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The article focuses on labor crisis in the U.S. The author claims that the country's main labor problem is not the declining union density but the global economic transformation that have exacerbated various labor issues, including weak and poorly enforced labor laws, aggressively anti-union employers and rivalry among unions. The strategy that U.S. must take to reform its labor is discussed.

Book review of: "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" by Naomi Klein.

The article reviews the book, "My Union, My Life: Jean-Claude Parrot and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers," by Jean-Claude Parrot.

Several authors have argued that broadening the traditional understandings of union solidarity is necessary for union renewal. Concerns specific to workers from marginalized groups have been shown to challenge traditional understandings of union collectivity. This paper draws on interviews with white and Aboriginal women forest processing workers to argue that interrogating marginalized workers' negative representations of their unions can provide insights that will help to broaden traditional understandings of union solidarity. I use thematic analysis followed by critical discourse analysis to examine women workers' negative talk about unions. I present examples of how women's negative representations of their unions can be understood as different forms of collectivism when examined in the context of their lived experiences of work and unionism. Some white and Aboriginal women's representations of their unions wove individualistic anti-union statements together with their previous experiences of work highlighting the inequality between unionized and non-unionized workers in the community. The talk of other Aboriginal women critiqued the union for not representing them while demonstrating a sense of collectivity with other Aboriginal workers. By exploring linkages between women's negative representations of unions and their work experiences, unions can better understand the negative union sentiment of marginalized workers and use this to create more inclusive forms of solidarity.

The article reviews the book, "Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights," by Jennifer Gordon.

The article reviews the book, "Into the Hurricane: Attacking Socialism and the CCF," by John Boyko.

The garment industry is often held out as the first victim of globalization and the movement of capital and jobs from North to South. But Roxana Ng’s article “Garment Production in Canada: Social and Political Implications” reveals that, contrary to expectation, the Canadian garment industry may in fact be growing, and it is taking increasingly different forms within various Canadian cities. For Ng, the contradictory and unexpected developments within the garment industry raise questions about the forms of capital accumulation and the effects of globalization. Mapping the complex links between the restructuring of the garment industry, and Canadian immigration policy and the North American Free Trade Agreement, Ng considers how the experiences of this industry may provide a grounding for researchers, educators, and policy analysts to engage in more forward-looking and proactive response to capital accumulation. --Publisher's description

The article reviews the book, "Rockefeller, Carnegie and Canada: American Philanthropy and the Arts and Letters in Canada," by Jeffrey D. Brison.

Dans cet article, nous présentons une partie des résultats d’une recherche qualitative dont l’un des objectifs était de mettre en évidence le rôle joué par certaines pratiques de gestion mobilisatrices, comme la communication, la participation, la formation, le soutien et la reconnaissance des efforts, dans l’adhésion des employés à l’implantation d’un système d’information (SI). Cependant, ces pratiques peuvent être perçues différemment par chaque employé selon leur crédibilité, adéquation, pertinence ou opportunité et prises en compte dans le processus d’évaluation qui conduit à la formation de son attitude à l’égard du SI. Pour explorer ce phénomène, nous avons réalisé deux études de cas dans deux organismes publics au Québec au cours desquelles nous avons effectué des entrevues semi-structurées en profondeur auprès de vingt employés. Ce texte présente les résultats de l’analyse du contenu de ces entrevues.

L’objet de cet article est d’analyser l’influence des normes socialement responsables édictées par les firmes-pivots dans des accords-cadres internationaux et des codes de conduite sur les modes de gestion de l’emploi de leurs entreprises partenaires. En présentant une critique du concept de responsabilité sociale de l’entreprise, nous verrons que ces dispositifs remettent en cause la pertinence des catégories d’employeurs et de salariés en questionnant les frontières des entreprises. Soulignant l’importance structurante des pressions institutionnelles sur les comportements organisationnels, nous montrerons dans quelle mesure l’instrumentation socialement responsable est susceptible d’enrichir la compréhension des modalités de coordination interfirme où l’analyse comparative institutionnelle inspirée par l’économie des coûts de transaction reste dominante.

The article reviews the book, "The Other Quiet Revolution: National Identities in English Canada, 1945-1971," by José E. Igartua.

The article reviews the book, "Vers une transformation des relations industrielles en Amérique du Nord," by Jean-Claude Bernatchez.

The article reviews the book, "From the Net to the Net: Atlantic Canada in the Global Economy," edited by James Sacouman and Henry Veltmeyer.

The article reviews the book, "Revolution: The 1913 Great Strike in New Zealand," edited by Melanie Nolan.

[This] study shows that the crisis of war reinforced pre-existing social and economic inequality based on racist views and practices. War-induced anxieties intensified suspicion of "foreigners" -- a term which encompassed large numbers of Canadian-born and naturalized people of Japanese, central, eastern, and southern European descent and Jews -- as unpatriotic, disloyal, radical, and incapable of becoming truly Canadian. The war also brought sharply into focus and even intensified racist assumptions that African Canadians, eastern and southern Europeans, and Native people were suitable only for menial jobs; that Jewish, Chinese, and Japanese Canadians were economically aggressive; and that Jews in particular were given to shady practices. Such racist stereotypes in turn legitimized the ongoing marginalization of these minorities in the workforce. The state colluded in racist practices. To be sure not all state officials or all Canadians were racist, but the pragmatism that informed official complicity with employment discrimination underscores the pervasiveness of racism in wartime Canada. State officials -- some of whom held racist ideas -- were willing to accept employers' and workers" racist preferences because they believed that to do otherwise would create social unrest and disrupt war industries. Moreover, officials found that the relegation of minority groups such as Chinese Canadians, Japanese Canadians, and Native people to menial work offered the important benefit of filling jobs that Canadians with wider options avoided.

The article reviews the book, "Making the Voyageur World: Travelers and Traders in the North American Fur Trade," by Carolyn Podruchny.

The article reviews the book, "Beyond Mothering Earth: Ecological Citizenship and the Politics of Care," by Sherilyn MacGregor.

Labour Arbitration in Canada, by Morton Mitchnick and Brian Etherington, is reviewed.

The article reviews the book, "Household Politics: Montreal Families and Postwar Reconstruction," by Magda Fahrni.

Among the recent measures undertaken in Canada to adapt the public sector to the 'new economy' in order to maintain or enhance economic competitiveness on an international level has been the adoption of new technologies and e-government, affecting both labour processes and service delivery. All three levels of government – municipal, provincial, and federal – have adopted 'virtual service techniques'. This paper examines telemediated processes and new work arrangements in the public sector and raises questions regarding the impact on workers and their trade unions, working conditions, service delivery, and social citizenship.