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For most Canadians today, Labour Day is the last gasp of summer fun: the final long weekend before returning to the everyday routine of work or school. But over its century-long history, there was much more to the September holiday than just having a day off.
In The Workers' Festival, Craig Heron and Steve Penfold examine the complicated history of Labour Day from its origins as a spectacle of skilled workers in the 1880s through its declaration as a national statutory holiday in 1894 to its reinvention through the twentieth century. The holiday's inventors hoped to blend labour solidarity, community celebration, and increased leisure time by organizing parades, picnics, speeches, and other forms of respectable leisure. As the holiday has evolved, so too have the rituals, with trade unionists embracing new forms of parading, negotiating, and bargaining, and other social groups re-shaping it and making it their own. Heron and Penfold also examine how Labour Day's monopoly as the workers' holiday has been challenged since its founding, with alternative festivals arising such as May Day and International Women's Day.
The Workers' Festival ranges widely into many key themes of labour history – union politics and rivalries, radical movements, religion (Catholic and Protestant), race and gender, and consumerism/leisure – as well as cultural history – public celebration/urban procession, urban space and communication, and popular culture. From St. John's to Victoria, the authors follow the century-long development of the holiday in all its varied forms.
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- EditoreUniv of Toronto Pr
- Data di pubblicazione2005
- ISBN 10 0802038476
- ISBN 13 9780802038470
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero edizione2
- Numero di pagine340
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The Worker's Festival ; A History of Labour Day in Canada
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Descrizione libro Cloth. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. First. xviii, 340pp., index, notes, photos, figures. Bears two small library stamps, and small ink mark ("SC") to rear cover; but no other signs of having been accessioned by a library. Other than these flaws, would have classed as VG. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book. Codice articolo 005214
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