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Canadian Working-Class History: Selected Readings

Resource type
Authors/contributors
Title
Canadian Working-Class History: Selected Readings
Abstract
[This book updates] recent and classic scholarship on the history, politics, and social groups of the working class in Canada. Some of the changes...in the new edition include better representation of women scholars and nine provocative and ground-breaking new articles on racism and human rights; women's equality; gender history; Quebec sovereignty; and the environment. --Publisher's description
Edition
3rd edition
Place
Toronto
Publisher
Canadian Scholars' Press
Date
2006
# of Pages
xii, 450 pages: illustrations
Language
English
ISBN
1551302985, 9781551302
Short Title
Canadian Working-Class History
Library Catalog
laurentian.concat.ca
Call Number
HD8104 .C38 2006
Notes

Contents: Part I: The Pre-Industrial and Early Industrial Eras (1830–1890). 1: Farm Households and Wage Labour in the Northeastern Maritimes in the Early Nineteenth Century /  Rusty Bittermann -- 2: Class Conflict on the Canals of Upper Canada in the 1840s / Ruth Bleasdale -- 3: “The Honest Workingman” and Workers’ Control: The Experience of Toronto Skilled Workers, 1860–92 / Gregory S. Kealey -- 4: The Knights of Labor and the Salvation Army: Religion and Working-Class Culture in Ontario, 1882–90 / Lynne Marks -- 5: Joe Beef of Montreal: Working-Class Culture and the Tavern, 1869–89 / Peter DeLottinville --  6: After the Fur Trade: The Aboriginal Labouring Class of British Columbia, 1849–90 /  John Lutz. Part II: The Industrial Age (1890–1939). 7: The Craftsmen’s Spectacle: Labour Day Parades in Canada, The Early Years / Craig Heron and Steve Penfold -- 8: Class, Job, and Gender in the Canadian Office / Graham S. Lowe -- 9: Exclusion or Solidarity? Vancouver Workers Confront the “Oriental Problem” / Gillian Creese -- 10: The Radical Alien and the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 / Donald Avery -- 11: Solving the Labour Problem at Imperial Oil: Welfare Capitalism in the Canadian Petroleum Industry, 1919–29, / H.M. Grant -- 12: Against All Odds: The Progressive Arts Club’s Production of Waiting for Lefty / Bonita Bray. Part III: Wartime and Post-War Prosperity (1939–74). 13: The Formation of the Canadian Industrial Relations System during World War Two / Laurel Sefton MacDowell -- 14: Women and Income Security in the Post-War Period: The Case of Unemployment Insurance, 1945–62 / Ann Porter -- 15: The Red Petticoat Brigade: Mine Mill Women’s Auxiliaries and the “Threat from Within,” 1940s–70s / Mercedes Steedman -- 16: “The Dresden Story”: Racism, Human Rights, and the Jewish Labour Committee of Canada / Ross Lambertson -- 17: Defending Honour, Demanding Respect: Manly Discourse and Gendered Practice in Two Construction Strikes, Toronto, 1960–61 / Franca Iacovetta. Part IV: From Stagflation to Globalization (1974–2000). 18: The Confédération des Syndicats Nationaux (CSN), the Idea of Independence, and the Sovereigntist Movement, 1960–80 / Ralph Peter Güntzel -- 19: Alberta Nurses and the “Illegal” Strike of 1988 / Rebecca Coulter -- 20: Greening the Workplace: Unions and the Environment / Laurel Sefton MacDowell -- 21: Life in a Fast Food Factory / Ester Reiter -- 22: Globalization, Nationalism, and Internationalism / Sam Gindon.

Citation
MacDowell, L. S., & Radforth, I. W. (Eds.). (2006). Canadian Working-Class History: Selected Readings (3rd edition). Canadian Scholars’ Press. https://archive.org/details/canadianworkingc0000unse_v6j4