Full bibliography

Co-published by the Institute of Northern Ontario Research and Development, Laurentian University.

Proceedings of the conference: Where the past meets the future: The place of alternative unions in the Canadian labour movement held May 13-15, 1993, in Sudbury, Ontario.

Contents: Part 1. The state of the union. One hundred years of Mine Mill / John B. Lang -- The decline of collective bargaining in the private sector / John O’Grady -- Women and new issues in labour organizing / Laurell Ritche -- A chilly season in Canadian labour / Jean-Claude Parrot. Part 2. Up against the mountain. Small unions and dissidents in the history of Canadian trade unionism / Bryan Palmer -- Le local 902 de Mine Mill : Les dix premières années (1949-1959) du syndicat et travailleurs de la ville et du district de Sudbury / Donald Dennie -- Mergers, organizing and collective identity: The CAW at the crossroads / Charlotte Yates -- Women and the changing face of labour in northeastern Ontario / Mary Powell and Jennifer Keck. Part 3: Solidarity and fragmentation. Labour law and collective bargaining before statutory collective bargaining / Eric Tucker -- Labour law reform in Ontario: Moving forward to go back to what never was / Harry Glasbeek. Part 4: I remember Mine Mill. “We’re still here:” A panel remembers the past and looks to the future. Part 5: The expendable worker. “The name of the game is power:” Labour’s struggle for health and safety legislation / Elie Martel -- Health, safety and the environment in CAIMAW and the CAW / Cathy Walker -- “Building tombstones in our lungs:” Comments on health and safety / Clinton Jencks, Kevin Conley, Elie Martiel, and Cathy Walker. Part 6: Technological change. Telework and the workplace of the future / Theresa Johnson -- A labour agenda for work design / Ken Delaney. Part 7: Creative responses in organization and culture. Organizing part-time workers in the educational sector / Mike Groom -- Working partners: The arts and the labour movement / Karl Beveridge -- Weir Reid and Mine Mill: An alternative union’s cultural endeavors / Deiter K. Buse. Part 8: Drawing on the past for future strength. Building a people’s movement / Madeline Parent -- It never died: How Joe Hill’s ashes came to be in the Sudbury Mine Mill Hall one hundred years after the founding of the Western Federation of Miners / Utah Phillips.