HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Deathbed Conversion, The Vancouver Sun, Planned Economy
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Significance: the crisis saw responses to unemployment range from charity and demeaning handouts, to cost-sharing programs supported by the provinces and the federal government, to work camps, political demonstrations, and repression, to growing support for unemployment insurance. The issue helped defeat the bennett conservatives, even though they had pursued several options. Bennett style: the conservative record before the new. Deal, 1930-34, american review of canadian studies 19 (summer 1989): 141- [on-line. Donald forster and colin read, the politics of opportunism: the new deal broadcasts, . Canadian historical review 60:3 (sept. 1979): 324-49 [on-line] It wasn"t compulsory to go but the alternative was often starvation so many went: seen as a danger to stability of canada, create work camps run by dept. Corps) with real purpose, improving national parks, instilling idealism and sense of hope. Popular protest and unemployment: grassroots anger at injustice, people unemployed through no fault of their own, various organizations formed at the local level, ex.
