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Importing the Clairtone Sound: Political Economy, Regionalism, and Deindustrialization in Pictou County

Labour, 2023-03, Vol.91 (91), p.147-168 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

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Title:
Importing the Clairtone Sound: Political Economy, Regionalism, and Deindustrialization in Pictou County
Author: MacKinnon, Lachlan
Subjects: 20th century ; Beneficiaries ; Capitalism ; Case studies ; Coal ; Coal industry ; Companies ; Convergence ; Corporate image ; Crises ; Deindustrialization ; Documentation ; Economic aspects ; Economic depression ; Economic development ; Economic history ; Economic policy ; Elections ; Estates ; Great Depression ; Industrial development ; Inequality ; Labor relations ; Liberalism ; Manufacturing ; Metal industry ; Mining accidents & safety ; Modernism ; Planning ; Political economy ; Politics ; Production management ; Regionalism ; Regions ; Social aspects ; Sound recording industry ; World War II
Is Part Of: Labour, 2023-03, Vol.91 (91), p.147-168
Description: Following the industrial crisis of the 1920s and the Great Depression in the 1930s, consecutive provincial governments in Nova Scotia turned their efforts toward state-led economic development. After the election of Robert Stanfield and the Tories in 1956, a wholesale industrial planning model was unveiled. Indeed, Stanfieldian economic policy in Nova Scotia was predicated upon the belief that direct state-led interventionism was necessary to offset regional inequity. State corporate entities, such as Industrial Estates Limited, and renewed interest in a state-driven industrial relations paradigm were central in the province’s efforts to revitalize its flagging economy and offset predicted decline in the Cape Breton coal and steel industries. This article examines the fate of the Clairtone Sound Corporation, one of Nova Scotia’s “new industries” that emerged out of these state-led development efforts. A case study of this Stellarton-based firm reveals how structural processes of deindustrialization produced crisis even within sectors that were completely distinct from the province’s cornerstone industries of coal and steel. This case includes a reflection on the class composition of the modernist state in Nova Scotia and represents a convergence of the historiographical focus on state-led industrial development in the Maritimes and recent literature found within deindustrialization studies.
Publisher: Canadian Committee on Labour History
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 0700-3862
EISSN: 1911-4842
DOI: 10.52975/llt.2023v91.009
Source: ProQuest Central

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Importing the Clairtone Sound: Political Economy, Regionalism, and Deindustrialization in Pictou County

All Rights Reserved ©, 2023Canadian Committee on Labour History ;COPYRIGHT 2023 Canadian Committee on Labour History ;Copyright Canadian Committee on Labour History Spring 2023 ;ISSN: 0700-3862 ;EISSN: 1911-4842 ;DOI: 10.52975/llt.2023v91.009

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