| Description |
1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Themes in business and society
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Themes in business and society.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
"In this absorbing narrative, Barry E.C. Boothman traces the history of Abitibi Power and Paper Limited alongside the rise and fall of the newsprint industry and the advent of Canadian corporate capitalism. In the first half of the twentieth century, Abitibi was Canada's biggest manufacturer--an apparent success story after the Wall Street crash of 1929 and a company deemed "too big to fail"--but the company eventually ended up at the centre of the longest and most controversial bankruptcy in Canadian history. Moving from the frontier areas of northern Ontario to the heart of the continental economy, Corporate Cataclysm shows how competitive strategies, industrial organization, corporate finance, and law combined with the empire-building dreams of entrepreneurs and the concerns of politicians to generate an economic disaster. It then chronicles the disputes and intense strife that plagued Abitibi's fourteen-year receivership."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Praecipe -- Abbreviations -- 1 Empire Ontario -- A young, giant land -- A grasping colonial mind-set -- Corporate capitalism and law -- 2 Anson's Folly -- Make haste slowly -- An excellent speculative opportunity -- A few strokes of the pen -- 3 An Industry in Transformation -- Who could lack faith with this record? -- Struggles for dominance -- Rather good statements -- 4 Building the Corporate Realm -- A romance of Canadian industrialization -- Businesslike politics -- Economical business coordination |
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Capitalists of all degrees -- 5 From Prosperity to Crisis -- Johnny Canuck's material assets -- One of the greatest industrial coups -- Cat out of the paper bag -- 6 From Crisis to Catastrophe -- Your market had run away -- Crack of doom -- An almost impossible condition -- Plates -- 7 The Vale of Receivership -- A loose and irregular administration -- In an entirely friendly way -- Too many chickens -- 8 A Time for Investigations -- A pretty good business -- A public accounting -- Posterity does not vote -- The royal inquisition -- 9 The Search for Stability -- Now nearly useless -- Snugging up |
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The liquidation of the liquidator -- I never met a group of men so disloyal -- 10 Reorganization Plots -- We, the insolvent -- A spider web of intrigue -- I am bewildered -- 11 The Battle of the Plans -- Hopes, squabbles, and plagiarism -- All interests asunder -- Paying for the show -- 12 Darkest Hours -- The anomalous position -- Abolish the whole thing -- Abitibi fat in the frying pan -- From sitzkrieg to blitzkrieg -- 13 A Constitutional War -- The unfortunate, extravagant, and futile course -- Wartime paper -- Pith and substance -- 14 The Path towards Dawn -- Clean up the Abitibi mess |
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The dirty end of the stick -- The longest receivership -- 15 Epilogue -- Destinies -- Concluding perspectives -- Appendices -- Appendix 1 Newsprint Annual Supply and Demand, 1899-1946 -- Appendix 2 Traits of the North American Newsprint Industry, 1890-1940 -- Appendix 3 Capitalization of Paper Companies, 1920 and 1930 ( Millions) -- Appendix 4 Reorganizations among Canadian Newsprint Companies -- Appendix 5 Abitibi Power and Paper Ltd.: Capital Structure and Major Proposals, 1932-1946 -- Appendix 6 Battle of the Plans, 1937 -- Participants -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Abitibi Power & Paper Company -- History -- 20th century.
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Abitibi Power & Paper Company. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Newsprint industry -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.
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Newsprint industry. |
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Canada. |
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HISTORY / Canada / Pre-Confederation (to 1867) |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Title |
Abitibi Power & Paper and the collapse of the newsprint industry, 1912-1946 |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Boothman, Barry E. C. Corporate cataclysm. Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2020 1487505566 9781487505561 (OCoLC)1145123143 |
| ISBN |
9781487505561 |
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9781487532321 electronic book |
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1487532326 electronic book |
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9781487532314 electronic book |
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1487532318 electronic book |
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