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Dans cet article, les auteurs attribuent principalement la confusion qui gravite autour du thème de la satisfaction au travail à une carence manifeste au niveau du cadre conceptuel d'analyse. Ils proposent donc d'aborder la notion de satisfaction au travail par le biais d'une discussion approfondie de ses pôles principaux, c'est-à-dire les besoins humains et les incitations de l'emploi.

This article reviews "Communication et presse d’entreprise" and "Contribution à l’étude de la presse d’entreprise et essai de bibliographie" both by Dimitri Weiss.

This article reviews "Les relations du travail : employeurs, personnel, syndical, État" by Dimitri Weiss.

This article reviews "Economic Theory of Teams" by Jacob Marschak and Roy Radner.

This thesis examines the social organisation of longshoremen and their families and its implications for industrial relations in the Port of St. John's, Canada. The analysis focusses on effects of an extreme in casual labour markets operating against a background of chronic unemployment. Although concentrating on activities within the port it is essential to place these within Newfoundland's geographic, economic, political and legal contexts; these accordingly form the basis of Chapter 1, which also introduces the actors. Chapter 2 sets the longshore family within the context of Newfoundland's rurally based kinship system and shows how structural divisions and alliances derived from within the family are manifest on the dock. It demonstrates how physical strength and prestige are related and as men age, wives and sons assume familial authority. Religion is ezamined in Chapter 3 as providing a social bond for pious women through whom are allocated scarce resources, both economic and social. Economic resources, as collectively organised welfare payments, are offered in cases of family misfortune, whilst piety permits social mobility of children. Mothers are thus able to alleviate some disadvantages of a father's low class occupation. Chapters 4, 5, 6 and 7 concentrate on the longshore work gang as basic unit of work and leisure. Chapter 4 examines how gang workers cooperate and emerge able collectively to modify the foreman's apparently absolute powers in hiring, firing and discipline. The methods by which collective opposition is mounted and prior structural divisions overcome are analysed through an extended case study, the subject of Chapter 5. Chapter 6 examines how pilferage is organised in the docks; analyses alliances and dependencies involved and the institutionalised limits set. It then considers implications of limits as an aspect of longshore morality and an indication of managerial collusion. The articulation of gang organisation derived from work and that found in leisure activities is considered in Chapter 7. The gang is examined as an insurance agency parallel to women's organisations discussed in Chapter 3. Integration and membership within gangs is derived from conformity to work and sociability norms - particularly in drinking. Relationships within drinking groups are then considered in detail. Some men, outsiders to these norms, are found in the gangs; their special role as gang spokesmen against management is considered as they articulate with the Union's political life. Chapter 8 considers Union political activity and relations with employers together. Membership participation is constrained by divisive aspects of membership and Union structure. These are moveable when preconditions allow cross wharf alliances. Resulting turbulence can be focussed on Executives or through them to Employers. In the concluding chapter I briefly summarise the argument.

This study traces the development of union education within the Canadian Labour Congress and its predecessors. During the period when union education in Canada originated immediately after World War II, there were two large Canadian Congresses, the Trades and Labor Congress (T.L.C.), and the Canadian Congress of Labour (C.C.L.). The C.C.L., formed in 1940, and its affiliated industrial unions had a pressing need for union education to familiarize its members with union principles. The T.L.C. as a long-established (1883) affiliation of craft unions had a tradition of loyalty toward union aims and was less interested in educational programs. When the two Congresses merged in 1956 and became the Canadian Labour Congress the expansion and growth of membership increased the need for education within the unions. Before the unions organized educational programs for their own members other agencies such as the Mechanics Institute and the Workers' Educational Association attempted to provide a program of liberal arts programs. The programs contributed toward the development of the individual competencies of workers who were not necessarily union members. The peripheral organizations declined as the unions became more adept at administering union education programs. The C.C.L. with its larger affiliated unions is considered to be the originator of union education in Canada. Howard Conquergood, A.L. Hepworth, and Andy Andras, executives of the first education committee in the C.C.L., had a lasting influence on union education trends. The characteristic methods used in union education programs were week-long and weekend schools devoted to giving the student a thorough knowledge of the union as a viable organization dedicated to furthering the economic and social interests of the member. The rise in membership is identified as a factor in the development of the union education program. With the merger of the T.L.C. and the C.C.L. in 1956 to form the Canadian Labour Congress (C.L.C.), more resources could be directed to education. A description is given of the role of the labour movement in adult education through various co-operative activities such as the Labour University Conference in 1956, the National Citizens Forum, and the Canadian Trade Union Film Committee. The co-operation of the C.L.C., McGill University, and the Université de Montreal, led to the establishment in 1963 of the Labour College of Canada as an institution of higher education for trade union members. The College provides an eight-week residential program for workers of Canada and also those of foreign countries. Also pointed out is the broad interest shown by the unions in International affiliations and the study of education in emerging countries. The study concludes by identifying general trends in union education in the past and suggesting some new directions and program areas for union education in the future.

The purpose of this paper is to examine the concept of participation by workers in jobs and management and to come to some conclusions as to the role of industrial democracy, in Us various definitions, present and future, in Canadan Industrial Relations.

This paper presents a union position on Bill C-183 by looking at the pros and cons of this legislation and by examining what still needs to be done.

In the late summer of 1891, the Ottawa Valley timber traide was beset with labour problems. What had been an undercurrent of employee discontent quickly developed into a torrent of labour protest when twenty-four hundred men walked off their jobs in a dispute centered on the lumber mills of Hull and Ottawa at the region known as the Chaudiere. The action by these workers, who disrupted this important industry for almost five weeks, was probably the largest strike that had occurred in Canada up to that time. ...An analysis of the strike, however, exposes the attitudes of management, labour and community in such a confrontation, and provides valuable insights into the extent of labour activity in Canada in the last decades of the nineteenth century.

Based on a study of five U.S. Steel Company, this paper explains union-management interactions in the grievance process.

Cette étude soutient l'idée qu'une organisation administrative ne peut s'étudier sans tenir compte de la relation existant entre elle et la société. À cet effet, l'utilisation non seulement de variables internes à l'organisation, mais aussi externes, sont nécessaires pour comprendre comment un groupe d'individus s'ajuste à l'organisation. L'auteur analyse ainsi le système des relations du travail dans une école régionale de la région métropolitaine de Montréal aux niveaux élémentaire et secondaire.

This article reviews "Le prix de la santé" by Jean-Luc Migué and Gérard Bélanger.

The purpose of this paper is two-fold: first, an attempt is mode to define work and leisure in operational terms. Second, using the new definitions of work and leisure, several problems in economies are re-examined and an attempt is mode to illustrate how the new definition may give us new insights into old and current problems.

This article reviews "Training the Poor : A Benefit-Cost Analysis of Manpower Programmes in the U.S. Anti-Poverty Programme" by D.O. Sewell.

This article reviews "Droit du travail en vigueur au Québec" by Robert Gagnon, Louis Lebel, and Pierre Verge.

This article reviews the autobiography "Les Mémoires d’Alfred Charpentier (Cinquante ans de vie ouvrière)".

This article reviews "White-Collar Workers" written in collaboration under the direction of Albert A. Blum.

This article reviews "Les femmes dans la population active : 1970, faits et données" from the Bureau de la main-d’oeuvre féminine (Ottawa).

This article reviews "Manpower Planning and Programming" by Elmer H. Burack and James W. Walker.

This article reviews "Shutdown: The Impact of Plant Shutdown, Extensive Employment Terminations and Layoffs on the Workers and the Community" by J.N. Eleen and A.G. Bernardine.