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The article reviews the book, "In Search of the Working Class: Essays in American Labor History and Political Culture," by Leon Fink.

The article reviews the book, "Reluctant Host: Canada's Response to Immigrant Workers, 1896-1994," by Donald H. Avery.

Cette étude a pour objectif la mise en relief des formes et caractéristiques que revêt la flexibilité — du travail principalement — du système productif de l'agglomération de Thessalonique, région connue pour son potentiel et la souplesse de ses structures de production et de travail. La première partie traite des concepts de flexibilité numérique et de flexibilité fonctionnelle dans le cadre de l'entreprise flexible, ainsi que des diverses interprétations qui en ont été faites. Nous utilisons ensuite ces concepts, dans la deuxième partie, pour étudier les caractéristiques de la flexibilité du système de production de l'agglomération de Thessalonique dans ses branches les plus dynamiques, à savoir l'habillement et le textile. L'enquête sur le terrain permet de préciser les traits distinctifs et de dégager la forme de flexibilité qui semble fonder le dynamisme de ce système productif.

The features and objectives of privatization in the UK are examined. The centrality of labor management and industrial relations objectives to the program are outlined, with particular attention to the capacity of privatization to reduce political influences on pay determination and to encourage labor-shedding improvements in efficiency. The paper than considers the available evidence of the effects of privatization on pay and employment. It is found that pay levels have registered above-average increases since privatization. The evidence on employment reductions is more mixed. It is argued that greater product and labor market competition are necessary if the predicted effects of privatization are to be fully realized.

A study reports the results of a cross-sectional mail survey sent to top officials of union and employer confederations in 21 industrialized market economies in Western Europe, North America, and Japan. The results regarding their assessment of the current labor relations situation in their own country show some significant differences related to employer vs. union side and by economic groupings. It is concluded that the relatively stable labor-management relationships during the 1960s and 1970s has apparently given way to greater divergence among the major industrial nations in recent years.

The article reviews the book, "Diagnosing Unemployment," by Edmond Malinvaud.

The article reviews the book, "Les Ouvriers, la Patrie et la Révolution Paris 1914-1919," by Jean-Louis Robert.

The article reviews the book, "Between Bargaining and Politics: An Introduction to European Labor Relations," by Hans Slomp.

The article reviews the book, "The Making of the Indian Working Class: The Case of the Tata Iron and Steel Company, 1880-1946," by Vinay Bahl.

The article reviews the book, "Women of the Commonwealth: Work, Family and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts," edited by Susan L. Porter.

The article reviews the book, "Ninety-Nine Days: The Ford Strike in Windsor, 1945," by Herb Colling.

Documents the horrific conditions at the quarantine station located on Grosse Île, a small island in the St. Lawrence River south of the port of Quebec City, during the Irish famine. In 1847-48, newly arrived Irish immigrants died by the thousands of malnutrition and typhus while under quarantine at Grosse Île. Mass graves were dug at the site for the victims, as had been done for the victims of the cholera epidemic of 1832. Discusses the political and economic plight of Ireland - in particular, the decisions of the governing British elite - that resulted in mass starvation and the exodus overseas. In 1996, the Canadian government recognized Grosse Île as an Irish memorial.

An examination of the impact of the fast food industry on work and family life. Ester Reiter worked full-time at a Burger King outlet for ten months gathering information for this study. In Making Fast Food she shares her experiences and analyses the profound effect the fast food industry has had on women's work, youth employment, the labour movement, the family, and the community. Family life, for example, has changed dramatically in the last forty years as many activities that were traditionally part of the home have been replaced by services available in the marketplace. The second edition includes an epilogue that brings the study up to date. Reiter examines the way the fast food model is being adopted in other areas, such as health, and explores unionization in fast food businesses. --Publisher's description. Artwork by Richard Slye. Contents: The market moves into the family and the family moves into the market -- The restaurant industry in Canada -- The fast food invasion -- Burger King: a case study -- Working in a Burger King outlet -- Modern times in the hamburger business -- Martialling workers' loyalty -- Is this the work situation of the future?

The article reviews the book, "On the Line at Subaru Isuzu: The Japanese Model and the American Worker," by Laurie Graham.

The article reviews the book, "Économie et société en Acadie, 1850-1950," by Jacques Paul Couturier and Phyllis E. Leblanc.

This thesis examines the Paid Education Leave (PEL) program of the Canadian Autoworkers Union (CAW), fomerly the Canadian Region of the United Autoworkers Union (UAW). This four-week program takes place at the CAW Family Education Centre in Port Elgin, Ontario and potentiatly provides 90% of the CAW's members with class-based, union-centred, labour education. Interviews conducted with key CAW sources uncover PEL's histoncal roots. A chronicle of the stniggle to establish PEL is detailed in relation to the International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention 140 on Paid Educational Leave. Thematic oral-history interviews were conducted with six CAW Local 222 members, al1 former participants of PEL. Interviews are used to illustrate a detailed description of the program's pedagogy and curriculum. Interview respondents were Generai Motors (GM) of Canada workers located in Oshawa, Ontario. Several policy and programmatic suggestions are made, including increased understanding of, and elevated respect for, informal learning.

The article reviews the book, "Globalization and the Decline of Social Reform," by Gary Teeple.

The article reviews the book, "California Red: A Life in the American Communist Party," Dorothy Ray Healy and Maurice Isserman.

The article reviews the book, "Nationalsozialistische Frauenpolitik vor 1933: Dokumentation," edited by Hans-Jurgen Arendt, Sabine Hering and Leonie Wagner.

This thesis examines the history of female immigrant domestic labour in Canada from a socialist feminist perspective. Over the past hundred years, Canadian immigration policy with respect to domestic workers became increasingly regressive with the shift in the racial composition of foreign female domestics. The women's movement contributed to this change as gains in Canadian women's public rights did not effectively challenge the dominant social paradigm of women's roles, and so left intact the public-private divide and the sexual division of labour to which were allied biases of race and class. The women's movement thus became an unwitting participant in the formulation of regressive immigration policies which rebounded on the women's movement itself, reinforcing its internal divisions.