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The article reviews the book, "Ninety-Nine Days: The Ford Strike in Windsor, 1945," by Herb Colling.

Documents the horrific conditions at the quarantine station located on Grosse Île, a small island in the St. Lawrence River south of the port of Quebec City, during the Irish famine. In 1847-48, newly arrived Irish immigrants died by the thousands of malnutrition and typhus while under quarantine at Grosse Île. Mass graves were dug at the site for the victims, as had been done for the victims of the cholera epidemic of 1832. Discusses the political and economic plight of Ireland - in particular, the decisions of the governing British elite - that resulted in mass starvation and the exodus overseas. In 1996, the Canadian government recognized Grosse Île as an Irish memorial.

An examination of the impact of the fast food industry on work and family life. Ester Reiter worked full-time at a Burger King outlet for ten months gathering information for this study. In Making Fast Food she shares her experiences and analyses the profound effect the fast food industry has had on women's work, youth employment, the labour movement, the family, and the community. Family life, for example, has changed dramatically in the last forty years as many activities that were traditionally part of the home have been replaced by services available in the marketplace. The second edition includes an epilogue that brings the study up to date. Reiter examines the way the fast food model is being adopted in other areas, such as health, and explores unionization in fast food businesses. --Publisher's description. Artwork by Richard Slye. Contents: The market moves into the family and the family moves into the market -- The restaurant industry in Canada -- The fast food invasion -- Burger King: a case study -- Working in a Burger King outlet -- Modern times in the hamburger business -- Martialling workers' loyalty -- Is this the work situation of the future?

The article reviews the book, "On the Line at Subaru Isuzu: The Japanese Model and the American Worker," by Laurie Graham.

The article reviews the book, "Économie et société en Acadie, 1850-1950," by Jacques Paul Couturier and Phyllis E. Leblanc.

This thesis examines the Paid Education Leave (PEL) program of the Canadian Autoworkers Union (CAW), fomerly the Canadian Region of the United Autoworkers Union (UAW). This four-week program takes place at the CAW Family Education Centre in Port Elgin, Ontario and potentiatly provides 90% of the CAW's members with class-based, union-centred, labour education. Interviews conducted with key CAW sources uncover PEL's histoncal roots. A chronicle of the stniggle to establish PEL is detailed in relation to the International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention 140 on Paid Educational Leave. Thematic oral-history interviews were conducted with six CAW Local 222 members, al1 former participants of PEL. Interviews are used to illustrate a detailed description of the program's pedagogy and curriculum. Interview respondents were Generai Motors (GM) of Canada workers located in Oshawa, Ontario. Several policy and programmatic suggestions are made, including increased understanding of, and elevated respect for, informal learning.

The article reviews the book, "Globalization and the Decline of Social Reform," by Gary Teeple.

The article reviews the book, "California Red: A Life in the American Communist Party," Dorothy Ray Healy and Maurice Isserman.

The article reviews the book, "Nationalsozialistische Frauenpolitik vor 1933: Dokumentation," edited by Hans-Jurgen Arendt, Sabine Hering and Leonie Wagner.

This thesis examines the history of female immigrant domestic labour in Canada from a socialist feminist perspective. Over the past hundred years, Canadian immigration policy with respect to domestic workers became increasingly regressive with the shift in the racial composition of foreign female domestics. The women's movement contributed to this change as gains in Canadian women's public rights did not effectively challenge the dominant social paradigm of women's roles, and so left intact the public-private divide and the sexual division of labour to which were allied biases of race and class. The women's movement thus became an unwitting participant in the formulation of regressive immigration policies which rebounded on the women's movement itself, reinforcing its internal divisions.

The article reviews the book, "Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism 1945-1960," by Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf.

The study of collective violence has generally reinforced national stereotypes that Canada is a "Peaceable Kingdom" and that the United States is extraordinarily violent. This article assesses the historiography of collective violence since the 1960s and offers specific suggestions for further exploration into Canada's riotous experiences. Scholars often assume that Canada's collective violence has been infrequent and less destructive than American episodes. Future research -- with a focus on nativism, the social legitimacy of the crowd, religious and ethnic conflict, the entrenchment of powerful state institutions, and vigilantism -- might prove otherwise. Regardless, Canadian collective violence will be better understood if it is conceptualized in a North Atlantic context.

The article reviews the book, "Labor and Community: Mexican Citrus Worker Villages in a Southern California County, 1900-1950," by Gilbert G. Gonzalez.

The 1920s is generally seen as a period of defeat for Canadian labour. With the rise of monopoly capital, strike activity and union membership steadily declined in the face of wage cuts, new technologies and corporate welfare schemes. The continental alliance of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada (TLC) that, for the most part, provided labour's leadership during this crisis, proved ineffective. By 1927 a secessionist movement challenged the legitimacy of the AFL/TLC alliance. In March of that year, the Canadian Brotherhood of Railroad Employees (CBRE), gathered with the One Big Union (OBU), the Canadian Federation of Labour (CFL), and communist-influenced unions, including the Mine Workers' Union of Canada and the Lumber Workers' Industrial Union, to form the All-Canadian Congress of Labour (ACCL). It is the focus of this thesis to bring the Congress front and centre and to provide an alternative interpretation of its effort to build a national labour movement in the 1920s--one that was neither opportunistic, anti-communist, nor right-wing. Instead, this thesis supports the contention that the ACCL was a counter-hegemonic, working-class initiative that aimed to improve the political representation and material conditions of the Canadian worker.

The article reviews the book, "Class, Democracy and Labor in Contemporary Argentina," by Peter Ranis.

The article reviews the book "Arctic Revolution: Social Change in the Northwest Territories, 1935-1994," by John David Hamilton.

C.S. Jackson was the labour leader that the establishment loved to hate. Tough, intelligent, courageous, and incorruptible, he was one of the founders of industrial unionism in Canada in the 1930's. He served as the head of the Canadian division of the United Electrical Workers for 43 years. During that time he battled with some of the world's largest corporations, with powerful politicians who had him interned, and with most of the leadership of the Candian labour movement. Long-associated with the Communist Party, Jackson and the UE were victimized by the Cold War, expelled from the Canadian Congress of Labour, and subjected to red-baiting raids conducted by unions under more moderate political leadership. But in the Cold War, which disfigured both Canadian society and the Candian labour movement, he gave as good as he got. This biography demonstrates that Jackson thrived on conflict and challange and rarely shrank from a confrontation - in either his public or private life. Making extensive use of interviews conducted with Jackson and his associates, it provides an intimate portrayal of one of the most controversial and successful radical labour leaders in Canadian history. --Publisher's description

The article reviews the book, "From Artisans to Paupers: Economic Change and Poverty in London, 1790-1870," by David R. Green.

The article reviews the book, "We Ask for British Justice": Workers and Racial Difference in Late Imperial Britain," by Laura Tabili.