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Le syndicat SUD-PTT est une scission récente (1989) de la CFDT, la deuxième centrale syndicale en France. Il est animé par une génération de militants marqués par Mai 1968, politiquement proches de l'extrême gauche. Mais ces militants sont aux prises avec une génération de nouveaux adhérents, dans un contexte d'urgence sociale. Idéologie et préférence partisane sont mises de côté au nom du pragmatisme, tandis qu'un sens élevé des questions transversales aboutit à un syndicalisme sociétal original, qui a fait école dans différents secteurs.

The article reviews the book, "Die unheimliche Macht des Geldes: Finanzierungsstrategien der Bürgerlichen Frauenbewegung in Deutschland zwischen 1865 und 1933," by Gilla Dölle.

The article reviews the book, "Frauen und Staat/Les Femmes et l'État," edited by Brigitte Studer, Regina Wecker, and Beatrice Ziegler.

The article reviews the book, "The Politics of Retirement in Britain, 1878-1948," by John Macnicol.

The article reviews the book, "Négociation en relations du travail: nouvelles approches," by Pierre Deschênes, Jean-Guy Bergeron, Reynald Bourque and André Brand.

Cet article traite des exclusions légales et sociales qui affectent la main-d’œuvre agricole saisonnière véhiculée quotidiennement au Québec, dont la grande majorité sont des immigrants résidant à Montréal. Une recherche sociale sur le terrain a révélé, sur certaines fermes, un haut roulement de main-d’œuvre et des conditions de travail en deçà du seuil légalement et humainement admissible : non-respect des personnes, du temps de travail, des normes de santé et sécurité, discrimination. À partir des résultats de cette étude, de recherches sur les modifications de l'agriculture québécoise au XXe siècle ainsi que de l'analyse de contenu de mémoires de l'Union des producteurs agricoles (UPA), les auteures mettent en lumière le rôle de l'UPA dans les exclusions légales successives des salariés agricoles et remettent en question son discours sur la pénurie de main-d’œuvre, contredite par la recherche.

In this article, we discuss representations of women's identifies as workers in the wartime newspaper, Aircrafter, produced by management at the Canadian Car and Foundry Company Limited in Fort William, Ontario, during World War II. We argue that Aircrafter functioned as an ideological mechanism by which pre-war, middle-class prescriptions of femininity, emphasizing women's roles as decorative homemakers in the private sphere, survived the challenges of women's war work to shape post-war gender roles. The article demonstrates the efficacy of this ideological mechanism by revealing the comprehensive way in which different rhetorical styles and varied sections of the newspaper -- the front page news and pictures, the editorial page, the women's page entitled "The Femmine Touch," as well as cartoons and pin-ups -- collectively conveyed an ambivalent attitude that both praised and questioned women's war work in traditionally male jobs thus reinforcing pre-war socially prescribed forms of femininity. This research reveals how state policies concerning representations of women workers in government war propaganda influenced a northwestern Ontario war plant and shaped the ideological atmosphere which the women war workers at Canadian Car would have to negotiate as part of their daily working lives.

It is widely believed that both economic security and management policies that foster employee trust increase the willingness of employees to be flexible with respect to work practices and to accept economic policies that foster competition in product markets. These claims, however, rest either on fairly indirect evidence - an apparent association between the presence in countries of institutions that provide economic security and better performance on one or another macroeconomic indicator - or on a series of generally sketchy case studies. In this article relevant data are analyzed from a representative sample of pulp and paper industry employees in Canada. The results provide only weak support for claims with respect to the effects of employment security and trust, thus suggesting some modifications to the standard interpretation.

The article reviews the book, "Spectres of Capitalism: A Critique of Current Intellectual Trends," by Samir Amin.

Chronicles the work of the Organization for Jewish Colonization in Russia (ICOR) during the 1920s and 30s in support of a Soviet government initiative that established a Jewish Autonomous Region in Birobidzhan in the far east of the Soviet Union. ICOR was also founded in opposition to the Zionist movement for a Jewish national state in Palestine. Controlled by the US and Canadian communist parties, the organization was comprised mostly of Yiddish-speaking East European Jews. In 1933, ICOR claimed a membership of 10,000 members including a Canadian section with members in 10 cities in four provinces. The Canadian section also published a periodical, "Kanader Icor." Concludes that the project for a Jewish Autonomous Region was a largely fraudulent scheme that unravelled under the weight of the Stalinist purges in the Soviet Union as well as developments in the international sphere.

The article reviews the book, "Challenges for Work and Family in the Twenty-First Century," edited by Dana Vannoy and Paula J. Dubeck.

The article reviews the book, "Leisure Settings. Bourgeois Culture, Medicine, and the Spa in Modern France," by Douglas Peter Mackaman.

The article reviews the book, "The Soviet World of American Communism," by Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Kyrill M. Anderson.

The article reviews the book, "Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism since the New Deal," by Sanford M. Jacoby.

The article reviews and comments on Anne M. Butler's "Gendered Justice in the American West: Women Prisoners in Men's Penitentiaries" (1997) and Joy Damousi's "Depraved and Disorderly: Female Convicts, Sexuality and Gender in Colonial Australia" (1997).

The article reviews the book, "Nationalism and the International Labor Movement: The Idea of the Nation in Socialist and Anarchist Theory," by Michael Forman.

The article reviews the book, "Strikes and Solidarity: Coalfield Conflict in Britain 1889-1966," by Roy A. Church and Quentin Outram.

The article reviews the book, "Caught in the Middle: Contradictions in the Lives of Sociologists from Working-Class Backgrounds," by Michael D. Grimes and Joan M. Morris.

L'apparition récente, dans le paysage institutionnel français, d'accords d'entreprise sur l'emploi conduit l'analyste à s'interroger sur la nature du processus aboutissant à de tels compromis sociaux (s'agit-il d'un processus d'échange ?), sur les produits de cette activité (comment caractériser ce type d'accords collectifs ? Où réside la novation ?) et, enfin, sur le sens de ces compromis (en termes de légitimité comme en termes d'action collective pour l'emploi). En mobilisant une sociologie attentive aux processus, cet article explore cette nouvelle dynamique de négociation. On s'attachera à la comprendre comme une forme étendue de régulation conjointe, érigeant l'entreprise comme espace pertinent d'expérimentation de nouvelles pratiques contractuelles et dans laquelle le jeu et les arrangements des acteurs locaux occupent une place centrale.

A study identifying behaviors and perceptions of the individuals involved that affect grievance resolutions is presented. Based on conflict research, the study proposes that cooperative goals promote the direct, open-minded consideration of opposing views which leads to quality solutions efficiently developed. Management and union representatives in 2 large Western Canadian forest product companies were interviewed about grievances they had handled that were and were not settled within their committee. They first described in detail a recent, significant grievance and then answered specific questions to code the incident. Structural-equation results and the analysis of the qualitative data suggest that cooperative goals induce the open-minded discussion of diverse views, which in turn results in high-quality, integrative solutions. However, with competitive goals, managers and employees interacted close-mindedly and were unable to agree upon integrative solutions efficiently. If replicated, the framework developed can help structure interdependence and guide skill training in grievance handling.