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This article reviews the book, "Communisme et anticommunisme au Québec (1920-1950)," by Marcel Fournier.

This paper traces the rise and fall in Ontario of the Workers Educational Association (WEA), a voluntary association whose main purpose was to organize inexpensive, non-credit night classes taught by university professors for the working class. The Association was an offshoot of the British WEA. ln Ontario the main impetus for establishing an Association in 1918 came from members of Toronto's intellectual elite. One of their aims was to teach labour people "responsible behaviour" at a time when the labour movement seemed to be gaining influence and becoming more radical. Working-class people within the WEA proved less malleable than the academics had hoped, and the Association soon became a workers' organization, largely controlled by some of its working-class members. It offered many liberal arts courses and, in the late 1930s and 1940s, developed innovative labour education and research programmes which proved of lasting benefit to the labour movement. Although continually threatened by the University of Toronto administration, the WEA failed in the 1950s because certain labour leaders, using Cold War tactics, opposed a labour educational institution that they could not control.

Cet article montre comment les Canadiens-français occupent une fonction d'infériorité à l'intérieur de l'entreprise.

The article reviews and comments on "The Divided Left: American Radicalism, 1900-1975 ," by Milton Cantor, "Daniel De Leon: The Odyssey of an American Marxist," by Glen Seretan, "Eugene V. Debs, Spokesman for Labor and Socialism," by Bernard J. Brommel, "Morris Hillquit: A Political History of an American Jewish Socialist," by Norma Fain Pratt, "James Connolly and the United States," by Carl and Ann Barton Reeve, and "An American Anarchist. The Life of Voltairine de Cleyre," by Paul Avrich.

This article reviews the book, "The March Inland: Origins of the ILWU Warehouse Division, 1934-1938," by Harvey Schwartz.

This article takes a historical event, which has made a strong impact on a working-class community, and shows how it has become part of the historical consciousness of that community, interpreted in accordance with its value system. The event is the death of two union organizers, Vilho Rosvall and John Voutilainen, in a Port Arthur lumber strike in 1929. The community is the national community of class-conscious Finnish working-class immigrants, organizationally connected by membership in the Finnish Organization of Canada, a left-wing cultural organization. The author reconstructs the event from available historical sources and proceeds to show how this community has viewed it, by reviewing both oral history records and published accounts in union papers and community publications. In looking for reasons why this event has remained significant for this particular community, both Old Country working-class traditions and the Canadian experience of Finnish pre-World War II immigrants has to be considered.

This article reviews the book, "Wartime Strikes: The Struggle Against the No-Strike Pledge in the UAW During World War II," by Martin Glaberman.

The article reviews and comments on "The Development of an African Working Class: Studies in Class Formation and Action," edited by Richard Sandbrook and Robin Cohen, "Forced Labour in Colonial Africa," by A.T. Nzula, I.I. Potekhim, and A.Z. Zusmanovich, "Organize or Starve: The History of the South African Congress of Trade Unions," by Ken Luckhardt and Brenda Wall, "Peasants and Proletarians: The Struggles of Third World Workers," edited by Robin Cohen, Peter Gutkind, and Phyllis Brazier, "African Labor History," edited by Peter Gutkind, Robin Cohen, and Jean Copans, "Black Mineworkers in Central Africa," by Charles Perrings, and "Chibaro: African Mine Labour in Southern Rhodesia, 1919-1933," by Charles Van Onselen.

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Examines the Jewish workers in the Montreal clothing industry, where was considerable strike activity, from 1910-80. Presents data on the majority Jewish representation in the industry, many of whom had just arrived from Eastern Europe bringing their knowledge of the tailoring craft with them. Describes the growth of ready-to-wear clothing and the decline of home sweatshops ("the sweating system"), which gave impetus to establishing clothing factories that, in turn, sparked unions demanding recognition and better wages and working conditions. Concludes that the Jewish workers were exceptionally militant during the period.

La Confédération des syndicats nationaux, qui s'est appelée jusqu'en 1960 la Confédération des travailleurs catholiques du Canada (CTCC), et sans conteste l'une des institutions les plus importantes du Québec. Depuis sa fondation en 1921, elle a joué un rôle de tout premier plan, s'affirment à la fois comme un des mouvements organisés des travailleurs et travailleuses et un des principaux agent de transformation sociale. Au cours de son histoire, la CSN s'est toujours distinguée par sa volonté de réformer et profondeur la régime économique et d'instaurer une société plus juste, respecteuse de la dignité des travailleurs. Publié à l'occasion du 60e anniversaire de la CSN, ce livre ne se veut cependant pas une histoire officielle. Il a été écrit par une spécialiste de l'histoire des travailleurs et il s'adresse à ceux et celles qui s'intéressemt à cet aspect fondamental, pourtant encore largement méconnu de l'histoire du Québec. Sommaire de l'éditeur

This article reviews the book, "Problèmes et perspectives d’emploi dans le secteur hôtelier du Québec, by ministère du Travail et de la Main-d’oeuvre.

L'auteur définit et examine la notion de travail à temps partiel et en présente les différentes implications.

This article reviews the book, "Workers and Workplaces in Revolutionary China," edited by Stephen Andors.

This article reviews two books: "Spying on Americans: Political Surveillance from Hoover to the Huston Plan," by Athan Theoharis, and "Cold War on the Campus: Academic Freedom at the University of Washington, 1946-64," by Jane Sanders.

This article reviews the book, "Small Worlds: Provinces and Parties in Canadian Political Life," by David J. Blkins & Richard Simeon. This article reviews the book, "Society and Politics in Alberta: Research Papers," by Carlo Caldarola.

This article reviews the book, "Life and Death of a Union: The Canadian Seamen's Union," by John Stanton.

The selection of topics for this Encyclopedia has not always been easy, especially as some topics coincide with the present, and obscure with their familiarity the context of the past. Yet we have learned from our research for this work that unless the present be recorded in print now it has less chance of being known in the future. In addition to the thousands of topics compiled by the Editor in Chief, Mr. Smallwood, the topics presented here have been selected from those suggested by many people and from nearly one hundred and fifty source books of Newfoundland society and history. Sometimes the work of choosing the best and most accurate sources has been as difficult as choosing the topics; history is an account of what has been recorded to have happened. This being so, we have attempted to corroborate and otherwise verify such records, and, where this is impossible, to present and identify conflicting statements... Robert D.W. Pitt --Website description

This article reviews three books: "Economy, Class and Social Reality: Issues in Contemporary Canadian Society," edited by John Allan Fry, "Class, State, Ideology and Change: Marxist Perspectives on Canada," edited by J. Paul Grayson, and "Power and Change in Canada," edited by Richard J. Ossenberg.

This article reviews the book, "Equal Employment Policy for Women : Strategies for Implementation in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe," by Ronnie Steinberg Ratner, Edited.