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This article examines the contest between the United Steelworkers of America and management at Dominion Foundries and Steel (Dofasco) for the loyalty of Dofasco workers. Situated in the 1930s and 1940s during the rise and consolidation of industrial unionism in Canada, the article traces the development at Dofasco of a corporate welfare, human relations approach to management that effectively challenged and ultimately defeated the drive for unionization. At the same time Dofasco pursued a consistent and oftentimes ruthless policy of dismissing union organizers and activists from within its workforce. Both strategies combined to produce what this paper terms the "Dofasco Way." The centrepiece of the "Dofasco Way" was the successful operation of a profit-sharing Fund. For only the profit-sharing Fund brought together both elements of the "Dofasco Way": loyalty and fear among the workers. Loyalty was created because the Fund provided security. Fear was created through threats to terminate the Fund should the company ever be organized. In the end, however, it was the programmes designed to produce loyalty that led to the Dofasco workers' rejection of unionism.
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Assesses the Windsor conference versus the London meeting of the previous year, as well as the meaning of the Windsor conference for blue-collar workers. Concludes that the Windsor conference, with its sessions on industrial conflict and on the past and futue of the Canadian working class, was more firey; and that academic work, including theory, must also be relevant and accessible to workers and their struggles.
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The article reviews the book, "Dying for Work: Workers' Safety and Health in Twentieth-Century America," edited by David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz.
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This paper examines the evolution of industrial unionism in Canada during the 1930s and 1940s through a comparative analysis of events at the Steel Company of Canada (Stelco) and Dominion Foundries and Steel (Dofasco).
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The introduction to the memorable collection of photographs of Hamilton workers, All That Our Hands Have Done...announced: "Labour history is a new field. It demands new methods, new sources, new questions and new, mutual relations between researchers and their subjects." --From David Sobel, "Remembering Wayne Roberts, 1944-2021," Labour/Le travail, 87 (Spring 2021) 15.
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Every day millions of Canadians go out to work. They labour in factories, offices, restaurants, and retail stores, on ships, and deep in mines. And every day millions of other Canadians, mostly women, begin work in their homes, performing the many tasks that ensure the well-being of their families and ultimately, the reproduction of the paid labour force. Yet, for all its undoubted importance, there has been remarkably little systematic research into the past and present dynamics of the world of work in Canada. The essays in this volume enhance our understanding of Canadians on the job. Focusing on specific industries and kinds of work, from logging and longshoring to restaurant work and the needle trades, the contributors consider such issues as job skill, mass production, and the transformation of resource industries. They raise questions about how particular jobs are structured and changed over time, the role of workers' resistance and trade unions in shaping the lives of workers, and the impact of technology. Together these essays clarify a fundamental characteristic shared by all labour processes: they are shaped and conditioned by the social, economic, and political struggles of labour and capital both inside and outside the workplace. They argue that technological change, as well as all the transformations in the workplace, must become a social process that we all control. --Publisher's description. Contents: On the job in Canada / Craig Heron and Robert Storey (pages 3-46) -- Dimensions of paternalism: Discipline and culture in Canadian railway operations in the 1850s / Paul Craven and Tom Traves (pages 47-74) -- Work control, the labour process, and nineteen-century Canadian printers / Gregory S. Kealey (pages 75-101) -- Contested terrain: workers' control in the Cape Breton coal mines in the 1920s / David Frank (pages 102-123) -- Keeping house in God's country: Canadian women at work in the home / Veronica Strong-Boag (pages 124-151) -- Skill and gender in the Canadian clothing industry, 1890-1940 / Mercedes Steedman (pages 152-176) -- Mechanization, feminization, and managerial control in the early twentieth-century Canadian office / Graham S. Lowe (pages 177-209) -- Work and struggle in the Canadian steel industry, 1900-1950 / Craig Heron and Robert Storey (pages 210-244) -- Logging pulpwood in Northern Ontario / Ian Radforth (pages 245-280) -- On the waterfront: longshoring in Canada / John Bellamy Foster (pages 281-308) -- Life in a fast-food factory / Ester Reiter (pages 309-326) -- Autoworkers on the firing line / Don Wells (pages 327-352).
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