Understanding Canada : building on the new Canadian political economy
"As corporations are restructured, governments cut back spending, and the international economy is transformed, there is an increasing need to understand the economic and political forces involved, evaluate their implications, and develop strategies to modify them to meet society's interests. In light of the current situation, the study of political economy is more relevant than ever." "Understanding Canada examines a variety of topics from viewpoints ranging from the established to the interdisciplinary. Contributors look at issues such as gender, Native peoples, race, ethnicity and migration, globalization, foreign policy, the welfare state, regulation, communications, popular culture, and space and the environment, as well as the more traditional subjects of economic growth, resources and manufacturing, labour, regionalism, Quebec, and the character of the Canadian state." "The new Canadian political economy has emerged from its infancy and is now regarded as a respected and innovative field of scholarship. Understanding Canada furthers this tradition by focusing on current issues in an accessible and informative way."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©1997
McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal, ©1997
Aufsatzsammlung
x, 408 pages ; 24 cm
9780773515031, 9780773515024, 0773515038, 077351502X
35978119
1. Introduction: Whither the New Canadian Political Economy? / Wallace Clement
2. Canadian Capitalism in Transition / Mel Watkins
3. Resources and Manufacturing in Canada's Political Economy / Wallace Clement and Glen Williams
4. Labour in the New Canadian Political Economy / Paul Phillips
5. Gender at Work: Canadian Feminist Political Economy since 1988 / Heather Jon Maroney and Meg Luxton
6. Understanding What Happened Here: The Political Economy of Indigenous Peoples / Frances Abele
7. The Political Economy of Race, Ethnicity, and Migration / Daiva Stasiulis
8. Going Global: The Politics of Canada's Foreign Economic Relations / Laura Macdonald
9. Imag(in)ing Canadian Foreign Policy / Mark Neufeld and Sandra Whitworth
10. Remapping Canada: The State in the Era of Globalization / Greg Albo and Jane Jenson
11. The New Political Economy of Regions / Janine Brodie
12. The Challenges of the Quebec Questions: Paradigm, Counter-paradigm, and ...? / Daniel Salee and William Coleman
13. From the Postwar to the Post-Liberal Keynesian Welfare State / Isabella Bakker and Katherine Scott
14. Displacing the Welfare State / Liora Salter and Rick Salter
15. Public Discourse and the Structures of Communication / Ted Magder
16. The (Real) Integrated Circus: Political Economy, Popular Culture, and "Major League" Sport / David Whitson and Richard Gruneau
17. Contested Terrains: Social Space and the Canadian Environment / Iain Wallace and Rob Shields