Reformers Rebels and Revolutionaries by A. Ross McCormack PAPERBACK

Reformers, Rebels, and RevolutionariesThe Western Canadian Radical Movement 1899-1919\nAuthor(s): A. Ross McCormack\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Toronto Press, Canada\nImprint: University of Toronto Press\nISBN-13: 9780802076823, 978-0802076823\nSynopsis\nThe 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.\n\n The reformers wanted to change society for the betterment of the workers, but both their aims and methods were moderate, essentially transfering the philosophy and tactics of the British labour movement to the Canadian west. The rebels, militant industrial unionists, periodica.