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This article reviews the book, "Women in the Workplace: Effects on Families," edited by Kathryn M. Borman, Daisy Quarm, and Sarah Gideonse.

L'auteur passe en revue certaines caractéristiques générales des études économétriques des effets du salaire minimum sur l'emploi et présente un bilan des résultats des études canadiennes et québécoises sur le sujet tout en référant à l'occasion à la littérature empirique américaine.

Provides a biography of Charles Kerr, whose Chicago publishing house began to publish socialist rather than religious materials in the wake of the Pullman Strike of 1894; the left-wing press celebrated its centenary in 1986. See also the obituary of Fred Thompson (Fall 1987, no. 20), who was on the company's board of directors.

In this article the author analyzes the last decade's work in the social history of the working class in the United States and Canada. Utilizing the dual themes of structures of meaning and structures of power, he surveys many of the major works published since 1976.

This article reviews the book, "Women in the Campaign to Organize Garment Workers, 1880-1917," by Carolyn Daniel McCreesh.

This article reviews the book, "Labour Law. Cases, Material and Commentary," by The Labour Law Casebook Group.

This article reviews the book, "Les normes du travail," by Jean-Louis Dubé & Nicola Di Lorio.

The article reviews and comments on "Invitation to Industrial Relations" by T om Keenoy, "Working Order," by Eric Batstone, "Unions on the Board," by Eric Batstone, Anthony Ferner, and Michael Terry, and "Consent and Efficiency: Labour Relations and Management Strategy in the State Enterprise," by Eric Batstone, Anthony Ferner, and Michael Terry.

This article reviews the book, "'In Our Time': Socialism and the Rise of Labor, 1885-1905," by Verity Burgmann.

This paper attempts to identify and to test the effects of a number offactors on the occurrence of wildcat strikes in Canada.

This article reviews the book, "Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Black Women, Work, and the Family from Slavery to the Present," by Jacqueline Jones.

This article reviews the book, "The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America," by John Bodnar.

This paper attempts to determine the extent to which the concept of «intra-organizational bargaining», suggested by Walton and McKersie, among others, is useful in analyzing wage differentials between sub-groups within a local union. Based on historical data for public schoolteachers in Saskatchewan, the results show that the relative power of sub-groups within the union has a much stronger bearing on internal wage differentials than do the economic variables. This lends strong support to the intraorganizational bargaining model of internal wage differentials.

Analyzes 36 tables of data compiled on labour protest and organization in the nineteenth century including riots, strikes, occupations of strikers/rioters, regionalism, calendar of strikes, causes, strikes in major cities, and local and international unions. Labour unrest often took the form of riots in the early period, with strikes becoming more prevalent as workers became organized. The culmination was the strike wave of the 1880s known as the Great Upheaval, with the Knights of Labor, which was by far the largest organization of the period, leading the way.

1983's powerful Solidarity movement, which for a time seemed capable of deflecting the Social Credit government of British Columbia from its neo-conservative course - or even toppling it - instead died with a whimper. In Solidarity: The Rise and Fall of an Opposition in British Columbia, the first book-length account of this pivotal point in the province's history, Bryan Palmer concludes that it was not Social Credit tactics, but the nature of Solidarity's leadership which foreordained the defeat. --Publisher's description

This article reviews the book, "The Retreat From Class: A New 'True' Socialism," by Ellen Meiksins Wood.

The article briefly reviews "1919: The Winnipeg General Strike," by Gerry Berkowski and Nolan Reilly,"The Writing of Canadian Histo ry: Aspects of English-Canadian Historical Writing since 1900," by Carl Berger, "A Conjunction of Interests: Bus iness, Politics, and Tariffs, 1825-1879," by Ben Forster, "Vancouver Past: Essays in Social History," edited by Robert A.J. McDonald and Jean Barman, "Quebec before Duplessis: The Political Career of Louis-Alexandre Taschereau," by Bernard L. Vigod, "Canada, What's Left?," edited by John Richards and Don Kerr,"'My Dear Legs': Letters to a Young Social Democrat," by Alex Macdonald, "The Knights in Fiction: Two Labor Novels of the 1880s," edited by Mary C. Grimes, "Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in Europe an and American Thought, 1870-1920," by James T. Kloppenberg, "The Growth of Working Class Reformism in Mid-Victorian England," by Neville Kirk, "Proletarians and Protest: The Roots of Class Formation in an Industrializing World," edited by Michael Hanagan and Charles Stephenson, "Servants and Masters in Eighteenth-Century France: The Uses of Loyalty ," by Sarah C. Maza, "The German Revolution and the Debate on Soviet Power — Documents: 1918-1919, Preparing the Founding Congress," edited by John Riddell,"The Ties That Bind: Peasant Families in Medieval England," by Barbara A. Hanawalt, "Households and the World Economy," edited by Joan Smith, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Hans Dieter Evers, "Revolutionaries and Reformists: Communism and the Australian Labour Movement, 1920-1950," by Robin Gollan, "The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism: An Elaboration of Marxian Political Economy," by John Bellamy Foster, "An Introduction to Marxist Political Economy," by Bade Onimode, "Workplace Democracy: A Guide to Workplace Ownership, Participation, and Self-Management Experiments in the United States and Europe," by Daniel Zwerdling, "The Future of the Left," edited by James Curran, "Blue Chips," by Herbert A. Applebaum / reviews by Bryan D. Palmer -- "Something in Common - An IWW Bibliography," compiled by Dione Miles, "Samuel Gompers: A Selected List of References About the Man and His Time," by David Myers / reviews by Gregory S. Kealey.

History of Fort Chipewyan, the first European settlement in Alberta, an important fur-trading centre, and a vital base for the exploration of the continent's hinterland. Traces the development of the Fort Chipewyan fur trade from 1778, when Peter Pond entered the region, until 1835, when the rivalry between the North West and Hudson's Bay companies was no longer a factor, and a monopoly in the fur trade had been restored. Provides a vivid portrayal of life in a remote fur trade outpost during this crucial period in Canadian history. --WorldCat summary/Publisher's description

...This paper considers the relationships among gender solidarities, wage work, and the reconstitution of family to which many women emigrated when preference or circumstance led them to lives without men. It deals with the case of approximately 700 British hosiery workers, principally from the east midlands, whom Penman's Company, then the largest knit-goods firm, assisted to emigrate to Paris, Ontario, population 4000, between 1907 and 1928... --From introduction

This article reviews the book, "Divisions of Labour," by R.E. Pahl.