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This thesis is an examination of the Industrial Workers of the World and its relations with capital, organized labour, and the socialist movement in British Columbia before the First World War.

This article reviews the book, "Grosse-Ile: Gateway to Canada 1832-1937," by Marianna O'Gallagher.

Les objectifs de cette étude sont de tester de nouveau les relations entre d'une part le stress intrinsèque et extrinsèque et d'autre part, l'absence et l'assiduité au travail et de déterminer la nature des relations entre le stress au travail et différentes mesures de fréquence des absences et de temps perdu.

Pendant longtemps, des milliers de femmes gagnèrent leur vie dans des bordels à Montréal. L'étude de leur milieu de travail pendant les années vingt et trente révèle une organisation hiérarchique et des conditions dont le contrôle échappait aux principales intéressées. L'appareil judiciaire et policier, les organisations de réformes sociales, le clergé et les médecins hygiénistes affectaient, par la tolérance ou la répression, le cadre dans lequel s'exerçait la prostitution. Plus directement, les souteneurs, les tenancières et leurs gérantes déterminaient les conditions quotidiennes de travail. Les changements observés pendant toute cette période sont plus imputables à la vigilance policière qu'aux fluctuations économiques ou aux efforts des travailleuses elles-mêmes.

This article reviews the book, "The Great Arch: English State Formation as Cultural Revolution," by Philip Corrigan and Derek Sayer.

This article reviews the book, "Innovation and Management Control: Labour Relations at BL Cars," by Paul Willman and Graham Winch.

The purpose of this study is to examine CCF-CCL relations in the Saskatchewan public service during the early years of the government of Tommy Douglas. While much has been written about the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the Canadian Congress of Labour (CCL), both as separate organizations and as political 'allies', little has been said about their relations in Saskatchewan. Yet, the CCF formed the government in Saskatchewan for five consecutive terms between 1944 and 1964, and it was in this agrarian province that the true test of the CCF-CCL relationship occurred. Saskatchewan was the one location where unions that supported the CCF were faced with a social democratic government which was also their employer. The difficulty the two sides encountered while trying to reconcile industrial relations with their political relations forms the subject of this study.

This article reviews the book, "Unions in Transition. Entering the Second Century," by Seymour Martin Lipset.

This paper examines the changing pattern of worker participation in organizations during recent conditions of economic down-turn. The authors conclude that the current recession has served as a catalyst to force many organizations and their members to recognize that traditional management approaches and resulting employee responses have become increasingly inadequate in the light of wider social changes, and that there is more support for an «evolutionary ratchet» as opposed to a «cyclical» notion of participation.

This article reviews the book, "Working Wives/Working Husbands," by Joseph H. Pleck.

Although a great deal has been written about the western Canadian working class in the first two decades of the twentieth century, there is still a need to examine the nature of the labour-capital relations in a small prairie city like Saskatoon. Even though the Saskatoon working class lived and worked in an agricultural economy, it was far from being passive and conservative in ils relationship with the ruling class, especially in the period that led to the labour revolt of 1919. This relationship was based on class conflict, similar to what other workers were experiencing on a national and international basis. Class conflict was not restricted to the workpalce, for it also involved the working-class community when it came to matters of unemployment, living conditions. inflation, and the tragedies of war which enhanced the evils of capitalism. The Saskatoon working class issued both an economic and political response to prairie capitalism which included an astute understanding of the rules of the game and a form of radical politics which aimed at a transformation of society.

This article reviews the book, "From Consent to Coercion: The Assault on Trade Union Freedoms," by Leo Panitch & Donald Swartz.

From the seventeenth century on, deforestation due to the abusive use of wood by the iron industry, excessive naval construction and the extraordinary demand for timber for reconstruction following the Great Fire of London in 1666 led increasingly to the construction of British merchant ships in her North American colonies. Following American Independence, vessels built in the thirteen colonies were no longer entitled to British Registry, and shipbuilders in Quebec and the Maritime Provinces were able to take full advantage of the British demand. When Napoleon blockaded the Baltic, thereby endangering the British supply of timber from northern Europe, a fast-growing Canadian timber trade served as a tremendous stimulus to local shipbuilding. This is a study of the construction of square riggers at Quebec between 1763 and 1893, as revealed principally by the shipping registers of the port, notarial records, Lloyd's Survey Reports, newspaper advertisements and reports, city directories and census reports. It describes the historical background of the trade and local conditions affecting it, identifies the Quebec shipbuilders, pinpointing when and where they worked, describes the shipyards and various aspects of the shipbuilding business, takes a look at the workers and the specialized shipbuilding trades and outlines the techniques they used. It describes and classifies the vessels that were built giving details of their materials and equipment, and looks briefly at their purchasers. The writer concludes that the production of the Quebec shipyards filled a specific need for spacious, light, fast carriers, until the third quarter of the nineteenth century when improved metallurgical technology allowed their place to be taken by metal-hulled ships. The main appendices contain a collection of plans of shipyard sites and lists of the sixteen hundred and thirty vessels of over one hundred tons built at Quebec and four hundred and sixty-seven others built elsewhere on the river, all of which were registered at Quebec. No complete plans of ships built at Quebec were uncovered during the research, but a number of drawings of construction details and mid-ship section plans form another appendix.

This article reviews the book, "Natives and Newcomers: Canada's "Heroic Age" Reconsidered," by Bruce G. Trigger.

This article reviews the book, "Migrant Laborers," by Sharon Stichter.

This article reviews the book, "Mitarbeiter beteiligung. Grundlagen - Befunde - Modelle" [Employee participation . Basics - Findings - Models], by Günter Schanz.

This article reviews the book, "New Forms of Work Organization and thier Social and Economic Development," by Peter Grootings, Bjorn Gustavsen & Lajos Héthy.

This article reviews the book, "Let Us Rise: A History of the Manitoba Labour Movement," by Doug Smith.

This article reviews the book, "Part-time, Casual and Other Atypical Workers: A Legal View. Research and Current Issues Series," by Geoffrey England.

This article reviews the book, "Image Worlds: Corporate Identities at Genera! Electric," by David E. Nye.