Business History

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Chapter 18: Economic Collapse
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Chapter 18: Economic Collapse

The Great Depression of the 1930s

From: Capitalism and Colonialism

This chapter recounts how successive downturns of the economy—from the 1913–15 recession to the 1929 crash—led to mass unemployment in Toronto and Montréal. 15 $1.50 Add
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Chapter 19

Chapter 19

The Struggle Continues

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Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Stories My Grandfather Told Me

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Chapter 20

Chapter 20

A Fund for the Future

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Chapter 23: The Second World War
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Chapter 23: The Second World War

Capital's Saviour/Labour's Opportunity, 1939-45

From: Capitalism and Colonialism

This chapter looks at how Canada escaped the Great Depression as the state imposed full employment and expanded its direction of the economy under such departments as C. D. Howe’s … 16 $1.60 Add
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Chapter 3

Chapter 3

Riding the Bucking Bronco

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Chapter 3: The Merger Movement and its Masterminds
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Chapter 3: The Merger Movement and its Masterminds

Capital Concentration, 1890-1929

From: Capitalism and Colonialism

This chapter traces how mergers, banks, and foreign investment reshaped Canadian industry after 1900, along with expansion in pulp and paper and automobile manufacturing. 15 $1.50 Add
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Chapter 4

Chapter 4

Lessons from the Onion Patch

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Chapter 5

Chapter 5

Only the Land Matters

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Chapter 5: The West and the Wheat Economy, 1890-1929
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Chapter 5: The West and the Wheat Economy, 1890-1929

From: Capitalism and Colonialism

This chapter examines development across Canada including the vast amounts of immigration that fuelled the resource-based economy in British Columbia and the wheat economy of the Prairies. 9 $0.90 Add
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Chapter 6

Chapter 6

Finding My Footing

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Chapter 7

Chapter 7

Entering the Fray

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Chapter 8

Chapter 8

Building a Future, Fighting the Past

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Chapter 8: Deindustrialization and the Maritimes in the 1920s
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Chapter 8: Deindustrialization and the Maritimes in the 1920s

From: Capitalism and Colonialism

This chapter traces the rise and fall of foreign-controlled companies such as British Empire Steel Corporation in Nova Scotia headed by Roy Wolvin. 9 $0.90 Add
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Chapter 9

Chapter 9

Assassination Attempt

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Checks, Unbalanced: Why Competition Policy Has Failed

Checks, Unbalanced: Why Competition Policy Has Failed

From: The Big Fix

In this chapter, Hearn and Bednar trace Canada’s competition policy from the 1889 Anti-Combines Act to the 1986 Competition Act, examining how neoliberal philosophy and the Chicago … ; 8 $0.80 Add