Views from the Steel Plant

Editor : Ron Caplan
Publisher: Breton Books

Jimmy Hines is just one of the many voices that tell stories of Cape Breton’s 100-year adventure in Steel. Told with passion and conviction, Views from the Steel Plant is a proud, vigorous collection of memories of steel plant life. Along with historic photographs, here are stories of racism, bigotry and brotherhood-women who did the dirtiest work, keeping the plant alive while the men were at war-the fight for union and the community protest to save the embattled plant. Steelworkers talk about the skill and courage, about hard work in a hot, threatening and very productive twentieth century industry.

tagged: Atlantic Heritage, Breton Books, Cape Breton, Heritage, Paperback, Ron Caplan

Details and Specs

ISBN associated with this title:	9781895415698
Item	BB0063
Publisher	Breton Books
Publisher	Breton Books
Published on	October 1 2005
Language	eng
Pages	224
Format	Paperback
Dimensions	9(in) x 6(in)
Shipping weight	360(g)
Status	ACTIVE TITLE

Ron Caplan

Ronald Caplan has served as interviewer and photographer for Cape Breton's Magazine for twenty-five years. He has received the Barbeau Award of the Folklore Studies Association of Canada, Nova Scotia's Cultural Life Award, the Canadian Historical Association's Award for exemplary contribution to the Oral History of Cape Breton and an honorary doctorate from Cape Breton University. His work is best known for keeping the Cape Breton story alive through oral testimony and images. Living at Wreck Cove on the Cabot Trail, Caplan is the author of several books and the publisher of Breton Books.

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