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The article reviews the book, "Managerial Unionism : Issues in Perspective," by Baldev R. Sharma.

Using data from a large Ontario steel mill, it is argued that grievance outcomes provide a useful proxy to measure bargaining power. Three independent variables are constructed: 1. the match of a complaint with a specific grievable category in the collective agreement (the complaint/grievance match), 2. the general grievance type, and 3. the work site (works division). Various hierarchical log-linear/logit models are fitted to estimate grievance outcomes. The model that best fits the data is one that includes the interaction between the complaint/grievance category match and grievance type as well as the interaction between the complaint/grievance category match and works division. The results show that under most conditions, bargaining outcomes favor management. Under a specific constellation of conditions, however, bargaining outcomes favor labor. Thus it is only under this specific set of conditions that labor has greater bargaining power than management.

In 1967, the government of Canada legislated an innovative mechanism for resolving collective bargaining disputes in the federal public service. Under this legislation, the bargaining agent involved chooses unilaterally whether any impasse in forthcoming negotiations would be resolved by a strike or by arbitration. The dispute resolution choice has been the subject of much controversy, with the debate generally focusing on 2 related issues. First is the question of what factors have influenced the choice of bargaining route and, in particular, the trend away from arbitration. The 2nd issue concerns the impact of the new dispute resolution system on wages. The union's choice between strike and arbitration route is modeled simultaneously with wage determination in the federal public service using the standard self-selection methodology. The model permits exploration of the factors influencing the choice of bargaining route as well as the effect of this choice on wages.

Frances Swyripe here presents the interpretive study of women of Ukrainian origin in Canada. She analyses the images and myths that have grown up around them, why they arose, and how they were used by the leaders of the community. Swyripa argues that ethnicity combined with gender to shape the experience of Ukrainian-Canadian women, as statelessness and national oppression in the homeland joined with a negative group stereotype and minority status in emigration to influence women's roles and options. She explores community attitudes towards the peasant immigrant pioneer, towards her daughters exposed to the opportunities, prejudice, and assimilatory pressure of the Anglo-Canadian world, towards the 'Great Women' evoked as models and sources of inspiration, and towards the familiar baba. In these stereotypes of the female figure, and in the activities of women's organizations, the community played out its many tensions: between a strong attachment to canada and an equally strong attachment to Ukraine; between nationalists who sought to liberate Ukraine from Polish and Soviet rule and progressives who saw themselves as part of an international proletariat; between women's responsibilities as mothers and homemakers and their obligation to participate in both Canadian and community life. Swyripa finds that the concerns of community leaders did not always coincide with those of the grassroots. The differences were best expressed in the evolution of the peasant immigrant pioneer woman as a group symbol, where the tensions between a cultural ethnic consciousness and a politicized national consciousness as the core of Ukrainian-Canadian identity were played out in the female figure. --Publisher's description

The article reviews and comments on "Love of Worker Bees" and "A Great Love," two reprint collections of fiction by the Bolshevik feminist, Aleksandra Kollontai.

The article reviews the book, "Histoire de Montréal depuis la Confédération," by Paul-André Linteau.

Discusses the visit of the Canadian socialist revolutionary propagandist, John Amos "Jack" McDonald, to New Zealand in 1921. Although invited by the New Zealand Communist Party, McDonald, to the party's dismay, was a catalyst in precipating a split with the nascent West Coast Communist Federation. Documentation of McDonald's seven-month stay, during which he spoke extensively, is drawn from police records, meeting minutes, correspondence, and the labour newspaper, "Grey River Argus."

The article reviews the book, "Pay for Performance : Evaluating Performance Appraisal and Merit Pay," by G.T. Milkovich and A.K. Wigdor.

The article reviews the book,"Limited livelihoods: Gender and Class in Nineteenth-Century England," by Sonya O. Rose.

The autobiography of Fred W. Thompson - socialist, Wobbly, organizer, soapboxer, editor, class-war prisoner, educator, historian, and publisher. This book is an important contribution to the understanding of working-class radicalism in twentieth-century North America. --Website description

The article reviews the book, "The Changing Workplace: Reshaping Canada's Industrial Relations System," by Daniel Drache and Harry Glasbeek.

During the early 1980s, equal opportunity officials were appointed within the management hierarchies of most New South Wales (NSW) government organizations. A study investigated women's choices of representation for discrimination grievances during the 1980s. Findings are based on preliminary research only, but they strongly suggest that equity officials within NSW government organizations may constitute a challenge to unions for the loyalties of women workers. They have emerged both as promoters of women's specific concerns and as a source of advice, assistance, and the formal means through which women can remedy grievances of an ostensibly individual nature on a range of employment issues. Also equity officials commonly administer an ad hoc, individualized grievance process which largely excludes trade unions and which competes directly with the collective mechanisms and representation offered by unions. Findings suggest that for women's and men's relative union commitment levels to be adequately assessed, factors other than union-related attitudinal dimensions also require consideration.

The article reviews the book, "Une vie révolutionnaire, 1883-1940. Les mémoires de Charles Rappoport," edited by Harvey Goldberg, Georges Haupt, and Marc Langana.

The article reviews the book, "Mail and Female: Women and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers," by Julie White.

The article reviews the book, "Droit de la santé et de la sécurité du travail. La loi et la jurisprudence commentée," 2e éd. by Denis Bradet, Bernard Cliche, Martin Racine and France Thibault.

The paper will proceed as follows. It tells the Westray story in two parts, first, the decision to set up the mine and, second, the operation of the mine. These events illuminate the salience of the broader political economic context to an understanding of what happened. Further, the story gives the lie to the assumptions which underpin health and safety regulation. Next, the paper details the implications of the political economy and the prevailing ideology for the enforcement of health and safety regulation. The paper then critically examines a component of, or prop for, the consensus theory which postulates that workers and capitalists share, in some roughly comparable way, the risks of production. In part this is done by examining the proposition that the corporate form is a neutral, facilitating device.

The article reviews the book, "Laporte, Pierre, Le traité du recours à l'encontre d'un congédiement sans cause juste et suffisante."