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The article reviews the book, "A Dreamer's Paradise Lost: Louis C. Fraina/Lewis Corey (1892-1953) and the Decline of Radicalism in the United States," by Paul M. Buhle.

Les migrations des mouleurs originaires des Forges du Saint-Maurice doivent être situées dans un marché du travail continental segmenté par les développements sectoriel et géographique de l'industrie, et par l'évolution du syndicalisme. Le déclin du secteur des haut fourneaux et l'essor concomitant des fonderies urbaines, amènent ces ouvriers à Montréal et dans d'autres villes du Québec. Attirés par des conditions de travail suprérieures, les mouleurs se rapprochent aussi graduellement du centre géographique de l'industrie: c'est-à-dire les villes du sud de l'Ontario et du nord-est des États-Unis. La filière migratoire communautaire constitue un instrument important pour leurs déplacements. Mais plusieurs mouleurs adhèrent également à l'Union internationale des mouleurs, et utilisent la filière migratoire syndicale, afin de pénétrer la portion du marché du travail contrôlée par cette organisation. Ces types demouvements témoignent des contraintes, mais aussi de l'ingéniosité des ouvriers dans un contexte de transformations socioéconomiques importantes. // The migrations of the moulders coming from the St. Maurice Forges must be situated in a context of labour market segmentation under the dual pressure of the industry's growth and geographical expansion, and the development of unionism. Because of the blast furnaces decline and the concomitant blossoming of urban foundries, these workers went to Montréal and other Québec cities. They also gradually moved to the industry's geographical center, attracted by better working conditions: the cities of south Ontario and the north-east of the United States. The community migratory network was an important tool for their travels. But many moulders also joined the Iron Moulders International Union, and used the union's migratory network, to get into the section of the labour market under the organization's control. These types of movements reveal the constraints, but also the ingenuity of workers, in a context of important socio-economical transformations.

The article reviews the book,"The Clothes Off Our Back: A History of ACTWU 459," by Debra Lindsay.

The article reviews the book, "Producing Power: Ethnicity, Gender and Class in a Caribbean Workplace," by Kevin A. Yelvington.

The article reviews the book, "Les gestionnaires et la négociation," by David A. Lax and James K. Sebenius, édition française by Gilles Gauthier and Marie Thibault

The article reviews the book, "The Canadian Auto Workers: The Birth and Transformation of a Union," by Sam Gindin.

Chronicles the 26 collective agreements signed by unions with the International Nickel Company (Inco) in Sudbury from 1944 to 1997. Describes the strikes and production shutdowns of 1958, 1966, 1969, 1975, 1978 , 1982, and 1997. Also includes a list of mining fatalities from 1890 to 1997.

The article reviews the book, "The Making of Western Labor Radicals: Denver's Organized Workers, 1878-1905," by David Brundage.

Examines the effects of the sudden plant closings on the principle of freedom of association and the right of workers to organize in the US, Canada, and Mexico.

This article is based on Final Report: The Effects of Plant Closing or Threat of Plant Closing on the Right of Workers to Organize. The report was commissioned by the tri-national Labor Secretariat of the Commission for Labor Cooperation (the NAFTA labor commission) "on the effects of the sudden closing of the plant on the principle of freedom of association and the right of workers to organize in the three countries."

The article reviews the book, "Le Monde du Travail au Québec: Bibliographie = The World of Labour in Quebec: Bibliography," by James Douglas Thwaites and André Leblanc.

The article reviews the book, "Thunder Bay: From Rivalry to Unity," edited by Thorold J. Tronrud and A. Ernest Epp.

Historians have tended to view the Hudson's Bay Company `as an organization of crafty fur traders, bold explorers, lively voyageurs, and dour Scots' who opened up the Canadian west and protected it from American control. More recently, social historians have examined the roles of women and Native peoples to show that the HBC `was more than a business.' But, as Professor Edith Burley demonstrates, `the HBC was a business...the purpose of which was to provide shareholders with a return on their investments.' Low paid, subservient workers were required to fulful this purpose. In Servants of the Honourable Company, Professor Burley focuses on the work and workers of the HBC. About 15% of HBC workers were skilled tradesmen, while 70% were common labourers. Until now, however, these `servants' have been largely forgotten. The book looks at these workers from the points of view both of the HBC officers and the London committee and governor who oversaw the operations and of the men themselves, who came from the Orkney Islands, Norway, Scotland, Lower Canada, and the Red River Colony, the settlement created by the HBC in present-day Manitoba to become the nursery of future `halfbreed' workers for the company. The HBC sought workers from pre-industrial societies who would accept the traditional master-servant relationship. To a large extent they did. In fact, they never questioned this central tenet of the HBC hierarchy. They did, however, bargain for higher wages, refuse to work under intolerable and dangerous conditions, object to unfair treatment by authoritarian officers, cause work stoppages in protest for sufficient food and more grog, mutiny against tyrannical ships' captains, and even kill a particularly brutal officer. Servants of the Honourable Company details this important aspect of Canadian working-class experience. --Unattributed synopsis at Amazon

Canada’s unions have long brought workers together in solidarity and unity to carry on the fight against racism in our workplaces and communities. As we mark Human Rights Day—observed annually on December 10—Canada’s unions are calling out rising hate and racism, and underscoring the path set 25 years ago when they released the National Anti-Racism Task Force report titled Challenging Racism: Going Beyond Recommendations. This ground-breaking report explored systemic racism in union structures, our communities, institutions and society. It highlighted the perspectives, concerns, and recommendations of labour and community activists from across the country. --CLC website news release, Human Rights Day, 2022-12-10

The article reviews the book, "The Secret World of American Communism," by Harvey Klehr, John E. Haynes and Fridrikh I. Firsov.

Grievance arbitrators now have a responsibility to interpret and apply human rights legislation in the course of resolving collective agreement disputes. This responsibility, however, raises the question of whether grievance arbitration is the most suitable forum for the application of human rights laws. In Canada, grievance arbitration has been a hybrid process, containing both public and private components. Recent arbitral jurisprudence, however, suggests that arbitrators see themselves as primarily private adjudicators. These cases indicate that arbitrators have been reluctant to give full scope to the duty to accommodate in order to avoid disturbing the terms of the collective agreement. This reluctance to play a full role as human rights adjudicators means that arbitration is not necessarily the most ideal forum for the enforcement of Canadian human rights laws.

The paper presents findings of an ethnographic case study on social relations in an existing General Motors vehicle assembly plant where the traditional drag chain has been replaced by Swedish automated guided vehicle technology and some aspects of Japanese work organization have been implemented. The findings challenge claims that Fordism is being replaced by a fundamentally new production model, and that this is resulting in more fulfilling work and cooperative social relations. There are many fulfilling work and cooperative social relations. There are many continuities with Fordism and highly contradictory social relations. This and other studies of new work systems suggest, in fact, that contradictions between control and commitment, rather than being minimized or dissolved, can actually be heightened.

The article reviews the book, "Stanley Bréhaut Ryerson, un intellectuel de combat," edited by Robert Comeau and Robert Tremblay.

In late 1936 steel worker activists in Sydney launched a new organizing drive at the plant under the auspices of the CIO's Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC). This effort drew the support of steel workers in a way that previous organizing attempts had not. However, the militant and self-reliant traditions of the steel workers collided with the cautious strategies and bureaucratic practices of the appointed SWOC leadership in the United States and Canada. As steel workers at Sydney showed great solidarity in their struggle with DOSCO, they also resisted what they saw as undemocratic and highly accommodationist practices by the union's national and international leadership. The struggles within the union embraced the issues of Canadian autonomy and nationalism as well as rank-and-file union control and the democratic rights of union members. It amounted to a struggle over what type of unionism was to be established within the Canadian steel industry.

The article reviews the book, "Grace Hartman: A Woman for her Time," by Susan Crean.