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This article reviews the book, "Mexico: Class Formation, Capital Accumulation, and the State," by James Cockcroft.

Women's activism in unions has increased dramatically in the last decade, creating a sense of renewed vitality and excitement in the trade union movement. Union Sisters is a attempt to document the struggles and victories of the movement of union women as well as to provide some direction to women and unions as they fight to defend the interests of working people. --Introduction

Harold Chamberlain Banks, a convicted felon and union strongarm, was recruited in 1949 to break up the communist-controlled unions that were blocking the country’s shipping industry and to replace them with a Canadian chapter of the Seafarers’ International Union (SIU). This gripping docudrama, based on eyewitness accounts and courtroom testimony, recalls thirteen turbulent years of violence and corruption during which the careers of 6 000 seamen were destroyed by the power of one man, Banks. Canada’s Sweetheart recounts the events leading up to 1962, when a small group summoned the courage to stand up to Banks and his organization. This challenge resulted in the government-appointed Norris Commission hearings--a landmark in Canadian labour history. --Website description

Pays tribute to the life and work of social historian Marta Danylewycz (reprint of the letter published in La Presse, Friday, March 29, 1985, that was signed by Denyse Baillargeon, Bettina Bradbury, Joanne Burgess, and eight others); industrial relations' professor Léo Roback, by Bernard Brody; and US labour historian Herbert G. Gutman, by John T. O'Brien (1st article), and Leon Fink and Susan Levine (2nd article). Also includes a list of Gutman's major publications. A photo accompanies each obituary.

Dans la décennie 1971-1980, les accidents industriels au Canada ont connu une très forte croissance. Pareillement, les couts totaux (directs et indirects) ont fait un bond prodigieux: ils ont quadruple en dollars courants et double en dollars constants. Ceci, en dépit du mouvement populaire de conscientisation en matière de sante et de sécurité du travail et des efforts déployés par les autorités compétentes pour contrer le phénomène envahissant des accidents professionnels.

Despite the increasing interest in the establishment and the development of joint labour-management occupational health and safety committees, there have been few studies undertaken to determine their effectiveness. The external and internal factors which influence committee effectiveness, and measures for determining their effectiveness are presented. The confusion between influencing factors and actual measures of committee effectiveness is discussed.

This paper examines the consequences of being unemployed sixteen months after the closing ofthe Canadian Admiral plant in Cambridge, Ontario in November 1981.

This article reviews the book, "Les syndicates britanniques sous les gouvernments travaillistes," by Jean-Pierre Ravier.

Considerable debate exists on the influence of fluctuations in union membership on strike frequency. On a theoretical level it is possible to advance a number of arguments about the sign and meaning of the regression coefficient on union membership in a strike function (see Kaufman (1982)) so the issue remains primarily an empirical one. This paper attempts to shed some new light on the empirical issue using U.K. evidence.

The task of this thesis is to show that from the nineteenth century to the present Catholic Scoial Teaching recognized increasingly the need for social justice in the areas of labour and society. In order to do this, I propose to research carefully the major official Church documents on Catholic social teaching on human labour from Pople Leo XIII’s Enevelical, Rerum Novarum (The Condition of Labour), 1891, up to Pope John II’s Enevelical Laborem Exercens (On Human Work), 1981. I will also attempt to define what Catholic Social Teaching is and explain what are the principles which make up the social teaching of the Catholic Church—principles which are drawn from scripture, concepts of natural law and the sciences. Reference will also be made to Karl marx where his philosophy on labour is applicable. To support the position of the Catholic Church in its teaching on social justice in the workplace while at the same time given that position clarity from my own point of view, I will speak briefly on my evolution as a worker, a union steward, and Catholic layman. I believe this is necessary because what I am today and how I feel about social justice (or the lack of it), especially in the workplace, has its roots in my early tradition and gradually evolved. Just as the Catholic Church in its writings down through the ages has consistently recognized the plight of the worker, I, too, as a worker, gradually became aware of many visible injustices in the workplace, although I was relatively powerless to do anything about them. In developing my thesis, I will draw upon my thirty-eight years’ experience as a member of Canada’s work-force, thirty-four of which were spent in the telecommunication field. By referring to specific work-related problems I encountered over the years, I will demonstrate why there is such a need for social justice in the workplace, and why I as both Catholic and worker ultimately became a strong advocate for some form of legal machinery to help resolve these problems. I will briefly touch on some incidents that immediately preceded the majority vote for the Communication Workers of Canada (CWC) as the bargaining agent for the Phone Company’s craft and clerical employees in place of the Employees’ Association. As one of the first union stewards and Chairman of the Political Action Committee for the CWC, I will relate a few of the many cases I resolved for fellow workers, in contrast with what the Association has been able to do for this group of workers. I will show why I agree wholeheartedly with the Catholic Church’s present position on and support of the trade union movement as a vehicle for social justice in the workplace. All of the Popes with whom I will be dealing, Leo XIII, Pius XI, Pius XII, John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul II, called for social justice in the workplace and advocated unions as bargaining agents for the worker. Their writings and those of other brilliant Catholic churchmen and laymen demonstrate how the Catholic Church has evolved in the area of social justice and labour. It is this broader Catholic support which has allowed me to find my proper place as a worker advocate. Thus, autobiographical reflection will provide the impetus which inspired me to analyze the papal enevelicals of the Catholic Church.

The object of this paper is to offer a taxonomy — a kind of classification System — as an aid to thinking, in a number of interrelated dimensions, about collective bargaining as a phenomenon of the relationship between management and labour.

Teachers' aspirations to professionalism are manifested in a desire to control educational decision-making. This research investigates success in achieving control of decision-making under formal bargaining, as defined by The School Boards andTeachers' Collective Negotiations Act, compared to non-formal bargaining used prior to 1975.

In 1983 and 1984 the Canadian Studies Program of the Secretary of State funded four lecture series at Canadian universities on the history of the Canadian working class. This volume presents many of the lectures in a published version. Ranging from east to west and covering two centuries of Canadian labour history, the volume includes a selection of essays by some of Canada's leading social historians including Michael Cross, David Frank, Ross McCormack, Bryan Palmer and Joy Parr. Outstanding participants in the making of Canadian labour history Eugene Forsey and H. Landon Ladd have also contributed. Directed at a popular audience these fourteen lectures provide a major survey of Canada's labour past. --Publisher's description

This article reviews the book, "Les mises à pied et le travail à temps réduit dans quelques pays de l'OCDE," by Bernard Grais.

This article reviews the book, "Sécurité sociale, chômage et retraite anticipée," by Association internationale de la sécurité sociale.

This article reviews the book, "Radicalism and Freethought in Nineteenth-Century Britain: The Life of Richard Carlile," by Joel H. Wiener.

This article reviews the book, "Atlantic Canada and Confederation: Essays in Canadian Political Economy," by David G. Alexander.

L’acte des manufactures de Quebec, 1885 : un centenaire.

This article reviews the book, "L'Église d'ici et le social: 1940-1960," by Jacques Cousineau.

This article reviews the book, "L'Histoire des femmes au Québec depuis quatre siècles," by Le Colleclif Clio (Micheline Dumont, Michele Jean, Marie Lavigne, and Jennifer Stoddart).