1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910455514903321

Autore

Strange Carolyn <1959->

Titolo

Making good : law and moral regulation in Canada, 1867-1939 / / Carolyn Strange and Tina Loo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1997

©1997

ISBN

1-282-00842-0

9786612008429

1-4426-7690-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (181 p.)

Collana

Themes in Canadian History

Disciplina

340/.112/0971

Soggetti

Law - Canada - History

Law and ethics - History

Electronic books.

Canada Moral conditions History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Building the Moral Dominion -- 2 Instituting Morality -- 3 Recruiting the State -- 4 Incorporating Moral Visions -- 5 Returning to Normalcy -- 6 The Moral Crises of Capital -- Conclusion -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Young Canada was often portrayed as a virginal woman or as a healthy frontiersman, and the ideals of purity, industry, and self-discipline were celebrated as essential features of the Canadian identity. To ensure that Canadians lived up to this image, different levels of government passed a variety of laws and created an expanding range of institutions to enforce them. Making Good looks at the changing relationship between law and morality in Canada during a critical phase of nation-building, from Confederation to the onset of the Second World War. The authors argue that though the law played a significant role in giving Canada a moral cast, the law's homogenizing tendencies did not always meet with anticipated success, as values deemed 'good' by the government were constantly repudiated by those on whom they



were imposed.Strange and Loo examine both the major institutions which patrolled morality - the Department of Indian Affairs, the Ministry of Justice, and the North West Mounted Police - and the agencies that worked at local levels, such as police forces, schools, correctional facilities, juvenile and family courts, and morality squads. They also look at many fascinating acts of resistance to moral ordinances, showing that not all Canadians shared the same vision of goodness. Certain themes which run throughout the book include the concept of the internal threat to the foundations of national decency, the influence of the United States on Canada's moral order, and the regional discrepancies in the success of moral governance.Through topics as diverse as gambling, marriage and divorce, and sexual deviance, Making Good shows that character-building was critical to the broader project of nation-building. The book will be a welcome addition to undergraduate courses in Canadian history, and will interest social historians; historians of Native peoples, the working class, and women; criminologists; and political scientists.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789698303321

Autore

Smith David J

Titolo

Reliability, maintainability and risk [[electronic resource] ] : practical methods for engineers / / David J. Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford [U.K.] ; ; Waltham, Mass., : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2011

ISBN

1-283-17111-2

9786613171115

0-08-096903-8

Edizione

[8th ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (463 p.)

Collana

IChemE

Disciplina

620.0045

620.00452

Soggetti

Reliability (Engineering)

Maintainability (Engineering)

Engineering design

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Understanding reliability parameters and costs -- pt. 2. Interpreting failure rates -- pt. 3. Predicting reliability and risk -- pt. 4. Achieving reliability and maintainability -- pt. 5. Legal, management and safety considerations.

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides engineers with the safety and risk assessment tools and techniques they need to work effectively in any safety or reliability critical environment. These tools are primarily statistical. Where David Smith's book succeeds is by meeting the needs of an applied audience by setting these tools in the context of the design and operation of safety related processes and systems. Now in its Eighth Edition, this is regarded as the core reference in this field, and the success of its approach is reflected in the popularity of this standard work.   It deals with all aspects of