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This article reviews the book, "Unions and the Public Interest. Collective Bargaining in the Government Sector," by Sandra Christensen.
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The authors first relate the circumstances surrounding the adoption of an important pièce of our labour législation and examine the effect of the 1872 législation on the légal status of union activities.
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Farm labourers formed an important segment of the agricultural work force in Alberta betweeen 1880 and 1930. The work they performed was arduous, poorly paid and insecure, but was accepted by most as a necessary first step toward farm ownership. During the early years of settlement, the perception of farm labour as an apprenticeship was confirmed by the ready availability of agricultural land. But settlement expansion in the years before the First World War greatly reduced opportunities for farm ownership, leading to a redefinition of hired workers. By the 1920s, they were no longer farm apprentices but an agricultural proletariat. At the same time, rapid agricultural development and a number of social and economic changes led to a relative decline in their working and living conditions. There was almost no attempt by farm workers to resist these changes. Despite their importance within the agricultural work force, a number of formal and informal constraints made it difficult for them to challenge their deteriorating position. Hampered by isolation, economic pressures and government controls, farm workers were above all restrained by their own inability to recognize that the perception of their position as farm apprentices was no longer valid.
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This article reviews the book, "Why I Left Canada: Reflections on Science and Politics," by Leopold Infeld. Translated by Helen Infeld. Edited with introduction and notes by Lewis Pycnson.
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This article reviews the book, "The Iron Barons: A Social Analysis of an American Urban Elite, 1874-1965," by John N. Ingham.
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The problem of power in nineteenth century mill towns rests on a conflict between employer absolutism and the democratic rights of the employees. The treatment of power in recent community studies has been inadequate. This is particularly true in works influenced by symbolic anthropology, where the problem is seen to have been resolved in a consensual value system. However, the persistence of conflict in strikes and disorder compels an examination of the mechanisms of domination, as well as legitimacy. To this end, the ideas of Marx and Weber offer more valuable guidance than those of Durkheim.
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The tavern is one of the most overlooked features of the nineteenth-century urban landscape. This article examines the career of one Montreal tavern keeper to illustrate the intricate connections between drink and working-class culture along the Montreal waterfront. Recreation, social services, and labour activities all relied upon the tavern as a working-class stronghold. By the late 1880s, however, the role of the tavern diminished with changes in the harbour's casual labour market and with the successes of the temperance and urban reform movements. This decline influenced the nature of working-class response to industrial capitalism.
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This article reviews the book, "History of the Labor Movement in the United States, Volume V, The AFL in the Progressive Era, 1910-1915," by Philip S. Foner.
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This article reviews the book, "Collective Bargaining : Contemporary American Experience, by Gérard C. Somers, Edited.
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This article reviews the book, "The International Trade Union Movement," by Prof. J.P. Windmuller.
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This article reviews the book, "Trade Union Handbook," by Arthur Marsh.
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This article reviews the book, "Le mouvement ouvrier au Québec," by Fernand Harvey.
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This article reviews four books: "Popular Disturbances in Scotland 1780-1815," by Kenneth J. Logue; "The Scottish Hand Loom Weavers: A Social History," by Norman Murray; "The State of the Scottish Working Class in 1843," by Ian Levitt and Christopher Smout; "Social Class in Scotland: Past and Present," edited by A. Allan MacLaren; and "The Rousing of the Scottish Working Class," by James D. Young.
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This article reviews the book, "After the Developers," by James Lorimer & Carolyn MacGregor, edited.
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This article reviews the book, "Peasant and Proletarian: The Working Class of Moscow in the Late Nineteenth Century," by Robert Eugene Johnson.
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This paper examines various stratégies for industrial peace. Stratégies which attack both the root causes of conflict and the effects of labour-management strife are discussed. The author then draws some broad inferences for public policy and for the parties in collective bargaining.
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This article reviews the book, "Précis de l’arbitrage des griefs," by Fernand Morin et Rodrigue Blouin.
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This paper examines the management of trade disputes in essential services in Nigeria and identifies two settlement approaches which are seen to have the opposite effects to those intended.
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