No Part of Our Life

SOME CRITICS have seen the pace and nature of Newfoundland's economic development as evidence of an ambivalent embrace of modernization. Such readings of provincial economic history may acknowledge significant exogenous obstacles to regional growth — noting, for example, the foreign exploitation of provincial resources, the alteration of aqua-environments and the challenges of geographical isolation—but tend to reserve the most vigorous finger-pointing for Newfoundlanders themselves.' Provincial labourers, in particular, have been censured for perpetuating the underdevelopment of their region through attachments to backward or workways and through their tepid support of government-sponsored growth initiatives. Deliberate resistance to the processes, institutions and spirit of industrial capitalism has been marked in workers' reluctance to abandon traditional sectors, disdain for retraining programs and unwillingness to relocate. Newfoundland workers, according to this version of

Ambivalence · Capitalism · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Government (linguistics · Isolation (microbiology · Modernization theory · Pace · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Resistance (ecology · Retraining · Sociology · Underdevelopment · Work (physics · Canadian Identity and History · Engineering · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Psychology · Social Sciences and Governance