Defying conventional wisdom
Subtitle: political movements and popular contention against North American free trade
By: Jeffrey M. Ayres.
Series: Studies in comparative political economy and public policy
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Political participation -- Canada.; Social movements -- Political aspects -- Canada.; Foreign trade regulation -- Canada -- Citizen participation.; Participation politique -- Canada.; Mouvements sociaux -- Canada.; Commerce extérieur -- Réglementation -- Canada -- Participation des citoyens.
Description: This book offers a crisp and thoughtful account of political phenomena still fresh in the minds of Canadians and still relevant to policy-making processes. As the first major work on the origins, strategies, and activities of movements and coalitions that arose in Canada and spread across North America to oppose free trade, it captures an important developmental period in Canadian political life.

Focusing on an analysis of the Action Canada Network, Jeffrey Ayres adopts a political-process model to link the emergence of popular sector movements and transnational networks to constraints posed by the Canada-U.S. FTA and NAFTA.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-197) and index.