Getting down to business

The year 1919 saw the death of former Prime Minister Laurier, the birth of future Prime Minister Trudeau, and at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, the introduction of Canada's first degree-based program in business, the Bachelor of Commerce by economist and later architect of Canada's publ...

At home on the world markets

In the lavishly illustrated At Home on the World Markets Joost Jonker and Keetie Sluyterman look at mercantile dynasties - such as the Trips and the Van Eeghens - and companies - such as the famous Dutch East Indian Company VOC and the modern trading company Hagemeyer - that have been largely uns...

Economics, enlightenment, and canadian nationalism

Rejecting the orthodox economic model as an inappropriate representation of social reality, Robert Wright proposes an alternative adapted from Foucault's cultural theories. This new perspective leads him to conclude that, within the discipline of Canadian economics, theory should become gestalt r...

Ferranti-packard

Ferranti-Packard was one of Canada's earliest manufacturers to employ some of the most significant technologies of this century -- those involved in the production of electric power, automobiles, and computers. In this illustrated corporate history of Ferranti-Packard, Norman Ball and John Vardal...

Innovation systems in a global context

The integration of national economies in a global economic system has become a central feature of contemporary political, social, economic, and cultural life. However, neither the mechanisms nor the consequences of such integration are well understood. In this collection of essays leading scholar...

Problems and prospects of economic integration in west africa

At the global crossroads

At the Global Crossroads explores the many facets of a globalized world economy. This collection ranges from discussions of the global economic challenges of the twenty-first century to the particular economic opportunities for Canada and Latin America; from recession in the globalized economy to...

Distance and duties

The platform economy and the smart city

Innovative technologies promise a brave new world of convenience and cost effectiveness – powered by cameras that monitor our movements, sensors that line our streets, and algorithms that determine our resource allocation – but at what cost? The first collection of its kind, this groundbreaking v...

Migrant labour in south africa's mining economy

This book is a study of the origins of migratory labour and racial discrimination in South Africa's premier industry, the gold mines of the Witwatersrand. Based upon government records and private business archives, it examines the highly competitive world of mine labour recruiting at the turn of...

Degrees of freedom

A comparative study of Canadian and American responses to the changing international economy and to changing patterns of social diversity in domestic society, Degrees of Freedom traces the impact of these pressures on the economic and social structure, culture, political institutions, and policy ...

Business and politics

This is the first comprehensive study of the origins, structure, membership, and resources of interest groups representing business firms in Canada. William Coleman shows how Canadian businesses have used such associations to acquire special privileges within the policy process and to avoid assum...

Otter skins, boston ships, and china goods

James Gibson's thoroughly researched and highly detailed study is the first comprehensive account of the maritime fur trade on the Northwest Coast of North America.

Confrontation at winnipeg, revised edition

Why was Winnipeg the scene of the longest and most complete general strike in North American history? Bercuson answers this question by examining the development of union labour and the impact of depression and war in the two decades preceding the strike.

How much price competition

Milton Moore, who calls this inquiry into an effective Canadian competition policy "a polite polemic," challenges the assumptions upon which combines legislation is based and questions the manner in which free enterprise operates in Canada. He addresses himself, not to the academic economist, but...

In whose interests

In an expanding economy, growing corporations demand less government interference in their internal affairs. This has never meant less financial support, less use of force in times of unrest or labour strife, or less public involvement in the development of an infrastructure for industry. But it ...

Economic background of dominion-provincial relations

Equity and efficiency in economic development

Equity and Efficiency in Economic Development celebrates the long and illustrious career of Benjamin Higgins, Canada's most eminent development economist. In his honour, a group of world-renowned scholars tackles the most pervasive and baffling of today's economic, social, and political problems:...

Survival by association

The establishment of the European Economic Community in 1957 put preferential agreements with non-European trading partners in jeopardy, suggesting the spectre of economic ruin for small Caribbean territories dependent on only one or two crops. Yet, surprisingly, certain industries, notably the b...

Collective bargaining and the public interest

Canadian opinions about labour unions have changed in recent years. The more frequent use of strikes to resolve disputes has contributed to a growing intolerance of unions, particularly in the public service. Canadians now seem to be more concerned about the increasing power of unions than about ...

Labour's apprentices

The three decades before World War I witnessed significant changes in the work life, home life, and social life of adolescent English males. In Labour's Apprentices Michael Childs suggests that the study of such age-specific experiences provides vital clues to the evolving structure and fortunes ...

The canadian corporate elite

The fall and rise of the market in sandinista nicaragua

The Fall and Rise of the Market in Sandinista Nicaragua is an insightful look at the difficulties that arise when a particular vision of socialism is applied in a country such as Nicaragua. Phil Ryan argues that the Sandinistas pursued a project of social transformation inspired by a Marxism much...

The persistence of unemployment

In The Persistence of Unemployment Stephen Jones presents a comprehensive assessment of persistent unemployment, specifically hysteresis, in Canadian labour markets.