In the late 1970s, Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, became a hotbed of the new labor history. One of the first graduate students to emerge from this Halifax School was Craig Heron, who over the course of his nearly forty-year career at York University has become not only one of Canada’s leading labor and working-class historians, but also — as recognized by his term as president of the Canadian Historical Association from 2007 to 2009 — one of its leading historians in any field. Working Lives collects articles and essays from across his career.
In the book’s 640 pages, there are only four previously unpublished essays. One of them is an autobiographical introduction, in which Heron places each of the volume’s chapters into the context of his career. His research interests followed a familiar pattern in labor and working-class history. Heron’s began in the 1970s and 1980s with a...
