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Le concept de qualité de vie au travail sert à mesurer si le milieu de travail est favorable au bien-être des employés. Son utilisation dans cette étude permet une meilleure connaissance et une meilleure compréhension des déceptions, des doléances ou des insuffisances gui engendrent un mauvais moral parmi les professionnels. Il permet d'évaluer s'il existe une harmonie entre les attentes des professionnels à l'égard de leur emploi et les contraintes ou les exigences de leur milieu de travail.

In response to the 1981-1982 recession and demands for concessions, the United Auto Workers (UAW) accepted contracts that shifted away from the 3-decades-old annual improvement factor and included profit-sharing plans. In Canada, the Canadian branch of the UAW negotiated wage increases that differed from those in the US and that did not include profit sharing. The impact of the different negotiating approaches are examined by comparing the earnings of auto assembly workers at General Motors (GM), Ford, and Chrysler in the US and Canada from 1980 to 1989. It is found that, in terms of direct monetary earnings alone, from 1982 to 1989, American auto workers received less than their Canadian counterparts. In current dollars, the cumulative difference in pay between 1982 and 1989 for US and Canadian auto workers was $13,402 at GM, $1,755 at Ford, and $8,721 at Chrysler.

The article notes various articles published in the issue including on state security repression, security, and intelligence during the Cold War, state intervention in labour relations, women's role in the labour movement in Canada, and the rise of the Knights of Labor and the Salvation Army in the context of late Victorian working-class culture in Ontario. Two award-winning papers that were originally published in Labour/Le Travail are also reported.

The article reviews the book, "Les limites du partenariat. Les expériences sociales-démocrates de gestion économique en Suède, en Allemagne, en Autriche et en Norvège," by Louis Gill.

The article reviews the book, "Psychologie et organisations. L'individu dans son millieu de travail," by Léandre Maillet.

The article reviews the book, "Work, Inc. A Philosophical Enquiry," by Edmund F. Byrne.

This case study of union women organizing for day care in Ontario analyses the emergence of a women's movement within labour. It provides a social history of women's organizing efforts in the Ontario labour movement, tracing political mobilization of support for universally accessible, publicly funded child care. In addition, day care sheds light on recent developments in two Canadian social movements: the labour movement and the women's movement. Developments in each of these areas have facilitated gains made by both. The active campaign of trade union women for women's equality in the unions has been integrally connected to the contemporary women's movement. While the growth of feminism established a foundation for the struggles of working-class women in unions around gender issues such as day care, a growing number of working women joined unions in the last decade to organize against the domination of the labour movement by men. --Introduction

Through on-site and supported training, business in Canada has a crucial role to play in the supply of specialized and multiskilled workers. The results of a survey of the Ontario manufacturing sector are presented, and intra- and extraorganizational factors influencing the training activities of firms are identified. On average, employees received 2.6 days of directly provided training and some supported training. It is concluded that improvement in training participation rates has taken place throughout the 1980s and that leading companies are reaching new levels in the duration of training offered. A variety of factors, such as management commitment, are found to be significant predictors of training activities.

The article reviews the book, "On Strike at Hormel: The Struggle for a Democratic Labor Movement," by Hardy Green.

Takes note of forthcoming conferences and a San Diego exhibit entitled Camera as Weapon: Worker Photography Between the Wars.

Takes note of forthcoming conferences, a call for papers, and international research projects on European social democracy in World War I, the Communist International, and the complete works of Mikhail Bakunin.

The article reviews the book, "Making Their Way: Education, Training and the Labour Market in Canada and Britain," by D. Ashton and G. Lowe.

Admettant que le syndicalisme et la coopération ont une origine commune, du moins en Europe, et qu'ils privilégient tous les deux un fonctionnement démocratique, on peut se demander pourquoi les relations du travail y sont apparemment si conflictuelles? Pour répondre à cette question, l'auteur s'arrête d'abord sur la spécificité coopérative pour montrer comment cette forme d'entreprise est plus complexe que les autres en raison du double rapport de sociétariat et d'activité et comment l'évolution de ce double rapport peut jouer sur l'intensité des conflits du travail. Ensuite, il tente d'illustrer cette problématique à partir d'une étude exploratoire des relations du travail dans les caisses populaires Desjardins.

The article reviews the book, "Cooperation and Conflict in Occupational Safety and Health: A Multination Study of The Automotive Industry," by Richard E. Wokutch.

The article reviews the book, "Les Franco-Américains," by François Weil.

The article reviews the book, "The Bibliography of Ontario History/La Bibliographie d'histoire ontarienne 1976-1986," by Gaétan Gervais, Gwenda Hallsworth and Ashley Thomson.

Compilation of recent English/French publications on Canadian labour history that emphasize the period 1800-1975. Materials pertaining to the post-1975 period may also be included, although more selectively. See the database, Canadian Labour History, 1976-2009, published at Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Compilation of recent English/French publications on Canadian labour history that emphasize the period 1800-1975. Materials pertaining to the post-1975 period may also be included, although more selectively. [See the database, Canadian Labour History, 1976-2009, published at Memorial University of Newfoundland.]

The article reviews the books, "he Origins of Economic Democracy: Profit Sharing and Employee-Shareholding Schemes," by Michael Poole and "The Impact Of Economic Democracy: Profit Sharing And Employee Shareholding Schemes," by Glenville Jenkins.

In 1978-79, the ad hoc Women Back Into Stelco Committee launched a campaign to force Stelco management to end twenty years of sexist hiring practices. The campaign succeeded in winning public and legal recognition that Stelco had practiced discriminatory hiring and it forced Stelco to begin hiring women. This paper reviews the campaign and explores what happened when the women entered the formerly all-male workplace. It assesses the implications of such campaigns for the sex/gender division of labour the organization of work, and the politics of the women's movement and the labour movement.