The Politics of Industrial Restructuring: Canadian Textiles

by Rianne Mahon

In the late 1960s the Waffle raised the spectre of the 'deindustrialization' of the Canadian economy -- a prospect which was linked to the power of foreign-controlled subsidiaries. Professor Mahon argues here that the threat of deindustrialization actually first appeared in a sector then dominated by Canadian capital -- textiles. Moreover, Mahon suggests that the Canadian state cannot act in the narrow interests of dominant capitals. Rather, in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802065465
• ISBN13: 9780802065469
• Release Date: December 1984
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher