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The article reviews the books, "Social Exclusion and Anti-Poverty Policy : A Debate," edited by Charles Gore and José B. Figueiredo, and "Lessons for Welfare Reform: An Analysis of the AFDC Caseload and Past Welfare-to-Work Programs" by Dave M. O'Neill and June Ellenoff O'Neill.
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La mondialisation n'est pas un phénomène qui détermine la capacité de régulat ion des syndi cats à l 'échelon des établissements. Son impact ne peut être saisi qu'à travers les dynamiques sociales propres aux milieux de travail touchés par le changement. Cet article identifie les conditions et les ressources associées à la régulation paritaire des changements et évalue en quoi les exigences de cette régulation dans les milieux de travail fortement intégrés à l'économie mondiale diffèrent de celles qui caractérisent les milieux de travail moins orientés vers les marchés internationaux. Nous concluons que le syndicat plus exposé à l'économie internationale doit faire preuve d'une plus forte capacité d'action pour assurer sa présence dans le processus de régulation.
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The article reviews the book, "Dying for Gold: The True Story of the Giant Mine Murders," by Lee Selleck and Francis Thompson.
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The article reviews the book, "The Work of Reconstruction: From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina, 1860-1870," by Julie Saville.
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The period between 1902 and 1914 witnessed a flourishing of interest in military matters in Ontario. Military activity in the province centred primarily on the Canadian Militia, a part-time citizen army in which thousands of young men participated. Contemporary advocates of military service saw the Militia as a "school of manliness" which would instill a variety of civic virtues in its members. This paper examines the question of working-class participation in the Militia, looking in particular at how the concept of "masculinity" interacted with issues of class in an industrial-capitalist society. It identifies a number of attractions which Militia service held for working-class recruits; it also points to important contradictions between gendered social ideals and class-based reality. In particular, the difficult relationship between the Militia and organized labour, and the incompatability of the "rough culture" of the working classes with middle-class ideals of "manliness," are discussed in depth. On a theoretical level, it suggests that while "masculinity" provides a vital basis for understanding the history of the Militia in Ontario, it cannot be seen in isolation from other factors, most notably class relations.
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Using a unique data set, this paper analyzes how the relationship between managerial compensation and firm performance changes as one moves down the organizational hierarchy. It is found that predictions of efficiency wage, agency, and tournament models of compensation differ for different hierarchical levels in organizations. The results add support to the notion that a variety of models may be necessary to explain organizational compensation strategies.
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In the study of the economic and labour history of the West Coast Native people of British Columbia most research has centered on activities such as fishing, farming and forestry. This thesis turns the attention from what was primarily men's work in the dominant society to the Coast Salish wool working industry where women worked with the help of their children and husbands. I examine the significant economic and cultural contribution Coast Salish woolworkers had on West Coast society, the meeting place woolworkers' sweaters provided between the Coast Salish and the newcomers and the changes which took place in the industry during the last century. This story includes many voices most of which are recorded in newspapers, correspondence and journals, and in the memories of those that lived and worked in the industry.
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The article reviews the book, "Young Sidney Hook: Marxist and Pragmatist," by Christopher Phelps.
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The article reviews the book, "Workers in a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy," by Kim Moody.
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In July 1997, the CAW-backed workers at nine Vancouver Starbucks outlets became the first "barristas" in North America to secure a collective agreement with the trendy, Seattle-based international coffee giant. On the first anniversary of that historical union drive, Labour/Le Travail spoke with 25-year-old-Laurie Banong, Starbucks employee and union activist, about organizing young service sector workers, working with the CAW, and what trade unionism means to her. --Editors' introduction
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The article reviews the book, "Striking Flint: Genora (Johnson) Dollinger Remembers the 1936-37 General Motors Sit-Down Strike," by Genora Johnson Dollinger and Susan Rosenthal.
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The article reviews the book, "Homo Economics: Capitalism, Community, and Lesbian and Gay Life," edited by Amy Gluckman and Betsy Reed.
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The article reviews the book, "Utopianism and Radicalism in a Reforming America, 1888-1918," Francis Robert Shor.
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The article reviews the book, "Changing Lives: Women in Northern Ontario," edited by Margaret Kechnie and Marge Reitsma-Street.
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The article reviews the book, "Organizing the Unemployed: Community and Union Activists in the Industrial Heartland," by James J. Lorence.
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The article reviews the book, "Power at Odds: The 1922 National Railroad Shopmen's Strike, by Colin J. Davis.
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This study presents the first empirical evidence of the impact of unions on benefits and total compensation in Canada. It also provides new evidence on the union wage impact and union wage differentials for a wide range of selected groups in the labor market. Using micro data from the Canadian General Social Survey of 1989, the results show that the union impact is to increase total compensation by 12.4%, compared to an impact of 10.4% on wages. Even though the union impact on total compensation is 2% greater than the impact on wages, given that benefits comprise only about 6% of total compensation in this sample, the percentage impact of unions on benefits is estimated to be 45.5%. This latter estimate implies a very substantial impact on unions on benefits in Canada, as large or larger than those reported in the US.
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Until well into the 20th century, Newfoundland and Labrador's primary economic activity was in the fisheries. Most of the workforce was in the inshore cod fishery, a small-boat operation in which family enterprises caught, split, salted and dried the fish to produce a finished product that was traded to a merchant. Fishers were not wage workers but commodity producers, like farmers. Even in the Labrador and Grand Banks fisheries and the annual seal hunt, the workers were treated as independent contractors, paying for their own gear and supplies and receiving shares rather than wages. --Introduction
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The article reviews the book, "Recast Dreams: Class and Gender Consciousness in Steeltown," edited by D.W. Livingstone and J. Marshall Mangan.
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