In this indispensable study of Canadian industrialization, Craig
Heron examines the huge steel plants that were built at the turn of
the twentieth century in Sydney and New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, and
Trenton, Hamilton, and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Presenting a
stimulating analysis of the Canadian working class in the early
twentieth century, "Working in Steel" emphasizes the importance of
changes in the work world for the larger patterns of working-class
life.
Heron's examination of the impact of new technology in Canada's
Second Industrial Revolution challenges the popular notion that
mass-production workers lost all skill, power, and pride in the
work process. He shifts the explanation of managerial control in
these plants from machines to the blunt authoritarianism and shrewd
paternalism of corporate management. His discussion of Canada's
first steelworkers illuminates the uneven, unpredictable, and
conflict-ridden process of technological change in industrial
capitalist society. As engaging today as when first published in
1988, "Working in Steel" remains an essential work in Canadian
history.
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