About this book
Why and How : a hand-book for the use of the W.C.T. unions in Canada by Addie Chisholm offers a passionate, practical guide from the heart of the Canadian temperance movement, written by a leader who served as President of the Ontario W.C.T.U. With clear conviction, Chisholm traces women's suffering under the liquor trade, the moral and social awakening that followed, and the organizational tools needed to turn grief into reform.
Part handbook, part manifesto, this Politics audiobook collects chapters on organizing local unions, why women should engage in public work, how to form and run a W.C.T.U. branch, a question-and-answer section, young women’s work, and model constitution and bylaws. It situates temperance activism within the broader struggle for social justice and women’s public leadership, combining ethical argument with step-by-step advice for grassroots action.
Ideal for students of political history, women's studies, social reform activists, and anyone curious about early Canadian civic organizing, Chisholm’s voice is both a primary-source window into Victorian-era reform and a practical manual for community builders. Listen to learn how moral persuasion, structure, and sustained organization shaped a movement.
