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This article reviews the book, "International Labour Conventions and National Law," by Virginia Leary.

À l'occasion d'une requête présentée en vertu de l'article 119 du Code canadien du travail, le requérant allègue, entre autres, qu'un panel a rendu une décision majoritaire suite à une mauvaise interprétation de la loi ou que celle-ci va à /'encontre des politiques énoncées par le Conseil. Le Conseil a rejeté la requête mais a profite de l'occasion pour exprimer un nouveau concept qui sera applique lorsqu'une partie soulève de tels motifs de révision. Ces requêtes dorénavant, seront «filtrées» par un quorum «au sommet» compose de deux vice-présidents et du président.

Lors de deux plaintes de pratiques déloyales dirigées l'une contre un employeur et l'autre contre le syndicat en place chez celui-ci, le Conseil a profite de l'occasion pour établir une distinction entre les activités syndicales protégées par le Code et celles qui ne le sont pas. Ces dernières sont exercées d'une façon qui brime les intérêts légitimes d'un employeur. Le Conseil a également décide qu'une preuve relative au processus disciplinaire interne du syndicat est inadmissible lors d'une enquête et audition aux termes de l'article 136.1 du Code. Le Conseil affirme aussi qu'un plaignant alléguant violation par son syndicat du devoir de représentation juste et sans discrimination doit accorder à son agent négociateur une aide et une coopération entière et loyale.

Dans une affaire ou l'intime prétendit que la plainte était frivole et vexatoire, le Conseil après avoir rejeté ladite plainte décide qu'il possède la juridiction nécessaire pour condamner aux frais judiciaires. Considérant sa politique en la matière de même que la jurisprudence d'autres Conseils de relations de travail, le Conseil réitère plus explicitement ladite politique à l'effet de ne pas exercer sa juridiction et décide en l'espèce que rien ne justifie de s'en écarter.

This article reviews the book, "Histoire de la CSN, 1921-1981," by Jacques Rouillard.

This article reviews the book, "Le syndicalisme patronal dans la construction," by Michèle Savard Baby.

This article reviews the book, "The Dynamics of White Collar Unionism : A Study of Local Union Participation," by Nigel Nichloson & Gil Ursell.

This article reviews the book, "Becoming an O.D. Practitioner," by Eric H. Neilsen.

This article reviews the book, "Foundations of Organizational Behavior : An Applied Perspective," by Andrew J. Dubrin.

Unemployment in Vancouver, Canada, during the Great Depression posed a significant threat' to the continuation of political and social norm. The emergence of a large body of workers without jobs, many of whom could vote at the civic level, demanded the attention and intervention of private and government agencies. The response of the City of Varcouver and two major Christian denominations to the unemployment crisis is the subject of this thesis, The documentary evidence utilized came mainly from collections at the Vancouver School of Theology, the Catholic Charities and the City of Vancouver Archives. The inadequacy and abuse of contemporary statistical resources perpetuated a view of the unemployed that emphasizod their potential for social disruption. Despite the fact that most of Vancouver's jobless citizens were permanent residents, community leaders and rglief planners took their cues from the single unemployed transients, a group that was pore likely to derail revolutionary ideas with an extension of its limited relief programmes, However, both church and state were constrained by the shortage of money. Consequently, in the absence of a strong social work ideology, relief was more a reflection of political and fiscal considerations than of the shifting needs of the unemployed. Relief was, simply put, the least expensive means of reintegrating the dispossessed into the established social milieu.

This article reviews the book, "Worker Militancy and its Consequences," by Sol Barkin.

This article reviews the book, "Riotous Victorians," by Donald C. Richter.

This article reviews the book, "Still Ain't Satisfied: Canadian Feminism Today", edited by Maureen Fitzgerald, Connie Guberman, and Margie Wolfe.

This study of canal and railway labourers on Canada's public works provides a detailed analysis of an important segment of the developing industrial working class during the years of transition to industrial capitalism. By examining changes in the industry, the composition of the workforce, and the labourers' behaviour and perceptions of that behaviour, it traces both the process of class formation and the growth of class tensions. Beginning with an analysis of the public contract system, it defines the nature of the relationship between contractors and governments and traces the impact of the technological revolution and the growth of a body of indigenous contractors within the industry. Despite important advances within the industry, work on construction sites changed little, continuing to depend primarily on the energies of unskilled labourers who enjoyed little material reward for their back-breaking and dangerous labour. The forty-year period, however, witnessed a significant change in the composition of the workforce. Migrants from within Canada displaced Irish immigrants as the major source of unskilled labour, and the workforce on construction sites became increasingly ethnically heterogeneous. This change in the composition of the workforce effected a modification of the stereotype of the unruly, drunken, and violent public works labourer.;Labourer's perceptions of themselves also changed during these years. In the early years of construction strong factional, ethnic, and sectarian bonds generated violent conflict amongst the diverse groups brought together in the workplace. At the same time such bonds were a powerful source of unity during the frequent strikes waged by the Irish labourers who dominated the workforce. Over the period the basis of identification shifted from ethnicity to class. The easing of tensions between ethnic groups and the unity of the various ethnic groups during frequent strikes demonstrated an increasing ability to unite in pursuit of common class interests. Although the labourers remained outside formal union structures, they sustained an aggressive struggle with employers and acquired the experience of militance and solidarity on which the working class movement of future decades could build.

This article reviews the book, "Bibliographie du droit du travail canadien et québecois," by René Laperriere.

À la suite de la création d'une commission consultative et d'une conférence socio-économique sur le travail devant aboutir à la reforme de Code du travailau Québec l'auteur met en doute la validité de l'approche fragmentaire envisagée.

This article reviews the book, "La médiation pré-arbitrale en matière de conflits de droits," by the journée d'étude à l'École de relations industrielles.

This article reviews the book, "Never Done: A History of American Housework," by Susan Strasser.

To understand the family economy of the working class in the period of early industrial capitalism it is necessary to go beyond a simple consideration of the sufficiency of wages, to put aside the equation of work with wage labour and to examine other ways in which survival could be enhanced. This paper begins an examination of non-wage-based survival strategies. It focuses on animal raising, gardening, the taking in of boarders and house sharing in mid- to late-nineteenth-century Montreal. These particular survival strategies can be ascertained to some extent from people's responses to the census taker. Analysis of their responses as found in the manuscript schedules of 1861 and 1871 constitutes the core of the paper. Professionals and proprietors were most likely to keep cows, the semi- and unskilled pigs. Pigs were outlawed in this period, while cows remained legal. Gardening, too, was largely eliminated on the narrow, densely built lots of the working class. The outlawing of pigs represents one of a complex of changes that, over the length of a generation, severely curtailed the proletariat's access to means of supplementing their wages and altered the contributions a wife and children could make to the family economy.

This article reviews the book, "Abolition and After the Paper Box Wages Council," by C. Craig, Jill Rubery, Roger Tarling & Frank Wilkinson.