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A recent study utilized a stressor-strain framework to understand physician militancy in Canada. Data were collected from 2,584 physicians in 1986 using questionnaires. Four militant attitudes or activities were considered: 1. approval of binding arbitration in the event of deadlocks in fee negotiations with governments, 2. approval of withdrawal of services in the event of inadequate income settlements, 3. approval of the reconstitution of medical associations as labor unions, and 4. whether they had participated in an organized job action involving withdrawal of services.

The article reviews the book, "Professional Gentlemen: The Professions in Nineteenth-Century Ontario," by R. D. Gidney and W. P. J. Millar.

The article reviews the book, "Art and Work: A Social History of Labour in the Canadian Graphic Arts Industry to the 1940s," by Angela E. Davis.

The article reviews the book, "The Feminist Challenge to the Canadian Left 1900-1918," by Janice Newton.

Based on extensive study of union organizations and activists in Greater Vancouver, this article offers a two-fold critique of the thesis that "new social movements" have supplanted the labour movement as the key collective agents of change in late-modem societies. In the first section we briefly review the claims of new social movement theory and point to some of the analytic difficulties in positing a sharp distinction between "old" unions and "new" social movements. We then present comparative case studies of two pan-union labour organizations active in the Lower Mainland, followed by findings from in-depth interviews with activists in these groups, and comparisons between the political orientations of labour activists and those of activists in new social movements. We find evidence of a labour movement increasingly open to popular struggles outside its own immediate orbit, sensitive to the needs of diverse and marginalized constituencies, tactically prepared if not psychologically predisposed to yield a leading role in any such coalitions, and capable of grasping the connections between social movement activism and everyday life activities. The future of the labour movement very much depends on putting these political sensibilities into practice through a deepening of solidarity with other progressive movements - whose own futures are themselves implicated in labour's prospects.

The article reviews the book, "Women, work and coping: a multidisciplinary approach to workplace stress," edited by Bonita C. Long and Sharon E. Kahn.

Alors que la médiation la plus souvent utilisée survient dans le cadre de la négociation d'une première convention collective ou d'un renouvellement de convention, des programmes de médiation préventive tels celui des relations par objectifs (RPO) se situent en dehors du contexte de la négociation collective. Après avoir séparer les sujets d'ordre distributif des sujets de relations, les seules différences demeurant entre les parties sont celles des questions de fond. Cet article évalue 24 programmes de RPO menés par la Education Relations Commission d'Ontario entre 1981 et 1991. Nous avons utilisé une méthodologie combinée, quantitative et qualitative, pour mesurer l'impact général des RPO sur les conflits en milieu de travail et pour fournir quelques raisons de leurs échecs. L'approche générale des RPO est de réunir des représentants clefs de l'employeur et du syndicat dans un séminaire de deux ou trois jours dirigé par des animateurs qualifiés, en dehors des heures de travail et pendant une année de non-négociation. Les parties tentent alors d'identifier les problèmes qui affectent leurs relations, développant des plans spécifiques d'action, désignant des responsabilités pour leur implantation. Les parties établissent en outre un processus et un échéancier pour mesurer les progrès réalisés dans l'implantation des différents engagements contenus au plan d'action....

The article reviews the book, "La possession ouvirère. Du taudis à la propriété," by Guy Groux and Catherine Levy.

The article reviews the book,"Shifting Time: Policy and the Future of Work," by Armine Yalnizyan, T. Ran Ide and Arthur J. Cordell.

The article reviews the book, "Alternatives to Lean Production: Work Organization in the Swedish Auto Industry," by Christian Berggren.

The article reviews the book, "Le droit de cuis-sage. France, 1860-1930," by Marie-Victoire Louis.

The article reviews the book, "Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State; Britain and France, 1914-1945," by Susan Pedersen.

Strikes: Causes, Conduct and Consequences by Douglas Blackmur is reviewed.

The article reviews the book, "Le Québec en jeu : comprendre les grands défis," by Gérard Daigle, edited by and with the collaboration of Guy Rocher.

Une enquête auprès du personnel enseignant des commissions scolaires du Québec sur les rapports entre l'âge, le travail et le cheminement professionnel révèle que des effets de cohorte font varier sa situation et son cheminement professionnel ; ces changements reflètent les transformations profondes du travail et de l'emploi dans le milieu de l'enseignement au cours des dernières décennies. Par contre, le rapport individuel au travail ne varie pas selon l'âge ni selon le genre sexuel. La façon de le vivre différencie cependant très nettement quatre catégories d'importance à peu près égales parmi le personnel enseignant : les passionnés, les tiraillés, les contentés et tes désabusés. Ces positions existentielles face au travail sont fortement associées aux diverses composantes du rapport individuel au travail. Il apparaît que ce sont les rapports pédagogiques, la gestion de la classe, les facteurs organisationnels et relationnels, et non l'âge du personnel enseignant, qui sont en cause.

The article reviews the book, "Memories of Chicano History: The Life and Narrative of Bert Corona," by Mario T. Garcia.

The article reviews the book, "A Muted Fury: Populists, Progressives, and Labor Unions Confront the Courts, 1890-1939," by William G. Ross.

The article reviews the book, "Tell the Driver: A Biography of Elinor F.E Black, M.D.," by Julie Vandervoort.

A literary criticism of the book "The Mill: A Worker's Memoir of the 1930s and 1940s," by Alfred Edwards. It outlines the characters and the insights provided into the mentality of a section of working class. It examines the author's way of getting the story to its real starting-point in a deft manner. An overview of the story is also given.

In contrast to gloomy diagnoses of the state of industrial relations in the US, the situation in Britain is comparatively healthy. Reasons include the way in which the human resource management (HRM) challenge was met and the intellectual development of the subject from old industrial relations towards a deeper analysis of the employment relationship. These reasons are closely connected to the continuation of a case study tradition of research. Examples of such work illustrating this analysis, particularly those exploring management and the nature of HRM, are discussed. A future research agenda comparing national regimes of labor regulation is sketched.