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This article reviews the book, "Participative Systems at Work : Creating Quality and Employment Security," by Sidney P. Rubinstein.
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This article reviews the book, "The Tyranny of Work: Alienation and the Labour Process," by James W. Rinehart.
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This article reviews the book, "Work, Industry and Canadian Society," by Harvey J. Krahn & Graham S. Lowe.
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This article reviews the book, "Workplace Innovation in Canada. Reflections on the Past Prospects for the Future," by Jacquie Mansell.
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This article reviews the book, "Shop Talk: An Anthology of Poetry," edited by Zoe Landale.
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This paper explores possible reasons for the resistance by both workers and managers to introduction of the STS approach, despite its apparent benefits to both.
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The article reviews and comments on "The Workers of AfricanTrade," edited by Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch and Paul E. Lovejoy, "Migrant Labour in South Africa's Mining Economy: The Struggle for the Gold Mines' Labour Supply, 1890-1920," by Alan H. Jeeves, and "Contradictions of Accumulation in Africa," edited by Henry Bernstein and Bonnie K. Campbell.
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This article reviews the book, "No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States since 1880," by Alan M. Brandt.
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This paper discusses the policies of the Boards with regard to administrative changes, consolidations, accretions, mergers, partial raids and partial decertifications.
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This article reviews the book, "A New Endeavour Selected Political Essays, Letters, and Addresses," by Frank R. Scott, edited by Michiel Horn.
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This article reviews the book, "La pêche à la morue à l'île Royale, 1713-1758," by B.A. Balcom. This article reviews the book, "Pêcheurs et marchands de la baie de Gaspé au XIX e siècle - Le rapport de production entre la compagnie William Hyman and Sons et ses pêcheurs-clients," by Roch Samson.
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This article reviews the book, "Syndicalist Legacy: Trade Unions and Politics in Two French Cities in the Era of World War I," by Kathryn E. Amdur.
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The article reviews the book, "Private Practice, Public Payment: Canadian Medicine and the Politics of Health Insurance, 1911-1966," by C. David Naylor.
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This article reviews the book, "Protest and Reform: The British Social Narrative by Women, 1827-1867," by Joseph Kestner.
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The article reviews the book, "Histoire de la formation des ouvriers, 1789-1984," by Bernard Chariot and Madeleine Figeât.
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Postwar industrial action in Halifax culminated in the strike of the Marine Trades and Labor Federation against the Halifax Shipyards Limited. Increased strike activity was accompanied by and enhanced labor's formal political aspirations as expressed in the rejuvenation of the Halifax Labor Party. This article explores the economic and political events leading up to the summer of 1920, when the Halifax Shipyard Strike and a Nova Scotia provincial election brought local events to a climax. Laborism, the broad political philosophy uniting labor activists in postwar Halifax, initially appeared to offer the ideal medium through which political and economic questions could be filtered and processed. But as laborites attempted to apply their philosophy to concrete situations, they exposed its inherent contradictions. The strike clarified their ideas while it revealed their weakness, and promoted the eventual fragmentation of the Halifax labor movement.
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The article reviews the book, "Strikes and the Media: Communication and Conflict," by Nicholas Jones.
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The article reviews the book, "Understanding Capital," by Duncan Foley.
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This dissertation examines the evolution of the mining industry in three British dominions during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Adopting a case study approach, it describes the establishment and growth of mining in Rossland, British Columbia; Broken Hill, New South Wales; and Waihi, New Zealand. Separate chapters trace developments in each area, focussing on the emergence of organised labour, the growth of mining companies and the sophistication of mining operations. These underline the need to consider diverse themes, maintaining that the mining industry's pattern of growth can be understood only by adopting such a broad approach. Following the three case studies, the final chapters of the dissertation offer a comparative analysis of Rossland, Waihi and Broken Hill. The study emphasises the similarities of these three communities, especially the cycle of growth, and identifies a crucial common denominator. Despite differences in climate, in the type and nature of the ore deposit and in the scale of mining activity, all three areas experienced a common trajectory of initial boom followed by subsequent retrenchment. The changing character of the resource base forced this fundamental alteration of productive relations. In each region, the mineral content of the ore declined as the mines went deeper. In addition, with depth the ore tended to become more difficult to treat. Faced with a decline in the value of the product of their mines, companies had to adopt sweeping changes in order to maintain profitable operations. This re-structuring was accomplished in a variety of ways, but the most significant factors, common to Rossland, Broken Hill and Waihi, were the heightened importance of applied science and economies of scale. Both developments underlined the growing importance of the mining engineer and technological innovations, principally in milling and smelting operations. In addition, new non-selective extractive techniques reduced the significance of skilled underground labour. The re-structuring of the industry not only had similar causes but also had a similar effect. The comparative chapter on labour relations, for example, argues that these managerial initiatives were closely associated with militant episodes in each community. While the leading companies in Rossland, Waihi and Broken Hill successfully reduced their working costs, they all faced the same ultimate end. Their long-term success or failure reflected the skill with which they coped with the inevitable depletion of their ore body. The common experience of Rossland, Waihi and Broken Hill demonstrates the importance of placing colonial development within a larger context. Regional historians should make greater use of the comparative approach, rather than continuing to focus on the unique and the particular.
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