The writing of social history in English Canada, 1970–1984

Workers' Movements in the United States Confront Imperialism: The Progressive Era Experience

“…25 As Gregory S. Kealey has argued, the industrial upsurge at the turn of the century "combined with Canada's high tariff wall and preferential access to British empire markets to create the world's first major branch plant economy." 26 Small wonder some of the same business leaders who had joined Gompers in the Anti-Imperialist League simultaneously promoted the cause of closer ties between what they called the Anglo-Saxon nations of North America. 27 As if to quiet Gompers' fears for the home economy, the United States enjoyed spectacular industrial growth, as did Western Europe and Russia.…”