GOPH 375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Protestant Work Ethic, Flash Pasteurization, Trade Union
20 Jan 2016
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Lack of opportunity for large section of society. Higher classes want to return to the status quo of pre-war rugged individualism and protestant work ethic. Market being flooded with more product than demand exists for it. Prairies were the poorest part of the country dirty 30s, dust storms. Back to the land" theory not useful what farms hadn"t blown away were already being farmed. Ccf (cooperative commonwealth federation) eventually became the ndp. Critiques of the depression thought that the working class needed a party. We weren"t able to have a modern national government without some kind of social safety net national responses were impossible, because any social powers belonged to the provinces, but they were so impoverished that they couldn"t. Banks get scared and call in loans. Municipal improvements assistance act spending government money to get people back to work. Running a deficit but stimulating the economy. League of nations was supposed to keep the peace.
