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Describes the business records of the Ford Motor Company of Canada that were deposited at the University of Windsor Archives in fall 1997, and their value for research on labour and work history.

The article reviews the book, "CLR James: A Political Biography," by Kent Worcester.

In the 1920s and early 1930s the Industrial Workers of the World were a force to be reckoned with among Finnish bushworkers in northern Ontario. Although the Lumber Workers Industrial Union no. 120, affiliated with the Industrial Workers of the World, was smaller than its rival, the Lumber Workers Industrial Union of Canada, affiliated with the Communist Party, the Wobbly union played a major role in bushworker strikes in the mid-1920s and early 1930s. Committed to anti-authoritarianism, decentralization, and rank-and-file initiative, Finnish Wobbly bushworkers were part of an ethnic-based working-class culture in which the economic struggles of the bushworkers were made possible by the tireless work of Finnish Wobbly women, who were the backbone of Wobbly social, cultural, and organizational life in urban centres like Port Arthur. In a 20th century dominated by bureaucracy, legality, and state-directed social programs, the Finnish Wobblies of northern Ontario leave a legacy of dedication to self-education and self-activity in an age so often identified with the demise of the Wobblies and the victory of mass culture.

The article reviews the book, "Organizing to Win: New Research on Union Strategies," edited by Kate Bronfenbrenner, Sheldon Friedman, Richard W. Hurd, Rudolph A. Oswald and Ronald L. Seeber.

Since the early 1980s, the worldwide expansion of product and capital markets has been cited as one of the singlemost significant factors driving the transformation of economic and social relations, both in industrialized countries as well as in the developing countries. Much of this process of economic transformation has been generated as a result of the conjunction of a set of changes in several mutually reinforcing, yet endogenous, factors. Policy makers could once meaningfully refer to an industrial relations system as being defined primarily at the level of a national or sub-national government jurisdiction. While researchers and policy makers still refer to the notion of an industrial relations system, the process of internationalization has clearly begun to erode the relevance of this concept at least in the sense of its traditional meaning.

The article reviews the book, "After Lean Production: Evolving Employment Practices in the World Auto Industry," edited by Thomas A. Kochran, Russell D. Lansbury and John Paul MacDuffie.

The following excerpt is taken from a public lecture given by Marjorie Griffen Cohen, Professor of Economics and Chair of Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University (SFU), entitled "Economic Fundamentalism and its Threat to Democracy."The address, part of the 1998 President's Lecture series at SFU, examined the ascendency of neoliberalism — "economic fundamentalism"— in the post-World War II period and its impact on the political, economic, and social institutions that "supported the ideas of equality and democracy in industrialized countries." In this passage, Cohen sketches a "political approach" to countering the erosion of the welfare state and what she calls the "marketization" of social and economic life. --Editor's introduction

By the early 20th century, the changes taking place in western industrial capitalist nations prompted an adaptive shift in the socioeconomic delineation of human bodies, and in scientific theories about how they worked and how they could be put to work. Just as the rising social sciences borrowed from medicine to convey images of social malaise, medicine increasingly appropriated an industrial vocabulary to conceptualize bodily health. Depicted variously as a machine, a motor, a factory in itself, the human body absorbed industrial symbolism. Modem industry demanded an intensification of labour that made bodily efficiency paramount. The corresponding definition of health also shifted, from emphasis on physical endurance, which could be secured by simple replacement of outworn workers, to optimum labour efficiency, which had to be actively instilled in all workers, present and future. Scientific management programs were easily integrated with regulatory medical notions concerning the human body and human nature, as science, medicine and technology combined forces to promote a machine ethic that equated modernity, progress, efficiency, and national health. This paper considers the relationship between changing conceptualizations of the human body, developing medical influence and state regulation of health, and attempts to "Taylorize" the labour process in early 20th century Canada.

The article reviews the book, "Forging Business-Labour Partnerships : The Emergence of Sector Councils in Canada," edited by Morley Gunderson and Andrew Sharpe.

The article reviews the book, "Formations of Class & Gender," by Beverley Skeggs.

The article reviews the book, "Unions and Workplace Reorganization," edited by Bruce Nissen.

The article reviews the book, "Un métier et une vocation. Le travail des religieuses au Québec de 1901 à 1971," by Danielle Juteau and Nicole Laurin.

The article reviews the book, "The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945," by Cindy Hahamovitch.

The individual decision making of the Energy and Chemical Workers' Union rank and file members in their choice to support or oppose a 3-way merger with the Paperworkers' Union and the Communications and Electrical Workers' Union is examined. Two theories, one economic and one behavioral, are used to explain member voting preferences. Results demonstrate that both instrumental and image considerations need to be taken into account when predicting the outcome of a union merger vote.

The article reviews the book, "Tous à l'école. État, communautés rurales et scolarisation au Québec de 1826 à 1859," by Andrée Dufour.

In recent years, there has been a trend in many countries toward a decentralization of collective bargaining structures. Two methods are employed to provide a deeper analysis than previous studies of the forces that determine bargaining structure. First, a framework is built to analyze bargaining structure by integrating previous theoretical and empirical work on the topic. Second, the framework is applied to 4 bargaining unit level case studies in the US' pulp and paper industry. By examining the dissolution of 2 centralized bargaining structures and union attempts to reestablish centralization through ratification voting pools in 2 others, the relative importance of economic, tactical and organizational factors in the continued decentralization of US paper industry bargaining is revealed.

The article reviews and comments on the following two books: Alan H. Jeeves and Jonathan Crush's "White Farms, Black Labor: The State and Agrarian Change in Southern Africa, 1910-1950" and Jonathan Crush and Charles Ambler's "Liquor and Labor in Southern Africa."

The article reviews the book, "Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South, by Mark M. Smith.

Far more attention has been paid to Walton & McKersie's (1965) distributive and integrative models of bargaining than to their strategies in a mixed bargaining situation; in particular the emphasis has been on developing cooperation in the form of the integrative or mutual gains approaches. A paper reexamines the mixed bargaining model and, drawing on a case study, identifies a number of features of negotiation which enable the parties to overcome the difficulties associated with the strategy. It is suggested that the mixed bargaining model is more appropriate in the industrial relations context than approaches which focus on cooperation.

The article reviews the book, "Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957," by Penny M. Von Eschen.