HREQ 3125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Scientific Management, Fordism, Industrial Revolution
3 Nov 2017
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The post-war canada i grew up in marked the zenith of a particular kind of capitalism, a capitalism different in important respects from the one we know today. The second world war was a time of intense industrialization in canada so that by the 1950s the country was enormously more urban and industrial than it had been a couple of decades earlier. During the 1950s, the industrial working class constituted a higher percentage of the labour force than ever before, or since. By 1960, farmers, once the largest occupational group in the country, had declined to a mere 13. 2 per cent of the labour force; by 1994, they made up only 4. 1 per cent of the labour force. In terms of numbers, the post-war decades were the day of the industrial worker. 32. 7 per cent of the employed labour force in 1960, less than in the united states at 35. 3 per cent or britain at 47. 7 per cent.
