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The article reviews the book, "The Splendid Vision: Centennial History of the National Council of Women of Canada, 1893-1994," by Naomi E.S Griffiths.
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En France, comme dans la plupart des pays européens depuis les années quatre-vingts, se développe l'idée que face à un taux de chômage à deux chiffres une issue à l'état d'anomie dans lequel s'installe la société peut venir d'une flexibilité massive de la force de travail. L'article étudie comment émergent, dans les actions engagées autour des licenciements et des reconversions d'emploi, les éléments essentiels constitutifs d'un mythe des temps modernes énonçant la capacité des élites à produire une modernisation régulée de nos sociétés industrielles. L'auteur approche cette question en l'insérant dans le cadre plus large d'une sociologie du temps social.
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The article reviews the book, "Cohésion sociale et emploi," edited by B. Eme and J.L. Laville.
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Canadian women's history, though relatively new in the history of the profession, is now considered by some to be passé, past its prime, out of touch with the realities of the postmodern world of the 1990s. In fact, there is also a new interpretation of the historical evolution of Canadian women's history emerging, which situates women's history in the one dimensional past, gender history in the three dimensional future. ...[W]e need to re-examine the Canadian women's history which was actually written over the last twenty years as well as the current direction of gender history, then assess the theoretical and political underpinnings of both. We may actually find more overlapping continuities, similarities and problems. --Introduction than stark contrasts and oppositions.
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In 1963, the Ontario Government established a Women's Bureau within the Department of Labour to do research, public relations work, and policy development relating to working women in the province. This article examines the early evolution of the Women's Bureau from 1963 to 1970 assessing the reasons for its establishment and the successes and failures of its early programs designed to aid working women. The Bureau urged the government to consider anti-discrimination legislation, and in 1970 it helped to develop new legislation designed to enhance women's equality by legalizing maternity leave, banning discrimination based on marital status, and abolishing job posting by sex. Drawing on recent debates about the state and employment policy, particularly those looking at the relationship between feminist and labour activists and the state, this article asks whose interests the Bureau represented, and whether or not this state-initiated legislation designed to enhance gender equality was effective, either in the short or long term.
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Current arguments about the causes of differing union density rates in the US and Canada range from public opinion hypothesis and differences in labor law, to increased US managerial hostility. Survey data on managers' and workers' attitudes in the 2 countries are used to examine the competing arguments. Using questions that probe opinions toward various aspects of union-firm relations, it is found that managers' attitudes in the 2 countries do not differ. This finding suggests that increased US managerial hostility is not the cause of the divergent unionization rates. US workers are the most militant of the 4 groups, with Canadian workers in the middle, between managers and US workers.
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The article reviews the book, "Fourmies et les premier mai," edited by Madeleine Rebérioux.
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The article reviews the book, "Family, Church, and Market: A Mennonite Community in the Old and New Worlds, 1850-1930," by Royden K. Loewen.
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The article reviews the book, "The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919: An Illustrated History," by J. M. Bumsted.
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A study tests a macroeconomic strike model widely used to study the incidence of labor conflict in developed countries on data from the world-at-large. Previous investigations of the influence of labor demand and worker wage expectations on strike frequency have produced contradictory results. Perhaps one reason for this is that these studies have left out all but the most developed countries and have rarely been comparative. The study uses a data set that includes data for 41 countries (approximately half of which are considered developing) from 1953-1985.
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The article reviews the book, "Projecting capitalism: a history of the internationalization of the construction industry," by Marc Linder.
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Cet article porte sur les approches utilisées dans les organisations pour amener les superviseurs à adopter un mode de gestion plus participatif de la sécurité au travail avec leurs employés. Les données présentées sont basées sur cinq études de cas réalisées selon un devis commun et analysées de façon comparative. Utilisant l'approche systémique du changement organisationnel, les auteurs développent le concept de stratégie de changement pour analyser les approches organisationnelles observées, en faisant l'hypothèse que ce sont les stratégies plus systématiques qui auront comme effets d'accroître l'utilisation de la gestion participative de la prévention par les superviseurs, et de réduire le taux de fréquence des accidents. Les résultats confirment largement les hypothèses, mais l'analyse montre aussi que les stratégies non efficaces, au plan des effets escomptés, ont néanmoins une fonction d'utilité qui est discutée.
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Employment Security and the Labor Market: Interdisclipinary Approaches and International Evidence, edited by C.F. Buechtemann, is reviewed.
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The article reviews the book, "Working for the Union: British Trade Union Officers," by John Kelly and Edmund Heery.
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The article reviews the book, "Working-Class Cultures in Britain, 1890-1960: Gender, Class, Ethnicity," by Joanna Bourke.
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The article reviews the book, "On Her Their Lives Depend: Munitions Workers in the Great War," by Angela Woollacott.
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The article reviews the book, "Immigrés et créations d'entreprises : Montréal 1990," by Denise Helly and Alberte Ledoyen.
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The article reviews the book, "Solidarity and Survival: An Oral History of Iowa Labor in the Twentieth Century," by Shelton Stromquist.
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The article reviews the book, "Labour's Apprentices: Working-Class Lads in Late Victorian and Edwardian England," by Michael J. Childs.
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The article reviews the book, "Power and Pauperism: The Workhouse System 1834-1884," by Felix Driver.
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