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10%OFFCraig Heron - Working in Steel: The Early Years in Canada, 1883-1935 - 9781442609846 - V9781442609846
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Working in Steel: The Early Years in Canada, 1883-1935

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Description for Working in Steel: The Early Years in Canada, 1883-1935 paperback. Heron's examination of the impact of new technology in Canada's Second Industrial Revolution challenges the popular notion that mass-production workers lost all skill, power, and pride in the work process. Series: Canadian Social History Series. Num Pages: 223 pages, 16 illustrations, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 295.

In this indispensable study of Canadian industrialization, Craig Heron examines the huge steel plants that were built at the turn of the twentieth century in Sydney and New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, and Trenton, Hamilton, and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Presenting a stimulating analysis of the Canadian working class in the early twentieth century, Working in Steel emphasizes the importance of changes in the work world for the larger patterns of working-class life.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
223
Condition
New
Series
Canadian Social History Series
Number of Pages
223
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442609846
SKU
V9781442609846
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Ref
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About Craig Heron
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.

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