Unifarm: A Story of Conflict and Change (Legacies Shared, 6)
Author(s): Carrol Jaques (Author)
Publisher: University of Calgary Press
Publication Date: October 30, 2001
Language: English
Print length: 357 pages
ISBN-10: 1552380513
ISBN-13: 9781552380512
Book Description
Alberta farmers and ranchers know that, in the frustrating business of agriculture, years of bounty inexplicably turn into years of despair.
Looking back over the past half century, Jaques recounts the tumultuous history of the Alberta farm organization Unifarm. This book documents Alberta farmers’ quest to increase control over the forces that have had such an impact on their lives and describes how it led them to form organizations that have afforded them measures of stability and security throughout the past century.
Unifarm, one of the most enduring of these organizations, is chronicled from its development in the 1970s to its reorganization as the Wild Rose Agricultural Producers in 1995. In discussing the relationship of Unifarm to the business of agriculture, Jaques addresses issues of co-operative philosophy, marketing boards, surface rights, commodity groups, and the importance of education and training for members of the rural community.
Unifarm is an important book that sheds new light on the many facets of Alberta’s rich agricultural history.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Unifarm will add significantly to the body of information about the ‘men of soil’ and their determination to improve the rural economy in Alberta. Few people … know the story, the struggles, the disappointments, the triumphs of many self-sacrificing rural individuals. It is simply a story that needs to be told.
—Bruno Friesen, Retired, Alberta Wheat Pool
This book is historically accurate and brilliantly written. It is complete in every detail.
—Murray H. Hawkins, Professor Emeritus, Rural Economy, University of Alberta
This book will serve as a legacy of the important people, events, conditions, and this particularly important organization during a significant period in the history of Alberta. It will be valued by students and scholars of social movements, agricultural/farm and rural organizations, organizational development and change, and leadership development.
—Wayne Lamble, Professor, University of Alberta
Review
This book will serve as a legacy of the important people, events, conditions, and this particularly important organization during a significant period in the history of Alberta. It will be valued by students and scholars of social movements, agricultural/farm and rural organizations, organizational development and change, and leadership development.
—Wayne Lamble, Professor, University of Alberta
About the Author
Carrol Jaques earned her M.A. in the history of education from the University of Calgary after several years of teaching with the Calgary Board of Education.
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