The Workers' Festival ranges widely into many key themes of labour history - union politics and rivalries, radical movements, religion, race and gender, and consumerism/leisure - as well as cultural history - public celebration/urban procession, urban space and communication, and popular culture.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Making of Labour's Day
Chapter One: HOLY DAYS, HOLIDAYS, AND LABOUR DAYS
Chapter Two: THE CRAFTSMEN'S SPECTACLE
Chapter Three: SHARING LABOUR DAY
Chapter Four: THE UNIVERSAL PLAYDAY
Chapter Five: MARCHING TO DIFFERENT TUNES
Chapter Six: CLENCHED FISTS, CLOWNS, AND CHILLING OUT
Conclusion: The Legacy of Labour's Day
Abbreviations
Notes
Index

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.