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The article reviews the book, "'Enough to Keep Them Alive':Indian Welfare in Canada, 1873-1965," by Hugh Shewell.

The article reviews the book, "From UI to EI: Waging War on the Welfare State," by Georges Campeau.

The article reviews the book, "Message in a Bottle: The Making of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome," by Janet Golden.

The article reviews the book, "The Myth of the Good War: America in the Second World War," by Jacques R. Pauwels.

The article reviews the book, "Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal and Forgetting in Guatemala," by Daniel Wilkinson.

The article reviews the book, "Psychologie de la formation, jalons et perspectives," by Jacques Leplat.

The years between 1870 and 1939 were a crucial period in the growth of industrial capitalism in Canada, as well as a time when many women joined the paid workforce. Yet despite the increase in employment, women faced a difficult struggle in gaining fair remuneration for their work and in gaining access to better jobs. Discounted Labour analyses the historical roots of women's persistent inequality in the paid labour force. Ruth A. Frager and Carmela K. Patrias analyse how and why women became confined to low-wage jobs, why their work was deemed less valuable than men's work, why many women lacked training, job experience, and union membership, and under what circumstances women resisted their subordination. Distinctive earning discrepancies and employment patterns have always characterized women's place in the workforce whether they have been in low-status, unskilled jobs, or in higher positions. For this reason, Frager and Patrias focus not only on women wage-earners but on women as salaried workers as well. They also analyze the divisions among women, examining how class and ethnic or racial differences have intersected with those of gender. Discounted Labour is an essential new work for anyone interested in the historical struggle for gender equality in Canada. --Publisher's description. Contents: Pt. I. Image versus reality. 1. Industrial capitalism and women's work -- 2. White collars -- 3. In times of crisis -- Pt. II. Confronting the disjuncture. 4. Social reform and regulation -- 5. Resistance and its limits. Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-175) and index.

The article reviews the book, "Theorizing Historical Consciousness," edited by Peter Seixas.

The article reviews the book, "Saint-Laurent: La Main de Montréal," by Pierre Anctil.

This article sketches the rise and fall of industrial citizenship in Canada, and presents two very different models of citizenship that might replace it. It begins by defining the concept of citizenship, and explaining how industrial citizenship has conventionally been understood. It then traces the genealogy of industrial citizenship in Canadian labour law, and how the processes of feminization, deregulation, and globalization have challenged it as a normative ideal and undermined the conditions that have sustained it. The article concludes by considering two scenarios for industrial citizenship in the future: one in which the substance of citizenship is circumscribed by an emphasis on the market, and the other in which citizenship is extended beyond employment to work.

The public sector is an important employer of women in Canada, particularly at the provincial level. As a result, recent initiatives to cut employment in this sector have the potential to impact broader gender inequalities in the labour market. This study uses data from the Labour Force Survey to estimate provincial-level public and private sector wage differentials in British Columbia for men and women, and to assess the degree to which declines in public sector employment in B.C. may affect the overall gender wage gap. Results confirm that provincial public sector employment is both relatively more prevalent and advantageous for women than for men. Substantial declines in employment in this sector therefore have the potential to noticeably increase the gender wage gap.

The article reviews the book, "Deference and Defiance in Monterrey: Workers, Paternalism, and Revolution in Mexico, 1890-1950," by Michael Snodgrass.

This article analyzes the case of Mexico in order to provide an overview of citizenship at work in the context of a dependent regional economy in a global era. It examines the framework of rights (civil, political and social) linked to the condition of the working class in a state-corporatist labour regulation model. It also explores the repercussions for workers, both at work and beyond the workplace, of current transitions from this model as well as looking at the redefinition of labour rights now taking place. Four different segments of the labour force are used to illustrate the nature of the historical and continuing deficit in the exercise of citizenship at work. This preliminary exploration leads to the identification of some paths for future research.

The article reviews the book, "The Blue Eagle at Work: Reclaiming Democratic Rights in the American Workplace," by Charles J. Morris.

In the fall of 1873 Joseph Arch, the president of England's National Agricultural Labourers' Union (NALU), embarked on a mission to scout Canada as an emigration destination. He was received with much hospitality in Canada. Large-scale migration of British farmworkers had the support of an extraordinary consensus between the NALU, Canadian political and business elites, and Toronto labor leaders who wielded enormous influence over the labor movement in Ontario. The consensus was the result of developments in British agricultural unionism, Ontario's farming sector, Canada's immigration policy, and the Toronto labor establishment's approach to immigration. However, during the mission, tensions emerged between Arch and the Toronto labor establishment that strained the appearance of international union solidarity. These tensions revealed the treacherous nature of a relationship between labor leaders in an immigrant-receiving country and an organization, even a union, looking to promote emigration.

The article reviews the book, "La négociation au travail," edited by Michèle Grosjean and Lorenza Mondada.

The article reviews the book, "British Trade Unions since 1933," by Chris Wrigley.

Si le concept de « contrat psychologique » est désormais largement répandu dans la littérature, les instruments de sa mesure font encore défaut. Rousseau a proposé en 1990 le Psychological Contract Index (PCI), qu’elle a actualisé en 1998-2000. Cet article vise à adapter cet outil en France et à le compléter en testant deux mesures de la réalisation du contrat psychologique : une mesure directe et une mesure soustractive. Il pose aussi le problème de la mesure de la réciprocité propre au contrat psychologique et s’appuie sur le modèle de Morrison et Robinson pour tester une relation modératrice entre les scores de réalisation de l’entreprise et ceux de l’employé. Les résultats d’une enquête menée auprès de 217 cadres français confirment partiellement les hypothèses de l’auteure. Ils montrent que la structure factorielle du PCI manque de stabilité et doit faire l’objet de nouvelles recherches quant à sa validité : 14 facteurs sont identifiés au lieu des sept avancés par Rousseau dans le PCI. Conformément aux hypothèses posées, c’est la mesure directe de la réalisation du contrat qui démontre la meilleure validité. En outre, l’auteur valide le rôle modérateur de la réalisation du contrat psychologique par le salarié.

The article reviews the book, "The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media," by Peter Steven.

This book deals with the Crown Employees Collective Bargaining Act and the Public Service Act, the statutes that primarily govern unionized and non-unionized employment and labour relations in the Ontario Public Service and Crown Agencies. The book provides a full review of all sections, and all judicial and arbitral consideration, of both acts. It also discusses the unique treatment of the Crown and its employees in the Public Sector Labour Relations Transition Act and the Employment Standards Act.