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This essay attempts to place Canadian workers' 1919 militancy in a national and international context. Utilizing freshly compiled strike data and focusing on events outside of Winnipeg, the paper argues that the 1919 revolt was nation-wide and part of the international post-war revolutionary upsurge. The new prominence of women and immigrant workers, reflecting the drive for industrial unionism, is emphasized.

This essay is a contribution to the debate concerning the direction of social and working-class history. Comments are made on periodization, regionalism, ethnicity, and culture. Class analysis and the utility of culture for the study of Canadian workers are strongly defended.

The editor notes that various aspects of women's work are explored in the special issue. Also noted is the article on historical researchers' use of Privacy Act, including issues arising from Access to Information and Privacy Acts. The editor updates on his own experiences in this regard.

Expresses appreciation to three departing editorial board members, in particular André LeBlanc. Notes the introduction of a new section on access to information and the return of the section on labour accessions at the National Archives. Publication of the updated Canadian labour bibliography is deferred until a later issue. The editor apologizes and notes the correction to be made on p. 145 of Alvin Finkel's article [The Cold War, Alberta Labour, and the Social Credit Regime] in the previous issue.

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.

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

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.

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

The essays are gathered around two themes: the relationship of sociology and social history, and the intersection of gender, ethnicity, and region with class. Unlike most Canadian essay collections, the contributors and their subjects cover Canada from British Columbia to Newfoundland, with forays into Cape Breton and central Canada. The volume contains articles by Ian McKay, Gordon Darroch, James R. Conley, Alicja Muszynski, Gillian Creese, and Jim Overton. An interesting collection of some of the new work being done in Canada by historians and sociologists, Class, Gender, and Region reflects Charles Tilly’s suggestion that “there should be no disciplinary division of labour: simply both doing social history.” --Publisher's description (Athabasca University Press) Contents: Introduction / Gregory S. Kealey -- The crisis of dependent development: class conflict in the Nova Scotia coalfields, 1872-1876 / Ian McKay --Class in nineteenth-century, central Ontario: a reassessment of the crisis and demise of small producers during early industrialization, 1861-1871 /Gordon Darroch -- “More theory, less fact?” Social reproduction and class conflict in a sociological approach to working-class history / James R. Conley -- Race and gender: structural determinants in the formation of British Columbia’s salmon cannery labour force / Alicja Muszynski -- The politics of dependence: women, work, and unemployment in the Vancouver labour movement before World War II / Gillian Creese -- Public relief and social unrest in Newfoundland in the 1930s: an evaluation of the ideas of Piven and Cloward / James Overton.