Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. Acknowledgments xxi
5. List of Abbreviations xxiii
6. Part One: On the Job
7. 1. On the Job in Canada 3
8. 2. Ontario’s First Factory Workers 47
9. 3. Work and Struggle in the Canadian Steel Industry, 1900–1950 155
10. Part Two: Workers’ Cultures
11. 4. Arguing about Idleness 197
12. 5. Labour and Liquor 227
13. 6. Into the Streets 255
14. Part Three: Getting Organized
15. 7. Labourism and the Canadian Working Class 277
16. 8. The Great War, the State, and Working-Class Canada 317
17. 9. Contours of a Workers’ Revolt 357
18. Part Four: A Gendered World
19. 10. Working Girls 403
20. 11. Boys Will Be Boys 447
21. 12. Male Wage-Earners and the Canadian State 487
22. Part Five: Doing History
23. 13. Workers in the Camera’s Eye 523
24. 14. The Labour Historian and Public History 553
25. 15. The Relevance of Class 585