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Working Lives : Essays in Canadian Working-Class History /

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 timel...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Heron, Craig (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Part 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, 1900-1950
  • Part Two: Workers' Cultures
  • 4. Arguing about Idleness
  • 5. Labour and Liquor
  • 6. Into the Streets
  • Part Three: Getting Organized
  • 7. Labourism and the Canadian 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