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“The Sewers of the ‘Sweet Life’”
From: Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks
$1.70
This chapter examines the intersection of Italian-Canadian identity, union activism, and workplace safety in Toronto during 1961 and 1962. Fernandes explains how strikes, threats of violence against workers, and the deaths of construction labourers in subway tunnels and on building sites culminated in the 1962 Construction Safety Act.
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.
