{"product_id":"extracting-decline","title":"Extracting Decline","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Alberta oil sands are known around the world, but less visible are the workers who sustain this industry. \u003cem\u003eExtracting Decline \u003c\/em\u003einvestigates how it became normal for workers to travel thousands of kilometres from Canada's Maritime region to make a living in the oil field.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKatie Mazer reveals the intimate links between regional underdevelopment and Canada's extractive economy. In the decades after World War II, the Canadian state formulated the Maritimes as a national problem. Framing the region's rural economies as unviable, policy makers worked to remake the Maritimes to fit a modern vision of the national economy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWeaving together welfare and rural development policy, political economy, and workers' lived experiences, \u003cem\u003eExtracting Decline\u003c\/em\u003e documents how the devaluation of non-capitalist economies has helped transform land and labour for extraction. While the Maritime region has long been denigrated for its failure, \u003cem\u003eExtracting Decline \u003c\/em\u003eultimately argues that it holds lessons for imagining a more just and sustainable world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57499188003189,"sku":"9780774871952","price":34.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/extracting-decline","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}