Drawing together fifteen of Heron’s new and previously published essays on working-class life in Canada, Working Lives covers a wide range of issues within working-class life, including politics and culture, gender, wage-earning and union organization.

Part One: On the Job
1. On the Job in Canada
2. Ontario’s First Factory Workers
3. Work and Struggle in the Canadian Steel Industry, 1900-50

Part Two: Workers’ Cultures
4. Arguing about Idleness
5. Labour and Liquor
6. Into the Streets

Part Three: Getting Organized
7. Labourism and the Working Class
8. The Great War, the State, and Working-Class Canada         
9. Contours of a Workers’ Revolt

Part Four: A Gendered World
10. Working Girls
11. Boys Will Be Boys
12. Male Wage-Earners and the Canadian State

Part Five: Doing History
13. Workers in the Camera’s Eye
14. The Labour Historian and Public History
15. The Relevance of Class

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.