Abstract
DURINGTHE LAST DECADE students of Canadian labour history have benefited from a proliferation of working-class memoirs and oral biographies. In the main, this genre has been concerned with worker activists whose political commitments have featured at least as prominently as their working lives. ' Alfred Edwards' The Mill' is written from the perspective of a left-leaning but politically unaligned rank-andfile worker. Its focus is the workplace and the craft of silk knitting as practised in the fully-fashioned hosiery mills of southern Ontario. Although The Mill' cannot be considered representative or typical (since the very act of producing a workingclass memoir marks out the producer as an uncommon common man), it provides
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