Working Lives : : Essays in Canadian Working-Class History / / Craig Heron.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Heron, Craig,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (640 p.)

Craig Heron is one of Canada’s leading labour historians. Drawing together fifteen of Heron’s new and previously published essays on working-class life in Canada, Working Lives covers a wide range of issues, including politics, culture, gender, wage-earning, and union organization. A timely contribution to the evolving field of labour studies in Canada, this cohesive collection of essays analyzes the daily experiences of people working across Canada over more than two hundred years. Honest in its depictions of the historical complexities of daily life, Working Lives raises issues in the writing of Canadian working-class history, especially "working-class realism" and how it is eventually inscribed into Canada’s public history. Thoughtfully reflecting on the ways in which workers interact with the past, Heron discusses the important role historians and museums play in remembering the adversity and milestones experienced by Canada’s working class.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Part One: On the Job -- 1. On the Job in Canada -- 2. Ontario’s First Factory Workers -- 3. Work and Struggle in the Canadian Steel Industry, 1900–1950 -- Part Two: Workers’ Cultures -- 4. Arguing about Idleness -- 5. Labour and Liquor -- 6. Into the Streets -- Part Three: Getting Organized -- 7. Labourism and the Canadian Working Class -- 8. The Great War, the State, and Working-Class Canada -- 9. Contours of a Workers’ Revolt -- Part Four: A Gendered World -- 10. Working Girls -- 11. Boys Will Be Boys -- 12. Male Wage-Earners and the Canadian State -- Part Five: Doing History -- 13. Workers in the Camera’s Eye -- 14. The Labour Historian and Public History -- 15. The Relevance of Class