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The article briefly reviews "Exploring the Dimensions of Self-Sufficiency for New Brunswick," edited by Michael Boudreau, Peter G. Toner, and Tony Tremblay; "The State of Working America 2008/2009," by Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, and Heidi Shierholz,; "And They Were Wonderful Teachers: Florida’s Purge of Gay and Lesbian Teachers," by Karen L. Graves; "Agitate! Educate! Organize! American Labour Posters," by Lincoln Cushing and Timothy W. Drescher; "Hunger: A Modern History," by James Vernon; "Organising History: A Centenary of SIPTU [Services, Industrial, and Professional Trade Union of Ireland], 1909–2009; "by Frances Devine; "Revenge of the Domestic: Women, the Family, and Communism in the German Democratic Republic," by Donna Harsch; and "Logics of Empowerment: Development, Gender, and Government in Neoliberal India," by Aradhana Sharma.
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The article briefly reviews Howard Margolian's "Unauthorized Entry: The Truth About Nazi War Criminals in Canada, 1946-1956;" Raka Ray's "Fields of Protest: Women's Movements in India;" Naila Kabeer's "The Power to Choose: Bangladeshi Women and Labour Market Decisions in London and Dhaka;" Daniel James's "Doña María's Story : Life, History, Memory, and Political History;" "Women's Work in Britain and France" by Abigail Gregory and Jan Windebank; Elliott D. Sclar's "You Don 'I Always Get What You Pay For: The Economics of Privatization;" Mary H. Blewett's "Constant Turmoil: The Politics of Industrial Life in Nineteenth- Century New England;" Keith Wrightson's "Earthly Necessity: Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain;" Stephen Heathorn's "For Home, Country and Race: Constructing Gender, Class, and Englishness in the Elementary School, 1880-1914;" and Mêlante Nolan's "Bread Winning: New Zealand Women and the State."
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The paper reviews the book, "1939: L 'Alliance de la dernière chance," by Michael Carley, published in English as "The Alliance That Never War."
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The article briefly reviews "Have Women and Minorities Reached the Top? Diversity in the Power Elite," by Richard L. Zweigenhaft and G. William Domhoff; "An Investigation of Racial Disadvantage," by Derek Leslie et al.; Brian Titley's "The Frontier World of Edgar Dewdney;" Gilbert G. Gonzalez's "Mexican Consuls and Labor Organizing: Imperial Politics in the American Southwest;" Peter Bailey's "Popular Culture and Performance in the Victorian City;" Ching Kwan Lee's "Gender and the South China Miracle: Two Worlds of Factory Women;" Diana Crane's "Fashion and its Social Agendas: Class, Gender, and Identity in Clothing;" "Italian Lives: Cape Breton Memories," edited by Sam Migliore and A. Evo Dipierro; and Glenda Riley's "Women and Nature: Saving the 'Wild' West."
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The article reviews the book, "The World Guide 2001/2002: An Alternative Reference to the Countries of Our Planet."
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The article reviews the book, "Politics and Public Debt: The Dominion, the Banks, and Alberta's Social Credit," by Robert L. Ascah.
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The article reviews the book, "Major Douglas and Alberta Social Credit," by Bob Hesketh.
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The article reviews the book "Seeking the Highest Good: Social Service and Gender at the University of Toronto, 1888-1937," by Sara Z. Burke.
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The article reviews the book "A Marriage of Convenience: Business and Social Work in Toronto 1918-1957," by Gale Wills.
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The article briefly reviews Peter Gossage's "Families in Transition: Industry and Population in Nineteenth Century Saint-Hyacinthe;" Daniel T. Rodgers's "Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age;" Claudia Orenstein's "Festive Revolutionaries: The Politics of Popular Theater and the San Francisco Mime Troupe;" Micheal Goldfield's "The Color of Politics: Race and the Mainsprings of American Politics;" Philip Scranton's "Endless Novelty: Specialty Production and American Industrialization, 1865-1925;" "The Living Wage: Building a Fair Economy," by Robert Pollin and Stephanie Luce; Christine Cousins' "Society, Work and Welfare in Europe;" "What Workers Want," by Richard B. Freeman and Joel Rogers; and "On the Front Line: Organization of Work in the Information Economy" by Stephen J. Frenkel, Marek Korczynski, Karen A. Shire, and May Tarn.
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The article briefly reviews Bridget Anderson's "Doing the Dirty Work? The Global Realities of Domestic Labour;" Barbara Paleczny's "Clothed in Integrity: Weaving Just Cultural Relations and the Garment Industry;" Walter Johnson's "Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market;" Anna Heilman's "Never Far Away: The Auschwitz Chronicles of Anna Heilman;" Lesley Gill's "Teetering on the Rim: Global Restructuring, Daily Life, and the Armed Retreat of the Bolivian State;" "Public Sector Pay Determination in the European Union" edited by Robert Elliott, Claudio Lucifora, and Dominique Meurs; Philip Resnick's "The Politics of Resentment: British Columbia Regionalism and Canadian Unity;" "Against the Grain: Foresters and Politics in Nova Scotia" by L. Anders Sandberg and Peter Clancy; and "The Nonprofit Sector in Canada: Roles and Relationships," edited by Keith G. Banting.
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The debate about public funding and regulation of childcare has always had as its central focus: should mothers be encouraged or discouraged from seeking paid work outside the home? While some scholars argue that labour needs -- the "reserve army" thesis --best explain resulting public policies regarding childcare, this article argues that campaigns by women's organizations, sometimes aided by mixed-sex progressive social organizations, have been more important in public policy-making. Discourse on paid work for women with children has shifted from 1945 to 1990 from extremely negative to ambivalent. But the Right has limited the impact of women's mobilization for shared state responsibility for childcare by insisting on childcare arrangements as a working mother's responsibility.
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The article reviews the book, "Social Classes and Social Credit in Alberta," by Edward Bell.
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The article reviews the book, "Populism and Democratic Thought in the Canadian Prairies, 1910-1945," by David Laycock.
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Working People in Alberta traces the history of labour in Alberta from the period of First Nations occupation to the present. Drawing on over two hundred interviews with labour leaders, activists, and ordinary working people, as well as on archival records, the volume gives voice to the people who have toiled in Alberta over the centuries. In so doing, it seeks to counter the view of Alberta as a one-class, one-party, one-ideology province, in which distinctions between those who work and those who own are irrelevant. Workers from across the generations tell another tale, of an ongoing collective struggle to improve their economic and social circumstances in the face of a dominant, exploitative elite. Their stories are set within a sequential analysis of provincial politics and economics, supplemented by chapters on women and the labour movement and on minority workers of colour and their quest for social justice. Published on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Alberta Federation of Labour, Working People in Alberta contrasts the stories of workers who were union members and those who were not. In its depictions of union organizing drives, strikes, and working-class life in cities and towns, this lavishly illustrated volume creates a composite portrait of the men and women who have worked to build and sustain the province of Alberta. --Publisher's description. Contents: Introduction : Those who built Alberta -- Millennia of Native work / Alvin Finkel -- The fur trade and early European settlement / Alvin Finkel -- One step forward : Alberta workers, 1885-1914 / Jim Selby -- War, repression, and depression, 1914-1939 / Eric Strikwerda and Alvin Finkel -- Alberta labour and working-class life, 1940-1959 / James Muir -- The boomers become the workers : Alberta, 1960-1980 / Alvin Finkel -- Alberta labour in the 1980s / Winston Gereluk -- Revolution, retrenchment, and the new normal : the 1990s and beyond / Jason Foster -- Women, labour, and the labour movement / Joan Schiebelbein -- Racialization and work / Jennifer Kelly and Dan Cui -- Conclusion : A history to build upon / Alvin Finkel.
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Argues that Prime Minister Stephen Harper's effort to reshape understandings of history and national identity, such as the $28 million celebration of the War of 1812, is consistent with Conservative government's "illiberal" agenda for the country going forward. Discusses the research strategy of the Canadian Museum of History, which focuses on the world wars and Confederation rather than working people, as well as the government's labour record.
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In the period following World War II, Alberta's Social Credit government passed several pieces of restrictive legislation which limited labour's ability to organize workers and to call strikes. The enforcement of labour law also reflected an anti-union bias. This article argues that Social Crediters, who had a penchant for conspiracy theories, believed that union militancy was the product of the manoeuverings of an international communist conspiracy. Their labour legislation was intended to foil the conspiracy's plans in Alberta and incidentally to reassure potential investors, particularly in the oil patch, of a good climate for profit-taking. But the path for such legislation was made smoother by the conservatism of one wing of the labour movement in the province and the fear of being tarnished with the communist brush by the other wing. On the whole, the Alberta experience casts a grim reflection on the theory that the post-war period provided a measure of industrial democracy for Canadian workers.
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This article reviews the book, "Divisions of Labour: Skilled Workers and Technological Change in Nineteenth Century Britain," by Royden Harrison & Jonathan Zeitlin, edited.
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While Alberta is generally regarded as a conservative province, its early labour movement was class conscious and, for many years had a significant political impact provincially and in many municipalities. The Labour Party, which united trade unions and socialists of every stripe (until its expulsion of the Communists in 1929) reflected the determined independence of Alberta workers: its leaders and members were almost exclusively working-class. But the party was always an uneasy alliance between those who saw politics purely in electoral terms and those who emphasized extra-parliamentary activity. And the election in 1921 of a Farmers' government caused divisions about how closely Labour should work with a non-Labour government. After the purge of the Communists, those who favoured an exclusive concentration on electoral activity and close collaboration with the Farmers, held sway. Their narrow conception of politics turned the Labour Party increasingly into a private preserve of union bureaucrats and created a political vacuum into which Social Credit stepped in.
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Coal miners at Bienfait, Saskatchewan, had joined the militant Mine Workers' Union of Canada in 1931. In September of that year they went on strike to win recognition of their union as a prelude to pressing demands for a restoration of wages cut by the local coal operators. --Introduction
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