SOC 2080 Chapter 3: Chapter 3 Summary

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2080
• Professor: Anthony Winson

Document Summary

Agrarians saw limitations of co-operatives in a way that economic power was concentrated in a few private hands. Built a political party informed by a critique of the existing order[welded together a farmer-labour alliance] Wheat pool were forced to shut down central selling offices abroad and sell through middlemen [efforts to control wheat trade on behalf of western farmers collapsed] W/out a more encompassing socialization of society the people first principle of co-operativism would be a utopian dream. Many farmers had to give up any necessities in order to gain any money from what they could grow and sell. Cff [cooperation commonwealth federation] became governing party in saskatchewan. Woodsworth was trusted by famers and labourers and would defend their causes. League for social reconstruction [lsr] brought together intellectual energies on the left to work for social change. Convention set down principles that were to guide new political party and determine how many members would strive to reshape canadian political reality.