HIST 242 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Eight-Hour Day, Obstetrics And Gynaecology, English Canada
25 Jan 2017
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Douglas owram, born at the right time: a history of the baby-boom generation (toronto: university of toronto press, 1996), chapter 5. Ian milligan, rebel youth: young workers, new leftists, and labour in english canada, 1964-1973 (ph. d. dissertation, york university, department of history, 2011), chapter. From variety of perspectives demographically, culturally, politically, socially, economically. Reality: whenever define it starting or ending, explosion of canadian population in a way will never see again. Population will grow only that fast from immigration. Phenomenon that combined lots of children with high levels of immigration, in a high population boom that affected everything. When so much population is made in such a small amount of time, become an important bloc: voting, consumer, influencer, concerns and hopes and dreams, historically unprecedented. Even today baby boomers, influence economic, high levels of political participation, greater wealth then previous generation, higher level of control because more integrated and more of them (largest %).
