The final chapters of the book trace the tortured path of working class politics from the early activities of the Orange Order to the emergence of a vibrant minority socialist tradition. [...] The birth of trade unionism, the significant struggle for shorter hours in the 1870s, the dramatic surge of an oppositional culture based on the Knights of Labor in the 1880s, and ultimately the establishment of an institutional framework for the trade union movement lay in this period. [...] Searching the province for favourable examples, Sullivan described the Marmora Iron Works, a few woollen mills, and some foundries, but the very paucity of examples helped demonstrate his thesis.9 The solution lay in the recruitment of 'more of the artizans, and more of the manufacturing capital of England' and then, when the country finally had something to protect, high tariffs. [...] Perhaps the most important plank in its platform demanded: 'That it is essential to the prosperity of the country that the tariff should be so proportioned and levied as to afford just and adequate protection to the manufacturing and industrial classes of the country, and to secure to the agricultural population a home market with fair and remunerating prices for all descriptions of farm produce.' [...] The APCI re-emerged in the early 18705 as the Manufacturers Association of Ontario, which in turn transformed itself in the i88os into the Canadian Manufacturers' Association, still the chief lobbyist for industrial interests in Canada.46 In the 18705 the manufacturers also carried their fight for higher tariffs to the Dominion Board of Trade where Toronto delegates led an annual battle against fr
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS 8
- TABLES 10
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 12
- ABBREVIATIONS 14
- PREFACE TO THE 1991 EDITION 16
- INTRODUCTION 20
- PART ONE: Toronto's Age of Capital 26
- 1 Toronto and a national policy 28
- 2 Toronto's industrial revolution 43
- PART TWO: Toronto Workers and the Industrial Age 60
- 3 Shoemakers, shoe factories, and the Knights of St Crispin 62
- 4 Coopers encounter machines: the struggle for shorter hours 78
- 5 Toronto metal-trades workers and shop-floor control 89
- 6 Printers and mechanization 108
- 7 The Orange Order in Toronto: religious riot and the working class 123
- 8 The Toronto working class enters politics: the nine-hours movement and the Toronto junta 149
- 9 The national policy and the Toronto working class 179
- PART THREE: Crisis in Toronto 198
- 10 Organizing all workers: the Knights of Labor in Toronto 200
- 11 Partyism in decline 241
- 12 1886–1887: a year of challenge 262
- 13 Partyism ascendant 279
- 14 Radicalism and the fight for the street railway 299
- 15 Conclusion 316
- APPENDICES 322
- I: Toronto's industrial revolution, tables 324
- II: Toronto strikes, 1867–1892 344
- III: Selected biographies of Toronto labour leaders, 1867–1892 348
- IV: Toronto franchise and election results, 1867–1892 355
- NOTES 362
- INDEX 432
- A 432
- B 432
- C 433
- D 434
- E 435
- F 435
- G 435
- H 436
- I 437
- J 437
- K 437
- L 438
- M 438
- N 439
- O 439
- P 440
- Q 441
- R 441
- S 441
- T 442
- U 443
- V 443
- W 443
