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In the early 1970s, when women's history began to claim attention as an emerging discipline in North American universities, it was dominated by a middle-class Anglo-Saxon bias. Today the field is much more diverse, a development reflected in the scope of this volume. Rather than documenting the experiences of women solely in a framework of gender analysis, its authors recognize the interaction of race, class, and gender as central in shaping women's lives, and men's. These essays represent an exciting breakthrough in women's studies, expanding the borders of the discipline while breaking down barriers between mainstream and women's history. --Publisher's description. Contents: When the mother of the race is free': Race, reproduction, and sexuality in first-wave feminism / Mariana Valverde -- Maidenly girls' or 'designing women'? The crime of seduction in turn-of-the-century Ontario / Karen Dubinsky -- The 'hallelujah lasses': Working-class women in the Salvation Army in English Canada, 1882-92 / Lynne Marks -- The alchemy of politicization: Socialist women and the early Canadian left / Janice Newton -- Wounded womanhood and dead men: Chivalry and the trials of Clara Ford and Carrie Davies / Carolyn Strange -- Class, ethnicity, and gender in the Eaton strikes of 1912 and 1934 / Ruth A. Frager -- 'Feminine trifles of vast importance': Writing gender into the history of consumption / Cynthia Wright -- Making 'new Canadians': Social workers, women, and the reshaping of immigrant families / Franco Iacovetta.

Examines the differing interpretations of Foner and Du Bois on labour and class struggle during the Reconstruction period following the American Civil War. Du Bois focused on the revolutionary, proletarian character of Reconstruction as black workers asserted their political power in the American South, despite violent white opposition. Foner, in contrast, emphasized the triumph of the white Northern bourgeoisie. Argues that Du Bois rightly pointed to what he called " the American blindspot," i.e., the racial prejudice that precluded white labour from forming a partnership with blacks, instead colluding with capital. Concludes that Du Bois' perspective put him at odds with other Marxist analysts, including the US Communist Party, which during its Popular Front period of the 1930s considered Reconstruction to be a bourgeois revolution.

The article reviews the books "The Battle for Homestead, 1880-1892: Politics, Culture and Steel," by Paul Krause and "The River Ran Red: Homestead 1892," edited by David P. Demarest.

The article reviews the book, "Guide d'Histoire du Québec du Régime Français à nos jours," edited by Jacques Rouillard, Jacques.

The article reviews the book, "The Spirit of 1848: German Immigrants, Labor Conflict, and the Coming of the Civil War," by Bruce Levine.

The article reviews the book, "La question indienne au Canada," by Renée Dupuis.

The article reviews the book, "Le déracinement des écoles normales : le transfert de la formation des maîtres à l'université," by Thérèse Hamel.

The article reviews the book, "Jock Tar in History: Essays in the History of Maritime Life and Labour," edited by Colin Howell and Richard Twomey.

Reports that two recent journal articles have received awards. Corrects the omission of the cover credit as well as a line that was dropped from the article, "With Our Own Two Hands," both published in the previous issue.

Discusses the articles, research reports, document and critique sections, and review essays published in the issue. Three papers from the Canadian Committee on Labour History's symposium in June 1992 are also presented. A paper published in v. 25 of the journal has received an award. A correction is made to page 324 of the previous issue, for which the editor apologizes to the review writer.

This volume completes the series of RCMP Security Bulletins for late 1933 and 1934. It begins a new series on the Depression years. These Bulletins allow us to see not only the nature of RCMP Security concerns but also the underlying ideology of the Security Service. The volume also contains a critical introduction by Gregory S. Kealey. --Publisher's description

This volume documents the RCMP's surveillance activities during 1935 and contains informants', agents', and operatives' perspectives on developments within the Communist Party of Canada on labour unions, and on unemployed organizations. It includes coverage of the 1935 federal election, the successes of red unions, and the development of popular front strategies. The introduction by historian John Manley provides a considered overview of the events. The volume is fully indexed. --Publisher's description

This volume is a continuation of the RCMP Security Bulletins series on the Depression. The RCMP Security Service reported in these Bulletins on security and intelligence matters to Cabinet and other government officals. Those for 1936 contain much material on labour and the left. --Publisher's description

These Bulletins show that the RCMP's continued fascination with the Communist Party of Canada (CPC) was broadened to include the Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) in 1937. The RCMP believed the CPC's fingerprints were all over the CIO. Other topics examined in the bulletins include reports on the Spanish Civil War, municipal elections, ethnic newspapers and strikes. --Publisher's description

This volume completes the Depression Years Series and, for the time being, our publication of the RCMP Bulletins, John Manley examines the RCMP facination with the CPC and how the CPC coped with the Popular Front and the Nazi-Soviet pact. Manley concludes that the CPC's anti-war line was a disaster, claiming that "undoubtedly..., the Comintern was the RCMP's best friend"(29) --Publisher's description

The article reviews the book, "Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty, and the Underclass," by Christopher Jencks.

Introduces the Communist writer, educator, and activist Margaret Fairley, who in the 1950s edited a book of Canadian oral labour history that was left unfinished. The book, entitled "With Our Own Hands," included three manuscripts - memoirs of Claude Theodore, Peter Cordoni, and A.J. MacDonald - that are published for the first time. Collectively, they shed light on the largely rural, immigrant, working-class experience of Canada in the early 20th century. MacDonald's reminiscences also describe life in the village of Cadott, Wisconsin, in the 1890s, before the family moved to Alberta. The manuscripts are located at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.

The article reviews the book, "The Eastern Airlines Strike: Accomplishments of the Rank-and-File Machinists and Gains for the Labor Movement," by Ernie Mailhot, Judy Stranahan, and Jack Barnes.

Cette étude compare l'influence, sur le risque qualitatif d'accidents, de deux lignes d'assemblage de matériel de transport. L'organisation de la production de ces lignes diffère par le nombre de postes réduit sur l'une d'elles, ce qui intensifie la coactivité entre travailleurs à chaque phase du processus. Les 150 accidents avec perte de temps des assembleurs survenus sur ces deux lignes d'assemblage de véhicules routiers pendant trois ans sont regroupés en six classes homogènes, à partir d'une analyse multivariée de leurs caractéristiques. Aucun lien significatif n'est toutefois observé entre ces classes d'accidents et les lignes d'assemblage. Il est discuté que l'intensification de la coactivité puisse être un facteur de contribution à la fréquence des accidents mais non à leur type.

The article reviews the book, "Le Mariage en question," by Renée Dandurand.