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This article reviews the book, "Workplace Democracy: An Inquiry into Employee Participation in Canadian Work Organizations," by Donald V. Nightingale.

This article reviews the book, "Workplace Democracy and Social Change," by Frank Lindenfeld & Joice Rothschild-Whitt, edited.

By the time of Confederation Ontario's economic lead over Quebec had been well established. John McCallum shows that the origins of this lead had little to do with the conservatism of the habitants and the church in Quebec, little to do with any anti-industrial bias of the Montreal merchants, and nothing to do with Confederation. Rather the origins lay in the wealth provided by Ontario's superior agricultural land.During much of the first part of the nineteenth century Ontario farmers were more specialized in wheat-growing than the twentieth-century farmers of Saskatchewan, and when the market conditions changed in the 1860s the province was able to use the capital derived from wheat to shift to other lines of production. The Quebec farmers, lacking both the virgin land of Ontario and the growing markets of the northeastern United States, were unable to find profitable substitutes for wheat. As a result, the cash income of the average Ontario farmer was at least triple that of his Quebec counterparts in the years before Confederation, and this enormous difference had profound effects on economic development in other sectors of the economy.In Ontario the growth of towns, transportation facilities, and industry was inextricably linked to the province's strong agricultural base. In Quebec little development occurred outside Montreal and Quebec City. Montreal industrialists did have several advantages; yet Quebec industry could not possibly absorb the province's surplus farm population. Ontario's wheat boom provided the capital which permitted Ontario industry to evolve in the classic fashion; indeed, Ontario wheat may be a rare instance of a staple whose surplus was retained in the producing area.John McCallum's analytical and historical account of economic patterns that persist today makes a solid and original contribution to Canadian economic history. --Publisher's description. Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- The rise and fall of the Ontario wheat staple -- The agricultural crisis in Quebec -- Agricultural transformation in Quebec and Ontario, 1850-70 -- Urban and commercial development until 1850 -- Transportation -- Industrial development, 1850-70 -- A modified staple approach -- Merchants and habitants -- Statistical appendix -- Subject index -- Index of authors cited.

This article reviews the book, "Skill and the English Working Class, 1870-1914," by Charles More.

The article reviews the book, "The Economic Development of Canada," by Richard Pomfret.

Recent studies have illustrated the strength and significance of working-class movements in the Maritimes during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Other work has emphasized the organization of local and international unions and the emergence of the socialist movement in the region. A study of strikes in the Maritimes can help provide a regional context for such work, and also help correct the regional imbalance in national historiography. Strikes themselves were crucial events, and no historical interpretation of the region in this period can safely overlook them. By studying the vigorous response of the region's workers to the new political economy of the early 20th century, we can start to understand the human implications of economic change. For these reasons, it is worth our effort to describe and analyze the general pattern of strikes, often in quantitative terms. This general pattern can then be related to the region's economic structure and help broaden our understanding of the economic revolution which transformed the region from the 1880s to the 1920s. In particular, two major themes emerge from this analysis: the transformation of the labour market and the revolution in the workplace. --From author's introduction

An empirical study to analyse the criteria that Canadian courts have used to determine the length of notice to award.

This paper shows the asymetric disequilibrium between available resources and results in the course of a union recruiting campaign in a case study of an experience of CUPE and LUSSA at Laurentian University.

An assessment of substance and impact of Theory Z on American management in the context of alternative paths toward employee participation.

This article reviews the book, "Canadian Newspapers: The Inside Story," edited by Walter Stewart.

The article reviews and comments on "Picking Up the Linen Threads: A Study in Industrial Folklore," by Betty Messenger, "Working Americans: Contemporary Approaches to Occupational Folklife" (special issue of Western Folklore, 37 (1978), reprinted as Smithsonian Folklife Studies Number 3), edited by Robert H. Byington, and "Land of the Millrats," by Richard M. Dorson.

The article reviews and comments on "Centre and Periphery: Spatial Variation in Politics," edited by Jean Gottmann, "Under-Developed Europe: Studies in Core-Periphery Relations," by Dudley Seers, Bernard Schaffer, and Marja-Liisa Kiljunen, "Transnational Capitalism and National Development: New Perspectives on Dependence," edited by Jose J. Villamil, "The World-System of Capitalism: Past and Present," (volume 2 of the Political Economy of the World-System Annuals), edited by Walter L. Goldfrank, "Processes of the World-System," (volume 3 of the Political Economy of the World-System Annuals), edited by Terence K. Hopkins and Immanuel Wallerstein, and "The New International Division of Labour," by Folker Frobel, Jurgen Heinrichs, and Otto Kreye.

This article reviews the book, "Timber Colony. A Historical Geography of Early Nineteenth Century New Brunswick," by Graeme Wynn.

This article reviews the book, "Canadian Bolsheviks: The Early Years of the Communist Party of Canada," by Ian Angus.

This article reviews three books: "People's History and Socialist Theory," edited by Raphael Samuel, "East End Underworld: Chapters in the Life of Arthur Harding," edited by Raphael Samuel, and "Rothschild Buildings: Life in an East End Tenement Block, 1887-1920," by Jerry White.

Working Class Experience is a sweeping and sympathetic study of the development of the Canadian working class since 1800. Beginning with a substantial and provocative introduction that discusses the historiography of the Canadian working class, the book goes on to establish a general framework for analysis of what ultimately is a social history of Canada. Dividing the years into seven periods in the evolution of class struggle, it beings each chapter with an assessment of that period's prevailing economic and social context, followed by an examination of the many factors affecting the working class during that period. Written in a colourful and sometimes irreverent style, Working Class Experience focuses on the processes by which working people moved, and were moved, off the land and into the factories and other workplaces during the Industrial and post-Industrial Revolutions in Canada. Drawing on much recent work on contemporary capitalism, Working Class Experience offers a significant explanation of the malaise in current labour and management relations and speculates on its significance for progressive change in Canadian Life. --Description at Goodreads

This article reviews the books, "Les relations du travail au Québec," by Emile Bouvier, S.J.

This article reviews the book, "Managers and Management in West Germany," by Peter Lawrence.

The author presents the results of a survey on the attitude of trade unions towards technological change.