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We examine the connections between neo-liberal forms of state restructuring and intervention in disabled people’s lives, looking in particular at how these have affected disabled women’s experi- ences of an income support program, the Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP), in Ontario, Canada. We first outline why and how state programs have been re-designed and imple- mented in increasingly harsh ways as a result of such neo-liberal forms of state restructuring. Even groups formerly considered among the ‘deserving poor’ have found their access to social assistance diminished. We then argue that this is an outcome of state programs, policies and practices which are re-asserting and more deeply entrenching ‘ableness’ as a necessary condition of citizenship, inclusion and access to justice. Finally, we illustrate how disabled women’s lives and well-being have been altered as a result of changes in the provision of these forms of state assistance using in- depth semi-structured interviews conducted with 10 women in Ontario.

The article reviews the book, "Farm to Factory: A Reinterprétation of the Soviet Industrial Revolution," by Robert C. Allen.

The article reviews the book, "Industrial Relations in China," by Bill Taylor, Chang Kai and Li Qi.

This study examines the multi-dimensional nature of the dual commitment to the organization and the union. Most research that has examined this concept has used only one dimension for each commitment. The most established, multi-dimensional scales of organizational and union commitment were examined in their relationship to work and union correlates. The participants were 489 members (a 65% response rate) of the Union of Nurses in Israel. The findings showed that while affective commitment and union loyalty are related to the correlates examined here, the additional dimensions added significant variance to the results already explained by affective commitment and union loyalty. For example, normative commitment is related to four correlates and the variable "willingness to work for the union" is also strongly related to the correlates. The study concluded that utilizing only one dimension to examine each commitment might result in the loss of valuable information on dual commitment.

The thesis examines the role, efficacy and influence of the five national English-language independent film and television production sector unions in the Canadian broadcasting policy network. While labour is typically classified as a civil society organization within policy networks studies, this thesis will examine the blanket applicability of this typology in analysing labour's engagement with issues that involve both their vested economic/industrial interests as well as broader social/cultural goals, using the unions' engagement with the issue of Canadian dramatic programming from 1998 to present as a case study.

The article reviews the book, "CCF Colonialism in Northern Saskatchewan: Battling Parish Priests, Bootleggers, and Fur Sharks," by David M. Quiring.

The book From Consent to Coercion: The Assault on Trade Union Freedoms, 3rd edition, by Leo Panitch and Donald Swartz, is reviewed.

Editorial introduction to the issue.

Over a million self-employed Canadians work every day but many of them are not entitled to the basic labour protections and rights such as minimum wages, maternity and parental leaves and benefits, pay equity, a safe and healthy working environment, and access to collective bargaining. The authors of "Self-Employed Workers Organize" offer a multi-disciplinary examination of the legal, political, and social realities that both limit collective action by self-employed workers and create huge impediments for unions attempting to organize them. Through case studies of newspaper carriers, rural route mail couriers, personal care workers, and freelance editors - four groups who have led pioneering efforts to organize - the authors provide a window into the ways political and economic conditions interact with class, ethnicity, and gender to shape the meaning and strategies of working men and women and show how these strategies have changed over time. They argue that the experiences of these workers demonstrate a pressing need to expand collective bargaining rights to include them. --Publisher's description

The article reviews the book, "Making Public Pasts: The Contested Terrain of Montreal's Public Memories, 1891-1930," by Alan Gordon.

The article reviews the book, "The Internet in the Workplace : How New Technology is Transforming Work," by Patricia Wallace.

The article reviews the book. "Working Children Around the World: Child Rights and Child Reality," by G.K. Lieten.

The article reviews the book, "Trade Unions in Europe: Meeting the Challenge," edited by Deborah Foster and Peter Scott.

The article reviews the book, "L’économie sociale dans les services à domicile," edited by Yves Vaillancourt, François Aubry and Christian Jetté.

This paper develops and applies several meta-analytic techniques to investigate the presence of publication bias in industrial relations research, specifically in the union-productivity effects literature. Publication bias arises when statistically insignificant results are suppressed or when results satisfying prior expectations are given preference. Like most fields, research in industrial relations is vulnerable to publication bias. Unlike other fields such as economics, there is no evidence of publication bias in the union-productivity literature, as a whole. However, there are pockets of publication selection, as well as negative autoregression, confirming the controversial nature of this area of research. Meta-regression analysis reveals evidence of publication bias (or selection) among US studies.

The article reviews the book, "The North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950," by Charles K. Armstrong.

International trade unionism faces a major challenge. Historically, Global Union Federations have been small and relatively remote international union secretariats with limited capacity to mobilize and speak on behalf of local members. However, with the changing architecture of international capital and nation states, these union bodies have started to renew themselves. The argument is that the emergent political economy provides the base upon which these unions can begin to campaign and represent members in more dynamic ways than in the past. Critical to these developments has been the promulgation of International Framework Agreements which adapt and extend familiar tools of representation. The outcome is the possibility of a multi-faceted form of trade unionism.

The article reviews the book, "In Practice: Studies in the Language and Culture of Popular Politics in Modern Britain," by James Epstein.

The article reviews the book, "Jobs and Incomes in a Globalizing World," by Ajit K. Ghose.

The article briefly reviews M. Ann Hall's "The Girl and the Game: A History of Women’s Sport in Canada;" Hugh D. Hinman's "Child Labour: An American History;" Robert Michael Smith's "From Blackjacks to Briefcases: A History of Commercialized Strikebreaking and Unionbusting in the United States;" P.W. Singer's "Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry;" Andrew Hemingway's "Artists on the Left: American Artists and the Communist Movement, 1926-1956;" "Why Do People Hate America?" by Ziauddin Sardar and Merryl Wyn Davies; Robert J. Alexander's "A History of Organized Labor in Brazil;" Richard D. Salvatore's "Wandering Paysanos: State Order and Subaltern Experience in Buenos Aires During the Rosas Era;" Juanita de Barros's "Order and Place in a Colonial City: Patterns of Struggle and Resistance in Georgetown, British Guiana, 1889-1924;" "Negotiations and Change: From the Workplace to Society," by Thomas A. Kochan and David B. Lipsky; and Carl Freedman's "The Incomplete Projects: Marxism, Modernity, and the Politics of Culture."