The Government Generation : : Canadian Intellectuals and the State 1900–1945 / / Doug Owram.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Owram, Doug,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1986
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (416 p.)

War, depression, secularization, urbanization, and the rise of industry – between 1900 and 1945 Canada struggled with all these developments, and from them was born the modern welfare state. New services were created, along with new taxes to pay for them and expanded bureaucracies to administer them. Government activity grew enormously; so did government expenditures. The role of the state in a modern industrialized society became the focus of a lively and continuing debate for two generations of intellectual reformers. Doug Owram looks back at that debate and the academics, civil servants, and political activists who engaged in it. Adam Short, W.L. Grant, Frank Underhill, W.C. Clark, Harold Innis, and many others exchanged ideas – sometimes cautiously, sometimes passionately – about the wisdom of planning and reform, and on practical schemes for their realization. Owram explores the reforming impulse and its political dimension: the impact of warm and depression on attitudes to the state, the League of Social Reconstruction and its relations with the CCF, R.B. Bennett’s New Deal, and the various changes of heart experienced over forty years by Mackenzie King.The Canada that emerged from the Second World War was very different from the one that had existed at the turn of the century relations between the individual and the state had altered drastically and irrevocably. The people examined in this book and the social and political movements in which they believed helped shape Canada’s response to powerful forces that were changing its way of life forever.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. 'A city of pigs': the intellectual community and social crisis 1895-1914 -- 2. The intellectual and the state 1900-14 -- 3. The social sciences and the search for authority 1906-16 -- 4. Statism and democracy 1914-18 -- 5. The social sciences and the service state 1919-29 -- 6. The formation of a new reform elite 1930-5 -- 7. Moving into the inner councils 1930-5 -- 8. The 'new millennialists': economics in the 1930s -- 9. The problem of national unity and the Rowell-Sirois Report 1935-40 -- 10. Bureaucracy, war, and reform 1939-42 -- 11. The triumph of macro-economic management 1943-5 -- 12. Epilogue The Dominion-provincial conference on reconstruction - the limits of success -- Note on sources -- Notes -- Index