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In 1990, Akron, Ohio-based Goodyear Corporation opened "the world's most modern tire plant" in Napanee, Ontario. In Capitalism Comes to the Backcountry, Bryan Palmer chronicles the machinations and manipulations the corporation used to entrench itself in a region desperate for jobs.
Palmer explores the human dimensions of plant relocation, sordid corporate practices, and, ultimately, the corrosive cultural effects of corporate boosterism. He describes negotiations between Napanee officials and a secretive company, anxious to keep land costs low before it made its final move. Meanwhile the firm was successfully seeking $95 million in government subsidies.
Capitalism Comes to the Backcountry is a vivid, hard-hitting expose of the workings of big business and their impact on people and their communities.
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Bryan D. Palmer, a long-time resident of the backcountry, is a professor of history at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario and the author of several books, including Solidarity: The Rise and Fall of an Opposition in British Columbia and Objections and Oppositions: The Histories and Politics of E.P. Thompson.
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After reading Palmer's book, you'll never look at that Goodyear blimp in quite the same way again. -- Canadian Forum
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- PublisherBetween the Lines
- Publication date1994
- ISBN 10 092128487X
- ISBN 13 9780921284871
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages192
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Capitalism Comes to the Backcountry: The Goodyear Invasion of Napanee
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Goodyear Invades the Backcountry; the Corporate Takeover of a Rural Town
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 180 p. 23 cm. Sound and square binding in cardstock covers. Minor wear to edges and corner tips. The spine was possibly yellow but is now white with fading to the title. Stamped "used book" on bottom of text block. Inside pages are clean and unmarked, with some toning. An examination of what happened in Napanee, Ontario when Goodyear Corporation decided to build a tire plant there. The blurb states that the book cuts through the myth of 'partnership' to uncover the real costs of corporate penetration of a rural town. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Seller Inventory # 5303
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