Toronto's Poor
A Rebellious History
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Publication
2016 - Between the Lines
Language
English
Word Count
130,750 words, Guess
Page Count
523 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL34631618M
- ISBN-139781771132817
- OCLC Control Number953887588
- WikidataQ108885884
Classifications
- LCCHV4049.5.O6P35 2016
Description
"Toronto's Poor 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."--
Other Editions
- Toronto's Poor: A Rebellious History
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