Описание: Stefan Epp-Koop's We're Going to Run This City: Winnipeg's Political Left After the General Strike explores the dynamic political movement that came out of the largest labour protest in Canadian history and the ramifications for Winnipeg throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Few have studied the political Left at the municipal level - even though it is at this grassroots level that many people participate in political activity.Winnipeg was a deeply divided city. On one side, the conservative political descendants of the General Strike's Citizen's Committee of 1000 advocated for minimal government and low taxes. On the other side were the Independent Labour Party and the Communist Party of Canada, two parties rooted in the city's working class, though often in conflict with each other. The political strength of the Left would ebb and flow throughout the 1920s and 1930s but peaked in the mid-1930s when the ILP's John Queen became mayor and the two parties on the Left combined to hold a majority of council seats. Astonishingly, Winnipeg was governed by a mayor who had served jail time for his role in the General Strike.
Автор: Korneski Kurt Название: Race, Nation, and Reform Ideology in Winnipeg, 1880s-1920s ISBN: 1611478499 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781611478495 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 28278.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Imperial Vanguard analyses the life and thought of four key reformers in Winnipeg. This book places these individuals in the context of a broader and longer history of colonialism to provide fresh insight into the history of the reform movement in Canada in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Автор: Jim Blanchard Название: A Diminished Roar: Winnipeg in the 1920s ISBN: 0887558399 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780887558399 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4007.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The third instalment in Blanchard's popular history of early Winnipeg, A Diminished Roar presents a city in the midst of enormous change. Once the fastest growing city in Canada, by 1920 Winnipeg was losing its dominant position in western Canada. As the decade began, Winnipeggers were reeling from the chaos of the Great War and the Influenza Pandemic. But it was the divisions exposed by the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike which left the deepest marks. As Winnipeg wrestled with its changing fortunes, its citizens looked for new ways to imagine the city's future and identity. Beginning with the opening of the magnificent new provincial Legislature Building in 1920, A Diminished Roar guides readers through this decade of political and social turmoil. At City Hall, two very different politicians dominated the scene. Winnipeg's first labour mayor, S.J. Farmer pushed for more public services. His rival, Ralph Webb, would act as the city's chief “booster” as mayor, encouraging U.S. tourists with the promise of “snowballs and highballs.” Meanwhile, promoters tried to re-kindle the city's spirits with plans for new public projects, such a grand boulevard through the middle of the city, a new amusement park, and the start of professional horse racing. In the midst of the Jazz Age, Winnipeg's teenagers grappled with “problems of the heart” and social groups like the Gyro Club organized masked balls for the city's elite.
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