摘要：Over the last decade the forestry sector in B.C. underwent a seachange of sorts as the industry moved from a regime of Fordism to one of flexible specialization (Bames and Hayter 1992; Hayter and Bames 1992). New products, new technologies, new labour practices, and new markets forrned the basis of a reconfigured wood-products sector. In particular, much of the burden of that transition fell on the coastal single-industry forest communities (Grass and Hayter 1989). Partly this was because the coastal mills were much older than their interior counterparts and required the greatest investment, and partly it was because of a dwindled coastal forestry resource base, a result of earlier dear cutting, inadequate reforestation and, more recently, both environmental concems, and land and resource daims of First Nations' peoples. The upshot is that, since 1980, a number of coastal mills have been shutdown, wound down, or reconfigured to varying degrees along the lines of flexible specialization (often with heavy losses of employment), with a swathe of attendant problems for the associated communities.
