version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> Acknowledgements Part 1: Introduction: The Long History of Toronto''s Poor: Conceptualizing the Dispossessed : Capitalism, Crisis, and Class: Why Have the Poor Always Been With Us? : Dispossession: The Nursery of Class Struggle : Capitalist Crises: Class Conflict From Above and Below : Toronto: A Locale Within the Global : Class Struggle in Our Times: Bringing the Dispossessed into the Picture : Class Politics and Dispossession: The Left and the Wageless Part 2 : "Cracking the Stone": The Origins of Toronto''s Dispossessed, 1830-1928 : Land and Labour in Old Ontario : Toronto''s House of Industry : In the Era of Confederation: Capitalist State Formation and the Poor : The Underside of the Great Upheaval, 1873-1896 : Protesting "Labour Tests" : The Black Flag Remembered; The Tramp Reviled : Capitalist Consolidation and the Left-Led Unemployed Movement in Pre-Second World War Toronto : The Left and the Toronto Jobless Before the Great Depression, 1915-1925 Part 3: "United We Eat; Divided We Starve": The Toronto Unemployed Movement, 1929-1939 : Reds and the Unemployed in Canada''s Great Depression: From Third Period to Popular Front : The Single Unemployed and Toronto''s Communist Battle for the Streets: Heroes 1914-Bums 1933 : The Single Unemployed: Bound for Anything But Glory : Laver vs. The Lodge: The Voucher War of 1932-1933 and the Consolidation of a Regulatory Order : On the Trail of Harvey Jackson, William M. McKnight, Clifford Mashery, and George Haig: The Single Unemployed Present at Their Own Remaking : Marginalizing the Marginal: Single Unemployed Women : Toronto Trekkers : Depression''s Denouement: The Winding Down of the Struggles of Single Unemployed Men, 1937-1939 : Crisis of Unemployment = Housing Crisis : Evictions: "They Shall Not Pass" : The Jobless Take Job Action: Early Relief Strikes, 1932-1933 : A "Red" Among Relief Recipients: Long Branch''s Ernest Lawrie : Reds, Riots, and Raising the Relief Rates: March-May 1935 : Upping the Ante: The Hepburn Offensive and the Militancy of the Unemployed, 1936 : Lakeview Militancy and a Hepburn Ambush, 1938 : Closing Out the Decade: Relief Strikes and the Call to Abolish Relief Work Part 4: "A Hopeless Failure": The Limitations and Erosion of the Modern Welfare State, 1940-2015 : The Uneven Origins of an Incomplete Welfare State : In the Shadow of the Great Depression, War, and the Emerging Welfare State: Episodic Struggle in the 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s : A Sixties Turn: The Just Society, the New Left, and the "Discovery" of the Poor, 1965-1975 : Hard Times: Capitalist Crises, Ideological Initiative, and the State Assault on the Dispossessed, 1973-2015 Part 5 : "Fight to Win!": The Ontario Coalition Against Poverty and the Return/Revenge of the Dispossessed, 1985-2015 : Marauding Through the 1980s and into the 1990s: The Many-Sided Attack on the Poor : Mobilizing Against the Marauders: The Revival of Poor People''s Agitations in the 1980s : Marching to Mobilization: The Beginnings of OCAP : Mulroneyville, NDP Welfare Cheats, and Operation Desert Gypsy : Revolution from Above, Against Those Below: The Poor Fight Back : Homelessness and the Freezing Deaths Inquest, 1995-1996 : Squats and NIMBYs: OCAP Escalates the Struggle : More Deaths, More Protests, More Complacency (And Worse) : Squeegees, Soliciting, and the Safe Streets Act: OCAP Continues to Counter : Ottawa Bound and Bringing the War Against Poverty Back Home to Queen''s Park : "The Long Retreat is Over": Common Fronts--Evicting Flaherty, Snake Walking Through Toronto''s Financial District, and Squatting for Affordable Housing : Squatting With the Pope and the Tenants of Tent City : Miller Time: Streets to Homes and the Death of Paul Croutch--Two Faces of Social Cleansing : A Women''s Squat : Raise the Rates! The Special Diet Supplement : Turning on the TAP: Toronto Against Poverty : Another Demolition Job: The Community Start Up and Maintenance Benefit : Hostels Under Attack: OCAP Fights Back Part 6: Conclusion : "Bread I Want, And Bread I Will Have".
Toronto's Poor : A Rebellious History