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Working in Steel: The Early Years in Canada, 1883-1935
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Craig Heron

Working in Steel

The Early Years in Canada, 1883-1935

Craig Heron

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English
University of Toronto Press
01 November 2008
History of the Americas; Industrial relations & safety; Industrial relations; Strikes; Trade unions; Industrial arbitration & negotiation; Advice on careers & achieving success
Series: Canadian Social History Series
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.

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. He shifts the explanation of managerial control in these plants from machines to the blunt authoritarianism and shrewd paternalism of corporate management. His discussion of Canada's first steelworkers illuminates the uneven, unpredictable, and conflict-ridden process of technological change in industrial capitalist society. As engaging today as when first published in 1988, Working in Steel remains an essential work in Canadian history.
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Imprint:   University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication:   Canada
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 132mm,  Spine: 10mm
Weight:   300g
ISBN:   9781442609846
ISBN 10:   1442609842
Series:   Canadian Social History Series
Pages:   277
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Primary ,  Undergraduate
Replaced By:   9780771040863
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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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