One Job Town: Work, Belonging, and Betrayal in Northern Ontario

"One Job Town is simply one of the finest books written about Northern Ontario. It is a model study that the academic community and, more importantly, those living in Northern Ontario will be excited about."

Michel S. Beaulieu, Lakehead University, University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018

“One Job Town is a book I had always hoped to write. Steven High deftly explores the challenges that face peripheral regions and provides a clear, at times refreshingly appropriately blunt, assessment of economic, social, cultural, and political realities of not only Sturgeon Falls but the vast majority of communities in Northern Ontario.” Michel Beaulieu, Department of History, Lakehead University

"Steven High is one of the most creative scholars of deindustrialization, oral, and public history. One Job Town is a creative and moving account of a paper mill’s life and death and showcases High’s talents in a focused case study of a single mill for the first time. Here, High has ably documented the history of a community that has been largely ignored in Canadian history and is often forgotten by power brokers in Toronto and Ottawa."

Jeffrey T. Manuel, Department of History, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville