Principles of the Alberta Social Credit Party
Title | Principles of the Alberta Social Credit Party PDF eBook |
Author | Alberta Social Credit Party |
Publisher | |
Pages | 4 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Alberta |
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Social Classes and Social Credit in Alberta
Title | Social Classes and Social Credit in Alberta PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Bell |
Publisher | McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Pages | 215 |
Release | 1994-05-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0773564594 |
For years scholars have maintained that Social Credit was a protest on the part of small-scale farmers, who fought against their disadvantaged position in advanced capitalism by rejecting central Canada's control of the prairie region. The protest is usually described as conservative and its supporters portrayed as small agrarian capitalists who combined their opposition to regional exploitation with a firm commitment to capitalism. Based on a review of census materials on occupations, election results, and the party's statements and appeals, Bell reveals that this traditional interpretation is misguided on several counts. He provides a greatly revised picture of the movement's popular class base and its goals and motives, and shows that it was far more radical than commonly believed. The theory of social movements Bell draws from this analysis is applicable not only to Social Credit but to social movements in general. Social Classes and Social Credit in Alberta will be of particular interest to sociologists, political scientists, and historians concerned with Canadian social movements and elections and the political history of the Great Depression.
The Social Credit Movement in Alberta
Title | The Social Credit Movement in Alberta PDF eBook |
Author | John A. Irving |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 1959-12-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1487590458 |
"On the night of August 22, 1935, as Canadians listened to their radios, they heard, with amazement and incredulity, that the first Social Credit government in the world had been elected that day in the province of Alberta. . . . Before the tabulation of votes was completed, telephone calls from New York and London, headlines in newspapers, spot news in broadcasts, had confirmed the slogan of Social Crediters, 'The Eyes of the World are on Alberta.' The morning after the election a number of people lined up at the city hall in Calgary to collect the first installment of the Social Credit dividend of $25 monthly, which, they confidently believed, would be immediately forthcoming from their new government." This quotation from Professor Irving's book indicates how the apparent suddenness of the Social Credit rise to power and the magnitude of the victory aroused world-wide comment. Why had the doctrines of Social Credit, promoted unsuccessfully in the British Commonwealth and the United States for nearly twenty years, achieved political acceptance in Alberta? Why had the people of Alberta elected to public office persons so little experienced in the economic and political world as William Aberhart and his Social Credit colleagues? Professor Iving answers these questions and analyses systematically and comprehensively the rise of the movement as a phenomenon of mass psychology. His study, based mainly on interviews, supplemented with references to private papers, newspapers, and government sources provides a truly fascinating record.
Democracy in Alberta
Title | Democracy in Alberta PDF eBook |
Author | Crawford Brough Macpherson |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 293 |
Release | 2013-01-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1442615753 |
In addition to offering an original analysis of the party system and Alberta's political structures and institutions, Democracy in Alberta presents a fascinating micro-history of the social and economic characteristics of Alberta.
The Social Credit Phenomenon in Alberta
Title | The Social Credit Phenomenon in Alberta PDF eBook |
Author | Alvin Finkel |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 1989-01-01 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0802058213 |
In this account of the Social Credit transformation, Alvin Finkel challenges earlier works which focus purely on Social Credit monetary fixations and religiosity.
ALBERTA : THE PROVINCE THAT SOCIAL CREDIT BUILT : THE PRINCIPLES AS PRESENTED TO THE 37TH ANNUAL CONVENTION.
Title | ALBERTA : THE PROVINCE THAT SOCIAL CREDIT BUILT : THE PRINCIPLES AS PRESENTED TO THE 37TH ANNUAL CONVENTION. PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 50 |
Release | 1971 |
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Social Credit and the Federal Power in Canada
Title | Social Credit and the Federal Power in Canada PDF eBook |
Author | J. R. Mallory |
Publisher | |
Pages | 226 |
Release | 1954 |
Genre | History |
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