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This article reviews the book, "Job Satisfaction in Public Administration," by P.B. Beaumont & M. Partridge.
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The firat half of the nineteenth century witnessed the graduaI integration of Montreal garment production into the developing exchange economy, which resulted in the dismantling of the traditional artisanal organization of production and ushered in production for both retail and wholesale distribution,so that by 1860 a fledgling ready-made garment industry existed in the city. Between 1871 and 1901, the garment industry was the largest employer in the city, and one of the most important industries in terms of the of the value of' its production. Furthermore, Montreal held the position of Canadian garment capital throughout our period. Focussed primarily on the manufacture of men's wear, the garment industry in Montreal was heavily dominated by the largest wholesale manufacturers, who specialized in the production of low-priced, cheap quality garments which were aimed essentially at the rural labouring population and at shantymen of every province. The success of the city's ready-made garment producers can be explained both by tremendous expansion of the market for their goods, which occured in the second half of the nineteenth century, and by their ability to exploit a vast reserve of of essentially rural, semi-skilled labour. This situation of labour abundance made possible the organization of labour known as contracting or putting out, which remained the dominant mode of organization well into the twentieth century, and created dismal working conditions of long hours at extremely low wages for which the industry will always be remembered.
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This article reviews the book, "A Machinist's Semi-Automated Life," by Roger Tulin.
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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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