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This article reviews the book, "The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America," by John Bodnar.

This paper attempts to determine the extent to which the concept of «intra-organizational bargaining», suggested by Walton and McKersie, among others, is useful in analyzing wage differentials between sub-groups within a local union. Based on historical data for public schoolteachers in Saskatchewan, the results show that the relative power of sub-groups within the union has a much stronger bearing on internal wage differentials than do the economic variables. This lends strong support to the intraorganizational bargaining model of internal wage differentials.

Analyzes 36 tables of data compiled on labour protest and organization in the nineteenth century including riots, strikes, occupations of strikers/rioters, regionalism, calendar of strikes, causes, strikes in major cities, and local and international unions. Labour unrest often took the form of riots in the early period, with strikes becoming more prevalent as workers became organized. The culmination was the strike wave of the 1880s known as the Great Upheaval, with the Knights of Labor, which was by far the largest organization of the period, leading the way.

1983's powerful Solidarity movement, which for a time seemed capable of deflecting the Social Credit government of British Columbia from its neo-conservative course - or even toppling it - instead died with a whimper. In Solidarity: The Rise and Fall of an Opposition in British Columbia, the first book-length account of this pivotal point in the province's history, Bryan Palmer concludes that it was not Social Credit tactics, but the nature of Solidarity's leadership which foreordained the defeat. --Publisher's description

This article reviews the book, "The Retreat From Class: A New 'True' Socialism," by Ellen Meiksins Wood.

The article briefly reviews "1919: The Winnipeg General Strike," by Gerry Berkowski and Nolan Reilly,"The Writing of Canadian Histo ry: Aspects of English-Canadian Historical Writing since 1900," by Carl Berger, "A Conjunction of Interests: Bus iness, Politics, and Tariffs, 1825-1879," by Ben Forster, "Vancouver Past: Essays in Social History," edited by Robert A.J. McDonald and Jean Barman, "Quebec before Duplessis: The Political Career of Louis-Alexandre Taschereau," by Bernard L. Vigod, "Canada, What's Left?," edited by John Richards and Don Kerr,"'My Dear Legs': Letters to a Young Social Democrat," by Alex Macdonald, "The Knights in Fiction: Two Labor Novels of the 1880s," edited by Mary C. Grimes, "Uncertain Victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in Europe an and American Thought, 1870-1920," by James T. Kloppenberg, "The Growth of Working Class Reformism in Mid-Victorian England," by Neville Kirk, "Proletarians and Protest: The Roots of Class Formation in an Industrializing World," edited by Michael Hanagan and Charles Stephenson, "Servants and Masters in Eighteenth-Century France: The Uses of Loyalty ," by Sarah C. Maza, "The German Revolution and the Debate on Soviet Power — Documents: 1918-1919, Preparing the Founding Congress," edited by John Riddell,"The Ties That Bind: Peasant Families in Medieval England," by Barbara A. Hanawalt, "Households and the World Economy," edited by Joan Smith, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Hans Dieter Evers, "Revolutionaries and Reformists: Communism and the Australian Labour Movement, 1920-1950," by Robin Gollan, "The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism: An Elaboration of Marxian Political Economy," by John Bellamy Foster, "An Introduction to Marxist Political Economy," by Bade Onimode, "Workplace Democracy: A Guide to Workplace Ownership, Participation, and Self-Management Experiments in the United States and Europe," by Daniel Zwerdling, "The Future of the Left," edited by James Curran, "Blue Chips," by Herbert A. Applebaum / reviews by Bryan D. Palmer -- "Something in Common - An IWW Bibliography," compiled by Dione Miles, "Samuel Gompers: A Selected List of References About the Man and His Time," by David Myers / reviews by Gregory S. Kealey.

History of Fort Chipewyan, the first European settlement in Alberta, an important fur-trading centre, and a vital base for the exploration of the continent's hinterland. Traces the development of the Fort Chipewyan fur trade from 1778, when Peter Pond entered the region, until 1835, when the rivalry between the North West and Hudson's Bay companies was no longer a factor, and a monopoly in the fur trade had been restored. Provides a vivid portrayal of life in a remote fur trade outpost during this crucial period in Canadian history. --WorldCat summary/Publisher's description

This article reviews the book, "Divisions of Labour," by R.E. Pahl.

This article reviews the book, " Arbitrage des griefs," by Fernand Morin & Rodrigue Blouin.

Cet article porte sur la réponse du milieu du travail à la mise en œuvre de la Loi sur la sante et la sécurité du travail. Dans une perspective d'analyse des politiques, l'article montre que cette loi contient deux types principaux de politique, l'un réglementaire et l'autre constitutionnel. Les éléments constitutionnels de la loi, ceux qui changent les règles du jeu en matière de sante et de sécurité du travail, se heurtent à des difficultés de mise en œuvre plus complexes au sein des groupes d'intérêts que les éléments réglementaires de la loi. Ces derniers, règles et normes de conformité auxquelles doivent se soumettre ces groupes, s'inscrivent plutôt dans une logique de continuité et ne présentent pas de graves difficultés de mise en œuvre.

This article reviews the book, "Industrial Democracy and Employee Participation. Digest of Case studies," by The Department of Employment and Industrial Relations.

This article reviews the book, "Young Adult in the Labour Market," by D.N. Ashton & J.J. Maguire.

The lumberjack – freewheeling, transient, independent – is the stuff of countless Canadian tales and legends. He is also something of a dinosaur, a creature of the past, replaced by a unionized worker in a highly mechanized and closely managed industry. In this far-ranging study of the logging industry in twentieth-century Ontario, Ian Radforth charters the course of its transition and the response of its workers to the changes. Among the factors he considers are technological development, changes in demography and the labour market, an emerging labour movement, new managerial strategies, the growth of a consumer society, and rising standards of living. Radforth has drawn on an impressive array of sources, including interviews and forestry student reports as well as a vast body of published sources such as The Labour Gazette, The Pulp and Paper Magazine of Canada, and The Canada Lumberman, to shed new light on trade union organization and on the role of ethnic groups in the woods work force. The result is a richly detailed analysis of life on the job for logging workers during a period that saw the modernization not only of the work but of relations between the workers and the bosses. --Publisher's description

The limited influence that ethnic studies and working-class history have exerted on each other can be explained by the priorities and the predominant theoretical orientations that have characterized the former field. Much more fruitful, instead, has been the growing convergence of related fields such as immigration history and migration studies towards working-class history. While this convergence has resulted in a much more sophisticated knowledge of the social and cultural universe in which labour movements have grown and developed, relatively little progress has been made in isolating ethnicity as a historical category and in determining its place in the development and articulation of social consciousness.

This article reviews the book, "Peasants in the Promised Land: Canada and the Ukranians 1891-1914," by Jeroslav Petryshyn.

Provides a biography and commentary on the work of Toronto artist Robert Kell, with a focus on the series on the Winnipeg General Strike that commenced in the 1970s. Discusses reception, exhibits, and lack of structured support for labour and worker-oriented art. Concludes that the Canadian labour movement must do more to support the political engagement of artists such as Kell. See also "Winnipeg, 1919: A Portfolio," by Robert Kell, published in the same issue of the journal.

In this study, a typology of shop steward modes of role behavior was developed and tested. Three ideal types of role behavior — passive, cooperative, and radical — were derived based on a theoretical framework consisting of Marxist, pluralist, and structural-functionalist approaches. Two behavioral modes were added to the theoretical typology to provide for the possibilities offailed and erratic stewardhip styles. The five role behaviors were subjected to confirmatory factor analysis resulting in a four-facet behavioral typology. The typology and its measuring tool can be used to generate and guide future research.

This article reviews the book, "American Jobs and the Changing Industrial Base," edited by Eileen Collins and Lucretia Dewey Tanner.

This article reviews the book, "Quality of Working Life: Contemporary Cases," edited by J. B. Cunningham and T. H. White.