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This article reviews the book, "Class and Reform: School and Society in Chicago 1880-1930," by David J. Hogans.

L'auteur évoque les principaux changements qu'ont connus les syndicats ouvriers au cours de leurs cent ans d'histoire, comment leurs objectifs, leurs structures, leurs membres et leurs méthodes d'action ont évolue au gré des périodes et de l'environnement social. Il s'interroge sur les caractéristiques actuelles du mouvement, sur le bien-fondé aujourd'hui des privilèges qui leur ont été accordés au cours des années et sur leur statut présent: sont-ils des organismes prives, publics ou semi-publics?

This article reviews the book, "Skilled Workers in the Class Sturcture," by Roger Penn.

This article reviews the book, "Steel at the Sault: Francis H. Clergue, Sir James Dunn, and the Algoma Steel Corporation, 1901-1956," by Duncan McDowall.

This article reviews the book, "Deliver Us from Evil: The Radical Underground in Britain, 1660-1663," by Richard L. Greaves.

This article reviews the book, "The Alternative Culture - Socialist Labor in Imperial Germany," by Vernon L. Lidtke.

This article reviews the book, "'We Were the Salt of the Earth!' A Narrative of the On-To-Ottawa Trek and the Regina Riot," by Victor Howard.

This article reviews the book, "Workers' Self Management in the United States," by Christopher Eaton Gunn.

This article reviews the book, "Family Life in Central Italy, 1880-1910: Sharecropping, Wage Labor and Coresidence," by David I. Kertzer.

L'industrialisation des régions périphériques du Canada est un processus encore mal connu. La venue de l'Alcan à Arvida, au Saguenay, constitue un bel exemple. A l'aide des dossiers du personnel, cet article décrit en premier lieu l'évolution de la structure des professions au complexe industriel de l'Alcan de ses débuts en 1925 jusqu'à 1940. Il montre ensuite la constitution d'un noyau de travailleurs stables à travers le roulement élevé de la main-d'oeuvre au cours des premières années; ce processus résulte à la fois des sélections opérées par l'employeur, des départs volontaires et de l'effet de la Crise. Parmi les travailleurs stables, qui forment le gros des effectifs pour l'ensemble de la période, on remarque un taux assez élevé de mobilité professionnelle au sein de l'entreprise.

This article reviews the book, "The Second Industrial Divide: Possibilities For Prosperity," by Michael J. Piore and Charles F. Sabel.

Reviewing existing police recruitment and selection policies across Canada, the author identifies systemic barriers faced by visible minorities in entering police forces and makes recommendations in order to increase the representation of such minority persons in Canadian police departments.

This article reviews the book, "Industrial Relations in a Decade of Economic Change," by H. Juris, Mark Thompson & W. Daniels

This article reviews the book, "Industry and Inequality: The Social Anthropology of Indian Labour," by Mark Halström.

"I will soon be in the dubious position of being the top labor man in all of Canada," Hal Chamberlain Banks wrote home in April 1949, "but let me tell you that I now know that uneasy lies the head that wears a crown." Hal Banks, an ex-convict and representative of the Searfarers' International Union of North America, was by nature a boastful man, but there was more than a little truth to what he wrote. Financed by the shipping companies and assisted by the federal government, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and the Canadian National Railways Police, Banks, along with a small army of SIU strongmen imported from the United States, had, in a matter of months, waged and won a violent battle against the long-established national Canadian Seaman's Union. With only a few companies outside the SIU's orbit, Banks controlled the collective bargaining rights of almost every seaman employed on the Canadian flag fleet and, with an iron fist, would do so for more than a decade. Eventually Banks's activities would be investigated by a commission of inquiry and, facing imprisonment, he would be forced to flee Canada in disgrace. In 1949 the situation was much different. ...How and why Banks and the SIU arrived in Canada is the first part of this story. --Author's preface

This article reviews the book, "Walking to Work: Tramps in America, 1790-1935," edited by Eric H. Monkkonen.

This article reviews the book, "The Craft Transformed: An Essay on the Carpenters of Halifax 1885-1985," by Ian Mackay.

Provides an overview of the current issue as the journal celebrates its 10th anniversary. Appreciation is expressed for the longstanding relationship the journal had with the printing service, which has drawn to a close. Papers presented emphasize the current state of labour and working-class history, including issues of gender and ethnicity. The editor gratefully acknowledges arrivals and departures of editorial board members. A research assistant has updated the journal's index. Memorial University of Newfoundland is thanked for its generous institutional support of the journal.

The article briefly reviews "The Structure of the Canadian Capitalist Class," by Robert J. Brym, "Democratic Socialism: The Challenge of the Eighties and Beyond," edited by Donna Wilson, "Old Passions, New Visions: Social Movements and Political Activism in Quebec," by Marc Raboy, "Frank H. Underhill; Intellectual Provocateur," by R. Douglas Francis, "Emerging Identities: Selected Problems and Interpretations in Canadian History," edited by Paul W. Bennett and Cornelius J. Jaenen, "Tobacco and Slaves: The Development of Southern Cultures in the Chesapeake, I680-1800," by Allan Kulikoff, "Will Herberg: A Bio-Bibliography," by Harry J. Ausmus, "Disorderly Conduct: Visions of Gender in Victorian America," by Carrol Smith-Rosenberg, "The Collected Essays of Asa Briggs, Volume 1: Words, Numbers, Places, People and Volume Two: Images, Problems, Standpoints, Forecasts," by Asa Briggs, "The Irish in the Victorian City," by Roger Swift and Sheridan Gilley, "British Economic Growth during the Industrial Revolution," by N.F.R. Crafts, "Language, Gentler and Childhood," edited by Carolyn Steedman, Cathy Urwin, and Valerie Walkerdine, "British Trade Unionism Against the Trades Union Congress," by Gerald A. Dorfman, "Artisans, Peasants, and Proletarians, 1760-1860: Essays Presented to Gwyn Williams," by Clive Emsley and James Walvin,"Labor Migration in the Atlantic Economies: The European and North American Working Classes During the Period of Industrialization," edited by Dirk Hoerder, "The Peculiarities of German History: Bourgeois Society and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Germany," by David Blackbourn and Geoff Eley, "The Development of Capitalism in Northern Nigeria," by Robert Shenton, "Capitalism and Social Democracy," by Adam Przeworski, "Outsiders: A Study in Life and Letters," by Hans Mayer / reviews by Bryan D. Palmer -- "Talkin' Union: Music Lore History," journal edited by Saul Schniderman, "Nature's Noblemen: The Fortunes of the independent Collier in Scotland and the American Midwest, 1855-1885," by John H.M. Laslett / reviews by Gregory S. Kealey.

This article reviews the book, "Women, History, and Theory," by Joan Kelly.