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The article reviews the book, "New Deals: Business, Labor and Politics in America, 1920-1935.," by Colin Gordon.

The article reviews the book, "The Economics of the Trade Union," by Alison L. Booth.

The article reviews the book, "Desert Capitalism: Maquiladoras in North America's Western Industrial Corridor," by Kathryn Kopinak.

The article reviews the book, "Pathways to Change: Case Studies of Strategic Negotiations," by Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Robert B. McKersie and Richard E. Walton.

Reassesses the 1931 Estevan miners' strike and riot in light of internal RCMP reports recently released under the federal Access to Information Act. Discusses reporting by local police officials at the time, which was more nuanced and sympathetic to the miners than had previously been believed. However, the RCMP was also under heavy pressure from higher authorities and mine owners to crack down. Three miners were killed (one died in hospital) and eight others injured by the police in a violent confrontation on September 29, 1931. A photograph is reproduced of the common grave where the three miners were buried under the epitaph, "Murdered by RCMP."

L'auteur rappelle d'abord les pistes tracées par les travaux néoréalistes en relations industrielles, puis il propose une perspective se situant dans le cadre d'une hétérodoxie institutionnaliste française afin de prolonger cette perspective. Après avoir distingué au sein du rapport salarial les règles organisationnelles et les règles institutionnelles, il porte son attention sur le système de relations professionnelles défini comme l'ensemble des règles institutionnelles. Il développe ensuite une hypothèse d'endogénéité relative des règles de contenu du système de relations professionnelles vis-à-vis des régimes d'accumulation. Puis il élabore une typologie qui met en évidence le type de relations professionnelles qui favorise l'enchaînement macroéconomique propre à chaque régime d'accumulation. Enfin, il considère les différences nationales qui sont mises sur le compte de la capacité exogène des acteurs, dotés d'une rationalité procédurale, à mettre en phase dans le temps les règles du système de relations professionnelles avec la régulation en place, d'où la possibilité de fortes marges d'indétermination. // Three perspectives that have emerged from neorealist studies in industrial relations are explored. An initial analytical contribution of the paper is to hierarchize the various categories of rules, particularly by distinguishing procedural rules from content rules and labor relations rules from human resource management rules. Through the concept of the system of rules, the paper examines the national character of rules located in a single economic space and examines the interaction of these rules with this space. Strategies pursued by collective actors are identified.

Over the past two decades there has emerged a generalized critique of the quality of the labour supply in industrialized countries in relation to concerns about corporate profitability and national competitiveness. Frequently, the critique has focused, in whole or in part, on the so-called 'literacy' or 'basic skills' competencies of workers. This thesis examines the problematizing of workers' literacy competencies at a time when general educational attainments in Western countries have reached unprecedentedly high levels. Both broad-based and historically informed, the study focuses on the United States, Canada and England over the period of the mid-1980s through the early 1990s. The motives of the agencies and interests which have proclaimed a worker 'basic skills crisis', as well as the processes through which their claims have been disseminated, are analyzed. The ideological and material contexts in which these claims have resonated are described. The thesis concludes that the workforce basic skills 'crisis' is a socially constructed one which has little or no basis in fact. It is an issue which has had utility for a number of interests (including business, labour, educationalists and the state sector), however, and this, it is argued, accounts for the role they have taken in its social construction. The evidence presented here establishes that the workforce literacy issue has had real consequences for workers. It has operated to scapegoat sections of the working class and to further marginalize less formally qualified workers in their workplaces and in the labour market. This-the industrial relations context in which the putative workforce 'basic skills crisis' has operated-forms the principal focus of the thesis. The impacts on workers of actions stemming from the acceptance of the idea of a basic skills crisis-including increasing scrutiny of literacy and language competencies of workers and the promotion and establishment of 'basic skills' programmes of questionable value in workplaces-ought to give cause for many who have endorsed claims of a 'crisis' and embraced workplace literacy to re-evaluate their position.

The response of the Canadian labor movement to sexual orientation discrimination has been mixed and uneven. The Canadian Labour Congress, along with several provincial federations and a growing number of unions, have taken a leadership role in promoting equal rights for gays and lesbians, while other labor organizations have done nothing at all. Public sector and Canadian-based unions are much more likely to have been active than have American-based unions, even though there are important exceptions to these trends. These developments are partially explained by regional dynamics, membership demographics, degree of activism, the presence of women's committees, and organizational leadership.

The article reviews the book, "The Fabrication of Labor: Germany and Britain, 1640-1914," by Richard Biernacki.

Cet article offre un cadre pour l'analyse comparative des orientations politiques des syndicats, en distinguant des types idéaux idéologiques et identitaires qui se rapportent, premièrement, à la négociation sur le marché du travail ; deuxièmement, au renforcement de l'intégration des travailleurs dans la société ; troisièmement, à la poursuite conflictuelle d'intérêts de classe. L'argument est qu'en pratique les mouvements syndicaux européens ont généralement épousé une combinaison de ces orientations dans laquelle deux des trois éléments ont été retenus (souvent de façon contradictoire) comme prioritaires. Les cas de la Grande-Bretagne, de l'Italie et de l'Allemagne sont utilisés pour démontrer différentes combinaisons d'idéologies et d'objectifs, et également pour révéler comment les identités héritées ont récemment été mises sous tension.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "Immigration and Labour: Australia and Canada Compared" published in "Labour/Le Travail."

The article reviews the book, "The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class," by Anna Clark.

The article reviews the book, "Workers and Working Classes in the Middle East: Struggles, Histories, Historiographies," by Zachary Lockman.

Bryan Palmer is succeeding Gregory Kealey, who is stepping down as editor after 21 years. Mark Leier is succeeding Palmer as the book review editor; Palmer had held the post for nearly 15 years. In turn, Andrew Parnaby and Richard Rennie are the new co-editors of the Notebook, succeeding Leier. Andrée Lévesque continues as the French book review editor. Various editorial board changes are noted. As incoming editor, Palmer offers a reflection on the journal and its path forward.

The article reviews the book, "E. P. Thompson-Objections and Oppositions," by Bryan D. Palmer.

The phenomenon of offshore migrant labour in Canada poses an interesting challenge to the literature dealing with unfree labour relations in capitalist societies. This thesis uses in-depth interviews with Jamaican migrant labourers in Ontario, along with supporting statistical data to further our understanding of the subjective domain of labour relations in agriculture. According to the literature The Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program constitutes a system of unfree labour, and many employers in the Ontario agricultural sector benefit from this system. Jamaican migrant workers do not necessarily share this view of unfreedom. While recognising the definite restrictions as defined in the contract, these migrants accept the conditions of employment as a trade off for the opportunity of material advancement not available to them in Jamaica. This discrepancy over the definition of unfree labour reflects the disparities between the North and the South, and needs to be addressed.

Cette étude, réalisée auprès de 1 133 professionnels en ressources humaines au Québec, a identifié, au moyen d'une analyse typologique des loyautés professionnelle et organisationnelle, trois groupes de professionnels. Plusieurs différences de perception concernant les facteurs de remise en question de la carrière ont servi conjointement avec d'autres variables sociodémographiques et de carrière à distinguer et nommer ces trois types de professionnels. Il s'agit des « professionnels établis », « en voie d'être établis » et « non établis ». Une discussion replace ces résultats dans le contexte du renouvellement de la fonction « ressources humaines » qui influence non seulement les tâches et rôles des professionnels du domaine, mais aussi certaines facettes de leur carrière.

Depuis quelques années, les services de ressources humaines font l'objet de vives critiques, et ce, dans un contexte de ressources de plus en plus rares. Une façon de contrer cette menace de l'environnement est de « faire les choses autrement » en se structurant différemment. Par exemple, il est possible de passer d'une structure par fonctions (avec des spécialistes) à une structure par équipes multidisciplinaires (avec des généralistes). Le but de cette étude est d'évaluer dans quelle mesure cette nouvelle forme de structuration — par équipes multidisciplinaires — d'une direction de ressources humaines (DRH) a un impact sur les acteurs touchés par cette réorganisation (gestionnaires et membres de la DRH). Inspirées principalement de l'approche de l'évaluation des DRH par les clients, deux enquêtes par questionnaires ont été réalisées dans une organisation du secteur public. A partir d'un échantillon de 138 individus (79 gestionnaires et 59 membres de la DRH), l'analyse statistique révèle que la restructuration est perçue plus positivement par les gestionnaires que par les membres de la DRH.

The article reviews the book, "L'indemnisation des victimes d'accidents du travail et des maladies professionnelles : aspects juridiques en droit québécois," by Michel Sansfaçon.

A study investigates whether there is evidence of age-related impairment in injury occurrence among assemblers in the Swedish automobile industry. A retrospective analysis of injuries sustained by male and female assemblers over a 10-year period was conducted, employing 5 age categories divided in to 10 yearly strata and 3 time periods. Age-related injury ratios (IR) were calculated for all injuries. Contrary expectation, IRs for older assemblers were generally low while consistently high IRs were recorded for younger assemblers, and for both male and female workers.