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This article reviews the book, "Living the Fishing," by Paul Thompson, Tony Wailey and Trevor Lummis.

This article reviews the book, "The Evolution of Management Education: A History of the Northwestern University J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, 1908-1983," by Michael W. Sedlak and Harold F. Williamson.

This article reviews the book, "Black Liberation in Kentucky: Emancipation and Freedom, 1862-2884," by Victor B. Howard.

Presents songs sung by coal miners in Cape Breton.

This article reviews the book, "English University Adult Education 1908-1958: A Unique Tradition," by John A. Blyth.

The article briefly reviews "A Guide to Labour Records and Resources in British Columbia," compiled by Louise May, "The Rebel in the House: The Life and Times of A.A. Heaps, MP," by Leo Heaps, "Arguments For the Labour Trial of the Century: On the Real Meaning of Unionism," [by James Clancy, Wayne Roberts, David R. Spencer, and John Ward,] "Toronto to 1918: An Illustrated History," by J.M.S. Careless, and "Toronto Since 1918: An Illustrated History," by James Lemon, "Strong Women, Strong Unions: Speeches By Union Women," by Partieipatory Research Group, and "Short Circuit: Women in the Automated Office," by Partieipatory Research Group, "The Black Worker since the AFL-CIO Merger, 1955-1980 ," edited by Philip S. Foner, Ronald L. Lewis, and Robert Cvornyek, "Challenges and Choices Facing American Labor ," edited by Thomas A. Kochan, "From Syndicalism to Trade Unionism: The IWW in Ohio. 1905-1950," by Roy T. Wortman, "The World of Women's Trade Unionism," edited by Norbert C. Soldon, "Coalmining Women: Victorian Lives and Campaigns," by Angela V. John, "Technological Change and Workers' Movements," edited by Melvyn Dubofsky, "A City in the Republic: Antebellum New York and the Origins of Machine Politics ," by Amy Bridges, "Dreams & Dynamite: Selected Poems," by Covington Hall, "The Invention of Tradition," edited by Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, "Mary, After the Queen: Memories of a Working Girl," by Angela Hewins, "The State in Socialist Society," edited by Neil Harding, "Soviet Economy and Society," by David Lane, "Settler Capitalism: The Dynamics of Dependent Development in the Southern Hemisphere," by Donald Denoon, "Caste, Conflict and Ideology: Mahatma Jotinao Phule and Low Caste Protest in Nineteenth-Century Western India," by Rosalind O'Hanlon, "Religion and Rural Revolt," edited by Jânos M. Bak and Gerhard Benecke, "The British Marxist Historian," by Harvey J. Kaye, and "History and Structure: An Essay on the Hegelian-Marxist and Structural Theories of History," by Alfred Schmidt.

This article reviews the book, "The Practice of Solidarity: American Hat Finishers in the Nineteenth Century," by David Bensman.

The article briefly reviews "Ravished bx the Spirit: Religious Revivals, Baptists, and Henry Alline," by G.A. Rawylk, "The Acadiensis Reader, v. 1: Atlantic Canada Before Confederation and v. 2: Atlantic Canada After Confederation," edited by P.A. Bucknerand David Frank, "The Mysteries of Montreal: Memoirs of a Midwife," by Charlotte Fiihrer, edited by Peter Ward, "The Promoters' City: Building the Industrial Town of Maisonneuve, 1883-I9I8," by Paul-Andre Linteau, translated by Robert Chodos, "Government and Enterprise in Canada," edited by K.J. Rea and Nelson Wiseman, "Collective Bargaining in the Public Service: The Federal Experience in Canada," v. 1-2, edited by Jacob Finkelman and Shirley B. Goldenberg, "The Labor History Reader," edited by Daniel J. Leah, "C. Wright Mills: An American Utopian," by Irving Louis Horowitz, "Foundry Foreman, Foundry men," by Lloyd Zimpel, (San Pedro: Singlejack,1980); "Longshoring on the San Francisco Waterfront," by Reg Theriault, (San Pedro: Singlejack, 1978); and "Night Shift in a Pickle Factory," by Steve Turner (San Pedro: Singlejack, 1980), "The Fight Against Shutdowns: Youngstown's Steel Mill," by Staughton Lynd, "International Labour Reports" (a bimonthly magazine established 1983), "The Idea of Poverty: England in the Early Industrial Age," by Gertrude Himmelfarb, "A History of British Socialism," by Max Beer. with a new introduction by Ken Coates, "English Industrial Cities of the Nineteenth Century," by Richard Dennis, "Shop Floor Bargaining and the State: Historical and Comparative Perspectives," edited by Steven Tolliday and Jonathan Zeitlin, "Wigan Pier Revisited: Poverty and Politics in the 80s," by Beatrix Campbell, " Vision and Method in Historical Sociology," edited by Theda Skoepol, and "Making Sense of Marx," by Joe Elster / reviews by Bryan D. Palmer -- "Agriculture in America, 1622-1860," by Andrea J. Tucher / review by D.H.A. -- "Labor's Joke Book," edited by Paul Buhle / review by Gregory S. Kealey.

These essays introduce readers to the changing and complex character of class struggle in Canada. Individual essays focus on specific features of Canadian class struggle: regional differences, the role of gender, the character of trade union leadership to the specific nature of conflict in particular industries; and the general features of national periods of upheaval such as the year 1919 and the World War II period. [Of the eight essays, two are original to the volume, while the others are abridged or revised versions of articles that previously appeared in publications such as Labour/Le Travail and New Left Review.] --Publisher's description

This article reviews the book, "Job Satisfaction in Public Administration," by P.B. Beaumont & M. Partridge.

This article reviews the book, "A Machinist's Semi-Automated Life," by Roger Tulin.

Presents a case study of shop floor training based on the author's experience as a trainee machinist working in large, unionized machine shops in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1977. Argues that workplace conflict and a lack of support undermines training. Analyzes the antagonisms that arise from formal and informal knowledge and social hierarchies, incentive regimes, game behaviour, and the interplay of methods, quality control, and production times in a for-profit corporation. Also discusses the history of scientific management, its preoccupation with best solutions and deskilling, and contracting out rather than in-house training of specialist skills. Concludes that while self-managed workers' control would integrate production, learning, and managing, the other, more likely, outcome will be the automated factory that further suppresses workforce knowledge and reduces general skill.

This article reviews the book, "Labour in Power, 1945-1951," by Kenneth O. Morgan.

Il existe une demarcation entre la competence du Tribunal siegeant en appel et celle du juge siegeant en permission d'appel. Que plaider pour faire naitre un doute determinant l'octroi de la permission d'appel par un juge en matière de fait?

This article reviews the book, "A Labour of Love: Women. Work and Caring," edited by Janet Finch and Dulcie Groves.

This article reviews the book, "The Independence Movement in Quebec 1945-1980," by William D. Coleman.

The article reviews and comments on "The Labour Aristocracy Revisited: The Victorian Flint Glass Makers, 1850-1880," by Takao Matsumura.

Maitriser la technologie : pourquoi, quelles technologies, comment?

This article reviews the book, "Rebuilding the Pulp and Paper Worker's Union, 1933-1941," by Robert H. Zieger.

From 1900 to 1930, thousands of Italian immigrants found employment in the CPR work sites throughout the Montreal metropolitan area. After analyzing the most significant socio-economic traits of that labour force, the article investigates some of the major patterns of that employment experience in the context of Montreal's evolving labour market, as well as in relationship with the Italian immigration in Montreal. The study brings out the unstable and volatile relationship of most Italian workers with the CPR — a result of both the workers' own strategy in the urban labour market, and the extremely limited possibilities for occupational advancement the company offered.