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The article reviews the book, "The Rise and Fall of Corporate Social Responsibility," by Douglas M. Eichar.

Cet article s’intéresse aux organisations de la société civile (OSC) spécialisées dans le soutien aux démarches de (ré)insertion socioprofessionnelle des personnes en situation d’itinérance (PSI) et aux nouveaux acteurs dans le système de relations industrielles québécois. À partir d’une étude de cas réalisée dans l’Arrondissement Ville-Marie de Montréal, nous avons utilisé les dimensions développées par Bellemare (2000) pour rendre opérationnel le concept d’acteur, les travaux de Heery et al. (2012) sur les OSC britanniques, ainsi que les résultats issus de nos recherches dans cet arrondissement, pour déterminer si les OSC impliquées dans la (ré)insertion socioprofessionnelle des PSI peuvent être considérées comme de nouveaux acteurs en relations industrielles (RI). Selon les dimensions de l’analyse, il apparaît que nous pouvons considérer les OSC qui sont engagées dans des expériences de (ré)insertion socioprofessionnelle des PSI comme de nouveaux acteurs en RI. En effet, en termes d’implication aux divers niveaux d’analyse des RI, elles interviennent de façon ponctuelle sur les lieux de travail, mais de façon beaucoup plus continue sur les plans organisationnel et institutionnel. Au niveau organisationnel, mentionnons que les OSC sont en lien avec des entreprises par le biais d’un réseau entretenu avec une OSC qui agit à titre d’intermédiaire afin de permettre le déploiement des programmes d’employabilité. Il s’agit d’un mode de fonctionnement en réseau où nous retrouvons de nombreux échanges interorganisationnels permettant d’assurer un continuum de services dans le but de soutenir les individus dans leur trajectoire de retour au travail et de faciliter les transitions des PSI en entreprises. En ce qui a trait au degré de continuité de l’implication des OSC dans le système de RI, nos résultats diffèrent de ceux de Heery et al. (2012). Nous avons, en effet, constaté une implication soutenue dans les programmes d’employabilité et de pré-employabilité, alors que ces auteurs parlent plutôt d’implication sporadique ou discontinue. Nos résultats montrent, également, des changements au niveau des règles liées aux conditions de travail et dans l’organisation de l’entreprise par la mutualisation de certaines pratiques de GRH, que nous assimilons à une influence des OSC sur le niveau organisationnel. De plus, ces dernières contribuent indirectement à influencer l’environnement social des entreprises grâce à l’action concertée entre OSC et entreprises dans le but d’apporter une solution au problème de concentration de l’itinérance dans le territoire du centre-ville montréalais.

Editorial introduction to the three articles in the issue that call for a renewed approach to human resource management (HRM). Includes bibliography.

Au cours des vingt dernières années, la responsabilité sociétale de l’entreprise (RSE) est devenue une préoccupation majeure du débat public et de la recherche en sciences sociales. La multiplication des démarches RSE a nécessairement un impact sur les organisations syndicales qui sont amenés à s’adapter et à réagir ou qui peuvent se saisir des opportunités offertes par la RSE. L’objectif de cet article est d’apporter un éclairage sur la manière dont les stratégies des centrales syndicales en matière de RSE se construisent.

Cet article s’intéresse à la contribution des alliances syndicales internationales (ASI) à l’effectivité des Accords-cadres internationaux (ACI), notamment à leur capacité à favoriser le processus de syndicalisation et de négociation de conventions collectives dans des pays où la législation nationale peine à assurer le respect de ces droits fondamentaux. Le contenu de ces accords, généralement le fruit d’une entente bilatérale entre la direction d’une multinationale et celle d’une Fédération syndicale internationale, repose habituellement sur certaines conventions de l’OIT dont celles relatives au droit d’association et à la liberté de recourir à la négociation collective.

The article reviews the book, "The Mexican Heartland: How Communities Shaped Capitalism, a Nation and World History, 1500-2000," by John Tutino.1

Using data from the Canadian Labour Force Survey for March of 2006 to 2012, this paper examines how employment in precarious jobs may lead to lower earnings among Canadian newcomers. Results suggest that recent immigrants are struggling financially due to wage disparities created by precarious employment. Both males and females experience an initial earnings disadvantage which is further exacerbated by being employed in involuntary part-time work, temporary work and multiple jobs.

This article reviews the book, "Fiery Joe: The Maverick Who Lit Up the West" by Kathleen Carlisle.

This article reviews the book, "How the Workers Became Muslims: Immigration, Culture and Hegemonic Transformation in Europe" by Ferruh Yilmaz.

Most Canadian prisoners work, yet very little attention has been paid to them as workers by either labour scholars or unions. However, in 1977 the Canadian Food and Allied Workers union (CFAW) organized both incarcerated and non-incarcerated meat cutters into the country's first and only legally recognized union representing primarily prisoners, CFAW Local 240. The union drive came in response to the Ontario government's push to increase prisoners' participation in the workforce, including the introduction of a number of "outside managed industrial programs", which involved private firms operating within provincial correctional facilities. These privately managed industries rekindled some older debates around the potential for prison labour to undermine the wages of free labour, but in the case of the experimental abattoir program at Guelph, they also resulted in something new: unionized prisoners. The union not only made important gains for the workers, but also made modest gains for prisoners' rights. While CFAW Local 240 would eventually be merged into subsequent unions, it continues to serve as a model for working prisoners and represents a rare moment in Canadian history - one where a union organized prison labour instead of opposing it.

The article reviews the book, "Frank Little and the IWW: The Blood That Stained an American Family," by Jane Little Botkin.

This article reviews the book, "Neoliberal Capitalism and Precarious Work: Ethnographies of Accommodation and Resistance" by Rob Lambert and Andrew Herod.

This article reviews the book, "Le stress au travail, un enjeu de santé," by Patrick Légeron.

This article reviews the book, "The Emerging Industrial Relations of China," edited by William Brown and Chang Kai.

The industrial relations (IR) field in Canada and the United States (US) emerged in the late 1910s-early 1920s and is thus on the cusp of its 100th anniversary. The impetus for the creation of the IR field was growing public alarm in both countries over the escalating level of conflict, violence, and class polarization in employer-employee relations. The two countries established federal-level government investigative committees, the Royal Commission on Industrial Relations (1919) in Canada and the Commission on Industrial Relations (1911-1915) in the US, to travel cross-country, gather evidence, and report their findings and overall evaluation. To commemorate the IR field’s centenary, this paper conducts the same type of cross-national ER evaluation, but with modern methods. First, this exercise requires a formal evaluation instrument, like a physical exam worksheet. Adopted is a modified version of a balanced scorecard. Second, the scorecard’s framework and questions should be theoretically informed. The framework used is a modified version of the diagrammatic model of an IR system presented by Mackenzie King in Industry and Humanity (1918). The third step is to fill in the scorecard with data from individual workplaces, which are obtained for the US from a new nationally-representative survey of 2000+ workplaces, the State of Workplace Employment Relations Survey (SWERS). The fourth step is to aggregate all the diagnostic measures to obtain a summary numerical estimate for each of the companies of its state of ER performance and health. Based on a 1-7 (7 = highest) scale, then converted to F to A grades, we find that the average ER grade given by managers is B+ and by employees C+. The company scores are graphed in a frequency distribution that visually represents, for the first time in the literature, the lowest-to-highest pattern of employment relations performance and health across the US.

This article reviews the book, "History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out: Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Working-Class History" by James R. Barrett.

Organizational learning can be a key shared value that perpetuates the family's and the family firm's culture across generations. Imprinting theory helps to explain the impact that lessons learned and transmitted can have on the development of human resources in the family firm. However, the results of imprinting may not necessarily be positive, particularly when imprinting manifests itself in negative processes and expectations. Whereas imprinting and organizational learning are often associated with a “positive halo effect,” they have the potential to result in negative behaviors and deleterious firm-level outcomes. Employing imprinting theory as a framework, we highlight the potential dark side of imprinting within the family firm context and how it can damage human resource efforts and threaten company performance and firm survival. Finally, we suggest how bad habits may be broken and replaced with more effective routines so as to ensure the family firm's continuity and success.

This research note examines the authors’ graphic history Showdown! Making Modern Unions to build on recent scholarship about the pedagogical use of comics by considering the tools and possibilities this medium opens up to professional historians regarding the treatment of primary sources. We suggest that graphic histories enable strategies for using primary sources that actually enhance and popularize the ways historians can effectively use evidence, particularly in terms of building the critical consciousness of an expanded base of readers. Employing the comics theory concept of closure, we show graphic history to be uniquely situated to allow historians and readers to become actively engaged with and derive meaning from primary sources in a way not possible in other forms of historical writing. Examples from Showdown! are used to show the depth and breadth of these methodological possibilities.

In 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that three sections of the Criminal Code of Canada pertaining to sex work were unconstitutional. In response to this ruling—otherwise known as the Bedford Decision—the Conservative government introduced the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act (PCEPA) in 2014. In this paper, I ask: to what extent does the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act meet its stated goal of addressing the health and safety of those who “engage in prostitution”? In exploring this question, I first trace the legal terrain leading to the PCEPA’s conception. Following this, I show that the PCEPA has failed to address its stated goals in two central ways. First, by co-opting the progressive framing of the Bedford Decision in a way that obscures the situations of violence it seeks to address, and second, by making the most precarious category of sex work even more dangerous through its implementation. In order to render the actual foundations of the PCEPA visible, I draw upon critical race and feminist theory. Through this analysis, I show how gendered and racialized hierarchies regulate violence along and within the sex work spectrum. Overall, this paper argues that the PCEPA has failed to address the health and safety of “those engaged in prostitution,” and instead, has facilitated racialized patterns of gender violence against vulnerable populations.

This artcile reviews "Documentaries: Poems" by Walter Hildebrandt.