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The article briefly reviews "The Government Generation: Canadian Intellectuals and the State, 1900-1945," by Doug Owram, "Canadian Labour History: Selected Readings," edited by David J. Bercuson, "Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women's History," edited by Veronica Strong-Boag and Anita Clair Fellman, "First Contract: Women and the Fight to Organize," by Carole Conde and Karl Beveridge, "Will You Have a Union in 1995?" Vector Union Report, edited by Marc Zwelling, "The Guild at Forty: The Struggle Continues," by Roger Stonebanks, "The Canadian Welfare State: Evolution and Transition," edited by Jacqueline S. lsmael, "The Benevolent Slate: The Growth of Welfare in Canada," edited by Allan Moscovitch and Jim Albert, "The Bedroom and The State: The Changing Practices and Politics sf Contraception ana Abortion in Canada, 1880-1980," by Angus McLaren and Arlene Tigar McLaren, "Power and Place: Canadian Urban Development in the North American Context," edited by Gilbert A. Stelter and Alan F. J. Artibise, "Democracy and Capitalism: Properly, Community, and the Contradicttons oo Modern Social Thought," by Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, "A Vision of Unity: History of the Bakery and Confectionery Workers International Union," and "Challenge and Change: History of the Tobacco Workers International Union," by Stuart Bruce Kaufman, "Labor Leaders in America," edited by Melvyn Dubofsky and Warren Van Tine, "Confrontation, Class Consciousness, and the Labor Process: Studies in Proletarian Class Formation," edited by Michael Hanagan and Charles Stephenson, "The Miners' Strike: Loss Without Limit," by Martin Adeney and John Lloyd, "Women and Work in Preindustrial Europe," edited by Barbara Hanawalt, "Collected Essays: v. 1 — Writing and Revolution in 17th Century England; v. 2 — Religion and Politics in 17th Century England; v. 3 — People and Ideas in 17th Century England," by Christopher Hill, "France: Fin de Siècle," by Egen Weber, and "Bailing Out the System: Reformist Socialism in Western Europe, 1944-1985," by Ian Birchall / reviews by Bryan D. Palmer -- "Morning in His Heart: The Life and Writings of Watson Kirkconnell," by J.R.C. Perkin and James B. Snelson / review by Gregory S. Kealey.

The article briefly reviews "The Structure of the Canadian Capitalist Class," by Robert J. Brym, "Democratic Socialism: The Challenge of the Eighties and Beyond," edited by Donna Wilson, "Old Passions, New Visions: Social Movements and Political Activism in Quebec," by Marc Raboy, "Frank H. Underhill; Intellectual Provocateur," by R. Douglas Francis, "Emerging Identities: Selected Problems and Interpretations in Canadian History," edited by Paul W. Bennett and Cornelius J. Jaenen, "Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, I680-1800," by Allan Kulikoff, "Will Herberg: A Bio-Bibliography," by Harry J. Ausmus, "Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America," by Carrol Smith-Rosenberg, "The Collected Essays of Asa Briggs, Volume 1: Words, Numbers, Places, People and Volume Two: Images, Problems, Standpoints, Forecasts," by Asa Briggs, "The Irish in the Victorian City," by Roger Swift and Sheridan Gilley, "British Economic Growth during the Industrial Revolution," by N.F.R. Crafts, "Language, Gentler and Childhood," edited by Carolyn Steedman, Cathy Urwin, and Valerie Walkerdine, "British Trade Unionism Against the Trades Union Congress," by Gerald A. Dorfman, "Artisans, Peasants, and Proletarians, 1760-1860: Essays Presented to Gwyn Williams," by Clive Emsley and James Walvin,"Labor Migration in the Atlantic Economies: The European and North American Working Classes During the Period of Industrialization," edited by Dirk Hoerder, "The Peculiarities of German History: Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany," by David Blackbourn and Geoff Eley, "The Development of Capitalism in Northern Nigeria," by Robert Shenton, "Capitalism and Social Democracy," by Adam Przeworski, "Outsiders: A Study in Life and Letters," by Hans Mayer / reviews by Bryan D. Palmer -- "Talkin' Union: Music Lore History," journal edited by Saul Schniderman, "Nature's Noblemen: The Fortunes of the independent Collier in Scotland and the American Midwest, 1855-1885," by John H.M. Laslett / reviews by Gregory S. Kealey.

The article briefly reviews "1919: The Winnipeg General Strike," by Gerry Berkowski and Nolan Reilly,"The Writing of Canadian Histo ry: Aspects of English-Canadian Historical Writing since 1900," by Carl Berger, "A Conjunction of Interests: Bus iness, Politics, and Tariffs, 1825-1879," by Ben Forster, "Vancouver Past: Essays in Social History," edited by Robert A.J. McDonald and Jean Barman, "Quebec before Duplessis: The Political Career of Louis-Alexandre Taschereau," by Bernard L. Vigod, "Canada, What's Left?," edited by John Richards and Don Kerr,"'My Dear Legs': Letters to a Young Social Democrat," by Alex Macdonald, "The Knights in Fiction: Two Labor Novels of the 1880s," edited by Mary C. Grimes, "Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in Europe an and American Thought, 1870-1920," by James T. Kloppenberg, "The Growth of Working Class Reformism in Mid-Victorian England," by Neville Kirk, "Proletarians and Protest: The Roots of Class Formation in an Industrializing World," edited by Michael Hanagan and Charles Stephenson, "Servants and Masters in Eighteenth-Century France: The Uses of Loyalty ," by Sarah C. Maza, "The German Revolution and the Debate on Soviet Power — Documents: 1918-1919, Preparing the Founding Congress," edited by John Riddell,"The Ties That Bind: Peasant Families in Medieval England," by Barbara A. Hanawalt, "Households and the World Economy," edited by Joan Smith, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Hans Dieter Evers, "Revolutionaries and Reformists: Communism and the Australian Labour Movement, 1920-1950," by Robin Gollan, "The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism: An Elaboration of Marxian Political Economy," by John Bellamy Foster, "An Introduction to Marxist Political Economy," by Bade Onimode, "Workplace Democracy: A Guide to Workplace Ownership, Participation, and Self-Management Experiments in the United States and Europe," by Daniel Zwerdling, "The Future of the Left," edited by James Curran, "Blue Chips," by Herbert A. Applebaum / reviews by Bryan D. Palmer -- "Something in Common - An IWW Bibliography," compiled by Dione Miles, "Samuel Gompers: A Selected List of References About the Man and His Time," by David Myers / reviews by Gregory S. Kealey.

As Canada's most industrialised province, Ontario served as the regional centre of the Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor, an organisation which embodied a late nineteenth-century working-class vision of an alternative to the developing industrial-capitalist society. The Order opposed the exploitation of labor, and cultivated working-class unity by providing an institutional and cultural rallying point for North American workers. By 1886 thousands of industrial workers had enrolled within the ranks of Ontario's local and district assemblies. This book examines the rise and fall of the Order, providing case studies of its experience in Toronto and Hamilton and chronicling its impact across the province. --Publisher's description

Expresses appreciation to departing/arriving editorial board members, in particular Ross McCormack who also contributed in his capacity as President of the Canadian Committee on Labour History. Welcomes Bryan Palmer as review editor and Robert Babcock as incoming CCLH president. Takes note of two articles in the issue that were originally conference papers, the oral history project of Sudbury labour leader Jim Tester (his address is published in the issue), the bibliography compiled by Douglas Vaisey and Marcel Leduc, and the report of recent archival acquisitions by Danny Moore.

The Order of the Knights of Labor played a determining role in the organization of the world of work at the end of the nineteenth century. Social movement more than union than a trade union, the order addressed all workers without consideration of of sex, ethnic or racial origin, and trade qualification. The Order thus represented to industrial capitalism the most important challenge it had to face in North America. In Ontario, this challenge was as much political and cultural as it was economic as well as in economic matters. We present here the history of the Order of the Knights of Labor in Ontario from 1880 to 1902; in the context of the industrial development of the of the industrial development of the province, the internal structures of this movement and the and the actions that it exercised in the economic, political and cultural fields. [Translation of the French resumé]

...This volume presents a series of scholarly articles which range from an essay by Gregory Kealey on Toronto's Industrial Revolution in the last half of the nineteenth century to a fascinating study by Wendy Mitchener of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, "A Study of Nineteenth-Century Feminism." Also included are examinations of the working class, violence and protest, social structure and government encouragement of industrial development from 1849 to 1896. --Publisher's description

...As an introduction to the birth and growth of society in New France, the scholarly articles contained in the volume draw from the translated writings of Marcel Trudel and Fernand Ouellet, two of French Canada's leading historians. As well, contributions from Bruce Trigger and Calvin Martin look at the impact of European society on the culture of Native peoples. Together with articles on land use and labour, this informative volume offers a discerning view of the earliest of French Canada - the life of the habitant, the raucous beginning of the first craft brotherhoods, the movement toward a new social order which early European inhabitants took to with a "missionary zeal." By exploring the social roots of modern day Quebec [the book] sheds new light on our understanding of French Canada. --Publisher's description

...This volume presents a selection of scholarly articles designed to introduce the student to currents of social change and development in Canada from 1760 to 1849. With contributions by such respected academic writers as Harold Adams Innis, Judith Fingard, and Sylvia Van Kirk, it provides valuable insights into the role of the working class, violence and protest, class conflicts, and the economic structure of a newly developing nation. --Publisher's description

[This book] is the fourth of a five-volume series of readers designed to present an overview of Canada's social history, encompassing such topics as economic development, social structure, politics, religion, work and workers, and the changing role of women. In this volume the editors have assembled a series of scholarly essays examining such historic developments as government support of big business and the concentration of capital, the decline of craft unionism in Hamilton factories, the business impetus behind municipal reform, and the circumstances for working women in the 1920s. Articles such as Donald Avery's account of labour exploitation in the hiring of "foreign" navvies to build railroads in Western Canada and Don Macgillivray's analysis of state intervention and the use of troops in strikes among Cape Breton miners and steel workers in the 1920s highlight the issues and controversies which makes this one of the most telling chapters of Canada's social history. --Publisher's description

[This book] is the last of a 5-volume series of readers designed to present an overview of Canada's social history, encompassing such topics as economic development, social structure, protest and violence, social control, work and workers, and the changing role of women. In this volume the editors have commissioned a collection of original essays designed to provide a scholarly response to the vital questions: "Who are we as a people? How did we become what we are?" The extent and influence of foreign ownership in the post-war world is examined by Paul Phillips and Stephen Watson. David Wolfe chronicles the emergence of the welfare state after the war and its recent decline. Michael Behiels explores the ideological tensions among federalist, nationalist, and socialist intellectuals in Quebec and Canada. Ruther Pierson and Marjorie Cohen discuss sexual bias in federal manpower policies in depression, war, and reconstruction. The struggles of labour, management, and government are examined in articles by Wayne Robert and John Bullen, and by Wallace Clement. And the education system as a instrument of social control is the subject of Paul Axelrod's essay. --Publisher's description

The article briefly reviews "Canadian Corporate Power," by Henry Veltmeyer, "People and Places: Studies of Small Town Life in the Maritimes," edited by Larry McCann, "Schooling and Scholars in Nineteenth-Century Ontario," by Susan E. Houston and Alison Prentice, "No Bleeding Heart: Charlotte Whitton, A Feminist on the Right," by P.R. Rooke and R.L. Schnell, "The Memoirs of Giovanni Veltri," edited by John Potestio, "Feminist Research: Prospect and Retrospect," edited by Peta Tancred-Sheriff, "Waterfront Warlord: The Life and Violent Times of Hal C. Banks," by Peter Edwards, "Free Trade and the Future of Women's Work: Manufacturing and Service Industries," by Marjorie Griffin Cohen, "The History of the Ontario Liquor Board Employees' Union," by Beverly Dalys, "Labour Law Under the Charter: Proceedings of a Conference." sponsored by the Industrial Relations Centre, School of Industrial Relations and Faculty of Law, Queen's University, "The State of the Art in Industrial Relations," edited by Gerard Hébert, Hen C. Jain, and Noah M. Meltz, "Case Critical: The Dilemma of Social Work in Canada," by Ben Carniol, "From Culture to Power: The Sociology of English Canada," by Robert J. Brym, with Bonnie Fox, "On the Archival Heritage of the Finnish Canadian Working-Class Movement: A Researcher's Guide and Inventory to the Finnish Organisation of Canada Collection at the National Archives of Canada," by Edward W. Laine, "On the Line: Essays in the History of Auto Work," edited by Nelson Lichtenstein and Stephen Meyer, " To Toil the Livelong Day' : Women at Work, 1780-1980," edited by Carol Groneman and Mary Beth Norton, "Hard Times in Paradise: Coos Bay, Oregon, 1850-1985," by William G. Robbins, "Working Lives: An Oral History of Rhode Island Labor," edited by Paul M. Buhle, and "A History of Rhode Island Working People," edited by Paul Buhle, Scott Malloy, and Gail Salisbury, "Professionalism and Social Change: From the Settlement House Movement to Neighborhood Centers, 1886 to the Present," by Judith Ann Trolander, "Raising Less Corn and More Hell: Midwestern Farmers Speak Out," by Jim Schwab, "The Party of Fear: From Nativist Movements to the New Right in American History," by David H. Bennett, "The American Perception of Class," by Reeve Vannenun and Lynn Weber Cannon, "Prudent Revolutionaries: Portraits of British Feminists Between the Wars," by Brian Harrison, "Trade Unions and the New Industrialization of the Third World," edited by Roger Southall, "Pass Controls and the Urban African Proletariat," by Doug Hindson / reviews by Bryan D. Palmer -- " First Days, Fighting Days. Women in Manitoba History," edited by Mary Kinnear / review by VDP [see editor's note for correction made in no. 25 (Spring 1996), page 6] -- "The Road from Coorain," by Jill Ker Conway / review by Gregory S. Kealey.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "Immigration and Labour: Australia and Canada Compared" published in "Labour/Le Travail."

Bibliography of primary sources including manuscripts, newspapers, pamphlets, and government documents from Canadian repositories.

This volume presents a selection of scholarly articles designed to introduce the student to the currents of social change and development in Canada from 1760 to 1849. With contributions by such respected academic writers as Harold Adams Innis, Judith Fingard, and Sylvia Van Kirk, it provides valuable insights into the role of the working class, violence and protest, class conflicts, and the economic structure of a newly developing nation. --Publisher's description on book cover

Introduced by Pierre Berton, the article presents socialist journalist Phillips Thompson's eclectic musings on labour and land reform, banking, the money system, and capitalism. Written in 1888-89, Thompson's journal reflects his visit to the UK during this period, where met with Peter Kropotkin and heard a speech by William Morris. Henry George appears in the entries, and there are quotations from a variety of sources including William Lloyd Garrison and Harriet Martineau. The journal manuscript is kept at Library Archives Canada with the Thomas Phillips Thompson papers.

The article briefly reviews "Ravished bx the Spirit: Religious Revivals, Baptists, and Henry Alline," by G.A. Rawylk, "The Acadiensis Reader, v. 1: Atlantic Canada Before Confederation and v. 2: Atlantic Canada After Confederation," edited by P.A. Bucknerand David Frank, "The Mysteries of Montreal: Memoirs of a Midwife," by Charlotte Fiihrer, edited by Peter Ward, "The Promoters' City: Building the Industrial Town of Maisonneuve, 1883-I9I8," by Paul-Andre Linteau, translated by Robert Chodos, "Government and Enterprise in Canada," edited by K.J. Rea and Nelson Wiseman, "Collective Bargaining in the Public Service: The Federal Experience in Canada," v. 1-2, edited by Jacob Finkelman and Shirley B. Goldenberg, "The Labor History Reader," edited by Daniel J. Leah, "C. Wright Mills: An American Utopian," by Irving Louis Horowitz, "Foundry Foreman, Foundry men," by Lloyd Zimpel, (San Pedro: Singlejack,1980); "Longshoring on the San Francisco Waterfront," by Reg Theriault, (San Pedro: Singlejack, 1978); and "Night Shift in a Pickle Factory," by Steve Turner (San Pedro: Singlejack, 1980), "The Fight Against Shutdowns: Youngstown's Steel Mill," by Staughton Lynd, "International Labour Reports" (a bimonthly magazine established 1983), "The Idea of Poverty: England in the Early Industrial Age," by Gertrude Himmelfarb, "A History of British Socialism," by Max Beer. with a new introduction by Ken Coates, "English Industrial Cities of the Nineteenth Century," by Richard Dennis, "Shop Floor Bargaining and the State: Historical and Comparative Perspectives," edited by Steven Tolliday and Jonathan Zeitlin, "Wigan Pier Revisited: Poverty and Politics in the 80s," by Beatrix Campbell, " Vision and Method in Historical Sociology," edited by Theda Skoepol, and "Making Sense of Marx," by Joe Elster / reviews by Bryan D. Palmer -- "Agriculture in America, 1622-1860," by Andrea J. Tucher / review by D.H.A. -- "Labor's Joke Book," edited by Paul Buhle / review by Gregory S. Kealey.

In 1983 and 1984 the Canadian Studies Program of the Secretary of State funded four lecture series at Canadian universities on the history of the Canadian working class. This volume presents many of the lectures in a published version. Ranging from east to west and covering two centuries of Canadian labour history, the volume includes a selection of essays by some of Canada's leading social historians including Michael Cross, David Frank, Ross McCormack, Bryan Palmer and Joy Parr. Outstanding participants in the making of Canadian labour history Eugene Forsey and H. Landon Ladd have also contributed. Directed at a popular audience these fourteen lectures provide a major survey of Canada's labour past. --Publisher's description

For the purposes of this review, labour studies is defined to encompass various disciplinary approaches, but, in general, this essay focuses on studies of the working class, not just of the labour movement, and material which places the working class in historical perspective. --From authors' introduction

This work is founded on the extensive working files of John Battye and Gregory Kealey, to which were added references pirated from other bibliographies, items accumulated from computer-assisted literature searches, and literary débris collected by methodical screening of such collections as Canadiana, Library of Congress Books: Subjects, and the Canadian Periodical Index. --Introduction