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Working Lives
Essays in Canadian Working-Class History
Craig Heron (Author)
9781487522513
Paperback / softback, published 9 October 2018
640 pages
22.9 x 15 x 3.3 cm, 0.86 kg
"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."
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.
Part One: On the Job Part Two: Workers’ Cultures Part Three: Getting Organized Part Four: A Gendered World Part Five: Doing History
1. On the Job in Canada
2. Ontario’s First Factory Workers
3. Work and Struggle in the Canadian Steel Industry, 1900-50
4. Arguing about Idleness
5. Labour and Liquor
6. Into the Streets
7. Labourism and the Working Class
8. The Great War, the State, and Working-Class Canada
9. Contours of a Workers’ Revolt
10. Working Girls
11. Boys Will Be Boys
12. Male Wage-Earners and the Canadian State
13. Workers in the Camera’s Eye
14. The Labour Historian and Public History
15. The Relevance of Class