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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.
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This article reviews the book, "Labour in Power, 1945-1951," by Kenneth O. Morgan.
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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?
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This article reviews the book, "A Labour of Love: Women. Work and Caring," edited by Janet Finch and Dulcie Groves.
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This article reviews the book, "The Independence Movement in Quebec 1945-1980," by William D. Coleman.
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The article reviews and comments on "The Labour Aristocracy Revisited: The Victorian Flint Glass Makers, 1850-1880," by Takao Matsumura.
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Maitriser la technologie : pourquoi, quelles technologies, comment?
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This article reviews the book, "Rebuilding the Pulp and Paper Worker's Union, 1933-1941," by Robert H. Zieger.
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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.
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This article reviews the book, "A People's Army: Massachusetts Soldiers and Society in the Seven Years' War," by Fred Anderson.
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This article reviews the book, "The Origins of Anglo-American Radicalism," edited by Margaret Jacob and James Jacob.
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The paper presents a study of strike activity in Israël through a sectoral approach.
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This article reviews the book, "Rethinking the Economy," by James Laxer.
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This article reviews the book, "Les premiers italiens de Montréal. L'origine de la petite Italie du Québec," by Bruno Ramirez.
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Deportation helped to relieve employers, municipalities, and the state from the burdens of poverty, unemployment, and political unrest, by getting rid of workers when they became useless, surplus, or obstreperous. But this is only half of the equation: apparently straightforward economic imperatives were also profoundly political. Agitators and radicals challenged a social and economic order (and a political system) that immigration policy served. Radicals were designated as undesirable not so much by legislation as by employer blacklists and complaints, the surveillance networks of the industrial and Dominion police, the militia, the RCMP, and United States intelligence, and a certain anti-labour tradition in immigration policy. Deportation preserved the status quo. Immigration officials at times lied to conceal their activities; they broke their own laws, and consistently abused their power, operating virtually outside the knowledge and control of Parliament, the courts, and the general public.
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This paper uses the Wiles test in an attempt to distinguish between the Human Capital and Screening theories on the role of higher education. Regressions on Canadian survey data reveal support for Human Capital theory at the expense of Screening theory.
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L'objet de cet article est d'étendre l'analyse déjà disponible de certaines clauses de convention collective à l'ensemble des clauses non salariales de celles-ci.
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This article seeks to evaluate how legislations redesigning bargaining structures in the Ontario and Saskatchewan construction industry influenced employer and union organizations and to estimate its effects on strike activity, negotiated wage settlements and nonwage outcomes.
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The first decades of the twentieth century saw some significant changes in the nature of office work. Large numbers of employees were added to the payroll, jobs were broken down into their component parts, and women were brought in to fill the lowest positions. Relatively little attention has been paid, however, as to how the introduction of these changes varied from industry to industry or from region to region. This study of the conditions of employment at the Banque d'Hochelaga indicates that bank workers, unlike other white-collar employees, were faced with the instability that came from being regularly moved from branch to branch, In other regards, the working conditions faced by the employees of the Hochelaga differed from those for the industry as a whole because of the recruitment of the Hochelaga's work force from a French-speaking labour market.
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Decisions rendues par le conseil canadien des relations du travail.