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Canada's greatest wartime muddle : national selective service and the mobilization of human resources during World War II / Michael D. Stevenson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stevenson, Michael D., 1967-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Canada. National Selective Service.
- Canada.
- Industrial mobilization--Canada--History--20th century.
- Industrial mobilization.
- World War, 1939-1945--Manpower--Canada.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Draft--Canada.
- Draft.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (247 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Ithaca, [N.Y.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- To determine the government's commitment to a comprehensive mobilization strategy, Stevenson considers the effect of NSS policies on eight significant sectors of the Canadian population: Native Canadians, university students, war industry workers, coal miners, longshoremen, meatpackers, hospital nurses, and textile workers. These case studies show that mobilization officials achieved only a limited number of their regulatory goals and that Ottawa's attempt to organize and allocate the nation's military and civilian human resources on a rational, orderly, and efficient scale was largely ineffective. This detailed assessment of the effect of NSS activities on a broad cross-section of Canadian society provides a fresh perspective on the domestic impact of the Second World War. It will appeal to a wide range of readers interested in Canada's economic, military, social, and political history.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Tables and Figure
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Mobilization Debate
- The Regulatory Framework of Mobilization
- Native Canadian Mobilization
- Student Deferment
- War Plant Employees and Other Factory Workers: The Industrial Mobilization Survey Plan
- Coal Labour in Nova Scotia
- Halifax Longshoremen
- Meatpacking Labour
- Female Primary Textile Workers and Nurses
- A Recapitulation
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-229) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-85965-X
- 9786612859656
- 0-7735-6965-0
- OCLC:
- 180773126
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