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This article reviews the book, "The Decay of Trade, Newfoundland Social and Economic Studies No. 19," by David Alexander.
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This article reviews the book, "Women at Work: The Transformation of Work and Community in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1826-1860," by Thomas Dublin.
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This article reviews the book, "Catholic Activism and the Industrial Worker," by Neil Betten.
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This article reviews the book, "Women and the Making of the Working Class: Lyon 1830-1870," by Laura S. Strumingher.
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This article reviews the book, "Women, Work and Family," by Louise A. Tilly and Joan W. Scott.
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Minutes of the annual meeting held in Montreal on June 5, 1980.
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This article reviews the books, "Mackenzie King: Widening the Debate," edited by John English and J.O. Stubbs, and "Capital and Labour: Partners?," by Victor Levant.
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This article reviews the book, "The Knights of Labor in the South," by Melton Alonza McLaurin.
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Summarizes the 20th anniversary conference of the Society for the Study of Labour History in London on May 31, 1980. Focuses on the plenary session paper of Scottish historian R.J. Morris, who, in critiquing the course of English labour history since 1960, said that the Thompsian preoccupation with class consciousness obscured great areas of class consensus on sex, religion, age group, and ethnicity. The paper drew a number of replies, including from E.P. Thompson, who commented that the key problem with his approach was that it put too little emphasis upon the place of power and the state. Thus, he asked his listeners to recall that the labour movement was, by its very nature, an oppositional force, a shelter or carrier for intellectual currents from anarchism to environmentalism that were from time to time important in political life. Concludes that the feminist critiques of Thompson presented by Barbara Taylor and Sally Alexander were also a harbinger of the shifting terrain of scholarship in the field.
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This article reviews the book, "The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 in Retrospect," edited by Bela K. Kiraly and Paul Jonas.
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This article describes the state of the two largest metal-working crafts in Hamilton at the end of the nineteenth century - the moulders and the machinists; the efforts of their employers to challenge the craftsmen's shop-floor power in order to transform their factories into more efficient, centrally managed workplaces; and the response of the craft workers to this crisis. The analysis of this response emphasizes the ambivalence of the artisanal legacy for the working class: on the one hand, an impassioned critique of the more dehumanizing tendencies of modernizing industry; on the other, an exclusivist strategy which aimed at defending only their craft interests. This experience suggests that the sweeping changes in the work process that accompanied the rise of monopoly capitalism in Canada prompted a highly fragmented response from the working class.
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This article reviews the books, "The State and Enterprise: Canadian Manufacturers and the Federal Government 1917-1931," by Tom Treves, and "Business and Social Reform in the Thirties," by Alvin Finkel.
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This article reviews the book, "The 1200 Days - Dave Barrett and the NDP, 1972-75," by Lorne J. Kavic and Garry Brian Nixon.
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This article reviews the book, "Praxis: Marxist Criticism and Dissent in Socialist Yugoslavia," by Gerson S. Sher.
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From 1942 to 1951, the British Columbia District Council of the International Woodworkers of America (IWA) was embroiled in a battle for political control. The lines of conflict were drawn between a left-wing "Red Bloc" and an anti-communist "White Bloc." By the early 1950s the left wing had been defeated. Irving Abella has explained the demise of the Left through reference to errors made by communist leaders and reference to the native B.C. lumber workers' disdain for communist trade unionism. This article challenges Abella on both counts. The article situates the anti-communist movement in the political currents extant in Canada at the time and concludes that the secession of the left-led B.C. District from the International in 1948 was less a failure of leadership than it was a last-ditch attempt to preserve the District's autonomy. The article argues that the rank-and-file did not abandon its communist leaders but was forcefully separated from its leaders by the anti-communist movement within the CCL-CIO and by the repressive power of the State.
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This article reviews the book, "Something to GuardL The Stormy Life of the National Guardian, 1948-1967," by Cedric Belfrage and James Aronson.
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This article reviews the book, "The Miracle of the Empty Beds: A History of Tuberculosis in Canada," by G.J. Wherrett.
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This article reviews the book, "'Dangerous Foreigners:' European Immigrant Workers and Labour Radicalism in Canada, 1896-1932," by Donald Avery.
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Reports that a national inventory of oral history collections is underway by the Sound Archives of the Public Archives of Canada in cooperation with the Canadian Oral History Association. Takes note of papers given by Paul Thompson, Gilbert Levine and Jim Turk at the annual conference of the Canadian Oral History Association held on June 2-4, 1980, in Montreal.
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This article reviews the book, "The Urban Crucible: Social Change, Political Consciousness, and the Origins of the American Revolution," by Gary B. Nash.
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