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In this article, we discuss representations of women's identifies as workers in the wartime newspaper, Aircrafter, produced by management at the Canadian Car and Foundry Company Limited in Fort William, Ontario, during World War II. We argue that Aircrafter functioned as an ideological mechanism by which pre-war, middle-class prescriptions of femininity, emphasizing women's roles as decorative homemakers in the private sphere, survived the challenges of women's war work to shape post-war gender roles. The article demonstrates the efficacy of this ideological mechanism by revealing the comprehensive way in which different rhetorical styles and varied sections of the newspaper -- the front page news and pictures, the editorial page, the women's page entitled "The Femmine Touch," as well as cartoons and pin-ups -- collectively conveyed an ambivalent attitude that both praised and questioned women's war work in traditionally male jobs thus reinforcing pre-war socially prescribed forms of femininity. This research reveals how state policies concerning representations of women workers in government war propaganda influenced a northwestern Ontario war plant and shaped the ideological atmosphere which the women war workers at Canadian Car would have to negotiate as part of their daily working lives.

It is widely believed that both economic security and management policies that foster employee trust increase the willingness of employees to be flexible with respect to work practices and to accept economic policies that foster competition in product markets. These claims, however, rest either on fairly indirect evidence - an apparent association between the presence in countries of institutions that provide economic security and better performance on one or another macroeconomic indicator - or on a series of generally sketchy case studies. In this article relevant data are analyzed from a representative sample of pulp and paper industry employees in Canada. The results provide only weak support for claims with respect to the effects of employment security and trust, thus suggesting some modifications to the standard interpretation.

The article reviews the book, "Spectres of Capitalism: A Critique of Current Intellectual Trends," by Samir Amin.

Chronicles the work of the Organization for Jewish Colonization in Russia (ICOR) during the 1920s and 30s in support of a Soviet government initiative that established a Jewish Autonomous Region in Birobidzhan in the far east of the Soviet Union. ICOR was also founded in opposition to the Zionist movement for a Jewish national state in Palestine. Controlled by the US and Canadian communist parties, the organization was comprised mostly of Yiddish-speaking East European Jews. In 1933, ICOR claimed a membership of 10,000 members including a Canadian section with members in 10 cities in four provinces. The Canadian section also published a periodical, "Kanader Icor." Concludes that the project for a Jewish Autonomous Region was a largely fraudulent scheme that unravelled under the weight of the Stalinist purges in the Soviet Union as well as developments in the international sphere.

The article reviews the book, "Challenges for Work and Family in the Twenty-First Century," edited by Dana Vannoy and Paula J. Dubeck.

The article reviews the book, "Leisure Settings. Bourgeois Culture, Medicine, and the Spa in Modern France," by Douglas Peter Mackaman.

The article reviews the book, "The Soviet World of American Communism," by Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Kyrill M. Anderson.

The article reviews the book, "Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism since the New Deal," by Sanford M. Jacoby.

The article reviews and comments on Anne M. Butler's "Gendered Justice in the American West: Women Prisoners in Men's Penitentiaries" (1997) and Joy Damousi's "Depraved and Disorderly: Female Convicts, Sexuality and Gender in Colonial Australia" (1997).

The article reviews the book, "Nationalism and the International Labor Movement: The Idea of the Nation in Socialist and Anarchist Theory," by Michael Forman.

The article reviews the book, "Strikes and Solidarity: Coalfield Conflict in Britain 1889-1966," by Roy A. Church and Quentin Outram.

The article reviews the book, "Caught in the Middle: Contradictions in the Lives of Sociologists from Working-Class Backgrounds," by Michael D. Grimes and Joan M. Morris.

L'apparition récente, dans le paysage institutionnel français, d'accords d'entreprise sur l'emploi conduit l'analyste à s'interroger sur la nature du processus aboutissant à de tels compromis sociaux (s'agit-il d'un processus d'échange ?), sur les produits de cette activité (comment caractériser ce type d'accords collectifs ? Où réside la novation ?) et, enfin, sur le sens de ces compromis (en termes de légitimité comme en termes d'action collective pour l'emploi). En mobilisant une sociologie attentive aux processus, cet article explore cette nouvelle dynamique de négociation. On s'attachera à la comprendre comme une forme étendue de régulation conjointe, érigeant l'entreprise comme espace pertinent d'expérimentation de nouvelles pratiques contractuelles et dans laquelle le jeu et les arrangements des acteurs locaux occupent une place centrale.

A study identifying behaviors and perceptions of the individuals involved that affect grievance resolutions is presented. Based on conflict research, the study proposes that cooperative goals promote the direct, open-minded consideration of opposing views which leads to quality solutions efficiently developed. Management and union representatives in 2 large Western Canadian forest product companies were interviewed about grievances they had handled that were and were not settled within their committee. They first described in detail a recent, significant grievance and then answered specific questions to code the incident. Structural-equation results and the analysis of the qualitative data suggest that cooperative goals induce the open-minded discussion of diverse views, which in turn results in high-quality, integrative solutions. However, with competitive goals, managers and employees interacted close-mindedly and were unable to agree upon integrative solutions efficiently. If replicated, the framework developed can help structure interdependence and guide skill training in grievance handling.

The article reviews the book, "Pensions and Productivity," by Stuart Dorsey, Christopher Cornwell and David Macpherson.

Medical laboratory technology is the third largest health profession in Canada. Yet, these workers are largely invisible, both to the public and historiographically. Even recent studies of laboratory medicine make only fleeting reference to workers at the bench. This study examines the origins of the laboratory workforce at the Pathological Institute in Halifax in particular, and the Maritime provinces more generally. It utilizes hospital, university and archival records to demonstrate how this workforce was created as part of a "health care team" and the implications this had for the workers themselves. As Canadian hospitals grew in number and bed capacity over the opening decades of the twentieth century, they also grew in complexity. Hospitals added new services, including departments such as dietetics, x-ray and expanded laboratory facilities. As these services matured, the routine work passed from physicians working alone to specially trained workers. Yet, this process was not uniform and remained remarkably incomplete. In the first half of the twentieth century, laboratory workers did not share a common education, training experience, or labour process. Hospital workers in the Maritimes and elsewhere did not necessarily perform discrete tasks and many, notably nurses, assumed duties in the laboratory. The workers themselves had diverse educations and work experiences. Well into the 1950s, the "laboratory worker" was a diffuse concept. The demands of patients and physicians for enhanced services, the constraints of budgets, recruitment and retention problems, and the interests and desires of workers themselves combined to shape laboratory work. Viewed from the laboratory, the story of the twentieth century Canadian hospital is not one of ever-expanding specialization, but rather a complex milieu where the social relations of skill and gender found bold articulation.

Le droit du travail s'est développé dans le cadre de rapports sociaux de travail homogènes, constitués d'emplois stables, réguliers et continus, occupés par des salariés travaillant à temps plein, exécutant leur travail pour un seul employeur, sous son contrôle et sur les lieux mêmes de l'entreprise. Plusieurs des formes particulières d'emploi qui se développent sur le marché du travail ne correspondent cependant plus à cette image classique: travail autonome, travail à domicile, à temps partiel, à durée déterminée, occasionnel ou sur appel, relation tripartite de travail. Les moyens mis en œuvre en droit du travail pour assurer la protection des travailleurs sont-ils appropriés pour régir efficacement ces nouveaux statuts de travail ? Ce texte examine comment le droit du travail québécois traite des nouveaux statuts d'emploi et propose des pistes de réflexion pour adapter le droit du travail à ces caractéristiques nouvelles du marché du travail.

The article reviews the book, "Expanding Class: Power and Everyday Politics in Industrial Communities: The Netherlands, 1850-1950," by Don Kalb.

The article reviews the book, "Au-delà de l'emploi - Transformations du travail et devenir du droit du travail en Europe," edited by Alain Supiot.

Cette analyse du contenu de /'Accord nord-américain de coopération dans le domaine du travail (ANACT), compte tenu de l'expérience résultant de ses cinq années d'application, cherche à en cerner la nature véritable, malgré une certaine dose d'ambiguïté qui lui est inhérente. A-t-il pour objet de protéger le commerce trinational ou le travail ? Dans quelle mesure s'impose-t-il aux trois droits nationaux en cause ? S'agit-il d'un objectif d'effectivité ou de progression de ces normes nationales du travail ? Enfin, pour ce qui est de la mise en œuvre de l'Accord, l'approche en est-elle une de coopération ou de confrontation ?