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A quick perusal of the literature in work and industry, industrial relations, and labour studies readily confirms that the current trend is towards some form of Quality of Working Life coupled with an appeal for all parties involved - employer, employee, and government - to change radically their attitudes towards collective bargaining. Employers have to become more willing to accept union contributions; employees have to become more cooperative and "confine adversarial tactics"; and the government has to adopt "a more positive attitude toward employers and unions" in order to facilitate trust and harmony between the two. --Introduction
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For the purposes of this review, labour studies is defined to encompass various disciplinary approaches, but, in general, this essay focuses on studies of the working class, not just of the labour movement, and material which places the working class in historical perspective. --From authors' introduction
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This is a story of two Ontario towns, Hanover and Paris, that grew in many parallel ways. They were about the same size, and both were primarily one-industry towns. But Hanover was a furniture-manufacturing centre; most of its workers were men, drawn from a community of ethnic German artisans and agriculturalists. In Paris the biggest employer was the textile industry; most of its wage earners were women, assisted in emigration from England by their Canadian employer. Joy Parr considers the impacy of these fundamental differences from a feminist perspective in her study of the towns' industrial, domestic, and community life. She combines interviews of women and men of the towns with analyses of a wide range of documents: records of the firms from which their families worked, newspapers, tax records, paintings, photographs, and government documents. Two surprising and contrasting narratives emerge. The effects of gender identities upon both women's and men's workplace experience and of economic roles upon familial relationships are starkly apparent. Extending through seventy crucial years, these closely textured case studies challenge conventional views about the distinctiveness of gender and class roles. They reconfigure the social and economic change accompanying the rise of industry. They insistently transcend the reflexive dichtomies drawn between womena dn men, public and privae, wage and non-wage work. They investigate industrial structure, technological change, domesticity, militance, and perceptions of personal power and worth, simultaneously as products of gender and class identities, recast through community sensibilities. --Publisher's description
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Ignored by the elite of their own community, the French miners in Sudbury sought refuge in a left-wing union that was labelled communist. The miners played a historic role in keeping one of the most progressive unions in North America from becoming totally absorbed into the Steelworkers union.
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Examines critically three core `premises of Canadian labour historiography, namely that American unions had to move into Canada to establish a strong, viable labour movement, that the contribution of the Communist Party of Canada was largely negative; and that the relationship between the CIO and its Canadian affiliate, the Canadian Congress of Labour, was based on equality and autonomy.
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Examines the historical context of the resolutions of the 1902 convention of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada at Berlin, Ontario (the city was renamed as Kitchener during the First World War) that subordinated the TLC to Samuel Gompers' American Federation of Labor. Concludes that the decisions resulted in deep divisions in Canadian labour, including a separate movement in Quebec.
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Analyzes the failure of the One Big Union as well as the historical literature.
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