SOC 2080 Lecture : Lecture Jan.24

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

Document Summary

Shift of agrarian protest to the west: prairie populism. Populism: a core phenomenon of canadian political life both historically and today. Mixes core political ideologies of socialism, liberalism, conservatism. Opposition to elites (political and/or economic), advocates more power to the people , the producers of society [people who worked with their hands; i. e. farmers, industrial workers] etc. Crisis in grain handling 1901-02 [had only 1 or 2 firms to deal with, and those firms had the upper hand, could decide what they wanted to pay etc. ] [tried to organize farmers] to address collusion of the grain handlers that was such a problem. Partridge proposed cooperative selling enterprises + agrarian newspaper [farmers newspaper] {grain. Partridge visits winnipeg grain exchange to better understand farmers problems [three milling companies and five export firms] Combines of banks, grain companies and railroads [not dealing with free competition] Resistance from provincial gov. s and private grain interests.