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The article reviews the book, " Legalizing Gender and Equality: Courts, Markets and Unequal Pay for Women in America," by Robert L. Nelson and William P. Bridges

Critiques the documentary, "Prairie Fire," including that the narrative is framed by the "western exceptionalist" historical interpretation, which narrows the Strike's significance.

Jusqu'à présent, peu de recherches se sont intéressées au roulement des membres au sein des organismes professionnels. La présente étude comble, en partie, cette lacune en analysant les intentions de rester membre ou non (ainsi que de redevenir membre ou non) des professionnels appartenant (ou ayant appartenu) à un organisme professionnel en ressources humaines ou en relations industrielles. À partir de données collectées par questionnaires (n = 916 membres actifs et 217 membres inactifs), des analyses de régression ont permis d'isoler plusieurs facteurs explicatifs importants comme l'attachement affectif à l'organisme. Les résultats obtenus permettent, entre autres, de mettre à jour différentes logiques d'affiliation à un organisme professionnel.

Ce texte examine le profil des travailleurs qui sont prêts à réduire volontairement leurs heures de travail pour participer à un programme départage de l'emploi. Nos résultats montrent que, contrairement aux enquêtes agrégées, les variables de capital humain (salaire, éducation), le statut marital, le sexe ainsi que la présence d'enfants en bas âge ne jouent aucun rôle dans la détermination de la probabilité à participer à un programme départage de travail. Par contre, l'âge et l'ancienneté affectent à la baisse cette probabilité. Par ailleurs, ce qui est plus révélateur c'est le fait que l'attitude à l'égard du loisir, ainsi que les caractéristiques de l'emploi occupé par les individus sont les principaux déterminants des choix des individus en termes de réduction des heures de travail.

The article reviews the book, "Derecho sindical," by José Manuel Lastra Lastra.

The article reviews the book, "La puissance du stress : une valeur ajoutée," by Jean-Pierre Hogue and Pierre Brulé.

The article reviews and comments on the books, "Taking Care of Business: Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland, and the Tragedy of American Labor" by Paul Buhle; "Working for Wages: The Roots of Insurgency" by Martin Glaberman and Seymour Faber; "A Covert Life: Jay Lovestone, Communist, Anti-Communist, and Spymaster" by Ted Morgan; and "Democracy is Power, Rebuilding Unions from the Bottom Up" by Mike Parker and Martha Gruelle.

The article briefly reviews Francis Wheen's "Karl Marx," "Compass Points: Navigating the 20th Century," edited by Robert Chodos; William R. Haycraft's "Yellow Steel: The Story of the Earthmoving Equipment Industry ;" "Rosa Luxembourg: Reflections and Writings," edited by Paul Le Blanc; "No Gods, No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism," edited by Daniel Guérin, with translation by Paul Sharkey; Lynne Bowen's "Robert Dunsmuir, Laird of the Mines;" Nikolai Bukharin's "How It All Began: The Prison Novel;" Neil Tudiver's "Universities for Sale: Resisting Corporate Control over Canadian Higher Education;" Cynthia R. Commachio's "The Infinite Bonds of Family: Domesticity in Canada, 1850-1940;" Harry Fisher's "Comrades: Tales of a Brigadista in the Spanish Civil War;" Eve Blau's "The Architecture of Red Vienna, 1919-1934;" Alan Kidd's "State, Society, and the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England;" "Nationalism, Labour, and Ethnicity, 1870-1939," edited by Stefan Berger and Angel Smith; and "Tough Girls: Women Warriors and Wonder Women in Popular Culture," by Sherrie A. Inness.

The article reviews the book, "Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima," by M.M. Manring.

The article reviews the book, "The Wages of Influence: Labor and Management in Postwar Japan," by Andrew Gordon.

Argues that class analysis is still relevant to coalition building. Analyzes the UPS strike of 1997 which focused successfully on gaining broad support for part-time workers. Abridged version of a conference paper given in January 1998 at the Catholic University Leuven (Belgium).

Although there is substantial evidence that, on average, employee profit sharing improves company performance, little is known about the conditions under which it does so or the mechanisms through which it operates. This study identifies possible consequences and moderators of profit sharing, and then utilizes a data set from 108 Canadian profit-sharing firms to empirically examine them. Virtually all of the predicted consequences emerged, although to varying degrees. Three main factors moderated their emergence. Results were significantly more favorable in firms that had a high involvement managerial philosophy, that communicated extensively about profit sharing, and that allocated the profit-sharing bonus according to measures of individual employee performance.

The article reviews the book, "Just Another Car Factory: Lean Production and its Discontents. Rinehart," by James Rinehart, Christopher Huxley, and David Robertson.

The article reviews the book, "States, Markets, Families: Gender, Liberalism and Social Policy in Australia, Canada, Great Britain and the United States," by Julia S. O'Connor, Ann Shola Orloff and Sheila Shaver.

The article reviews the book, "Strategic human resource management: a reader," by Christopher Mabey.

Employs class analysis to compare the position of the working class during the Russian revolution(s) of 1917 with the collapse of the Soviet regime in 1991. Concludes that the working class was much weaker in 1991, with little or no say on the outcome. The conclusion also comments that the peoples of the former Soviet Union paid a heavy price for the absence of socialism in the West.

Patrick Lenihan: From Irish Rebel to Founder of Canadian Public Sector Unionism, edited by Gil Levine, is reviewed.

This study builds on the union organizing and free-rider literature by examining determinants of dues-paying membership in the Temple Association of University Professionals. The TAUP, an American Federation of Teachers affiliate, is the collective bargaining representative for 992 members of the Temple University faculty, 52% of whom are dues-paying members. Results indicate that attitudes about unions in general, the cost of union dues, the perception of alternative faculty governance effectiveness, and the beliefs about the appropriateness of unionization for professional employees were related to joining behavior. In contrast, job attitudes about the employer, perceived bargaining unit effectiveness, and political ideology were not significant predictors of membership status.

The article reviews and comments on several books including "We Have a Glowing Dream: Recollections of Working-Class and People's Struggles in B. C. from 1935 to 1996" by Maurice Rush, "Cold Warrior: C.S. Jackson and the United Electrical Workers" by Doug Smith, and "Red Bait!: Struggles of a Mine Mill Local" by Al King with Kate Braid.

The turn of the millennium also marks the centenary of Canadian socialism, dated from 1901 (the first free-standing country-wide organization) or 1905 (the formation of the first electorally successful socialist party). By probing the logic and rhetoric of key texts from the Canadian socialist movement, we can discern four distinct formations--evolutionary science, revolutionary praxis, national State management, and revolutionary humanism and national liberation--in a history marked throughout by a hegemonic liberal order. These strategies are worth careful, sympathetic, and critical study as socialist movements regroup in the 21st century.