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The Farmers in Politics

1976

The great upheaval in Canadian politics at the end of the First World War is at the same time the most startling example of the power of class politics in this country, and the most extraordinary example of t~e ability of the pragmatist school to. [...] The sudden reversion of Ontario farmers back to traditional two-party poli tics by the mid-1920s, Social Credit in Alberta, the conservatism of the United Farmers government in Manitoba, the Tory po pulism of John Diefenbaker on the prairies in the 1950s and 1960s, all demonstrate the ambiguity of the farmers' perception of politics, the curious oscillation' of views from left to right, the Janu [...] Coming as it did only a year after the stunning victory of the United Farmers of Ontario in that province's genetal election, and on the eve of the Alberta victory, followe~ by a farmer government in Manitoba in 1922, and just before the displace ment of the Conservatives as the second largest grouping in the House of Commons by the farmer-based Progressive party in the 1921 national election, Th [...] The obsession of the analysis with political forms, to the exclusion of any probing of the economic structures, meant that most of the radical energy of the move ment was to be directed toward the attack on the party system and the establishment of group government. [...] W09(isworth ("I wish to state", Irvine cheerfully informed the House, "that the honorable member for, Centre Winnipeg is the leader of the Labour group-and I am the group"26) formed the "Ginger group" with the more advanced Progressive members, a group which became the nucleus of the CCF party in the 19305.
farmers canada history politics and government political activity 20th century

Authors

William Irvine

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CaOOCEL
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Dewey Decimal Classification Number
329.9/71
Distributor
Canadian Electronic Library (Firm)
General Note
Reprint. Originally published 1920 Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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ISBN
9780771098109 9780773591509
LCCN
JL196
LCCN Item number
I75 1976eb
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Physical Description | Extent
1 electronic text (xli, 253 pages)
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario
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Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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(CaBNVSL)thg00913117 (OCoLC)887634971 (CaOOCEL)448029
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Mode of access: World Wide Web
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