Corporate cataclysm : Abitibi Power & Paper and the collapse of the newsprint industry, 1912-1946 /

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"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 manufactur...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boothman, Barry E. C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2020]
Colección:Themes in business and society.
Temas:
Abitibi Power & Paper Company > History > 20th century.
Abitibi Power & Paper Company.
1900-1999
Newsprint industry > Canada > History > 20th century.
Papier journal > Industrie > Canada > Histoire > 20e siècle.
HISTORY / Canada / Pre-Confederation (to 1867)
Newsprint industry.
Canada.
Abitibi Power and Paper Limited.
Canadian business history.
bankruptcy.
business and government.
corporate failure.
corporate reorganization.
forestry.
insolvency.
newsprint.
pulp and paper.
receivership.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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