"Severing the Connections in a Complex Community": The Grange, The Patrons of Industry and the Construction/ Contestation of a Late 19Th-Century Agrarian Identity in Ontario. "Severing the Connections in a Complex Community": The Grange, The Patrons of Industry and the Construction/ Contestation of a Late 19Th-Century Agrarian Identity in Ontario.

"Severing the Connections in a Complex Community": The Grange, The Patrons of Industry and the Construction/ Contestation of a Late 19Th-Century Agrarian Identity in Ontario‪.‬

Labour/Le Travail 2004, Fall, 54

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THE LEADERSHIP of the Patrons of Husbandry and the Patrons of Industry in late 19th-century Ontario offered ideological visions of class harmony, the promise of united political action through antipartyism, and the assurance of material prosperity to Ontario's farmers, the history of agrarian protest can be viewed as one of broken promises and unfulfilled expectations. The tensions inherent in the differing material circumstances and various representational philosophies of agriculture made it impossible for the Dominion Grange and the Patrons of Industry to sustain harmony and unity for any length of time within a deeply divided agricultural population. As a result, entrenched ideological differences regarding the merits or shortcomings of the co-operative principle in the Dominion Grange and Patrons of Industry would highlight the tensions and conflicts intrinsic to the varied approaches of the farmers themselves. And yet the initial success of both agrarian protest movements in Ontario displayed at least a willingness on the part of farmers to bond together for united action. Their cataclysmic collapse into irrelevancy by the turn of the century, however, also revealed the ideological, cultural, social, and economic fissures situated within Ontario's rural populace. LE LEADERSHIP des Patrons of Husbandry et des patrons of Industry a la fin du dix-neuvieme siecle en Ontario a offert des visons ideologiques de l'harmonie des classes. Ils promettaient une action politique unie au dela de l'appartenance aux partis traditionnels et la prosperite materielle pour les agriculteurs de l'Ontario. Toute fois l'histoire du mouvement de protestation agraire peut etre vue comme une serie de promesses rompues ou d'attentes non remplies. Les tensions inherentes generees par les conditions materielles variees et les diverses philosophies en matiere d'agriculture ont rendu impossible pour le Dominion Grange et les Patrons of Industry de soutenir l'harmonie et l'unite au sein d'une population agricole profondement divisee. En consequence, des differences ideologiques bien etablies au sein de ces mouvements a l'egard des merites et des insuffisances du principe de cooperation allaient mettre en lumiere les tensions et les conflits intrinseques aux differentes approches adoptees par les agriculteurs eux-memes. Et pourtant, le succes initial des deux mouvements de protestation agraires en Ontario avait demontre au moins la volonte des agriculteurs de s'unir pour une action concertee. Au but du compte, leur dramatique faillite, au tournant du siecle, revele les fissures ideologiques, culturelles, sociales et economiques au sein de la population rurale de l'Ontario.

GENRE
Business & Personal Finance
RELEASED
2004
22 September
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
73
Pages
PUBLISHER
Canadian Committee on Labour History
SIZE
384.7
KB

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