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Toward Permanent Capitalist Crisis: Job Loss, Ecological Damage, and International Financial Panics, 1970–2000
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In this chapter, Palmer highlights deindustrialization and weakening labour unions in 1970s-2000s. Canada lost manufacturing jobs and expderienced growing income and wealth gaps. Resource corporations’ extraction activities contaminated water supplies and severely harmed many Indigenous communities such as Ontario’s Grassy Narrows.
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Bryan D. Palmer
Bryan D. Palmer is Professor Emeritus and former Canada Research Chair, Canadian Studies, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, former editor of Labour/Le Travail, and has published extensively on the history of labour and the revolutionary left. Among his many books are Canada’s 1960s and the co-authored Toronto's Poor: A Rebellious History. In the fall of 2024, Colonialism and Capitalism: Canada's Origins 1500–1890 was published, followed by Capitalism and Colonialism: The Making of Modern Canada 1890—1960 in the spring of 2025. He lives in Warkworth, Ontario.
