Working Lives : Essays in Canadian Working-Class History

Heron, Craig

ISBN 10: 1487503253 / ISBN 13: 9781487503253

Published by University of Toronto Press, 2018

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Working Lives : Essays in Canadian Working-Class History
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1487503253
• ISBN 13: 9781487503253
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Craig 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.