Canadian Social Scientists: Leonard Marsh, Stefan Molyneux, Anil Verma, William B. Munro
Canadian Social Scientists: Leonard Marsh, Stefan Molyneux, Anil Verma, William B. Munro
Product DescriptionChapters: Leonard Marsh, Stefan Molyneux, Anil Verma, William B. Munro. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 20. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Leonard Charles Marsh (September 24, 1906 May 10, 1983) was a social scientist and professor. Marsh was born in England and graduated from the London School of Economics in 1928. After graduation, he studied wages and housing and conducted research for Sir William Beveridge. Marsh moved to Canada in 1930, after being hired as a Director of Social Research at McGill University. McGill was taking part in two American-funded research projects at the time, the Canadian Frontiers of Settlement Project and the Social Science Research Project. Marsh was hired through a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation and named project director for the SSRP. While Director, Marsh published several books on employment in Canada, including Health and Unemployment in 1938. The pivotal text to emerge from Marsh’s role as project director was Canadians In and Out of Work; A Survey of Economic Classes and Their Relation to the Labour Market in 1940. Canadians In and Out of Work was one of the first significant works to analyse class in Canada and remained the most comprehensive study of the subject until John Porter’s release of The Vertical Mosaic. The work was not well-received by the business community. Marsh and the Social Science Research Project proved to be an irritant to the university and funders and funding was not renewed when the grant ran out in 1940. Leonard Marsh went on to be named research director for the Committee on Post-War Reconstruction under chair Frank Cyril James in 1941. The resulting report, written by Marsh in a single month 1943, Report on Social Security for Canada laid the foundations for the welfare state in Canada. It is now colloq. . . More: http://booksllc. net/?id=22109389
Canadian Social Scientists: Leonard Marsh, Stefan Molyneux, Anil Verma, William B. Munro