Title Toronto workers respond to industrial capitalism, 1867-1892 / Gregory S. Kealey.

Descript 1 online resource (xxiv, 419 pages) Series Reprints in Canadian history Reprints in Canadian history. Bibliog. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents CONTENTS -- TABLES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- PREFACE TO THE 1991 EDITION -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE: Toronto's Age of Capital -- 1 Toronto and a national policy -- 2 Toronto's industrial revolution -- PART TWO: Toronto Workers and the Industrial Age -- 3 Shoemakers, shoe factories, and the Knights of St Crispin -- 4 Coopers encounter machines: the struggle for shorter hours -- 5 Toronto metal-trades workers and shop-floor control -- 6 Printers and mechanization -- 7 The Orange Order in Toronto: religious riot and the working class 8 The Toronto working class enters politics: the nine-hours movement and the Toronto junta9 The national policy and the Toronto working class -- PART THREE: Crisis in Toronto -- 10 Organizing all workers: the Knights of Labor in Toronto -- 11 Partyism in decline -- 12 1886a⁺є́єƠ?1887: a year of challenge -- 13 Partyism ascendant -- 14 Radicalism and the fight for the street railway -- 15 Conclusion -- APPENDICES -- I: Toronto's industrial revolution, tables -- II: Toronto strikes, 1867a⁺є́єƠ?1892 -- III: Selected biographies of Toronto labour leaders, 1867a⁺є́єƠ?1892 IV: Toronto franchise and election results, 1867a⁺є́єƠ?1892NOTES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide Subject Labor unions -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History -- 19th century. Industrial relations -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History -- 19th century. Working class -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History -- 19th century. HISTORY -- Canada -- General. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Labor. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Labor & Industrial Relations. Industrial relations. (OCoLC)fst00971609 Labor unions. (OCoLC)fst00990260 Working class. (OCoLC)fst01180418 Ontario -- Toronto. (OCoLC)fst01205798 1800-1899 ISBN 9781442682689 (electronic bk.) 144268268X (electronic bk.) 0802068839 9780802068835