LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Deskilling, Industrial Unionism, Dark Future

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Lecture 13- world war 1 and post-war upheaval. Society"s ability to produce was getting better, but ww1 wipes that out. It leads to a deep and dark future. It strains societies to lengths that has never been seen before. Total war: all measures in society are organized to win the war (food, human, physical, etc. ) War measures act the scope of government expands hugely. Emergency law saying that the government can go to any measures to take care of society. War fever everything in society becomes political, enormous rallies of troops and civilians that are confident they will wipe out the enemy. Canada lost 60,000 soldiers the greatest lost ever experienced in canada. Win-the-war sentiment- the strain of the war was hard, all the sacrifices that need to be made have to be done in order to win the war. If the germans win you will be even more unhappy after the war .

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