Canada's greatest wartime muddle

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"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."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Canada,  Canada. National Selective Service,  Draft,  History,  Industrial mobilization,  Manpower,  World War, 1939-1945,  National security, canada,  World war, 1939-1945, manpower,  World war, 1939-1945, canada,  Mobilisation industrielle,  Histoire,  Service militaire obligatoire,  Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945,  Main d'oeuvre

Places: Canada

Times: 20th century