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Canadian Working-Class History, Third Edition

Selected Readings

edited by Laurel Sefton Macdowell & Ian Radforth

Publisher
Canadian Scholars' Press Inc.
Initial publish date
Mar 2006
Category
General, 20th Century, 19th Century
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781551302980
    Publish Date
    Mar 2006
    List Price
    $64.95

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Description

Canadian Working-Class History: Selected Readings, Third Edition, is an updated version of the bestselling reader that brings together recent and classic scholarship on the history, politics, and social groups of the working class in Canada. Some of the changes readers will find in the new edition include better representation of women scholars and nine provocative and ground-breaking new articles on racism and human rights; women's equality; gender history; Quebec sovereignty; and the environment.

About the authors

Laurel Sefton MacDowell teaches Canadian history in the Department of History, University of Toronto. She is a co-editor of Canadian Working Class History: Selected Readings, 2nd edition and Patterns of the Past: Re-interpreting Ontario's History, a past editor of the journal Ontario History, and the author of numerous articles.

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Ian Radforth is a Canadian social historian who taught for more than three decades in the department of history at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Bushworkers and Bosses: Logging in Northern Ontario, 1900–1980 and Royal Spectacle: The 1860 Visit of the Prince of Wales to Canada and the United States.

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Editorial Reviews

"There is a definite need for a book of this kind. The book brings a wide range of readings together in a single source. This collection is a thorough and balanced sampling of the best writing in Canadian labour history."— “Jeffery Taylor, Athabasca University

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