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The article reviews the book, "Social Classes and Social Credit in Alberta," by Edward Bell.
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The article reviews the book, "Le travail au féminin. Analyse démographique de la discontinuité professionnelle des femmes au Canada," by Marianne Kempeneers.
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The article reviews the book, "Nineteenth Century Cape Breton: A Historical Geography," by Stephen J. Hornsby.
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Explores from a class perspective the adult education movement and union-sponsored educational and communication activities in English-speaking Canada. Assesses historic British and US influences, changes in communication technology. and Canadian state interventions (such as the founding of the National Film Board) on the development of adult and union education. The latter was instrumental in character (e.g., grievance handling) and premissed on working within the capitalist order. Adult education was ambiguous in terms of class, coalescing on an activist definition of citizenship that had social democratic overtones, although the Cold War years somewhat chilled this more left-leaning approach. In contrast, the Saskatchewan CCF government's radical experiment in adult education was short-lived. Public relations efforts by unions also fell short, as did establishment of a labour press, and articulating a vision of the social order beyond capitalism. The growing inflluence of US-dominated corporations, including on media, has had a profound effect since the 1970s. Concludes that this raises questions whether working people will be able enter the debate, let alone participate effectively, as society confronts new cultural, economic, and political challenges.
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The article reviews the book, "Stacking the Deck: The Streaming of Working-Class Kids in Ontario Schools," by B. Curtis, D. W. Livingstone and H. Smaller.
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The article reviews the book, "Trois siècles d'histoire médicale au Québec," by André Goulet and Denis Paradis.
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Symposium: La gestion des ressources humaines : du modèle traditionnel au modèle renouvelé by Gilles Guérin et Thierry Wils. Introduction : Michel Audet. Commentaires - Comments: Laurent Bélanger, Richard J. Long, Bernard Galambaud.
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Symposium: La gestion des ressources humaines : du modèle traditionnel au modèle renouvelé, Gilles Guérin et Thierry Wils. Introduction : Michel Audet. Commentaires - Comments: Laurent Bélanger, Richard J. Long, Bernard Galambaud.
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The article reviews the book, "Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers," by Michael K. Honey.
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The article reviews the book, "Transfer of Training : Action-Packed Strategies to Ensure High Payoff from Training Investments," by Mary L. Broad and John W. Newstrom.
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The article reviews the book, "Wobblies, Pile Butts, and Other Heroes: Laborlore Explorations," by Archie Green.
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New Zealand has had a long history of state-sponsored trade unionism, with up to 60% of the workforce being employed under the terms and conditions of a union negotiated collective bargain. It had adopted systems of industrial conciliation and arbitration as a means of resolving disputes over wage fixing and related matters. However, 2 major rewrites of legislation, the Labor Relations Act 1987 and the Employment Contracts Act 1991, have made a significant shift in these fundamentals. It is estimated that collective bargaining has fallen by nearly 60% in the 2 years since the Act took effect. Multi-employer bargaining has largely collapsed. Unions lost some 90,000 members in the first 7 months under the new system and an additional 86,000 in the most recent year - an aggregate loss of almost 30% of membership in less than 2 years. If the Employment Contracts Act regime continues, further fragmentation of unions may occur and collective bargaining will continue to collapse.
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The article reviews the book, "Understanding Industrial Organisations : Theoritical Perspectives in Industrial Sociology," by Richard K. Brown.
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Les transformations de l'organisation du travail reposent sur les relations de confiance entre les principaux agents du travail et de la gestion. Nous présentons quatre cas de coopération concertée vers une réorganisation de la production dans des établissements manufacturiers syndiqués. Le processus de mise en confiance se fonde sur la présence de personnes réputées et compétentes. La répétition de l'expérience, la durée des contacts interpersonnels et l'échange d'informations jugées crédibles permettent de consolider la confiance entre les représentants syndicaux et les membres de la direction qui solutionnent des problèmes particuliers au processus de transformation de l'organisation du travail dans leur établissement. Les ententes patronales syndicales sont de nature consensuelle et permettent la flexibilité recherchée par les acteurs. Des facteurs hors de leur contrôle les incitent toutefois à cosigner ces ententes et à cristalliser de nouvelles formes de relations fondées sur la coopération.
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The article reviews the book, "Trading Freedom: How Free Trade Affects our Lives, Work and Environment," edited by John Cavanagh, John Gershman, Karen Baker and Gretchen Helmke.
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Les lois Auroux de 1982 ont impulsé, en France, un mouvement de décentralisation des relations professionnelles. On peut effectivement constater, au cours de la dernière décennie, un développement notable des accords d'entreprise. Aux yeux de l'observateur, ce mouvement ne doit pas occulter, malgré tout, ni la pérennité des accords de branche, ni l'importante variable des accords d'entreprise selon les secteurs et les tailles d'entreprise ni, enfin, le fait que la dynamique n'est pas nécessairement la même d'un thème de négociation à l'autre. Une enquête menée dans deux secteurs (électronique et santé) permet de spécifier les limites de la décentralisation en matière de négociation sur l'emploi.