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The article reviews the book, "Histoire du syndicalisme au Québec. Des origines à nos jours," by Jacques Rouillard.

This thesis addresses the issue of foreign domestic workers. The government of Canada has been involved in the recruitment of people to perform domestic service for households since the turn of the century. The devaluation of domestic labour and increasing employment opportunities for Canadian women resulted in a constant shortage of labour to fill the demand. A variety of programs have been initiated to solve the "servant problem" culminating in the Foreign Domestic Movement in 1981. Within this policy foreign domestics are classified as a category of migrant labour and, as such, are formally denied citizenship rights. The majority of workers who come to Canada as foreign domestics under this program are Filipino women. These women often migrate to Canada as domestic workers due to limited options for employment in their home country. Their need to remain in Canada due to limited options in the Philippines, the lack of political rights in Canada, and the restrictions placed on workers who enter Canada under the Foreign Domestic Movement combine to situate these women in a position of dependence and vulnerability. In addition, live-in domestics perform devalued labour within an isolated work setting, and are often not included within provincial labour standards. These conditions keep wages depressed and lessen the ability to bargain for improved conditions of employment. The thesis problem is examined within an historic context. In addition to a literature review of the specific topic and related areas of gender and migrant labour, the data are from Statistics Canada, Employment and Immigration and the Special Collections Division of the University of British Columbia. The data shows : the labour market activity of Canadian women, the shift away from domestic service as other alternatives became open, the increasing number of dual income earning families, and the number of foreign domestics recruited to provide domestic service for Canadian households. Interviews with a variety of people draw out the particular factors leading to the reasons for the supply and demand of this group of workers. In addition, the interviews point to specific problems frequently experienced by women who work as live-in domestics.

The purpose of the thesis is to compare mining and forestry single-industry-towns in Canada in terms of their community and work structures. More specifically, what is examined is how these structures interconnect at local levels and impact upon social relations and class consciousness. Following a critical review of selected literature in political economy, labour and community studies, insights from Harold Innis' staple theory are expanded in order to link these three theoretical approaches and to justify the analysis of community and work in specific resource contexts. Drawing from this discussion, a comparative model of forestry and mining town structures is outlined. The main underlying idea is that the overall structure of forestry towns could be seen as more modern--in spite of its traditional elements--for it is more diversified and opaque, whereas that of mining towns is more archaic--despite the modern features of its industry--because of the greater control industry has on economic and community life. This theoretical model however needs further empirical testing.

Le syndicalisme au Canada jouit d'une situation assez avantageuse par rapport à celle de la plupart des pays industrialises, mais les transformations rapides effectuées tant dans l'ensemble de l'économie que dans la composition du marche du travail et les interprétations que les tribunaux donneront à la Charte canadienne des droits et les libertés l'affecteront surement. Il est évident que le syndicalisme continuera d'exister, mais il est difficile de prédire la forme qu'il aura, surtout s'il ne se donne pas la peine de prendre les virages qui s'imposent.

Presents black-and-white reproductions of 12 images from the the exhibition, "Images/Images Industrielles." Curated by Rosemary Donegan, the exhibition was produced by the Art Gallery of Hamilton and sponsored by National Museums of Canada. The exhibition, which toured nationally in 1987-88, included painting, sculpture, graphics, photographs, and the promotional arts from the first half of the twentieth century. Those chosen for the journal have a labour event or social issues theme, as indicated in the annotations accompanying each image.

The article reviews the book, "Feminist Organizing for Change: The Contemporary Women's Movement in Canada," by Nancy Adamson, Linda Briskin, and Margaret McPhail.

The article reviews the book, "Barons of Labor: The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Period," by Michael Kazin.

The article reviews the book, "The Question of the Commons: The Culture and Ecology of Communal Resources," edited by Bonnie M. McCay and James M. Acheson.

The article reviews the book, "E. Sylvia Pankhurst: Portrait of a Radical," by Patricia Romero.

The origins of the modern system of industrial relations in Canada as seen in the key struggles and compromises with the power of employers and governments in the province of Nova Scotia. Focusing on changes in coal-mining, fishing and the public sector, this collection offers a challenging case study in Canadian labour history. --Publisher's description

The article reviews the book, "German White-Collar Workers and the Rise of Hitler," by Hans Speier.

This paper raises issues which show that the impact of the multinational companies in the industrial relations Systems of developing countries are much too profound that the Systems approach may not be suitable for explaining, predicting, and formulating policies in industrial relations in these countries in particular and beyond the level of nation states in general.

En este articulo, el autor trata del paso de las sociedades industriales a post-industriales, particularmente en America Latina, y como se puede transformar el sindicalismo para sobrevivir en este contexto.

The article reviews the book, "The New England Working Class and the New Labour History," edited by Herbert G. Gutman and Donald H. Bell.

The article reviews the book, "Charité bien ordonnée. Lepremier réseau de lutte contre la pauvreté à Montréal au 19e siècle," by Huguette Lapointe-Roy.

The article reviews the book, "Mabel Dodge Luhan: New Woman, New Worlds," by Lois Palken Rudnick.

The article reviews the book, "Feud: Hatfields, McCoys and Social Change in Appalachia, 1860-1900," by Altina L. Waller.

The article reviews the book, "Socialism and Democracy in Alberta: Essays in Honour of Grant Notley," edited by Larry Pratt.

The article reviews the book, "Monopoly's Moment: The Organization and Regulation of Canadian Utilities, 1830-1930," by Christopher Armstrong and H. V. Nelles.

One of the most salient features of women's earlier contribution to the labour movement in Quebec, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is the prominent and often militant role of female cotton workers. Long before they formed an industrial labour organization, the cotton "girls" rose persistently, in most mills, against various attempts to further appropriate absolute and relative surplus-value. After having formally joined forces with fellow male unionists, they carried with this activism a more acute challenge to managerial prerogatives and patriarchal standards of criminality in a major assault on child and gender-related abuses. The following essay explores, in a comparative mode and from the perspective of the workplace, why female cotton workers were more assertive and have left far greater evidence of their proneness to strike than other women operatives in the boot and shoe industry. It also focuses on two important episodes of female militancy at the Hochelaga and Ste. Anne mills in order to provide a socio-economic context to their activism and to witness how solidarity could evolve rapidly into estrangement over sensitive gender-related issues.