Hollowing Out Corporate Canada? Changes in the Corporate Network Since the 1990s

Carroll, William K.; Klassen, Jerome

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“…The emphasis should be on democratizing control of economic life, from the shop floor to overall investment decision-making and budgeting. Jerome Klassen and I have an article in the next issue of the Canadian Journal of Sociology (Carroll and Klassen, 2010) that presents a detailed analysis of hollowing out and the continuity of corporate power in Canada.…”

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2010

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On the morning of 12 July 1990, I flipped on my TV to CNN's Headline News. I received about two hours of English-language television each morning, and had grown dependent on CNN to let me know in the vaguest sense what was going on in the world. I was living in Prague, in what would remain Czechoslovakia for another couple of years, part of the swarm of do-gooders, curiosity-seekers, and carpetbaggers descending on the entire former East Bloc at the end of 1989. By the time I left Prague, it was clear to anyone who looked carefully that the new regime's willingness to suspend visa and currency regulations made 'English teacher' a surprisingly lucrative moniker for anyone looking to cash in quickly before the heavyweights took over, and in the process thoroughly elided any boundary between do-gooders and carpetbaggers 1). Given the time difference between Prague and eastern Canada, that morning's top story on Headline News was the first I heard of events at Kanehsatà:ke, or as it was soon referred to, the 'Oka Crisis'. The previous 1 The comparison with the original 'carpetbaggers'-northerners who headed to the defeated Confederate South at the end of the American Civil War, looking to make quick profits during Reconstruction-resonates strongly. The Soviet bloc was seen as having been defeated in the Cold War, and an influx of transient opportunists saw this as a chance to get quickly rich. In Mandevillean fashion, private vices would become public virtues, as the populace of the former East bloc received a crash course in capitalism from its least reputable proponents. The joke was still circulating in the former USSR well into the twenty-first century: 'Everything we knew about socialism was false, and everything we knew about capitalism was true'.

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“…In Canada, a research program mapping the corporate elite was inaugurated by John Porter in the 1950s (19561965) and advanced by his student Wallace Clement (1975). More recent work has used social network analysis (SNA) to situate the Canadian corporate power structure within a transnational context (Carroll 2004;Carroll and Klassen 2010;Klassen and Carroll 2014;Carroll 2016). These studies have opened a window on the social organization of Canadian capitalism in an era of globalizing capitalism, but they have not considered how carbon capital is positioned within the power structure; nor has this issue been addressed in the international literature.…”

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“…1. What is the carbon-capital elite's accumulation base (Carroll 1986, Carroll andKlassen 2010): what combination of carbonextractive companies provides a basis for the streams of profit upon which the elite's power ultimately depends? 2.…”

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Canada’s Carbon-Capital Elite: A Tangled Web of Corporate Power

Carroll

2017

Can. J. Soc.

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This article maps the organization of corporate power within Canada’s carbon-capital elite. It charts the elite’s accumulation base, its internal structure as a network of interlocking directorates and its ties to the financial sector and other segments of corporate capital – national and transnational. The analysis identifies a tightly-knit, local network of mid-sized carbon-capital firms linked into the broader power structure largely through mediating relations that involve the largest carbon-capital corporations. The architecture of corporate power resembles an entrenched oligarchy; however, both policy sociology and public sociology can contribute toward checking its power through effective regulation while facilitating discussion of energy democracy as a transformative alternative.

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“…Unsurprisingly, the influence and reach of Canadian capital and the geopolitical aggressiveness of the Canadian state in recent years has been similarly neglected in the field of international political economy more generally. Important exceptions to this include Gordon (2010a),Carroll and Klassen (2010),Klassen (2009), and Burgess (2008). 5.…”

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Canadian Geopolitics in Post-Coup Honduras

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2013

Critical Sociology

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On 28 June 2009 moderately left-of-centre Honduran president, Manuel ‘Mel’ Zelaya, was overthrown in a military coup d’etat. The coup was followed by the systematic repression of anti-coup activists and the eventual election of current president, Porfirio ‘Pepe’ Lobo, amid that repression and in the absence of constitutional democracy. While critical scholarship on the international dynamics of the Honduran coup has discussed evidence of US involvement, Canada also actively intervened politically. Canada’s intervention has been marked by the bold promotion of the interests of Canadian capital operating in Honduras, as part of a wider geopolitical concern of the Canadian state to reproduce a political environment in Latin America amenable to the interests of Canadian investors. Using interviews with Honduran activists organizing against the coup and Canadian capital, as well as Canadian government documents obtained through Access to Information, this article explores the political-economic strategies of Canada’s post-coup intervention in Honduras.

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Hollowing Out Corporate Canada? Changes in the Corporate Network Since the 1990s

Cited by 12 publications

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6.1 Part One: Front cover to page 124

6.1 Part One: Front cover to page 124

Canada’s Carbon-Capital Elite: A Tangled Web of Corporate Power

Canadian Geopolitics in Post-Coup Honduras

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