Toronto Workers Respond to Industrial Capitalism, 1867-1892
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 1991
- Category
- General
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- ISBN
- 9781442682689
- Publish Date
- Sep 1991
- List Price
- $51.00
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Winner of the Canadian Historical Association's Macdonald Prize in 1980 for the year's outstanding contriution to our understanding of Canada's past.
Toronto's industrial revolution of the 1850s and 1860s transformed the city's economy and created a distinct working class. Gregory S. Kealey's award-winning study examines the workers' role in the transition to industrial capitalism and traces the emergence of a strong trade union movement n the latter half of the nineteenth century.
About the author
Gregory S. Kealey is a professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of New Brunswick. He is the editor of University of Toronto Press’s Canadian Social History Series and former president of the Canadian Historical Association and the Canadian Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences.