{"product_id":"working-lives-9781487522513","title":"Working Lives","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 * \u003cem\u003eUniversity of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart 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","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409150845271,"sku":"9781487522513","price":35.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487522513.jpg?v=1730505652","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/working-lives-9781487522513","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}