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The article reviews the book, "Making Native Space: Colonialism, Resistance, and Reserves in British Columbia," by Cole Harris.

The Chinese have constituted the largest immigrant group entering Canada since 1987. This paper focuses on the paid work experience of Chinese immigrant women from Hong Kong and Mainland China who were highly educated, skilled professionals in their home country. It demonstrates that these immigrant women are being deskilled in Canada and this deskilling is complicated by the contradictory processes of globalization and economic restructuring, with its polarizing effects along axis of gender, race, ethnicity, class and citizenship. Gendered and racialized institutional processes in the form of state policies and practices, professional accreditation systems, employers' requirement for “Canadian experience” and labor market conditions marginalize Chinese immigrant women. As a result, they are being channeled into menial, part-time, insecure positions or becoming unemployed. In order for Chinese immigrant women to become equal and active participants in Canadian society the provision of inclusive programs and policies is necessary.

The article reviews the book, "The Making of a Policeman: A Social History of a Labour Force in Metropolitan London, 1829-1914," by Haia Shpayer-Makov.

The article reviews the book, "A Poetics of Social Work: Personal Agency and Social Transformation in Canada, 1920-1939," by Ken Moffatt.

The article reviews the book, "Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor," by Evelyn Nakano Glenn.

The article reviews the book, "Labour before the Law: The Regulation of Workers' Collective Action in Canada, 1900-1948," by Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker.

The article reviews the book, "The Politics of Whiteness: Race, Workers, and Culture in the Modern South," by Michelle Brattain.

The article reviews the book, "State Work: Public Administration and Mass Intellectuality," by Stefano Harney.

The article reviews the book, "Values at Work: Employee Participation Meets Market Pressure at Mondragon," by George Cheney.

The article reviews the book, "La santé des femmes au travail en Europe : des inégalités non reconnues," by Laurent Vogel.

In the fall and winter of 1919-1920, in response to vigorous lobbying by A.J. Andrews and others on behalf of the Citizens’ Committee of 1000, the Canadian state, through Orders in Council in 1919 and 1920, became the paymaster for a private prosecution of the Winnipeg strike leadership charged at the end of the strike with seditious conspiracy. The prosecution was initiated under provisions of the Criminal Code that allowed for prosecutions by private citizens or organizations, subject to the consent of the Attorney General of Manitoba. The federal government paid Alfred J. Andrews and his associates in the Citizens’ Committee fees for services rendered during the strike, when, as leading figures in the Committee, they led the campaign against Winnipeg’s working-class revolt. The Department of Justice also paid $12,332.00 to the Winnipeg based McDonald Detective Agency for work associated with the prosecution. This federal largesse allowed Andrews to secure two juries almost certainly tainted by pre-trial investigations ordered by Andrews. The unity of purpose forged by Winnipeg’s business elite and the federal state illuminates the tendency of the liberal state and capital to forge a common front against perceived threats to the status quo in moments of extremis.

The article reviews the book, "La mondialisation et ses ennemis," by Daniel Cohen.

The article reviews the book, "Réfléchir la compétence : approches sociologiques, juridiques, économiques d’une pratique gestionnaire," edited by Arnaud Dupray, Christophe Guitton and Sylvie Monchatre.

Behind the recent emergence of of "whiteness" as a prevalent category of scholarly analysis lies the story of two intertwined intellectual traditions and their belated acceptance in the American academy. One of these traditions is antiracist Marxism; the other is the black antiracist tradition. Both have commented on white identity and white racism in ways that presage the insights of the explosion of whiteness studies that followed David Roediger's key text, "The Wages of Whiteness." In this essay, I will provide a brief overview of the two aforementioned traditions before proceeding to evaluate the post-"Wages" scholarship. Hopefully, my discussion will contextualize the whiteness phenomenon by pointing to its roots. I also hope to demonstrate that although some of the whiteness scholarship is less than perspicacious, the work of Roediger et al. constitutes a meaningful intervention into the historiography of race in American history. Finally, my intent here is to build upon and respond to Eric Arnesen's helpful survey of the whiteness field. --From author's introduction

Editorial introduction to the theme of the issue.

The article reviews the book, "The Color of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945-1980," by Timothy J. Minchin.

The article reviews the book, "Plateaus of Freedom: Nationality, Culture, and State Security in Canada, 1940-1960," by Mark Kristmanson.

The article reviews the book, "Nelson Pereira dos Santos," by Darlene J. Sadlier.

[The article examines the 1842 manuscript census] as an appraisal of ethnic weighting in the Montréal labour force, [in order] to estimate the relative sizes of four cultural communities [i.e., French Canadian, Irish Catholic, Irish Protestant, and other Protestant] and the social distances among them. The logic of grouping is schematized...in terms of shared language or religion. Since each community occupied a distinctive niche in the urban economy, it is possible that ethnic differences, often cited as a root of the violence of the 1840s, may have veiled its economic basis. For this reason, the ethnic partition of work, coupled with differential vulnerability of the several communities to economic stress, becomes critical to interpretation of the volatility of the 1840s. --Author's introduction

[We] contend...that the old system [of tribal and peasant exchange practices] did not disappear [with the growth of more complex systems of economic organization and governance, including state regulation, as well as the advent of the Commercial and Industrial Revolutions in Britain in the late 18th and early 19th centuries]. Rather, [the old system] evolved over time into what we now call "the rural informal economy:" sets of economic activities that operate outside the formal legalised structures of a nation's capitalist economy. By this we mean that they are based in community or family reciprocities which are usually found in combination with what we might today classify as occupational pluralism, but which initially involved the utilization of a range of ecological niches to provide year-round sustenance. They are, therefore, of necessity both place-specific in operation, and rural. We argue that this "ecological pluralism" — an essential component of the original system—remains a vital part of the rural informal economies of the world today. ---Authors' introduction