History 2125F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Unemployment Benefits, Ivan Rand, Rand Formula
21 May 2016
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Notes: 1. 1 million serve (10% of the population, 100,000 casualties, puts tremendous pressure on domestic society, a command economy - get stuff done for the war. C. d. howe: had tremendous power, minister of munitions and supply, believes the government should have total and absolute power. Ford: recognized that they could make a pro t, car plants then start to produce military transport equipment, also produced tanks, ours were not as good as germans, but we could produce. 20x as fast: because north america was isolated, it protected out production. Crown corporation: government run public sector corporations, small crown corporations in nunavut produce small amount of radium, thousands of employees are added. Ww2: more plants with many more workers, this allowed canada to become a world player in manufacturing, business worried about becoming to expansive, and the effects of this after the war, by 1940, there was a labour shortage.
