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Reformers, Rebels and Revolutionaries - The Western Canadian Radical Movement 1899-1919 (Paperback, New edition)
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Reformers, Rebels and Revolutionaries - The Western Canadian Radical Movement 1899-1919 (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Reprints in Canadian history
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The opening of the twentieth century saw a fervour of radical
political movements in Western Canada. Ross McCormack explores the
constituencies, ideologies, and development of early reformist,
syndicalist, and socialist organizations from the 1880s up to the
Winnipeg General Strike in 1919. He distinguishes three types of
radicals--reformers, rebels and revolutionaries--who competed with
each other to fashion a general western constituency. The reformers
wanted to change society for the betterment of the workers, but
both their aims and methods were moderate, essentially transferring
the philosophy and tactics of the British labour movement to the
Canadian west. The rebels, militant industrial unionists,
periodically battled the Trades and Labour Congress in order to
establish unions strong enough to defeat the employers and, if
necessary, the state. The revolutionary Marxists were committed to
the destruction of industrial capitalism and the establishment of a
society controlled by the workers. The book describes the origins
of radicalism, traces the histories of the various organizations
that expressed its ideals, and discusses the impact of the first
world war on the labour movement. Using previously unexplored
sources, McCormack has produced the first comprehensive examination
of the early history of the radical movement in western Canada,
adding an important dimension to our knowledge and understanding of
Canadian labour history.
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