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This article examines the social construction of migrant labour forces through an analysis of the exterior and interior conditioning in an agricultural contract labour programme between Mexico and Canada. I argue that forms of exterior conditioning, especially employers' point-of-production control, establishes the context within which migrant workers' experience unfolds, for which reason it contributes to their 'interior conditioning'. But I argue as well that the result is shaped by workers' employment of a 'dual frame of reference' through which they gauge Canadian wages and working conditions the only way they can, which is in relationship to Mexican ones. Given that neoliberal policies have reduced the options available in Mexico, and diminished the attractiveness of those that remain, contract labour in Canada presents one of the few opportunities many poor, rural Mexicans have to acquire the income necessary for a minimally dignified life. Consequently most workers in this programme do everything possible to please their employers and continue in the programme.

Grand centre d’exportation de bois, le port de Québec est aussi un lieu d’expérimentation hors du commun en matière de mutualisme et de syndicalisme. Les débardeurs, des Irlandais et des Canadiens français, ouvrent la voie en s’organisant au moyen d’une société de secours mutuel incorporée, en 1862, par un acte du Parlement de la Province du Canada. En 1865, ils revendiquent un salaire standard. Deux ans plus tard, ils ajoutent dix clauses syndicales aux règles de leur association. Combinant mutualisme et syndicalisme, ils construisent rapidement l’organisation syndicale locale la plus puissante au pays. Cette voie de la « société de secours mutuel se transformant en syndicat » suscite des émules chez les bateliers, les arrimeurs, etc. Elle soulève aussi la crainte des élites commerciales, judiciaires et politiques. S’ensuit alors un combat sur plusieurs fronts visant à ramener la société des débardeurs à des fonctions purement mutualistes, et par le fait même à fermer la porte à une méthode d’organisation jugée socialement dangereuse pour l’ordre établi. Bien que les ouvriers ne désarment pas, l’État québécois réussit à réduire substantiellement la « zone de tolérance » du mutualisme sur son territoire.

The article examines the historiography of the Kirkland Lake strike from 1941 to 1942 in Ontario. This strike opposed management and local 240 of the union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. This article pays particular attention to one of the mines affected by the strike, the Lake Shore Gold Mines. The author points to this strike as important in Canadian history, the history of the labor movement, and the history of the Second World War. The work of historian Laurel Sefton MacDowell is examined in light of evidence that was released in 2005. This study examines job applications in addition to documents and newspaper reports that MacDowell had studied.

The article reviews the book, "Guantánamo North: Terrorism and the Administration of Justice in Canada," by Robert Diab.

How and why have firefighters been able to maintain and even strengthen their labour position during a neoliberal period characterized by attacks on public sector wages and working conditions? This paper contributes to discussions about labour inequities by investigating the relations that have supported this masculinized labour sectors’ position. I contend that firefighters have experienced advantages due to their sectors’ ties to capital interests and the organization of the labour process. Further, the honourable white masculinity associated with firefighting has been mobilized to strengthen firefighters’ political influence. [Excerpt from Introduction}

The article reviews the book, "Equality and the British Left: A Study in Progressive Political Thought 1900-64," by Ben Jackson.

The article reviews the book, "Healing the World's Children: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child Health in the Twentieth Century," edited by Cynthia Comacchio, Janet Golden and George Weisz.

Countering the more placid depictions of call-centre work on offer from academic literature, this paper illuminates the labour antagonisms currently being produced within this growing form of employment. It brings into sharper focus one of the ways in which call centre workers are organising to protect and their interests, by describing their participation in the emerging model of 'convergent' trade unionism of the Communications, Energy, and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP) and their 2004 strike against the Canadian telecommunications company Aliant. The five-month strike was provoked by a set of processes that characterised the transformation of the Canadian telecommunications sector in the 1990s, including the privatisation of public telephone companies, corporate convergence, and the restructuring of the labour process at the telecommunications companies that emerged. Drawing on the descriptions offered by a group of call-centre workers who are members of Local 506 of the CEP, the paper focuses on the transformation of the Aliant customer contact labour process from its 'help-desk' functions towards conditions prevailing within non-unionised outsourced call centres across New Brunswick, and recounts the 2004 strike. It concludes by assessing the significance of these events for unionised call-centre workers in the Canadian telecommunications sector and reflecting on how convergent unionism might be extended to include non-unionised workers at outsourced call centres across the region.

The article reviews and comments on the books, "Labours Old and New: The Parliamentary Right of the British Labour Party 1970-79 and the Roots of New Labour," by Stephen Meredith, and "Trade Unions in a Neoliberal World: British Trade Unions Under New Labour," edited Gary Daniels and John McIlroy.

Social Marketing: Influencing Behaviors for Good, by Philip Kotler and Nancy R. Lee, is reviewed.

The article reviews the books "Mining Town Crisis: Globalization, Labour and Resistance in Sudbury," edited by David Leadbeater, "Fighting for Justice and Dignity: The Homer Seguin Story: An Autobiography," by Homer Seguin, and "As Strong as Steel," by Gilbert H. Gilchrist.

Le présent article vise à présenter, d’une part, les éléments contextuels d’une réflexion en éthique professionnelle, puis en éthique de l’ingénierie et, d’autre part, les résultats d’une étude qualitative réalisée auprès d’ingénieurs conseils oeuvrant dans divers domaines de l’ingénierie. Dans l’optique où peu de recherches ont été effectuées sur ce sujet jusqu’à présent, alors que l’éthique constitue un enjeu de plus en plus important de la sphère organisationnelle, cette étude se veut le point de départ d’une réflexion à fois théorique et empirique quant aux problèmes liés à l’éthique professionnelle. Le but de cette étude est d’explorer les relations mises en évidence entre le type de dilemme éthique vécu et le sexe, l’âge et le nombre d’années d’expérience des participants.

This paper traces the steps in the denouement of the Supreme Court of Canada's 1987 Labour Trilogy, which denied constitutional protection to collective bargaining and strikes. The first blow to those decisions came in Dunmore, where the Court adopted a collective rather than individual definition of the Charter freedom of association, while another was dealt by B.C. Health, where the Court extended s. 2(d) pro- tection to collective bargaining. The Supreme Court might still avoid finding a constitutional right to strike, but, in the author's view, the Court has probably gone too far to turn back. If and when the time comes to read the Trilogy its "last rites," the author argues against set- ting a high threshold for a breach of s. 2(d), by adopting the "substantial interference" test set out in B.C. Health. In this respect, she points to an important difference between collective bargaining and strikes: the for- mer is a positive obligation which imposes on governments a correspon- ding duty, whereas the latter is a negative entitlement to be free from government interference. While there is a risk that the constitutionaliza- tion of strike activity may involve the courts in reviewing labour policy, the solution is not to dilute the content of s. 2(d), but to create a "cus- tomized" s. I test for justifying infringements of the guarantee in the labour context - one which would explicitly defer to policy decisions by the legislature.

The Canadian labour revolt was about more than wages and working conditions. The year 1919 was also a moment of socialist possibility in which the Russian Revolution and the influence of Marx and Engels fuelled the revolutionary intent of a radicalizing Canadian working class. The idea of the dictatorship of the proletariat, long since lost in the shadow of Stalin’s terror, fuelled this moment of socialist possibility. The longing for a workers’ state was a nation-wide phenomenon, but it manifested itself more deeply and broadly in western Canada than in the east. West of the Great Lakes, the concept of the dictatorship of the proletariat was hotly debated in the pages of socialist papers and in the halls of the labour movement. Knowledge of the debate concerning the dictatorship of the proletariat provides a more complete understanding of the labour revolt of 1919 and its legacy for Canadian history and the international left.

We study the propensity of persons with disabilities to engage in volunteer activity using the Participation and Activity Limitation Survey (PALS). Our principal focus is on the effects of various income support programs on persons with disabilities participation in volunteer activities because income support programs can differ with respect to their treatment of unpaid work. For example, workers' compensation programs embody strong disincentives to volunteering while public disability insurance programs explicitly encourage unpaid work. We find that workers' compensation is associated with decreases in the probability of volunteering while public disability insurance is associated with increases in the propensity to volunteer. The relevance of these results to both theories of volunteerism and public policy is discussed.

The article reviews the book "Makúk: A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations," by John Sutton Lutz.

Examines the intersectionality of emotional labour in terms of gender, race and class processes. The study is based on the literature arising from Hochschild's "The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling" (1983).

The article reviews the book, "Sing It Pretty: A Memoir," by Bess Lomax Hawes.

On leur prête l’indépendance, la capacité à se protéger seuls et à établir un équilibre dans leurs rapports avec les donneurs d’ouvrages, mais ces attributs sont loin de refléter la réalité de certains travailleurs autonomes. En approchant l’industrie du taxi et plus précisément la situation des chauffeurs locataires de taxi, le présent article examine l’état du droit sur cette question au Québec et en France, en discute et propose élaboration d’un régime-cadre de représentation collective pour le Québec.

The article reviews the book, "A Power Among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America," by Karen Pastorello.