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Cruikshank, Ken.

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The limits of regulation: Railway freight rate regulation and the Board of Railway Commissioners, 1851-1933.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The limits of regulation: Railway freight rate regulation and the Board of Railway Commissioners, 1851-1933./
Author:	Cruikshank, Ken.
Description:	509 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-12, Section: A, page: 4442.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International53-12A.
Subject:	History, Canadian. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NN72917
ISBN:	9780315729179

The limits of regulation: Railway freight rate regulation and the Board of Railway Commissioners, 1851-1933.
Cruikshank, Ken.

The limits of regulation: Railway freight rate regulation and the Board of Railway Commissioners, 1851-1933. - 509 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 53-12, Section: A, page: 4442.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--York University (Canada), 1988.

Bold prophecies of industrial progress and social order accompanied the coming of the steam locomotive. Between 1850 and 1930, merchants, manufacturers and farmers in communities across Canada sought to harness the energies of the railway. Business leaders turned to governments in an effort to reconcile the private economic behaviour of the railways with their own ambitions.

ISBN: 9780315729179Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017564
History, Canadian.

The limits of regulation: Railway freight rate regulation and the Board of Railway Commissioners, 1851-1933.
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520 $a Focusing on the controversies surrounding railway freight rates, "The Limits of Regulation" explores the various regulatory initiatives adopted by Canadian business and political leaders from the mid-nineteenth century until the 1920s. In an effort to assert some control over railway rate policies, those leaders convinced governments to sponsor competitive rail lines, exchange financial assistance for rate concessions, create special forums for resolving rate disputes, and fix freight tariffs by statute.
520 $a While this study emphasizes the development of a plurality of regulatory instruments during the period, the Board of Railway Commissioners provides the focal point of the study. The forerunner of the Canadian Transportation Commission, the railway commission represents one of the most important institutional innovations in the emergence of the modern state. The "Limits of Regulation" outlines the interest group, ideological and institutional origins of the railway commission and then examines the efforts of the commission to resolve complex freight rate disputes.
520 $a Throughout the railway commission's history, its members sought to make it an effective and acceptable regulatory forum. By offering compromise solutions, the commissioners sought to avoid alienating either railway or shipping interests. Such a regulatory strategy proved difficult to sustain in the face of the extraordinary demands generated by World War I and the persistence of regional rate grievances. This study concludes in the 1920s, with the members of the railway commission bitterly divided over their legitimate role in the rate-making process, and with politicians increasingly involved in resolving rate grievances.
520 $a "The Limits of Regulation" offers new insights into the question of freight rates, the history of regulation, and the nature of business-government relations in Canada.
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