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Reports that two recent journal articles have received awards. Corrects the omission of the cover credit as well as a line that was dropped from the article, "With Our Own Two Hands," both published in the previous issue.
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Discusses the articles, research reports, document and critique sections, and review essays published in the issue. Three papers from the Canadian Committee on Labour History's symposium in June 1992 are also presented. A paper published in v. 25 of the journal has received an award. A correction is made to page 324 of the previous issue, for which the editor apologizes to the review writer.
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This volume completes the series of RCMP Security Bulletins for late 1933 and 1934. It begins a new series on the Depression years. These Bulletins allow us to see not only the nature of RCMP Security concerns but also the underlying ideology of the Security Service. The volume also contains a critical introduction by Gregory S. Kealey. --Publisher's description
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This volume documents the RCMP's surveillance activities during 1935 and contains informants', agents', and operatives' perspectives on developments within the Communist Party of Canada on labour unions, and on unemployed organizations. It includes coverage of the 1935 federal election, the successes of red unions, and the development of popular front strategies. The introduction by historian John Manley provides a considered overview of the events. The volume is fully indexed. --Publisher's description
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This volume is a continuation of the RCMP Security Bulletins series on the Depression. The RCMP Security Service reported in these Bulletins on security and intelligence matters to Cabinet and other government officals. Those for 1936 contain much material on labour and the left. --Publisher's description
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These Bulletins show that the RCMP's continued fascination with the Communist Party of Canada (CPC) was broadened to include the Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) in 1937. The RCMP believed the CPC's fingerprints were all over the CIO. Other topics examined in the bulletins include reports on the Spanish Civil War, municipal elections, ethnic newspapers and strikes. --Publisher's description
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This volume completes the Depression Years Series and, for the time being, our publication of the RCMP Bulletins, John Manley examines the RCMP facination with the CPC and how the CPC coped with the Popular Front and the Nazi-Soviet pact. Manley concludes that the CPC's anti-war line was a disaster, claiming that "undoubtedly..., the Comintern was the RCMP's best friend"(29) --Publisher's description
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The article reviews the book, "Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty, and the Underclass," by Christopher Jencks.
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Introduces the Communist writer, educator, and activist Margaret Fairley, who in the 1950s edited a book of Canadian oral labour history that was left unfinished. The book, entitled "With Our Own Hands," included three manuscripts - memoirs of Claude Theodore, Peter Cordoni, and A.J. MacDonald - that are published for the first time. Collectively, they shed light on the largely rural, immigrant, working-class experience of Canada in the early 20th century. MacDonald's reminiscences also describe life in the village of Cadott, Wisconsin, in the 1890s, before the family moved to Alberta. The manuscripts are located at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.
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The article reviews the book, "The Eastern Airlines Strike: Accomplishments of the Rank-and-File Machinists and Gains for the Labor Movement," by Ernie Mailhot, Judy Stranahan, and Jack Barnes.
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Cette étude compare l'influence, sur le risque qualitatif d'accidents, de deux lignes d'assemblage de matériel de transport. L'organisation de la production de ces lignes diffère par le nombre de postes réduit sur l'une d'elles, ce qui intensifie la coactivité entre travailleurs à chaque phase du processus. Les 150 accidents avec perte de temps des assembleurs survenus sur ces deux lignes d'assemblage de véhicules routiers pendant trois ans sont regroupés en six classes homogènes, à partir d'une analyse multivariée de leurs caractéristiques. Aucun lien significatif n'est toutefois observé entre ces classes d'accidents et les lignes d'assemblage. Il est discuté que l'intensification de la coactivité puisse être un facteur de contribution à la fréquence des accidents mais non à leur type.
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The article reviews the book, "Le Mariage en question," by Renée Dandurand.
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The article reviews the book ,"Pionnières québécoises et regroupement de femmes d'hier à aujourd' hui," by Simone Monet-Chartrand.
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A study was performed to measure the centrality of beliefs about unions, to outline general tendencies in the centrality of workers' beliefs about unions, and to identify the salient beliefs of different typical working-class perspectives on labor unions. One technique for measuring centrality is to ask respondents to identify the importance of each belief in relation to their other beliefs concerning some social object. In the Q sort, each participant was given 48 one-sentence statements about unions, each typed on a separate card, and asked to physically sort them following a quasi-normal pattern. Some 100 workers in Hamilton, Ontario, completed the Q sort during the summer of 1987. Two dimensions are most salient for Hamilton workers: defense and rights. An average Q sort for the individuals sharing each typical union belief system was calculated. An exploratory factor analysis revealed 6 typical perspectives on unions. A key finding of this study is that there are typical ambivalent and antiunion perspectives on unions, just as there are typical prounion perspectives.
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The article reviews the book, "Histoire de I'École Polytechnique de Montréal, 1873-1990: La Montée des Ingénieurs Francophones," by Robert Gagnon.
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The article reviews the book, "À nouveau travail, formations nouvelles," by Collette Bernier and Anne Filion.
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The article reviews and comments n former automobile worker Ben Hamper's "Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line" (1991) and labour lawyer Thomas Geoghegan's "Which Side Are You On? Trying to Be for Labor When It's Flat on Its Back" (1991).
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Takes note of forthcoming conferences, the Arkansas History Quarterly, and the annual summer course on comparative labour history taught at the University of Washington.
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Reports forthcoming conferences and new publications. The Reuther Archives of Labour and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University is to be added to the National Bibliographic System. The Steel Project at University College of Cape Breton has a wide variety of archival resources on steelmaking technology and workers. The files of the Detroit Red Squad have been deposited at the Detroit Public Library, but will remain closed until 2018.
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Levine, N. (1993). Canada Made Me. Porcupine’s Quill. https://archive.org/details/canadamademe00levi
First published in England in 1958, this book is a bitter, critical reassessment of the moral and cultural values of Canada. Levine's account of his three-month journey from Halifax to Ucluelet, a fishing village on the west coast, is an unconventional portrait of Canada's underbelly. The book ends with the words: `I wondered why I felt so bitter about Canada. After all, it was all part of a dream, an experiment that could not come off. It was foolish to believe that you can take the throwouts, the rejects, the human kickabouts from Europe and tell them: Here you have a second chance. Here you can start a new life. But no one ever mentioned the price one had to pay; how much of oneself you had to betray.' Canada Made Me was regarded as so controversial that it did not appear in a Canadian edition until 1979. Critical opinion, however, has slowly swung around to the point the book was recently described in the Globe and Mail as a `laconic classic'. For this new edition Norman Levine has written an introduction which traces the book's publishing history and reputation.
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