The struggle for swazi labour, 1890-1920

The period 1890 - 1920 was characterized by the increasing domination of white over black in southern Africa and the associated expansion of a regional capitalist economy. Many largely self-sufficient African societies became heavily dependent on migrant wage labour and purchased food. These chan...

Canadian economic forecasting

Forecasting is an important part of the desire to influence our destiny in an uncertain future. While there are many faces to the forecasting Eve, perhaps the most important in the present age involves prediction about economic matters relating to the larger community. Mervin Daub argues that car...

How ottawa spends, 1994-1995

In between countries

With increased interest in Canada and Australia over the last decade, students of foreign policy have produced an increasingly diverse range of scholarly material concerning the role and issue-orientation of these two countries. But until now there has been no study that bridges the mode of analy...

The making and unmaking of a university museum

In The Making and Unmaking of a University Museum Young elucidates the relationship between museums and communities by examining the nineteenth-century social context of the family who bequeathed their collection to McGill University and the collection's fate in an academic institution. Tracing t...

The unemployment crisis

High unemployment dominates the Canadian social reality of the 1990s. Lay-offs, cutbacks, and corporate downsizings during the 1990-93 recession created a pervasive economic insecurity that remains a problem. The Unemployment Crisis, a collection of essays based on the first annual economic polic...

Amassing power

At the turn of the century American industrialist J.B. Duke set his sights on one of North America's greatest and most spectacular rivers - the Saguenay. In Amassing Power David Massell chronicles thirty years of international intrigue as Duke manoeuvred to gain access to, develop, and sell the t...

Flexible innovation

The recent wave of technological alliances is changing the way high-technology companies conduct research and development in Canada. While most companies still conduct their R&D in isolation, the secretive, closed laboratory is becoming a thing of the past. Flexible Innovation, the first stud...

Staples, markets, and cultural change

This new edition of Harold Innis's essays, published on the occasion of his centenary, assembles his most significant and representative writing. Included are many of Innis's essays on cultural issues and economic development - subjects he explored throughout his life - that have not been readily...

Canada in the european age, 1453-1919, new edition

When Canada in the European Age, 1453-1919 was first published, it reversed traditional methodology by placing Canada's evolution in the context of the rise and fall of empires around the world, not just in the Americas. R.T. Naylor contends that the struggle for property (and political) rights i...

The politics of development

A reprint of the classic work on political economy and environmental history.

The big picture

How a grassroots economic movement inspired common people to take control of their own destinies in Depression-era Nova Scotia.

The canadian quandary, cls edition

Best known for his research on international trade and finance and monetary policy, Harry G. Johnson was one of Canada's most respected economists. He was also a prolific and influential public intellectual. A sharp and popular polemicist, he wrote on a wide range of subjects, from advertising to...

Arvida au saguenay

Founded in 1925, the town of Arvida was established to provide labour for Alcan's plant on the Saguenay River. With the arrival of big business in the rural Quebec countryside, two cultures collided -- the modern industrial culture of English North America and the traditional rural culture of Fre...

Dialogues on the practice of fiscal federalism: comparative perspectives, booklet 4 english

This booklet offers a snapshot of fiscal federalism in 12 federal democracies. It includes a glossary of country-specific terminology, serving as an entry point to a forthcoming book on the same theme. The booklet series is the fourth in a series created to provide accessible and comparative info...

From politics to profit

Describing a decisive period in the evolution of mass communication in Canada, Minko Sotiron documents the development of the newspaper, Canada's first mass communication medium, from a political mouthpiece in the nineteenth century to a profit-driven industry in the twentieth.

History of canadian business, new edition

R.T. Naylor traces the insidious interplay of big business and big government in Canada in the period between Confederation and World War I, presenting corruption as the norm rather than an abberation. He tells the often sordid story of the emergence and development of corporate capitalism in Can...

Karl polanyi on ethics and economics

Breaking new ground in Polanyi scholarship, Gregory Baum explores the relation between ethics, culture, and economics in Karl Polanyi's writings. He identifies and analyses key concepts of Polanyi's thought and shows how they apply to the contemporary debate on ethics and economics.

In the chamber of risks

Through a new set of detailed case studies William Leiss shows that while industry and governments have made much progress in responsibly managing risks to health and environment, they generally remain quite poor at managing their involvements with risk issues, that is, with the often intense con...

Making fast food, first edition

Fast food chains like McDonald's and Burger King are part of world-wide corporate empires that generate billions of dollars in annual sales. In Making Fast Food Ester Reiter examines the impact the fast food industry has had on the organization of work a

Africa's gene revolution

An evaluation of the potential for genetically modified crops to alleviate poverty and hunger in Africa.

In a new light

In a New Light explores the vital place of women in the shift to fossil fuels that spurred the Industrial Revolution, illuminating the variety of ways in which gender and energy intersected in women's lives in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe and North America. Together these essays deepe...

Excessive expectations

In the first full-length economic history of pre-Confederation Nova Scotia, Julian Gwyn challenges the popular myth that the British colony prospered before it became a province of Canada. Through his discussion of three periods in Nova Scotia's development (1740-1815,1815-53, and 1853-70) and fo...

Boys in the pits

Beginning early in the nineteenth century, thousands of Canadian boys, some as young as eight, laboured underground - driving pit ponies along narrow passageways, manipulating ventilation doors, and helping miners cut and load coal at the coalface to produce the energy that fuelled Canada's indus...