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The article reviews the book, "Modelos de producción en la maquila de exportación. La crisis del toyotismo precario," edited by Enrique de la Garza Toledo.

The article reviews the book, "Negotiating Citizenship: Migrant Women in Canada and the Global System," by Daiva K. Stasiulis and Abigail B. Bakan.

The article reviews the book, "A Great Restlessness: The Life and Politics of Dorise Nielsen," by Faith Johnston.

The article reviews the book, "Managing Global Legal Systems," by Gary W. Florkowski.

Introduction du numéro thématique : sous la direction de Geneviève Fournier et Alexis le Blanc/Introduction to the Thematic Issue, edited by Geneviève Fournier and Alexis le Blanc.

The article reviews the book, "Mothers of the Nation: Women, Families, and Nationalism in Twentieth-Century Europe," by Patrizia Albanese.

This paper examines the dynamics of change in employment relations in London's hotels. The industry has traditionally used employment agencies to meet short-term labour shortages, but more recently it has turned to agency workers on a 'permanent' basis to cut costs. Drawing on survey data and in-depth interviews with hotel workers in London, we examine the effects of this on labour, documenting changes in pay, and terms and conditions of employment. Our research confirms a trend towards the casualisation of employment in hotels, and highlights the emergence of 'subcontracting by stealth', whereby increasing numbers of staff are employed by agencies with lower wages and poorer working conditions than in-house staff. Given low union-density in the sector, we argue that the Living Wage Campaign, which has been successfully implemented in other sectors of the London economy, might prove an effective means to counter the negative impacts of subcontracting on hotel workers.

The article discusses a study involving employees of Great Western Garment about their worklife, the nature of the work community and the plant closing in Canada. At part of the study, the instructors of the English language classes held onsite at the plant were also interviewed. A dramatic script was developed to present the study findings to the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education at Congress 2005 in London, Ontario.

The article reviews several books including the "Risky Business: Nuclear Power and Public Protest in Canada," by Michael D. Mehta," "Saskatchewan: The Roots of Discontent and Protest," by John W. Warnock, and "City of Clerks: Office and Sales Workers in Philadelphia 1870-1920," by Jerome P. Bjelopara.

The article briefly reviews "Undelivered Letters to Hudson’s Bay Company Men on the Northwest Coast of America, 1830-1857," by Judith Hudson Beattie and Helen M. Buss, "Wartime Images, Peacetime Wounds: The Media and the Gustafsen Lake Standoff," by Sandra Lambertus, “'We, Too, Are Americans': African American Women in Detroit and Richmond, 1940-1954," by Megan Taylor Shockley, "Promise Unfulfilled: Unions, Immigration, and the Farm Workers," by Philip L. Martin, "From Charity to Social Work: Mary E. Richmond and the Creation of an American Profession," by Elizabeth N. Agnew, "Forging America: Adventurers, Ironworkers, and America’s Industrial Revolution," by John Bezis-Selfa, "Working Women in Mexico City: Public Discourses and Material Conditions, 1879-1931," by Susie E. Porter, "The Social Bases of Nazism 1919-1933," by Detlef Mühlberger, "Women and the Labour Market in Japan’s Industrialising Economy: The Textile Industry Before the Pacific War," by Janet Hunter, "Drugs, Labor, and Colonial Expansion," edited by William Jankowiak and Daniel Bradburd, "The Making of a Cybertariat: Virtual Work in a Real World," by Ursula Huws, "Drugs, Labor, and Colonial Expansion," edited by William Jankowiak and Daniel Bradburd, "Parecon: Life After Capitalism," by Michael Albert, "Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left," by Susan Buck-Morss, "Memoirs of a Media Maverick," by Boyce Richardson, "Canada and the Cold War," by Reg Whitaker and Steve Hewitt, and "Sticking to the Union: An Oral History of the Life and Times of Julia Ruuttila," by Sandy Polishuk.

The article reviews the book, "Ordinary Poverty: A Little Food and Cold Storage," by William DiFazio.

Collective bargaining and antitrust law emancipated players. The advent of free agency and related contractual provisions created a battle line over splitting revenues. Work stoppages can foster players' resisting or employers' enforcing "salary restraint mechanisms." Each major sport had a major showdown and corresponding turnaround in "survival bargaining." My framework adds "litigious and other maneuvers" as backups to the traditional strategic choices of "reconfiguring" versus "forcing" or resisting change." It expands on Walton and McKersie's "sanction as an investment device," "intra-organizational bargaining," and "attitudinal structuring" (1965). In each major turnaround management eventually achieved a stable contractual formula consistent with a three-pronged formula: (1) demonstrate a performance gap, (2) play on worst fears via sanctions or their threat, and (3) provide incentives to settle or change.

The article reviews the book, "Women and Work Culture: Britain c.1850-1950," edited by Krista Cowman and Louise A. Jackson.

Over the span 1880 to 1900, Montreal was a city of newcomers, a majority of them women, and most of them arrived before age 30 from Britain, Europe, the United States, or rural counties of Quebec and Ontario. Young people aged 15 to 29 accounted for a third of the population and half of the recorded labour force. The authors’ analyses of 1881 census data and a 5 per cent sample for 1901 uncover a wide range of factors affecting life transitions. A substantial increase in participation of young unmarried women in the waged labour force was made possible by shifts in the timing of life transitions: the ages at which girls left school, left home, entered the work force, and married. The schedule was affected by migration, and it differed among the three principal cultural communities — French-speaking Catholic, English-speaking Catholic, and Anglo-Protestant. All three groups of women increased their rates of participation in the labour force, but the distinctions based on cultural affiliation persisted in both the scheduling of life transitions and the kinds of work in which they engaged.

Using a feminist political economy lens, this paper explores the balancing of work and family by parents on social assistance in British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan. In all three provinces, restructuring of policy has made parents’ entitlement to assistance increasingly contingent on their employability efforts (e.g. mandatory job searches, participation in welfare-to-work programs). This entitlement relationship is implicated by simultaneous and contradictory processes embedded in neo-liberal restructuring – gendering and familization – that problematically affect parents’ ability to balance their actual or potential employability expectations with family caregiving demands. Drawing on qualitative data from 46 interviews, this paper reveals the strategies that parents then utilize to manage these competing demands so that they can maintain their family’s survival– or “stay afloat” – while living on social assistance. In terms of thematic areas, these intricately inter-related coping strategies include: learn the system; play the system; social support; pawning. The significance of these findings for feminist challenges of neo-liberalism and for meeting social justice goals (i.e. economic security; equality) is discussed.

The article reviews the book, "Working Disasters: The Politics of Recognition and Response," edited by Eric Tucker.

The article presents a comparison of the working classes in Canada and the U.S. It states that a smaller low-wage manufacturing sector exists in Canada where workers are permanently trapped in poverty. The similarity of the levels and nature of unionization and attitudes toward social provisioning between the two countries are also mentioned.

The article reviews the book, "Inside the Workplace: Findings from the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey," by Barbara Kersley, Carmen Alpin, John Forth, Alex Bryson, Helen Bewley, Gill Dix and Sarah Oxenbridge.

The article reviews the book, "Mobsters, Unions and Feds: The Mafia and the American Labor Movement," by James B. Jacobs.

The article reviews the book, "American Vanguard: The United Auto Workers During the Reuther Years," by John Barnard.