Toronto Workers Respond to Industrial Capitalism, 1867-1892 / / Gregory S. Kealey.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Kealey, Gregory S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1991
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (415 p.)

Winner of the Canadian Historical Association's Macdonald Prize in 1980 for the year's outstanding contriution to our understanding of Canada's past.Toronto's industrial revolution of the 1850s and 1860s transformed the city's economy and created a distinct working class. Gregory S. Kealey's award-winning study examines the workers' role in the transition to industrial capitalism and traces the emergence of a strong trade union movement n the latter half of the nineteenth century.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Preface to the 1991 edition -- Introduction -- PART ONE. Toronto's Age of Capital -- 1. Toronto and a national policy -- 2. Toronto's industrial revolution -- PART TWO. Toronto Workers and the Industrial Age -- 3. Shoemakers, shoe factories, and the Knights of St Crispin -- 4. Coopers encounter machines: the struggle for shorter hours -- 5. Toronto metal-trades workers and shop-floor control -- 6. Printers and mechanization -- 7. The Orange Order in Toronto: religious riot and the working class -- 8. The Toronto working class enters politics: the nine-hours movement and the Toronto junta -- 9. The national policy and the Toronto working class -- PART THREE. Crisis in Toronto -- 10. Organizing all workers: the Knights of Labor in Toronto -- 11. Partyism in decline -- 12. 1886-1887: a year of challenge -- 13. Partyism ascendant -- 14. Radicalism and the fight for the street railway -- 15. Conclusion -- APPENDICES -- Notes -- Index -- Backmatter