Working Lives : : Essays in Canadian Working-Class History / / Craig Heron.
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 contribu...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (640 p.) |
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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