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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Heron, Craig, author.

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Working class--Canada--History.

Working class.

Canada--Social conditions.

Canada.

Genre:

Essais.

Essays.

History.

essays.

Essay

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 616 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 within working-class life, including politics and culture, gender, wage-earning and union organization.

Contents:

Cover; Page i; Contents; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Part One: On the Job; Chapter One: On the Job in Canada; Chapter Two: Ontario's First Factory Workers; Chapter Three: Work and Struggle in the Canadian Steel Industry, 1900-1950; Part Two: Workers' Cultures; Chapter Four: Arguing about Idleness; Chapter Five: Labour and Liquor; Chapter Six: Into the Streets; Part Three: Getting Organized; Chapter Seven: Labourism and the Canadian Working Class; Chapter Eight: The Great War, the State, and Working-Class Canada; Chapter Nine: Contours of a Workers' Revolt

Part Four: A Gendered WorldChapter Ten: Working Girls; Chapter Eleven: Boys Will Be Boys; Chapter Twelve: Male Wage-Earners and the Canadian State; Part Five: Doing History; Chapter Thirteen: Workers in the Camera's Eye; Chapter Fourteen: The Labour Historian and Public History; Chapter Fifteen: The Relevance of Class

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Apr 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-1754-8

1-4875-1753-X

OCLC:

1076271061