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Reading List of Books on Toronto Labour History and Biography

Reading About Labour in Toronto

HISTORIES

Christina Burr, Spreading the Light: Work and Labour Reform in Late 19th Century Toronto (1999)

Rosemarie Donegan, Spadina Avenue(1985)

Solange de Santis, Life on the Line: One Woman’s Tale of Work, Sweat, and Survival(1999)

Ruth Frager, Sweatshop Strife: Class, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Jewish Labour Movement of Toronto, 1900-1939(1992)

Gregory S. Kealey, Toronto Workers Respond to Industrial Capitalism, 1867-1892 (1980)

Michael J. Piva, The Condition of the Working Class in Toronto, 1900-1921 (1979)

Ester Reiter, A Future Without Hate or Need: The Promise of the Jewish Left in Canada(2016)

Ester Reiter, Making Fast Food: From the Frying Pan into the Fryer(1996)

Joan Roberts, Cracked: How Telephone Operators Took on Canada’s Largest Corporation … and Won! (2015)

Katrina Srigley, Breadwinning Daughters: Young Working Women in a Depr4ssion Era City, 1929-1939(2010)

Eileen Sufrin, The Eaton Drive: the Campaign to Organize Canada’s Largest Department Store, 1948 to 1952(1983)

Sally Zerker, The Rise and Fall of the Toronto Typographical Union, 1832-1972: A Case Study of Foreign Domination(1982)

BIOGRAPHIES

Bromley L. Armstrong, Bromley, Tireless Champion for Just Causes: Memoirs of Bromley L. Armstrong (2000)

Frank Colantonio, From the Ground Up: An Italian Immigrant’s Story(1997)

Susan Crean, Grace Hartman: A Woman for Her Time(1995)

John Donaldson, Long Way from Glasgow

Stanley G. Grizzle, My Name’s Not George: The Story of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: The Memoirs of Stanley G. Grizzle(1997)

John Stefanini, More Than We Bargained For: An Untold Story of Exploitation, Redemption, and the Men Who Built a Worker’s Empire(2019)

Marino Toppan, The Voice of Labour: A Life I Toronto’s Construction Industry(2004)

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