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OverviewCraig 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Craig HeronPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 15.00cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.860kg ISBN: 9781487522513ISBN 10: 1487522517 Pages: 640 Publication Date: 09 October 2018 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. 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 ClassReviewsCraig Heron's fine-grained exploration of the character, contexts, and complexities of working-class life is unsurpassed, and collectively these essays are a fitting testimony both to the travails and celebrations of working people and to the author's careful historical scholarship. - James Naylor, Department of History, Brandon University No one has done more to apply the methods of the new labour history to the twentieth-century working-class experience than Craig Heron, and few have demonstrated the same strengths of incisive analysis and evocative writing. - David Frank, Department of History, University of New Brunswick """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 * <em>University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018</em> *" Author InformationCraig 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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