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This introductory text examines the vital role of trade unions in Canada. In particular, it emphasizes how the values. objectives and activities of unions are shaped and changed in the context of employer opposition and often hostile governments. --Publisher's description.
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Through a historical account of the Pro-Canada/Action Canada Network (PCN/ACN), this dissertation examines coalition formation among social movements. It argues that the complex process of cross-sectoral coalition formation and thus the potential for convergence of social movements can best be understood by combining elements of different analytical frameworks. This dissertation draws on elements of the two dominant paradigms for the study of social movements, resource mobilization theory and new social movement theory. Specifically, it utilizes the formers' attention to the specifics of organization and structure and the latter's focus on the discursive formation of identities. Both are then combined with the uniquely Canadian but theoretically underdeveloped concept of the popular sector and a neo-gramscian perspective on social formation and mobilization that draws on political economy and class-analytical traditions. With its formation in 1988 around opposition to the Canada - U.S. Free Trade Agreement, the PCN/ACN was an early example of a broader trend for trade and investment to become key arenas for social and political contention at the turn of the century. This dissertation challenges the assumptions of most analytical frameworks concerning the limits to coalition formation and argues that the nature of the unifying issue is an important determinant of the potential for the growth and deepening of social alliances. After reviewing the historical conjuncture in which the PCN/ACN emerged, this dissertation traces the history of key sectors and member organizations - labour, women and ecumenical justice - paying specific attention to their approach to political engagement and the issue of free trade. As a result, it establishes the necessary background to understand both the initial basis for unity and the Network's progression beyond a lowest common denominator alliance around a single issue, to a broader mandate. This dissertation provides empirical evidence on which to judge the potential of social movements to displace other discourses and agencies on the left. Given the contemporary interest in the role of social movements, NGOs and civil society, this dissertation provides some essential signposts for two types of practitioners: academics seeking to understand outcomes and activists hoping to determine them.
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The article reviews the book, "Public Sector Labour Relations in an Era of Restraint and Restructuring," by Gene Swimmer.
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La restructuration de l’industrie du papier au Québec a eu un impact majeur sur l’action syndicale. Cet article présente les changements intervenus dans les pratiques syndicales de la Fédération des travailleurs du papier et de la forêt (FTPF-CSN) et de ses syndicats affiliés, notamment en ce qui a trait à la demande de nouveaux services découlant de l’implication syndicale dans la réorganisation du travail. Nous analysons également les effets de ces changements sur les relations entre la FTPF et ses syndicats locaux, ainsi que les problèmes et les défis inhérents au renouvellement des pratiques syndicales.
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The article reviews the book, "Rights, not Roses": Unions and the Rise of Working-Class Feminism, 1945-80," by Dennis A. Deslippe.
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The article reviews the book, "Abandoned Children," edited by Catherine Panter-Brick and Malcolm T. Smith.
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The article reviews the book, "Turning Trees into Dollars: The British Columbia Coastal Lumber Industry, 1858-1913," by Gordon Hak.
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The article reviews the book, "Rum Punch and Revolution: Taverngoing and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia," by Peter Thompson.
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The Power to Choose: Bangladeshi Women and Labour Market Decisions in London and Dhaka, by Naila Kabeer, is reviewed.
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The article pays tribute to Norman Feltes's contribution to the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty after his retirement as an English professor.
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The article reviews the book, "More with Less: Work Reorganization in the Canadian Mining Industry," by Bob Russell.
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The article reviews the book, "The Agribusiness Threat to Farmers, Food, and the Environment," edited by Fred Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster, and Frederick H. Butt.
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Framing Our Past is about women's lived experience. Drawing from diaries, oral history, letters, organizational records, paintings, quilts, dressmaking patterns, milliners' records, and posters, the contributors offer fresh interpretations of this historical material and unique insights into the lives of individual Canadian women who expanded the boundaries of traditional roles. Lavishly illustrated, Framing Our Past looks at women and their social rituals with other women, organized sporting clubs, philanthropic, spiritual and aesthetic activities, study and reading groups. The authors explore women's roles as nurturers and keepers of the hearth and in family management, child care, and health care. They highlight women's work in areas as diverse as domestic labour, nursing, dressmaking, broadcasting, and banking as well as women's contributions to education and their instrumental political role in consumer activism, social work, and peace movements. --Publisher's description
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The article reviews the book, "William Z. Foster and the Tragedy of American Radicalism," by James R. Barrett.
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The article reviews the book, "A Thing of the Past? Child Labour in Britain in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," edited by Michael Lavalette.
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The article reviews the book, "Solidarité et Détermination: Histoire de la Fraternité des Policiers et des Policières de la Communauté Urbaine de Montréal," by Jacques Rouillard and Henri Goulet.
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Nonunion Employee Representation: History, Contemporary Practice, and Policy, edited by Bruce E. Kaufman and Daphne Gottlieb, is reviewed.
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The article reviews the book, "Women and Scientific Employment," by Judith Glover.
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Discusses the life of Michael James "Mickey" O'Rourke, miner, soldier, and labour activist. In 1917, he was awarded the Victoria Cross, Canada's highest military decoration at the time, for "conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty during prolonged operations" while a member of the 7th Battalion of the Canadian Expeditionary Force during World War I. After the war O'Rourke went to California, then returned to British Columbia where he played a prominent role in the 1935 Vancouver longshoremen's strike. Despite war-related chronic health problems, he received only a small pension as a disabled veteran. O'Rourke's later life was complicated by alcoholism. He died as an indigent at a Veterans' Affairs facility in Burnaby, BC in 1957.
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