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Autonomous State : The Struggle for a Canadian Car Industry from OPEC to Free Trade / Dimitry Anastakis.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Anastakis, Dimitry, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Automobile industry and trade--Canada--History--20th century.
- Automobile industry and trade.
- Automobile industry and trade--Government policy--Canada--History--20th century.
- International business enterprises--Canada.
- International business enterprises.
- Canada--Economic policy--20th century.
- Canada.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (568 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The Ripples of 1973
- 1 Industrial Revolutions: A New Automotive Landscape Emerges
- 2 The New Big Three: Canadian Safety, Emissions, and Fuel Economy in a Continental Industry
- 3 Fair Share: The Battle over 'Domestic' Automotive Investment in North America
- 4 Nadir: Saving Chrysler and Debating State Intervention in the Auto Sector
- 5 Integration's Bounty, Integration's Bounds: The Unusual Life of the Auto Pact
- 6 Schism: The Canadian UAW and the End of Auto Worker Internationalism
- 7 Transplant: 'Foreign' Production, Imports, and the Tumultuous Arrival of the Japanese
- 8 Rebirth or Requiem? Duty Remissions, Free Trade, and the Death of the Auto Pact
- Conclusion: One in Six: The Ratio of Survival
- Appendices. A. The Evolution of Canadian Automotive Tariffs since 1936 / Canadian Duty-Remission/Tariff Plans in the Auto Sector ; B. Text of the Automotive Products Trade Agreement, 1965 / Sample Letter of Undertaking ; C. Memorandum of Understanding between Honda Canada and the Canadian Government, May 1984 ; D. Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, 1 January 1989, Chapter 10, Trade in Automotive Goods ; E. Automotive Statistics, 1960-99.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [487]-523) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Nov 2018)
- ISBN:
- 1-4426-6443-6
- 1-4426-6442-8
- OCLC:
- 839198264
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