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This article examines the political debate within Toronto's District Labour Council (DLC) from 1900 to 1921. It argues that divisive factors within the Council hindered the emergence of an effective third party alternative in the city. The majority of the delegates to the DLC favoured the formation of a labour party controlled by trade unionists. The Council fostered the formation of such a party, but the combined opposition of left-wing delegates, who advocated affiliation with the Socialist and later the Social Democratic Parties, and right-wing delegates, who opposed third party electoral action of any kind, prevented the DLC from affiliating or working too closely with the various labour parties. During the war the socialist and labourite delegates within the Council joined forces to promote a reorganized and more broadly based Independent Labour Party, but, again, severe internal conflict prevented the ILP from winning significant electoral support in Toronto.
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This article reviews the book, "L'altro movimento operaio: Storia della repressione capitalistica in Germania dal 1880 a oggi," by Karl Heinz Roth.
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This article reviews the book, "Natives and Newcomers: The ordering of Opportunity in Mid-Nineteenth Century Poughkeepsie," by Clyde Griffen and Sally Griffen.
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In the 1920s many liberal Canadians hoped that a modernized capitalism with new technologies and new methods of bureaucratic organization would benefit women by employment and promotion practices based on merit rather than tradition. Inequality in the workplace however, did not disappear. The failure to make great gains has sometimes been obscured by fascination with female professionals. Yet such individuals constituted a small, atypical minority. The fate of most working women lay in the non-professional employments. This study is an exploratory survey of the situation facing that majority. It begins with a brief characterization of the workforce followed by a lengthier evaluation of some of the influences which determined job selection. Career choices were basically of two types. The first, familiar blue collar occupations, were found in personal service and manufacturing. The second, in large measure, white collar, originated at the heart of the modern industrial state in the transportation and communication, commerce and finance, and clerical fields which had only relatively recently welcomed significant numbers of women. Neither choice offered women equality. The study next investigates women's collective and individual reactions to a discriminatory work situation. More exploited than their white collar sisters, blue collar workers, notably those in manufacturing, exhibited higher, more visible levels of unrest. The concluding section reviews the minimum wage legislation which, ironically enough, confirmed how little had really changed for all the anticipation of better times.
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English/French abstracts of articles in the issue.
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This article reviews the book, "Highlights of the Litterature," by Work in American Institute Inc.
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Pour le bénéfice de nos lecteurs, nous publions ici le Code de déontologie de la Conférence des arbitres du Québec qui a été adopté par cet organisme en septembre 1977.
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A vast number of criteria have been proposed as indicators of union democracy. Unfortunately, little agreement exists on the relative importance of those criteria. This article examines the interrelationships between several major components of union democracy: participation, electoral control, leadership responsiveness, and union control structure. Based on the results an integrated approach to union democracy is proposed.
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Replaçant la procédure d'injonction dans son contexte sociologique en se référant aux caractéristiques essentielles du droit du travail, l'auteur préconise le rapatriement d'une procédure d'injonction modifiée dans la législation du travail et analyse les nouveaux pouvoirs accordés au Conseil canadien des relations du travail (CCRT) en matière d'ordre de ne pas faire (cease and desist order).
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The deplorable exploitation of immigrant workers from the 1890s to the Depression is documented in this vivid account of Canada's early immigration policies. Transported by boxcar and often herded at gun point, these "men in sheepskin coats" were lured from Central and Eastern Europe by promises of shared wealth in a veritable promised land. Their backbreakaing labour in industry and agriculture directly furthered Canada's economic development, transportation lines, and land settlement. But their status, as detailed here with public records, newspaper accounts, and private correspondence was little above that of slave labour. Professor Avery records the immigrants' poor working conditions, bad pay, violent treatment at the hands of challenged authorities, and wholesale deportation when work became scrace. Recounted as well as their hostile reception by British Canadian, the government neglect of immigrant assimilation programs, and the workers' ultimate recourse to radical ethnic and political organization to better their lot. --Publisher's description
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