Ph.D., 1981, Dalhousie University
M.A. 1976, University of Warwick
M.A., 1973, University of Toronto
Honours B.A., 1970, University of Toronto   
 

Professor, Department of History

“Boys Will Be Boys: Working-Class Masculinities in the Age of Mass Production,” International Labor and Working-Class History, 69 (Spring 2006), 6-34.

"The Workers' Festival: A History of Labour Day in Canada" (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2005) (with Steve Penfold)

“The Boys and Their Booze: Masculinities and Public Drinking in Working-Class Hamilton, 1890-1946,” Canadian Historical Review, 86, no. 3 (September 2005), 411-52.

"The Labour Historian and Public History," Labour/Le Travail, 45 (Spring 2000), 171-97.

Booze in Canada: A History (Toronto: Between the Lines 2003) (Shortlisted for the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize)

"Panel on Booze: A Distilled History: A Response," International Conference on Drugs and Alcohol in History, University of Western Ontario, London, 2004

"Christianity and the Canadian Working Class," Canadian Historical Association, Annual Meeting, Halifax, 2003

"The Boys and Their Booze: Masculinities and Public Drinking in Working-Class Hamilton, 1890-1946," North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University, Detroit, 2002.

"Workers' Heritage and Working-Class Audiences," Conference on "Writing Canadian Labour: Critical Perspectives," Trent University, Peterborough, 2002.

"Wet Voices in the History of Alcohol Consumption in Canada," Canadian Historical Association, Annual Meeting, Toronto, 2002.

"Labour's Manhood," Canadian Committee on Labour History Workshop, Hamilton, 2002.

"Workers' Heritage," Canadian Committee on Labour History Workshop, Edmonton, 2000.

"Working-Class Audiences," Conference: "Historians and Their Audiences: Mobilizing History for the Millenium," York University, Toronto, 2000.

History
History 4580 Family Work, and Community (2005-6)
History 5580 Social History Workshop (2004-5)
History 6030 Canadian Field Seminar (1999-2007)

2500. Canadian History: An Introduction (1996-98, 2003-4)
3531. Work and Canadian Society (retitled: The Working Class in Canadian Society, 1992) (l984 - present)

2004 Shortlist, Sir John A. Macdonald Prize (Canadian Historical Association)
2001 York Research Development Fellowship
1998 Short-List, Harold Adams Innis Prize
1995 Honourable Mention, History of Education Society Award
1994 SSHRC Research Grant
1990 SSHRC Research Grant