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The article reviews the book, "Witness Against War: Pacifism in Canada, 1900-1945," by Thomas P. Socknat.

Dans la foulée de la décision qu'il avait rendue dans Société canadienne des postes et Shoppers Drug Mart Limited, le Conseil a récemment été amené à examiner de nouveau l'application des dispositions relatives aux droits de successeur dans le secteur des postes. Il a conclu à deux reprises, mais pour des motifs différents, que la concession de l'exploitation d'un bureau de poste avec marge brute à l'intérieur d'une pharmacie ne constituait pas une vente d'entreprise au sens du Code canadien du travail (le Code) parce qu'aucun transfert au sens des dispositions relatives aux droits de successeur n 'avait été établi. Contrairement à la situation prévalant dans Shoppers Drug Mart Limited, dans ces deux affaires, la Société canadienne des postes (la Société) n'avait consenti aux concessionnaires aucune exclusivité à l'égard de la vente des produits et services postaux pour le territoire visé dans chacun des contrats.

Saisi de cinq requêtes complexes impliquant un groupe important de professionnels, le Conseil canadien des relations du travail (le Conseil) a pour la première fois effectué une étude exhaustive des dispositions du Code canadien du travail (le Code) qui traitent du statut des professionnels dans la détermination des unités de négociation. Après avoir abordé toutes les difficultés suscitées par l'application de ces dispositions, le Conseil adopte une interprétation restrictive de la notion de «professionnel au sens du Code».

This article reviews the book, "Capitalism vs Socialism? Canadian and Swedish Labour Market Policies Compared," by Joseph Smucker & Axel Van Den Berg.

This article reviews the book, "Designing Effective Organizations. The Sociotechnical Systems Perspective," by William A. Pasmore.

This article reviews the book, "The Individual, Work and Organization. Behavioural Studies in Business and Management Students," by Robin Fincham & Peter S. Rhodes.

This article reviews the book, "Thriving on Chaos. Handbook for a Managerial Revolution," by Tom Peters.

With few expections trade union histories, even those emanating from the broad left, trace the development of the union movement through a series of hard-won victories codified in modern collective bargaining law. This thesis joins with more recent critical approahcees to industrial legality in a fundamental quesstioning of the effect of progressive legal victories. American scholarship especially has begun to probe the limitations imposed by a framework of rigid legal rules that work as much to circumscribe the expression of workers' interests as they do to promote them. In an attempt to understand this two-sidedness of industrial legality, the first chapter of the thesis embarks on a theoretical examination of law, paying particular attention to the meaning of the base/superstructure configuration. The chapter builds on the original writings of Marx and Engels - which never fully developed a theory of 'law' - bringing their concepts into the context of twentieth-century capitalism and highlighting the role of class struggle. In this way, the law is revealed as growing out of, and sharing, the essential values that constitute cpaitalist accumulation - values that elevate property and the procewss of production and accumulation above the aspirations of the working class. The second chapter traces the development of industrial legality in Canada, situating it in terms of class formation, class struggle, and the role of the state. This is a synthetic account of the formative years of Canadian industrial legislation, setting the stage for the analysis of collective agreements that follows. Chapter 3 explores the developing content of collective agreements forged in the 1940s through a sample of 120 contracts signed between employers and the Steelworkers, Packinghouse Workers, and Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. Of particular interest is the effect of management rights clauses, union security and seniority clauses, and grievance procedures. Finally, the last chapter will consider the dilemmas facing unions that now find themselves caught in the web of legality, with alienated memberships and the possibilities for class-action severely circumscribed.

This paper uses two recent books in Canadian labour history, Craig Heron's "Working in Steel" and Ian Radforth's "Bushworkers and Bosses," to briefly review the place of masculinity in working-class history. The author suggests that while Heron and Radforth introduce masculinity into their studies, they do not fully develop all of its meanings and functions. Drawing upon the literature on the social construction of work, gender, and sexuality, the paper then goes on to suggest some ways in which we can begin to explore aspects of masculinity and sexuality within working-class history.

The article reviews the book, "The Regulation of Desire: Sexuality in Canada," by Gary Kinsman.

Ganong Bros., a family-owned confectionery factory, is a major employer in a small town in southwestern New Brunswick. Up to the end of the Second World War, the period of this study, the numbers employed in the confectionery industry fluctuated dramatically with the variable seasonal demand for confectionery. At Ganong Bros., less than half the total workforce was employed for more than half the year. Work in the factory was divided along gender lines men made the candy, and women added the finishing touches. About two-thirds of the factory employees were women, most of them young and single. These women could be considered as a reserve army of labour, since many of them worked for a few weeks only, in the busiest season. But when women were not available to fill positions in traditionally female departments, Ganong Bros. management did not consider hiring men instead, even when the women's wages compared favourably to men's. Management decisions about the organization of work in the factory were influenced not only by technical or financial considerations, but by unquestioned assumptions about what work was appropriate to each gender.

The article reviews the book, "Building the Educational State: Canada West, 1836-1871," by Bruce Curtis.

The article reviews the book, "Workers, Capital, and the State of British Columbia: Selected Papers," edited by Rennie Warburton and Donald Coburn.

The article reviews the book, "Women's Work, Markets and Economic Development in Nineteenth-Century Ontario," by Marjorie Griffin Cohen.

This thesis examines the experiences, attitudes and actions of the women who trained and worked as graduate nurses during the 1920-1939 years--of the third generation of hospital-trained Canadian nurses. The 1920s and 1930s were decades of crisis for Canadian nursing, and the occupation's majority, working in the private duty sector, was most severely affected by the problems of oversupply and underemployment. The economic crisis was national in scope, and endemic to the health care system, and was therefore exacerbated rather than created by the depression of the 1930s. In order to analyze the structure and content of the occupation during these years of crisis, a wide variety of national sources were consulted, supplemented by a detailed case study of nursing in the prairie metropolis of Winnipeg, Manitoba. This research on Canadian nursing during the 1920s and 1930s adds another chapter to the growing scholarly literature on Canadian women and work. It also contributes to the secondary literature on the social history of medicine and of labour in two particular ways. First, as the largest health care workforce, the actions of graduate nurses during the 1920s and 1930s, their agency, served as a critical, force within the development of the Canadian health care system, a force frequently overlooked within medical history. Secondly, the third generation of Canadian nurses borrowed from the organizational strategies of both professionals and trade unions, but neither concept fully captured the reality of nurses' occupational identity as women and as workers. This thesis argues that the third generation of Canadian nurses was recruited from sex-segregated female labour market. The many rituals and routines which constituted nursing technique were based on a theoretical understanding and practical application of the germ theory. As such, nursing practice during the interwar years must be defined as scientific. Nurses' scientific skills permitted practioners to integrate caring and curing, and thereby to create their own definition to what constituted skilled service. Out of this self-definition came a specific occupational identity which was reflected in the many associations designed to reflect nurses' interests. As the interwar decades progressed, conflict developed within nursing organizations as to appropriate solutions to the economic crisis. The compromise solution, hospital employment of graduate nurses, initiated the demise of both the apprenticeship system of hospital staffing, and private duty nursing. This solution successfully prevented the fracturing of nursing organizations in the 1920s and 1930s, but also facilitated the transformation of hospital staffing which would occur in the World War II years. This research suggests that the scholarly literature on professionalism, and on labour organizations, must more fully account for gender as a historical determinant. In suggesting a historical periodization for Canadian nursing history, and in focussing on the third generation of Canadian nurses who struggled through the economic crisis of the interwar decades, this thesis contributes to the growing body of scholarly literature dedicated to placing nursing history in history.

The author analyses the question of job security. He proposes alternative definition of this concept, examines recent trends in Canada, and deals with the objectives of job security.

This article reviews the book, "Technologies nouvelles et aspects psychologiques," by Alain Larocque, Yvan Bordeleau, Rene Boulard, Bruno Fabi, Viateur Larouche & Alain Rondeau.

The article reviews the book, "Small Differences: Irish Catholics and Irish Prolestants, 1815-1922: An International Perspective," by Donald Harman Akenson.

The article reviews the book, "Les militants socialistes du Québec, d'une époque à l'autre," by Henri Gagnon.

Un donneur d'ouvrage confie le même service à un autre entrepreneur spécialisé, ce dernier ne peut être lie par l'accréditation et la convention collective du prédécesseur-concurrent. Telle serait la portée pratique d'un récent jugement de la Cour suprême du Canada commente par l'auteur. L'approche retenue par la Cour pour justifier cette révision, celle de la question juridictionnelle, y est fortement critique parce qu'elle inciterait les tribunaux judiciaires à servir d'instances d'appel là où le législateur voulut écarter cette voie.