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The article reviews the book, "Thunder Bay: From Rivalry to Unity," edited by Thorold J. Tronrud and A. Ernest Epp.
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The article reviews the book, "The Secret World of American Communism," by Harvey Klehr, John E. Haynes and Fridrikh I. Firsov.
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Grievance arbitrators now have a responsibility to interpret and apply human rights legislation in the course of resolving collective agreement disputes. This responsibility, however, raises the question of whether grievance arbitration is the most suitable forum for the application of human rights laws. In Canada, grievance arbitration has been a hybrid process, containing both public and private components. Recent arbitral jurisprudence, however, suggests that arbitrators see themselves as primarily private adjudicators. These cases indicate that arbitrators have been reluctant to give full scope to the duty to accommodate in order to avoid disturbing the terms of the collective agreement. This reluctance to play a full role as human rights adjudicators means that arbitration is not necessarily the most ideal forum for the enforcement of Canadian human rights laws.
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The paper presents findings of an ethnographic case study on social relations in an existing General Motors vehicle assembly plant where the traditional drag chain has been replaced by Swedish automated guided vehicle technology and some aspects of Japanese work organization have been implemented. The findings challenge claims that Fordism is being replaced by a fundamentally new production model, and that this is resulting in more fulfilling work and cooperative social relations. There are many fulfilling work and cooperative social relations. There are many continuities with Fordism and highly contradictory social relations. This and other studies of new work systems suggest, in fact, that contradictions between control and commitment, rather than being minimized or dissolved, can actually be heightened.
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The article reviews the book, "Stanley Bréhaut Ryerson, un intellectuel de combat," edited by Robert Comeau and Robert Tremblay.
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In late 1936 steel worker activists in Sydney launched a new organizing drive at the plant under the auspices of the CIO's Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC). This effort drew the support of steel workers in a way that previous organizing attempts had not. However, the militant and self-reliant traditions of the steel workers collided with the cautious strategies and bureaucratic practices of the appointed SWOC leadership in the United States and Canada. As steel workers at Sydney showed great solidarity in their struggle with DOSCO, they also resisted what they saw as undemocratic and highly accommodationist practices by the union's national and international leadership. The struggles within the union embraced the issues of Canadian autonomy and nationalism as well as rank-and-file union control and the democratic rights of union members. It amounted to a struggle over what type of unionism was to be established within the Canadian steel industry.
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The article reviews the book, "Grace Hartman: A Woman for her Time," by Susan Crean.
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The article reviews the book, Les vrais maîtres de la forêt québécoise," by Pierre Dubois, preface by Richard Desjardins.
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The article reviews the book, "Sizing Down: Chronicle of a Plant Closing: With Lessons for Understanding and Survival," by Louise Moser Illes.
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The article reviews the book, "Crossing The Line: Unionized Employee Ownership and Investment Funds," by Jack Quarter.
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The article reviews the book, "Le syndicalisme contemporain et son avenir," edited by Henryk Lewandowski and Zbigniew Hajn.
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The article reviews the book, "Gentle Rebel: Letters of Eugene V. Debs," edited by J. Robert Constantine.
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Public exhibitions about work safety assumed an importance for both workers and employers at the beginning of the 20th century that is difficult to evaluate from a late-20th-century perspective. In Quebec, Louis Guyon, chief inspector of industrial establishments and public edifices, noted with interest expositions in Germany and France. Through his efforts the first North American exposition concerning the prevention of accidents was inaugurated in Montreal on 23 September 1901. Only insufficient government funds prevented Guyon from following European models in creating a worker safety museum. Similarly, a worker health museum did not materialize in the province because of funding problems.
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A study empirically examines the relationships between union status, union involvement, and the performance of gainsharing programs. The predictions of various competing theoretical perspectives are evaluated: 1. the agency/transaction cost approach, 2. the monopoly model, 3. the institutional voice model, and 4. a 2-faces model of labor organization. Gainsharing programs with union involvement in program administration resulted in better perceived performance than average programs in the nonunion sector. However, gainsharing programs in the union sector without union involvement had worse outcomes than those in the nonunion sector. These 2 divergent situations resulted in union status itself having an insignificant relationship with program performance.
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The article reviews the book, "Wild Things: Nature, Culture and Tourism in Ontario, 1790-1914," by Patricia Jasen.
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The article reviews the book, "Hard Lessons: The Mine Mill Union in the Canadian Labour Movement," edited by Mercedes Steedman, Peter Suschnigg and Dieter K. Buse.
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The article reviews the book, "White Guys: Studies in Post-Modern Domination and Difference," by Fred Pfeil.
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The article reviews the book, "The Invention of White Race: Racial Oppression and Social Control," Volume 1, by Theodore W. Allen.
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The article reviews the book, "Roaring Days: Rossland's Mines and the History of British Columbia," by Jeremy Mouat.
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The article reviews the book, "Highwire Act: Power, Pragmatism, and the Harcourt Legacy," by Daniel Gawthrop.