| Book Review | Environmental History, 12.4

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Capital and Labour in the British Columbia Forest Industry, 1934–1974. By Gordon Hak. Vancouver and Toronto: UBC Press, 2007. 258 pp. Illustrations, notes, maps, tables, bibliography, and index. Cloth $85.00, paper $29.95.

British Columbia's highly productive forest industries have sustained the province's economy for more than a century. With more than 90 percent of its forest land in Crown ownership, British Columbia policy makers developed a system of lease and licensing arrangements that allocated huge swaths of timberland to lumber corporations. This study focuses on the "glory days" of timber production from the 1930s through the 1970s, the "Fordist age"—a moment in time characterized by mass production, large corporations, and big industrial unions—all designed to produce wood-fiber goods for consumer markets. Under the Fordist model, governments functioned to manage relations between capital and labor, providing an organized, rationalized economy, including social support services associated with the "welfare state."

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