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The article reviews the book, "Building the Educational State: Canada West, 1836-1871," by Bruce Curtis.

The article reviews the book, "Workers, Capital, and the State of British Columbia: Selected Papers," edited by Rennie Warburton and Donald Coburn.

The article reviews the book, "Women's Work, Markets and Economic Development in Nineteenth-Century Ontario," by Marjorie Griffin Cohen.

This thesis examines the experiences, attitudes and actions of the women who trained and worked as graduate nurses during the 1920-1939 years--of the third generation of hospital-trained Canadian nurses. The 1920s and 1930s were decades of crisis for Canadian nursing, and the occupation's majority, working in the private duty sector, was most severely affected by the problems of oversupply and underemployment. The economic crisis was national in scope, and endemic to the health care system, and was therefore exacerbated rather than created by the depression of the 1930s. In order to analyze the structure and content of the occupation during these years of crisis, a wide variety of national sources were consulted, supplemented by a detailed case study of nursing in the prairie metropolis of Winnipeg, Manitoba. This research on Canadian nursing during the 1920s and 1930s adds another chapter to the growing scholarly literature on Canadian women and work. It also contributes to the secondary literature on the social history of medicine and of labour in two particular ways. First, as the largest health care workforce, the actions of graduate nurses during the 1920s and 1930s, their agency, served as a critical, force within the development of the Canadian health care system, a force frequently overlooked within medical history. Secondly, the third generation of Canadian nurses borrowed from the organizational strategies of both professionals and trade unions, but neither concept fully captured the reality of nurses' occupational identity as women and as workers. This thesis argues that the third generation of Canadian nurses was recruited from sex-segregated female labour market. The many rituals and routines which constituted nursing technique were based on a theoretical understanding and practical application of the germ theory. As such, nursing practice during the interwar years must be defined as scientific. Nurses' scientific skills permitted practioners to integrate caring and curing, and thereby to create their own definition to what constituted skilled service. Out of this self-definition came a specific occupational identity which was reflected in the many associations designed to reflect nurses' interests. As the interwar decades progressed, conflict developed within nursing organizations as to appropriate solutions to the economic crisis. The compromise solution, hospital employment of graduate nurses, initiated the demise of both the apprenticeship system of hospital staffing, and private duty nursing. This solution successfully prevented the fracturing of nursing organizations in the 1920s and 1930s, but also facilitated the transformation of hospital staffing which would occur in the World War II years. This research suggests that the scholarly literature on professionalism, and on labour organizations, must more fully account for gender as a historical determinant. In suggesting a historical periodization for Canadian nursing history, and in focussing on the third generation of Canadian nurses who struggled through the economic crisis of the interwar decades, this thesis contributes to the growing body of scholarly literature dedicated to placing nursing history in history.

The author analyses the question of job security. He proposes alternative definition of this concept, examines recent trends in Canada, and deals with the objectives of job security.

This article reviews the book, "Technologies nouvelles et aspects psychologiques," by Alain Larocque, Yvan Bordeleau, Rene Boulard, Bruno Fabi, Viateur Larouche & Alain Rondeau.

The article reviews the book, "Small Differences: Irish Catholics and Irish Prolestants, 1815-1922: An International Perspective," by Donald Harman Akenson.

The article reviews the book, "Les militants socialistes du Québec, d'une époque à l'autre," by Henri Gagnon.

Un donneur d'ouvrage confie le même service à un autre entrepreneur spécialisé, ce dernier ne peut être lie par l'accréditation et la convention collective du prédécesseur-concurrent. Telle serait la portée pratique d'un récent jugement de la Cour suprême du Canada commente par l'auteur. L'approche retenue par la Cour pour justifier cette révision, celle de la question juridictionnelle, y est fortement critique parce qu'elle inciterait les tribunaux judiciaires à servir d'instances d'appel là où le législateur voulut écarter cette voie.

Liberté d’expression et droit au travail : l’arbitrage de la Cour suprême du Canada.

The article reviews the book, "Women's Work and Chicano Families, Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley," by Patricia Zavella.

The article reviews the book, "A Lost Life: Three Studies in Socialism and Nationalism," by David Howell.

Slightly more than a decade ago "the new working-class history" emerged in Canada. It was an occasion marked by considerable enthusiasm as ringing manifestos promised "to bring back ordinary working people from their long exile on the margins of Canadian history". Existing institutional histories of trade unions and industrial relations, it was pointed out, told us remarkably little about the experience of workers or, in more general terms, about the nature of social class in Canadian history. On the basis of this critique of the existing historiography, a new generation of working-class historians set out an ambitious agenda. --From author's introduction

The article reviews the book, "Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water: Noncitizen Arabs in the Israeli Labor Market," by Moshe Semyonov and Noah Lewin-Epstein.

The article reviews the book, "Annals of the Labour Poor: Social Change and Agrarian England, 1660-I900," by K. D. M. Snell.

The Pacific salmon fishery and the canning industry it supports have recently lost their status as the one of the most valuable fisheries in the world. In this study of early modern business, Dianne Newell discusses the beginning of the North American salmon canning industry, working from archives left by one of the leaders in the field, Henry Doyle. Doyle (1874-1961) was founder and first general manager of a major consolidation of packing companies, British Columbia Packers Association (established in 1902), which became British Columbia Packers Ltd., one of the few pioneer fish-packing companies that remains viable today. He was recognised by friends and enemies alike as the unofficial industry historian not only for British Columbia but also for Alaska and the Pacific US coastal states. Doyle was a vora-cious collector of "intelligence," whose extensive papers, now stored in the archives of the University of British Columbia, constitute the only comprehensive insider's history of the rise of the industry. Newell has culled this collection of documents for revealing highlights, important trends, and events within this profitable industry. These documents are reproduced in the text and are supported by editorial essays, annotations, a statistical appendix, and a lengthy glossary of historical terms. The result is an intriguing combination of both the personal and the scholarly view of this industry through its most exciting and critical years. --Publisher's description

This paper investigates the relationship between the union commitment of faculty members and a number of factors, including job satisfaction, general union beliefs, attitude towards the university, work aspects and demographic characteristics. The results show that faculty members are committed to both the university and the Association. Dissatisfaction with the university administration fosters union commitment whereas negative attitudes towards unions in general reduce that commitment. Demographic characteristics and work aspects have little influence on the faculty commitment to the Faculty Association.

The article reviews the book, "Canada in the European Age, 1453-1919," by R. T. Naylor.

The article reviews the book, "The Bedroom and the State: The Changing Practices and Politics of Contraception and Abortion in Canada, 1880-1980," by Angus McLaren and Arlene Tigar McLaren.

The article briefly reviews "The Assault on Trade Union Freedoms: From Consent to Coercion Revisited," by Leo Panitch and Donald Swartz, "Downturn: The Origins of the Employers ' Offensive and the Tasks for Socialists," pamphlet by Paul Kellogg, "The Chinese in Canada," by Peter S. Li, "The Politics of Community Services: Immigrant Women, Class and State," by Roxana Ng, "The Bank of Upper Canada," [edited with an introduction] by Peter Baskerville, "Red Moon Over Spain: Canadian Media Reaction to the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939," by Mary Biggar Peck, "Good Girls Bad Girls: Sex Trade Workers and Feminists Face to Face," edited by Laurie Bell, "Work and Labor in Early America," by Stephen Innes, "Paupers and Poor Relief in New York City and Its Rural Environs, 1700-1830," by Robert E. Cray, Jr., "The Paddy Camps: The Irish of Lowell, 1821-1861," by Brian C. Mitchell, "German Workers in Chicago: A Documentary History of Working-Class Culture from 1850 to World War I," edited by Hartmut Keil and John B. Jentz, "Out of the Crucible: Black Steelworkers in Western Pennsylvania, 1875-1980," by Dennis C. Dickerson, " Looking Backward, 1988-1888; Essays on Edward Bellamy," edited by Daphne Patai, "The Loud Silents: Origins of the Social Problem Film," by Kay Sloan, "Writing Red: An Anthology of American Women Writers, 1930-1940," edited by Charlotte Nekola and Paula Rabinowitz, "Equal or Different: Women's Politics, 1800-1914," edited by Jane Rendall, "War, Law, and Labour: The Munitions Acts, State Regulation, and the Unions, 1915-1921," by Gerry R. Rubin, "Marxism and Trade Union Struggle: The General Strike of 1926," by Tony Cliff and Donny Gluckstein, "Work in France: Representations, Meaning, Organization, and Practice," edited by Steven Laurence Kaplan and Cynthia J. Koepp, "The Making of an Insurrection: Parisian Sections and the Gironde," by Morris Slavin, "The Workers' Revolution in Russia, 1917: The View from Below," edited by Daniel H. Kaiser, "International Labour and the Third World: The Making of a New Working Class," edited by Rosalind E. Boyd, Robin Cohen, and Peter C.W. Gutkind, "Trade Unions in Communist States," by Alex Pravda, Blair A. Ruble, and "State Theories: From Liberalism to the Challenge of Feminism," by Murray Knuttila.