Canada's greatest wartime muddle
Subtitle: national selective service and the mobilization of human resources during World War II
By: Michael D. Stevenson.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Montreal; Ithaca, [N.Y.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
Subjects: Canada. National Selective Service; Industrial mobilization -- Canada -- History -- 20th century; World War, 1939-1945 -- Manpower -- Canada; Draft -- Canada
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-229) and index.