of local agencies. At the core of the research process, however, was the conduct and processing of 17 narrative biographies with dismissed industrial male and female workers.

Volos was from the end of the 19th century a "labor city" and the birthplace, at the beginning of the 20th century, of the Greek labor movement. Until the late 1970s it was an attraction for internal migrants from the province in search of employment. The industrial work, but also the deindustrialization of the 1970s and 1980s marked the city. The research, during which 18 interviews were conducted, aimed to investigate the individual and collective experiences of employees.