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Canadian working-class history : selected readings

"Canadian Working-Class History: Selected Readings, Third Edition, is an updated version of the bestselling reader that brings together recent and classic scholarship on the history, politics, and social groups of the working class in Canada. Some of the changes readers will find 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. Book jacket."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2006
Canadian Scholars' Press, Toronto, 2006
History
xii, 450, [2] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9781551302980, 1551302985
62895106
Preface to the Third EditionPart I: The Pre-Industrial and Early Industrial Eras (1830-1890)Chapter 1: Farm Households and Wage Labour in the Northeastern Maritimes in the Early Nineteenth Century, Rusty BittermannChapter 2: Class Conflict on the Canals of Upper Canada in the 1840s, Ruth BleasdaleChapter 3: ""The Honest Workingman"" and Workers' Control: The Experience of Toronto Skilled Workers, 1860-92, Gregory S. KealeyChapter 4: The Knights of Labor and the Salvation Army: Religion and Working-Class Culture in Ontario, 1882-90, Lynne MarksChapter 5: Joe Beef of Montreal: Working-Class Culture and the Tavern, 1869-89, Peter DeLottinvilleChapter 6: After the Fur Trade: The Aboriginal Labouring Class of British Columbia, 1849-90, John LutzPart II: The Industrial Age (1890-1939)Chapter 7: The Craftsmen's Spectacle: Labour Day Parades in Canada, The Early Years, Craig Heron and Steve PenfoldChapter 8: Class, Job, and Gender in the Canadian Office, Graham S. LoweChapter 9: Exclusion or Solidarity? Vancouver Workers Confront the ""Oriental Problem"" , Gillian CreeseChapter 10: The Radical Alien and the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, Donald AveryChapter 11: Solving the Labour Problem at Imperial Oil: Welfare Capitalism in the Canadian Petroleum Industry, 1919-29, H.M. GrantChapter 12: Against All Odds: The Progressive Arts Club's Production of Waiting for Lefty, Bonita BrayPart III: Wartime and Post-War Prosperity (1939-74)Chapter 13: The Formation of the Canadian Industrial Relations System during World War Two, Laurel Sefton MacDowellChapter 14: Women and Income Security in the Post-War Period: The Case of Unemployment Insurance, 1945-62, Ann PorterChapter 15: The Red Petticoat Brigade: Mine Mill Women's Auxiliaries and the ""Threat from Within,"" 1940s-70s, Mercedes SteedmanChapter 16: ""The Dresden Story"": Racism, Human Rights, and the Jewish Labour Committee of Canada, Ross LambertsonChapter 17: Defending Honour, Demanding Respect: Manly Discourse and Gendered Practice in Two Construction Strikes, Toronto, 1960-61, Franca IacovettaPart IV: From Stagflation to Globalization (1974-2000)Chapter 18: The Confédération des Syndicats Nationaux (CSN), the Idea of Independence, and the Sovereigntist Movement, 1960-80, Ralph Peter GüntzelChapter 19: Alberta Nurses and the ""Illegal"" Strike of 1988, Rebecca CoulterChapter 20: Greening the Workplace: Unions and the Environment, Laurel Sefton MacDowellChapter 21: Life in a Fast Food Factory, Ester ReiterChapter 22: Globalization, Nationalism, and Internationalism, Sam Gindon