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The editor reports on the Notebook section introduced in the previous issue as well as the interdisciplinary coverage of labour. The forthcoming issue will launch an annual review of Access to Information legislation, while issue 23 will update on archival and bibliographic resources for the study of labour.

Provides an overview of the current issue as the journal celebrates its 10th anniversary. Appreciation is expressed for the longstanding relationship the journal had with the printing service, which has drawn to a close. Papers presented emphasize the current state of labour and working-class history, including issues of gender and ethnicity. The editor gratefully acknowledges arrivals and departures of editorial board members. A research assistant has updated the journal's index. Memorial University of Newfoundland is thanked for its generous institutional support of the journal.

Notes that the journal is celebrating its 10th anniversary and will be hosting two sessions at the annual meeting of the Canadian Historical Association in Winnipeg.

Notes with great sadness the recent deaths of Marta Danylewycz, Leo Roback, and Herbert G. Gutman. The current volume is dedicated to their memory.

The article reviews and comments on "Family Time and Industrial Time. The Relationship Between the Family and Work in a New England Industrial Community," by Tamara K. Hareven, and "The Working Population of Manchester, New Hampshire, 1840-1886," by James P. Hanlan.

Introduces two new sections in the journal on correspondence and debates, and thanks two departing members of the editorial board for their service.

Takes note that a previously published book review by Jacques Roulliard is being reprinted with corrections in the current issue.

Takes note of the poetry published in the issue, including an accompanying essay. Bryan Palmer will soon be contributing as the review editor. Following an SSHRCC investigation of alternative formats, the print publication of the journal will continue to have primacy over microfiche.

Notes the contributions to scholarly debates in the issue as well as expanded editorial support for book reviews in the French language, the new section on work poetry, and bibliography of labour studies resources in the French language. Changes to the editorial board are also noted. The tenth anniversary of the Committee on Canadian Labour History is marked with an index of its publications.

The editor notes that articles on conferences and labour-related archival resources are included in the issue, and that a bibliography is forthcoming. Appreciation is expressed for two departing members of the editorial board.

Highlights the expansion of the documents section of the journal and the inauguration of a new section on literature reviews. Invites wider contributions to the journal (poetry, fiction, theatre, musical recordings) and debates, as illustrated by Paul Craven's response in the issue to Reg Whitaker's article on Mackenzie King that was previously published in the journal. The volume is in memoriam of H.C. Pentland, whose article on the 1972 survey of the Canadian industrial relations system is published for the first time.

Announces the appointment of Charles Smith and Joan Sangster as co-editors of the journal.

The article reviews the book, "The Communist International, Anti-Imperialism and Racial Equality in British Dominions," by Oleksa Drachewych.

Toronto's Industrial Revolution of the 1850s and 1860s transformed the city's economy and created a distinct working class. This book examines the workers' role in the transition to industrial capitalism and traces the emergence of a strong trade union movement in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Immigrant workers were already organized along ethnic lines and vol­untary societies like the Orange Order played an informal but active part in the broad pattern of social change. Artisan groups were more directly instrumental in developing strategies to cope with the new pressures of industrial capitalism. In the period covered by this book Toronto's moul­ders and printers maintained and even strengthened the traditions of work­ers' control in the shop. The shoemakers and coopers were less successful, but the lessons of their defeats made them important early members of the Knights of Labor in the 1880s.The Knights of Labor gave new direction to labour organization. Ttiey recruited all workers regardless of skill, sex, creed, or race, and spear­headed the direct involvement of Toronto workers in electoral politics. The final chapters of the book trace the tortured path of working class politics from the early activities of the Orange Order to the emergence of a vibrant minority socialist tradition. Between I867 and I892 Toronto workers established a strong institu­tional base for the new struggles between craft unionism and monopoly capitalism in the early twentieth century and Kealey's detailed study of its development adds a new and important dimension to our understanding of Canadian labour history. -- Publisher's description.

What follows is an index to the first ten years of publications of the Committee on Canadian Labour History (CCLH). Founded in 1972 as a committee of the Canadian Historical Association, the CCLH commenced the publication of a Newsletter, which appeared seven times between 1972 and 1975 under the editorship of André LeBlanc. In 1976 the CCLH began two new publications — the Bulletin, edited by John Battye, which ran to 8 issues, ending in 1979, and Labour/Le Travailleur, which appeared as an annual until 1980 when it began to appear twice a year, incorporating the Bulletin. --Editor's introduciton

In the 1880s Canadians began to cope with the meaning of their emerging industrial society. During that decade the federal government first investigated industrial conditions and provincial governments passed Canada's first factory legislation. The same period saw the resurgence of an articulate and angry labor movement protesting against the excesses of modern industry. Through the Royal Commission on the Relations of Labor and Capital we can perhaps gain our best insight into the everyday world of workers and capitalists in late nineteenth-century Canada. The commission gathered evidence in Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick and talked to thousands of workers, businessmen, and other concerned citizens. This edited version of its investigation includes much of the best testimony; it describes working class living conditions, the emergence of organized labor, and the attitudes of businessmen to industrial capitalism. The testimony takes us with the commissioners on their tour of New Brunswick cotton mills, Capre Breton coal pits, Ontario shops and foundries, and Quebec City wharves; it explores as well the darkest corners of Montreal cigar factories. Industrialists discuss profits, markets, sources of raw material, and problems with labor. But what is perhaps more important, the working people themselves are also heard, men and women who in most historical records appear as little more than cold statistics. The warmth and humanity of these Canadians reflecting on their lives and on the society around them bring the commission documents to life. Aging craftsmen, ten-year-old saw-mill hands, girls from the spindles and looms, describe their workplaces, wages, hours, and aspects of their lives away from the job. These almost unique interviews allow us to enter their intellectual and cultural world – to learn of their past and present and of some of their hopes and aspirations. The Labor Commission reports and testimony are essential for an understanding of the Canadian working class as it was being transformed by the new techniques of industrial production. --Publisher's description

The editor notes that the issue contains papers presented at the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike symposium held at the University of Winnipeg in March 1983. The symposium's organizers, Nolan Reilly and Paul Stevenson, also served as guest editors for the issue. Also notes the change of the French title of the journal to Le Travail to avoid the sexist connotation of Le Travailleur, for which the editor apologized.

The article pays homage to the life and work of Canadian social historian Michael S. Cross (1938-2019).

McVICAR, KATE (Katie), shoe worker and union leader; b. c. 1856 at Hamilton, Canada West; d. there 18 June 1886. Katie McVicar, daughter of a poor Scottish tinsmith and his English-born wife, joined two older sisters in the Hamilton labour force in the early 1870s. Like most women who went into factory work in the late 19th century, she began as a single woman, living at home, in order to augment her family’s income. However, unlike most, she remained single and continued to live at home until her early death at the age of 30. Her comparative longevity as a factory operative accounts to some degree for her emergence as a prominent leader in the Knights of Labor. --Introduction