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Cette analyse du contenu de /'Accord nord-américain de coopération dans le domaine du travail (ANACT), compte tenu de l'expérience résultant de ses cinq années d'application, cherche à en cerner la nature véritable, malgré une certaine dose d'ambiguïté qui lui est inhérente. A-t-il pour objet de protéger le commerce trinational ou le travail ? Dans quelle mesure s'impose-t-il aux trois droits nationaux en cause ? S'agit-il d'un objectif d'effectivité ou de progression de ces normes nationales du travail ? Enfin, pour ce qui est de la mise en œuvre de l'Accord, l'approche en est-elle une de coopération ou de confrontation ?

The article reviews the book, "Gestion des ressources humaines : typologies et comparaisons internationales," by Diane-Gabielle Tremblay and David Rolland.

The article reviews the book, "Sociologie du travail et gestion du personnel," by Michael De Coster, Michel, with the collaboration of d'Annie Cornet and Christine Delhaye,

The article reviews the book, "A New South Rebellion: The Battle against Convict Labor in the Tennessee Coalfields, 1871-1896," by Karin A. Shapiro.

Examines the racist Workingmen's Protective Association of Victoria, British Columbia, which in 1879 petitioned the federal government to sanction Chinese labour. Explores the international, national and local contexts that gave impetus to the WPA, the interconnected elements of race, status, gender, and class that comprised it, and the WPA's animus toward capitalist employers who hired imported Chinese workers. Concludes that although the WPA was short-lived, the resentment that fuelled it continued to grow in Western Canada, resulting in such notorious measures as the Chinese head tax of 1885 and the Chinese Immigration Act of 1923.

The article reviews the book, "Keeping the Dream Alive: The Survival of the Ontario CCF/NDP, 1950-1963," by Dan Azoulay.

The article reviews the book, "The Management of Labour: A History of Australian Employers," by Christopher Wright.

The article reviews the book, "Trois Usines Mexicaines," by Jean Gérin-Lajoie.

In industrialized economies, unemployment rates are inversely related to education levels. Data from 1963 to 1994 show that Israel is an anomaly exhibiting an inverted U-shaped relationship. Workers with 9-12 years of schooling consistently experienced a higher level of unemployment than the schooling groups with less and more education. Multivariate regression analysis of data for Israel during the 1976-1994 period indicates that this inverted U-shaped relationship is moderating. The national unemployment rate and a time trend variable had positive and significant effects tending to strengthen the inverted U-shaped relationship. However, an increase in the unemployment rate within the 0-8 education group relative to the 9-12 group and a decline in the labor force participation rate of the 0-8 group overrode these factors, resulting in a flattening of the inverse relationship. The major factor responsible for the anomaly in the education-unemployment relationship in Israel appears to be government policies intended to protect low-educated immigrants with large families. A reduction in government support over recent years seems to have increased the exposure of the least educated to labor market forces.

The article reviews the book, "Les marginaux, les exclus et l 'Autre au Canada aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles," edited by André Lachance.

Wilson introduces "Something From Canada" by Augusti Bernhard Mäkelä, the Finnish Marxist journalist and publicist. Originally published in 1913, Mäkelä's article bluntly condemns the capitalist exploitation of BC workers (including immigrant labour) and the pillaging of BC's resources. Mäkelä arrived in Canada from Finland in 1901 when he was nearly 40. Apart from a sojourn in Finland from 1907-10, he lived in the Finnish communal settlement of Sointula on Malcolm Island, British Columbia, until his death in 1932.

The article reviews the book, "Raising Baby by the Book: The Education of American Mothers." by Julia Grant.

The article reviews the book, "The Canadian Auto Workers: The Birth and Transformation of a Union," by Sam Gindin.

[Links] the development of union training initiatives and their relationship to state labor market policy to an emerging literature on trade unions in industrial geography. In particular, I examine labor's involvement in state policy in Canada and consider the impact it has had on the direction of these initiatives at the federal, provincial, and sectoral levels, with particular reference to the Canadian Labor Force Development Board (CLFDB), the Ontario Training and Adjustment Board (OTAB), and sectoral training initiatives by the Canadian Auto Workers and the United Steel Workers of America. Researchers in geography and industrial relations have linked post-Fordism to an enhancement of local union strategies and have suggested that one possible configuration of skill development under an emerging Schumpeterian Workfare State would include labor as an important stakeholder-especially at the regional level in a high­ skill/high-wage virtuous circle of development. However, in Canada labor has been organized historically on a largely local level and has been relatively weak in the formulation of state policy, nationally and provincially. If anything, labor has sought to overcome the legacy of localism. Although unions differ in central-local relations, overall they have fought for effective national, provincial, and sectoral representation in these initiatives. Labor has been able to achieve some input into this process, but the success or failure of these programs reflects more on national, provincial, and sectoral institutions, in particular the structure of capital, than on local factors or strategies by labor.

Most people knew [Glen] as an active and seemingly tireless trade union leader, rather than as a historian, but it was his sense of history that shaped his activities. Almost from day one, when he joined the staff of the University of Saskatchewan and became a member of the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 1975, he was active in union affairs. As his local's grievance chairperson for almost 20 years, he handled over 1,200 grievances. He was later elected president of the local, a position he held for 11 years until his death. He also served -- simultaneously -- as one of CUPE's vice- presidents on the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour (six years), as president of the 22,000-member CUPE Saskatchewan (five years) and on CUPE's National Executive Board in two different positions for the last six years. Glen believed there was more to unions than just collective bargaining and handling grievances. He was a strong proponent of social unionism, of working in solidarity with coalitions of community, anti-poverty, and social action groups. As National CUPE president Judy Darcy noted: "Glen was a trade unionist and a socialist in the true sense of both words. There was no problem too big or too small for Glen -- from defending a member's grievance to fighting for social and economic justice for workers in Canada and around the world." For Glen, the most important people at his funeral would have been his family, as well as the hundreds of working men and women who came to show their love and respect for him. Nonetheless, everyone was pleased to see three Saskatchewan cabinet ministers among the mourners. Each of them had been on the receiving end of Glen's blunt and frequent criticism of some of their government's policies. Despite that, they were there out of respect for his integrity and commitment to working people.

Daniel O'Donoghue was a printer, leader in many early labour organizations, founding member of the Canadian Labour Union, an MPP, and as the first Dominion fair-wages officer, a federal civil servant. ...He promoted a largely American model of labour politics. Based on the notion that labour's goals would best be achieved through established political parties rather than independently, his moderating influence still prevails. --Introduction

English/French abstracts of articles published in the issue.

English/French abstracts of articles in the Fall 1998 issue.

Fund-raising appeal by the Association of Veterans and Friends of the MacKenzie-Papineau Battalion, in co-operation with the British Columbia Federation of Labour and the provincial government, in order to erect a monument to the BC veterans of the Mac-Paps and the International Brigades.