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This article reviews the book, "Canada Learns to Play: The Emergence of Organized Sport, 1807-1914," by Alan Metcalfe.

The author estimates the effect of being unemployed on the health of unemployed Quebec workers. The results imply that the health effects are heterogenous, at least for unemployed men and women.

This article reviews the book, "Collective Bargaining and Labor Relations," by Edward E. Herman, Alfred Kuhn & Ronald Seeber.

Earnings of lawyers in the government service are compared with those in private practice in Canada during the 1970's, a period of rapid growth in the supply of lawyers.

The article reviews the book, "Through the Eye of the Needle: Immigrants and Enterprise in New York's Garment Industry," by Roger D. Waldinger.

This article reviews the book, "Labour Market Theory and the Canadian Experience," by Byron Eastman.

This article reviews the book, "Counter Cultures: Saleswomen, Manager, and Customers in American Department Stores 1890-1940," by Susan Porter Benson.

A review of the theories and results of previous research on the importance of criteria in arbitration of wage disputes is presented in this paper and the hypotheses of the importance of criteria to arbitrators in the Canadian Federal Public Service are developed.

The Great Depression which struck all western nations in the 1930s was a period of great hardship for Newfoundlanders. Its burdens fell particularly hard on the island's loggers and their families. During the 1930s, for at least part of the year, nearly 6,000 Newfoundlanders toiled in the woods. While some worked full-time, many laboured part-time to supplement their meagre earnings from the fishery. Their labour contributed significantly to a forest products industry which, during the 1930s, was regularly valued at over $15 million a year and, in many years, made up over 50 per cent of the value of the island's exports. And yet, despite their numbers and their contribution to Newfoundland's economy we have heard very little of these loggers' lives and as Greg Kealey puts it, "their struggles to minimize their oppression and to improve the lives of their families and their class." This thesis examines the working lives of Newfoundland loggers during the Great Depression, their labour processes, strikes, collective actions and attempts to organize in the latter half of the decade. In 1930 there were no unions specifically for loggers. By 1939, however, there were three unions, the Newfoundland Lumbermen's Association, the Newfoundland Labourers' Union, and the Workers' Central Protective Union all of which represented loggers in the regions where they were based. The Fishermen's Protective Union was also still active in the 1930s negotiating agreements on behalf of loggers on the northeast coast of the island. This thesis looks at the emergence, structure, and effectiveness of the unions and at their damaging rivalries. In doing so, it charts the changes these organizations forged in the relations between labour and capital in the Newfoundland woods before World War II.

This thesis examines the historical development of hospital-based nursing and its labour process in Ontario between 1850 and 1922. By building upon feminist critiques of Marxist theory, the thesis seeks to apply class and gender as empirically significant concepts. The analysis proceeds at two levels of abstraction. First, it locates the emergence of nursing vis-a-vis the growth of hospital-based care, both of which were influenced by broader changes in society, the economy and family. Secondly, it links changes in the content and control over nurses' work to those broader social changes, and more specifically to the struggles between physicians, hospital administrators, and nursing superintendents at the level of the workplace, namely the hospital.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the extent to which unions in Canada use information technology, the types of technology used, the way in which the technology is implemented, the general level of satisfaction with the new methods and proposals for the implementation of new methods in the future.

The article reviews the book, "At the Very Least She Pays the Rent: Women and German Industrialization, 1871-1914," by Barbara Franzoi.

Après avoir propose une définition de la notion de harcèlement sexuel, l'auteur analyse ces éléments cruciaux de l'affaire Robichaud en Cour suprême du Canada qui sous-tendent le besoin pour l'entreprise d'adopter un programme concernant ce problème.

Dans le cadre de onze plaintes de pratique déloyale, le Conseil s'est prononce sur la validité du paragraphe 188(3) du Code qui impose à l'employeur le fardeau de la preuve, en regard des articles 7 et 15 de la Charte canadienne des droits et libertés. Au terme d'une analyse détaillée, le Conseil a juge que le paragraphe 188(3) du Code était conforme à ces deux dispositions de la Charte.

Le 18 décembre 1985, le Conseil accréditait le Syndicat des Employés des Banques Nationales de Rimouski pour représenter tous les employés des cinq succursales de la Banque à Rimouski. Près de deux ans plus tard, le Conseil canadien des relations du travail révoquait le certificat d'accréditation et expliquait les mécanismes du Code en pareilles circonstances.

À l'occasion d'une plainte de pratiques déloyales le Conseil canadien des relations du travail a précisé la notion de «représentation des employés par un syndicat» figurant à l'alinéa 184(l)a) du Code canadien du travail. Il a donne à cette notion une interprétation généreuse de façon à inclure la représentation auprès du public et ce, devant tout forum où le syndicat estime qu'il est dans l'intérêt des membres de les y représenter. Il a en outre décide que le syndicat pouvait exercer ce droit de représentation par l'intermédiaire de tout représentant élu.

The development of industrial capitalism in the second half of the nineteenth century in Ontario brought new and more serious hazards into the workplace and drew women and children into the waged labour force. As a result of working class lobbying and the efforts of middle class reformers, the state empowered itself to regulate health and safety conditions in factories and to protect child and female labour. The implementation of these regulations was left to an inspectorate which was armed with substantial legal powers to enforce the law. These powers were rarely invoked by the inspectors. However, the failure to prosecute does not in itself indicate that the law was unenforced. An alternative enforcement strategy based on persuasion was followed by most inspectors. It has been argued that persuasion was chosen over prosecution because it made more efficient use of the scarce enforcement resources available to the inspectors, and that persuasion was effective. This paper argues that although it is true that the government chose to devote woefully inadequate resources to enforcement of factory legislation, this is not an adequate explanation of the inspectors' enforcement behaviour. The belief that persuasion was an effective enforcement model also flowed from the inspectors' values and assumptions, including the following: that worker carelessness was the major cause of accidents; that employers were socially responsible; that workers and employers had common interests in occupational health and safety; and that women and children needed special protection. It is further argued that persuasion was not an effective enforcement strategy, especially because it was linked with an acceptance by the inspectors of 'normal' industrial practices, even where those practices generated significant risks for workers. In effect, health and safety regulation probably did as much to legitimate industrial capitalism as it did to protect workers health and safety.

This article reviews the book, "The Jews of Detroit: From the Beginning, 1762-1914," by Robert A. Rockway.

The article reviews and comments on "City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860," by Christine Stansell.