Agrarian Socialism: The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in Saskatchewan: A Study in Political Sociology

Resource type
Author/contributor
Title
Agrarian Socialism: The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in Saskatchewan: A Study in Political Sociology
Abstract
The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation government in Saskatchewan, which was elected in 1944, remains the only government with avowed socialist goals to have come to power in Canada or the United States. In 1949, Seymour Martin Lipset wrote Agrarian Socialism, which has since become a classic, a study of the social background that enabled the movement to succeed in the region that it did. The CCF government, however, remained in power for twenty years. So this new Anchor edition contains not only a new introduction by the author, evaluating his earlier research in terms of later developments, but five new chapters by other sociologists who, taking off from the findings in Agrarian Socialism, studied later developments in Saskatchewan.... -- Publisher's description
Series
Anchor books
Series Number
A606
Edition
Up-dated edition
Place
Garden City, N.Y.
Publisher
Anchor Books
Date
1968
# of Pages
xxvi, 487 pages
Language
English
Library Catalog
Open WorldCat
Extra
OCLC: 500549
Notes

Contents: Part 1: Agrarian socialism. Foreword. Author's preface. The background of agrarian radicalism -- The social and economic setting -- The emergence of agrarian class consciousness -- The farmers' movement goes socialist -- The economic consequences of the Depression  -- The movement grows to power -- Ideology and program -- CCF support -- CCF leaders -- Social structure and political activity -- Politics and social change -- Bureaucracy and social change -- Epilogue. Part 2: Twenty years later. Agrarian Pragmatism and Radical Politics/John W. Bennett and Cynthia Krueger -- The Decline and Fall of Agrarian Socialism / John Richards -- The Doctors' Strike: Change and Resistance to Change in Saskatchewan / Janet Walker Gouldner -- Prairie Protest: The Medicare Conflict in Saskatchewan / Cynthia Krueger  -- Occupational Class and Voting Behavior: Electoral Support of a Left-Wing Protest Movement in a Period of Prosperity / Sanford Silverstein.


Citation
Lipset, S. M. (1968). Agrarian Socialism: The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in Saskatchewan: A Study in Political Sociology (Up-dated edition). Anchor Books. https://archive.org/details/agrariansocialis0000lips/mode/2up