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Changements dans les legislations du travail au Canada.

Changements dans les legislations du travail au Canada.

Changements dans les legislations du travail au Canada.

Changements dans les legislations du travail au Canada.

This article reviews the book, "Double Day, Double Burden: Women in the Garment Industry," by Charlene Gannagé.

This article reviews the book, "Strikes in Essential Services," by Gillian S. Morris.

This article reviews the book, "The Social Foundations of Industrial Power : A Comparison of France and Germany," by Marc Maurice, François Sellier & Jean-Jacques Silvestre. This article reviews the book, "International and Comparative Industrial Relations," by Greg J. Bamber & Russell D. Lansbury.

Replies to Gilbert Levine's "Relations Between Unions and Universities in Research" published in the same issue. Argues that Levine's criticism is partly misplaced, i.e., that unions are excessively focussed on the here-and-now, that they want propaganda in place of analysis, that they lack the staff to evaluate the research being done, and that they do not know how to properly take advantage of researchers. Concludes that unions' preoccupation with social democratic politics leads them to reject explanations and lines of reasoning that cannot easily be accommodated by the status quo, and that union leaders must address the issue for an academic-labour rapprochement to occur. See also the article, "Academic Research on Labour: Strengthening Union-University Links," by Pradeep Kumar, published in the journal (no. 25, Spring 1990).

The article reviews and comments on "The Politics of Diversity: Feminism, Marxism and Nationalism" (1986), edited by Robert Hamilton and Michéle Barrett, and Mariana Valverde's "Sex, Power and Pleasure" (1985).

The article reviews the book, "Historical Atlas of Canada: From the Beginning to 1800," edited by R. Cole Harris.

Presents seven poems by Al Grierson published in the Work Poetry section of the journal: "You Are What You Eat (what the restaurant had for dinner)," "Slapstick," "It's All Our Fault," "Lunchroom Poem at the Millwork Plant," "Coon Hunting on the Afternoon Shift, "sticker crew," and "Michelle."

Les auteurs utilisent des données provenant d'entrevues afin de décrire les activités hors-travail d'un échantillon d'employés d'hôpital lors de journées passées à l'extérieur du travail.

This study explores the subject of cross-national variations in industrial conflict, looking specifically at a 'matched set' of factories in Canada and Britain. The comparison between these two countries is intriguing. Since 1943, Canadian governments have sought to regulate industrial conflict by a distinct formula whose three pillars are a) legally enforceable collective agreements meant to circumscribe disputable issues, b) the outlawing of strikes during the term of the collective agreement, and c) the substitution, for industrial action, of a well-defined grievance and arbitration procedure to settle the disputable issues arising during that term. Dispute resolution is formal, collective agreements are comprehensive and arbitral jurisprudence is encyclopaedic. In Britain, on the other hand, dispute resolution has been left almost entirely to the parties themselves. Collective agreements are not enforceable and sketch the barest details of co-regulation. An ill-defined body of 'custom and practice' still governs in most day-to-day disputes. Strikes are legally possible for all groups of employees at any time on any issue related to the workplace. And arbitration, though available, is voluntary and widely shunned by both parties. Dispute resolution is highly informal. While one might, from this comparison, predict a higher level of strike activity in Britain, Canada has equalled or surpassed Britain over the past twenty-five years in industrial conflict. Why might this be so? The study reviews several sets of theories on cross-national variations in industrial conflict and finds that the Canada-Britain comparison does not fit any of them. Suggesting a synthesis of the "institutional" and "political economy” theoretical approaches, it proposes to concentrate on the political struggle over production at the shop floor in a "politics of production" approach. Defining four "political apparatuses of production" (interests, rights, adjustments and enforcements), the study examines how these "microinstitutions" for conflict-handling articulate with three key loci on the frontier of control where conflict can erupt (discipline, the structuring of the internal labour market and job control). Through the use of intensive interviews in four workplaces (two in each country) in the brewing and aluminium fabrication industries and the analysis of general data on industrial relations in the two countries, the analytical framework is applied to examine the generation and resolution of industrial conflict.

This article reviews the book, "Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York," by Kathy Peiss.

This article reviews the book, "Women and Work in Pre-Industrial England," edited by Lindsey Charles and Lorna Duffin.

This article reviews the book, "Black Labor on a White Canal: Panama, 1904-1981," by Michael L. Conniff.

Every day millions of Canadians go out to work. They labour in factories, offices, restaurants, and retail stores, on ships, and deep in mines. And every day millions of other Canadians, mostly women, begin work in their homes, performing the many tasks that ensure the well-being of their families and ultimately, the reproduction of the paid labour force. Yet, for all its undoubted importance, there has been remarkably little systematic research into the past and present dynamics of the world of work in Canada. The essays in this volume enhance our understanding of Canadians on the job. Focusing on specific industries and kinds of work, from logging and longshoring to restaurant work and the needle trades, the contributors consider such issues as job skill, mass production, and the transformation of resource industries. They raise questions about how particular jobs are structured and changed over time, the role of workers' resistance and trade unions in shaping the lives of workers, and the impact of technology. Together these essays clarify a fundamental characteristic shared by all labour processes: they are shaped and conditioned by the social, economic, and political struggles of labour and capital both inside and outside the workplace. They argue that technological change, as well as all the transformations in the workplace, must become a social process that we all control. --Publisher's description

This article reviews the book, "Proletarianization and Family History," edited by David Levine.

This study concentrates on the choice of the site for the railway's Montreal terminus (and shops) in 1853, and on analyzing the shops' payrolls for the period 1880-1917. The most important findings are: [1.] The site chosen at the head of the Victoria Bridge was farm land purchased from four religious communities. It had been recommended in 1852 in an independent report based largely on its proximity to the water which would permit easy trans-shipment between rail and water transport. [2.] The Shops were divided into the Motive Power and Car Departments; the former being mainly a metal-working area with anglophones strongly predominating, the latter a wood-working area with francophones predominating (from 1902 onwards). [3.] Working hours in the Shops generally amounted to 7 1/2 to 9 hours per day or to 45 to 55 hours per week. The skilled metal workers usually earned more than the skilled woodworkers. [4.] The majority of the workers, including 90% of the anglophones, lived within two miles (3.2 km) of the Shops. Early in the period, 82% of the fraancophones did likewise but, by l9l7, this had dropped to 55%.