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The book Sexual Harrassment Investigations: How to Limit Your Liability and More: A Practical Guide, by Arjun P. Aggarwal and Madhu M. Gupta, is reviewed.

The article reviews the book, "Contingent Employment in Europe and the United States," edited by Ola Bergström and Donald Storrie.

The article reviews the book, "The Nonprofit Sector in Interesting Times: Case Studies in a Changing Sector," edited by Kathy L. Brock and Keith G. Banting.

En s’appuyant sur la théorie de l’échange social, cet article rend compte de l’effet médiateur des différentes formes de justice organisationnelle (distributive, procédurale, interactionnelle) dans la relation entre les pratiques en gestion des ressources humaines (GRH) inspirées du modèle de Lawler (1986) et l’engagement affectif. Les 134 répondants sont des directeurs aux services financiers d’une institution bancaire située au Québec. Des analyses de régression, effectuées selon les procédures de Kenny, Kashy et Bolger (1998), ont confirmé l’hypothèse de recherche. Ainsi, les résultats font ressortir que la perception de chacune des formes de justice organisationnelle représente une variable médiatrice essentielle pour que la mise en place des pratiques en GRH contribue efficacement au développement et à la consolidation de l’engagement des employés envers leur organisation.

The use of striker replacements is one of the most controversial and emotional issues facing those involved with the industrial relations system. However, a paucity of research has been done on the actual use of replacement workers and how that affects industrial relations outcomes, such as strike activity. Initial research suggests that the use of replacements is associated with longer strikes, supporting the con tention that the use of replacements should be prohibited. Using four case studies, we explore some of the dynamics of strikes that utilize replacements versus those that do not. The results suggest that, in ad dition to economic factors, social and psychological variables may be intricately linked to the relationship between the use of replacements and strike activity.

The article reviews and comments on "State of the World 2004. Special Focus: The Consumer Society" by the Worldwatch Institute, edited by Linda Starke, "The High Price of Materialism" by Tim Kasser, and "The Consumer Trap: Big Business Marketing in American Life" by Michael Dawson.

The article reviews the book, "Managing Employment Change," by Huw Beynon, Damian Grimshaw, Jill Rubery and Kevin Ward.

The article reviews the book, "Hidden Knowledge: Organized Labour in the Information Age," by D.W. Livingstone and Peter H. Sawchuck.

The article reviews the book, "Workplace Learning: A Critical Introduction," by John Bratton et al.

Unites an extensive collection of oral histories with the documentary record - newspapers, the census, and other government records - to examine women's employment during the Great Depression in Toronto, Ontario, discussing how privilege and disadvantage based on race and ethnicity, gender, and class influenced women's work experiences. In Toronto's garment industry and as clerical workers, domestics, and teachers, the women in this study had various levels of economic stability, came from varied ethnic and racial backgrounds, and enjoyed, as a consequence, different job options in a period when employment access was particularly important for women and their families. This article explores the intersection between identity and job access to show why this was so in the 1930's. Ultimately, individual experiences indicate that gender should not be given analytical predominance for understanding all depression-era labor markets. In some historical contexts and for some women, gender had less relevance to their experiences than race, ethnicity, or class.

Labour organizer John St. Amand describes his mentorship by Madeleine Parent and his work in Nova Scotia to build Canadian unions.

The article reviews the book, "Corporate Governance in Global Capital Markets," edited by Janis Sarra.

The article reviews the book, "The Oriental Question: Consolidating a White Man's Province, 1914-1941," Patricia E. Roy.

The systemic reproduction of migrant domestics as non-citizens within the countries where they work and reside renders them in a meaningful sense stateless, as far as access to state protection of their rights is concerned. This is despite the formal retention of legal citizenship status accorded by their home country, and, often, the legal entry as non-citizen migrant workers in the host country. In previous chapters, we have identified how the construction of non-citizenship is central to maintaining the vulnerability of foreign domestic workers in Canada. In this chapter, we consider the lived experiences of domestic workers themselves, based largely on a survey of foreign domestic workers living in Toronto. This chapter offers a comparative analysis of the experiences of two groups of women of colour, those of West Indian and Filipino origin, working in the homes of upper-middle- and upper-class Canadian families resident in Toronto, Ontario in the mid-1990s.

The article reviews the book, "Naming the System: Inequality and Work in the Global Economy," by Michael D. Yates.

A neoliberal electricity privatization experiment in Ontario, Canada’s largest province, was supposed to eliminate one of the country’s biggest public utilities and introduce market discipline to the system. The grand experiment would begin in 2001. But an activist campaign by an opposition coalition initiated by electricity workers was crucial in turning back the market-oriented reforms, and indeed turning it into one of the great political train-wrecks in Ontario history.

The article reviews the book, Going Public: The Role of Labor-Management Relations in Delivering Quality Government Services," edited by Jonathan Brock and David B. Lipsky.

The research draws attention to racial discrimination in employment in Canada, and discusses the impact on the status of racialized groups in the Canadian labour market. Racial discrimination occurs in Canada in at least two forms, economic discrimination, (when employers make generalized assumptions about the worth of racialized employees), and exclusionary discrimination (when members of a racialized group are not hired, paid equally or promoted regardless of their skills and experience). Recognizing the growth of the racialized population of Canada, the report emphasizes the concern about hierarchical structures affecting the distribution of opportunity in the labour market and argues that this growth in the racialized population makes the issue of racial discrimination one of great importance. If the racialized and immigrant population of Canada do not have equal access to the labour market, Canada will not reap the benefits of the potential of this growing proportion of its population.

The article reviews the book, "Land, Power, and Economics on the Frontier of Upper Canada," by John Clarke.

The article reviews the book, "Challenging The Market: The Stuggle To Regulate Work And Income," edited by Jim Stanford and Leah F. Vosko.