Working Lives

Craig Heron is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at York University and author of Working Steel: The Early Years in Canada, 1883-1935, also published by University of Toronto Press.

"Heron is a master researcher and synthesizes the social history of workers on the job, as working conditions became more centralized and mechanized, in communities, and in the home."- Laurel Sefton Macdowell, University of Toronto (University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018)

• Part One: On the Job1. On the Job in Canada2. Ontario’s First Factory Workers3. Work and Struggle in the Canadian Steel Industry, 1900-50Part Two: Workers’ Cultures 4. Arguing about Idleness5. Labour and Liquor6. Into the StreetsPart Three: Getting Organized 7. Labourism and the Working Class8. The Great War, the State, and Working-Class Canada          9. Contours of a Workers’ RevoltPart Four: A Gendered World 10. Working Girls11. Boys Will Be Boys12. Male Wage-Earners and the Canadian StatePart Five: Doing History 13. Workers in the Camera’s Eye14. The Labour Historian and Public History15. The Relevance of Class