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The purpose of this paper is to analyse the time pattern of male-female wage différentials with a view towards determining whether or not equal pay legislation has narrowed the male-female wage gap.

The filmmakers were given remarkable freedom to record the historic 1984 contract negotiations between the United Auto Workers and General Motors Corporation. Bob White, labour leader of the Canadian branch of the UAW, must also confront his American counterpart from Detroit and succeeds in arriving at a contract that is significantly Canadian. His members had already given him a mandate to fight for independence from the American union. This is an invaluable document for anyone interested in the complexities of United States-Canada relations. It's an extraordinary film about revolutionary events. --NFB website description

The worldwide depression prostrated the British Columbia economy in the early 1930s. Production levels dropped and industry stagnated. Unemployment became a pressing problem, and as jobless from throughout Canada rode the trains to the warmer climes of British Columbia's Lower Mainland there was fear that British Columbia was becoming "just a blamed resort for all the hoboes in Canada." Vancouver was inundated with unemployed workers and became the focus of agitation as the job-less organized demonstrations, tag days, and parades in order to gain the ear of governments and improve their circumstances. ... In interior centres, where the climate was much less kind, the jobless also launched an attack on the established order. In the Prince George district unemployed workers, led by communists, pressed the local government for higher relief payments, organized demonstrations and parades, initiated strikes in relief camps and at work projects, and even entered the political arena in the 1933 provincial election under the banner of the United Front. --Introduction

This article reviews the book, "Gender, Class and Work," edited by Eva Gamarnikow, David Morgan, June Purvis, and Daphne Taylorson.

In August 1935 the people of Alberta shocked the country by electing a Social Credit government. Most explanations for this remarkable success have focused on the predominance of farmers in the province. This essay probes to the roots of the Social Credit movement in Calgary in 1932. What emerges is a new recognition of the vital role of Calgary workers in launching the movement. As organizers, activists and, at certain times, shock troops, Calgary workers led the Social Credit sweep through the city, then propelled it into the rural arena where it won its electoral victory.

The article reviews and comments on "Landlord and Tenant in Urban Britain, 1838-1918," by David Englander, "America s Working Man. Work, Home, and Politics among Blue-Collar Property Owners," by David Halle, "Housing Policy and Economic Power. The Political Economy of Owner-Occupation," by Michael Ball, and "Redesigning the American Dreum. The Future of Housing, Work, and Family Life," by Dolores Hayden.

This article reviews the book, "Steel and Steelworkers: The Sons of Vulcan," by Charles Docherty.

This article reviews the book, "Two Sisters for Social Justice: A Biography of Grace and Edith Abbott," by Lela B. Costin.

The Regina Riot, which erupted in that city's Market Square on July 1, 1935, was the climax of a strike by relief camp workers which had begun in British Columbia on April 4. After lingering two months in Vancouver, the participants struck out east by freight train, on to Ottawa, where they intended to tell the Government of Canada that the situation of the unemployed had become intolerable. The origins of the Strike, the Trek, and the Riot -- the character of those events -- are what this book is all about. It is a narrative, composed from federal, provincial and municipal records, from news reports, from interviews with participants, from sworn testimony, from photographs, from maps, from sawn-off baseball bats. It is the story of an event which figured prominently, at the same instant, in the history of the Canadian worker, in the history of the Canadian radical, in the histories of two Canadian cities and in the history of R. B. Bennet's Depression years government. --Publisher's description

This article reviews the book, "A Portrait Cast in Steel: Buckeye International and Columbus 1881-1908," by Mansel G. Blackford.

This paper examines recent developments in workers' participation in North America and Western Europe in order to explore the factors which promote or retard such developments.

This article reviews the book, "Capital, State and White Labour In South Africa. 1900-1960: An Historical Materialist Analysis of Class Formation and Class Relations," by Robert H. Davies.

This paper examines the main economie determinants and related factors which have influenced decisevely trade union growth in Greece and the development of the highly complex organizational structure of Greek trade unionism.

Notes with great sadness the recent deaths of Marta Danylewycz, Leo Roback, and Herbert G. Gutman. The current volume is dedicated to their memory.

The article reviews "The Garden Transformed: Prince Edward Island, 1945-1980," by Verner Smitheram, David Milne, and Satadal Dasgupta, "Women and Trade Unions in Eleven Industrialized Countries," edited by Alice Cook, Val R. Lorwin, and Arlene Kaplan Daniels, "Black Socialist Preacher: The Teachings of Reverend George Washington Woodbey and his Disciple Reverend George W. Slater, Jr.," edited by Philip S. Foner, "Supremacy and Subordination of Labour: The Hierarchy of Work in the Early Labour Movement," by Mike Holbrook-Jones,"Canadian Papers in Rural History," v. 4, edited by Donald H. Akenson, "The Company on the Coast," edited by E. Blanche Norcross, "Class Power and State Power; Political Essays," by Ralph Miliband, "Labor in the World Social Structure," v. 2, edited by Immanuel Wallerstein, "The Polish Peasant in Europe and America," by William I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki, edited and abridged by Eli Zaretsky, "Shopkeepers and Master Artisans in Nineteenth-Centurv Europe," edited by Geoffrey Crossick and Heinz-Gerhard Haupt, "Family Honour: An American Life," by George Cuomo, "Passages in the Life of a Radical," by Samuel Bamford, "In the Tracks of Historical Materialism," by Perry Anderson, "Marx and Engels: A Conceptual Concordance," by Gerard Bekerman, "Twenty Years of the Fishermen's Protective Union of Newfoundland," edited by Hon. Sir W.F. Coaker, / reviews by Gregory S. Kealey -- "The Culture of Technology," by Arnold Pacey / review by C. de B.

This article reviews the book, "Inside Job: Essays on the New York Writing," by Tom Wayman.

This article reviews the book, "The Legend of Red Clydeside," by Iain McLean.

This article reviews the book, "Beating the Fascists? The German Communists and Political Violence, 1929-1933," by Eve Rosenhaft.

This paper outlines and evaluates some of the more important developments that have taken place in the past three decades in Ontario public hospital labour relations.