POLS 3125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Winnipeg General Strike, Ship Floodability, Blue-Collar Worker
11 Nov 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Background to world war i: a sharp decline in capital import, constraints on supply of labour, decline in the inflow of immigrants to canada. Limitation on foreign borrowing left government with three options: domestic borrowing, taxation, and printing money. The role of imperial munitions board: british military capacity at its limits, ask canadian packing-house magnate joseph flavelle to head purchasing agency (imb, within weeks: hundreds of new contracts to supply shells, casings, fuses, etc. February 1916: imb spending million a week: british orders for first half of 1917 alone: million. Trends were similar in other areas: tent and sail-making, engines, boilers, steel, iron, explosives, plumbing equipment, etc. Long-term economic, political and social consequences of wwi. Led to exclusionary and racist rhetoric: non-british immigrants not seen as equals, many immigrants fired from jobs to give to soldiers. F(cid:396)e(cid:374)ch ca(cid:374)adia(cid:374)s opposed to co(cid:374)sc(cid:396)iptio(cid:374): led to cha(cid:396)acte(cid:396)izatio(cid:374)s of the(cid:373) (cid:862)as the o(cid:374)ly (cid:449)hite (cid:396)ace of (cid:395)uitte(cid:396)s(cid:863)
