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The article reviews the book, "ISO 9000 : une force de management," by Branimir Todorov.

The article reviews the book, "Les secrets de la préparation financière à la retraite," by Louis Ascah.

The article reviews the book, "Lawyers Against Labor: From Individual Rights to Corporate Liberalism," by Daniel R. Ernst.

The article reviews the book, "Arvida au Saguenay: Naissance d'une ville industrielle," by José Igartua.

A study consists of absenteeism measures for a group of prison guards who switched from an 8-hour work day to a 12-hour day compressed workweek (CWW) schedule with absenteeism measures for one year prior to the onset of the schedule and 2 years on the new schedule. Absenteeism data were compared between the CWW group and a comparison group of regular schedule guards and between the pre-CWW and CWW periods. Absenteeism levels were higher for the CWW group compared to the comparison group, and were higher over the CWW period when compared to the pre-CWW period. In the best specified models, those guards on the CWW had higher absenteeism than the comparison group, though the latter difference was not statistically significant.

In August 1964, the souther Ontario local 523 of the United Electrical and Radio Machine Workers led some 450 female auto-parts workers onto the picket-line. A year later, the same union local led over 1,200 male steelworkers in a strike against the Steel Company of Canada. In both cases, Italian immigrants joined with their non-Italian co-workers in a show of class solidarity. Italian men framed their decision to strike in terms of a manly duty as the family's decision maker and breadwinner; Italian women assumed the role of aggressive labour militant with relative equanimity, while the more outwardly militant Italian men expressed considerable personal uncertainty and fear even while they engaged in a public display of cross-ethnic class solidary. The paper explores how gender, class and ethnicity interact to influence the dynamics of labour militancy in the two strikes, though it also gives due consideration to the structural factors that helped to determine the outcome of both strikes.

The article reviews the book, "L'État, l'autonomie collective et le travailleur - Étude comparée du droit italien et du droit français de la représentativité syndicale," by Stamatina Yannakourou.

The article reviews the book, "Competitive Advantage Through People: Unleashing the Power of the Work Force," by Jeffrey Pfeffer.

The article reviews the book, "Sociologie de l'entreprise et de l'innovation," by Norbert Alter.

Based on responses from 752 unionized organizations in Canada, a study examines the association between the quality of labor-management relations and a number of organizations outcomes. The average relationship between an employer and its major bargaining unit was moderately cooperative, with 28% of respondents reporting adversarial relations and 5% indicating a highly cooperative relationship. Results from ordered probit estimation indicated that more favorable organizational outcomes (as measured by management perceptions) were generally associated with a more cooperative relationship between union and management.

The article reviews the book, "L'État des relations professionnelles : traditions et perspectives de la recherche," edited by Gregor Murray, Marie-Laure Morin and Isabel Da Costa.

The article reviews and comments extensivley on the books "Capitalism Comes to the Backcountry: The Goodyear Invasion of Napanee," by Bryan Palmer and "Working at Inglis: The Life and Death of Canadian Factory," David Sobel and Susan Meurer.

Discusses the federal Liberals' majority win under Jean Chrétien and its implications for the other political parties.

Empirical studies of union membership usually group all professionals together in one occupational category. A current study uses a simultaneous equations approach to analyze the union or collective bargaining association membership status of a sample of 9,417 employed Canadian professionals and managers from 16 different occupational groups. The results support the hypothesis that there are significant differences among professions in the probability of their members being in unions or collective bargaining associations. The relative differences are explicable in terms of the characteristics of the professions concerned.

The article reviews the book, "Team Toyota: Transplanting the Toyota Culture to the Camry Plant in Kentucky," by Terry L. Besser.

In 1924, the General Hospital at Kingston, Ontario, began a process of rationalisation, following Taylorist principles of scientific management. In concurrence with the restructuring of other N orth American hospitals, and with the advice given in professional literature, the Governors of K.G.H. secured the services of R.F. Armstrong, a civil engineer. His mandate was to facilitate the transformation of K.G.H. into an efficient, economical modem health institution which would attract not just indigent patients, but also upper-class, paying clients. Part I of this paper analyses the process by wrhich rationalisation was wreaked upon student nurses in the K.G.H. Nurse Training School, considering these women not primarily as students but as an unpaid labour force. I argue that administrators employed a combination of paternalism and scientific management in an attempt to conform student-wrorkers into an 'ideal nurse labourer', as defined by historically specific discourses of gender, class, and Canadian nation/race which converged in the image of the Nurse. Balancing this 'top-down' approach, Part II of the paper attempts to reconstruct student-workers' experiences of and responses to nursing training. Using nurses' cultural productions and oral interview's, I explore the concept of 'everyday resistance' in the contexts of the Nurses' Home and the hospital workshop, arguing that the continual supervision and surveillance endured by student-workers did not preclude successful attempts to wrrite their own script for their experience of nursing. To the contrary, nurses-in-training developed a culture of mutuality which provided them with the resources to resist and ameliorate the most repressive and totalising aspects of hospital labour and residence life. The result of this reconsideration of nursing training is an increased understanding of student nurse labourers as individuals with hopes and expectations of their own, rather than simply dutiful, obedient daughters in the hospital 'family' who accepted their subordination to the 'ethic of service'.

The article reviews the book, "On the March: Labour Rebellions in the British Caribbean, 1934-1939," by O. Nigel Bolland.

The article reviews the book, "Autowork," edited by Robert Asher and Ronald Edsforth.

Since the passage of the first anti-discrimination laws in North America, the number of groups of classes protected has slowly expanded to include the disabled. British Columbia is the only jurisdiction in Canada in which obesity per se has been found to be a covered disability. All other Canadian jurisdictions that have explicitly addressed the issue require claimants to prove that their obesity is a disabling condition and has an underlying involuntary medical cause. Despite the reticence of various human rights agencies, there is ample legal basis for including obesity as a covered disability under human rights law.

[E]xamines labour process developments within Canada and Australia during the later 19th and early 20th centuries. In contrast to traditional labour process studies, which have focused upon the development of sophisticated forms of managerial control within modern industry, this comparative analysis stresses the much simpler forms of labour control that existed within Canadian and Australian rural and urban workplaces. The paper explores the reasons underlying differences in labour process developments, and argues for the need to broaden labour process analysis in order to take account of spatial and geographic variations in working life.