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Jusqu'à présent, peu de recherches se sont intéressées au roulement des membres au sein des organismes professionnels. La présente étude comble, en partie, cette lacune en analysant les intentions de rester membre ou non (ainsi que de redevenir membre ou non) des professionnels appartenant (ou ayant appartenu) à un organisme professionnel en ressources humaines ou en relations industrielles. À partir de données collectées par questionnaires (n = 916 membres actifs et 217 membres inactifs), des analyses de régression ont permis d'isoler plusieurs facteurs explicatifs importants comme l'attachement affectif à l'organisme. Les résultats obtenus permettent, entre autres, de mettre à jour différentes logiques d'affiliation à un organisme professionnel.

Ce texte examine le profil des travailleurs qui sont prêts à réduire volontairement leurs heures de travail pour participer à un programme départage de l'emploi. Nos résultats montrent que, contrairement aux enquêtes agrégées, les variables de capital humain (salaire, éducation), le statut marital, le sexe ainsi que la présence d'enfants en bas âge ne jouent aucun rôle dans la détermination de la probabilité à participer à un programme départage de travail. Par contre, l'âge et l'ancienneté affectent à la baisse cette probabilité. Par ailleurs, ce qui est plus révélateur c'est le fait que l'attitude à l'égard du loisir, ainsi que les caractéristiques de l'emploi occupé par les individus sont les principaux déterminants des choix des individus en termes de réduction des heures de travail.

The article reviews the book, "Derecho sindical," by José Manuel Lastra Lastra.

The article reviews the book, "La puissance du stress : une valeur ajoutée," by Jean-Pierre Hogue and Pierre Brulé.

The article reviews and comments on the books, "Taking Care of Business: Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland, and the Tragedy of American Labor" by Paul Buhle; "Working for Wages: The Roots of Insurgency" by Martin Glaberman and Seymour Faber; "A Covert Life: Jay Lovestone, Communist, Anti-Communist, and Spymaster" by Ted Morgan; and "Democracy is Power, Rebuilding Unions from the Bottom Up" by Mike Parker and Martha Gruelle.

Les auteurs décrivent les aspects historiques, légaux et sociaux du Québec et les comparent avec ceux qui prévalent ailleurs. Ils brossent un tableau de la législation du travail, de la vie syndicale, de la négociation collective, de la gestion de la convention collective et de l'avenir des relations du travail. --Publisher's description

The article briefly reviews Francis Wheen's "Karl Marx," "Compass Points: Navigating the 20th Century," edited by Robert Chodos; William R. Haycraft's "Yellow Steel: The Story of the Earthmoving Equipment Industry ;" "Rosa Luxembourg: Reflections and Writings," edited by Paul Le Blanc; "No Gods, No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism," edited by Daniel Guérin, with translation by Paul Sharkey; Lynne Bowen's "Robert Dunsmuir, Laird of the Mines;" Nikolai Bukharin's "How It All Began: The Prison Novel;" Neil Tudiver's "Universities for Sale: Resisting Corporate Control over Canadian Higher Education;" Cynthia R. Commachio's "The Infinite Bonds of Family: Domesticity in Canada, 1850-1940;" Harry Fisher's "Comrades: Tales of a Brigadista in the Spanish Civil War;" Eve Blau's "The Architecture of Red Vienna, 1919-1934;" Alan Kidd's "State, Society, and the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England;" "Nationalism, Labour, and Ethnicity, 1870-1939," edited by Stefan Berger and Angel Smith; and "Tough Girls: Women Warriors and Wonder Women in Popular Culture," by Sherrie A. Inness.

The article reviews the book, "Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima," by M.M. Manring.

The article reviews the book, "The Wages of Influence: Labor and Management in Postwar Japan," by Andrew Gordon.

Argues that class analysis is still relevant to coalition building. Analyzes the UPS strike of 1997 which focused successfully on gaining broad support for part-time workers. Abridged version of a conference paper given in January 1998 at the Catholic University Leuven (Belgium).

Although there is substantial evidence that, on average, employee profit sharing improves company performance, little is known about the conditions under which it does so or the mechanisms through which it operates. This study identifies possible consequences and moderators of profit sharing, and then utilizes a data set from 108 Canadian profit-sharing firms to empirically examine them. Virtually all of the predicted consequences emerged, although to varying degrees. Three main factors moderated their emergence. Results were significantly more favorable in firms that had a high involvement managerial philosophy, that communicated extensively about profit sharing, and that allocated the profit-sharing bonus according to measures of individual employee performance.

The everyday life of people on the street has not received the attention it deserves in the history of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Quebec. This dissertation joins a small number of recent studies which redress this omission. It makes a significant contribution to existing examinations of North American cities and Canadian social history through the use of categories which are rarely employed and questions that are seldom posed in investigations of working-class history during the period of industrialization. A holistic treatment of Marxist philosophy provides the theoretical underpinnings for a sensitive engagement with daily street life in an urban milieu. As a site of intense sociability, Notre-Dame Street, the main street of the industrial suburb of Saint-Henri, offers a unique perspective on the intricate use of public space and its relations to social space. This thesis covers the period between the years of town incorporation in 1875 and annexation to the City of Montreal in 1905. Notre-Dame Street underwent significant transformations in this period. A main street of a small town on the outskirts of Montreal became the principal commercial street of a bustling industrial city. The 1890s was a decade of particularly marked shifts, characterized by significant population growth and dramatic changes in physical form. Class and ethnic tensions intensified as a result. A 1891 labour dispute at Merchants Manufacturing, a textile factory, took to the streets, and the local elite contested George A. Drummond's refusal to pay municipal taxes in 1897. Resistance to monopoly control of utilities was evidenced by the use of petitions and protets or notarized letters. Workers' parties, journalists, and municipal reform leagues increasingly challenged the hegemony of the local elite whose persistent practices of overspending resulted in a substantial debt and annexation. The study of a local street in an industrializing community demonstrates the prevailing social and political distribution of wealth and power. It reveals significant differences between the various class ideologies which were played out in the management of the public space of the street. An economic liberal ideology was instrumental to the development of the modern Western city through the creation of divisions between public and private spaces. Social usage, the visible presence of the working and marginal classes and women on city streets, suggests a different reality. A reconstruction of daily street life from a diversity of written and visual sources indicates that women, men, and children inhabited and frequented homes, shops, and offices, travelling to and from work, and various places of recreation. The rhythm of everyday street life was punctuated by unusual events of a celebratory, criminal, and tragic nature, which emphasize the connections between spatial structures and subjective experience. The local management of public space thus involved class antagonisms, characterized by negotiation, transgression, and resistance. This dissertation argues that the politics of this public space benefited the class interests of a grande bourgeoisie of Montreal and a local petite bourgeoisie, to the detriment of the working classes. These conflicting class interests were played out in a variety of different ways. The exclusion and appropriation of social and symbolic spaces were characterized by distinct property ownership and rental patterns. An anglophone grande bourgeoisie of Montreal owned vacant and subdivided lots. A francophone petite bourgeoisie dominated property ownership, and a majority of renters lived in flats on the main street and on adjoining streets. The shaping of the physical infrastructure was distinguished by the growth of monopolies and minimal local intervention. The civic manifestation of the ordered and ritualistic celebration of the parade emphasized a Catholic identity. Attempts to impose an appropriate and genteel code of behaviour on city streets led to the moral regulation and social control of criminal behaviour.

The article reviews the book, "Just Another Car Factory: Lean Production and its Discontents. Rinehart," by James Rinehart, Christopher Huxley, and David Robertson.

The current debate in academic and business circles in the United States over section 8(a)(2), the National Labor Relations Act’s ban on “dominated” labor organizations (company unions), the fact of dramatic union decline in the United States, and the post-NAFTA atmosphere in labor relations that features employer confidence, management aggressiveness against unions, an active search for a nonunion environment either through plant shutdowns or the encouragement of nonunion representation forms, has heightened business interest and renewed curiosity about company unions.

The article reviews the book, "States, Markets, Families: Gender, Liberalism and Social Policy in Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the United States," by Julia S. O'Connor, Ann Shola Orloff and Sheila Shaver.

The article reviews the book, "Strategic human resource management: a reader," by Christopher Mabey.

Employs class analysis to compare the position of the working class during the Russian revolution(s) of 1917 with the collapse of the Soviet regime in 1991. Concludes that the working class was much weaker in 1991, with little or no say on the outcome. The conclusion also comments that the peoples of the former Soviet Union paid a heavy price for the absence of socialism in the West.

Patrick Lenihan: From Irish Rebel to Founder of Canadian Public Sector Unionism, edited by Gil Levine, is reviewed.

As a park warden in the national parks of Canada's Rocky Mountains, Sid Marty came to know that beautiful and treacherous landscape as few men or women do. He was a mountain climber, rescue team member, firefighter, wildlife custodian, and adviser to tourists, adventurers, and people passing through. At all times, he was an acute observer of human and animal behaviour. In these pages he records with wry wit and bitter insight true stories of heroism and folly drawn from life in the high country. Marty writes vividly about a land and a way of life that are increasingly endangered. The visceral energy of his prose compels attention. This is a compulsive, alarming, and often hilarious read. --Publisher's description

This study builds on the union organizing and free-rider literature by examining determinants of dues-paying membership in the Temple Association of University Professionals. The TAUP, an American Federation of Teachers affiliate, is the collective bargaining representative for 992 members of the Temple University faculty, 52% of whom are dues-paying members. Results indicate that attitudes about unions in general, the cost of union dues, the perception of alternative faculty governance effectiveness, and the beliefs about the appropriateness of unionization for professional employees were related to joining behavior. In contrast, job attitudes about the employer, perceived bargaining unit effectiveness, and political ideology were not significant predictors of membership status.