Born in 1946, Sager has taught at the University of Victoria and Simon Fraser University. His books include:
Seafaring Labour: The Merchant Marine of Atlantic Canada, 1820-1914 (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1989)
Maritime Capital (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1990)
Ships and Memories: Merchant Seafarers in Canada's Age of Steam (UBC Press, 1993)
The Professor and the Plumber: Conversations About Equality and Inequality (FriesenPress, 2021). With illustrations by Hanna Melin.
Co-author of:
Unwilling Idlers: The Urban Unemployed and Their Families in Late Victorian Canada. (University of Toronto Press, 1998). With Peter Baskerville.
Household Counts: Canadian Households and Families in 1901 (University of Toronto Press, 2006). With Peter Baskerville.
The Professor and the Plumber: Conversations About Equality and Inequality (FriesenPress, 2021) $38.99 978-1039105560
Inequality in Canada: The History and Politics of an Idea (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021) $43.95 978-0-22800-580-3
[BCBW 2023] "Maritime"
Review of the author's work by BC Studies:
Unwilling Idlers: The Urban Unemployed and Their Families in Late Victorian Canada
Seafaring Labour: The Merchant Marine of Atlantic Canada, 1820-1914 (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1989)
Maritime Capital (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1990)
Ships and Memories: Merchant Seafarers in Canada's Age of Steam (UBC Press, 1993)
The Professor and the Plumber: Conversations About Equality and Inequality (FriesenPress, 2021). With illustrations by Hanna Melin.
Co-author of:
Unwilling Idlers: The Urban Unemployed and Their Families in Late Victorian Canada. (University of Toronto Press, 1998). With Peter Baskerville.
Household Counts: Canadian Households and Families in 1901 (University of Toronto Press, 2006). With Peter Baskerville.
The Professor and the Plumber: Conversations About Equality and Inequality (FriesenPress, 2021) $38.99 978-1039105560
Inequality in Canada: The History and Politics of an Idea (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2021) $43.95 978-0-22800-580-3
[BCBW 2023] "Maritime"
Review of the author's work by BC Studies:
Unwilling Idlers: The Urban Unemployed and Their Families in Late Victorian Canada