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A comment is presented of Richard P. Chaykowski and George A. Slotsve's "Government Administered Workplace Surveys and Industrial Relations in Canada" (2002). Their article comments on Godard's 2001 article, "New Dawn or Bad Moon Rising? Large Scale Government Administered Workplace Surveys and the Future of Canadian IR Research."
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Strikes in Essential Services, by Bernard Adell, Michael Grant and Allen Ponak, is reviewed.
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The article reviews the book, "La Nouvelle France: The Making of French Canada - A Cultural History," by Peter N. Moogk.
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The article reviews the book, "Gustave Francq : figure marquante du syndicalisme et précurseur de la FTQ," by Éric Leroux.
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The article reviews the book, "French socialists before Marx," by Pamela Pilbeam.
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Work and Employment in a Globalized Era: An Asia-Pacific Focus edited by Yaw A. Debrah and Ian G. Smith, is reviewed.
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The article reviews "Building a Better World: An Introduction to Trade Unionism in Canada," by Errol Black and Jim Silver.
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Consulted to Death, by Doug Smith, is reviewed.
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"Heal Thyself:" Managing Health Care Reform, by Pat Armstrong, Hugh Armstrong, Ivy Bourgeault, Jacqueline Choiniere, Eric Mykhalovskiy and Jerry P. White, is reviewed.
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The article reviews the book, "What workers want," by Richard B. Freeman and Joel Rogers.
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Reviewed: Island Timber: A Social History of the Comox Logging Company, Vancouver Island. Mackie, Richard Somerset.
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The article reviews the book, "C. Wright Mills: Letters and Autobiographical Writings," edited by Kathryn Mills with Pamela Mills.
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Provincial government pay equity policies require the negotiation of pay equity in unionized workplaces. The methodology is complex and unions have to be knowledgeable and committed to rectifying discriminatory wages. According to the literature, Canadian unions have shown varied levels of effectiveness regarding their pursuit of women's equality, and it is explored how well these unions represent women's interests during pay equity bargaining. Based on case studies of the Ontario public service and health care in Newfoundland, it is concluded that the most effective unions supplemented their conventional negotiating techniques with gender analysis and pay equity expertise. These tools were developed primarily through negotiators' formal links with internal equality structures and their knowledge of equality policies, together with women's networking inside and outside the labor movement.
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As public anxiety over access to education increases, public-sector workers are directly able to perceive the extent to which exclusion, rather than public- access, now characterizes post-secondary education in an era of privatization. This paper will address some of the recent experiences of university workers who are members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE). Here we shall identify three issues facing workers in the sector including: i) the privatization of universities through government policy shifts, ii) the employer-led reorganization of work, and iii) university workers’ campaigns to resist and transform these conditions. For public sector workers, decreasing access to social programs, under funding and the intensification of work are very clearly linked. As the restructured state brings public services more fully into the market and increasingly under the direct control of a global capitalist class, democratic rights are eroded. Still, this privatization dynamic is not uni-directional. Public sector workers and their community allies have been part of the history of state restructuring through their conscious acts of resistance, collective bargaining strategies, militancy and coalition-building.
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Place, Space and the New Labour Internationalisms, edited by Peter Waterman and Jane Wills, is reviewed.
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For some 20 years now, it has been common to refer to a crisis of trade unionism. What the future holds for labor movements-or indeed, whether they still have a future-seems increasingly uncertain. For many critics (academic observers as well as trade unionists themselves), unions in most countries appear as victims of external forces outside their control, and often also of their own conservative inertia. In this article, I explore, schematically and with incautious generalizations, the pathways from path to present to future. An important focus is the choices to be made in terms of who unions represent, what interests they emphasize, how they are constituted as organizations, and how they mobilize resources for action.
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Les relations industrielles (RI) influencent-elles la performance des organisations ? Des données financières de même que des données traitant d’une douzaine de pratiques RI et du climat RI ont été colligées dans 241 caisses populaires faisant partie du Mouvement Desjardins au Québec afin d’estimer l’effet des RI sur trois dimensions de la performance. Les résultats sont à l’effet que lorsque l’influence des autres déterminants est tenue constante, les pratiques RI et le climat RI ont un impact significatif sur la performance organisationnelle, en particulier sur la productivité et les coûts de main-d’oeuvre.
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The article reviews the book, "Cowboys, Gentlemen, and Cattle Thieves: Ranching on the Western Frontier," by Warren M. Elofson.
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The article reviews the book, "Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-21," by Brian Kelly.