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As a concept that has increasingly been invoked in discussions of social and political food systems dynamics, food sovereignty calls for the holistic consideration of human and ecological aspects of agricultural systems with a focus on power and political dynamics. We investigated an export-oriented agricultural production system as a case study to understand how and to what extent food sovereignty principles can be enacted in the context of agriculture in the Global North. The blueberry industry in British Columbia, Canada, is socially and economically significant within a regional food system, and is globally integrated through export and trade. This study employs the framework of food sovereignty by drawing on principles of equity, empowerment and ecology as a methodological tool for assessing food systems, and examines how local producers in the BC blueberry industry are responding to pressures, constraints and opportunities in the global food system. I identified and operationalized key principles and processes for food sovereignty in the form of indicators. I conducted 33 structured interviews with blueberry growers representing a range of scales and modes of production. Significant themes and dynamics related to food sovereignty discussed by growers were: high demands for seasonal labour leading to mechanization; blueberry production as a means to attain a farming lifestyle while supplementing with significant off-farm income; and a perceived lack of power among growers relative to other actors in the food system. Participants expressed reduced decision autonomy through resource constraints and economic pressures. The combination of economic forces and social dynamics that have most growers locked into an industrial production cycle represent a barrier to achieving food sovereignty principles. On the other hand, there were several important institutions in the industry that support and empower growers through democratic participation opportunities, knowledge translation, and field expertise. A significant re-orientation of food systems governance and policy combined with economic re-structuring and social empowerment mechanisms would be needed to approach the realization of food sovereignty principles in the BC food system.

We examine the effects of the Universal Child Care Benefit on the labour supply of mothers. The benefit has a significant negative effect on the labour supply of legally married mothers, reducing their likelihood of participation in the labour force by 1.4 percentage points and hours worked by nearly one hour per week. In contrast, the likelihood of participation by divorced mothers rises by 2.8 percentage points when receiving the benefit and does not affect hours worked. Moreover, the benefit does not have a statistically significant effect on the participation of common-law married mothers or never-married mothers.

Bergman and Jean (2016) include freelancers as one of the categories of workers who are understudied in the industrial and organizational (I-O) psychology literature. This neglect is particularly striking given the attention paid by the popular media and by politicians to the rise of the “gig economy,” comprising primarily short-term independent freelance workers (e.g., Cook, 2015; Kessler, 2014; Scheiber, 2014; Warner, 2015). This may be due in part to challenges involved in accessing and researching this population, as discussed by Bergman and Jean, but it may also arise from complexities in defining and conceptualizing freelance work, as well as from misunderstandings about the nature of the work now performed by many people who are considered freelancers. Major topics of interest to I-O psychologists such as organizational attraction, job satisfaction, and turnover may seem at first glance to lack relevance to the study of workers who are officially classified as self-employed. But there is substantial opportunity for I-O psychologists and other behaviorally oriented organizational researchers to contribute to our understanding of the growing number of people who earn all or some of their income by freelancing.

The article reviews the book, "Generation Rising: The Time of the Québec Student Spring," by Shawn Katz.

The article reviews the book, "Swedes in Canada: Invisible Immigrants," by Elinor Barr.

The article reviews the book, "The Workers' State: Industrial Labor and the Making of Socialist Hungary, 1944–1958," by Mark Pittaway.

The article reviews the book, "The Raids: The Nickel Range Trilogy, Volume 1," by Mick Lowe.

Les micro-données de l’Enquête sur la population active de Statistique Canada sont utilisées dans le cadre d’une approche centrée sur les professions, qui repose elle-même sur l’approche des régimes d’emploi. Les auteurs construisent une typologie des professions en huit classes. Sur la base de la part relative des classes professionnelles dans l’emploi salarié, il appert que les professionnels et les techniciens, tant dans les sciences naturelles et dans les nouvelles technologies de l’information et des communications que dans les sciences sociales et dans les sciences de la santé, ont enregistré la croissance la plus importante ; les employés faiblement qualifiés dans les services interpersonnels ont également connu une croissance, tandis que les cols bleus et les cols blancs ont subi un déclin alors que les cadres supérieurs et les professionnels de la finances se sont enlisés dans la stagnation. Toutefois, ces derniers se sont avéré être les véritables gagnants de la répartition des revenus au cours de la période. Sur le plan de la qualité des emplois mesurée par la croissance relative des professions regroupées en quintiles de revenus, on observe un phénomène de polarisation asymétrique : les quintiles supérieurs regroupant les bons emplois, ont connu une croissance plus élevée que le quintile inférieur, associé aux mauvais emplois, alors que les quintiles intermédiaires ont régressé. On enregistre également une croissance des inégalités salariales, en ce sens que les salaires du quintile supérieur se sont accrus plus rapidement que ceux des autres quintiles de revenus. Enfin, le Québec et le Canada appartiennent au régime néolibéral. Le Québec est, certes, une société plus égalitaire, mais, contrairement aux pays du modèle social-démocrate, ce caractère « distinctif » n’est pas le résultat de politiques sociales plus progressistes et d’un syndicalisme davantage inclusif qui auraient rehaussé les salaires du quintile inférieur ; il s’explique plutôt par la stagnation, voire le déclin, de l’emploi dans le quintile supérieur et des salaires dans le quatrième quintile.

The article reviews the book, "Le Capital au XXIe siècle," by Thomas Piketty.

Director Min Sook Lee's award-winning documentary follows the story of migrant workers who come to labour in Ontario greenhouses as part of Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program. Many are women recruited by brokers who illegally charge fees upwards of $7,000, with greenhouse owners complicit in the scam. The film examines the lives of a group of strong, vibrant migrant women who resist systemic oppression and exploitation. --TV Ontario website description

Previous research has understood the migrations of gay men and other queer people through a lens of identity development, whereby relocation is driven by processes of coming out and consuming particular urban amenities. Meanwhile, labour geographers have largely overlooked sexuality, seeking to understand work-related migration in relation to gender, race, citizenship and the collective organization of workers. Drawing on the migration narratives of gay-identified men living in Ottawa, Canada, and Washington, DC, USA, we argue that the norms governing gender and sexuality within various workplaces, economic sectors and locales continuously influence migration related to work and inextricably linked processes of social reproduction. In particular, we explain how the affective needs of gay workers both deflect them from and attract them to particular locales and workplaces. In their migration destinations, gay workers tend to also transform the norms of social reproduction within workplaces and sectors. While gay workers may use migration to successfully negotiate the uneven landscapes of inclusion and visibility in North America, their agency is also constrained by the ongoing of regulation of sexuality in both workplaces and social and community environments.

In this article, we compare current Canadian nursing home workers’ experiences and conditions of care to past work and care conditions to determine changes and similarities over the period from 1970 to the present. Employing a feminist political economy framework and a team-based rapid ethnography approach, our study involved observations of and in-depth interviews with management, health providers, support staff, informal care providers, union officials, and residents between 2012 and 2015. The historical substudy drew on interviews of past and present workers of one large long-term residential care home in Ontario. While improvements have been made in training and in the physical safety of staff and residents in these gendered spaces of work, there has been a persistence, if not intensification, in job precarity; inadequate staffing levels coupled with heavy workloads; routinized, assembly-line types of work; and cost-cutting on supplies.

The article reviews the book, "Ressources humaines. Gérer les personnes et l’ordre social dans l’entreprise," by Évelyne Léonard.

The article reviews the book, "Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: Modern American Revolutionary," by Lara Vapnik.

This thesis is an historical examination of the multi-layered processes of deindustrialization in Sydney, Nova Scotia. The history of a steel plant formerly located in the centre of the city is used as a case study through which the mechanisms of deindustrialization are fully explored. In 1967, the provincial government of Nova Scotia nationalized the Sydney Works. This marks a significant divergence from previous studies of deindustrialization, which have traditionally focused on the wave of industrial closures in the North American heartland during the 1970s and 1980s. Framed by oral history accounts of former steelworkers, this dissertation reveals the combined impact of Canadian regionalism, political economy, and working-class cultures of resistance on local experiences of industrial decline. This represents a synthesis between the econo-political historiography of deindustrialization favoured in the 1980s and the cultural/representational approaches of the 1990s and 2000s. The title, “Deindustrialization on the Periphery,” speaks to the specific national and regional contexts that frame the decline of Sydney Steel. The longue durée of economic change on the rural resource frontier has been understudied. In Cape Breton, the devastation wrought by the end of industry has roots that stretch back to the early 20th century. Tracing these through the use of Harold Innis’ “staples trap,” my thesis reveals how deindustrialization stretches from decades before closure to the years after a mine, mill, or factory are shuttered for the last time. Workers and other residents in Sydney continue to face the bodily aftermath of workplace injury, occupational, and environmental illness long after the structures of the plant have been demolished. But so, too, have experiences of working at the mill and living in the neighbourhoods that surrounded its gates created particular forms of culture, solidarity, and identity. My research is more than a eulogy for a defunct steel town. It seeks to expose the tensions between different forms of memory and experience, and to examine how the industrial past remains inextricably connected to the “post-industrial” present.

This article reviews the book, "Détroit pas d’accord pour crever. Une révolution urbaine," by Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin; translated from English by Laure Mistral.

Les recherches sur le choix de demeurer dans un emploi sont peu nombreuses ou traitent ce sujet à travers des modèles sur le roulement de personnel (turnover), considérant que les mêmes déterminants influencent de manière opposée l'intention de rester ou de quitter. De plus, à l'exception notable de Cossette et Gosselin (2012), les chercheurs ne traitent que le choix de rester dans l'entreprise, mêlant dans la même variable expliquée le choix de rester dans un emploi et celui de la mobilité intra-organisationnelle.Cette recherche poursuit deux objectifs: 1- identifier des concepts associés au souhait de rester dans son emploi; 2- explorer les relations entre les variables identifiées et le désir de rester. L'apport de cette recherche est double. Il s'avère tout d'abord théorique puisque nous avons identifié les variables associées au souhait de rester dans un emploi. Les résultats obtenus permettent de proposer un modèle théorique décrivant les relations entre trois groupes de variables (identification, contextes personnel et au travail) et le souhait de rester. Nous montrons, en particulier, l'influence probable des variables d'identification au contenu du travail sur le souhait de rester dans l'emploi, réalité rarement prise en compte dans les analyses sur ce sujet, que nous définissons comme un état où un salarié établit une équivalence entre ce qu'il est et ce qu'il fait. Cette identification est obtenue suite aux succès obtenus par la personne, qui lui indiquent ses compétences et lui procurent un sentiment d'efficacité, source de fierté. Le second apport de cette recherche est méthodologique. Il semble fécond d'associer une analyse des entretiens, appliquant les principes de la théorie enracinée, à un traitement statistique de type analyse des correspondances multiples, peu connu des chercheurs anglosaxons. // Title in English: Identification with Work Content as a Determinant of the Desire to Stay in a Job. Research on the choice to remain in a job is limited, and that which exists tends to be based on turnover models that consider that the determinants influencing the intent to remain or to leave a job are the same. Furthermore, with the exception of Cossette and Gosselin (2012), scholars have traditionally only dealt with the choice to remain within a company and have not made any distinction between variables that explain the choice of employees to remain in a particular job or to be intraorganizationally mobile.This research serves two purposes: 1- it identifies the concepts related to the desire to stay in a job; 2- it explores the interrelationships between identified variables and the desire to stay in a job. The contribution of this research is twofold: the first is theoretical in so far as we identify the variables associated with the desire to remain in a job. The findings make it possible to propose a theoretical model that describes the relationships between three groups of variables (identification, personal context, and work context) and the desire to stay. In particular, we show the likely influence of how people identify with work content upon the desire to remain in a job. Rarely taken into account in analyses on this topic, we define this influence as a condition where an employee establishes equivalence between what he/she is and what he/she does. This identification follows the success achieved by a person that attests to his/her range of skills and provides him/her with a feeling of efficacy. The person identifies with this source of pride. The second contribution of this research is methodological. It appears to be fruitful to associate interview analysis, applying the principles of grounded theory, with a statistical process, such as a Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA), an approach that is little known to Anglo-Saxon scholars.

This article reviews the book, "Les critiques de la gestion," by Jean Nizet and François Pichault.

The effects of neoliberal capitalism have had a significant impact on the structure of the Canadian labour market and economy, but also on the employment opportunities for young workers in the early 21st century. And despite being the most educated generation ever, the millennials are faced with fewer full-time, secure jobs. Many have opted to embrace self-employment, sometimes not by choice but by necessity. This qualitative study embraced similar themes from the McMaster University/United Way of Toronto/PEPSO study, “The Precarity Penalty,” to determine how self employment affects their personal, work, social and community lives. One-on-one interviews were conducted with 10 Hamilton millennials (born 1981-1997), who were recruited through the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce’s affiliated organizations, Hamilton HIVE and Young Entrepreneurs and Professionals Hamilton. A total of 28 questions explored five topical areas: 1) their employment relationship; 2) how their employment relationship affected their life outside of work – i.e., family life, friends, community involvement; 3) physical and mental health; 4) their outlook on the future in terms of employment-related opportunities and potential barriers; and 5) their overall view on work and the current generation of workers. This research provided a glimpseinto the challenges that young, well-educated, self-employed millennials face, and their views on work and the labour market today. and their views on work and the labour market today. --From Executive Summary

The Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) is a transnational labour agreement between Canada, Mexico, and various Caribbean countries that brings thousands of Jamaican migrant workers to Canada each year to work on farms. This thesis explores Jamaican SAWP workers’ experiences of stress in Ontario, and situates these experiences within a system of power and international inequality. When describing their experiences of stress and suffering in Ontario, many Jamaican workers drew analogies between historic and modern slavery under the SAWP. However, stress discourses also inspired workers to emphasise their resilience, and many workers gave equal attention to explaining their inherent strength as “Jamaicans”, which they associate with national independence and the history of slavery. In this way, I suggest stress discourses are sites of flexibility and resilience for Jamaican workers, and this thesis presents the foremost cultural, political, and historical factors that support Jamaican workers’ resilience in Ontario. Moreover, the predominant coping strategies workers employ in Ontario will be explored within the context of their restricted agency under the SAWP. This thesis concludes with a discussion of stress as an expression of subjectivity that is characterised by strength, faith, and the history of slavery.