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Contents: Prologue : Making labour law in British Columbia -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The industrial relations system -- 3. The politics of labour law reform -- 4. Social credit and the labour code -- 5. Labour policy and Canadian federalism -- 6. The plan of the book.

Chapter 1: Free collective bargaining by Canadian workers -- 1. The banks meet the unions -- 2. The industrial relations setting -- 3. The values of collective bargaining through trade unions -- 4. The role of the law -- 5. Membership cards v. representation ballots -- 6. First-contract arbitration -- 7. Looking back.

Chapter 2: Industrial conflict in Canada -- 1. The national day of protest -- 2. The dimensions of industrial conflict in Canada -- 3. The logic of the strike in free collective bargaining -- 4. The role of the law -- 5. Strike votes -- 6. Strike replacements -- 7. Secondary picketing -- 8. Conclusion.

Chapter 3: The labour arbitrator and the labour agreement -- 1. Entering the brave new world of labour arbitration -- 2. The values of labour arbitration -- 3. The struggle for the soul of arbitration -- 4. An affirmative theory of the arbitrator's role -- 5. The practical challenge to the arbitration process -- 6. The labour board alternative -- 7. Should we have a labour court?

Chapter 4: The individual employee and the trade union -- 1. The tottle tale -- 2. The union as the exclusive bargaining agent -- 3. The limits of democracy and the duty of fair representation -- 4. Fair representation and contract negotiations -- 5. Fair representation in contract administration -- 6. Union security and the right to work.

Chapter 5: The structure of collective bargaining -- 1. Labour unrest in Canadian skies -- 2. The legal source of fragmentation -- 3. The practical consequences of fragmentation -- 4. What can the law do? -- 5. Accreditation of employers -- 6. Councils of trade unions -- 7. The virtues of consolidation -- 8. The ambiguities of centralization -- 9. Conclusion.

Chapter 6: Labour relations in building construction -- 1. The hardy boys -- 2. The industrial relations system in construction -- 3. The legal image of construction indstrial relations -- 4. Union organization of the construction worker -- 5. The problem of bargaining structure -- 6. The evolution of bargaining structure in B.C. construction -- 7. Small(er) is beautiful? -- 8. Conclusion.

Chapter 7: Making a virtue out of necessity: strikes by essential public employees -- 1. Strike at the Vancouver General Hospital -- 2. Collective bargaining with governments: a rationale -- 3. Resolving bargaining disputes in public employment -- 4. The problem of public employee strikes -- 5. Compulsory arbitration -- 6. The impact of arbitration upon negotiations -- 7. Final-offer arbitration -- 8. The controlled strike -- 9. How essential is the public welfare? -- 10. The endless essential service strike -- 11. The politics of essential service disputes -- 12. Conclusion.

Chapter 8 : Collective bargaining under wage controls -- 1. When worlds collide -- 2. Unions and controls -- 3. Inflation and controls -- 4. The Canadian experience -- 5. Wage controls and industrial relations -- 6. Wage guidelines or wage stabilization -- 7. Wage controls and labour peace -- 8. Controls: a brief appraisal -- 9. Afterword: public-sector bargaining and wage inflation.

Chapter 9 : Concluding observations: collective bargaining, legal administration, and the co-determination alternative -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The judicial approach to labour disputes -- 3. The new B.C. labour relations board -- 4. The uses and limits of the administrative model -- 5. The co-determination alternative -- 6. Conclusion.