Your search
Results 238 resources
-
Declining real wages and pressure to increase productivity pushed Canadian postal workers to a national wildcat strike in 1965. After this achievement they began a series of day-to-day battles to extend their shopfloor power. Reacting to this, postal management embarked on a mechanization project to transform the labour process. New federal labour laws were enacted which stifled the expression of workers' power through their union. The national union officials proved unable to break out of these bureaucratic structures that cut them off from the rank and file. An abrupt national wildcat/sitdown strike in 1974 resulted in a change in the national union leadership. Solid victories were won dealing with the transition to new mechanized plants. However, management began a counterattack aimed a weakening worker solidarity by hiring non-union workers and refusal to honour the collective agreement. The stage is then set for a series of local wildcats in the late 1970s, the Toronto strike of December 1977, and the national strike in 1978. The postal workers' past and present is summed up with a view to future struggles.
-
On the Line : Women and Fish Plant Jobs in Atlantic Canada.
-
This article reviews the book, "Marx et Aristote. Perspectives sur l'homme," by Jacques de Monléon.
-
Reports on a journal readership survey including age, occupation, gender, how they became acquainted with the journal, why they read it, its utility, and what they read. Although there was criticism that French-language material was sparse, the overall level of satisfaction was high. Includes appendices of the questionnaire, the data, and comments received.
-
This article reviews the book "The New Reality: The Politics of Restraint in British Columbia," edited by Warren Magnusson, et al.
-
This article reviews the book, "The Artisan Republic-Revolution: Reaction and Resistance in Lyon, 1848-1851," by Mary-Iynn Stewart-Mac Dougall.
-
This article reviews the book, "Malthus Past and Present," edited by J. Dupaquier, A. Fauve-Chamoux & E. Grebcntk.
-
This article reviews the book, "The History of the British Coal Industry. Volume 2: 1700-1830, The Industrial Revolution," by Michael W. Flinn assisted by David Stoker.
-
This article reviews the book, "State Apparatus," by Gordon L. Clark and Michael Dear.
-
This article reviews the book, "A Needle, A Bobbin, A Strike: Women Needleworkers in America," edited by Joan M. Jensen & Sue Davidson.
-
This article reviews the book, "Capitalist Democracy in Britain," by Ralph Miliband.
-
This article reviews the book, "Conflict or Compromise? The Future of Public Sector Industrial Relations," edited by Mark Thompson and Gene Swimmer.
-
This article reviews the book, "The Elements of Industrial Relations," by Jack Barbash.
-
Considering rates of return on capital, sales and assets, the evidence primarily but not unambigously supports a negative effect of unions on profitability. Whether this occurs only through effects on wages and labour productivity or through other channels as well is unclear.
-
During the 1920s and early 1930s the struggle for industrial unionism in the Canadian auto industry was predominantly organized and led by Communist Party members. They, however, had little success with workers whose enjoyment of unusually high industrial wages was tempered by the knowledge that they themselves were almost as replaceable and interchangeable as the parts they assembled. An upswing of industrial militancy in the 1928-9 boom suggested that "Fordism" was not immutable, but any possibility of establishing a "red" auto union disappeared with the arrival of the Depression. Nevertheless, during the grimmest crisis years, Communists kept the idea of industrial unionism alive, and in semi-clandestine conditions built a network of union activists. The formation of the CIO and UAW gave this group the opportunity to turn their aspirations into reality.
-
This article reviews the book, "The Working Class in Modern British History: Essays in Honour of Henry Pelling," by Jay Winter, edited.
-
This article reviews the books, "A Passion for Excellence. The Leadership Difference," by Tom Peters and Nancy Austin, and "Reinventing the Corporation. Transforming Your Job and Your Company for the New Information Society," by John Naisbitt and Patricia Aburdene.
-
This article reviews the book, "Cheats at Work. An Anthropology of Workplace Crime," by Gerald Mars.
-
This article reviews the book, "Group Process. An Introduction to Group Dynamics," 3rd ed., by Joseph Luft.
-
This article reviews the book, "The American Samurai. Blending American and Japanese Managerial Practices," by Jon P. Alstom.
Explore
Resource type
- Book (5)
- Journal Article (227)
- Thesis (6)