Chapter 1
The Craftworkers' Challenge
From: The Canadian Labour Movement
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This chapter traces the rise of working-class organizing in mid nineteenth-century Canada in the context of Canada’s First Industrial Revolution, moving from informal protests to narrowly focused unions of craftworkers to the first more broadly based campaigns for workers’ rights, notably the Nine-Hours Movement. It then considers the more inclusive organizations that blossomed in the 1880s, the Provincial Workmen’s Association in the Maritimes and the Knights of Labor in the rest of the country.
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Contributors
Craig Heron
CRAIG HERON is a professor emeritus of History at York University in Toronto and the author of several works in Canadian social history, including Working in Steel: The Early Years in Canada, 1883–1935; The Workers’ Revolt in Canada, The Workers’ Festival: A History of Labour Day in Canada, Lunch-Bucket Lives: Remaking the Workers’ City and Working Lives: Essays in Canadian Working-Class History.
Charles Smith
CHARLES SMITH is an associate professor and department head of Political Studies at St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan. He is co-author of Unions in Court: Organized Labour and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and co-editor of the journal Labour/Le Travail.
