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This article reviews the book, "The Nottingham Labour Movement 1880-1939," by Peter Wyncoll.
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The first two decades of the twentieth century saw a dramatic period of innovation and expansion in public health programmes in Britain and Canada. This thesis argues that this period of growth and change in public health was one aspect of a major reorientation of social policy. This reorientation had two major features. First, the national working classes of Britain, Canada and other countries were increasingly delimited through immigration controls and similar means of regulating international mobility. Secondly, new social programmes were developed which attempted to improve the physical, mental and moral condition of these delimited working classes, on the basis that their well-being was the foundation of national productivity. Public health played a major role in both the delimitation and improvement of national working classes. In Canada, the first major programme of immigration controls was introduced in this period, centering around the selection or rejection of immigrants on the basis of medical inspection conducted according to public health criteria. In both Britain and Canada, new public health programmes were developed which aimed to improve the condition of the working class. This was to be accomplished primarily through home visiting programmes which attempted through education and Inspection to establish standards for the domestic labour of women as mothers and home-makers. This thesis examines the contribution of public health to this reorientation of social policy primarily through the analysis of the theoretical work of key policy-makers as reported in professional journals and government documents. These officials displayed a keen sociological understanding of the broader significance of their activities in the development of a productive national working class prepared for work or war. Indeed, they understood clearly that the health of nations is an important basis of the wealth of nations.
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This article reviews the book, "Out of Work: the First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts," by Alexander Keyssar.
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This article reviews the book, "Histoire du Québec contemporain : Le Québec depuis 1930," by Paul-André Linteau, René Durocher, Jean-Claude Robert, and François Ricard.
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This article reviews the book, "Plant Closings : A Selected Bibliography of Materials Published Through 1985," by Harold E. Way & Carla M. Weiss.
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This article reviews the book, "Not by Bread Alone : A Study of Organizational Climate and Employer-Employee Relations in India," by Baldev R. Sharma.
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The article reviews the book, "Frontier Expansion and Peasant Protest in Columbia," by Catherine LeGrand.
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This article reviews the book, "Recalling the Good Fight: An Autobiography of the Spanish Civil War," by John Tisa.
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This article reviews the book, "Corporate Power and Canadian Capitalism," by William K. Carroll.
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This article reports the findings of a study of operative and espoused personnel selection criteria of managers. A projective test (derived front Kelly's Rep Test and Brown's Personnel Decision Analysis Form) was used to elicit and measure the strength of operative selection criteria while a short questionnaire sought demographic data and espoused selection criteria.
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This article reviews the book, "Canada Learns to Play: The Emergence of Organized Sport, 1807-1914," by Alan Metcalfe.
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The author estimates the effect of being unemployed on the health of unemployed Quebec workers. The results imply that the health effects are heterogenous, at least for unemployed men and women.
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This article reviews the book, "Collective Bargaining and Labor Relations," by Edward E. Herman, Alfred Kuhn & Ronald Seeber.
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Earnings of lawyers in the government service are compared with those in private practice in Canada during the 1970's, a period of rapid growth in the supply of lawyers.
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The article reviews the book, "Through the Eye of the Needle: Immigrants and Enterprise in New York's Garment Industry," by Roger D. Waldinger.
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This article reviews the book, "Labour Market Theory and the Canadian Experience," by Byron Eastman.
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This article reviews the book, "Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Manager, and Customers in American Department Stores 1890-1940," by Susan Porter Benson.
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A review of the theories and results of previous research on the importance of criteria in arbitration of wage disputes is presented in this paper and the hypotheses of the importance of criteria to arbitrators in the Canadian Federal Public Service are developed.
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The Great Depression which struck all western nations in the 1930s was a period of great hardship for Newfoundlanders. Its burdens fell particularly hard on the island's loggers and their families. During the 1930s, for at least part of the year, nearly 6,000 Newfoundlanders toiled in the woods. While some worked full-time, many laboured part-time to supplement their meagre earnings from the fishery. Their labour contributed significantly to a forest products industry which, during the 1930s, was regularly valued at over $15 million a year and, in many years, made up over 50 per cent of the value of the island's exports. And yet, despite their numbers and their contribution to Newfoundland's economy we have heard very little of these loggers' lives and as Greg Kealey puts it, "their struggles to minimize their oppression and to improve the lives of their families and their class." This thesis examines the working lives of Newfoundland loggers during the Great Depression, their labour processes, strikes, collective actions and attempts to organize in the latter half of the decade. In 1930 there were no unions specifically for loggers. By 1939, however, there were three unions, the Newfoundland Lumbermen's Association, the Newfoundland Labourers' Union, and the Workers' Central Protective Union all of which represented loggers in the regions where they were based. The Fishermen's Protective Union was also still active in the 1930s negotiating agreements on behalf of loggers on the northeast coast of the island. This thesis looks at the emergence, structure, and effectiveness of the unions and at their damaging rivalries. In doing so, it charts the changes these organizations forged in the relations between labour and capital in the Newfoundland woods before World War II.
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