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History Post-confederation (1867-)

Views from the Steel Plant

edited by Ron Caplan

Publisher
Breton Books
Initial publish date
Oct 2005
Category
Post-Confederation (1867-)

  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781895415698
    Publish Date
    Oct 2005
    List Price
    $18.95

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Description

Jimmy Hines is just one of the many voices that tell stories of Cape Breton's 100-year adventure in Steel. Told with passion and conviction, Views from the Steel Plant is a proud, vigorous collection of memories of steel plant life. Along with historic photographs, here are stories of racism, bigotry and brotherhood-women who did the dirtiest work, keeping the plant alive while the men were at war-the fight for union and the community protest to save the embattled plant. Steelworkers talk about the skill and courage, about hard work in a hot, threatening and very productive twentieth century industry.

About the author

Ronald Caplan has served as interviewer and photographer for Cape Breton's Magazine for twenty-five years. He has received the Barbeau Award of the Folklore Studies Association of Canada, Nova Scotia's Cultural Life Award, the Canadian Historical Association's Award for exemplary contribution to the Oral History of Cape Breton and an honorary doctorate from Cape Breton University. His work is best known for keeping the Cape Breton story alive through oral testimony and images. Living at Wreck Cove on the Cabot Trail, Caplan is the author of several books and the publisher of Breton Books.

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