The Years of the Great Depression

Taschereau, Sylvie

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“…Given the response rate of this survey (12.64%), one has to be cautious about generalizing its findings. Also, the study covered a time when the worst recession since the Great Depression was occurring (Ferrara 2014), which may have disproportionately affected respondents' answers.…”

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U.S. Hardwood Sawmill Log Procurement Practices

Andersch¹,

Montague²,

Buehlmann³

et al. 2015

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U.S. hardwood sawmill log procurement practices are evolving because of the recent economic recession, market and supply chain shifts, and changing landowner objectives, among other factors. The objective of this study was to characterize the log procurement practices of hardwood sawmills and to characterize the role that log brokers play in supplying the sawmill industry with raw material. To meet this objective, a mail survey on hardwood log procurement practices in the U.S. hardwood sawmill industry was conducted. Survey respondents highlighted several factors that had major effects on their businesses, including "Increasing fuel and trucking cost," "High logging cost," "Unpredictable log supply," "Log shortages," "Logger shortages," and "Low log quality," among others. Results showed that large sawmills tend to rely more on gatewood from loggers and stumpage harvested by company contract loggers than do small-and medium-sized sawmills. This study failed to find an increase in the role of log brokers as an intermediary between landowners and hardwood sawmills during the last decade. Moreover, sawmills indicated only a limited demand for log broker services, with log delivery and the procurement of specialty logs identified as being the most highly demanded broker services.

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Section: Limitations Of the Studymentioning

confidence: 99%

U.S. Hardwood Sawmill Log Procurement Practices

Andersch¹,

Montague²,

Buehlmann³

et al. 2015

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The Hidden Face of Consumption: Extending Credit to the Urban Masses in Montreal (1920s–40s)

Taschereau¹,

Rousseau²

2019

Canadian Historical Review

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According to many historians and sociologists, mass consumption did not arrive in Canada until the 1950s or even the 1960s. However, this article shows that consumption by low-wage earners in the Canadian metropolis of Montreal was already beginning to transform and expand during the interwar period. As much as consumers, government helped drive these changes by relaxing the legal framework regulating credit practices as well as relations between small debtors and their creditors. The growing use of consumer credit by working-class families was at the heart of these transformations. In this article, the files of depositors placed under the protection of the Lacombe Act provide a unique window on this phenomenon and associated consumer behaviours. An analysis of public debates on the consumer habits of urban workers offers additional insight and context. We advocate for a broad understanding of consumer credit, while rejecting the familiar dichotomy between the consumption of durable goods and the purchase of basic necessities. Necessities and luxuries are constructs that have evolved over time, and the Lacombe files highlight how low-income households combined different sources of credit to incorporate and balance these two types of expenses within their tight budgets.

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The Years of the Great Depression

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U.S. Hardwood Sawmill Log Procurement Practices

U.S. Hardwood Sawmill Log Procurement Practices

The Hidden Face of Consumption: Extending Credit to the Urban Masses in Montreal (1920s–40s)

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