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Teachers' aspirations to professionalism are manifested in a desire to control educational decision-making. This research investigates success in achieving control of decision-making under formal bargaining, as defined by The School Boards andTeachers' Collective Negotiations Act, compared to non-formal bargaining used prior to 1975.
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In 1983 and 1984 the Canadian Studies Program of the Secretary of State funded four lecture series at Canadian universities on the history of the Canadian working class. This volume presents many of the lectures in a published version. Ranging from east to west and covering two centuries of Canadian labour history, the volume includes a selection of essays by some of Canada's leading social historians including Michael Cross, David Frank, Ross McCormack, Bryan Palmer and Joy Parr. Outstanding participants in the making of Canadian labour history Eugene Forsey and H. Landon Ladd have also contributed. Directed at a popular audience these fourteen lectures provide a major survey of Canada's labour past. --Publisher's description
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This article reviews the book, "Les mises à pied et le travail à temps réduit dans quelques pays de l'OCDE," by Bernard Grais.
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This article reviews the book, "Sécurité sociale, chômage et retraite anticipée," by Association internationale de la sécurité sociale.
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This article reviews the book, "Radicalism and Freethought in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Life of Richard Carlile," by Joel H. Wiener.
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This article reviews the book, "Atlantic Canada and Confederation: Essays in Canadian Political Economy," by David G. Alexander.
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L’acte des manufactures de Quebec, 1885 : un centenaire.
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This article reviews the book, "L'Église d'ici et le social: 1940-1960," by Jacques Cousineau.
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This article reviews the book, "L'Histoire des femmes au Québec depuis quatre siècles," by Le Colleclif Clio (Micheline Dumont, Michele Jean, Marie Lavigne, and Jennifer Stoddart).
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This article reviews the book, "None Is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948," by Irving Abella and Harold Troper.
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This article reviews the book, "Mills, Mansion, and Mergers: The Life of William M. Wood," by Edward G. Roddy.
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The thesis addresses the problem of Arthur W. Puttee's 1918 breach with the Winnipeg Trades and Labor Council after twenty years of work within the labour move¡ent as a journalist and politician. The breach is accounted for through an exploration of the ideology that underlay his political decisions. Structured biographically, the thesis uses various primary sources, most notably Puttee's weekly newspaper, the Voice, and his speeches as a labour member of parliament, to trace a continuity in his beliefs from the beginning of his career in the 1890s to its end in 1918. The concept of "labourism", recently elaborated by Craig Heron to describe the ideology of Canadian craftsworkers who worked for independent political action by labour, is used to characterize Puttee's beliefs. The study reveals a central contradiction in Puttee's labourism. He challenged many aspects of the emerging system of monopoly capitalism and demanded for labour the right as producers of wealth to full democratic representation in government. He was opposed to monopoly, the crude exploitation of workers, and government by "special interests" rather than the "people". But Puttee had no systematic critique of capitalist social relations and believed that labour constituted only onè segment of a businessmen, and "fair" employers. He viewed the state as ideally the instrument for the will of the "people" and the defender of the "public'' interest. This contradiction in Puttee's beliefs became most apparent in the radicalized labour atmosphere of 1918, when, as a labour member of Winnipeg City Council, he opposed a general strike of unionized city workers in the name of the broader public interest he sought to represent broader community of producers that included farmers, small
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This article reviews the book, "Fellow Workers and Friends: IWW Free-Speech Fights as Told by Participants," by Philip S. Foner.
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The Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor was the most significant labor organization in nineteenth century North America. Part trade union, part social reform movement, the Knights organized hundreds of thousands of workers across the continent, and initiated countless major strikes, particularly during the 1880's. The Knights were the first major union to attempt to make unions accessible to a broad range of workers. At a time when most unions were the preserve of highly skilled, white, male workers, the Knights organized blacks, some immigrants and women. This thesis examines the relationship between women and the Knights of Labor in Ontario in the 1880's. The Knights organized women workers, and they also supported an impressive 'feminist' platform of social reform. They endorsed every major feminist demand in the nineteenth century, from suffrage to temperance to equal pay. In Canada, they campaigned successfully for the first sexual harassment legislation. This platform is particularly significant when set next to prevailing restrictive notions of femininity and 'true womanhood'. Yet the Knights were also a male dominated organization. While the 'space' they opened for working class women was important, it was not without its own set of limitations and restrictions. Within the context of contemporary debates about the intersections of class and gender, this thesis examines the contradictions and tension in the Order's feminist ideology.
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This article reviews the book, "Australian Unions : An Industrial Relations Perspectives," by B. Ford & D. Plowman.
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This article reviews the book, "Canadian Medicine : A Study in Restricted Entry," by Ronald Hamowy.
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This article reviews the book, "Le travail : quête de sens, quête d'emploi," by Gilles Dussault, Ethics Research Papers.
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This paper discusses the future of professional groups in terms of their capacity to retain their dominant position in the division of labour and their monopolistic privilèges in the production system. The sociological literature is briefly reviewed and then it is argued that recent changes within the professions as well as in the context in which they operate, may affect their capacity to retain their present privilèges.
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This paper develops a catastrophe model of union behaviour. It presents an explanation of the unexpected character of some work stoppages as well as for the breakdown of negotiations which appeared headed for resolution.
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This article reviews the book, "The Working Class in Weimar Germany: A Psychological and Sociological Study," by Erich Fromm.
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