The League for Social Reconstruction: Intellectual Origins of the Democratic Left in Canada, 1930-1942

by Michael Horn

Book Overview

In 1931-2 the first organization of Canadian left-wing intellectuals was founded. Led by historian Frank Underhill of the University of Toronto and law professor and poet Frank Scott of McGill University, the League for Social Reconstruction was critical of industrial capitalism and called for basic social and economic change through educational activity and parliamentary and constitutional channels. In the first history of this unique organization...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1487591810
• ISBN13: 9781487591816
• Release Date: December 1980
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"