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July 27, 1918. Heavy heat burned down on the small mining town of Cumberland on Vancouver Island. In the nearby wildernes of Comox Lake, a special police constable broke through the bush to come shockingly face to face with a stranger. A slight, red-haired man stood holding a rifle. This was the fugitive they sought, considered subversive and dangerous. With no time to aim, the constable shot as he raised his own weapon. This is the "official" version of the events of that day. The life of Albert "Ginger" Goodwin, one of British Columbia's most colourful figures, had come to a controversial end. [This book] is the story of a remarkable man, and a fascinating period in BC history. Arriving on Vancouver Island in 1910, Ginger Goodwin joined hundreds of others slaving in the hellholes of the Cumberland Mines. There he found blacklung, explosions, and deadly vapours; hazards which killed hundreds of miners in a short century of coal mining. What he saw made him one of the most effective labour leaders the province has ever seen, and led ultimately to his untimely end. Susan Mayse combines the skills of the historian and novelist in this gripping biography. From fragments of recorded history, official documents, and exhaustive interviews with the coal miners who knew Cumberland and knew Ginger Goodwin, she has pieced together an extraordinary tale. --Publisher's desscription
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This article reviews the book, "Worker Dislocation : Case Studies of Causes and Cures," by Robert F. Cook.
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The article reviews the book, "Capital-Labour Relations in the U.S. Textile Industry," by Barry E. Truchil.
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As the Canadian and international record will testify, the years between 1917-1920 were critically important to workers' aspirations for industrial unionism. An account of the Newfoundland Industrial Workers' Association (NIWA) has largely been passed over in the writing of the Island's labour history. Yet this organization figures prominently in the events which helped to shape the labour-capital relationship during the wartime period. In the Newfoundland context, the effective use of the strike weapon during this period is a telling indicator of the heightened sense of militancy resulting from the temporary convergence of labour organizations around issues relating to the war. Centred in St. John's. but exerting an Island-wide presence, the NIWA arose Out of a pressing need for Newfoundlanders to address the economic and political exigencies of World War I. This article examines the NIWA in terms of its structure, membership, and mandate for change with specific reference to the major confrontation waged between the NIWA and their principal opponent, the Reid Newfoundland Company in the spring of 1918.
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The article reviews the book, "Unequal Work," by Veronica Beechey.
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The article reviews the book, "What's a Coal Miner to Do? The Mechanization of Coal Mining," by Keith Dix.
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The article reviews the books "The New Canadian Political Economy," by Wallace Clement and Glen Williams and "Open for Business: The Roots of Foreign Ownership in Canada," by Gordon Laxer.
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The article reviews the book, "Socialist Cities: Municipal Politics and the Grass Roots of American Socialism," by Richard W. Judd.
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An attempt is made to analyze 110 recent Canadian common law wrongful dismissal cases to identify principles pertaining to compensation management policies and practices. Each case involved "constructive dismissal," in which the employee sued the employer for altering a fundamental condition of employment. The case law is divided into pay level issues, pay form issues, pay structure issues, and pay communication issues. The courts typically will decide that constructive dismissal has occurred when the employer reduces, withdraws, or withholds an aspect of the compensation package. An attempt to clarify an ambiguous remuneration package also may constitute a breach of employment contract. In addition, courts have been sympathetic to employees whose opportunity to receive future income has been limited by an employer's actions. Employers are obliged to fulfill remuneration promises when there is evidence that those promises existed. Changing the form of remuneration can result in constructive dismissal, depending on the circumstances and the test used by the court.
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This paper seeks to examine whether there have been noticeable changes in the main features of the Canadian distribution of family income over the last two decades, in particular to examine what changes have occurred to the middle-class income share in Canada, and thence to identify possible determinants of these changes among a number of alternative hypotheses in the literature.
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The article reviews the book "Sport, Politics and the Working Class," by Stephen G. Jones.
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The article reviews the book, "Le droit dans tous ses états," by Robert D. Bureau and Pierre MacKay.
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The article reviews the book "Histoire du Syndicalisme Québécois: Des Origines à nos Jours," by Jacques Rouillard.
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The article reviews the book "The White-Blouse Revolution: Female Office Workers Since 1870," edited by Gregory Anderson.
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The article reviews the book "Workers' Health, Workers' Democracy: The Western Miners' Struggle, 1891 -1925," by Alan Derickson.
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The field of collective labor law in West Germany covers 2 main areas. The first is collective bargaining, including conciliation, strike, and lock-out. The 2nd concerns the specific German pay of institutionalized bargaining on plant and on enterprise level. On the field of collective labor law as a whole, current legislation is more in favor of indirect sorts of regulation rather than direct prohibitions or mandatory regulation as takes place in the UK. While there have been many deregulatory measures in West Germany concerning labor and social security law, the law of strike has remained, with one important exception, unchanged in the last decade, at least by the legislator. One key measure in legislation was the amendment to the Work Promotion Act. As a rule, employees affected by a temporary shut-down whatever the reason are paid either wages or wage substitutes from the unemployment insurance fund. In cases of labor disputes, the unemployment insurance funds must adopt a neutral stance and must not act to affect the bargaining balance by making financial payments.
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The article reviews the book, "New Orleans Dockworkers: Race, Labor, and Unionism, 1892-1923," by Daniel Rosenberg.
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The article reviews the book "Workers, Managers, and Welfare Capitalism: The Shoeworkers and Tanners of Endicott H. Johnson, 1890-1950," by Gerald Zahavi.
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The article reviews the book "Dreams of Equality: Women on the Canadian Left, 1920-1950," by Joan Sangster.
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