Toronto's poor : a rebellious history / Bryan D. Palmer, Gaétan Héroux ; foreword by Frances Fox Piven.
"<i>Toronto's Poor</i> reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people's resistance. It details how the homeless, the unemployed, and the destitute have struggled to survive and secure food and shelter in the wake of the many panics, downturns, recessions, and depressions that punctuate the years from the 1830s to the present. Written by a working-class historian and a poor people's activist, this is a rebellious book that links past and present in an almost two-hundred year story of struggle and resistance. It is about men, women, and children relegated to lives of desperation by an uncaring system, and how they have refused to be defeated. In that refusal, and in winning better conditions for themselves, Toronto's poor create the possibility of a new kind of society, one ordered not by acquisition and individual advance, but by appreciations of collective rights and responsibilities."-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781771132817 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: xvii, 523 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Publisher: Toronto, ON : Between the Lines, 2016.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | part I. The long history of Toronto's poor: Conceptualizing the dispossessed -- part II. "Cracking the stone": The origins of Toronto's dispossessed, 1830-1928 -- part III. "United we eat, divided we starve": The Toronto Unemployed Movement, 1929-1939 -- part IV. "A hopeless failure": the limitations and erosion of the modern welfare state, 1940-2015 -- part V. "Fight to win": the Ontario coalition against poverty and the return/revenge of the dispossessed, 1985-2015 -- part VI. Conclusion "Bread, I want, and bread I will have." |
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Subject: | Poor > Ontario > Toronto > History. Poverty > Ontario > Toronto > History. Toronto (Ont.) > Social conditions. |
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Thompson Campus Library | HV 4050 .T6 P34 2016 (Text) | 58500001004464 | Stacks | Volume hold | Available | - |