Your search
Results 6,936 resources
-
The article reviews the book, "Misères du présent, richesse du possible," by André Gorz.
-
The article reviews the book, "Whittaker Chambers: A Biography," by Sam Tanenhaus.
-
The article reviews the book, "Workers Against Lenin: Labour Protest and the Bolshevik Dictatorship," by Jonathan Aves.
-
The article reviews the book, "From the Knights of Labor to the New World Order: Essays on Labor and Culture," by Paul Buhle.
-
The objectives of this paper are: 1. to determine whether layoffs disproportionately affect members of employment equity designated groups, and 2. to assess the importance of seniority in any adverse impacts. The hypothesis is that seniority is an important criterion for layoffs and that designated group members tend to have less seniority and would therefore be disproportionately affected by layoffs. If this is correct, then layoffs may constitute systemic discrimination since there is a reasonable alternative policy in the form of reduced hours through worksharing, which would affect all groups similarly. Tests confirmed that the probability of a layoff was higher for designated group members. The role of the seniority system in this relationship, however, was contrary to the hypothesis since the relationship between the probability of a layoff and designated group status was weaker at unionized workplaces than at nonuion workplaces. It is concluded that the case for worksharing is strengthened by its potential to reduce the systemic discrimination against designated groups which results from the use of layoffs.
-
The article reviews the book, "The Business of Power: Hydroelectricity in Southeastern British Columbia 1897-1997," by Jeremy Mouat.
-
In the debates about the relationship between labor flexibility and employment security, the actual strategies managers employ under different policy regimes tends to be overlooked. The nature of deployment strategies that managers employ for their retained labor force in production plants in Canada and Sweden in 3 industrial sectors - steel, pulp and paper and telecommunications - is examined. While Canadian managers have greater access to external markets and make greater use of layoff-recall strategies and overtime than their Swedish counterparts, deployment strategies within plants tend to require more formal negotiations, especially within unionized plants. Swedish managers can carry out changes in labor deployment in a more informal manner, particularly with respect to job responsibilities and new skills training. Swedish managers face more difficulties than their Canadian counterparts in altering quantities of labor.
-
The drafting of Canada's industrial standards legislation and its consequences in the clothing industry are examined. In particular, it is argued that the legislation formalized the subordination of specific sectors of workers in the clothing shops. Although the traditional unions made some efforts to organize women, the presence of women in the union bureaucracy was limited. Because of this, the move away from shop-floor unionism towards industry-wide collective bargaining ensured that women had, at best, a peripheral position in union decision making. When the men in the industry sat down to negotiate the legal framework for their trade, most of the political maneuvering went on in a domain exclusive of women. In the negotiations for the legislation in Ontario and Quebec's clothing industry, men reaffirmed the gendered nature of the work in the trade through legal language enshrined in the industrial standards schedules set for the industry.
-
The article reviews the book, "Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work: A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York," by Nancy L. Green.
-
The article reviews the book, "The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1945-1968," by Kevin Boyle.
-
This article explores mid-19th century masculinity, through examination of the writings and lived experience of New Brunswick tannery worker Martin Butler. What being a man meant, in this historical context, was rooted in the contingencies and determinants of the North American sole leather tanning industry, and can be located as well in the discourses Martin Butler constructed about his and other men's experiences. Rural, working-class men, it is argued, were, in part, the shapers of their own class-specific and rurally-contingent male identifies, although the processes by which these identities were formulated and negotiated are neither easily catalogued nor tidily analyzed.
-
The article reviews the book, "The Conundrum of Class: Public Discourse on the Social Order in America," by Martin J. Burke.
-
The article reviews and comments on Rick Halpern's "Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago's Packinghouses, 1904-54" (1997) and "Unionizing the Jungles: Labor and Community in the Twentieth-Century Meatpacking Industry" (1997) edited by Shelton Stromquist and Marvin Bergman.
-
Provides an excerpt from a talk given by Cicih Sukaesih to the Alberta Federation of Labour. A former employee and union activist at the Nike shoe factory in Jakarta, Sukaesih describes her experiences as an organizer and what the "swoosh" Niki trademark signifies to employees at the factory
-
the article reviews and comments on two books: Edith L. Burley's "Servants of the Honourable Company: Work, Discipline and Conflict in the Hudson's Bay Company, 1770-1879" and Richard Somerset Mackie's "Trading Beyond the Mountains: The British Fur Trade on the Pacific, 1793-1843."
-
The article reviews the book, "Culture et gestion en Algérie," by Daniel Mercure, Baya Harricane, Smaïl Seghir et André Steenhaut.
-
The article reviews the book, "Femmes, Santé et Professions: Histoire des diététistes et des physiothérapeutes au Québec et en Ontario, 1930-1980: L'affirmation d'un statut professionnel," by Nadia Fahmy-Eid et al.
-
The article reviews the book, "Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism Since the New Deal," by Sanford M. Jacoby.
-
To identify penalty standards in use for sexual harassment in unionized workforces, 54 arbitrations of grievances against penalties assigned for sexual harassment in Canada between 1985-1995 were examined. The standard penalty for sexual harassment involving sexual assault or language and touching is termination. The standard penalty for sexual harassment involving touching (without language) and language (without touching) is suspension. Standard penalties are varied under a number of conditions. Management can use these standards as guidelines for assigning penalties. Unions will find the standards useful for judging the fairness of the penalty assigned.
-
The article reviews the book, "Development and Social Change, A Global Perspective," by Philip McMichael.
Explore
Resource type
Publication year
-
Between 1900 and 1999
- Between 1940 and 1949 (372)
- Between 1950 and 1959 (630)
- Between 1960 and 1969 (1,016)
- Between 1970 and 1979 (1,005)
- Between 1980 and 1989 (2,168)
- Between 1990 and 1999 (1,745)