Auto Pact: Creating a Borderless North American Auto Industry, 1960-1971 - Couverture souple

Anastakis, Dimitry

 
9780802038210: Auto Pact: Creating a Borderless North American Auto Industry, 1960-1971
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0802038212 ISBN 13 : 9780802038210
Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2005

Synopsis

The 1965 Canada-United States Automotive Trade agreement fundamentally reshaped relations between the automotive business and the state in both countries and represented a significant step toward the creation of an integrated North American economy. Breaking from previous conceptions of the agreement as solely a product of intergovernmental negotiation, Dimitry Anastakis's Auto Pact argues that the 'big three' auto companies played a pivotal role - and benefited immensely - in the creation and implementation of this new automotive regime. With the border effectively erased by the agreement, the pact transformed these giant enterprises into truly global corporations.

Drawing from newly released archival sources, Anastakis demonstrates that, for Canada's automotive policy makers, continentalism was a form of economic nationalism. Although the deal represented the end of any notion of an indigenous Canadian automotive industry, significant economic gains were achieved for Canadians under the agreement. Anastakis provides a fresh and alternative view of the auto pact that places it firmly within contemporary debates about the nature of free trade as well as North American - and, indeed, global - integration. Far from being a mere artefact of history, the deal was a forebearer to what is now known as 'globalization.'

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À propos de l?auteur

Dimitry Anastakis is the L.R. Wilson / R.J. Currie Chair in Canadian Business History in the Department of History and at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.

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Éditeur
University of Toronto Press
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0802038212
ISBN 13 
9780802038210
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
240
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780802039033: Auto Pact: Creating a Borderless North American Auto Industry, 1960-1971

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0802039030 ISBN 13 :  9780802039033
Editeur : University of Toronto Press, 2005
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