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Using cross-sectional data from a Canadian population-based questionnaire, this article develops a new approach to understanding the impact of less permanent forms of employment on workers' health. It concludes that employment relationships where future employment is uncertain, where individuals are actively searching for new employment and where support is limited are associated with poorer health indicators.
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English/French abstracts of the article in the Spring 2008 issue.
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English/French abstracts of articles in the Fall 2008 issue.
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A subject index for the 2007 issues of "Labour/Le Travail" is presented.
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Since the 1990s, Canadian policy prescriptions for immigration, multiculturalism, and employment equity have equated globalization with global markets. This interpretation has transformed men and women of various ethnic backgrounds into trade-enhancing commodities who must justify their skills and talents in the language of business. This particular neo-liberal reading of globalization and public policy has resulted in a trend the authors call selling diversity. Using gender, race/ethnicity, and class lenses to frame their analysis, the authors review Canadian immigration, multiculturalism, and employment equity policies, including their different historical origins, to illustrate how a preference for selling diversity has emerged in the last decade. In the process they suggest that a commitment to enhance justice in a diverse society and world has been muted. Yet, neo-liberalism is not the only or inevitable option in this era of globalization, and Canadians are engaging in transnational struggles for rights and equality and thereby increasing the interconnectedness between peoples across the globe. Consequently, the emphasis on selling diversity might be challenged.
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Commentary on Brian Langille's paper, "Can We Rely on the ILO?”
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What Workers Say: Employee Voice in the Anglo-American Workplace, edited by Richard B. Freeman, Peter Boxall and Peter Haynes, is reviewed.
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The article reviews the book, "Corporate Wasteland: The Landscape and Memory of Deindustrialization," by Steven High And David W. Lewis.
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The article reviews the book, "Subcommander Marcos: The Man and the Mask," by Nick Henck.
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The article reviews the book, "No Place to Go: Local Histories of the Battered Women's Shelter Movement," by Nancy Janovicek.
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The focus of this paper is the large difference in the labour market involvement of Canadian and Australian women. In the context of ageing populations and associated skill shortages, this employment gap has particular policy significance. Understanding the contributing factors could guide the development of new approaches to maximising potential labour supply. This paper explores the role of differences in educational attainment, marginal tax rates, parental leave, child care costs and attitudes regarding the legitimacy of mothers' involvement in paid work.
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Economist, sociologists, and other social scientists have begun to study the influence of sexual orientation on individuals in the labor market, particularly with respect to employment discrimination. The conceptual framework developed in this paper connects lesbian, gay, and bixexual workers' disclosure of their sexual orientation to the economic and social characteristics of the workplace. Disclosure creates the potential for discrimination by employers and coworkers. The framework shows how sexual orientation operates independently and in interaction with other important characteristics such as race and gender. A review of existing research supports the hypothesis that discrimination against gay workers exists. Both workplace groups for gays and lesbians and those who work gay and lesbian workers (such as supervisors, personnel managers, and counselors) need to understand the relationship between disclosure and discrimination in order to make workplaces supportive of lesbian, gay, and bisexual workers.
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The article reviews the book, "Global Governance in Question: Empire, Class and the New Common Sense in Managing North-South Relations," by Susanne Soederberg.
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The article focuses on the educational course History 492 and the relationship between the re-conceptualization and rewriting of working-class history in the U.S. and the ways in which teaching of the subject has changed. The evolution of the course suggests that social class is still being talked about in more capacious terms. It says that the seminar's comparative approach indicates that the characteristics of capitalism and industrialism are shared from one society to another.
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The article reviews the book, "Scapegoats of September 11th: Hate Crimes and State Crimes in the War on Terror," by Michael Welch.
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...Nowhere in Canada was the trade union movement very strong as employers and governments practiced labour relations behind the barrel of a gun, but in what today constitutes the city of Thunder Bay, it was even weaker than elsewhere. Indeed, until 1902, organized labour was practically non-existent. It was not until Harry Bryan came to the Lakehead in that year that organizational activity began in earnest in a number of trades, although others had organized some workers, like the railway men, during the previous decade. Bryan exemplified an era that would see the creation of a vibrant and diverse socialist culture in the region.1 As a union man he could count his success by the number of unions chartered - as many, some claim, as 22; however, the number is in dispute. Because of his striking achievement, his former associates often referred to him as the father of the labour movement in Thunder Bay. --From authors' introduction
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The article reviews the book, "Liquid Gold: Energy Privatization in British Columbia," by John Calvert.
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The article reviews the book, "The Freedom to Smoke: Tobacco Consumption and Identity," by Jarrett Rudy.
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