The Diversity of Industrial Experience: Cabinet and Furniture Manufacture in Late Nineteenth-Century Ontario |
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| Authors: | Forster Ben; Inwood Kris |
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| Institution: | Ben Forster is associate professor and chair of the Department of History at the University of Western Ontario. Contact information: Department of History, Faculty of Social Science, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5C2. E-mail: bforster{at}uwo.ca.
Kris Inwood is professor of economics and director of International Development Studies at the University of Guelph. Contact information: Department of Economics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada N1G 2W1. E-mail: kinwood{at}uoguelph.ca. |
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| Abstract: | The diversity of paths to industrialization is illustrated bythe example of the cabinet- and furniture-manufacturing industryin Ontario, Canada. Complex and unpredictable demand combinedwith smaller markets and lower incomes than those in the UnitedStates and the relative abundance of wood to limit mechanizationand the size of enterprise in the Canadian industry. Small andunpowered workshops remained competitive throughout the nineteenthand into the twentieth century, creating a distinctive industrialexperience that reflects the unique interaction of local demandand supply. |
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