Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Preface xi
5. The End of the Remarkable Eighties: Crisis and Change
6. The World Economy and the Nation-State: The New International Order 3
7. Recession, Recovery, and Redistribution: The Three R’s of Canadian State Macro-policy in the 1980S 26
8. Freer Trade and Economic Integration
9. Regional Trading Blocs: Fortress Europe versus Fortress North America 51
10. Exports, Unemployment, and Regional Inequality: Economic Policy and Trade Theory 83
11. Disjunctions: Free Trade and the Paradox of Canadian Development 103
12. Rights, Freedoms, and Market Power: Canada’s Charter of Rights and the New Era of Global Competition 127
13. Restructuring Old Industries: The Anatomy of Industrial Change
14. The Globalization of Production and the Future of Canada’s Mature Industries: The Case of the Automotive Industry 153
15. Structural Adjustment and Technological Change in the Canadian Steel Industry, 1970-1986 181
16. A Japanization of Canadian Industry? 206
17. New Staples and Mega-Projects: Reaching the Limits to Sustainable Development 229
18. The Social Costs of Adjustment
19. The Systematic Search for Flexibility: National Competitiveness and New Work Relations 249
20. Canada’s Social Wage in an Open Economy, 1970-1983 270
21. Shaping or Serving Markets? Public Ownership after Privatization 288
22. Post-Fordism: Some Issues for Labour 316
23. New Policy Directions for the State
24. The Global Political Economy and Social Choice 335
25. Post-Industrialism and the Service Economy 351
26. Canada in a High-Tech World: Options for Industrial Policy 367
27. Democratic Alternatives: Rebuilding from the Ground up
28. Canada and the Global Crisis in Resource Development 399
29. For a Second Economy 415
30. Beyond the Market and the State: How Can We Do Better? 435
31. Contributors 449