Erscheint: September 2026
Buch (Softcover): Sachbuch
Extracting Decline
Resource Development and Mobile Labour in Canada
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EAN: 9780774871952
Erscheint: September 2026
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Beschreibung
The Alberta oil sands are known around the world, but less visible are the workers who sustain this industry. Extracting Decline investigates how it became normal for workers to travel thousands of kilometres from Canada's Maritime region to make a living in the oil patch. Katie Mazer reveals the intimate links between regional underdevelopment and Canada's extractive economy. In the decades after the Second World War, the Canadian state formulated the Maritimes as a national problem. Framing the region's rural economies as unviable, policy makers worked to remake the Maritimes to fit a modern vision of the national economy. Weaving together welfare and rural development policy, political economy, and workers' lived experiences, Extracting Decline documents how the devaluation of non-capitalist economies has helped transform land and labour for extraction. While the Maritime region has long been denigrated for its failure, Extracting Decline ultimately argues that it holds lessons for imagining a more just and sustainable world.