Canada's greatest wartime muddle National Selective Service and the mobilization of human resources during World War II
Title:
Canada's greatest wartime muddle National Selective Service and the mobilization of human resources during World War II
Author:
Stevenson, Michael D., 1967-
ISBN:
9780773522633
9780773569652
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Publication Information:
Montréal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2001.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 235 p.)
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
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 labour and nurses -- A recapitulation.
Abstract:
"To determine the government's commitment to a comprehensive mobilization strategy, Michael Stevenson considers the effect of National Selective Service policies on eight significant sectors of the Canadian population: Native Canadians, university students, war industry workers, coal miners, long-shoremen, 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."--Jacket.
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