Social Science Poverty & Homelessness
Toronto’s Poor
A Rebellious History
- Publisher
- Between the Lines
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2016
- Category
- Poverty & Homelessness, Social History, General, Urban
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781771132817
- Publish Date
- Nov 2016
- List Price
- $34.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781771132824
- Publish Date
- Dec 2022
- List Price
- $33.99 USD
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Description
Toronto’s Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people’s resistance. It details how people without housing, people living in poverty, and unemployed people have struggled to survive and secure food and shelter in the wake of the many panics, downturns, recessions, and depressions that punctuate the years from the 1830s to the present.
Written by a historian of the working class and a poor people’s activist, this is a rebellious book that links past and present in an almost two-hundred year story of struggle and resistance. It is about men, women, and children relegated to lives of desperation by an uncaring system, and how they have refused to be defeated. In that refusal, and in winning better conditions for themselves, Toronto’s poor create the possibility of a new kind of society, one ordered not by acquisition and individual advance, but by appreciations of collective rights and responsibilities.
About the authors
BRYAN D. PALMER is Professor Emeritus and former Canada Research Chair, Canadian Studies, Trent University, Peterborough, Canada. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, former editor of Labour/Le Travail, and has published extensively on the history of labour and the revolutionary left. Among his many books are Canada’s 1960s and the co-authored, Toronto's Poor: A Rebellious History. He lives in Warkworth, Ontario.
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Gaétan Héroux is a long time anti-poverty activist with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty.
Frances Fox Piven is on the faculty of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She is the author, most recently, ofChallenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America.
Awards
- Winner, CAWLS Book Prize for the Best Book in Work and Labour Studies
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