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New Corporation, Technology and the Workplace: Global Strategies, Local Change, by Timothy Marjoribanks, is reviewed.
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This paper analyzes the evolution of Jim Crow employment patterns in the Canadian railway industry from the 1880s to World War I. It presents race as a central organizing principle in employers' decision to hire black railwaymen for their sleeping and dining car departments. Canadian railway managers actively sought out African American, West Indian, and African Canadian labour, believing that they constituted an easily manipulated group of workers. White railroaders fought the introduction of black employees, arguing that they undermined white manhood and railway unionism. Trade union leaders demanded and won a racialized division of the workforce, locking black workers into low-waged service position when they had initially enjoyed a broader range of employment options. In effect, white railway trade unionists and their employers embraced segregation as a rational model for peaceful working conditions. Black railroaders, on the other hand, resisted the encroachment of segregationist policies by forming their own union, the Order of Sleeping Car Porters. They pressured for change by exposing the scope of Jim Crow practices in the railway industry and trade unionism.
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The article reviews the book, "Labour before the Law: The Regulation of Workers' Collective Action in Canada, 1900-1948," by Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker.
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This study concerns one department of Canadian government - Employment and Immigration Canada (EIC) - and one policy field - labour market policy - from 1976 to 1991. McElligott unearths resistance in workplaces where 'cutting edge' neoconservative managers have been trying to reshape government services, and inserts front-line workers into state theories, policy debates, and progressive political strategies. He argues that the neglect of these workers makes key state theories incomplete and separates policy-making theory - and practice - from actual state outputs. One consequence is that progressive thinkers and activists have forgone many promising strategic opportunities." "Beyond Service challenges current trends in administrative theory and policy-making, and will be of interest to academics, policy research bodies, union researchers, educators, and, most important, front-line government workers themselves. --Publisher's description
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Cooperative forms of enterprise are often held up as a progressive, moderate alternative to the privations of the capitalist market economy. This paper considers the Prince Rupert Fishermen's Co-op and its relations with organized labour in the north of British Columbia. The paper describes a contradiction within the co-op based on the possibilities of social ownership within a market economy. Through a discussion of the escalating labour conflicts between the co-op and its non-member employees the weaknesses of co-operative enterprises are revealed.
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The article reviews the books, "Domestic Goods: The Material, the Moral, and the Economic in the Post-War Years," by Joy Parr, and "A History of Domestic Space: Privacy and the Canadian Home," by Peter Ward.
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The article reviews the book, "Gentlemen Engineers: The Working Lives of Frank and Walter Shanly," by Richard White.
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The article reviews the book, "Canadian Marxists and the Search for a Third Way," by J. Peter Campbell.
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The article reviews the book, "Rédaction d’une convention collective : guide d’initiation," edited by Serge Tremblay.
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The article reviews the book, "Citizens and Nation: An Essay on History, Communication, and Canada," by Gerald Friesen.
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The article reviews the book, "Rebel Life: The Life and Times of Robert Gosden, Revolutionary, Mystic, Labour Spy," by Mark Leier.
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The article is the text of the speech given in honour of Shirley Goldenberg as recipient of CIRA's award at its annual conference in 2000.
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This study examines the nature of education and training for full-time union staff and officials in Canada and explores some of the factors that affect such provision. It was designed to complement similar studies of other countries and to contribute to more general discussions of labor education. The study compares the opportunities of training for Canadian union staff with similar provision in Britain and the US and locates the discussion about further training within the contexts of existing programs of labor education and current debates about the revitalization of the labor movement. The study concludes with a call for more systematic discussion of these issues and analysis of different programmatic models.
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The article reviews the book, "The World's Strongest Trade Unions: The Scandinavian Labor Movement," by Walter Galenson.
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The article reviews the book, "For Home, Country, and Race: Constructing Gender, Class, and Englishness in the Elementary School, 1880-1914," by Stephen Heathorn.
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Hard Work: The Making of Labor History, by Melvyn Dubofsky, is reviewed.
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