House, J. Douglas. <br/><br/>
Against the Tide :  Battling for Economic Renewal in Newfoundland and Labrador. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (318 pages) 
<br/><br/>Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- MAP 1 REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: ISLAND OF NEWFOUNDLAND -- MAP 2 REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: LABRADOR -- 1 Prologue: Reflections on a Royal Commission -- 2 Vision: The New Economy in Newfoundland and Labrador -- 3 Reality: The System and the People -- 4 Appointment and Demotion -- 5 Bureaucratic Obstruction -- 6 Battling Back: From Frontal Attack to Guerrilla Warfare -- 7 The Rise and Fall of ENL and the Enterprise Network -- 8 Battling the Federal System: Income-Security Reform -- 9 An Attempted Coup and the New Regional Economic Development -- 10 The Purge of the ERC -- 11 Victory: A New Paradigm for Development -- 12 Conclusion: What Is to Be Done? -- APPENDIX 1 MEMBERS OF THE ERC -- APPENDIX 2 MANDATE OF THE ERC -- APPENDIX 3 ENL IS NOT A BANK -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z. 
<br/><br/> Appointed head of Newfoundland's Economic Recovery Commission, House was struck by the unyielding strength of the bureaucratic barriers of government. A testament to the difficulty of fighting the tide of political and bureaucratic power in Canada. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781442670716 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Newfoundland and Labrador-Economic conditions.<br/>Newfoundland and Labrador-Economic policy.<br/>Labrador (N.L.)-Economic conditions.<br/>Labrador (N.L.)-Economic policy.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HC117.N4 H68 1999 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>338.9718