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The Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children at Western University, together with researchers at the University of Toronto and the Canadian Labour Congress launched a bilingual, national survey on workplace harassment and violence in Fall 2020. Closing in Spring 2021, thousands of workers across Canada completed the survey and a significant number volunteered to participate in in-depth interviews. The results of this research shed light on the prevalence of different forms of harassment and violence in the workplace, including how workers who are marginalized due to their social location and/or their precarious employment status are uniquely impacted. --Website description

Au Québec, les relations du travail dans l'industrie de la construction font l'objet, depuis 1968, d'un encadrement spécifique en marge du Code du travail. L'adoption et l'originalité de ce régime, qui prévoit un éventail de règles visant les rapports collectifs du travail, mais aussi l'emploi des travailleurs de la construction, sont souvent expliquées par les rivalités intersyndicales qui ont marqué le secteur depuis les années 1960. L'objectif du texte est de montrer que la mobilité provinciale des travailleurs de la construction constitue, au Québec, une source de conflits au travail qui, bien que pouvant mettre en présence des organisations syndicales rivales, doit néanmoins être distinguée de ces rivalités naissant du pluralisme syndical. Pour ce faire, après avoir mis en évidence certaines caractéristiques industrielles et économiques de la construction québécoise, nous proposons une analyse de l'évolution du cadre législatif et réglementaire applicable à l'emploi dans ce secteur, en portant une attention particulière aux conflits et manifestations qui l'ont marqué.

The article reviews the book, "Boom Kids: Growing Up in the Calgary Suburbs, 1950–1970," by James A. Onusko.

This report examines the impact of increasing Ontario's minimum wage to $14 per hour in 2018. Despite dire predictions that increasing minimum wage would eliminate jobs, employment actually increased in the period after the change. The study, funded by the Canadian Race Relations Foundation (CRRF), also found racialized workers, especially women, benefitted from the minmum wage increase, largely due to the gendered and racialized nature of low-wage work. Employment in almost all industries with lower-than-average wages increased.

L’ambition de ce numéro thématique est dès lors de croiser les perspectives disciplinaires pour éprouver la dualité des technologies digitales : en quoi jouent-elles comme des opportunités ou des contraintes pour le travail et l’activité professionnelle ? Plus précisément, nous proposons d’examiner dans quelle mesure et à quelles conditions ces dispositifs techniques vont être bénéfiques aux individus, en étant des sources de développement de l’activité et de renouvellement des métiers et des compétences. Il s’agit aussi d’explorer comment, a contrario, la mise en place de tels outils peut dégrader les activités, altérer les composantes du métier, fragiliser les collectifs de travail, les parcours et les connaissances professionnels, et impacter la santé des salariés. / The aim of this thematic special issue is to draw on cross disciplinary perspectives to better understand the duality of digital technologies: how do they act as opportunities and/or constraints for work and workers. More specifically, we examine to what extent and under what conditions the new technologies can be beneficial to individuals by being sources of activity development and renewal of occupations and skills. We also explore how the implementation of such tools can be detrimental to these activities, alter aspects of occupations, weaken work ties, career paths and occupational knowledge as well as impact the health of employees. --from Introduction

The article reviews the book, "Les transformations contemporaines du rapport au travail," edited by Daniel Mercure.

The article reviews and comments on several books including "Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression," edited by Tithi Bhattacharya, "Social Reproduction and the City: Welfare Reform, Child Care, and Resistance in Neoliberal New York," by Simon Black, "Women and Work: Feminism, Labour and Social Reproduction," by Susan Ferguson, and "Social Reproduction Theory and the Socialist Horizon: Work, Power and Political Strategy," by Aaron Jaffe.

The article reviews the book, "Tremors of Discontent: My Life in Print 1970-1988," by Mike Richardson.

Describes additions of private archives to the Library and Archives Canada labour collection including personal fonds of Ollie Borg, Max Federman, Ian Reilly, Bonnie Robichaud, and Margot Trevelyan (the latter includes an unpublished biography of labour leader Madeleine Parent). The newly available union fonds include Brotherhood of Railway Carmen, Canadian Paperworkers Union, Canadian Union of Educational Workers, Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada, National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians, and United Food and Commercial Workers International Union. Records added to established fonds include Canadian Autoworkers/National Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers Union, Canadian Brotherhood of Railway, Transport and General Workers, and Canadian Food and Allied Workers.

The article reviews the book, "Wounded Feelings: Litigating Emotions in Quebec, 1870–1950," by Eric H. Reiter.

There has been an increasing tendency in recent decades to characterize North American Indigenous peoples as "people of the corn" living in permanent or semi-permanent settlements. This approach focuses on matrilineal, agricultural societies in which women play a central role in the economy and the organization of domestic life. Iroquoian women have been at the heart of this approach, while Algonquian women from patrilineal, hunter-gatherer societies remain in the shadows of the men who continue to be perceived as the main providers. In reality, on both the land and the water, the "nomadic" way of life of the people of the forest was anchored in the courage, strength, and endurance of Algonquian women providers.

In Canada, employment standards are regulated by individual provinces and territories. Know your rights by checking out our handy employment standards map and comprehensive report on labour standards across the country.

Cet article s’intéresse au mouvement no code, qui connaît actuellement un fort engouement, et à ses impacts sur les activités professionnelles et l’organisation du travail. À contre-courant des approches déterministes postulant une relation unidirectionnelle entre objets techniques et formes organisationnelles, nous proposons d’adopter un cadre d’analyse co-évolutionniste où ces dimensions s’influencent réciproquement selon des boucles récursives continues. À partir d’une recherche exploratoire menée dans une entreprise de conseil en transformation numérique, nous tenterons d’exposer ce mouvement co-évolutionniste et, à travers lui, les opportunités et contraintes dont sont porteurs ces outils en milieu professionnel. Ces constats nous permettront de nuancer les discours utopistes qui accompagnent le développement de ces technologies, mais également d’apporter davantage de précisions au sujet des conditions à réunir pour assurer leur implantation durable.

The article reviews the book, "Iroquois in the West," by Jean Barman.

This bibliography was created over several years as an aid to a variety of PHS projects as well as my work at the Glenbow Archives. It aims to include all publications and audiovisual products from the Social Sciences and Humanities. Most government documents are excluded as they are accessible through Library and Archives Canada. --Introduction

Malgré une expérience de plus de 50 ans depuis l’apparition des nouvelles technologies (Govaere, 2002) et une littérature scientifique et pratique sur le sujet (e.g., guides de bonnes pratiques, formation professionnelle, etc.) qui peut être qualifiée de pléthorique (Denancé, 2017), de nombreuses études indiquent que les organisations rencontrent des difficultés internes dans leurs projets de déploiement (e.g., Garreau, 2019 ; Tranfield & Braganza, 2007). L’objectif de cet article est de contribuer aux travaux sur l’accompagnement du déploiement des technologies en présentant une méthode d’accompagnement visant à identifier les opportunités et les menaces provoquées par les technologies, notamment par le recours à l’analyse de l’activité et l’implication des professionnels concernés. Les premiers résultats de la mise en oeuvre de la démarche viennent confirmer son intérêt.

The article reviews the book, "Lettres à une Noire," by Françoise Ega.

Restrictions implemented around the world to contain the spread of COVID-19 have had various consequences for workers. Emotional distress, maladaptive behaviours, and issues such as sleep disorders, irritability, and loss of motivation are expected, particularly among employees not used to telework. We wished to find out whether previous telework experience helped workers maintain their quality of life during the lockdown. Data were collected through an anonymous online survey of adult workers ≥ 18 years old in Canada, between May 25, 2020, and June 26, 2020. The survey was completed by 604 teleworkers, 66.8% of whom had not teleworked before the lockdown. The respondents provided self-reported data on sociodemographics, mental health issues, and quality of life. We assessed changes in quality of life by using paired t-tests and linear regression to identify significant determinants. Our analysis shows a decline during the lockdown in all quality of life indicators: stress, irritability, sleep quality, motivation, ability to undertake projects, and surfing the Internet without a specific goal (p < 0.001). The decline was mainly driven not by lack of previous telework experience but rather by a combination of three factors: having young children at home, having a high frequency of telework, and being a man.

The article reviews the book, "« C'est le Québec qui est né dans mon pays! » : Carnet de rencontres, d'Ani Kuni à Kiuna," by Emanuelle Dufour.

The article reviews the book, "No Wood, No Kingdom: Political Ecology in the English Atlantic," by Keith Pluymers.