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The article reviews the book, "Families Apart: Migrant Mothers and the Conflicts of Labor and Love," by Geraldine Pratt.

This article reviews the book, "Time, Work and Leisure: Life Changes in England since 1700," by Hugh Cunningham.

The article reviews and comments on the books, "Labour Markets and Identity on the Post-Industrial Assembly Line," by Anthony Lloyd, "Answer the Call: Virtual Migration in Indian Call Centres," by Aimee Carrillo Rowe, Sheena Malhotra, and Kimberlee Perèz, and "Call Centers and the Global Division of Labor: A Political Economy of Post-Industrial Employment and Union Organizing," by Andrew J.R. Stevens.

[This article] aims to contribute to knowledge of proletarian literature in post–Confederation Canada in three related ways: by briefly outlining the early history of the Clarion; by describing the Clarion’s use of articles, extracts, leaflets, pamphlets, poems, short stories, novels, and cartoons to define and popularize the platform of the Socialist Party of Canada; and by investigating how such communicative practices shaped and were shaped by the maintenance of identity and group formation, especially as the SPC attempted to increase the Clarion’s circulation and further socialist representation across Canada.

This article reviews the book, "Joining Empire: The Political Economy of the New Canadian Foreign Policy," by Jerome Klassen.

The article reviews the book, "Epidemic Encounters: Influenza, Society, and Culture in Canada, 1918-20," edited by Magda Fahrni and Esyllt W. Jones.

This study examines the views of full-time unionized university faculty at four primarily undergraduate universities in Ontario, Canada, on a broad range of issues related to postsecondary education, faculty associations, and the labor movement. The purpose of the study is twofold: first, to better understand the views of unionized professors regarding the role and effectiveness of their faculty unions and of labor unions more generally, and second to explore what impact such views might have on shaping the strategic orientation and political priorities of faculty associations in a context of unprecedented austerity measures and neoliberal restructuring in Ontario's postsecondary education sector. Based on the findings of a mixed-methods survey, we found that university professors were relatively satisfied union members with a healthy degree of union—as opposed to class—consciousness, but had little appetite for engaging in political activities beyond the narrow scope of postsecondary education. This finding, we argue, reinforces the false division between the “economic” and the “political” in the realm of labor strategy, thus potentially undermining the capacity of unionized faculty associations to effectively resist neoliberal restructuring both on campus and in society more broadly.

Introduces papers given at a Brock University panel on the television show, "Bomb Girls." The series, which was described as a "'World War II drama-cum-soap opera focusing on the Canadian homefront and the gals (and guys) working at a munitions factory,'" aired on the Global Television Network during the 2012-13 seasons.

CAWLS is joining the Canadian Committee on Labour History family. The journal is now co-published by CCLH and Athabasca University Press, in affiliation with CAWLS.

This article reviews the book, "Another Politics: Talking across Today’s Transformative Movements," by Chris Dixon.

This article reviews the book, "Theorizing Anti-Racism: Linkages in Marxism and Critical Race Theories," edited by Abigail Bakan and Enakshi Dua.

This article reviews the book, "Wisdom, Justice, and Charity: Canadian Social Welfare Through the Life of Jane B. Wisdom, 1884–1975," by Suzanne Morton.

Explores the economy of the Cape Breton fishery by examining the ledger books of Philip Robin and Company in the Acadian fishing community of Chéticamp in the mid-19th century. The research complements the work of Rosemary Ommer, who studied the Jersey firm's associated company that dominated the Bay of Chaleur region of the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Concludes that the truck system used between the Acadians, who had returned to the area in the decades after their deportation by the British in 1750, and the firm was indicative of an integrated relationship. The finding contrasts sharply with the studies of Harold Innis and others, whose portrayal of the Newfoundland, Labrador and Maritime cod fishery often painted a much darker picture of exploitation and constrained local development.

L’impact du passage d’une évaluation collective à une évaluation individuelle de la performance, ou inversement, sur les équipes de travail et leur rendement est étudié en contexte réel au sein de deux équipes ayant récemment vécu le passage d’une évaluation collective à une évaluation individuelle pour l’une, et inversement pour l’autre. Si dans nos deux échantillons, l’évaluation individualisée s’accompagne d’une individualisation du rapport au travail, les effets sont plus contrastés en ce qui concerne le vécu individuel, la qualité des relations interpersonnelles et la performance. Lorsque, du fait des critères d’évaluation retenus, les contributions individuelles à la performance collective sont indétectables en l’absence d’évaluation individualisée, l’évaluation collective est associée à la suspicion et à une moindre performance en comparaison de l’évaluation individuelle. À l’inverse, lorsque selon les critères retenus pour évaluer la performance les membres de l’équipe peuvent aisément s’entraider pour améliorer la performance collective, l’évaluation collective est mieux perçue et est associée à de meilleures relations interpersonnelles et une meilleure performance que l’évaluation individuelle. Alors que l’évaluation individuelle est généralement privilégiée dans les entreprises, cette étude apporte des résultats empiriques à l’appui des recherches qui postulent que l’évaluation collective des équipes de travail est susceptible de renforcer la performance globale, en comparaison de l’évaluation individuelle de leurs membres, car elle favorise l’entraide et la régulation collective. Toutefois, ces résultats mettent en évidence que l’effet positif de l’évaluation collective en comparaison de l’évaluation individuelle n’est observé que lorsque les critères d’évaluation favorisent la régulation collective de la performance. Cette étude permet d’identifier ces deux éléments : 1- dans quel cas telle modalité d’évaluation semble préférable à telle autre; et 2- quels critères d’évaluation adopter pour favoriser les effets positifs de l’évaluation collective sur la performance engendrés par l’entraide et la régulation collective en cours d’activité.

My focus here will be on whether the decision in Saskatchewan Federation of Labour v. Saskatchewan2 will give an impetus to the success of constitutional challenges to laws governing the right to strike. While Saskatchewan Federation of Labour dealt with restrictions on that right in essential services legislation, i.e. legislation that provided for "controlled" strikes, this paper will for the most part address other forms of "strike laws." Briefly, I believe that while the Supreme Court's decision in Saskatchewan Federation of Labour is a welcome event in the evolution of labour relations in Canada, it is unlikely to revolutionize our labour relations regime. --From author's introduction

This article reviews the book, "Equality Deferred: Sex Discrimination and British Columbia’s Human Rights State, 1953–1984," by Dominique Clément.

This article reviews the book, "Little 'Red Scares': Anti-Communism and Political Repression in the United States, 1921–1946," edited by Robert Justin Goldstein.

Cette thèse porte sur les figures contemporaines du salariat domestique ainsi que les principales évolutions de ce secteur d’activités dans la deuxième moitié du XXe siècle à Québec. Les récits de vie d’une trentaine de femmes ayant expérimenté diverses formes de travail domestique rémunéré constituent la base empirique de cette étude. Durant cette période historique marquée par l’accroissement spectaculaire de la main-d’œuvre féminine, de même que par le déclin du fordisme et la polarisation du marché du travail, le secteur domestique se diversifie. Les nouvelles formes de service domestique s’inscrivent dans la continuité historique ― notamment en regard de la personnalisation et de la naturalisation du rapport de travail, qui ont maintenu ce secteur à l’écart de la norme salariale depuis le XIXe siècle ―, tout en participant pleinement à la construction de nouveaux régimes d’inégalités de classe, de race et de genre autour de la division du travail dans la société québécoise contemporaine. Les récits de vie témoignent de l’indissociabilité des formes rémunérées et non rémunérées de travail domestique, et de leur caractère structurant dans la construction du rapport des femmes de milieux populaires au travail, à l’emploi et à la famille. De l’apprentissage du service domestique comme mode de socialisation des filles à la permanence domestique assurée par les femmes à toutes les étapes de leur vie familiale, les réseaux féminins familiaux et communautaires tissent la toile de toute une économie des échanges domestiques, sur un continuum entre entraide et emploi. Au cours des dernières décennies du XXe siècle, divers mécanismes se mettent en branle pour créer un bassin de main-d’œuvre domestique, dont certains sont directement liés à l’institution patriarcale du mariage, et concernent les femmes divorcées ou celles qui ont connu une longue absence du marché du travail. L’univers des petits boulots domestiques apparaît comme une sorte d’archipel où sont refoulées des femmes exclues du marché de l’emploi formel. Au sein de cette nébuleuse des emplois domestiques, les dynamiques de professionnalisation, d’institutionnalisation et de segmentation s’articulent autour de la frontière entre service et servitude, laquelle nourrit les pratiques et les représentations dans ces métiers où l’héritage ancillaire fait figure de spectre.

This paper considers some of the implications of the Supreme Court of Canada's watershed judgment in Saskatchewan Federation of Labour, which recognized a constitutional right to strike under the Charter, for labour relations policy and practice in the broader public sector. The author notes that while the right to strike has been a key element of modern industrial relations policy, restrictions on that right have been deemed to be justified in respect of "essential " public services. Despite a marked decrease in strike activity in recent decades across all sectors of the economy, the author finds that strikes remain a significant feature of industrial relations in the broader public sector, particularly in the areas of health care, education and social services, where union density continues to be at high levels. In Saskatchewan Federation of Labour, the Supreme Court, though recognizing the fundamental importance of the right to strike to collective bargaining, did not preclude the possibility of restrictions on strikes in essential services if such restrictions were reasonably justified. In particular, the Court held, legislation that prohibited or limited strikes may survive Charter scrutiny if it provides for a "meaningful" alternative dispute resolution mechanism. The key question, then, is what sort of process will satisfy the requirements set out by the Court. In suggesting an answer to this question, the author reviews the study by Adell, Grant and Ponak on strikes in essential services, which concluded that the so-called "designation" model (which seeks to maintain the delivery of essential services during a strike or lockout) had more favourable industrial relations outcomes than either the "no-strike" model or the "unfettered strike" model. Nevertheless, the author points out, the practical implementation of the designation model could become more complex as a result of the decision in Saskatchewan Federation of Labour because of the larger number of issues to be decided and because of the requirement that the mechanism used to determine outcomes regarding essential services, classifications and employees be inclusive rather than unilateral.

The article reviews the book, "Workers and Labour in a Globalised Capitalism: Contemporary Themes and Theoretical Issues," edited by Maurizio Atzeni.