Dimitry Anastakis

Autonomous State

The Struggle for a Canadian Car Industry from OPEC to Free Trade

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Produktbeschreibung

More than just an examination of the auto industry, the book provides a rethinking of Canada’s tumultuous post-OPEC political and economic evolution, helping to explain the current tribulations of the global auto sector and Canada’s place within it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 568
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 154mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 753g
• ISBN-13: 9781442612976
• ISBN-10: 1442612975
• Artikelnr.: 36181381

Autorenporträt

By Dimitry Anastakis

Inhaltsangabe

Tables
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Automotive Assembly and Major Parts Facilities in Canada Since 1945
Introduction: The Ripples of 1973
Chapter One: Industrial Revolutions: A New Automotive Landscape Emerges
Chapter Two: The New Big Three: Canadian Safety, Emissions and Fuel Economy
in a Continental Industry
Chapter Three: Fair Share: The Battle Over “Domestic” Investment in North
America
Chapter Four: Nadir:  Saving Chrysler and Debating State Intervention in
the Auto Sector
Chapter Five: Integration’s Bounty, Integration’s Bounds: The Unusual Life
of the Auto Pact
Chapter Six: Schism: The Canadian UAW and the End of Auto Worker
Internationalism
Chapter Seven: Transplant: “Foreign” Production, Imports and the Tumultuous
Arrival of the Japanese
Chapter Eight: Rebirth or Requiem? Duty Remissions, Free Trade and the
Death of the Auto Pact
Conclusion: One in Six: The Ratio of Survival
Appendices
Notes
Bibliography
Illustrations Credits
Index