4 MacMillan Bloedel: Corporate Restructuring and the Search for Flexible Mass Production

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Acronyms xvii
6. Global and Historical Perspective
7. Global Industrial Transformation, Resource Peripheries, and the Canadian Model 3
8. Life on the Geographic Margin: The Evolution of British Columbia’s Forest Economy from the 1880s to the 1970s 35
9. Booms, Busts, and Forest Reregulation in an Age of Flexibility 65
10. The Anatomy of Change
11. MacMillan Bloedel: Corporate Restructuring and the Search for Flexible Mass Production 107
12. Foreign Direct Investment: Help or Hindrance? 148
13. Small Firms: Towards Flexible Specialization in BC’s Forest Economy 185
14. Trade Patterns and Conflicts: Continentalism Challenged by the Pacific 219
15. Employment and the Contested Shift to Flexibility 255
16. The Diversification of Forest-Based Communities: Local Development as an Unruly Process 288
17. Environmentalism and the Reregulation of British Columbia’s Forests 321
18. The BC Forest-Product Innovation System and the (Frustrating) Search for a Knowledge-Based Culture 356
19. The BC Forest Economy as a Local Model 389
20. References 405
21. Index 421