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Recasting labor studies in a long-term and global framework, the book draws on a major new database on world labor unrest to show how local labor movements have been related to world-scale political, economic, and social processes since the late nineteenth century. Through an in-depth empirical analysis of select global industries, the book demonstrates how the main locations of labor unrest have shifted from country to country together with shifts in the geographical location of production. It shows how the main sites of labor unrest have shifted over time together with the rise or decline of new leading sectors of capitalist development and demonstrates that labor movements have been deeply embedded (as both cause and effect) in world political dynamics. Over the history of the modern labor movement, the book isolates what is truly novel about the contemporary global crisis of labor movements. Arguing against the view that this is a terminal crisis, the book concludes by exploring the likely forms that emergent labor movements will take in the twenty-first century. --Publisher's description. Contents: Introduction -- Labor movements and capital mobility -- Labor movements and product cycles -- Labor movements and world politics -- Contemporary dynamics in world-historical perspective -- Appendix A: The World Labor Group Database: conceptualization, measurement, and data collection procedures -- Appendix B: Instructions for recording data from indexes -- Appendix C: Country classifications.

The article reviews and comments on several books, including "Global Showdown: How the New Activists Are Fighting Global Corporate Rule," by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, "Globalization From Below: The Power of Solidarity," by Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello and Brendan Smith and "Reshaping World Politics: NGOs, the Internet, and Global Civil Society," by Craig Warkentin.

For a long time, it has been believed that it is possible to leave our emotions at the threshold of the workplace. This excessively simplifies the complexity and heterogeneity of work, leading to an underestimation of the effects of work on health. Our objective is to understand one particular form of the expression of workers’ emotions: crying at work, which may be linked to an excess of emotional labour or to the impossibility of its achievement. Thus, differences between male and female crying, at least at work, may be explained not only by a gendered socialisation of individuals, but also by the sexual division of emotional labour. This imposes an emotional overload on women, since a more intensive management of emotions is demanded of them at work.

This article argues the case for recognising the value of labour learning within the formal education system. It is based on an introduction to the report by Gereluk (2001) and discusses the impact of prior learning and recognition (PLAR) on Canadian labour education as well as outlining why labour education deserves recognition. The article reviews aspects of labour education detailed in the report including the content and purposes of union courses and who participates in, and who delivers, union courses.

The article reviews the book "Regulating Girls and Women: Sexuality, Family, and the Law in Ontario, 1920-1960," by Joan Sangster.

Not for Bread Alone: A Memoir, by Moe Foner and Dan North, is reviewed.

During the First World War, some Canadian women found themselves in new and unfamiliar environments, doing jobs apparently unavailable to them before the war. Many of those women were successful in the new opportunities available to them. The focus of this study is twofold. First, it examines the scope and the nature of women's work in two industries, banking and munitions, during the war. This is an important step because we still know very little about women's experience of the war. Understanding how many women worked and in what capacity is essential to understanding the nuances of women's wartime experience. Women who worked in banking and munitions were not a homogeneous group. The composition of the wartime workforce is also analysed. The war's impact on wage rates for women is also examined. Second, the study focuses on the nature of the impact of wartime participation on gender ideology. In particular, the study seeks to determine if gender ideology was affected by women's expanded opportunities in masculine occupations during the war. Often, the historiography regarding women and war is characterised by a binary discourse that seeks to determine whether on not wars liberate women. Rather than engage in that debate, this study attempts to avoid it as much as possible. Women's experience of the war in these two industries was complex. The study explores how women could both challenge and reaffirm ideas about gender; how attitudes towards and about women could change and remain the same; and how employee and employers alike strove to undermine and maintain the sexual division of labour and labour processes that were threatened by the entrance of large numbers of women into jobs defined as men's work. Women's participation both challenged and reinforced traditional notions about gender. Essentially, despite being successful ‘bankers’ women remained unsuitable for a career in banking. Similarly, regardless of their participation in munitions factories, metal shops remained no place for women. Quantitative, oral interview and qualitative sources including contemporary newspapers and magazines, were used. In particular, a great deal of the evidence was derived from several databases constructed for this project.

The article reviews the book, "From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short Illustrated History of Labor in the United States," by Priscilla Murolo and A.B. Chitty.

The article reviews the book, "State and Revolution in Cuba: Mass Mobilization and Political Change, 1920-1940," by Robert Whitney.

The article reviews the book, "Women on the Job: Transitions in a Global Economy," by Ann Eyerman.

The article reviews the book "The IWA in Canada: The Life and Times of an Industrial Union," by Andrew Neufeld and Andrew Parnaby.

The article reviews the book, "Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England: A Study in International Trade and Economic Development," by Joseph E. Inikori.

Hi-tech tactics during a strike at a dockside factory in Montreal. A workplace cancer tragedy in Sarnia, Ontario. Immigrant workers sticking with their union at the chocolate factory. A struggle for pay equity in the courts and on the streets. A campaign to create jobs by cutting hours of work in B.C. An organizing drive 350 kilometres out into the frigid Atlantic. These are some of the fascinating stories told by Jamie Swift in his chronicle of the first ten eventful years of one of the most dynamic labour unions in North America. --Publisher's description

The article reviews the book, "The Transformation of Edinburgh: Land, Property and Trust in the Nineteenth Century," by Richard Rodger.

The article reviews the book "Opportunity and Uncertainty: Life Course Experiences of the Class of 1973," by Paul Anisef, Paul Axelrod, Etta Balchman-Anisef, Carl James, and Anton Turrittin.

The article reviews the book, "Du train à vapeur au TGV : sociologie du travail d’organisation," by Gilbert de Terssac and Karine Lalande.

Reviews the book "Travail, famille: le nouveau contrat," by Marie-Agnes Barrere-Maurisson.

Reviews the book 'Working Time Changes: Social Integration Through Transitional Labour Markets,' by Jacqueline O'Reilly.

Despite the comprehensiveness of neo-liberal restructuring in Canada, it has not proceeded uniformly in its timing or outcomes across regulatory fields and political jurisdictions. The example of occupational health and safety (OHS) regulation is instructive. This article compares recent OHS developments in five Canadian jurisdictions, Alberta, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Ontario and the Federal jurisdiction. It finds that despite the adoption of a common model by all jurisdictions, there has recently been considerable divergence in the way that the elements of worker participation and protection have been combined. Modified power resource theory is used to explain a portion of this divergence.

The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life, by Richard Florida, is reviewed.