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This article reviews the book, "Search for Freedom" (The Work of Sartre, Volume 1), by Istvàn Mészaros.
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The article reviews the books, "Karl Korsch Geist und Kultur. Schriften 1908-1918 Gesamtausgabe Band I," edited by Michael Buckmiller, "Karl Korsch Recht Rädtebewegung und Klassenkampf. Schriften zur Praxis der Arbeiterbewegung 1919-1923. Gesamtausgabe Band 2," edited by Michael Buckmiller, and "Karl Korsch: Revolutionary Theory," edited by Douglas Keller.
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Analyzes the intersection of African slavery, the English civil war and related political debates, the Black presence in England, the criminalization of poverty, and the migration of paupers overseas during the early modern period. Argues that the transmission and transformation of language, cultures, labour, and capital occurred while onboard ships of the Atlantic in addition to their ports of call in Africa, plantations in the West Indies and North America, and England. Based on a paper given at the World Turned Upside Down Conference at the Philadelphia Center for Early American Studies, November 1981.
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This paper critically re-examines the clerical proletarianization thesis from the perspective of the feminization of the early-twentieth-century Canadian office. The paper argues that the segmentation of the office work force along gender lines explains many of the changes in wages and working conditions erroneously interpreted by the proletarianization thesis as signs of the clerks' declining class position. More specifically, the expansion and rationalization of the office during the "administrative revolution," roughly from 1900 to 1930, depressed clerical earnings through the recruitment of cheap female labour into new routine jobs. Male clerks, while not significantly better off economically than skilled manual workers, moved up into the expanding ranks of management. Even within the female clerical sector there is little evidence of sweeping work degradation, given considerable variation in work and market conditions across industries, within and among firms, and among clerical tasks.
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This article reviews the book, "The Politics of Housework," edited by Ellen Malos.
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This article reviews two books: "Manpower Research and Labour Economics," edited by Gordon Swanson and Jon Michaelson, and "Unemployment and Inflation: Institutional and Structuralist Views," edited by Michael J. Piore.
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Because of its potential for disruption of war production, the 1943 steel strike was among the most important wartime disputes. It directly challenged the government's wage control policy, prompted unprecedented state intervention, and finally resulted in a restructuring of the National War Labour Board. Union organizing and economic objectives were in direct conflict with government anti-inflation policy and a federal enquiry was unable to devise a solution. Eventually, Mackenzie King who was sympathetic to the strikers' position and sensitive to CCF growth, was able to arrange a settlement. Subsequently, the settlement was repudiated by the NWLB and union-government relations were further exacerbated.
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This article reviews two books: "Travels into the Poor Man's Country: The Work of Henry Mayhew," by Anne Humpherys, and "The Other Nation: The Poor in English Novels of the 1840s and 1850s," by Sheila M. Smith.
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This article reviews three books: "Challenge to Power: Trade Unions and Industrial Relations in Capitalist Countries," by Klaus von Beyme, "Work and Power: The Liberation of Work and the Control of Political Power," edited by Tom R. Bums, Lars Erik Karlsson and Veljko Rus, and "Comparative Union Democracy: Organisation and Opposition in British and American Unions," by J. David Edelstein and Malcolm Warner.
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This article reviews the book, "Peasants in Africa: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives," edited by Martin A. Klein.
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This article reviews the book, "The Logic of Solidarity: Artisans and Industrial Workers in Three French Towns, 1871-1914," by Michael P. Hanagan.
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This article reviews the book, "Underdevelopment and Social Movements in Atlantic Canada," edited by Robert Brym and R. James Sacouman.
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This article reviews the book, "The Politics of Motherhood: Child and Maternal Welfare in England, 1900-1939," by Jane Lewis.
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Presents lists of recent labour-related acquisitions by the Public Archives of Canada, Archives of Ontario, Dalhouse University Archives, Glenbow - Albert Institute Archives, Hamilton Public Library, Kamloops Museum, McMaster University Mills Library Special Collections, British Columbia Provincial Archives, UBC Library Special Collections, University of Calgary Library, University of Manitoba Library, University of Western Ontario Regional Collection, and York University Archives. Notes the opening of the the Sudbury Area Industrial Relations and Labour Archives at Laurentian University in 1981.
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This article reviews the book, "Birds of Passage, Migrant Labour and Industrial Societies," by Michael J. Piore.
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This article reviews the book, "The Origins and Development of Labor Economics," by Paul J. McNulty.
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This article reviews the book, "Alexander Herzen and the Role of the Intellectual Revolutionary," by Edward Acton.
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This article reviews the book, "Revolutionary Situations in Europe, 1917-1922: Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary" = "Situations révolutionnaires en Europe, 1917-1922: Allemagne, Italie, Autriche-Hongrie" (Proceedings, 2nd International Colloquium, 25-27 March 1976), edited by Charles L. Bertrand.
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This article reviews two books, "Scandal, Sensation and Social Democracy: The SPD Press and Wilhelmine Germany, 1890-1914," by Alex Hall, and "Nazis and Workers. National Socialist Appeals to German Labor, 1919-1933," by Max H. Kele.
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This paper reconstructs the origins and activities of the Canadian Labour Defense League (CLDL) and assesses its role during a turbulent period in Canadian history. Led by Albert Edward Smith, a former Methodist minister, the CLDL rose to prominence during the worst years of the depression, promoting communist policies, agitating on behalf of the Communist Party of Canada and defending before the courts over 6,000 individuals who had ventured astray of the law because of their militant activities. The CLDL was especially effective after the arrest and conviction of Tim Buck and seven other communist leaders in 1931 under the controversial Section 98 of the Criminal Code. Skillfully intertwining communism with the defense of civil liberties in Canada, the CLDL launched a series of protest campaigns which not only brought to the organization a substantial following, but also had a significant impact on the political authorities in the nation.
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