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The article reviews the book, "Creating German Communism, 1890-1990: From Popular Protests to Socialist State," by Eric D. Weitz.

Created in January 1942 to supply war materials to the Canadian military, the Port Alberni, British Columbia, plywood mill was a haven for women mill workers. Many of the women who worked at Alberni Plywoods moved to the Vancouver Island town from Canada's economically depressed Prairie Provinces. Although women comprised four-fifths of the mill's work force by January 1943, women were largely excluded from the skilled positions at the plant. A gender-based hierarchy remained in place throughout the war, with men in the supervisory and high-skill roles, and women concentrated in unskilled positions. After the war, the mill did not expel its female workforce, but it hired only males.

The article reviews the book, "Stepping Left: Dance and Politics in New York City, 1928-1942," by Ellen Graff.

The Ontario Workers Arts and Heritage Center has published a Workers' City Kit that describes three walking tours of significant labor history sites in Hamilton, Ontario. Historians used a vast array of local sources to create the walking tours. The first tour, "Downtown Hamilton," explores the city's late-19th-century industrial sites. The second, "Hamilton's East End," features the city's Stelco, Westinghouse, and International Harvester plants. The third, "Hamilton's North End," showcases the residential neighborhoods populated by Hamilton's industrial workers.

The article reviews the book, "Éducation et travail en Grande-Bretagne, Allemagne et Italie," edited by Annette Jobert, Catherine Marry, and Lucie Tanguy.

Cet article examine la migration et Γ intégration socio-économique des Canadiens français dans la vallée forestière de la Saginaw, au Michigan, entre 1840 et 1900. Les principales conclusions révèlent que les Canadiens français ont contribué de façon marquée à toutes les étapes du développement socio-économique de la vallée. Si plusieurs migrants se sont dirigés directement vers le Michigan, d'autre sont d'abord amorcé leur migration vers les centres forestiers du nord-est pour ensuite poursuivre leur migration en suivant le déplacement de la frontière forestière vers le Midwest. Leur «culture de mouvement,» conjuguée à une longue expérience de travail sur le continent dans le domaine forestier, a fait en sorte que le Michigan est apparu comme une destination toute naturelle dans l'esprit des Canadiens français à la recherche de meilleures conditions de vie.

The article reviews the book, "Histoire de la Côte Nord," edited by Pierre Frénette.

The article reviews the book, "Histoire de la Coopérative fédérée de Québec. L'industrie de la terre," by Jacques Saint-Pierre.

The recent "renaissance" of industrial homework is attributed to the search for flexible labour in processes of economic restructuring. This paper argues that common-sense ideas about the meaning of work in western capitalist society underpin the use of industrial homework as a flexible strategy for economic efficiency in the context of corporate and state restructuring of the economy. Drawing on an ethnographic study of homework in Southern Ontario, the paper discusses some of the ways in which the meaning of work is ambiguous, situationally specific and continuously redefined in the homework context. It is argued that this is possible because of the awkward location of the homework labour process, occupying as it does space and time usually associated with home and family.

This paper examines the life of Robert Raglan Gosden, 1882-1961. Gosden was an unskilled worker who joined the Industrial Workers of the World and advocated violent revolution. He took part in the Vancouver Island mining strikes of 1912-1914, and was a key player in the 1916 provincial election scandal. By 1919, however, he was an informant for the RCMP. The paper outlines Gosden's career and analyzes the complex way his class experience shaped his construction of masculinity as well as his radical politics and his later activity as a labour spy.

Pays tribute to the life and work of Stanley Bréhaut Ryerson—a prominent and influential Marxist historian who was also a member of the Communist Party. A photo of Ryerson is included.

The article reviews the book, "The Death of Uncle Joe," by Alison Macleod.

The article reviews the book, "Men at work: Labourers and building craftsmen in the towns of northern England, 1450-1750," by Dbnald Woodward.

The article reviews the book, "The Tenant League of Prince Edward Island, 1864-1867: Leasehold Tenure in the New World," by Ian Ross Robertson.

The article reviews the book, "The Ideology of the Socialist Party of America, 1901-1917," by Anthony V. Esposito.

Compilation of recent English/French publications on Canadian labour history that emphasize the period 1800-1975. Materials pertaining to the post-1975 period may also be included, although more selectively. [See the database, Canadian Labour History, 1976-2009, published at Memorial University of Newfoundland.]

The article reviews the book, "Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain: History, the New Left, and the Origins of Cultural Studies," by Dennis Dworkin.

The article reviews the book, "The Sky Never Changes: Testimonies from the Guatemalan Labor Movement," by Thomas F. Reed and Karen Brandow.

What are the trends shaping the future of work? How can unions respond in ways that will invigorate the labor movement for the 21st century? A paper addresses these questions by first presenting a critique of the future-of-work literature, followed by a detailed analysis of the best available Canadian evidence of the major forces already exerting pressures for change on workplaces. The shape of tomorrow's workplace is visible today. Unions will continue to play a vital role in Canadian society by adapting their organizing and collective bargaining strategies to the often contradictory economic, labor market, organizational, human resource management, and demographic trends evident today.

Until the Communist Party of Canada (CPC) turned to the tactic of Class Against Class in 1928-29, it confined its trade-union work almost wholly to "boring from within" the international craft unions of the American Federation of Labor/Trades and Labour Congress of Canada. Although "the party" played a dominant part in the very limited industrial conflict of the 1920s, its attempt to transform the international unions into organs of class struggle was wholly unsuccessful, in part because its "line" presumed a far higher degree of rank and file combativeness than actually existed, and in part because Canadian "labourists" actively resisted its best efforts. Where the CPC believed that the international unions needed to be "renovated," the internationals themselves disagreed. Socialist Plumbers' official John W. Bruce posed the question "Does the International Labour Movement need Salvaging?" which he then answered - to general labourist approval - by reaffirming the progressive character of craft unionism and its tried and tested, non-revolutionary methods. The party's failure to break through this complacency - and labourists' growing resentment of its attempts to do so - predisposed it to accept the Comintern's "New Line" in 1928.