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  • This essay poses a critique of selected recent writing on American and British working-class culture, arguing against the tendency to categorize culture into discrete ideal types. It argues the importance of locating culture materially and historically, developing a notion of periodization that recognizes particular stages of development and levels of conflict and struggle. As such it poses an implicit rejection of recent Canadian polemics directed against the study of the cultural.

  • The article briefly reviews "Canada's Urban Past: A Bibliography to 1980," compiled by Alan F.J. Artibise and Gilbert A. Stelter; "International Handbook of Industrial Relations: Contemporary Developments and Research," edited by Albert A. Blum; "Rhetoric of Protest and Reform, 1878-1898," edited by Paul Boase; "Philosophers Look at Canadian Confederation," edited by Stanley G. French; "The Past Before Us; Contemporary Historical Writing in the United States," edited by Michael Kammen; "The Third Century: America as a Post-Industrial Society," edited by Seymour Martin Lipset; Al Nash's "Ruskin College: A Challenge to Adult and Labor Education;" "The Organization of Knowledge in Modern America, 1860-1920," edited by Alexandra Oleson and John Voss; "Labor and American Politics: A Book of Readings," revised edition, edited by Charles M. Rehmus, Doris B. McLaughlin, and Frederick H. Nesbitt; "American Workers Abroad: A Report to the Ford Foundation," edited by Robert Schrank; Edward Shils' "The Calling of Sociology and Other Essays on the Pursuit of Learning" (3rd volume of 4); "Unfinished Business: An Agenda for Labor, Management, and the Public," by Abraham J. Siegel and David B. Lipsby; "The History of American Electoral Behavior," edited by Joel H. Silbey, Allan G. Bogue, and William H. Flanigan; Lawrence Stone's "The Past and the Present;" "Essays in British Business History," edited by Barry Supple; "The American Labour Movement and Other Essays," by R.H. Tawney, edited by J.M. Winter; "History and Society," by R.H. Tawney, edited by J.M. Winter; and "The Current Industrial Relations Scene in Canada, 1981," edited by W.D. Wood and Pradeep Kumar.

  • 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]

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