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The article reviews the book, "Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars," by Elizabeth Ewen.
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The article reviews the book, "The New Democrats 1961-1986: The Politics of Change," by Desmond Morton.
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The article reviews the book, "Winning the Second Battle: Canadian Veterans and the Return to Civilian Life, 1915-1930," by Desmond Morton and Glenn Wright.
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The call for papers at several conferences is reported, as are other forthcoming conferences of interest. The spring issue (no. 27) of Archivaria will be on documenting labour. A new program in social history at Carnegie Mellon University is noted. The John Dryer Collection at Wayne State University has opened; it has one of the premier archival collections on American Trotskyism.
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Takes note of calls for papers and a forthcoming conference. Reports on an addition to Wayne State University's Raya Dunayevskaya Collection, the effort to set up an international research network on coal miners and coal mines, and the Women's Labour History Project documentary entitled "Keep the Home Fires Burning." The spring 1989 edition of Archivaria will have a labour theme.
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This article reviews the book, "Public Service Labour Relations : Recent Trends and Future Prospects," by Treu Tiziano et al.
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The article reviews the book, "The Agrarian History of England and Wales: Volume V. Part 1: Regional Farming Systems; Part 2: Agrarian Change," edited by Joan Thirsk.
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This article reviews the book, "The Great War and the British People," by J. M. Winter.
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Critiques the relationship between the academy and the labour movement. Argues that most academic research, and the incentive system that galvanizes it, is of little benefit to unions. Describes cases where labour and academics have successfully collaborated. Urges greater collaboration and discusses two universities in Quebec that allow community service while on sabbatical, including with the labour movement, as well as a Toronto-based initiative where graduate students do research of value to the Ontario Public Service Employees Union. See also the "comment " by Cy Gonick in the same issue as well as the article, "Academic Research on Labour: Strengthening Union-University Links," by Pradeep Kumar, published in the journal (no. 25, Spring 1990).
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The article reviews the book, "Weavers of Revolution; The Yarur Workers and Chile's Road lo Socialism," by Peter Winn.
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In Canadian political history, the primary focus of historians has been on leading politicians. Trade union leaders have been virtually ignored. This paper partly fills this gap in presenting the career of C.H. Millard.
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The article reviews the book, "Solidarity: The Rise and Fall of an Opposition in British Columbia," by Bryan D. Palmer.
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Discusses the International Brotherhood of Pulp-Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers Union, which escaped the anti-Communist purge of the labour movement during the 1940s and 50s. Provides background on the purges and raids of unions, as well as the intense battles at Canadian labour congresses, during the McCarthyist period, Focuses on the conflict inside the US-dominated international pulp and paper workers, with left-leaning Canadian dissidents demanding greater union democracy, more services for dues, and autonomy for locals. The struggle ultimately ended in schism, with the certification of the Pulp and Paper Workers of Canada in 1965.
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À l'occasion de plaintes en vertu de l'article 90 du Code canadien du travail (le Code) par lesquelles les plaignants alléguaient que l'employeur avait contrevenu à l'article 104 du Code,2 le Conseil canadien des relations du travail (le Conseil) a précisé les conditions d'exercice du droit de refus d'un employé de travailler en cas de danger associe à la violence qui peut se manifester sur une ligne de piquetage. Il a déclare que lorsque la situation qui constitue le danger est perçue à l'extérieur du lieu du travail et avant l'arrivée au travail de l'employé, elle n'est pas visée par la Partie IV du Code et il n'y a pas ouverture à l'exercice du droit de refus.
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The article reviews the book, "Soft Sell: 'Quality of Working Life' Programs and the Productivity Race," by Don Wells.
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This article uses concepts coming from studies of the feminization of different occupations to investigate how the occupation of telephone operator came to be a female job ghetto. Its main theme is that the feminization of operating was central to the rapid growth of the telephone industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Contrary to general findings in the literature on feminization, the study suggests that labeling the operator's occupation as a female job increased, rather than reduced, its social status, although it did not improve its wages. It also indicates that whereas the job definition changed to suit female characteristics, its actual performance continued to involve commonly recognized male features to which the female operators had to adapt.
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This article reviews the book, "Labour-Management Cooperation in Canada," by Craig W. Riddell.
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This article reviews the book, "Participative Systems at Work : Creating Quality and Employment Security," by Sidney P. Rubinstein.
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This article reviews the book, "The Tyranny of Work: Alienation and the Labour Process," by James W. Rinehart.
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This article reviews the book, "Work, Industry and Canadian Society," by Harvey J. Krahn & Graham S. Lowe.