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The article reviews the book, "Acts of Resistance: Against the New Myths of Our Time," by Pierre Bourdieu.

The article reviews the book, "Planners and Politicians: Liberal Politics and Social Policy, 1957-1968," by P.E. Bryden.

The article reviews the book, "The Idea of the Middle Class: White Collar Workers and Peruvian Society 1900-1950," by D.S. Parker.

The article reviews the book, "Power, Place and Identity: Historical Studies of Social and Legal Regulation in Quebec," edited by Tamara Myers, Kate Boyer, Mary Anne Poutanen and Steven Watt.

We examine the effects of minimum wage legislation in Canada over the period 1975–93. For teenagers we find that a 10% increase in the minimum wage is associated with roughly a 2.5% decrease in employ- ment. We also find that this result is driven by low frequency variation in the data. At high frequencies the elasticity is positive and insignificant. The difference in the elasticity across the bandwidth has implications for the interpretation of employment dynamics as a result of minimum wage policy and experimental design in minimum wage studies. It also provides a simple reconciliation of the ‘‘new minimum wage research,’’ which reports very small negative, or positive, elasticities.

The article reviews the book, "Marx's Wage Theory in Historical Perspective: Its Origins, Development, and Interpretation," by Kenneth Lapides.

The article reviews the book, "Filipino Peasant Women: Exploitation and Resistance," by Ligaya Lindio-McGovern.

The article reviews the book, "Seal of Approval: The History of the Comics Code," by Amy Kiste Nyberg.

The companion book to The Labour Millenium Project, a four-part documentary film series and CD-ROM --Page 4 of cover. Text in English and French.

This collection of compelling and original research makes connections in Canada, the US and Mexico among women who work in fast-food restaurants, supermarkets and agricultural production. The fourteen chapters take a critical look at how the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has affected these women's working and living conditions, sharpening our understanding of how the workplace has been restructured in order to fulfill consumer demands for tomatoes, exotic flowers and fruits, as well as fast-food burgers and fries. Food activists in Latin America, the US and Canada propose alternatives to counteract the oppressive conditions of free trade and globalization. --Publisher's description. Contents: "Perhaps the world ends here" / Joy Harjo -- Introduction: In the belly of the beast: A moveable feast / Deborah Barndt -- Remaking "traditions": How we eat, what we eat and the changing political economy of food / Harriet Friedmann -- Whose "choice"?: "Flexible" women workers in the tomato food chain / Deborah Barndt -- Serving the McCustomer: Fast food is not about food / Ester Reiter -- The "poisoning" of Indigenous migrant women workers and children: From deadly colonialism to toxic globalization / Egla Martinez-Salazar -- Mexican women on the move: Migrant workers in Mexico and Canada / Antonieta Barrón -- "From where have all the flowers come?": Women workers in Mexico's non-traditional markets / Kirsten Appendini -- Putting the pieces together: Tennessee women find the global economy in their own backyards / Fran Ansley -- Serving up service: Fast-food and office women workers doing it with a smile / Ann Eyerman -- Not quite what they bargained for: Female labour in Canadian supermarkets / Jan Kainer -- Putting food first: Women's role in creating a grassroots system outside the marketplace / Debbie Field -- Grassroots responses to globalization: Mexican rural and urban women's collective alternatives / Maria Dolores Villagomez -- Women as organizers: Building confidence and community through food / Deborah Moffett & Mary Lou Morgan -- A day in the life of Maria: Women, food, ecology and the will to live / Ofelia Perez Peña -- A different tomato: Creating vernacular foodscapes / Lauren Baker.

The article reviews the book, "Flexibilité et créations d'emplois : un défi pour le dialogue social en Europe," by Hedva Sarfati.

The article reviews the book, "Changing Industrial Relations in Europe," edited by A. Ferner and R. Hyman.

The article reviews the book, "Les politiques de l'emploi en Europe et aux Éats-Unis," edited by Jean-Claude Barbier and Jérôme Gautié.

This thesis examines the effects of the Workers' Educational Association of Toronto (WEA) on social change in Canada between 1917-1945. This study attempts to establish the social importance of this organization in the history of adult education in Canada. The WEA was an educational organization that attempted to provide a link between labour and learning by making educational opportunities available to the working class. The data for this study were obtained from an analysis of the Ontario and Canadian WEA archives. The thesis first examines the history of the WEA and demonstrate its place in the history of adult education in Canada. Secondly, this study suggests that the WEA was the impetus for change in Canada, and in particular for Toronto's working class. The study found that the WEA used a form of critical pedagogy to achieve its goals which brought about social change. This study reinforces the usefulness of critical pedagogy as an approach for adult education when social change is an objective.

A unique data set is used to examine how different practices associated with high performance work systems in the steel industry affect the job satisfaction of workers. While the effect of these practices on organizational performance is widely studied, few have examined their effects on workers. Their analysis in this paper is based on data from a sample of 1,355 hourly workers in the US steel industry across 13 plants. The results indicate that the effect of high performance practices on job satisfaction depends primarily on how work roles and job duties are defined, on good employee-management relations and on practices that help balance work and family responsibilities. These results show that those who are able to use their skills and knowledge on the job, those who report positive employee-management relations, and those who believe the company helps them balance work and family responsibilities have relatively high probabilities of being very satisfied with their jobs.

The article reviews the book, "Sixties Rock: Garage, Psychedelic, and Other Satisfactions," by Michael Hicks.

Ce texte questionne la thèse aujourd'hui dominante d'une tendance à la requalification du travail. Il resitue d'abord le débat théorique entre la thèse de la déqualification et celle de la requalification du travail en montrant comment toutes deux présentent le même problème à savoir une vision linéaire et uniforme de l'évolution des qualifications. Il démontre ensuite qu'actuellement, la question ne se pose plus tant en termes d'évolution qu'en termes de rupture par rapport au modèle taylorien/fordien d'organisation du travail et appelle donc un changement de paradigme. Sur cette base, l'auteure reprend des données d'études de cas effectuées sur une quinzaine d'années dans le secteur tertiaire pour se demander si se met en place un nouveau modèle de qualification/formation. Les données récentes permettent de voir un nouveau modèle en train d'émerger dans certains secteurs. Ce modèle met de l'avant une organisation basée sur la polyvalence des emplois faisant appel à de nouveaux savoirs et donnant une importance certaine à la formation. Pourtant, ce modèle n'est pas synonyme d'une requalification générale dans ces secteurs où se dessinent plutôt des mouvements opposés de déqualification/requalification qui s'appliquent différemment aux personnels en place. En conclusion, l'auteure appelle à sortir de l'entreprise pour analyser les restructurations actuelles du travail à la lumière des mutations tout aussi importantes du marché de l'emploi qui ont nom l'exclusion et la précarisation.

Dans ce texte, l'auteure se demande si les pratiques récentes des entreprises québécoises dans le domaine de la formation de la main-d’œuvre sont de nature à développer les compétences de cette même main-d’œuvre. Pour répondre à cette question, elle examine les innovations de formation des entreprises en se demandant si elles vont dans le sens d'une formation continue de la main-d’œuvre. L'examen porte d'abord sur la dynamique des innovations de formation au sein de l'entreprise, ensuite sur les liens qu'elles entretiennent avec l'organisation du travail, sur les relations qu'elles induisent entre l'école et l'entreprise et, finalement, sur l'inscription de ces formations dans le temps. Si l'auteure conclut à un changement significatif des pratiques de formation des entreprises, elle note pourtant que celles-ci sont encore trop axées sur les objectifs productivistes de l'entreprise et s'inscrivent trop peu souvent dans le sens d'une formation « continue » de la main-d’œuvre.

Finally, a book that documents the rich history of labour arts in Ontario. Making Our Mark presents over 100 projects, showcasing the vibrant banners, photos, plays and lyrics that form the heart and soul of the labour movement. Diverse examples spring from the Artist in the Workplace Program, the Mayworks Festivals, independent labour arts projects, and exhibitions organized the Ontario Workers Arts and Heritage Centre. Making Our Mark celebrates the songs of Arlene Mantle and Charlie Angus, photos by First Nations ironworkers, and dance performances by Tom Brouillette and the Boilermakers, to name a few.... Publisher's description

The article reviews the book, "The Workers' Revolt in Canada, 1917-1925," edited by Craig Heron.