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During the "long sixties" - between 1964 and 1973 - baby boomers raised on democratic postwar ideals demanded a more egalitarian society for all. While a few became vocal leaders at universities across Canada, nearly 90% of Canada's young people went straight to work after high school. There, they brought the anti-authoritarian spirit of the youth revolt to the labour movement. While university-based activists combined youth culture with a new brand of radicalism to form the New Left, young workers were pressing for wildcat strikes and defying their aging union leaders in a wave of renewed militancy that swept the country. In Rebel Youth, Ian Milligan looks at these converging currents, demonstrating convincingly how they were part of a single youth phenomenon. With just short of seventy interviews complementing the extensive use of archival records, this book reveals a youth current that, despite regional differences, spanned an intellectual network from Halifax to Victoria that read the same publications, consulted the same thinkers, and found inspiration in the same shared ideas. Rebel Youth draws important connections between the stories of young workers and the youth movement in Canada, claiming a central place for labour and class in the legacy of this formative decade. --Publisher's description

Pour qui s’intéresse à l’évolution du travail au Québec, le passage à un régime néolibéral au tournant des années 1980 renvoie à un concept : la flexibilisation. Trente ans plus tard, avec la montée en flèche du nombre d’emplois atypiques, force est de constater que flexibilité rime aussi avec précarité, l’emploi atypique se distinguant trop souvent par une moindre rémunération et un accès restreint aux multiples formes de protection sociale. Comment le syndicalisme peut-il s’ajuster aux besoins différenciés d’une main-d’œuvre de plus en plus diversifiée et employée sur des marchés du travail toujours plus segmentés ? L’auteur nous invite à penser le marché du travail à partir de sa périphérie, et à réfléchir à l’innovation syndicale à partir des pratiques, des stratégies et des revendications d’organisations de travailleurs se situant sur les marges de la société salariale. Dans une démarche qui vise le rajeunissement, voire la métamorphose du syndicalisme, il porte attention aux possibilités d’innovation sous-tendue par la nouvelle configuration du travail dans le capitalisme d’aujourd’hui. Pour ce faire, il présente un état des lieux du travail sur les marchés périphériques au Québec, en accordant une place prépondérante aux expériences des travailleurs, puis expose des pistes de réflexion sur le renouvellement de la théorie syndicale et sur le redéploiement de l’action syndicale au Québec. Enfin, il propose cinq études d’expériences portées, ici et maintenant, par des travailleurs atypiques et des organisations syndicales soucieuses de répondre à leurs besoins différenciés en matière d’organisation collective. L’ouvrage nous montre que les organisations de travailleurs demeurent déterminantes et constituent l’une des pistes majeures à explorer afin de repenser l’articulation des mobilisations et l’émancipation sociale à l’ère de la mondialisation néolibérale. --Publisher's description

The highly anticipated new standalone full-color graphic novel from Bryan Lee O’Malley, author and artist of the hugely bestselling Scott Pilgrim graphic novel series Katie’s got it pretty good. She’s a talented young chef, she runs a successful restaurant, and she has big plans to open an even better one. Then, all at once, progress on the new location bogs down, her charming ex-boyfriend pops up, her fling with another chef goes sour, and her best waitress gets badly hurt. And just like that, Katie’s life goes from pretty good to not so much. What she needs is a second chance. Everybody deserves one, after all—but they don’t come easy. Luckily for Katie, a mysterious girl appears in the middle of the night with simple instructions for a do-it-yourself do-over: 1. Write your mistake 2. Ingest one mushroom 3. Go to sleep 4. Wake anew And just like that, all the bad stuff never happened, and Katie is given another chance to get things right. She’s also got a dresser drawer full of magical mushrooms—and an irresistible urge to make her life not just good, but perfect. Too bad it’s against the rules. But Katie doesn’t care about the rules—and she’s about to discover the unintended consequences of the best intentions. From the mind and pen behind the acclaimed Scott Pilgrim series comes a madcap new tale of existential angst, everyday obstacles, young love, and ancient spirits that’s sharp-witted and tenderhearted, whimsical and wise. --Publisher's description

The 1990s and 2000s were especially difficult decades for government–public sector union relations in Canada. Rising costs and growing debts meant that governments were on the lookout for savings, and public sector unions and employees were easy targets for government actions. Bitter conflicts between unions and governments erupted and each labour dispute involved numerous rounds of public rhetoric in which both sides attempted to justify their actions and stigmatize their opponents.In Bad Time Stories, Yonatan Reshef and Charles Keim analyse the language of both parties in order to identify the legitimation strategies at work during government-union conflict. The authors use evidence drawn from newspapers, speeches, parliamentary transcripts, and legal statements in presenting a new framework for understanding the discursive strategies employed by governments and unions in labour disputes.Using a case study and linguistic approach, Bad Time Stories offers a unique perspective on industrial relations and will be of interest to scholars in the areas of business, public policy, and communications, as well to those directly involved in union-management negotiations. -- Publisher's description

L’apport du professeur Pierre Verge au droit du travail est remarquable! Ses travaux ont profondément marqué cette discipline et en ont accompagné le développement pendant plus de cinquante ans. Engagé, il occupa dès le début de sa carrière diverses fonctions administratives, dont celle de doyen (Normand). Visionnaire, il se tourna rapidement vers la recherche subventionnée et vers l’interdisciplinarité. Pluraliste, son approche se focalisa sur la multiplicité des sources – juridiques ou non - qui jalonnent sa discipline, élargissant ses horizons de recherche, vers la sociologie, notamment. Joueur d’équipe, il sut transmettre à d’autres, ici même et ailleurs dans le monde, son savoir et son expérience, ce qui se traduit par d’innombrables copublications et collaborations, et autant d’amitiés nouées. Rigueur intellectuelle, érudition et ardeur au travail sont des traits de personnalité connus du professeur Verge. Mais à cela s’ajoutent de belles qualités humaines : générosité, affabilité et modestie caractérisent en effet cet homme, authentique, qui, durant son illustre carrière, influença tant de collègues et d’étudiants. Plusieurs d’entre eux ont donc voulu lui rendre un vibrant hommage et exprimer leur attachement et leur reconnaissance sous la forme de Mélanges. --Publisher's description. Contents: 1 La contribution scientifique de Pierre Verge à l'affirmation et à la recomposition du droit du travail / Guylaine Vallée -- 2 Un décanat de développement et de consolidation / Sylvio Normand -- Autonomie collective et pluralisme juridique : Georges Gurvitch, Hugo Sinzheimer et le droit du travail / Michel Coutu -- 4 Corporatism, Neo-Corporatism, and Freedom of Association / Adrian Goldin -- 5 Le syndicat obligatoire au Québec : une contrainte individuelle à la faveur de l'autonomie collective / Pierre Verge, Christain Brunelle, Anne-Marie Laflamme et Doninic Roux -- 6 "La convention collective lie tous les salariés ..." mais, sans les ligoter! (art. 67 C.t.) / Me Fernand Morin -- 7 La solubilité de la convention collective dans son environnement normatif : quelques réflexions sur une mutation institutionnelle / Louis LeBel -- 8 Regulating strikes in essential (and other) services after the “New Trilogy” / Bernard Adell -- 9 L'arbitrage de grief et le développement de la spécificité du droit du travail : une contribution reconnue / Denis Nadeau -- 10 Embracing collective rights: Unions and the new struggle for relevance and autonomy : A view from the Commonwealth Caribbean / Rose-Marie Belle Antoine --11 Collective autonomy in New Zealand / Paul Roth -- 12 Social partners : Autonomy and its limits : A Polish perspective / Michal Sewerynski -- 13 Le droit français du travail est-il toujours un droit de protection des salariés? / Jean Pélissier -- 14 Les tribunaux judiciaires et les conflits collectifs de travail en Amérique latine / Héctor-Hugo Barbagelata -- 15 La détermination des conditions collectives de travail dans l'entreprise au Japon : le règlement intérieur et la modification des conditions de travail / Yasuo Ishil -- 16 The Wagner model and international freedom of association standards / Lance Compa -- 17 Strike ban for public servants in Germany -- an international anachronism / Udo R. Mayer-- 18 2019 : autonomie collective, élément clé du travail décent des travailleuses et travailleurs domestiques / Adelle Blackett --19 The new public and private international labour regulations and their implementation experiences / Pablo Lazo Grandi -- 20 Organisations nouvelles du travail et représentation collective des travailleurs / Jean-Michel Servais -- 21 Repenser les politiques des rapports collectifs de travail à l'ère des entreprises transnationales / Gregor Murray.

D’où vient le syndicalisme ? À quoi répond-il ? Quelles sont ses formes ? De quelle façon agit-il ? Quels sont ses effets ? Quels sont ses défis ? Comment évolue-t-il ? Les 42 textes qui composent cette anthologie proposent diverses réponses à ces interrogations. Les auteurs sélectionnés traitent des aspects les plus significatifs du syndicalisme d’hier, d’aujourd’hui et de demain. Ils représentent neuf disciplines et des positions variées. Le résultat est un foisonnement remarquable d’idées qui pousse à la réflexion, au questionnement et aux remises en cause relativement à ce phénomène qui a des effets multiples sur l’économie, la politique et la société et qui fêtera bientôt ses 200 ans en territoire canadien et québécois. --Description de l'éditeur.

[E]xplores the complex ways in which temporariness is being institutionalized as a condition of life for a growing number of people worldwide. The collection emphasizes contemporary developments, but also provides historical context on nation-state membership as the fundamental means for accessing rights in an era of expanding temporariness - in recognition of why pathways to permanence remain so compelling. Through empirical and theoretical analysis, contributors explore various dimensions of temporariness, especially as it relates to the legal status of migrants and refugees, to the spread of precarious employment, and to limitations on social rights. While the focus is on Canada, a number of chapters investigate and contrast developments in Canada with those in Europe as well as Australia and the United States. Together, these essays reveal changing and enduring temporariness at local, regional, national, transnational, and global levels, and in different domains, such as health care, language programs, and security. The question at the heart of this collection is whether temporariness can be liberated from current constraints. While not denying the desirability of permanence for migrants and labourers, "Liberating Temporariness?" presents alternative possibilities of security and liberation. --Publisher's description, Contents: Introduction: Liberating Temporariness? Imagining Alternatives to Permanence as a Pathway for Social Inclusion  / Robert Latham, Leah F. Vosko, Valerie Preston, and Melisa Bretón. Part 1: Security, Temporary Status, and Rights. Rethinking Canadian Citizenship: The Politics of Social Exclusion in the Age of Security and Suppression / Yasmeen Abu-Laban -- Permanent Patriots and Temporary Predators? Post-9/11 Institutionalization of the Arab/Orientalized “Other” in the United States and the Contributions of Arendt and Said / Abigail B. Bakan -- Indefinitely Pending: Security Certificates and Permanent Temporariness / Mike Larsen. Part 2: International Organizations and Transnational Dynamics of Temporary Work. Managed Migration and the Temporary Labour Fix / Christina Gabriel -- Institutionalizing Temporary Labour Migration in Europe: Creating an “In-between”’ Migration Status / Tesseltje de Lange and Sarah van Walsu -- The Permanence of Temporary Labour Mobility: Migrant Worker Programs across Australia, Canada, and New Zealand / Emily Gilbert. Part 3: Temporary Status, Social Welfare, and Marginalization. Brain Circulation or Precarious Labour? Conceptualizing Temporariness in the United Kingdom’s National Health Service / Parvati Raghuram -- Language Training and Labour Market Integration for Newcomers to Canada / Eve Haque -- Resituating Temporariness as the Precarity and Conditionality of Non-citizenship / Luin Goldring -- Constructing and “Liberating” Temporariness in the Canadian Non-profit Sector: Neoliberalism and Non-profit Service Providers / John Shields. Part 4: (Re)Framing Temporariness. Mexican Migrant Transnationalism and Imaginaries of Temporary/Permanent Belonging / Marianne H. Marchand -- Temporariness: Other than Permanence, and in the Lives of People - Always… / Deepa Rajkumar -- Temporal Orders, Re-collective Justice, and the Making of Untimely States / Robert Latham.

La surqualification, définie comme la situation qui caractérise un individu dont le niveau de formation dépasse celui qui est normalement requis pour l’emploi occupé, a subi une forte tendance à la hausse au cours des vingt dernières années. Au Québec et au Canada, elle touche un tiers des travailleurs, surtout les plus jeunes. Ce phénomène, qui témoigne de l’incapacité du marché du travail à offrir à un grand nombre de personnes des emplois qui correspondent à leurs qualifications, est devenu pour tous les acteurs de la vie économique et sociale un enjeu de premier ordre. Ce livre présente un ensemble d’études récentes sur la surqualification. Son objectif est de mesurer l’étendue du phénomène du point de vue statistique et de mettre en relief les facteurs qui interviennent dans sa genèse et son développement. L’ouvrage évalue plusieurs approches et modèles analytiques et présente des résultats de recherches qui utilisent diverses bases de données. Il offre un portrait détaillé de la surqualification au Québec et au Canada. De manière plus fondamentale, il soulève la question de la valeur des diplômes sur le marché du travail et suggère des pistes de réflexion pour atteindre l’adéquation entre la formation de la main-d’œuvre et le profil des emplois. --Publisher's description

Dreams of steady employment in the mining sector led thousands of Ukrainian immigrants to northern Ontario in the early 1900s. As a child, historian Stacey Zembrzycki listened to her baba’s stories about Sudbury’s small but polarized community and what it was like growing up ethnic during the Depression. According to Baba grew out of those stories, out of a granddaughter’s desire to capture the experiences of her grandparents’ generation on paper. Eighty-two interviews conducted by Stacey and her grandmother, Olga, laid the groundwork for this insightful and deeply personal social history of one of Canada’s most colourful ethnic communities. The interview process also brought to light the challenges of doing collaborative oral history with community members, particularly as Stacey lost authority to her baba, wrestled it back, and eventually came to share it, and as interviewees met questions with nostalgic reminiscences, subversive humour, or impenetrable silence. By providing a realistic glimpse into the hard work that goes into making communities partners in oral history research, this book provides a new paradigm for studying the politics of memory, one that recognizes that people are not passive recipients of their histories but rather counter and create narratives about the past by invoking alternative ways of remembering. --Publisher's description

From its inception in 1966, the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) has grown to employ approximately 20,000 workers annually, the majority from Mexico. The program has been hailed as a model that alleviates human rights concerns because, under contract, SAWP workers travel legally, receive health benefits, contribute to pensions, are represented by Canadian consular officials, and rate the program favorably. Tomorrow We?re All Going to the Harvest takes us behind the ideology and examines the daily lives of SAWP workers from Tlaxcala, Mexico (one of the leading sending states), observing the great personal and family price paid in order to experience a temporary rise in a standard of living. The book also observes the disparities of a gutted Mexican countryside versus the flourishing agriculture in Canada, where farm labor demand remains high. Drawn from extensive surveys and nearly two hundred interviews, ethnographic work in Ontario (destination of over 77 percent of migrants in the author?s sample), and quantitative data, this is much more than a case study; it situates the Tlaxcala-Canada exchange within the broader issues of migration, economics, and cultural currents. Bringing to light the historical genesis of ?complementary? labor markets and the contradictory positioning of Mexican government representatives, Leigh Binford also explores the language barriers and nonexistent worker networks in Canada, as well as the physical realities of the work itself, making this book a complete portrait of a provocative segment of migrant labor. --Publisher's description

Building More Effective Labour-Management Relationships combines valuable insights into new approaches to relationship-building and collective bargaining with unique knowledge and concrete lessons garnered from some of the foremost industrial relations practitioners in Canada. Contributors include Warren "Smokey" Thomas (president, OPSEU), Buzz Hargrove (former president, CAW), Warren Edmondson (former ADM Labour, Government of Canada, and chair of the CLRB), George Smith (former VP at CP Rail and CBC/Radio Canada), David Logan, (ADM, Government of Ontario) Glenda Fisk (Queen's University), Richard Chaykowski (Queen's University), Robert Hickey (Queen's University). -- Publisher's description. Contents: Fostering Innovation and Cooperation in Employee Relations in the Ontario Public Service  / Warren "Smokey" Thomas -- An Introduction and Context Advancing Labour-Management Relationships and Cooperation / David Logan -- Systemic Pressures on Ontario Public Sector Industrial Relations / Richard P. Chaykowski, Robert S. Hickey --  Experiences in Collective Bargaining and the Labour-Management Relationship Remaking the Union-Management Relationship between the CBC and Canadian Media Guild: "We used to walk ... Now we talk" / Richard P. Chaykowski --  Reflections on Creating More Effective Labour Relations / George C.B. Smith Dan Oldfield -- Interest-Based, Cooperative Approaches to Negotiations and Labour Relations: What Works and What Does Not / Buzz Hargrove.

Revealing how Canada's first Prime Minister used a policy of starvation against Indigenous people to clear the way for settlement, the multiple award-winning Clearing the Plains sparked widespread debate about genocide in Canada. In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics-the politics of ethnocide-played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of Indigenous people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald's "National Dream." It was a dream that came at great expense: the present disparity in health and economic well-being between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations, and the lingering racism and misunderstanding that permeates the national consciousness to this day. --Publisher's description

The Great Recession was the largest crisis of capitalism since the Great Depression and the largest crisis in neoliberalism to date, sending shockwaves throughout the global economy. States scrambled to right the sinking capitalist ship in order to maintain high levels of accumulation. In Canada, as in so many other countries, the state introduced austerity measures aimed at organized labour and the broader working class. This volume explores the political economy of The Great Recession in Canada, and focuses on how labour has responded to the crisis, neoliberalism, and austerity measures. --Publisher's description. Contents: 1. From Crisis To Austerity: An Introduction / Tim Fowler -- 2. The Canadian State and the Crisis: Theoretical and Historical Context / Stephen McBride & Heather Whiteside -- 3. From the Great Recession of 2008-2009 to Fiscal Austerity: The Role of Inequality / Akhter Faroque and Brian K. MacLean  -- 4. Neoliberalism, Capitalist Crisis, and Continuing Austerity in the Ontario State / Tim Fowler  -- 5. Collective Bargaining in a Time of Austerity: Public-Sector Unions and the University Sector in Ontario / Mathew Nelson & James Meades --  6. "We Will Fight This Crisis": Auto Workers Resist an Industrial Meltdown/ Bill Murnighan & Jim Stanford -- 7. The Decline of the Labour Movement: A Socialist Perspective / Murray E.G. Smith & Jonah Butovsky -- 8. Labour’s Response to the Crisis and the Future of Working-Class Politics / David Camfield.

Established in 1913, the New Brunswick Federation of Labour is the second oldest provincial federation of labour in Canada. Its history began in early campaigns for workers’ compensation and union recognition and continues today in the latest battles to defend social standards, secure employment, and union rights. Active initially in the port city of Saint John and the railway centre of Moncton, the federation soon expanded to include workers in the mines and mills of the north, taking up the causes of public employees and women workers and confronting the realities of life and work in a bilingual society. A pioneering study, written in clear and forceful prose, this is the untold story of provincial labour solidarities that succeeded in overcoming divisions and defeats to raise the status of working men and women within New Brunswick society. Drawing on archives, newspapers, and workers’ own descriptions of their experiences, Frank makes an original contribution to our understanding of the political, economic, and social development of the province. In so doing, he helps meet the need for an informed public awareness of the history of workers and unions in all parts of Canada.

La Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Nouveau-Brunswick, fondée en 1913, est la deuxième plus ancienne fédération provinciale du travail au Canada. Son histoire remonte aux premières campagnes en faveur de l’indemnisation des accidents du travail et de la reconnaissance syndicale, et elle se poursuit dans les plus récentes luttes visant à défendre les normes sociales et à protéger les emplois et les droits syndicaux. La Fédération a vu le jour dans la ville portuaire de Saint John et le centre ferroviaire de Moncton, puis elle s’est étendue aux travailleurs des mines et des usines du nord de la province, soutenant la cause des employés du secteur public et des travailleuses, reflétant les réalités de la vie et du travail dans une société bilingue. Puisant dans les archives, les journaux et les expériences des travailleurs et des travailleuses, voici l’histoire inédite de solidarités syndicales provinciales qui ont surmonté les divisions et les revers afin de rehausser le statut des travailleurs et des travailleuses dans la société néo-brunswickoise. Par cette étude pionnière rédigée dans un style clair et puissant, Frank apporte une contribution originale à la compréhension de l’évolution politique, économique et sociale de la province, et il aide à combler le besoin d’éclairer la connaissance que le public a de l’histoire des travailleurs et des syndicats de toutes les régions du Canada. --Publisher's description

Most examinations of non-citizens in Canada focus on immigrants, people who are citizens-in-waiting, or specific categories of temporary, vulnerable workers. In contrast, Producing and Negotiating Non-Citizenship considers a range of people whose pathway to citizenship is uncertain or non-existent. This includes migrant workers, students, refugee claimants, and people with expired permits, all of whom have limited formal rights to employment, housing, education, and health services. -- Publisher's description.  Contents: The conditionality of legal status and rights: conceptualizing precarious non-citizenship in Canada / Luin Goldring and Patricia Landolt -- The museum of illegal immigration: historical perspectives on the production of non-citizens and challenges to immigration controls / Cynthia Wright -- The shifting landscape of contemporary Canadian immigration policy: the rise of temporary migration and employer-driven immigration / Salimah Valiani -- The Canadian Temporary Foreign Worker Program: regulations, practices, and protection gaps / Delphine Nakache -- "This is my life": youth negotiating legality and belonging in Toronto / Julie Young -- Constructing coping strategies: migrants seeking stability in social networks / Katherine Brasch -- The cost of invisibility: the psychosocial impact of falling out of status / Samia Saad -- The social production of non-citizenship: the consequences of intersecting trajectories of precarious legal status and precarious work / Patricia Landolt and Luin Goldring -- Pathways to precarity: structural vulnerabilities and lived consequences for migrant farmworkers in Canada / Janet McLaughlin and Jenna Hennebry -- Precarious immigration status and precarious housing pathways: refugee claimant homelessness in Toronto and Vancouver / Priya Kisoon -- Negotiating the boundaries of membership: health care providers, access to social goods, and immigration status / Paloma E. Villegas -- "People's priorities change when their status changes": negotiating the conditionality of social rights in service delivery to migrant women / Rupaleem Bhuyan -- Getting to "don't ask don't tell" at the Toronto District School Board: mapping the competing discourses of rights and membership / Francisco Villegas -- No one is illegal movements in Canada and the negotiation of counter-national and anti-colonial struggles from within the nation-state / Craig Fortier -- From access to empowerment: the Committee for Accessible AIDS Treatment and its work with people living with HIV-AIDS and precarious status / Alan Li -- Confidentiality and "risky" research: negotiating competing notions of risk in a Canadian university context / Julie Young and Judith K. Bernhard.

This comic was originally produced for B.C. Lumbermen. It first appeared in a war-time comic strip. Whether readers are interested in logging history, a good yarn or folk art, they will be enthralled by Now You're Logging, British Columbia's first graphic novel and a enduring West Coast classic, published in celebration of what would have been Bus Griffiths' 100th birthday. Now You're Logging is the story of Al and Red, who go to work in a small West Coast logging show during the dirty thirties. As they learn their trades, the reader is treated to an amazingly detailed view of the camp's varied operations—falling and bucking timber by hand, topping and rigging of spar trees, moving steam donkeys and making up log booms, plus all the colourful characters, camaraderie, romance and life-threatening exploits of a BC adventure story. --Publisher's description

This comprehensive history of the left in British Columbia from the late nineteenth century to the present explores the successes and failures of individuals and organizations striving to make a better world. Nineteenth-century coal miners and carpenters; Wobblies, Single Taxers, and communists; worker militancy in two world wars; the New Democratic Party; the Squamish Five; the Solidarity movement of 1983; and the Occupy movement of 2011 are all part of an historical provincial left that is notable for its breadth and dynamism. Moreover, the political and union initiatives of the traditional left are seen in conjunction with broader movements, including the struggles for women's suffrage and equality, human rights, Canadian nationalist visions, racial equality, and environmental health. Ginger Goodwin and Dave Barrett (as well as WAC Bennett and Gordon Campbell) are present, as are reformist liberals and green activists. Drawing on extensive published scholarship and primary newspaper sources, Dr. Hak's thorough examination of the British Columbia experience offers an historical context for understanding the contemporary left and a framework for considering future alternatives.

Today, hazardous work kills 2.3 million people each year and injures millions more. Among the most compelling yet controversial forms of legal protection for workers is the right to refuse unsafe work. The rise of globalization, precarious work, neoliberal politics, attacks on unions, and the idea of individual employment rights have challenged the protection of occupational health and safety for workers worldwide. This book presents the protection of refusal rights as a moral and a human rights question. The book finds that the protection of the right to refuse unsafe work, as constituted under international labor standards, is a failure and calls for a reexamination of worker health and safety policy from the ground up. The current model of protection follows an individual employment rights framework, which fails to protect workers against the inherent social inequalities within the employment relationship. To adequately protect the right to refuse as a human right, both in North America and around the world, the book argues that a broader protection must be granted under a freedom of association framework.

In the late 1970s, feminist historians urged us to “rethink” Canada by placing women’s perspectives and experiences at the centre of historical analysis. Forty years later, feminism continues to inform history writing in Canada and has inspired historians to look beyond the nation and adopt a more global perspective. This exciting new volume of original essays opens with a discussion of the debates, themes, and methodological approaches that have preoccupied women’s and gender historians across Canada over the past twenty years. The chapters that follow showcase the work of new and established scholars who draw on the insights of critical race theory, postcolonial theory, and transnational history to re-examine familiar topics such as biography and oral history, paid and unpaid work, marriage and family, and women’s political action. Whether they focus on the marriage of Governor James Douglas and his Metis wife, Amelia; representations of saleswomen in department store catalogues; or the careers of professional women such as international child activist Charlotte Whitton and Quebec social work professors at Laval University, the contributors demonstrate the continued relevance – and growth – of history informed by feminist perspectives, and they open a much-needed dialogue between francophone and anglophone historians in Canada.-- Publisher's description