Agrarian Revolt in W. Canada

Agrarian Revolt in W. Canada
Author: Sharp
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1948
Genre: Agricultural societies
ISBN: 1452912203

This landmark study meticulously traces the evolution of the farmers' movement on the prairies, which led to the birth of the co-operative movement and such populist political movements as the Progressive Party, the Social Credit, and the CCF/NDP. Out of print for almost 30 years, "The Agrarian Revolt" has remained a primary resource for scholars studying the history of this region. The trends which Sharp identified and examined continue to be crucial for an understanding of prairie politics today, for the Reform Party (now the Canadian Alliance Party) is a direct ideological descendant of the earlier populist movements considered in "The Agrarian Revolt."

The Agrarian Revolt in Western Canada

The Agrarian Revolt in Western Canada
Author: Paul Frederick Sharp
Publisher: University of Regina Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780889771062

Originally published: Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1948.

Farm Workers in Western Canada

Farm Workers in Western Canada
Author: Shirley A. McDonald
Publisher: University of Alberta
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2017-01-16
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1772122742

Bill 6, the government of Alberta’s contentious farm workers’ safety legislation, sparked public debate as no other legislation has done in recent years. The Enhanced Protection for Farm and Ranch Workers Act provides a right to work safely and a compensation system for those killed or injured at work, similar to other provinces. In nine essays, contributors to Farm Workers in Western Canada place this legislation in context. They look at the origins, work conditions, and precarious lives of farm workers in terms of larger historical forces such as colonialism, land rights, and racism. They also examine how the rights and privileges of farm workers, including seasonal and temporary foreign workers, conflict with those of their employers, and reveal the barriers many face by being excluded from most statutory employment laws, sometimes in violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Contributors: Gianna Argento, Bob Barnetson, Michael J. Broadway, Jill Bucklaschuk, Delna Contractor, Darlene A. Dunlop, Brynna Hambly (Takasugi), Zane Hamm, Paul Kennett, Jennifer Koshan, C.F. Andrew Lau, J. Graham Martinelli, Shirley A. McDonald, Robin C. McIntyre, Nelson Medeiros, Kerry Preibisch, Heidi Rolfe, Patricia Tomic, Ricardo Trumper, and Kay Elizabeth Turner.

Insurgent Democracy

Insurgent Democracy
Author: Michael J. Lansing
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2016-11-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 022643477X

In 1915, western farmers mounted one of the most significant challenges to party politics America has seen: the Nonpartisan League, which sought to empower citizens and restrain corporate influence. Before its collapse in the 1920s, the League counted over 250,000 paying members, spread to thirteen states and two Canadian provinces, controlled North Dakota’s state government, and birthed new farmer-labor alliances. Yet today it is all but forgotten, neglected even by scholars. Michael J. Lansing aims to change that. Insurgent Democracy offers a new look at the Nonpartisan League and a new way to understand its rise and fall in the United States and Canada. Lansing argues that, rather than a spasm of populist rage that inevitably burned itself out, the story of the League is in fact an instructive example of how popular movements can create lasting change. Depicting the League as a transnational response to economic inequity, Lansing not only resurrects its story of citizen activism, but also allows us to see its potential to inform contemporary movements.

Visionaries, Crusaders, and Firebrands

Visionaries, Crusaders, and Firebrands
Author: Lynn Gidluck
Publisher: James Lorimer & Company
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2012-03-27
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1459400534

It's visionary, principled leaders-not just policies and programs-that are key to the NDP's importance in Canadian public life

Border Crossings

Border Crossings
Author: Kerry Alcorn
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2013-11-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0773590048

At the dawn of the last century a shift in direction emerged among education policy-makers in Saskatchewan. Prior to 1905, the territories that would become Saskatchewan and Alberta maintained a school system largely modelled after Ontario's British-inspired system. Between 1905 and 1937 however, the shared geography and culture of the continental plains that span the border between the United States and Canada became the primary influence on education in the Canadian prairies. In Border Crossings, Kerry Alcorn examines Saskatchewan's embrace of the culture of farmer revolt and populist and progressive democratic thought that originated south of the border. He argues that as a consequence Saskatchewan education developed in resistance to eastern Canadian forms, with education policy makers - some brought in from the United States - consciously looking to their southern neighbours for direction in developing educational models. Alcorn's detailed portrait of University of Saskatchewan president Walter C. Murray and his "Wisconsin Idea," further highlight the influence of the north-south axis. A challenge to standard histories of Canadian education, Border Crossings encapsulates the development of the meaning, practice, and language of Saskatchewan education in the early twentieth century.

We Are All Treaty People

We Are All Treaty People
Author: Roger Epp
Publisher: University of Alberta
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2008-12-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0888645066

In his collection of Prairie essays, Roger Epp considers what it means to dwell attentively and responsibly in the rural West. We Are All Treaty People invites those who feel the pull of a prairie heritage to rediscover the poetry surging through the landscapes of the rural West, among its people and their political economy.