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This article reviews the book, "When Workers Fight : The Politics of Industrial Relations in the Progressive Era," by Bruno Ramirez.
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This paper is an attempt to shed some empirical light on the underlying determinants of the length of the work week.
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After considering the many attempts of cooperation among unions in multinational firms particularly the paper industry, the authors are not optimistic about results in the immediate future.
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This article reviews the book, "L’évolution des emplois et de la main-d’oeuvre dans l’industrie automobile," by Centre d’étude et de recherches sur les qualifications.
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[This book] is a study of continuity and change in the lives of skilled workers in Hamilton, Ontario, during a period of economic transformation. Bryan D. Palmer shows how the disruptive influence of devel oping industrial capitalism was counterbalanced by the stabilizing effect of the associational life of the workingman, ranging from the fraternal order and the mechanics' institute to the baseball diamond and the "rough music" of the charivari. On the basis of this social and cultural solidarity, Hamilton's craftsmen fought for and achieved a measure of autonomy on the shop-floor through the practice of workers' control. Working-class thought proved equally adaptable, moving away from the producer ideology and its manufacturer-mechanic alliance toward a recognition of class polarization. Making ample use of contemporary evidence in newspapers, labour journals, and unpublished correspondence, the author discusses such major developments in the class conflict as the nine-hour movement of 1872, the dramatic emergence of the Knights of Labor, and the beginnings of craft unionism after 1890. He finds that the concept of a labour aristocracy has litlle meaning in Hamilton, where skilled workers were the culling edge of the working-class movement, involved in issues which directly related to the experience of their less-skilled brethren. More remarkable than the final attainment of capitalist control of the work place, he concludes, are the long-continued resistance of the Hamilton workers and their success in retaining much of their power in the pre-World War I years. --Publisher's description
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This study demonstrates the application of a test validation procedure similar to that described by Mobley and Ramsay (1973) but which avoids the use of factor analysis in isolating dimensions upon which subsequent job subgrouping is based. Instead, a semi-judgmental, semi-statistical method was employed. Actual test validation data are reported which, although missing in Mobley and Ramsay's (1973) article, attest to the utility of a job grouping approach to the validation problem.
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This paper compares the attitudes to collective bargaining of a sample of Ontario and Wisconsin registered nurses. Contrary to expectations (in view of the general low rate of American nursing unionism), the Wisconsin nurses who where surveyed viewed collective bargaining at least as favourably as their Ontario counterparts.
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The primary objective of this survey is therefore to collect enough data to in order that comparisons of absenteeism and labour turnover can be made within various regions and industries in Ontario. The study also provides general information on the extent, nature and relative importance of various human problems.
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This article reviews the book, "L’indexation des salaires dans les pays industrialisés à économie de marché," by Bureau international du travail.
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The history of women in the labour force is by and large a neglected area of study, especially with regard to trade unionism. For British Columbia in the early years of this century, while there are various accounts of men's union struggles, there does not exist at present any published secondary material on the union activity of women. This article will attempt to give a preliminary account of the organization of some women workers in Vancouver during the period from 1900 to 1915. --Introduction
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This article reviews the book, "Grievance Arbitration of Discharge Cases, A Study of the Concept of Industrial Dsicipline and their Result," by George W. Adams.
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This article reviews the book, "L’obligation d’obéir et ses limites dans la jurisprudence arbitrale québécoise," by C. D’Aoust & G. Trudeau.
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This study demonstrates that a Negative Income Tax Plan can be expected to result in fairly large reductions in the supply of work effort in the case of younger workers. The potential reductions in labour supply of female workers appear to be particularly large.
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Historian Carlos A. Schwantes studies the forces that shaped the history of the labor movement on either side of the forty-ninth parallel and the reason for the eventual demise of the socialist movement in Washington State and its continuing vigor in British Columbia. --Publisher's description
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This article reviews the book, "CETA: Manpower Programs Under Local Control," by William Mirengoff & Lester Rindler.
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This paper examines examples of two different intellectual traditions within which Canadian strikes are interpreted. The distinctiveness of the two traditions becomes most clear in reactions to a paper by Crispo and Arthurs (1968) on industrial conflict in the mid i960*s. Each tradition involves assumptions about the nature of industrial conflict. In neither of the examples discussed from the two traditions, however, is the adequacy of the assumptions really established. Despite the fact that these two traditions assert entirely contradictory characterizations of Canadian strikes, there appears to be no serious dialogue between the exponents of either position.
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