Working People: Life in a Downtown City Neighbourhood

by James Lorimer and James Lorimer

This book is a classic, intimate study of the people of Toronto's East of Parliament neighbourhood in the 1970's, a time when the working-class district came under undprecendented pressure from developers and middle-class gentrification. An unconvential account, Working People combines a wide variety of materials--interviews, economic analysis, songs, jokes, newspaper advertisements, community newspapers, photographs--to present an unparalleled portrait of a changing urban community in depth. Working People remains a fascinating record of a community in transition.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888620128
• ISBN13: 9780888620125
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Lorimer
• Length: 274 Pages