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Toronto Workers Respond to Industrial Capitalism, 1867-1892

by (author) Gregory S. Kealey

Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Initial publish date
Sep 1991
Category
General
  • eBook

    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.

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