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The article reviews the book, "The Labour Party: A Marxist History," by Tony Cliff and Donny Gluckstein.

The article reviews the book, "Sexes et militantisme," by Anne-Marie Gingras, Chantal Maillé, and Evelyne Tardy.

Plusieurs recherches déjà publiées concluent au haut degré de satisfaction au travail des salariés vieillissants. La préoccupation principale est alors la relation entre l'âge et la satisfaction au travail. Le présent article tente d'ajouter à notre compréhension de la transformation de la relation au travail à mesure que le salarié vieillit en considérant simultanément l'âge professionnel, l'âge physiologique et l'âge légal.

Profiles the life and work of Richard Ernest (Lefty) Morgan (1914-1987)—radical political activist, railway engineer, trade unionist, editor, and independent scholar. In the 1930s, he spent time in the BC relief camps for the unemployed and was clubbed by police at the Battle of Ballantyne Pier during the Vancouver Longshoremen's Strike of 1935. An admirer of the Wobblies, he wrote and edited on capitalism, the labour process, and railway operations, with an eye toward work place democracy and workers' control. A longtime member of the Stanley Park Club, Morgan was a member of the Labour Party of Canada (1958-60), then joined the CCF in 1962 and attended the NDP's founding convention, only to become disillusioned. Although a strong trade union activist, he nevertheless believed that unions were subverted by negotiations and capitalist economic requirements. Concludes that Morgan was fundamentally a democrat who believed that individual freedom and democratic decision-making, whether in the work place or elsewhere, were essential to social peace and economic well-being.

The article reviews the book, "Joint Management And Employee Participation," by Neal Herrick.

The article reviews the book, "Labor-Management Cooperation, New Partnerships or Going in Circles?," by William N. Cooke.

The article reviews two books:"The Fragile Bridge: Paterson Silk Strike 1913," by Steve Golin, and "A Tale of Three Cities: Labor Organization and Protest in Paterson, Passaic, and Lawrence 1916-1921," by David J. Goldberg.

The article reviews the book, "New Forms of Work Organization: The Challenge for North American Unions," by James Rinehart.

The article reviews the book, "Joe Zuken: Citizen and Socialist," by Doug Smith.

The article reviews the book, "Nascent Proletarians: Class Formation in Post-Revolutionary France," by Michael Hanagan.

The article reviews the book, "Organized Labor At The Crossroads," by Wei-Chiao Huang.

Alberta, Canada, has shown a decline in unionization levels over the past few years. Part of this decline can be attributed to environmental developments in the 1980s that combined to increase hostility to unions. Philosophically, unions accepted a limited role in Albertan society and tried to rely on collective bargaining to advance their members' interests. In practice, unions attempted to realize their philosophy by following an action orientation emphasizing immediate economic interest (real wage increases and job security) in collective negotiations. Union decline is the result of an inconsistency between unions' adversarial view and their inability to realize the economic objectives that this view promotes. An attempt is made to test whether an inconsistency exists between unions' view of industrial relations and their effectiveness in securing real wage gains.

The article reviews the book, "Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915-1932," by Joe William Trotter, Jr.

The article reviews the several books including "Our Own Time: A History of American Labor and the Working Day," by David R. Roediger and Philip S. Foner, "A Quest For Time: The Reduction of Work in Britain and France 1840-1940," by Gary Cross and "Worktime and Industrialization: An International History," edited by Gary Cross.

The article reviews the book, "L'Histoire de la FTQ. Des tout débuts jusqu'en 1965," by Émile Boudreau and Léo Roback.

Cette étude vérifie la perception que les Canadiens se font du syndicalisme depuis la Deuxième Guerre mondiale grâce à l'analyse d'un très grand nombre de sondages effectués par plusieurs firmes. Les sondages de Gallup Canada se sont révélés particulièrement riches d'informations car cette firme interroge les Canadiens depuis 1941 et répète certaines questions depuis plusieurs décennies. Cette continuité permet de retrouver les grandes tendances de l'opinion publique au Canada.

Patriarchal domination is now, correctly, viewed as a major feature of social organization in pre-capitalist and non-capitalist societies. In capitalist market societies, it has been related to the operant division of labour, the separation of domestic from waged work and the implications that this has for both spheres of activity. Various theoretical approaches have been developed to account for structured gender inequality in the face of supposed labour market impartiality. By examining an explicit case of gender bias, the use of minimum wage laws to regulate the conditions of women workers, the paper offers an evaluation of these approaches, while at the same time bringing the state and relevant political issues back into the analysis of gender.

The history of labour at the Trenton Steel Works of the Nova Scotia Steel and Coal Company [Scotia] is explored in the context of dependent development from circa 1900 to 1943. The local owners and managers of Scotia sought profits by aligning themselves with foreign capital and by manufacturing semi-manufactured steel and staples for export. The investment outlook was short-term, few attempts were made to diversity production, and the steel facilities were left to deteriorate already before the contraction of regional and national markets in the 1920s. Before the post-World War I depression, workers at Scotia responded to corporate industrial strategy by resorting to industrial unionism, whose success was aided by a scarcity of labour and the possibility of moving away or moving into small commodity or subsistence production locally. With the post-World War I depression, capital and the state consolidated the Trenton steel works as a technologically obsolescent plant dependent on low-wage, seasonal and part-time labour, The corporate parents, in light of state concessions and favour, could not, however, close the Trenton Works for political reasons. Labour and community interests lobbied hard for industry retention and settled into a work pattern which was aimed at coping with industrial neglect and disinvestment. The combination of technological obsolescence, low-wage and seasonal labour was threatened with the formation of a union at the steel works in 1937 and the support of the federal state during the war in levelling wages of Scotia workers with steel workers elsewhere. The labour scarcity during the war provided the political precondition for closure of the rolling mills and nut and bolt plant, the wage increases awarded by the Federal Labour Board served as an excuse while the cause, a conscious corporate strategy of industrial neglect and winding down, was left unchallenged.

The article reviews the books, "Does Training Work for Displaced Workers? A Survey of Existing Evidence," by Duane E. Leigh and "Back to Work: Testing Reemployment Services for Displaced Workers," by Howard S. Bloom.