The Bunkhouse Man: Life and Labour in the Northern Work Camps

by Edmund W. Bradwin

Journalists and poets, economists and political historians, have told the story of Canada's railways, but their accounts pay little attention to the workers who built them. The Bunkhouse Man is the only study devoted to these men and their lives in construction camps; a pioneering work in sociology, it is still the best description of what it was like to be a working man in Canada before the First World War. E.W. Bradwin drew on his own experience...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802061354
• ISBN13: 9780802061355
• Release Date: December 1972
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"