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Après avoir propose une définition de la notion de harcèlement sexuel, l'auteur analyse ces éléments cruciaux de l'affaire Robichaud en Cour suprême du Canada qui sous-tendent le besoin pour l'entreprise d'adopter un programme concernant ce problème.

Dans le cadre de onze plaintes de pratique déloyale, le Conseil s'est prononce sur la validité du paragraphe 188(3) du Code qui impose à l'employeur le fardeau de la preuve, en regard des articles 7 et 15 de la Charte canadienne des droits et libertés. Au terme d'une analyse détaillée, le Conseil a juge que le paragraphe 188(3) du Code était conforme à ces deux dispositions de la Charte.

Le 18 décembre 1985, le Conseil accréditait le Syndicat des Employés des Banques Nationales de Rimouski pour représenter tous les employés des cinq succursales de la Banque à Rimouski. Près de deux ans plus tard, le Conseil canadien des relations du travail révoquait le certificat d'accréditation et expliquait les mécanismes du Code en pareilles circonstances.

À l'occasion d'une plainte de pratiques déloyales le Conseil canadien des relations du travail a précisé la notion de «représentation des employés par un syndicat» figurant à l'alinéa 184(l)a) du Code canadien du travail. Il a donne à cette notion une interprétation généreuse de façon à inclure la représentation auprès du public et ce, devant tout forum où le syndicat estime qu'il est dans l'intérêt des membres de les y représenter. Il a en outre décide que le syndicat pouvait exercer ce droit de représentation par l'intermédiaire de tout représentant élu.

The development of industrial capitalism in the second half of the nineteenth century in Ontario brought new and more serious hazards into the workplace and drew women and children into the waged labour force. As a result of working class lobbying and the efforts of middle class reformers, the state empowered itself to regulate health and safety conditions in factories and to protect child and female labour. The implementation of these regulations was left to an inspectorate which was armed with substantial legal powers to enforce the law. These powers were rarely invoked by the inspectors. However, the failure to prosecute does not in itself indicate that the law was unenforced. An alternative enforcement strategy based on persuasion was followed by most inspectors. It has been argued that persuasion was chosen over prosecution because it made more efficient use of the scarce enforcement resources available to the inspectors, and that persuasion was effective. This paper argues that although it is true that the government chose to devote woefully inadequate resources to enforcement of factory legislation, this is not an adequate explanation of the inspectors' enforcement behaviour. The belief that persuasion was an effective enforcement model also flowed from the inspectors' values and assumptions, including the following: that worker carelessness was the major cause of accidents; that employers were socially responsible; that workers and employers had common interests in occupational health and safety; and that women and children needed special protection. It is further argued that persuasion was not an effective enforcement strategy, especially because it was linked with an acceptance by the inspectors of 'normal' industrial practices, even where those practices generated significant risks for workers. In effect, health and safety regulation probably did as much to legitimate industrial capitalism as it did to protect workers health and safety.

This article reviews the book, "The Jews of Detroit: From the Beginning, 1762-1914," by Robert A. Rockway.

The article reviews and comments on "City of Women: Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860," by Christine Stansell.

The article reviews the book, "The Samuel Gompers Papers. Vol. 1: The Making of a Union Leader, 1850-86," edited by Stuart B. Kaufman, et al.

This article reviews the book, "Dynamisme humain dans l'excellence organisationnelle," by Pierre-Marc Meunier & Marcel Laflamme.

This article reviews the book, "International Labour Standards : The Case of Freedom to Strike," by Ruth Ben-Israel.

This article reviews the book, "La liberté syndicale - Manuel d'éducation ouvrière," by Bureau international du travail.

Canada's trade unions have long claimed a prominent place in the struggle for social democracy. From the earliest years of that struggle, the labour movement's press has been on the front lines. Radical Rag tells the colourful story of those pioneer days, recounting the war for social justice fiercely waged through the pages of labour's weekly newspapers.... --Publisher's description on book cover

The article reviews the book, "The War against the Seals: A History of the North American Seal Fishery," by Briton Cooper Busch.

This article reviews the book, "Evolution of Labor Relations in Japan: Heavy Industry, 1853-1955," by Andrew Gordon.

This article reviews the book, "Policing Industrial Disputes: 1893-1985," by Roger Geary.

This collection of essays offers a comprehensive examination of the working class experience in British Columbia and contains essential background knowledge for an understanding of contemporary relations between government, labour, and employees. It treats workers' relationship to the province's resource base, the economic role of the state, the structure of capitalism, the labour market and the influence of ethnicity and race on class relations. --Publisher's description

The article reviews the book, "Parades and Power: Street Theatre in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia, by Susan G. Davis.

This paper examines the effect and the constitutionality of the statutory bar as it impacts on workers and their dependents and comments on the significance and the merits of the constitutional challenges to the statutory bar which have already emerged. Statutory reforms which would help alleviate the strains while preserving intact the integrity of the worker compensation system are briefly reviewed.

In 1981 the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) staged a strike in Ontario Hospitals. This dissertation is an exploratory case study of the causes and effects of that strike. The dissertation employs elements of the labour process theory to evaluate the hospital worker's action and in so doing provides an opportunity to contribute to the on-going debate concerning this theory. The study is centred on the hospitals of Greater Hamilton and Burlington Ontario. It assesses the role of political environment, union structure and action, and gender in creating and sustaining the conditions for strike action in the public sector. The economic and political situation leading to the strike is analyzed with a view to understanding how the fiscal crisis in Canada led to the strike. Labour legislation and the fiscal policies of the federal and provincial governments had an impact on hospitals and their workers. Labour legislation in the hospital sector destroyed collective bargaining at a time when changes unpopular with the workers were taking place in the hospital. This encouraged the decision to strike. The majority of hospital workers in 1981 were women. The dissertation explores, through interviews and archival data, a possible link between gender and the decision to strike. Some changes in the organization of hospital work broke an important care-giving link between women workers and patients. The repercussions of the strike include charges for the union, for women, and the wider political consequences such as the further undermining of the Hospital Labour Disputes Arbitration Act. The dissertation concludes that the strike was caused by labour process changes made by management faced with government cost cutting measures. These changes were particularly upsetting to the majority of workers who were women. The illegality of the strike did not deter the decision to strike because the government labour legislation had destroyed the 'normal' bargaining process. Therefore workers felt that there was no real choice but to strike

This article reviews the book, "The Party That Changed Canada," by Lynn McDonald.