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[E]xamines...some competing accounts of labour law, including ones that rely on Sen's idea of enhancing people's 'capabilities' to live the kinds of lives that they value. [The author] sees a number os trengths with this approach, but also a few important limitations. [Fudge] then goes on to suggest a different basis for conceptualizing labour law: the idea that labour is not a commodity but rather a 'fictive commodity'. The unique problems association with seeling labour create 'regulatory dilemmas' - and the role of labour law is to addrss them. In this context, Fudge uses the 'capabilities' approach but supplements it to argue against the exclusion of unpaid care work from the scope of labour law. --From editors' introduction.

Much of the policy discussion on training is concerned with its undersupply. In 1995, inspired by the French example, Quebec introduced a levy on employers who underspend on training. In this paper we use a micro data set on Canadian workplaces to compare training characteristics and training effects on wages in Quebec with other parts of Canada. In Quebec, we find a much lower incidence of on-the-job training, a greater tendency to use outside trainers, and a larger effect of on-the-job training on wages. We speculate on ways in which these results may be explained by the training levy policy.

Cette recherche empirique qualitative de type exploratoire a pour objectif principal de lever le voile sur l’expérience de retour au travail d’employés vivant un deuil périnatal. Plusieurs recherches s’attachent à décrire et à étudier les conséquences d’un deuil périnatal chez les parents. Il est alors établi que le deuil périnatal se distingue des autres types de deuil, bien que l’intensité de la douleur vécue soit aussi importante. Pour l’heure, la littérature en ressources humaines se fait plutôt discrète sur la problématique du deuil périnatal spécifiquement en contexte de retour au travail. De fait, il devient nécessaire de référer à des études s’intéressant au retour au travail à la suite d’autres types de difficultés personnelles. À ce sujet, les écrits soulèvent trois catégories de facteurs influençant le retour au travail : les facteurs sociaux, organisationnels et individuels. L’importance de la perte que le deuil périnatal représente pour les parents endeuillés est souvent sous-estimée au sein des organisations. Lorsque les parents reviennent au travail après la perte de l’enfant à naître ou de leur nourrisson, ils sont fréquemment encore bien ancrés dans leur « processus de deuil » et d’adaptation à celui-ci. Or, le retour au travail dans le cadre d’un tel type de deuil est généralement peu encadré par les organisations. Cette étude fait donc état du vécu des employés en deuil au moment de leur réinvestissement en emploi. Afin d’explorer leur expérience, trois groupes de discussion ont été menés au Québec, avec des femmes ayant vécu la perte de leur enfant à naître ou de leur nourrisson.L’analyse de contenu a permis de conclure que la prise d’un congé à la suite du décès de l’enfant à naître ou du nourrisson, bien qu’importante, est insuffisante à elle seule, puisque lors de la reprise du travail, l’adaptation au deuil n’est pas terminée. Le facteur qui semble le plus déterminant au regard d’une réinsertion réussie s’avère le soutien que procurent les organisations par le biais de diverses pratiques, les plus importantes étant l’accès à un programme d’aide aux employés et l’aménagement du travail.

Cet article explore la culture musicale des mineurs de Kirkland Lake et en examine l’une de ses dimensions, celle exprimée par leurs pratiques de la musique, qu’elle soit symphonique ou populaire, chantée ou instrumentale, qu’elle se traduise par un concert ou qu’elle accompagne la danse ou les défilés. Connaissant les noms et les occupations de tout le personnel de deux des principales sociétés minières de la ville, la Lake Shore et la Wright-Hargreaves Gold Mines, nous avons cherché à savoir si les mineurs étaient reliés, d’une manière ou d’une autre, aux différentes manifestations musicales rapportées dans le journal local, le Northern News, tout au long de l’année 1934. Selon nous, la diversité des pratiques musicales observée s’expliquerait d’abord par la présence de nombreuses communautés ethniques parmi les mineurs mais aussi par des conditions de travail fort différentes, selon que le mineur travaille sous terre ou au jour.

[Examines] the relationship between climate and postal work, including mail transport, energy use in postal facilities and paper production. --Authors' introduction

Despite the fact that the American Wagner model is the foundation of labour law in both Canada and the United States, that law has evolved in different ways in the two countries. The author argues that this can be accounted for by adopting a historical-institutionalist perspective, which explains differences by looking at formative historical conditions and the institutional norms and traditions to which they gave rise. The conditions and norms the author identifies in each country lead him to conclude that the Canadian and American Wagner models are driven by different underlying rationales: the American version is predominantly concerned with economic gain and limited state interference, whereas the Canadian version seeks to maintain order and stability through the exercise of state control. For the time being, Canada's version has proved more effective at sustaining higher levels of union density. The paper then asks what these differences might tell us about the future of labour law and unionization in Canada. The author argues that Wagnerism in Canada has been a double-edged sword. While it has given unions greater institutional security, that same security has discouraged labour leaders from pursuing meaningful reforms to avoid union decline. The author also observes that there has been an erosion of the distinct institutional norms and traditions that have historically prevailed in Canada, brought on by an ideological shift towards neo-liberalism and globalization. From a historical-institutionalist perspective, however, policies that deviate too far from a nation's historical trajectory are unlikely to survive for long.

Most examinations of non-citizens in Canada focus on immigrants, people who are citizens-in-waiting, or specific categories of temporary, vulnerable workers. In contrast, Producing and Negotiating Non-Citizenship considers a range of people whose pathway to citizenship is uncertain or non-existent. This includes migrant workers, students, refugee claimants, and people with expired permits, all of whom have limited formal rights to employment, housing, education, and health services. -- Publisher's description.  Contents: The conditionality of legal status and rights: conceptualizing precarious non-citizenship in Canada / Luin Goldring and Patricia Landolt -- The museum of illegal immigration: historical perspectives on the production of non-citizens and challenges to immigration controls / Cynthia Wright -- The shifting landscape of contemporary Canadian immigration policy: the rise of temporary migration and employer-driven immigration / Salimah Valiani -- The Canadian Temporary Foreign Worker Program: regulations, practices, and protection gaps / Delphine Nakache -- "This is my life": youth negotiating legality and belonging in Toronto / Julie Young -- Constructing coping strategies: migrants seeking stability in social networks / Katherine Brasch -- The cost of invisibility: the psychosocial impact of falling out of status / Samia Saad -- The social production of non-citizenship: the consequences of intersecting trajectories of precarious legal status and precarious work / Patricia Landolt and Luin Goldring -- Pathways to precarity: structural vulnerabilities and lived consequences for migrant farmworkers in Canada / Janet McLaughlin and Jenna Hennebry -- Precarious immigration status and precarious housing pathways: refugee claimant homelessness in Toronto and Vancouver / Priya Kisoon -- Negotiating the boundaries of membership: health care providers, access to social goods, and immigration status / Paloma E. Villegas -- "People's priorities change when their status changes": negotiating the conditionality of social rights in service delivery to migrant women / Rupaleem Bhuyan -- Getting to "don't ask don't tell" at the Toronto District School Board: mapping the competing discourses of rights and membership / Francisco Villegas -- No one is illegal movements in Canada and the negotiation of counter-national and anti-colonial struggles from within the nation-state / Craig Fortier -- From access to empowerment: the Committee for Accessible AIDS Treatment and its work with people living with HIV-AIDS and precarious status / Alan Li -- Confidentiality and "risky" research: negotiating competing notions of risk in a Canadian university context / Julie Young and Judith K. Bernhard.

The article reviews the book, "Settling and Unsettling Memories: Essays in Canadian Public History," edited by Nicole Neatby and Peter Hodgins.

The article reviews the book, "The Devil's Milk: A Social History of Rubber," by John Tully.

This comic was originally produced for B.C. Lumbermen. It first appeared in a war-time comic strip. Whether readers are interested in logging history, a good yarn or folk art, they will be enthralled by Now You're Logging, British Columbia's first graphic novel and a enduring West Coast classic, published in celebration of what would have been Bus Griffiths' 100th birthday. Now You're Logging is the story of Al and Red, who go to work in a small West Coast logging show during the dirty thirties. As they learn their trades, the reader is treated to an amazingly detailed view of the camp's varied operations—falling and bucking timber by hand, topping and rigging of spar trees, moving steam donkeys and making up log booms, plus all the colourful characters, camaraderie, romance and life-threatening exploits of a BC adventure story. --Publisher's description

This study examines twenty radio programs created by the local CSN union at Price-Kénogami in the Saguenay, Quebec, on community radio station, CHOC FM. The program began during a period of profound change in the pulp and paper industry in Quebec that was marked by protracted labour conflict at this plant. The union envisaged a program that would inspire rank-and-file workers' labour activism and broadcast pro-labour news and information to the wider community. Yet if union executives hoped to insert working-class interests into the public sphere and carve out a space for class-based conversations about labour and social justice, their aspirations were never fully realized. Instead of broadening the circle of active union members and creating a class-based counter-public, the weekly CSN broadcasts became the exclusive reserve of union activists. Radio shows legitimized the actions of union executives and increased the latter’s sense of the union’s momentum. In mirroring Habermas’ conception of the public sphere, the CSN broadcasts privileged the voices of a selected few union executives. When the bitter strike of 1980-81 divided workers at Abitibi-Price (formerly Price-Kénogami), union radio hosts refused to even comment on the position of the dissidents. The CSN union broadcasts neither allowed for spirited internal debate nor did they help create effective channels through which to intervene in the public sphere. Rather, labour programming on CHOC remained an extension of the union, which seemed content with using the weekly broadcasts as an inward-looking space for self-reflection.

The article reviews the book, "Our Way to Fight: Peace-Work Under Siege in Israel-Palestine," by Michael Riordon.

Research Handbook on the Future of Work and Employment Relations, edited by Keith Townsend and Adrian Wilkinson, is reviewed.

Work Stress and Coping in the Era of Globalization, by Rabi S. Bhagat, James C. Segovis and Terry A. Nelson, is reviewed.

This comprehensive history of the left in British Columbia from the late nineteenth century to the present explores the successes and failures of individuals and organizations striving to make a better world. Nineteenth-century coal miners and carpenters; Wobblies, Single Taxers, and communists; worker militancy in two world wars; the New Democratic Party; the Squamish Five; the Solidarity movement of 1983; and the Occupy movement of 2011 are all part of an historical provincial left that is notable for its breadth and dynamism. Moreover, the political and union initiatives of the traditional left are seen in conjunction with broader movements, including the struggles for women's suffrage and equality, human rights, Canadian nationalist visions, racial equality, and environmental health. Ginger Goodwin and Dave Barrett (as well as WAC Bennett and Gordon Campbell) are present, as are reformist liberals and green activists. Drawing on extensive published scholarship and primary newspaper sources, Dr. Hak's thorough examination of the British Columbia experience offers an historical context for understanding the contemporary left and a framework for considering future alternatives.

The article reviews the book, "GRH et mondialisation : nouveaux contextes, nouveaux enjeux," edited by Didier Cazal, Éric Davoine, Pierre Louart and Françoise Chevalier.

The article reviews the book, "Trajectoires des modèles nationaux : État, démocratie et travail en France et en Allemagne," edited by Michel Dupré, Olivier Giraud and Michel Lallement.

The article reviews the book, "Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond," by David Gilbert.