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Presents black-and-white reproductions of 12 images from the the exhibition, "Images/Images Industrielles." Curated by Rosemary Donegan, the exhibition was produced by the Art Gallery of Hamilton and sponsored by National Museums of Canada. The exhibition, which toured nationally in 1987-88, included painting, sculpture, graphics, photographs, and the promotional arts from the first half of the twentieth century. Those chosen for the journal have a labour event or social issues theme, as indicated in the annotations accompanying each image.
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The article reviews the book, "Feminist Organizing for Change: The Contemporary Women's Movement in Canada," by Nancy Adamson, Linda Briskin, and Margaret McPhail.
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The article reviews the book, "Barons of Labor: The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Period," by Michael Kazin.
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The article reviews the book, "The Question of the Commons: The Culture and Ecology of Communal Resources," edited by Bonnie M. McCay and James M. Acheson.
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The article reviews the book, "E. Sylvia Pankhurst: Portrait of a Radical," by Patricia Romero.
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The article reviews the book, "German White-Collar Workers and the Rise of Hitler," by Hans Speier.
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This paper raises issues which show that the impact of the multinational companies in the industrial relations Systems of developing countries are much too profound that the Systems approach may not be suitable for explaining, predicting, and formulating policies in industrial relations in these countries in particular and beyond the level of nation states in general.
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En este articulo, el autor trata del paso de las sociedades industriales a post-industriales, particularmente en America Latina, y como se puede transformar el sindicalismo para sobrevivir en este contexto.
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The article reviews the book, "The New England Working Class and the New Labour History," edited by Herbert G. Gutman and Donald H. Bell.
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The article reviews the book, "Charité bien ordonnée. Lepremier réseau de lutte contre la pauvreté à Montréal au 19e siècle," by Huguette Lapointe-Roy.
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The article reviews the book, "Mabel Dodge Luhan: New Woman, New Worlds," by Lois Palken Rudnick.
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The article reviews the book, "Feud: Hatfields, McCoys and Social Change in Appalachia, 1860-1900," by Altina L. Waller.
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The article reviews the book, "Socialism and Democracy in Alberta: Essays in Honour of Grant Notley," edited by Larry Pratt.
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The article reviews the book, "Monopoly's Moment: The Organization and Regulation of Canadian Utilities, 1830-1930," by Christopher Armstrong and H. V. Nelles.
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One of the most salient features of women's earlier contribution to the labour movement in Quebec, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is the prominent and often militant role of female cotton workers. Long before they formed an industrial labour organization, the cotton "girls" rose persistently, in most mills, against various attempts to further appropriate absolute and relative surplus-value. After having formally joined forces with fellow male unionists, they carried with this activism a more acute challenge to managerial prerogatives and patriarchal standards of criminality in a major assault on child and gender-related abuses. The following essay explores, in a comparative mode and from the perspective of the workplace, why female cotton workers were more assertive and have left far greater evidence of their proneness to strike than other women operatives in the boot and shoe industry. It also focuses on two important episodes of female militancy at the Hochelaga and Ste. Anne mills in order to provide a socio-economic context to their activism and to witness how solidarity could evolve rapidly into estrangement over sensitive gender-related issues.
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The article reviews the book, "The Crossroads of Class and Gender: Industrial Homework, Subcontracting, and Household Dynamics in Mexico City," by Lourdes Beneri and Martha Roldan.
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Examines the pattern of women's paid labour in St. John's, Newfoundland, in the 1920s and 30s. Emphasizes the effect of life cycle changes on women's participation in the city's workforce. Argues that a woman's age, marital status, and class were the most important factors in determining whether the woman worked outside of the home or engaged in paid labour in the household. Considers other, related factors—including number of children, stage of the family cycle, as well as age and religion—in terms of their impact on women's labour force participation and the type of work performed. Concludes that women worked of necessity to support the home, that the vast majority were single, under 25, and living with their parents, that working-class women were far more likely to work than middle-class women, and that class also influenced the type of employment secured. Includes eight tables of census data.
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The author addresses the questions of why industry-wide bargaining was developed in the Canadian meat-packing industry and why it suddenly collapsed.
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The author explores the reasons for the recent decline in U.S. private sector unionization and considers four possible scenarios of change in the future.