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Recent studies have illustrated the strength and significance of working-class movements in the Maritimes during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Other work has emphasized the organization of local and international unions and the emergence of the socialist movement in the region. A study of strikes in the Maritimes can help provide a regional context for such work, and also help correct the regional imbalance in national historiography. Strikes themselves were crucial events, and no historical interpretation of the region in this period can safely overlook them. By studying the vigorous response of the region's workers to the new political economy of the early 20th century, we can start to understand the human implications of economic change. For these reasons, it is worth our effort to describe and analyze the general pattern of strikes, often in quantitative terms. This general pattern can then be related to the region's economic structure and help broaden our understanding of the economic revolution which transformed the region from the 1880s to the 1920s. In particular, two major themes emerge from this analysis: the transformation of the labour market and the revolution in the workplace. --From author's introduction

An empirical study to analyse the criteria that Canadian courts have used to determine the length of notice to award.

The devastating story of the Cape Breton miners and the strikes they launched against the companies that owned their homes, their possessions, and their churches. Never before has the human drama of North America's last existing feudal system been written down for the general reader. Canadians - and the rest of the world - will shocked by the stories of police brutality and murder, mass demonstrations, rebellions, scandalouos politicking, and most of all, desperate poverty and hunger. The miners had always been paid starvation wages by companies that held total monopolies of such towns as Glace Bay. The first time they launched a strike in 1905, soldiers were brought in and machine guns and barbed wire were set up around the mining communities. Credit was cut off from company stores (the only stores). Miners were evicted from company-owned houses (the only houses) in the middle of winter. The death toll was enormous. Strikes over the next fifteen years simply led to continued harassment and eviction. At one time, the company was permitted, by government order, to employ hundreds of special police, mounted on horseback and supplied with guns and heavy sticks, to batter miners into submission. James Bryson McLachlan was the hero of the Cape Bretoners when he took up their cause and organized the strikers and entered into negotiations with the companies. This book is also his story - and the story of the beginning of the labour movement for all of Canada. --Publisher's description

This paper shows the asymetric disequilibrium between available resources and results in the course of a union recruiting campaign in a case study of an experience of CUPE and LUSSA at Laurentian University.

An assessment of substance and impact of Theory Z on American management in the context of alternative paths toward employee participation.

This article reviews the book, "Canadian Newspapers: The Inside Story," edited by Walter Stewart.

The article reviews and comments on "Picking Up the Linen Threads: A Study in Industrial Folklore," by Betty Messenger, "Working Americans: Contemporary Approaches to Occupational Folklife" (special issue of Western Folklore, 37 (1978), reprinted as Smithsonian Folklife Studies Number 3), edited by Robert H. Byington, and "Land of the Millrats," by Richard M. Dorson.

The article reviews and comments on "Centre and Periphery: Spatial Variation in Politics," edited by Jean Gottmann, "Under-Developed Europe: Studies in Core-Periphery Relations," by Dudley Seers, Bernard Schaffer, and Marja-Liisa Kiljunen, "Transnational Capitalism and National Development: New Perspectives on Dependence," edited by Jose J. Villamil, "The World-System of Capitalism: Past and Present," (volume 2 of the Political Economy of the World-System Annuals), edited by Walter L. Goldfrank, "Processes of the World-System," (volume 3 of the Political Economy of the World-System Annuals), edited by Terence K. Hopkins and Immanuel Wallerstein, and "The New International Division of Labour," by Folker Frobel, Jurgen Heinrichs, and Otto Kreye.

This article reviews the book, "Timber Colony. A Historical Geography of Early Nineteenth Century New Brunswick," by Graeme Wynn.

This article reviews the book, "Canadian Bolsheviks: The Early Years of the Communist Party of Canada," by Ian Angus.

This article reviews three books: "People's History and Socialist Theory," edited by Raphael Samuel, "East End Underworld: Chapters in the Life of Arthur Harding," edited by Raphael Samuel, and "Rothschild Buildings: Life in an East End Tenement Block, 1887-1920," by Jerry White.

Working Class Experience is a sweeping and sympathetic study of the development of the Canadian working class since 1800. Beginning with a substantial and provocative introduction that discusses the historiography of the Canadian working class, the book goes on to establish a general framework for analysis of what ultimately is a social history of Canada. Dividing the years into seven periods in the evolution of class struggle, it beings each chapter with an assessment of that period's prevailing economic and social context, followed by an examination of the many factors affecting the working class during that period. Written in a colourful and sometimes irreverent style, Working Class Experience focuses on the processes by which working people moved, and were moved, off the land and into the factories and other workplaces during the Industrial and post-Industrial Revolutions in Canada. Drawing on much recent work on contemporary capitalism, Working Class Experience offers a significant explanation of the malaise in current labour and management relations and speculates on its significance for progressive change in Canadian Life. --Description at Goodreads

This article reviews the books, "Les relations du travail au Québec," by Emile Bouvier, S.J.

This article reviews the book, "Managers and Management in West Germany," by Peter Lawrence.

The author presents the results of a survey on the attitude of trade unions towards technological change.

This article reviews the book, "La sélection des cadres : principes et problèmes contemporains," by Shimon Dolan & Denis Roy.

Why are women still second class citizens at work? Recent years have seen demands by the women's movement for equality in the workplace, and "affirmative action" programs have been set up to achieve this goal. Yet little has really changed. Women still earn less than men, are underrepresented in unions, have less protection in pension plans, and are usually stuck in jobs with little chance of advancement. To understand women's inequality at work, Paul and Erin Phillips trace women's involvement in the paid labour market, and in labour unions, throughout Canadian history. They document the disadvantages that women face today and examine the explanations for the existence of these problems. --Publisher's description

This article reviews the book, "More Than A Labour of Love: Three Generations of Women's Work in the Home," by Meg Luxton.

This article reviews two books: "The Inquisition in Hollywood: Politics in the Film Community, 1930-1960," by Larry Ceplair and Steven Englund, "Film on the Left: American Documentary Film from 1931 to 1942," by William Alexander.