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The article reviews the book, "Intern Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy," by Ross Perlin.

The article reviews the book, "Vineyards and Vaqueros: Indian Labor and the Economic Expansion of Southern California, 1771-1877," by George Harwood Phillips.

Contrasts business unionism and social unionism with "social movement unionism" as a model of public sector worker engagement.

Disintegrating Democracy at Work: Labor Unions and the Future of Good Jobs in the Service Economy, by Virginia Doellgast, is reviewed.

Globalization and Precarious Forms of Production and Employment: Challenges for Workers and Unions, edited by Carole Thornley, Steve Jefferys and Beatrice Appay, is reviewed.

Cette étude examine les relations entre les caractéristiques des régimes collectifs de rémunération variable à court terme (soit des régimes qui octroient une prime aux employés en fonction du rendement), la justice organisationnelle et l’engagement organisationnel. Son intérêt pratique repose sur l’idée que les régimes de rémunération variable sont instaurés pour fidéliser les employés. À partir d’une revue de la littérature, quatre caractéristiques des régimes collectifs de rémunération variable sont identifiées : 1) le lien d’instrumentalité perçu (perception d’un lien entre le rendement et la rémunération); 2) la prime versée (le montant versé à l’employé dans le cadre du régime); 3) l’intensité de la communication organisationnelle (les sources d’information mises à la disposition des employés); et 4) les communications du supérieur immédiat relativement au régime de rémunération. Notre hypothèse centrale est que ces caractéristiques sont liées à l’engagement affectif et de continuité des employés par l’entremise de quatre dimensions de justice organisationnelle, soit la justice distributive, la justice procédurale, la justice informationnelle et la justice interpersonnelle.À partir d’un échantillon de 313 répondants appartenant à trois ordres professionnels, des analyses d’équations structurelles révèlent que la justice procédurale médiatise la relation entre 1) l’intensité de la communication organisationnelle et la communication du supérieur et 2) l’engagement de continuité. De même, la justice informationnelle médiatise la relation entre 1) l’intensité de la communication organisationnelle et la communication du supérieur et 2) l’engagement affectif. Enfin, la justice interpersonnelle médiatise la relation entre la communication du supérieur et l’engagement de continuité. Cette étude montre que la communication par l’organisation et le supérieur immédiat quant aux règles régissant le fonctionnement des régimes collectifs de rémunération variable constituent la pierre angulaire de la perception de justice (procédurale, informationnelle et interpersonnelle) par les employés, ce qui indirectement stimule leur engagement affectif et de continuité.

This research seeks to augment contemporary theories of employee dis-identification in organizations (DiO) and its importance in the workplace. An anonymous questionnaire survey was conducted, 304 employees were recruited across eight organizations in Taiwan (with anti-CMV strategies adopted). Distinct from previous studies, this research stated that organizational identification and dis-identification were neither heterogeneous nor independent constructs. Statistical evidence supported this statement and explained that organizational identification and dis-identification were inter-related constructs. Specifically, two DiO antecedents were revealed, including: person-organization fit and abusive supervision. Unlike previous studies, DiO was not correlated with poor employee performance; rather, it was correlated with workplace deviance, intention to quit the job, and voice-extra-role-behaviours. Theoretical and managerial implications are discussed.

The article reviews the book, "Romancing the Revolution: The Myth of Soviet Democracy and the British Left," by Ian Bullock.

Approaching the issue through their review of several recent court and tribunal decisions, the authors argue that the legislative policy choice in Ontario and other jurisdictions to permit age-based distinctions in the provision of benefits to employees over age 65, notwithstanding the abolition of mandatory retirement, was not only reasonable but necessary. That choice, in their view, represents a fair, and amply justified, balance between the right of individual employees to continue working past 65, and the right of employees as a collec- tivity to freely negotiate benefit provisions and group insurance plans that are in the interests of the group as a whole.

After painting a general picture of changes in the relationship between women and the job market in the latter half of the twentieth century, I examine the ways in which paid domestic service activities became part of the career and life trajectories of a sample group of working-class women. --From introduction

The provincial broader public sector (BPS) in Ontario com- prises the full range of government services and Crown corporations, as well as health care and education. The BPS is vital to the Ontario economy as well as to the citizens who use its services; it accounts for about half of the province's gross domestic product. Each of its com- ponent parts depends on direct government funding or government transfers, or is at least regulated by the government. The 2008 global financial crisis and its impact on the management of Ontario's public services has brought industrial relations practices and outcomes in the BPS into sharp focus. In 2011, the Ontario government established the Commission on the Reform of Ontario's Public Services, chaired by Don Drummond (the Drummond Commission),' with a view to enhancing the efficiency of BPS services.

Building More Effective Labour-Management Relationships combines valuable insights into new approaches to relationship-building and collective bargaining with unique knowledge and concrete lessons garnered from some of the foremost industrial relations practitioners in Canada. Contributors include Warren "Smokey" Thomas (president, OPSEU), Buzz Hargrove (former president, CAW), Warren Edmondson (former ADM Labour, Government of Canada, and chair of the CLRB), George Smith (former VP at CP Rail and CBC/Radio Canada), David Logan, (ADM, Government of Ontario) Glenda Fisk (Queen's University), Richard Chaykowski (Queen's University), Robert Hickey (Queen's University). -- Publisher's description. Contents: Fostering Innovation and Cooperation in Employee Relations in the Ontario Public Service  / Warren "Smokey" Thomas -- An Introduction and Context Advancing Labour-Management Relationships and Cooperation / David Logan -- Systemic Pressures on Ontario Public Sector Industrial Relations / Richard P. Chaykowski, Robert S. Hickey --  Experiences in Collective Bargaining and the Labour-Management Relationship Remaking the Union-Management Relationship between the CBC and Canadian Media Guild: "We used to walk ... Now we talk" / Richard P. Chaykowski --  Reflections on Creating More Effective Labour Relations / George C.B. Smith Dan Oldfield -- Interest-Based, Cooperative Approaches to Negotiations and Labour Relations: What Works and What Does Not / Buzz Hargrove.

La crise des finances publiques et l’accroissement de la demande en soins de santé amènent de plus en plus d’hôpitaux à implanter des pratiques de gestion à haute implication (PGHI). Or, les études sur le lien entre ces pratiques et la performance organisationnelle se font plutôt rares dans le secteur hospitalier. De plus, les recherches se sont surtout limitées à montrer l’existence d’un lien direct entre les PGHI et la performance organisationnelle, donnant ainsi peu d’information sur le processus qui mène à cette performance. Cette étude vise à combler ces lacunes en examinant le rôle médiateur joué par l’habilitation psychologique (HP) dans la relation entre les PGHI et les comportements de citoyenneté organisationnelle (CCO) du personnel soignant, un déterminant important de la qualité des soins de santé. De plus, puisqu’une relation de collaboration avec les médecins, basée sur la confiance, serait au coeur du sentiment de pouvoir du personnel soignant, l’effet modérateur de la confiance envers les médecins sur la relation entre les PGHI et l’HP est aussi examiné. Ainsi, l’étude valide un modèle spécifiant des relations différenciées entre les PGHI (autonomie, développement des compétences, partage d’information, reconnaissance) et les cognitions de l’HP (compétences, autodétermination, sens, impact), celles-ci étant modérées par la confiance envers les médecins. Enfin, l’étude cherche à vérifier si les cognitions de l’HP qui inciteraient aux CCO interagissent entre elles selon une séquence prédéterminée. Basée sur un sondage réalisé auprès de 176 employés délivrant des soins de santé et leurs supérieurs immédiats, l’étude suggère que la relation entre certaines PGHI (autonomie et développement des compétences) et les CCO est tributaire du sens du travail et de la confiance envers les médecins. Aussi, les cognitions de l’HP seraient liées entre elles selon une séquence particulière conférant à l’autodétermination un rôle central dans cette séquence.

This article explores the dynamics of labour organizing among migrant and immigrant workers in Canada, focusing on two case studies: first, recent efforts to organize migrant farmworkers in the Seasonal Agricultural Workers’ Program; and, second, the work of the Immigrant Workers’ Centre in Montreal. The Seasonal Agricultural Workers’ Program, which employs workers from Mexico and Caribbean countries, is often viewed by policymakers and employers as an example of ‘best practices’ in migration policy. Yet workers in the program experience seasonal employment characterized by long hours and low wages, and are exempt from many basic labour standards. The Immigrant Workers’ Centre formed in 2000 to provide a safe place for migrant and racialized immigrant workers to come together around problems in their workplaces. Through these case studies, we examine labour organization efforts including advocacy and grassroots organizing through the Immigrant Workers’ Centre and legal challenges attempting to secure recognition of freedom of association rights for farmworkers. The article explores the ‘limits and possibilities’ of these strategies, and concludes by assessing the implications for labour organizing among the growing numbers of migrant and immigrant workers employed in a wide range of low-wage, low-security occupations due to the recent expansion of Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program.

The article reviews the book, "Jobs and Justice: Fighting Discrimination in Wartime Canada, 1939-1945," by Carmela Patrias.

De nombreuses recherches présentent le soutien social perçu comme un levier efficace de gestion du stress au travail. Notre recherche propose de vérifier cette hypothèse en interrogeant le rôle modérateur attribué au soutien social perçu provenant des supérieurs et des subordonnés dans les relations entre les conflits de rôle et le stress chez des managers intermédiaires (MI) et des managers de proximité (MP) du secteur public. Le modèle exigences-ressources professionnelles (Bakker et Demerouti, 2007) nous a servi de cadre théorique. D’après ce modèle, le soutien social perçu constitue une ressource professionnelle permettant d’atténuer les effets délétères des exigences professionnelles sur la santé mentale. Les données collectées auprès de 310 managers dans des administrations publiques locales confirment partiellement cette hypothèse. En effet, notre recherche ne permet pas d’appuyer dans un premier temps l’influence modératrice du soutien social perçu provenant des supérieurs et du soutien social perçu provenant des subordonnés dans la relation entre les conflits de rôle et le stress perçu chez les MI. Des résultats similaires sont observés dans certains cas chez des MP. Conséquemment, l’hypothèse de la non-mobilisation du soutien social comme une ressource professionnelle par les managers dans certaines conditions est avancée pour discuter ces résultats. Ces derniers révèlent dans un second temps que l’efficacité du soutien social perçu dépend de plusieurs facteurs : la nature et la source du soutien social perçu, le type de conflit de rôle en présence et le niveau hiérarchique des managers bénéficiaires (MI et MP). Ainsi, plus que MI, les MP semblent plus réceptifs au soutien social d’estime perçu provenant de leurs supérieurs lorsqu’ils sont confrontés aux conflits de rôle. Par conséquent, leur niveau de stress diminue. Afin de gérer le stress des MP occasionné par les conflits de rôle, nos implications managériales sont orientées vers une reconnaissance de leurs compétences professionnelles.

[Analyzes] the impact of both climate change and climate policy on employment in the energy sector. --Editor's introduction

Commentary on freelance work in the cultural industries suggests that freelancers are autonomous "free agents" who enjoy fulfilling work and control over their careers. Yet empirical research demonstrates that freelance media work is becoming increasingly precarious. This dissertation is a case study of the working conditions of Canadian freelance writers, the political economic and cultural context in which they work, and their efforts to organize collectively to address challenges they face. The dissertation examines the underlying processes, practices, and power relations that shape the work of freelance writing to argue that freelancers' experiences flow directly from the capitalist logic of the corporate cultural industries in which they work. In this view, freelance writing has been transformed from being primarily a strategy of resisting salaried labour by journalists—an effort to gain some control over the terms of commodification of their labour power and autonomy over their craft—into a strategy for media firms to intensify exploitation of freelance writers' labour power through two primary strategies: the exploitation of unpaid labour time and control of copyright to writers' works. Drawing on Marxist political economic analysis, a survey of Canadian freelance writers, and interviews with freelance writers' unions and organizations, the dissertation examines how exploitation is obscured in freelance cultural work and how it can be confronted through collective organization. The dissertation examines Canadian freelance writers' current organizing efforts: a professional association, a union, and an agency-union hybrid, arguing that the models freelancers favour tend to reinforce notions of professionalism and a preference for service-based organizations, which has not given freelancers the power required to effectively defend themselves against corporations' changing business practices. The dissertation outlines the challenges writers' organizations need to overcome, not least freelance writers' ambivalence toward their status as workers. Finally, the dissertation foregrounds labour processes as central to understanding media, suggesting that continual downloading of the risks of journalistic labour onto precarious workers will have implications for the future of freelance writing as an occupation and the media content produced.

The article reviews the book, "Brève histoire des femmes au Québec," by Denyse Baillargeon.