Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Tables ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Abbreviations xiii
6. Preface to the 1991 edition xv
7. Introduction xix
8. PART ONE. Toronto's Age of Capital
9. 1. Toronto and a national policy 3
10. 2. Toronto's industrial revolution 18
11. PART TWO. Toronto Workers and the Industrial Age
12. 3. Shoemakers, shoe factories, and the Knights of St Crispin 37
13. 4. Coopers encounter machines: the struggle for shorter hours 53
14. 5. Toronto metal-trades workers and shop-floor control 64
15. 6. Printers and mechanization 83
16. 7. The Orange Order in Toronto: religious riot and the working class 98
17. 8. The Toronto working class enters politics: the nine-hours movement and the Toronto junta 124
18. 9. The national policy and the Toronto working class 154
19. PART THREE. Crisis in Toronto
20. 10. Organizing all workers: the Knights of Labor in Toronto 175
21. 11. Partyism in decline 216
22. 12. 1886-1887: a year of challenge 237
23. 13. Partyism ascendant 254
24. 14. Radicalism and the fight for the street railway 274
25. 15. Conclusion 291
26. APPENDICES 297
27. Notes 337
28. Index 407
29. Backmatter 421