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This article reviews the book, "Black Labor on a White Canal: Panama, 1904-1981," by Michael L. Conniff.
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This article reviews the book, "Proletarianization and Family History," edited by David Levine.
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The article reviews the book, "Understanding Technological Change," by Chris De Bresson, with Jim Petersen.
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The article reviews and comments on "The Creation of Patriarchy," by Gerda Lerner, and "Women's Work, Men's Property. The Origins of Gender and Class," edited by Stephanie Coontz and Peta Henderson.
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This paper investigates the changing experience of child factory labour in late 19th and early 20th century Ontario. It explores the largely accepted, though untested assumptions that restrictive legislation (the Ontario Factory Act of 1884) was achieved at the behest of middle and upper-class social reformers whose concern was motivated by a new concept of childhood. The evidence provided reveals that, contrary to historical myth, organized labour was the motivating force behind the anti-child labour legislation. It also indicates that, once proclaimed, the legislation was poorly monitored and enforced and, as such, was largely ineffective in curtailing the practice of child labour. Despite this, however, the paper provides evidence to show that child factory labour did decline significantly after the mid-1890s. The explanation offered is essentially one of changes in the demand for and the supply of child labor. That is, the centralization and accumulation of industrial capital in concert with technological advances in production restricted opportunities for child factory labor. At the same time, improvements in workers' standards of living reduced the need for families to send children to work. The study does not deny the importance of the changing concept of childhood in curtailing child labour. However, rather than being afforded primacy, the new views of childhood are seen as part of the social backdrop which made employers of children subject to criticism and adult workers desirous of protecting children's 'tender years'.
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This article reviews the book, "Trade Unions and Politics," by Ken Coates and Tony Topham.
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The article reviews the book, "Keeping Left? CERES and the French Socialist Party," by David Hanley.
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Après avoir résumé la problématique et la réglementation du temps supplémentaire au Québec, au Canada et dans d'autres pays, les auteurs présentent le phénomène du temps supplémentaire dans l'ensemble des branches d'activité au Canada, au Québec et en Ontario pour la période allant de 1975 à 1984.
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Reviews and comments on judicial interpretations of the federal Access to Information Act of 1984, including third party applications, exemption cases, personal information cases, procedural cases (the journal's editor and a journalist were involved in this case, which was decided in favour of CSIS), and user fees, deemed refusals [i.e., delays in processing a request], and other issues. Concludes that, overall, the courts have failed to give full effect to the legislation. Also notes that the government ignored the recommendations of a parliamentary standing committee for amendments.
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The article reviews the book, "The Hawk's Nest Incident: America's Worst Industrial Disaster," by Martin Cherniak.
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The editor reports on the Notebook section introduced in the previous issue as well as the interdisciplinary coverage of labour. The forthcoming issue will launch an annual review of Access to Information legislation, while issue 23 will update on archival and bibliographic resources for the study of labour.
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Expresses appreciation to three departing editorial board members, in particular André LeBlanc. Notes the introduction of a new section on access to information and the return of the section on labour accessions at the National Archives. Publication of the updated Canadian labour bibliography is deferred until a later issue. The editor apologizes and notes the correction to be made on p. 145 of Alvin Finkel's article [The Cold War, Alberta Labour, and the Social Credit Regime] in the previous issue.
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This paper is an attempt to schematize and survey those recent efforts of industrial relationists and labor economists to examine mediation within an inter-disciplinary framework.
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The article reviews the book, "Communist Resistance in Nazi Germany," by Allan Merson.
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The article reviews the book, "Solidarity and Fragmentation: Working People and Class Consciousness in Detroit, 1875-1900," by Richard Jules Oestreicher.
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This paper presents new estimates of unionization and collective bargaining coverage for Canada from a special Statistics Canada household survey conducted in December 1984. The new estimates are comparee with the old estimates.
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Les auteurs évaluent l'effet de deux types de lois du travail sur l'activité de grève, à savoir celles visant à réduire telle activité et d'autres qui ne cherchent pas à la reduire mais qui peuvent l'affecter indirectement par leur incidence sur les rapports de force syndical-patronal.
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Réalisée dans l'industrie forestière, cette étude traite des effets de la mécanisation de l'abattage et de l'ébranchage sur la fréquence et la gravite des accidents du travail ainsi que sur les conditions dans lesquelles ceux-ci se produisent.