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The article reviews the book, "From Revolutionaries to Citizens: Antimilitarism in France, 1870-1914," by Paul B. Miller.

The article reviews the book, "Crises et renouveau du capitalisme. Le 20e siècle en perspective," edited by Gérard Duménil et Dominique Lévy,

The purpose of the thesis is essentially to elaborate, and to a lesser extent to test the relevance of a theoretical framework focussing simultaneously on the spheres of industry, work and community in staple-specific contexts, explicitly in Canadian forestry and mining single-industry towns (SITS). The framework builds two ideal types of these towns by drawing from the main approaches that have addressed the topic in political economy, labour and community studies. The core underlying argument is that a reconsideration of some neglected staple insights constitutes a legitimate endeavour. The framework stresses that forestry SITs have more: of an elite model of power structure, separate work and community social arrangements, individualistic income strategies, as well as lower class consciousness and numerous contradictory class locations; while mining SITs have more: of a class model of power structure, overlapping work and community arrangements, income strategies framed in secondary relations terms, as well as a higher class consciousness and fewer contradictory class locations. After a brief introductory chapter, the second, third and fourth ones extensively review and interpret the literature, gathering empirical material and theoretical considerations useful to the comparative theoretical framework. The latter is detailed and its claim circumscribed in Chapter five; its relevance is tested in the two last chapters by using it as a backdrop to explain staple specific patternings regarding the organization of work in the main resource sector and women's experience in the family.

The article reviews the book, "Giving Birth in Canada: 1900-1950," by Wendy Mitchinson.

Cet article explore l’efficacité de la Déclaration relative aux principes et droits fondamentaux au travail en tant que réponse aux défis posés par une mondialisation considérée essentiellement sur le plan économique. La Déclaration a été adoptée en 1998 par l’Organisation internationale du Travail (OIT) et visait à arrimer le développement économique au progrès social en établissant un corps universel de droits socio-économiques. Au regard des sources traditionnelles du droit international public, la Déclaration soulève pourtant un certain nombre de difficultés. Premièrement, elle s’apparente à un instrument de soft law, c’est-à-dire à un instrument incitatif dénué de force obligatoire. Deuxièmement, la Déclaration ne s’adresse pas directement aux acteurs réels de la mondialisation contemporaine, les entreprises mondialisées, mais aux États. À partir de ces critiques, la conjoncture ayant mené à l’adoption de la Déclaration fera l’objet d’une attention particulière et permettra de mieux mesurer les effets juridiques de cet instrument normatif au sein et à l’extérieur de l’OIT.

The leadership of the Patrons of Husbandry (the Grange) and the Patrons of Industry in late-19th-century Ontario offered ideological visions of class harmony, the promise of united political action through antipartyism, and the assurance of material prosperity to Ontario's farmers. The history of agrarian protest, however, can be viewed as one of broken promises and unfulfilled expectations. The tensions inherent in the differing material circumstances and various representational philosophies of agriculture made it impossible for the Dominion Grange and the Patrons of Industry to sustain harmony and unity for any length of time within a deeply divided agricultural population. As a result, entrenched ideological differences regarding the merits or shortcomings of the cooperative principle in the Dominion Grange and Patrons of Industry highlight the tensions and conflicts intrinsic to the varied approaches of the farmers themselves. Yet the initial success of both agrarian protest movements in Ontario displayed at least a willingness on the part of farmers to bond together for united action. Their cataclysmic collapse into irrelevancy by the turn of the century, however, also revealed the ideological, cultural, social, and economic fissures situated within Ontario's rural populace.

The article briefly reviews Michael R. Weldon's "Little Mosie from the Margaree: A Biography of Moses Michael Coady;" Penny R. Gurstein's "Wired to the World, Chained to the Home: Telework in DailyLife;" Miriam Edelson's "My Journey with Jake: A Memoir of Parenting and Disability;" Jim Bohlen's "Making Waves: The Origins and Future of Greenpeace;" Gunther Peck's "Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West, 1880-1930;" Dale Hathaway's "Allies Across the Border: Mexico's 'Authentic Labor Front' and Global Solidarity;" Maria Victoira Murillo's "Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions, and Market Reforms in Latin America;" Peter McLaren's "Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution;" "Left Catholicism: Catholics and Society in Western Europe at the Point of Liberation-1943-1955" edited by Gerd-Rainer Horn and Emmanuel Gerard; William B. Husband's "'Godless Communists': Atheism and Society in Soviet Russia, 1917-1932;" John Belchem's "Merseypride: Essays in Liverpool Exceptionalism;" Clare Haru Crowston's "Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791;" Pamela Pilbeam's "French Socialists Before Marx;" and John Isbister's "Capitalism and Justice: Envisioning Social and Economie Fairness."

The article briefly reviews Doug Smith's "How to Tax a Billionaire: Project Loophole and the Campaign for Tax Fairness;" "The Resilient Outpost: Ecology, Economy, and Society in Rural Newfoundland," edited by Rosemary Ommer; Susan Sleeper-Smith's "Indian Women and French Men: Rethinking Cultural Encounter in the Western Great Lakes;" Mark Franko's "The Work of Dance: Labor, Movement, and Identity in the 1930s;" "Friends of the People: Uneasy Radicals in the Age of the Chartists," by Owen R. Ashton and Paul A. Pickering, ; Steve Wright's "Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism;" Wendy Z. Goldman's "Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin's Russia;" Julie R. Watts's "Immigration Policy and the Challenge to Globalization: Unions and Employers in Unlikely Alliance;" Heidi Tinsman's "Partners in Conflict: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950-1973;" Rosa Isolde Reuque Paillalet's "When a Flower Is Reborn: The Life and Times of a Mapuche Feminist," edited and translated by Florencia E. Mallon; and S.A. Smith's "Like Cattle and Horses: Nationalism and Labor in Shanghai, 1895-1927."

The article analyzes scholarly works on the Canadian welfare state since 1979. Works discussed include Dennis Guest's "The Emergence of Social Security in Canada" (1979; 3rd edition, 1997), Jane Ursel's "Private Lives, Public Policy: 100 Years of State Intervention in the Family" (1992), James Struthers' '"The Limits of Affluence: Welfare in Ontario, 1920-1970" (1994), Penny Bryden's "Planners and Politicians: Liberal Politics and Social Policy, 1957-1968" (1997), and Nancy Christie's "Engendering the State: Family, Work, and Welfare in Canada" (2000). Concludes that while there has been important work in a number of areas, "the tendency in the historical and sociological literature to pay more attention to discourse than to political economy has tended to understate class dimensions in the formation of social policy."

The article reviews the book, "La précarité du travail : une réalité aux multiples visages," edited by Geneviève Fournier, Bruno Bourassa and Kamel Béji.

New research into the political attitudes and behaviours of union activists challenges traditional beliefs about the prospects for politicizing unionists in Canada. A study of union activists in Alberta finds two significant results. First union activists are more politically active than the average Canadian. This contradicts conventional wisdom about union activists. Second, unions can play a direct and important role in fostering political participation among their activists, a finding that has the potential to extend to the general membership. However, to be effective in mobilizing unionists politically, unions need to approach the project differently than they do at present. It is a project of action, not words, and it must be grounded in the lived experience of union workers. In particular, perceptions of class play a central role in shaping the political decisions of unionists. Relational articulations of class lead to political mobilization, and thus union actions must reflect the lived experience of being working class in Canada.

The article reviews the book, "Unions in the Time of Revolution: Government Restructuring in Alberta and Ontario, by Yonatan Reshef and Sandra Rastin.

Cet article présente une réflexion entourant l’élaboration d’un modèle de conception de la formation visant une meilleure prise en compte de la réalité du camionneur. Derrière un problème de formation se cache un problème plus large de connaissances nécessaires pour affronter efficacement les situations de la vie et d’aide à l’apprentissage sur le cours de vie. Une telle aide nécessite préalablement de documenter la réalité du camionneur en termes d’activité de formation et d’activité de travail. Une observation participante d’une formation de camionneurs et une analyse de l’activité de travail ont été réalisées. Documenter ainsi la réalité du camionneur permet d’identifier des situations à transformer pour aider à l’efficacité et la sécurité des apprentis et des camionneurs. Cette réflexion a permis l’élaboration d’un modèle de conception proposant une double intervention : sur la formation et sur le travail comme moyen d’aider à l’apprentissage sur le cours de vie professionnelle.

The article reviews and comments on Ruth Compton Brouwer's "Modern Women Modernizing Men: The Changing Missions of Three Professional Women in Asia and Africa, 1902-69;" Shirley Jane Endicott's "China Diary: The Life of Mary Austin Endicott;" and Myra Rutherdale's "Women and the White Man's God: Gender and Race in the Canadian Mission Field."

The article reviews the book, "Adult Learning and Technology in Working-Class Life," by Peter Sawchuk.

Cet article analyse le potentiel régulatoire de la responsabilité sociale dans un contexte de mondialisation économique à partir d’une distinction entre ses trois dimensions : les pratiques, le discours et le questionnement. Sans comprendre la dynamique des initiatives corporatives de responsabilité sociale, le discours sur la responsabilité sociale élude les questionnements auxquels l’entreprise doit aujourd’hui faire face pour conserver sa légitimité et assurer son ancrage dans la société. Mais plutôt que de déplorer leur manque d’effectivité, les auteurs avancent que les mesures volontaires de responsabilité sociale telles que les codes de conduite ou ce que certains appellent la soft law sont annonciatrices d’un cadre de responsabilité sociale en voie d’institutionnalisation à l’échelle mondiale. Sur la base d’une analyse de l’expérience européenne, ils montrent que deux cadres de responsabilité sociale au potentiel régulatoire très différent sont actuellement en concurrence, et concluent en jetant les bases du système régulatoire qui semble se configurer à l’échelle internationale.

The book, ``Culture and the Labour Market,`` by Siobhan Austen is reviewed.

In 1924 sixteen-year-old Kay Chetley along with her parents Jennie and Robert, and her sister Roberta, moved to the industrial city of Welland, Ontario. Kay was raised in east Saint John, New Brunswick where her father worked as a stationary engineer on dredging barges. Her mother, from a farming family in Petitcodiac, New Brunswick, had been a primary school teacher until her marriage. The family's economic status thus ranged between the artisan class and the emerging lower-middle class. To maintain that position, Kay's father moved the family to Ontario so that he could take up work in the construction of the new canal. Welland, however, soon became the setting for Kay's courtship, wedding, her first years as a married wom[a]n, and her subsequent years as a mother. This typical female life-cycle was played out not only within a tight-knit nuclear family, the dominant familial form in the early 20th century, but also within the community of First Baptist Church, Welland. Kay's life thus provides an illustration of the interconnectedness of religion, family, courtship, leisure, and work in one Ontario industrial community. The core of this study is constructed around a series of five-year diaries left by Kay Chetley. ...The diaries cover the bulk of the period from 1934 to 1944 and offer a few lines detailing Kay's activities each day. --Author's introduction

The article reviews the book, "John Reed and the Writing of Revolution," by Daniel W. Lehman.

The book ,"Employment with a Human Face: Balancing Efficiency, Equity, and Voice," by John Budd, is reviewed.