Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Danny Williams once declared
apropos provincial politics that "we can't allow things that are
inaccurate to stand." Taking him at his word, Drew Brown presents
an engaged analysis of the class interests and ideological
distortions underlying the island's politics in the 20th century.
From the collapse of democracy at the outset of the Great
Depression to the collapse of the cod fishery at the end of the
century, Drew traces the way the state has worked in concert with
private capital to entrench the power of a local commercial elite
over the political process in Newfoundland and Labrador. Covering
the dynamics of pre-Confederation national politics, Joey
Smallwood's ill-fated industrialization program, Resettlement, the
birth of the petroleum industry and the collapse of the North
Atlantic Cod fishery in the early 1990s, this is perhaps the most
compelling analysis of Newfoundland and Labrador's political and
economic history to appear in some time.
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