The Labour of Care. Canada’s Health Care Workers, 1945-2020 Peter L. Twohig Imprint: University of Toronto Press Publication date: July 2026
The Labour of Care. Canada’s Health Care Workers, 1945-2020
Peter L. Twohig
Imprint: University of Toronto Press Publication date: July 2026 paperback: 9781487564278
The Labour of Care is the first national, comparative history of health care work. In this book, historian Peter L. Twohig analyses the responses of governments, employers, professional groups, training programs , and unions to the challenge of staffing Canada’s health care system and the reorganization of care.












