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The article reviews the book, "La confiance : approches économiques et sociologiques," edited by Christian Thuderoz, Vincent Mangematin and Denis Harrisson.

The article reviews the book, "The Human Face of Industrial Conflict in Post-War Japan," edited by Hirosuke Kawanishi.

The article reviews the book, "Striking Steel: Solidarity Remembered," by Jack Metzgar.

This essay explores the current state of the field of Industrial Relations. The first part of the essay traces the emergence of IR out of the general concern with the 'labour question" to form a distinct field of study and research in the Angio-American countries. The second part argues that the field has been plagued by a profound crisis of relevance in the 1980s and 1990s, registered by a decline in its importance within universities, a shrinking of its academic associations, a loss of interest on the part of its traditional audience, increased isolation from other disciplines, and a theoretical incapacity to come to grips with the sweeping changes that have occurred in labour markets, the workplace, and the wider political economy. This situation is leading to a redefinition of the field as "Employment Relations." In the third part of the essay, this drift towards Employment Relations is criticized for moving the field more squarely into the area of managerial science, for leaving it incapable of analyzing future waves of collective mobilization, and for its continued adherence to a geographically and historically constricted conceptual foundation. A better strategy, it is suggested, would be to go beyond employment by reconceptualizing the field in terms of "work relations."

An analysis of theories and practices of diversity management, as illustrated in the case of the Netherlands, shows that they are too narrowly focused on redressing imbalances experienced by ethnic minorities and bridging cultural differences between majorities and ethnic minorities in the workplace. Agencies in the field of diversity management have fallen back on a limited and standardized stock of methods that ignore the specificity of organizational dynamics and largely operate in isolation from existing equity policies. The influence of diversity management has thus remained quite superficial. A contextual approach would broaden both the body of thought and the repertory of methods of diversity management, and strengthen its political and social relations. Such an approach would respond to its most challenging tasks; fostering social justice, enhancing productivity, and breaking the circle that equates cultural difference with social inequality.

The article reviews the book, "Eating for Victory: Food Rationing and the Politics of Domesticity," by Amy Bentley.

The article reviews the book, "Franchir le mur des conflits," by David S. Weiss, translated by Jean Boivin.

The article reviews the book, "Contracting Masculinity: Gender, Class, and Race in a White-Collar Union, 1944-1994," by Gillian Creese.

The author reflects on the impact of Debouzy on his own work in movement history and offers observations on the shifting terrain of social history. this includes increased emphasis on race, gender, and cultural identities as well as efforts to reach a wider audience.

The article examines the evolution of Quebec's three major trade union federations--the Federation des travailleurs et travilleuses du Québec, the Centrale des syndicats nationaux, and the Centrale des syndicats du Québec--on the question of Quebec sovereignty since 1960. In the course of the four decades since the emergence of the modem sovereignty movement, the three federations adopted increasingly sympathetic attitudes and eventually became stalwarts of the sovereignty coalition. In the process Quebec labour activists shed their fears about the economic repercussions of sovereignty and espoused the notion of a sovereign nation-state, mainly because they came to see it as a way to implement social-democratic and labour-oriented policies.

Analyzes the anti-labour stance of the Vancouver Sun and how this affected the newspaper's coverage of business and labour issues. The bias became especially pronounced after Hollinger (Conrad Black) assumed ownership. The article is an excerpt from a larger report by Newswatch Canada that also discussed the Sun's coverage of provincial elections and the poor.

The article reviews the book, "Ravenswood: The Steelworkers' Victory and the Revival of American Labor," by Tom Juravich and Kate Bronfenbrenner.

The author reflects on his involvement with the Ontario Workers Arts and Heritage Centre in Hamilton, Ontario. Discusses historians' efforts to reach a wider audience, the use of artifacts and primary sources, and the competing arenas of historical interpretation. Concludes that working people could be involved with planning, development and organization of a presentation, and that presentations should be, at least to some extent, empowering.

The article reviews the book, "Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porter," by Melinda Chateauvert.

Discusses French, German and American approaches to writing social history, and why the author, a German, found a home in the French tradition of Marianne Debouzy, whom he also came to know. Illustrates how small stories can illuminate the bigger historical picture.

During most of their history, Canadian universities, institutions staffed by and serving largely middle class people, have not been hospitable to organized labour or the political left. Professors who expressed support for such causes generally found that doing so often strained the limits of academic freedom as it was understood by governing boards, administrators, a good many academics, and many people outside the institutions. If the situation has improved during the last three decades, one reason is that faculty unions have become commonplace. More important, however, may be that the outside world has come to pay less attention to what professors say, on almost any subject, than used to be the case.

The article reviews the book, "Mixed Methodology: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches," by Abbas Tashakkori and Charles Teddlie.

Examines the US courts' interventions in the labour arena including in the Detroit newspapers' dispute and investigations of the Teamsters' alleged corruption that overturned the election of a reform candidate. Argues that the anti-corruption crusade is a smokescreen for a global order controlled by big business.

Introduces the symposium held in Paris on 6-7 November 1998 in honour of social historian Marianne Debouzy (1929-2021), who was a member of Labour/Le Travail's international advisory board, on the occasion of her retirement. Summarizes the six papers chosen for publication in the issue.

The judicial and political failure of Prime Minister R. B. Bennet's New Deal legislation during the mid-1930's shifted the struggle to reconstitute capitalism to the provincial and municipal levels of the state. Attempts to deal with the dislocations of the Great Depression in Ontario focused on the "sweatshop crisis" that came to dominate political and social discourse after 1934. Ontario's 1935 Industrial Standards Act (ISA) was designed to bring workers and employers together under the auspices of the state to establish minimum wages and work standards. The establishment of New Deal style industrial codes was premised on the mobilization of organized capital and organized labor to combat unfair competition, stop the spread of relief-subsidized labor, and halt the predations of sweatshop capitalism. Although the ISA did not bring about extensive economic regulation, it excited considerable interest in the possibility of government intervention. Workers in a diverse range of occupations, from asbestos workers to waitresses, attempted to organize around the possibility of the ISA. The importance of the ISA lies in what it reveals about the nature of welfare, wage labor, the union movement, competitive capitalism, business attitudes toward industrial regulation, and the role of the state in managing the collective affairs of capitalism. The history of the ISA also suggests that "regulatory unionism," as described by Colin Gordon in his work on the American New Deal, may have animated key developments in Canadian social, economic, and labor history.