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This article reviews the book, "Labor-Management Cooperation. The American Experience," by Irving H. Siegel & Edgar Weinbert.

This article reviews the book, "Relations industrielles dans l’industrie de la construction du sud du Nouveau-Brunswick," by H.D. Woods. This article reviews the book, "Southern New Brunswick Construction Industry Industrial Relations," by H.D Woods.

An attempt is made here to show the conditions under which Austria, West Germany and Sweden have come closer than other countries in attaining the double objective offull employment and price stability. Answers appear to lie in the direction of Gross Domestic Product and the idea of a "Social Contract".

The Eaton Drive is the story of one of the most intensive and sustained organizing campaigns in Canadian labour history. With 30,000 employees, post-war Eaton's was the country's third largest employer, surpassed only by railways and the federal government. Because its stores and mail order operations extended across Canada, Eaton's influenced retail wages nationwide. Eaton's Toronto operations, dispersed over a dozen work location and embracing 16,000 employees at peak season, presented a formidable challenge to Local 1000 of the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Union and the Canadian Congress of Labour. When it applied for certification in October 1950, the Ontario Labour Relations Board was faced with the largest and most complex bargaining unit ever to come before it. The labour movement considered the success of the Eaton Drive central to removing the threat of a large, lower-paid, constantly shifting work force to their wage standards and supported it with unprecedented generosity. Eileen Tallman Sufrin, who was one of the organizers, describes the campaign from the union viewpoint in the hope that the insight it provides will assist retail workers in organizing in the future. --Publisher's description

Publishes an address given by the author at the Labour Panel of the Canadian Oral History Association, University of Ottawa, June 8-10, 1982. Discusses the value of oral labour history (Tester had in recent years collected 75 hours of tapes in 50 interviews) and the labour-industrial archives founded at Laurentian University. Argues that the Mine, Mill and Smelters union was locally controlled, unlike the Steelworkers, and that there was no communist representation in the Sudbury leadership. (Note: Jim Tester (1913-1995) was a communist Mine Mill union member who was prominent in the Sudbury labour movement.)

This article reviews the book, "An Impartial Umpire : Industrial Relations and the Canadian State 1900-1911," by Paul Craven.

This article reviews the book, "Les enseignants et le pouvoir : histoire de l’Alliance des professeurs de Montréal, les luttes syndicales et le développement social (1952-1958)," by Paulette Vigeant-Galley.

Cet article examine si l'enseignant est satisfait de son travail, s'il veut le quitter et quels sont les motifs les plus probables qui peuvent l'amener à le vouloir.

This article reviews the book, "Labour Law and Industrial Relations in Canada," by H.W. Arthurs, D.D. Carter & H.J. Glasbeck.

This article reviews the book, "Labour Law and Politics in the Weimar Republic," by O. Kahn-Freund.

This article reviews the book, "La qualité de la vie au travail. Regard sur l’expérience québécoise," by Maurice Boisvert & le groupe d’étude de travail des HEC.

This article reviews the book, "Work Sharing: Case Studies," by Maureen McCarthy & Gail S. Rosenberg.

Résumé des résultats d'une enquête de santé effectuée auprès d'un échantillon de 1 300 employés du gouvernement du Québec. Les données furent recueillies à l'aide d'examens médicaux et de questionnaires concernant les habitudes de vie et de travail des participants. Les résultats indiquent que les troubles psychiques et la consommation excessive de somnifères et de tranquillisants sont des problèmes réels que l'employeur et les syndicats concernés doivent considérer de plus près.

This paper analyzes the cyclical behavior of the labour force participation rates, adds a marital status dimension to the customary age categories generally used and includes seperate measures ofthe additionnai and ofthe discouraged worker effect.

This paper investigates environmental conditions conducive to apprenticeship training; examines various government reactions in this field; discusses the problems and deficiencies of ap- prenticeship training in Canada, and analyzes the usefulness of European labour market measures to be employed in this country.

This article reviews the book, "Les relations patronales-syndicales au Québec," by Jean Boivin & Jacques Guilbault.

This article reviews the book, "Labor Relations: Development, Structure, Process," by John A. Fossum, Revised.

Wide divergence ofviews exists on the power of unions to influence the gênerai wage level. This paper contrasts selected views. A modified Trevithick/Mulvey classification of union reaction to escess demand for labour is used to classify writers. A second part examines questions of union power and militancy.

During the Depression Canadian workers faced a series of assaults on their wages and working conditions. Threatened by shrinking markets, Canadian employers moved to reduce labour costs. When the Canadian Western Lumber Company at Fraser Mills, B.C., attempted to follow the pattern being set throughout the Canadian economy, the millworkers went out on strike. Lasting for two and half months, the labour protest by the millworkers and their families ended in success. The success of the 1931 strike stands in sharp contrat to the generally abysmal performance of organized labour during the thirties. The strength of this particular protest was derived from two totally unrelated factors. The strike was led by the militant Lumber Workers' Industrial Union, an affiliate of the Workers' Unity League. During the thirtiees the Workers' Unity League was one of the most dynamic labour organizations in Canada. The real strength of the protest, however, lay in features to the community. The worker community of Maillardville/Fraser Mills was remarkably stable and socially cohesive. This was largely due to the existence of a persistant, tightly organized community of French-Canadian workers. The workforce at Fraser Mills had a well-defined associational network which not only faciliated organization prior to the strike but also ensured its success once the strike was underway. This study of the Fraser Mills strike of 1931 analyzes the relationship between labour protest and the community from which it emerged.

After noting some of the differences between paradigmatic and normal research, the author suggests, as has occurred with other disciplines, the need for industrial relations paradigmatic research.