Dominion of Capital : : The Politics of Big Business and the Crisis of the Canadian Bourgeoisie, 1914-1947 / / Don Nerbas.

In the critical decades following the First World War, the Canadian political landscape was shifting in ways that significantly recast the relationship between big business and government. As public pressures changed the priorities of Canada's political parties, many of Canada's most power...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
©2013
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Canadian Social History Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (404 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Dominion of Capital The Politics of Big Business and the Crisis of the Canadian Bourgeoisie, 1914-1947
  • Introduction: Canadian Capital in the Age of Empire
  • Part One: Big Business from Triumph to Crisis
  • 1. Provincial Man of Mystery: Howard P. Robinson and the Politics of Capital in New Brunswick
  • 2. Charles A. Dunning:A Progressive in Business and Politics
  • 3. The Dilemma of Democracy: Sir Edward Beatty, the Railway Question, and National Government
  • Part Two: Continentalism and the Managerial Ethic
  • 4. Stewardship and Dependency: Sam McLaughlin, General Motors, and the Labour Question
  • 5. Engineering Canada: C.D. Howe and Canadian Big Business
  • Conclusion: Après le déluge
  • Notes
  • Index