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The purpose of this study is to examine CCF-CCL relations in the Saskatchewan public service during the early years of the government of Tommy Douglas. While much has been written about the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the Canadian Congress of Labour (CCL), both as separate organizations and as political 'allies', little has been said about their relations in Saskatchewan. Yet, the CCF formed the government in Saskatchewan for five consecutive terms between 1944 and 1964, and it was in this agrarian province that the true test of the CCF-CCL relationship occurred. Saskatchewan was the one location where unions that supported the CCF were faced with a social democratic government which was also their employer. The difficulty the two sides encountered while trying to reconcile industrial relations with their political relations forms the subject of this study.

This article reviews the book, "Unions in Transition. Entering the Second Century," by Seymour Martin Lipset.

This paper examines the changing pattern of worker participation in organizations during recent conditions of economic down-turn. The authors conclude that the current recession has served as a catalyst to force many organizations and their members to recognize that traditional management approaches and resulting employee responses have become increasingly inadequate in the light of wider social changes, and that there is more support for an «evolutionary ratchet» as opposed to a «cyclical» notion of participation.

This article reviews the book, "Working Wives/Working Husbands," by Joseph H. Pleck.

Although a great deal has been written about the western Canadian working class in the first two decades of the twentieth century, there is still a need to examine the nature of the labour-capital relations in a small prairie city like Saskatoon. Even though the Saskatoon working class lived and worked in an agricultural economy, it was far from being passive and conservative in ils relationship with the ruling class, especially in the period that led to the labour revolt of 1919. This relationship was based on class conflict, similar to what other workers were experiencing on a national and international basis. Class conflict was not restricted to the workpalce, for it also involved the working-class community when it came to matters of unemployment, living conditions. inflation, and the tragedies of war which enhanced the evils of capitalism. The Saskatoon working class issued both an economic and political response to prairie capitalism which included an astute understanding of the rules of the game and a form of radical politics which aimed at a transformation of society.

This article reviews the book, "From Consent to Coercion: The Assault on Trade Union Freedoms," by Leo Panitch & Donald Swartz.

From the seventeenth century on, deforestation due to the abusive use of wood by the iron industry, excessive naval construction and the extraordinary demand for timber for reconstruction following the Great Fire of London in 1666 led increasingly to the construction of British merchant ships in her North American colonies. Following American Independence, vessels built in the thirteen colonies were no longer entitled to British Registry, and shipbuilders in Quebec and the Maritime Provinces were able to take full advantage of the British demand. When Napoleon blockaded the Baltic, thereby endangering the British supply of timber from northern Europe, a fast-growing Canadian timber trade served as a tremendous stimulus to local shipbuilding. This is a study of the construction of square riggers at Quebec between 1763 and 1893, as revealed principally by the shipping registers of the port, notarial records, Lloyd's Survey Reports, newspaper advertisements and reports, city directories and census reports. It describes the historical background of the trade and local conditions affecting it, identifies the Quebec shipbuilders, pinpointing when and where they worked, describes the shipyards and various aspects of the shipbuilding business, takes a look at the workers and the specialized shipbuilding trades and outlines the techniques they used. It describes and classifies the vessels that were built giving details of their materials and equipment, and looks briefly at their purchasers. The writer concludes that the production of the Quebec shipyards filled a specific need for spacious, light, fast carriers, until the third quarter of the nineteenth century when improved metallurgical technology allowed their place to be taken by metal-hulled ships. The main appendices contain a collection of plans of shipyard sites and lists of the sixteen hundred and thirty vessels of over one hundred tons built at Quebec and four hundred and sixty-seven others built elsewhere on the river, all of which were registered at Quebec. No complete plans of ships built at Quebec were uncovered during the research, but a number of drawings of construction details and mid-ship section plans form another appendix.

This article reviews the book, "Natives and Newcomers: Canada's "Heroic Age" Reconsidered," by Bruce G. Trigger.

This article reviews the book, "Migrant Laborers," by Sharon Stichter.

This article reviews the book, "Mitarbeiter beteiligung. Grundlagen - Befunde - Modelle" [Employee participation . Basics - Findings - Models], by Günter Schanz.

This article reviews the book, "New Forms of Work Organization and thier Social and Economic Development," by Peter Grootings, Bjorn Gustavsen & Lajos Héthy.

This article reviews the book, "Let Us Rise: A History of the Manitoba Labour Movement," by Doug Smith.

This article reviews the book, "Part-time, Casual and Other Atypical Workers: A Legal View. Research and Current Issues Series," by Geoffrey England.

This article reviews the book, "Image Worlds: Corporate Identities at Genera! Electric," by David E. Nye.

This article reviews the book, "The History of the German Labour Movement: A Survey," by Helga Grebing.

The story of the Newfoundland Industrial Workers' Association (NIWA) is one which has largely been passed over in the writing of the island's labour history. Yet this organization figures prominently in the events which helped shape the labour-capital relationship during the World War I years. As the Canadian and international record will testify, these years were critically important to the development of modern working-class organizations, while maintaining a direct link to the previous struggles of an earlier era. Centred in St. John's, but exerting an Island-wide influence, the NIWA arose out of a pressing need for working people to confront the economic and political realities of their class in a manner intended to redress the subservient and exploitive circumstances to which they were subjected. This thesis examines the NIWA in terms of its structure, membership, and mandate and attempts to place this movement into the larger context of the international labour revolt of 1917 to 1920. In doing so, it argues that class formation, development, and conflict is central to history.

The article reviews and comments on "The Miners of Decazeville: A Genealogy of Deindustrialization," by Donald Reid.

This article reviews the book, "Women in the Workplace: Effects on Families," edited by Kathryn M. Borman, Daisy Quarm, and Sarah Gideonse.

L'auteur passe en revue certaines caractéristiques générales des études économétriques des effets du salaire minimum sur l'emploi et présente un bilan des résultats des études canadiennes et québécoises sur le sujet tout en référant à l'occasion à la littérature empirique américaine.

Provides a biography of Charles Kerr, whose Chicago publishing house began to publish socialist rather than religious materials in the wake of the Pullman Strike of 1894; the left-wing press celebrated its centenary in 1986. See also the obituary of Fred Thompson (Fall 1987, no. 20), who was on the company's board of directors.