This is a study of the Fishermen's Protective Union, a remarkable populist movement that flourished in Newfoundland between 1908 and the mid-1920s. Under the dynamic leadership of William Coaker, the union set out to reform the fishing industry and to obtain social and political reforms, which would ensure that the rural workers--fishermen, sealers and loggers--received "their own": a fair and just return for their labour, and a voice in the country's affairs. This book seeks to explain why the crusade, which seemed to promise so much, ended in disillusion.
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"This is the story of a newly independent colony in which people are struggling for power within a parliamentary democracy easily manipulated by mercantile capitalists. It is a story of the Fishermen's Protective Union, a radical social movement of impoverished fishermen, led by an energetic organizer...MacDonald's work is a good example of political history as ehnography of politicians and politics." - Bonnie McCay, Applied Anthropology
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Memorial University Press
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Höhe: 231 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Dicke: 20 mm
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978-0-919666-57-3 (9780919666573)
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Ian McDonald was born in Montreal in 1942 and died in St. John's in 1977. After early education in Toronto, he graduated from Memorial University with joint honours in History and Philosophy in 1965. He received a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford University in 1971. He joined the History Department at Memorial University in 1972.
James Hiller has been a member of the Memorial University History Department for many years (and is presently its Head); he is a specialist in Newfoundland history.
