Guides: GEO 225: Canadian Geography: Manufacturing industries in Ontario

Manufacturing industries in Ontario: Manufacturing forms the heart of Ontario’s economy, yet these industries are stagnant. Will manufacturing simply fade away in Ontario or can it be rejuvenated by knowledge-based innovations?

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eBooks

Craft Capitalism: craftworkers and early industrialization in Hamilton, Ontario, 1840-1872 by Robert B. Kristofferson
ISBN: 9780802094087
Publication Date: 2007-12-29
Hamilton: A People's History by Bill Freeman
ISBN: 9781550287400
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
Includes relevant chapter: "The Manufacturing City, 1865-1890"
A Leader and a Laggard: Manufacturing Industry in Nova Scotia, Quebec and Ontario by Roy George
ISBN: 9781487598952
Publication Date: 1970-12-15
The author compares two regions of Canada: Quebec and Ontario, which together are considered the industrial leader; and Nova Scotia, the industrial laggard. He compares the costs of inputs for an average manufacturing firm in Nova Scotia from 1946 to 1962 with what those costs would have been had the firm been located in the Quebec-Ontario region. The analysis includes relative wage rates, labour productivity, rates of interest and investment, transportation charges, and levels of local taxation.
Lunch-Bucket Lives by Craig Heron
ISBN: 9781771132121
Publication Date: 2015-06-03
Lunch-Bucket Lives takes the reader through the history of Hamilton's working people from the 1890s to the 1930s, listening for the stories of men, women, youths, and children from families where people relied mainly on wages to survive.
The Politics of Development: Forests, Mines, and Hydro-Electric Power in Ontario, 1849-1941 by H.V. Nelles
ISBN: 9780773527584
Publication Date: 2005-07-20
Includes relevant chapter: "The Manufacturing Condition"
Remaking the Rust Belt : the postindustrial transformation of North America by Tracy Neumann
ISBN: 9780812248272
Publication Date: 2016-05-31

Cities of Oil: Municipalities and Petroleum Manufacturing in Southern Ontario, 1860-1960 by Timothy Cobban
ISBN: 9781442645585
Publication Date: 2013-08-07
Cities of Oil is the first sustained historical account of the development of the early Canadian petroleum refining and manufacturing industry. In it, Timothy W. Cobban documents the industry's development in southern Ontario, from its beginnings in the 1850s to its later expansion on the outskirts of London, to Petrolia, and finally to Sarnia. He accounts for all of the industry's important developments and innovations, particularly the role played by municipalities in fostering its growth.
Clusters Old and New by David A. Wolfe; Edited by Edited by David A. Wolfe
ISBN: 9780889119611
Publication Date: 2003-06-01
Clusters Old and New presents the initial results of a study into the formation and growth of industry clusters across Canada. of locales, in knowledge-intensive sectors as well as more traditional ones, and in both metropolitan and non-metropolitan settings.
Doing Business in the Knowledge-Based Economy : facts and policy challenges by L. A. Lefebvre; Elisabeth Lefebvre; Pierre A. Mohnen
ISBN: 9780792372448
Publication Date: 2000-12-01
From Great Wilderness to Seaway Towns: A Comparative History of Cornwall, Ontario, and Massena, New York, 1784-2001 by Claire Puccia Parham
ISBN: 9781417575817
Publication Date: 2004-01-01
Includes relevant chapter: "The Canal Era and the First Manufacturing Boom in Cornwall and Massena, 1834-1900"
Innovation and Knowledge Creation in an Open Economy : Canadian industry and international implications by John R. Baldwin; Petr Hanel
ISBN: 9780511510847
Publication Date: 2009-08-28