Dimitry Anastakis

Auto Pact

Creating a Borderless North American Auto Industry, 1960-1971

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Produktbeschreibung

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' 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 forebearer to what is now known as 'globalization.'

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 153mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780802038210
• ISBN-10: 0802038212
• Artikelnr.: 21261095

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Dimitry Anastakis

Inhaltsangabe

Tables
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The Canadian Auto Industry, 1900–1963
2. Canadian State Intervention in the Auto Industry and the Failure of
Automotive Free Trade, 1963–1964
3. The Big Three and the Creation of a Borderless Auto Industry, 1965
4. The Implementation of the Auto Pact, 1965–1966 103
5. Managing the Borderless North American Auto Industry, 1965–1968
6. Consolidating the Borderless North American Auto Industry, 1968–1971
Conclusion: The Borderless North American Auto Industry, 1971–2001
Appendix A. Text of the Automotive Products Trade Agreement, 1965
AppendixB. Sample Letter of Undertaking, Ford Motor Company of Canada
Appendix C. Automotive Statistics, 1960–1999
Notes
Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index