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Commodity politics
As the international community calls for more responsible environmental, social, and governance performance, the politics of commodities becomes more fraught. Commodity Politics cuts through responsibility rhetoric and presents research from Cameroon to provide a better understanding of the polit...
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Generation why
Based on hundreds of interviews conducted with under-thirty-year-olds across the globe, as well as executives’ perspectives on changing dynamics in the workplace, Generation Why provides a thorough study of how the worldview of millennials and generation Z informs their ideas about truth, hierarc...
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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...
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Keeping canada running
In this groundbreaking study, authors Bruce Doern, Christopher Stoney, and Robert Hilton provide the first comprehensive overview of Canadian infrastructure policy, examining the impact and implications of the COVID-19 pandemic and rapid technological change as Canada looks to recover and rebuild...
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Tug of war
Lifting the veil on a corporate world girded by powerful forces at the nexus of state, capital, and geopolitical power games.
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Stabilization, growth, and distribution
This second volume in the Bell Canada Papers on Economic and Public Policy focuses on stabilization issues, growth and innovation, and labour markets. The essays explore linkages among macro-stabilization policy, economic growth, innovation activity, and distribution.
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All the difference
All the Difference is the story of one man's work in the vast international effort since World War II to raise standards of living in less developed countries; an effort in which all member countries of the United Nations have to some extent been involved. In the opening chapter Benjamin Higgins ...
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Stikeman elliott
A history of one of Canada's foremost law firms by one of the country's best known lawyers.
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The development of the pacific salmon-canning industry
The Pacific salmon fishery and the canning industry it supports have recently lost their status as the one of the most valuable fisheries in the world. In this study of early modern business, Dianne Newell discusses the beginning of the North American salmon canning industry, working from archive...
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Booze, cigarettes, and constitutional dust-ups
In 2012, after Gerard Comeau had driven to Quebec to purchase cheaper beer and crossed back into New Brunswick, police officers tailed and detained him, confiscated his haul, and levied a fine. With Comeau’s story as his starting point, Ryan Manucha tells the fascinating tale of Canadian interpro...
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The limits to satisfaction
At a time when the supply of resources is a problem, William Leiss analyses demand and consumption. Why do we need so much? Does the ability to choose from such a wide range of commodities give us more satisfaction? Why do we accept being pushed into buying products about which we know little bec...
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English immigrant voices
Emigrants sent by the Petworth Emigration Committee were part of a wave of rural workers in the 1830s whose immigration to Upper Canada was sponsored by English parishes and landlords. Their letters written or dictated to family and friends, leave us a rare first-hand view of the immigrant experi...
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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...
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La somme des satisfactions
Dans cette ère où les chiffres dominent, les indices économique - tels que la productivité, l'inflation, le chômage et le produit intérieur brut - informent les décisions autant des citoyens que de l'État. Depuis la Seconde Guerre mondiale, internationalement, le Canada se situe au premier plan d...
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Hot money and the politics of debt, third edition
A ball of hot money rolls around the world. It seeks anonymity and political refuge. It dodges taxes and sidesteps currency controls. It rolls through offshore shell companies and secret bank accounts, phoney charities and fraudulent religious foundations
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Land, power, and economics on the frontier of upper canada
Land, Power, and Economics on the Frontier of Upper Canada examines Ontario's formative years, focusing on Essex County in Ontario from 1788 to 1850. Upper Canadian attitudes to land and society are shown to have been built on contemporary visions of the cosmos. John Clarke examines the actions o...
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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...
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Brewed in the north
Tracing the evolution of Canada's Labatt brewery from its colonial beginnings until its sale to Belgium-based Interbrew.
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Selling britishness
From the 1920s until the Second World War, Australia, Canada, and New Zealand filled British shop windows, newspapers, and cinema screens with 'British to the core' Canadian apples, 'British to the backbone' New Zealand lamb, and 'All British' Australian butter. Selling Britishness explores the r...
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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...
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À quoi sert la philanthropie
Dans À quoi sert la philanthropie?, Hilary Pearson démystifie le monde de la philanthropie canadienne en dressant un portrait actuel des fondations et en mettant en lumière des organisations qui agissent avec détermination face à certains des défis sociaux et économiques les plus pressants de not...
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Patriots and profiteers, second edition
Almost everyone assumes that by enforcing trade sanctions and arms embargoes, modern democracies make tin-pot dictators and rogue states mend their ways - that the application of economic pressure is easily the most effective way to curb aggression and encourage respect for human rights.R.T. Nayl...
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Powering up canada
A comprehensive history of energy sources - from wood to nuclear - and their role in shaping Canadian society.
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