From Shakespeare to cop shows, sitcoms to docudramas, for over three decades the CBC has presented viewers with every variety of television drama and has become Canada's closest equivalent to a national theatre. Turn Up the Contrast is the first book to explore the content of Canadian television...

During the first two decades of this century, Sir William Mackenzie was one of Canada's best known entrepreneurs. He spearheaded some of the largest and most technologically advanced projects undertaken in Canada during his lifetime -- building enterprises that became the foundations for such...

How can today's workforce keep pace with an increasingly competitive global economy? As new technologies rapidly transform the workplace, employee requirements are changing and workers must adapt to different working conditions. This volume compares new evidence on the returns from worker...

During the first three decades following the Second World War, an increasingly open international trading system led to unprecedented economic growth throughout the world. But in recent years, that openness has been threatened by increased protectionism, regional trading arrangements—Europe...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of tables -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Britain and Europe 1924-1931: the failure to reach agreement -- 2. The great depression, tariff protection and the steel industry 1931-1932 -- 3. The steel industry under protection -- 4....

Frontmatter -- Preface / Préface -- Example of a telegram / Exemple d'un télégramme -- Table of Contents / Table des Matières -- Index of Roots (Syllabes Radicales) -- Sundries -- Divers. -- Tabel 1 - 36 -- Index of Text -- Index du texte -- Front Matter 2 -- Mutilation Key for "Völlers'...

How do bureaucracies remember? The conventional view is that institutional memory is static and singular, the sum of recorded files and learned procedures. There is a growing body of scholarship that suggests contemporary bureaucracies are failing at this core task. This Element argues that this...