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Burr, Christina
Office location: 2186 CHN
Office Ext: 253-3000 ext. 2321
Email address: burrc@uwindsor.ca

Author of Spread the Light: Work and Labour Reform in Late Nineteenth-Century Toronto



Position: Associate Professor, Graduate Faculty,

Personal Statement and Research
Christina Burr’s teaching and research focuses on working-class history, gender history, and cultural and social history in late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century Canada. Her recent book entitled Spreading the Light: Work and Labour Reform in Late-Nineteenth-Century Toronto focuses on how class, gender, and race intersected in the late nineteenth-century labour reform movement in Toronto. She is now working on a research project that examines the process of class formation in Enniskillen Township between 1850 and 1930, which seeks to break down the boundaries between rural/urban, public/private, masculine/feminine, and white, Anglo-European/non white Anglo-European in Canadian historical writing. She teaches undergraduate courses in North-American Women’s History, 1870-Present, Canadian Labour and Working-Class History, Canadian Social History, and North-American Historiography. Dr. Burr also offers a graduate course in Canadian Social History.

Teaching and Courses Taught:
Canadian Social History, Canadian Labour History, North American Popular Culture

Publications...
Spreading the Light: Work and Labour Reform in Nineteenth Century Toronto. Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1999. 254 pp.

"'The Other Side': Masculinity and Labour Reform in Late Nineteenth-Century Toronto," in Edgar Montigny and Lori Chambers, eds., Reader in Ontario History. University of Toronto Press, Spring 2000.



Created: 11/01/2000. Copyright 2008, University of Windsor
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