Description
Book SynopsisDrawing 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.
Trade Review"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 *
Table of ContentsPart 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, 1900-50 Part Two: Workers’ Cultures 4. Arguing about Idleness 5. Labour and Liquor 6. Into the Streets Part Three: Getting Organized 7. Labourism and the 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
