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The article reviews the book, "Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957," by Penny M. Von Eschen.
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The article reviews the book, "What Do We Need a Union For? The TWUA in the South, 1945-1955," by Timothy J. Minchin.
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The article reviews the book, "Major Douglas and Alberta Social Credit," by Bob Hesketh.
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In this paper I challenge the prevailing theoretical framework [of study in industrial relations] that marginalizes women by examining how unpaid work on and off the job is and is not analyzed in the literature and by demonstrating its importance to issues as central to the discipline as wages, job allocation, and industrial conflict. In the section entitled, "Unpaid Work on the Job," I argue that the concept of the "effort bargain"— how unpaid work is currently studied in industrial relations — obscures pay discrimination against women because it is more likely to implicitly recognize as work the tasks associated with jobs traditionally performed by men than many of the tasks associated with jobs performed by women. Under the heading, "Unpaid Work in the Household," I argue that unpaid work in the home determines, in part, how paid work is allocated and, in particular, how the social construction of women as non-workers/wives and mothers by researchers naturalizes women's place in the secondary labour market and reifies men's access to "breadwinner jobs." Finally, I conclude by arguing that incorporating unpaid work into the study of industrial relations is necessary to move women from the margins to the centre of discourse. --From author's introduction
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The article reviews the book, "Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff: An Organized Guide to Films about Labor," by Tom Zaniello.
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Workplace change in 2 subsidiaries of a multinational pharmaceutical corporation is examined. One affiliate is located in the UK, the other in South Africa. It is shown how variations in subsidiary relations with corporate headquarters reflect differences in the strategic power and resources of subsidiaries, as well as differences of a local nature. These differences are reflected in variations in the scope, pace, and content of workplace change.
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Interrogates the currents of scholarly inquiry into the Italian emigration of the 19th and 20th centuries. Argues for a woman-centred, gendered, and proletarian history of this diaspora, and suggests new areas of investigation.
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Cet article propose une conceptualisation de l’action syndicale à l’échelle des milieux de travail illustrée par le cas québécois.La construction du concept de logique représentative permet de cerner les fondements de l’action syndicale. Des résultatsd’enquêtes de terrain, menées principalement dans le secteur manufacturier, sont utilisés pour décrire les changements à l’oeuvredans le champ des relations du travail. La description des conséquences de ces changements et l’analyse subséquente conduisentà proposer que la logique représentative traditionnelle des syndicats est ébranlée et qu’à terme, c’est le sens de l’actionsyndicale qui en est altéré.
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C'est un portrait contrasté qu'il faut faire de l'année syndicale 1995-1996. D'une part, les organisations syndicales ont été extrêmement présentes dans la vie politique québécoise, à leur initiative mais aussi en raison du statut privilégié qu'on leur confère dans les pratiques gouvernementales (québécoises) de consultation. D'autre part, si l'on considère la mission première des organisations syndicales, qui est de défendre les conditions de travail de ses membres et plus généralement des salariés, on constate que l'année écoulée a été marquée par la «défensivité». Hors quelques coups d'éclat, le syndicalisme québécois n'a guère réussi à renverser les tendances à la rationalisation et donc aux baisses d'effectifs salariés. Qu'il s'agisse du secteur public ou du secteur privé, les syndicats sont loin d'être les meneurs de jeu. --Introduction
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The article reviews the book, "Management de la flexibilité," by Christophe Everaere.
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The article reviews the book, "Angels of the Workplace: Women and the Construction of Gender Relations in the Canadian Clothing Industry, 1890-1940," by Mercedes Steedman.
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Ce livre amorce une réflexion sur la mobilité des travailleurs miniers du Nord en exploitant une variété de sources, parmi lesquelles figurent les archives des sociétés mineurs qui composent le matérial le plus riche de l'ouvrage. Non seulement la mobilité géographique des travailleurs y est examiné, mais aussi leur mobilité interne. En fait, les mines ont aussi une lieu d'apprentissage pour une minorité des travailleurs et non uniquement une lieu de confrontation, comme les historiens ont l'habitude de la faire. Un des thèmes marquants de l'étude demeure le fait que les politiques d'embauche des entreprises ont fortement influencé la composition ethnique de la force de travail, et conséquemment, celle de la population de nord ontarien et québécois. --Quatrième de couverture
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The article reviews the book, "Just Another Car Factory ? Lean Production and its Discontents," by James Rinehart, Christopher Huxley and David Roberts.
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The article reviews the book, "After Marxism," by Ronald Aronson.
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The article reviews the book, "'We Are All Leaders': The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930's," edited by Staughton Lynd.
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This paper adopts a critical sociological approach to analyze how labor law shaped a 23-day strike at a western Canadian university in the fall of 1995. A chronology of the strike is provided, followed by a brief analysis of how both economic and sociological models contribute to understanding the rationale of the strike. The implications of specific labor laws for this rationale are discussed, with an extension of the critical legal studies tradition by an establishment of how legal biases against unions shape strike activity.
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The article reviews the book, "Hard Bargain: Transforming Public Sector Labour-Management Relations," by Peter Warrian.
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Analyzes the 1997 film, "Good Will Hunting," as a romantic comedy that foregrounds character-in-spiritual-at the expense of any serious consideration of class or the individual's position within the social. The author also discusses the film's reception, including by her students.
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The article reviews the book, "San'ya Blues: Laboring Life in Contemporary Tokyo," by Edward Fowler.
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