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What are the trends shaping the future of work? How can unions respond in ways that will invigorate the labor movement for the 21st century? A paper addresses these questions by first presenting a critique of the future-of-work literature, followed by a detailed analysis of the best available Canadian evidence of the major forces already exerting pressures for change on workplaces. The shape of tomorrow's workplace is visible today. Unions will continue to play a vital role in Canadian society by adapting their organizing and collective bargaining strategies to the often contradictory economic, labor market, organizational, human resource management, and demographic trends evident today.
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The article reviews the book, "Just Another Car Factory: Lean Production and its Discontents. Rinehart," by James Rinehart, Christopher Huxley, and David Robertson.
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This article reviews the book, "White Collar Workers in Transition: The Boom Years 1940-1970," by Mark McColloch.
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This article reviews the books, "Industrial Democracy in Western Europe: A North American Perspective," by John Crispo, and "The Canadian Industrial Relations System," by John Crispo.
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This paper critically re-examines the clerical proletarianization thesis from the perspective of the feminization of the early-twentieth-century Canadian office. The paper argues that the segmentation of the office work force along gender lines explains many of the changes in wages and working conditions erroneously interpreted by the proletarianization thesis as signs of the clerks' declining class position. More specifically, the expansion and rationalization of the office during the "administrative revolution," roughly from 1900 to 1930, depressed clerical earnings through the recruitment of cheap female labour into new routine jobs. Male clerks, while not significantly better off economically than skilled manual workers, moved up into the expanding ranks of management. Even within the female clerical sector there is little evidence of sweeping work degradation, given considerable variation in work and market conditions across industries, within and among firms, and among clerical tasks.
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This article reviews the book, "From Home to Office: U.S. Women at Work, 1870-1930," by Elyce J. Rotella.
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This article reviews the book, "Women for Hire: A Study of the Female Office Worker," by Fiona McNally.
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This paper investigates the origins and development of unions in the Canadian banking industry since 1976. The historically low level of unionization in banking, coupled with its largely female workforce, makes bank unionization a significant development on the Canadian industrial relations scene.
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This paper attempts to go beyond individual-level explanations of attitudes towards unions by exploring the impact of-community. It is argued that factors operating at the aggregate level of the community help shape local industrial relations. A review of industrial relations literature documents that community constitutes a latent but nonetheless important variable.
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A study examines the relationship between stressful working conditions, social support at work, employee distress, and union members' (dis)satisfaction with their union. It might be assumed that under stressful working conditions, unionized workers would turn to their union to seek better working conditions and would have a positive orientation toward their union. However, it is also possible that stressful working conditions and distressed, alienated employees will become dissatisfied not only with their job but also with their union. The data for the study come from a survey of unionized postal workers employed by Canada Post Corporation in Edmonton in 1983.
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