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Rethinking Canadian Economic Development: The Political Economy of Canadian Fordism, 1880-1914
Abstract
Introduction Starting in the 1880s, intensive development occurred in theorganization of capitalist industry in the United States. A new form ofFordist organization of production developed that “spread outwards fromthe USA and inspired large-scale production everywhere in the twentiethcentury.”1 The new form of production involved a range of changes in theorganization, scale, and management of industrial production. New statestructures also developed to regulate and coordinate the new form of capital.2The crucial period of change was between the 1880s and the First WorldWar. As noted by Chandler in relation to the new forms of managerialorganization that were integral to Fordist production, “By the time theUnited States entered World War I, the revolutionary transformation ofAmerican industry that had taken off in the 1880s had stabilized.”3
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