Social Classes and Social Credit in Alberta

by Edward Bell

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773511687
• ISBN13: 9780773511682
• Release Date: May 1994
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 216 Pages