Working in Steel : The Early Years in Canada, 1883-1935

Name: Working in Steel : The Early Years in Canada, 1883-1935
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ISBN: 9780771040863

ISBN-10: 0771040865

ISBN-13: 9780771040863

Edition: N/A

Authors: Craig Heron

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Here is the story of how mass production came to Canada and what it meant for Canadian workers. Craig Heron's Working in Steel takes the reader inside the huge new steel plants that were built in Sydney, New Glasgow/Trenton, Hamilton, and Sault Ste. Marie at the turn of the century. Amidmassive fire-breathing machines, we meet the steelworkers, many of them migrants from southern and European villages or Newfoundland outports, who braved the smoke, noise, and heat in gruelling twelve-hour days, seven days a week. And we watch the inevitable conflicts that developed when theseworkers began to make demands on their bosses.Heron presents a stimulating new analysis of the Canadian working class…

Book details

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart/Tundra Books
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 223
Size: 5.00" wide x 7.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

CRAIG HERON teaches in the Social Science Division and History Department of York University. He is the author of Working in Steel: The Early Years in Canada, 1883-1935, co-author of All That Our Hands Have Done: A Pictorial History of the Hamilton Workers, and co-editor of On the Job: Confronting the Labour Process in Canada.