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The “Lucky” Ones
From: Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks
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This chapter explores Toronto’s underground construction workers from the late 1940s through the 1970s. The chapter traces the deadly conditions faced by tunnellers building the Yonge and Bloor-Danforth subway lines. Fernandes examines the ethnic diversity of a workforce drawn from Irish, Italian, and Portuguese immigrants, while exposing exploitative pay practices in residential construction.
Contributors
Gilberto Fernandes
Gilberto Fernandes is a visiting scholar and instructor in the Department of History at York University. He is the author of several academic publications on the history of the Portuguese diaspora in North America, and Ontario's construction industry and building trade unions. He is an award-winning public historian with several credits, including documentaries, exhibitions, community archives, websites, podcasts, walking tours, and theatre. Among these are the award-winning project City Builders: A History of Immigrant Construction Workers in Postwar Toronto, as well as the Laborem Ex Machina: A History of Construction Machinery and Operating Engineers in Canada.
