HIS 2364 Lecture Notes - Duff Pattullo, Maurice Duplessis, Industrial Unionism
14 Apr 2014
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The rise of populism: regional & labour responses to the great depression. Third parties 1920s, farmers in the west, and ontario, some support from unions, failed. Great depression, rise of left wing party (left wing movement, ccf was a movement) Intro: the co-operative commonwealth federation, organized labour on the march, ccf"s origins: labour / famer alliance, the development of the ccf, the social credit movement in alberta (1930-35) a. Ideological origins of social credit: major douglas" doctrine, social credit doctrine invades alberta, aberhart"s social credit government in action. The dirty thirties spawned a range of left and right wing populist political responses. In saskatchewan, hard hit farmers joined forces with urban workers to create canada"s first pan-canadian social democratic movement & party. Alberta farmers and small business people joined forces to create the social credit party. In british columbia duff pattullo set up a people"s party (left, right, centre, focus on populism)
