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The article reviews the book, "Nationalism and the International Labor Movement: The Idea of the Nation in Socialist and Anarchist Theory," by Michael Forman.

The article reviews the book, "Strikes and Solidarity: Coalfield Conflict in Britain 1889-1966," by Roy A. Church and Quentin Outram.

The article reviews the book, "Caught in the Middle: Contradictions in the Lives of Sociologists from Working-Class Backgrounds," by Michael D. Grimes and Joan M. Morris.

L'apparition récente, dans le paysage institutionnel français, d'accords d'entreprise sur l'emploi conduit l'analyste à s'interroger sur la nature du processus aboutissant à de tels compromis sociaux (s'agit-il d'un processus d'échange ?), sur les produits de cette activité (comment caractériser ce type d'accords collectifs ? Où réside la novation ?) et, enfin, sur le sens de ces compromis (en termes de légitimité comme en termes d'action collective pour l'emploi). En mobilisant une sociologie attentive aux processus, cet article explore cette nouvelle dynamique de négociation. On s'attachera à la comprendre comme une forme étendue de régulation conjointe, érigeant l'entreprise comme espace pertinent d'expérimentation de nouvelles pratiques contractuelles et dans laquelle le jeu et les arrangements des acteurs locaux occupent une place centrale.

A study identifying behaviors and perceptions of the individuals involved that affect grievance resolutions is presented. Based on conflict research, the study proposes that cooperative goals promote the direct, open-minded consideration of opposing views which leads to quality solutions efficiently developed. Management and union representatives in 2 large Western Canadian forest product companies were interviewed about grievances they had handled that were and were not settled within their committee. They first described in detail a recent, significant grievance and then answered specific questions to code the incident. Structural-equation results and the analysis of the qualitative data suggest that cooperative goals induce the open-minded discussion of diverse views, which in turn results in high-quality, integrative solutions. However, with competitive goals, managers and employees interacted close-mindedly and were unable to agree upon integrative solutions efficiently. If replicated, the framework developed can help structure interdependence and guide skill training in grievance handling.

The article reviews the book, "Pensions and Productivity," by Stuart Dorsey, Christopher Cornwell and David Macpherson.

Medical laboratory technology is the third largest health profession in Canada. Yet, these workers are largely invisible, both to the public and historiographically. Even recent studies of laboratory medicine make only fleeting reference to workers at the bench. This study examines the origins of the laboratory workforce at the Pathological Institute in Halifax in particular, and the Maritime provinces more generally. It utilizes hospital, university and archival records to demonstrate how this workforce was created as part of a "health care team" and the implications this had for the workers themselves. As Canadian hospitals grew in number and bed capacity over the opening decades of the twentieth century, they also grew in complexity. Hospitals added new services, including departments such as dietetics, x-ray and expanded laboratory facilities. As these services matured, the routine work passed from physicians working alone to specially trained workers. Yet, this process was not uniform and remained remarkably incomplete. In the first half of the twentieth century, laboratory workers did not share a common education, training experience, or labour process. Hospital workers in the Maritimes and elsewhere did not necessarily perform discrete tasks and many, notably nurses, assumed duties in the laboratory. The workers themselves had diverse educations and work experiences. Well into the 1950s, the "laboratory worker" was a diffuse concept. The demands of patients and physicians for enhanced services, the constraints of budgets, recruitment and retention problems, and the interests and desires of workers themselves combined to shape laboratory work. Viewed from the laboratory, the story of the twentieth century Canadian hospital is not one of ever-expanding specialization, but rather a complex milieu where the social relations of skill and gender found bold articulation.

Le droit du travail s'est développé dans le cadre de rapports sociaux de travail homogènes, constitués d'emplois stables, réguliers et continus, occupés par des salariés travaillant à temps plein, exécutant leur travail pour un seul employeur, sous son contrôle et sur les lieux mêmes de l'entreprise. Plusieurs des formes particulières d'emploi qui se développent sur le marché du travail ne correspondent cependant plus à cette image classique: travail autonome, travail à domicile, à temps partiel, à durée déterminée, occasionnel ou sur appel, relation tripartite de travail. Les moyens mis en œuvre en droit du travail pour assurer la protection des travailleurs sont-ils appropriés pour régir efficacement ces nouveaux statuts de travail ? Ce texte examine comment le droit du travail québécois traite des nouveaux statuts d'emploi et propose des pistes de réflexion pour adapter le droit du travail à ces caractéristiques nouvelles du marché du travail.

The article reviews the book, "Expanding Class: Power and Everyday Politics in Industrial Communities: The Netherlands, 1850-1950," by Don Kalb.

The article reviews the book, "Au-delà de l'emploi - Transformations du travail et devenir du droit du travail en Europe," edited by Alain Supiot.

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.