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The article reviews the book, "Depression Folk: Grassroots Music and Left-Wing Politics in 1930's America," by Ronald D. Cohen.

Though not monolithic, the non-profit social services sector has been an arena where workers and management participated in various forms of shared planning, service development and organizing the labour process. This included: 1- formal participation processes such as collective bargaining with union representation, and 2- practice-profession or task participation. Drawing on 34 qualitative interviews undertaken with a variety of actors (Chief Executive/Senior Directors, senior operational management, Human Resource Managers, frontline staff, and, where available, union representatives) in two non-profit social service agencies in Ontario (Canada), the article traces how these forms of participation have changed as a result of government austerity policies alongside the expansion of precarious employment and funding in the non-profit sector.Using exemplar quotes and qualitative analysis, the article shows that worker’s participation in each form has declined, while management simultaneously has extended greater control over the labour process and removed or reduced forums and opportunities for input from staff. In terms of task participation, measurement and governance structure of New Public Management (NPM) and austerity have led to less autonomy and choice, especially in the area of working time. The study also found that unitarist approaches, intolerant of staff voice and possible dissent, have displaced earlier representative participatory approaches that either utilized the management chain, or embraced and worked constructively with unions. Though these pressures existed prior to the introduction of austerity policies, the data show that decreased worker’s participation coincides and is further undermined by the financial and governance processes associated with NPM and austerity-linked cuts in government and other forms of funding. Overall, the data and analysis suggest that participation in the Non-profit Social Services (NPSS) may be another casualty of this current wave of neoliberalism.

This research is motivated by the lack of recent empirical studies investigating delay in grievance arbitration, despite increasing concerns being voiced about the issue. I performed content analysis on a random sample of about 400 Ontario arbitration awards, and then used a proportional hazards model to examine the extent of delay and its determinants. consistent with common perception, the results suggest that delay has become a worse problem over the past two decades. I find that certain legalistic factors and the expanded jurisdiction of arbitrators over specific types of issues are associated with delay. the results also show that certain dispute resolution procedures are related to decreased delay, and this suggests some practical solutions.

In this paper the authors provide a review and critique of existing legal standards and methods, at common law and under employment standards legis- lation, for determining the length of notice to which employees are entitled as a result of without-cause termination. They argue that, at common law, the factors relied on to determine the amount of termination notice contribute to systemic bias and power imbalances between employers and employees, while fostering the illusion of individualized assessment. As well, the regime is inaccessible to low- and middle-income employees due to the costs of litigation. Minimum statutory notice in Ontario, which relies solely on the factor of length of service, is heavily discounted in relation to the common law, and suffers from poor enforcement and widespread non-compliance. In light of the shortcomings of the common law and statutory regimes, the authors conclude that there is a clear need for reform. While other proposals for reform have been advanced, the authors contend that they focus too heavily on length of service, are likely to perpetuate the problems associated with the existing systems, and fail to comprehensively take into account the primary purpose of notice - to provide employees with a "cushion" between termination and re-employment. The auth- ors then set out their proposal for a "Middle Course" approach to determining length of notice, which would be based on a series of objective factors related to the estimated time needed by a dismissed employee to obtain re-employment. It would be implemented by replacing the existing formula under employment standards legislation with one that would enable notice entitlements to be deter- mined in a more predictable, rational and equitable fashion.

This article reviews the book, "American Labor and Economic Citizenship: New Capitalism from World War 1 to the Great Depression," by Mark Hendrickson.

Thiis article reviews the book, "Lost Champions: Four Men, Two Teams, and the Breaking of Pro Football’s Color Line," by Gretchen Atwood.

This article reviews the book, "Neoliberal Labour Governments and the Union Response: The Politics of the End of Labourism," by Jason Schulman.

The article reviews the book, "Unions in Court: Organized Labour and the Charter of Rights and Freedoms," by Larry Savage and Charles W. Smith.

Cet article a pour objectif d’analyser l’influence des usages de l’union européenne (ue) sur les systèmes de relations professionnelles en Bulgarie et en Roumanie. une grille analytique visant à appréhender les différents leviers et obstacles du processus d’européanisation est élaborée et appliquée aux trajectoires propres à la Bulgarie et à la Roumanie, avec une attention particulière à la période ouverte depuis la crise de 2007. Les conclusions rejoignent la thèse d’une européanisation sociale a minima qui, dans certains cas, se conjugue avec une déseuropéanisation programmée, reflétant la progression de l’agenda néolibéral.

This article examines sexual orientation wage gaps across local labour market contexts. Using the 2006 Canadian Census, we explore how wage gaps vary across metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas. We further evaluate whether the mechanisms contributing to wage gaps diverge across these contexts, focusing on how wage gaps differ across occupations and sectors of employment. Our results show that wage gaps are highest in non-metropolitan Canada. The underlying components of wage gaps fluctuate across Canada, especially for gay men. Sexual orientation pay gaps are reduced in public sector employment, even where private sector wage gaps are highest. These results suggest that local social and labour market contexts are associated with the earnings outcomes of sexual minorities.

The article reviews the book, "Radicals in America: The U.S. Left since the Second World War," by Howard Brick and Christopher Phelps.

L’article analyse l’insertion professionnelle d’une catégorie méconnue d’immigrants qualifiés œuvrant dans le secteur des technologies de l’information (ti) de la région de Québec. La forte demande de main-d’œuvre et la rareté de l’offre locale font penser que leur processus d’insertion sera aisé, comme d’ailleurs les discours publics le proclament. Après avoir présenté la problématique, les cadres conceptuel et analytique, ainsi que la méthodologie, les résultats soulignent certains obstacles d’insertion professionnelle liés, entre autres, à leurs acquis étrangers. cette situation les oblige à recourir à des stratégies de retour aux études et de déqualification. toutefois, malgré ces démarches, l’insertion professionnelle dans le secteur régional des ti demeure toujours à risque.

This article reviews the book, "Métiers de la relation. Nouvelles logiques et nouvelles épreuves du travail," edited by Marie-Chantal Doucet and Simon Viviers.

The article reviews the book, "Not Talking Union: An Oral History of North American Mennonites and Labour," by Janis Thiessen.

The article reviews the books, "Competing Vision of Empire: Labor, Slavery, and the Origins of the British Atlantic Empire," by Abigail L. Swingen, "Building the Atlantic Empires: Unfree Labor and Imperial States in the Political Economy of Capitalism," edited by John Donoghue and Evelyn P. Jennings, and "Making the Empire Work: Labor and United States Imperialism," edited by Daniel E. Bender and Jana K. Lipman.

This article reviews the book, "The New Deal: A Global History," by Kiran Klaus Patel.

The article reviews the book, "Fighting over Fidel: The New York Intellectuals and the Cuban Revolution," by Rafael Rojas.

Contrary to conceptions of the rural workforce as inherently conservative, tobacco workers and small farmers in Depression-era Ontario frequently organized to protest their socioeconomic conditions and to demand a fairer deal from employers and tobacco companies. Led by Hungarian immigrants, but with significant involvement from other groups, working people in the Tobacco Belt built an "infrastructure of dissent," a constellation of formal organizations and informal networks that allowed for the development of radical ideas and provided a platform from which to launch oppositional efforts, both coordinated and spontaneous. Two key moments of 1930s protest are focused on in this article. In 1937, a dramatic growers' movement saw over 1,000 small farmers, with the support of workers, band together to demand higher prices from the tobacco companies for their crops. In 1939, the local forces of working-class opposition were joined by a massive influx of job-seeking "transients," who brought with them the politics of the Depression-era unemployed, establishing the conditions for what would become the greatest moment of tobacco worker resistance in the decade. In both campaigns, efforts were made to unite workers and small growers, but the evidence suggests that growers benefitted more from these collaborations than did workers.

Chinese migrant workers in North America have typically been regarded in two ways by historians: either as competitive threats to white workers, or as workers isolated within ethnic niches. Few scholars have examined cases where Chinese workers complemented or supported the labour of others. This thesis looks at Chinese labour in British Columbia’s salmon canning industry between 1871 and 1941, arguing that Chinese workers were foundational to white fishing jobs in the province. Drawing on company records, Government reports, newspapers, and oral interviews, I examine Chinese manual labour, labour politics, and wages as three areas where Chinese workers upheld the labour of fishers in a nominally “white” industry. As such, this thesis offers a different outlook on the structural entanglement of race and labour in British Columbia in the seventy years after the province joined the Canadian Confederation.

This article reviews the book, "A Vanished Ideology: Essays on the Jewish Communist Movement in the English-Speaking World in the Twentieth Century," edited by Matthew B. Hoffman and Henry F. Srebrnik.