The Theory of Economic Change.

Keirstead, B. S.

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“…Maritime businessmen were forced to compete against central Canadian firms which had accumulated considerable benefits from a core region's more favourable agglomeration economies. 5 Therefore, for most Maritime manufacturing companies to grow in size, to remain competitive by acquiring economies of scale and scope, and in turn to stimulate urban growth, an essential strategy was for them to sell their products in extraregional markets. But this business plan runs into problems of market accessibility.…”

Section: Urban-industrialmentioning

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Fragmented Integration: The Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company and the Anatomy of an Urban-Industrial Landscape, c. 1912

McCann¹

1994

Urban History Review

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This paper examines how forces of fragmentation within the Maritimes contribute a partial but important explanation of the urban-industrial collapse that marked the region in the early 20th century. Specifically, weaknesses that affected the spatial strategies of the vertically-integrated industrial giant, the Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company, provide evidence of limited interaction within the Maritime urban system. Profits from exporting staples, pig iron, and steel products to foreign and national markets, although initially aided by tidewater location and control over all phases of production, were not sufficient to overcome, in the long-run, such forces of fragmentation as dispersed and limited regional markets, increased costs of producing poor quality resources, or the minimal presence of external economies. With "Scotia's" eventual demise, towns like Sydney Mines, Trenton, and New Glasgow suffered economic and population decline.Cet article montre comment les forces de fragmentation à l’intérieur des Provinces maritimes offrent une explication partielle, mais importante, de l’effondrement urbain-industriel qui marquait la région au début du vingtième siècle. Plus précisément, les faiblesses qui influaient sur les stratégies spatiales de la Compagnie « Nova Scotia Steel and Coal, » un géant industriel à l’intégration verticale, témoignent de l’intégration limitée à l’intérieur du système urbain des Provinces maritimes. Malgré les avantages initiaux d’une situation au bord de la mer et de l’autorité sur toutes les étapes de production, les profits provenant de l’exportation des produits de base, de la fonte brute et des produits d’acier aux marchés nationaux et internationaux étaient insuffisants, à longue échéance, pour surmonter les forces de fragmentation tels les marchés régionaux dispersés et limités, les coûts augmentés de la production des ressources de mauvaise qualité, ou la présence minimale des économies externes. Tout cela aboutit finalement à la fin de la compagnie « Scotia, » et des villes comme Sydney Mines, Trenton, and New Glasgow subissaient une baisse de l’activité économique et une diminution de la population

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Section: Urban-industrialmentioning

confidence: 99%

Fragmented Integration: The Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company and the Anatomy of an Urban-Industrial Landscape, c. 1912

McCann¹

1994

Urban History Review

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The Theory of Economic Change.

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Fragmented Integration: The Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company and the Anatomy of an Urban-Industrial Landscape, c. 1912

Fragmented Integration: The Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company and the Anatomy of an Urban-Industrial Landscape, c. 1912

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