Industrialization in Canada Quiz

What decision in 1946 helped to facilitate the establishment of industrial unions in Canada?

• Collective bargaining

• Minimum wages

• Unemployment

• Pensions

In the late 19th century, Canadian families shifted from a farm-based economy to one based on industrial work and wages in urban areas. What became the primary form of work for Canadians after the 1920s?

• Wages

• Piecework

• Selling of crops

• Subsistence farming

In the 1950s, which segment of the Canadian working population was privileged by state policies that encouraged the male breadwinner ideal?

• Retail

• Service sector

• Finance

• Industrial labour

What factor started to change the nature of industrial work between the 1960s and the 1980s, leading to greater dependence on technology and worker efficiency?

• Automation

• Trade agreements

• Innovation

• Productivity advances

What trade deals effectively dismantled the protectionist approach of Canada?

• World Trade Organization

• Auto Pact

• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

• National Policy

What caused some of the deindustrialization in Ontario after the 1990s?

• Innovation

• Trade agreements

• Productivity increases

• Automation

What helped spur inflation and economic decline in much of the West in the post-1973 period?

• Digital technology

• Computing revolution

• Automation

• Arab-led oil embargo

What shifted much of the modern economy into the service sector, with banking and finance outpacing manufacturing?

• Recession

• Retail

• Communications

• Economy

What transformed the workplace by the 1970s, making manufacturing work less of a segment of the industrial economy?

• Productivity advances

• Innovation

• Automation

• Trade agreements

What did the North American economy face in the financial crisis of 2008–09?

• Trade agreements

• Digital technology

• Automation

• Recession