Asleep at the Switch
Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs |
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Total Pages | : 882 |
Release | : 2003 |
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Author | : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs |
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Total Pages | : 882 |
Release | : 2003 |
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Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Information, Justice, and Agriculture Subcommittee |
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Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Law |
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Author | : Bruce Smardon |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 505 |
Release | : 2014-11-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0773596542 |
Since 1960, Canadian industry has lagged behind other advanced capitalist economies in its level of commitment to research and development. Asleep at the Switch explains the reasons for this underperformance, despite a series of federal measures to spur technological innovation in Canada. Bruce Smardon argues that the underlying issue in Canada's longstanding failure to innovate is structural, and can be traced to the rapid diffusion of American Fordist practices into the manufacturing sector of the early twentieth century. Under the influence of Fordism, Canadian industry came to depend heavily on outside sources of new technology, particularly from the United States. Though this initially brought in substantial foreign capital and led to rapid economic development, the resulting branch-plant industrial structure led to the prioritization of business interests over transformative and innovative industrial strategies. This situation was exacerbated in the early 1960s by the Glassco framework, which assumed that the best way for the federal state to foster domestic technological capacity was to fund private sector research and collaborative strategies with private capital. Remarkably, and with few results, federal programs and measures continued to emphasize a market-oriented approach. Asleep at the Switch details the ongoing attempts by the federal government to increase the level of innovation in Canadian industry, but shows why these efforts have failed to alter the pattern of technological dependency.
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Author | : Norm Cohen |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 774 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780252068812 |
Impeccable scholarship and lavish illustration mark this landmark study of American railroad folksong. Norm Cohen provides a sweeping discussion of the human aspects of railroad history, railroad folklore, and the evolution of the American folksong. The heart of the book is a detailed analysis of eighty-five songs, from "John Henry" and "The Wabash Cannonball" to "Hell-Bound Train" and "Casey Jones," with their music, sources, history, and variations, and discographies. A substantial new introduction updates this edition.
Author | : Vance Randolph |
Publisher | : University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780826203007 |
Author | : Susan Farrell |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 545 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 143810023X |
Kurt Vonnegut is one of the most popular and admired authors of post-war American literaturefamous both for his playful and deceptively simple style as well as for his scathing critiques of social injustice and war. Criti.
Author | : Tom Tyler |
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Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Electronic music |
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