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[F]ocuses on the legal regime that regulates the entry and exit of low-skilled temporary foreign workers and these workers' rights and terms and conditions of employment while in Canada. ...We are also interested in beginning to explore the impact of this program in relation to the Canadian labor market. In order to understand the distinctive features and effects of the low-skilled temporary foreign workers program, we situate the low-skilled TFWP in the context of the emergence and development of Canada's general TFWP.

As a result of decreased funding from the state, universities rely more and more on user fees, that is, tuition, to cover operation costs. According to Tyler Shipley, this situation has led to a “factory model of education” in which the focus of administrators is to pump as many undergraduates through the system as possible. Classes that once held fifty students now hold 150, those that once held 150 now hold 500. To accommodate this mass influx of students, universities are left scrambling to find cost-efficient means to get these students through the system, which more than often means expanding graduate programs in order to build a workforce (that is, teaching assistants and sessionals) that can teach classes, mark papers, and mediate distance education courses at a fraction of the price it would cost to pay a tenured professor.

Employment Research and State Traditions: A Comparative History of Britain, Germany and the US, by Carola M. Frege, is reviewed.

Globalizing Care Economies and Migrant Workers: Explorations in Global Care Chains, by Nicola Yeates, is reviewed.

The article reviews the book, "Lady Landlords of Prince Edward Island," by Rusty Bittermann and Margaret McCallum.

The article reviews the book, "New World Dawning: The Sixties at Regina Campus," by James M. Pitsula.

The article reviews the book, "Criminalizing Race, Criminalizing Poverty: Welfare Fraud Enforcement in Canada," by Kiran Mirchandani and Wendy Chan.

An influential strand of the finance literature focuses on the nature and extent of shareholder rights vis-a-vis employees. Most of the extant literature on the subject relies on a limited number of case studies and/or broad macroeconomic data, whereas this article draws on evidence from a large scale survey of organizations to test the predictions of the theories on the relative strength of workers and managers across the different governance regimes. This evidence highlights the complex relationship between societal institutions, legal traditions, political parties and electoral systems, on corporate governance regimes and the relative strength of unions and collective representation at workplace level, highlighting the limitations of the mainstream finance and economics rational-incentive based literature, and the value of alternative socio-economic approaches.

The article reviews the book, "U.S. Labor in Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform From Above, the Promise of Revival From Below," by Kim Moody.

The article reviews the book, "Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens," by Hazel Dickens and Bill C. Malone.

Growing Older, Working Longer: The New Face of Retirement, by Monica Townson, is reviewed.

The article reviews the book, "La face cachée des conditions de travail : les situations d'atteintes à la santé psychologique," by Lucie France Dagenais in collaboration with Sabrina Ruta.

The McDonald's labour management strategy is widespread in the fast food industry. Literature that is critical of the approach often portrays the work as low paid, unchallenging and uninteresting. Others argue that industry jobs provide an enhanced resume, training opportunities, and the possibility of a career. Rather than being inherently disadvantageous or beneficial, it is possible that fast food employment addresses the needs and aspirations of some more than others. This article proposes such a view in relation to teenagers. It poses the question: what are the characteristics of those who are suitable for industry work? Surveys are used to develop a statistical profile of ideal workers. Findings have implications for stakeholder decision making and offer an empirical perspective of a contentious issue that attracts opinion and speculation. Results indicate that developmental change and an overt inclination to choose a fast food career are key considerations in determining employee suitability.

New Employment Actors: Developments from Australia, edited by Grant Michelson, Suzanne Jamieson and John Burgess, is reviewed.

Up in the Air: How Airlines Can Improve Performance by Engaging their Employees, by Greg J. Bamber, Jody H. Gittell, Thomas A. Kochan and Andrew Von Nordenflycht, is reviewed.

The article reviews the book, "Class and the Color Line: Interracial Class Coalition in the Knights of Labor and the Populist Movement," by Joseph Gerteis.

How Canadians rate the prestige of their occupations, and what this says about our understanding of the knowledge economy, social mobility and inequality, and our working selves. "What do you do?" is often the first question posed when strangers meet, as occupation reveals a great deal about both social identity and social standing or "occupational prestige." Sociologists have studied occupational prestige for decades, including a landmark national survey in 1965 by Peter Pineo and John Porter. John Goyder updates Pineo and Porter's work, providing a detailed comparison of their results with a similar national scale survey conducted in 2005. The results challenge the accepted view that prestige ratings are constant over time and across societies. Goyder shows that there have been some surprising changes in these ratings: instead of the expected premium on jobs in the knowledge sector, more traditional occupations - such as the skilled trades, even if they require little education or pay a low wage - have gained the most prestige. There has been a significant decrease in consensus about occupational prestige ratings and the tendency for respondents to upgrade the prestige of their own occupation is much more pronounced in the recent data. Goyder argues that these changes are a sign of the shifting nature of values in a meritocratic society in which increasing income inequality is a growing reality. Results from prestige surveys help in the construction of socio-economic scales for occupations and inform career counselling for young people and negotiations by labour unions and associations. "The Prestige Squeeze" goes beyond this to question the very nature of how we measure social equality and mobility. --Publisher's description

Le Canada et le Québec ont procédé, depuis le milieu des années 1990, à des changements importants de leur système de protection sociale ; les objectifs visés par ces réformes ont été de contrôler les dépenses publiques ou d’atteindre le déficit zéro, d’augmenter l’efficacité des politiques sociales, en particulier par rapport à l’incitation à l’emploi, et de garantir des conditions de vie convenables. Ceci s’est traduit par une restructuration de plusieurs dispositifs de protection sociale qui s’est réalisée par la reconfiguration des paramètres de protection et par l’activation de ces mêmes dépenses sociales. Pour comprendre cette restructuration, cet article analyse les changements introduits dans certains dispositifs de sécurité du revenu que sont le dispositif de l’assurance chômage, le régime universel des allocations familiales et le système d’assistance sociale, tant au niveau fédéral que québécois. Pour rendre compte de cette démarche, le texte a été divisé en trois parties : la première porte sur la reconfiguration de chacun des dispositifs, la deuxième sur l’activation des dépenses sociales et la troisième introduit des éléments d’analyse vis-à-vis cette restructuration récente des politiques sociales. Le texte est traversé par une question, celle de savoir si ces réformes traduisent un virage néo-libéral dans le sens d’un désengagement de l’État et d’une érosion des droits sociaux ou s’il vaut mieux plutôt y voir une réorganisation, une modification de son architecture, traduisant un changement de paradigme ou de référentiel dans le sens d’un État social actif ou d’investissement social.

Alors que la confiance organisationnelle est appréhendée comme un élément central à toute relation d’échange, elle n’a pas été étudiée dans le cadre d’une approche globale de l’échange social employeur-employé. Cet article vise à préciser le concept de confiance organisationnelle et à montrer son rôle lorsque l’organisation fait preuve de bienveillance à l’égard de ses employés. Le rôle médiateur de la confiance entre le soutien organisationnel perçu et les attitudes au travail est tout particulièrement étudié. Les résultats obtenus auprès de 249 cadres et gestionnaires confirment que la confiance en l’organisation est au coeur du processus d’échange social, et se présente comme une variable intermédiaire nécessaire pour expliquer l’engagement organisationnel et l’intention de quitter l’entreprise.