Working Lives

Essays in Canadian Working-Class History

AvCraig Heron

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-10-09
Mått:150 x 229 x 33 mm
Vikt:860 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:640
Förlag:University of Toronto Press
ISBN:9781487522513

Utforska kategorier

Genusvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

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.

Recensioner i media

"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)

Innehållsförteckning

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