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The article reviews the book, " Évaluer et rénumérer les compétences," by Valérie Marbach.

The article reviews the book, "Organizational Diagnosis and Assessment: Bridging Theory and Practice," by Michael I. Harrisson and Arie Shirom.

The article reviews the book, "Gérer par les compétences ou comment réussir autrement ?," by Daniel Pemartin.

The author explains his contribution to the 1999 documentary, "Prairie Fire: The Winnipeg General Strike" and his involvement in other documentaries as a form of public history. Defends the producers' treatment of the subject, and argues that the perspective presented was balanced.

Dans cet article, nous analysons le désir de représentation collective en utilisant un échantillon accidentel de 485 travailleurs non syndiqués des services privés de la région de Montréal. Pour ce faire, nous examinons la double probabilité de leur propension à se syndiquer et de leur désir d'être membre d'une association professionnelle. Ainsi, 78 % des travailleurs de l'échantillon souhaitent une représentation collective. Plus précisément, 14 % des travailleurs de l'échantillon souhaitent adhérer à un syndicat, mais pas à une association professionnelle, 28 % à une association professionnelle à l'exclusion d'un syndicat alors que 36 % sont indifférents à adhérer à l'une ou l'autre forme de représentation collective. Pour explorer les variables explicatives de cette double probabilité à se syndiquer ou à être membre d'une association professionnelle, nous ajoutons au modèle classique de la syndicalisation des variables rattachées à l'occupation ou à la profession des travailleurs des services privés.

Presents a photographic collection of artifacts from professional and labor organizations such as the Industrial Workers of the World, the Knights of Labor, and the Congress of Industrial Organizations, as well as commemorative items from leftist political parties and labor holiday celebrations.

This article introduces a methodology for measuring differences in the labor standards between the US and Canada, taking into account variations by state and province. This methodology is then used to analyze differences in the 2 countries on 10 labor standards. The results indicate that 6 standards are higher in Canada than in the US: 1. paid time off, 2. unemployment/employment insurance, 3. workers' compensations, 4. collective bargaining, 5. unjust discharge, and 6. advance notice of plant closings/large scale layoffs. Standards covering minimum wages, overtime and occupational safety and health are higher in the US than in Canada. There is no difference in the 2 countries in standards covering employment discrimination/employment equity. The results suggest that overall, although there are exceptions, labor standards are higher in Canada than the US.

The article reviews the book, "Les relations du travail au Québec," 2e édition, by Michel Leclerc and Michel Quimper.

The article reviews the book, "Les gouvernances de l'emploi: relations professionnelles et marché du travail en France et en Allemagne," by Michel Lallement.

The article reviews the book, "La Représentation syndicale. visage juridique actuel et futur," by Gregor Murray and Pierre Verge.

The article reviews the book, "Unwilling Idlers: The Urban Unemployed and Their Families in Late Victorian Canada," by Peter Baskerville and Eric W. Sager.

This study assesses the effectiveness of goal setting, goal setting plus training in self-instruction, and being urged to do one's best on the performance of unionized employees (n = 32). The ability of managers, peers and self to observe changes in employee performance was also assessed. Appraisals were made prior to and 10 weeks following three interventions. ANCOVA indicated that employees who set specific, difficult goals had significantly higher performance than those in the doing one's best and those doing goal setting plus self-instruction. Moreover, self-efficacy correlated positively with subsequent performance. Employee satisfaction with the performance appraisal process was high across the three conditions. Peers provided better data for assessing the effect of an intervention than self or managers.

The article reviews the book, "Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America," by Saidiya V. Hartman.

The article reviews the book, "Radical Roots: The Shaping of British Columbia," by Harold Griffin.

Rethinking the Labor Process, edited by Mark Wardell, Thomas L. Steiger and Peter Meiksins, is reviewed.

This essay provides a selective overview of the Canadian historiography on family. The roots of family history not only extend backwards much further than the "new social history" born of the tumultuous 1960s, they are buried deep in several other disciplines, most notably sociology, anthropology, and demography, whose practitioners were concerned as much with the historical process of family change as with the state of families contemporary to their times. I consider how pioneering social scientists, by grappling with the family's relationship to structural change, historicized early 20th century family studies and offered up many of the questions, concepts, théories, and methods that continue to inform historical scholarship on families. Turning to the body of historical publications that followed in the wake of, and were often inspired by, the "new social history," I highlight the monograph studies that served as signposts in the field's development, especially for what they have revealed about the critical nexus of family, work, and class. The historiography mirrors the family 's history: "family" consists of so many intricately plaited strands that separating them out is frustrating and often futile. I have attempted to classify this material both topically and chronologically within broad categories, but the boundaries blur so that most of these works could fit as comfortably in several others. Many of them, in fact, will be recognized as important contributions to fields such as labour, ethnic, women's, or gender history rather than as works of family history per se.

Describes the forthcoming biographical dictionary of US French-speaking radicals that was intended to contribute to sociobiographical studies. [Editor's note (2021): There was no record that the book was published.]

The article reviews the book, "Unlikely Partners: Philanthropic Foundations and the Labor Movement," by Richard Magat.

Les clauses dites « orphelins » ont été introduites au Québec vers le milieu des années 80. Récemment, un débat très vif a eu cours au sujet de la validité de ces clauses. La question du caractère discriminatoire ou non des clauses « orphelins », par rapport à la Charte des droits et libertés de la personne, a occupé fréquemment le devant de la scène au Québec pour aboutir à l'adoption, par l'Assemblée nationale, du projet de loi n" 67 modifiant la Loi sur les normes du travail. Cet article présente d'abord le concept de discrimination et ses possibilités d'application au phénomène des clauses « orphelins », étudie la portée des exceptions au principe de discrimination dans l'emploi qui pourraient faire écran à d'éventuelles plaintes en ce domaine, pour examiner enfin la juridiction respective de la Commission des normes du travail et de la Commission des droits de la personne et des droits de la jeunesse.

Contracting Masculinity: Gender, Class and Race in a White-Collar Union, 1944-1994, by Gillian Creese, is reviewed.