Canada's Greatest Wartime Muddle
：National Selective Service and the Mobilization of Human Resources during World War II
Publication subTitle ：National Selective Service and the Mobilization of Human Resources during World War II
Author： Stevenson Michael D.
Publisher： McGill-Queen's University Press
Publication year： 2001
E-ISBN: 9780773569652
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780773522633
Subject： K7 Americas History
Keyword： 美洲史
Language： ENG
Disclaimer: Any content in publications that violate the sovereignty, the constitution or regulations of the PRC is not accepted or approved by CNPIEC.
Description
In this exhaustively researched and carefully documented account, Michael Stevenson argues that National Selective Service (NSS) - the agency responsible for controlling the nation's military and civilian mobilization apparatus - failed in its attempts to regulate Canadian society. He challenges traditional views that Prime Minister Mackenzie King handled the conscription issue by creating a comprehensive, centralized, and efficient human resource mobilization strategy, carefully supervised by government bureaucrats in Ottawa. Stevenson argues instead that a fractured, de-centralized, and widely unpopular mobilization program often prevented NSS officials from channelling eligible men into Canada's system of compulsory training for home defence or allocating workers to essential industrial jobs.