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The article reviews the book, "La gestion des organisations publiques," by Harold F. Gortner, Julianne Mahler, and Jeanne Bell Nicholson.
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The article reviews the book, "Conflict of Interests: Organized Labor and the Civil Rights Movement in the South, 1954-1968," by Alan Draper.
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The article reviews the book, "The Atlantic Provinces in Confederation," edited by E. R. Forbes and D. A. Muise.
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The article reviews the book, "The Shaker Experience in America: A History of the United Society of Believers," by Stephen Stein.
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The article reviews the book, "The French Worker: Autobiographies From the Early Industrial Era," edited and translated by Mark Traugott.
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CAMI, a unionized Suzuki-General Motors auto plant in Ontario, attempted to construct a workplace characterized by worker commitment and cooperative labor-management relations. These efforts failed. There was a 5-week strike in the Fall of 1992 at the plant. While CAMI was in the start-up mode, labor-management relations were relatively harmonious and the working environment relaxed. With the onset of full production all this changed, and the meaning of "lean" production became clearer. Workers regularly contested the dictates of lean production at CAMI. Interest and participation in quality circle and suggestion programs declined. Proponents of lean production are likely to define CAMI as an aberration by involving the partial implementation thesis or stressing the militancy of the union. In one respect only are they right. The strike does distinguish CAMI as exceptional, at least until there are similar manifestations of industrial conflict in other transplants. However, the conditions that produced the strike appear in unionized as well as non-unionized transplants.
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The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is likely to affect labor movement power in Canada and the US. A thorough analysis of NAFTA's impact on labor movement power must examine its impact on the power resources available to labor movements. Four organizational structure variables that affect power resources are: 1. union density, 2. left party legislative strength, 3. organized labor's unity and coherence, and 4. collective bargaining centralization. NAFTA will increase transnational corporate power resources while at the same time reducing all 4 basic types of labor movement organizational power resources in the short to medium run. NAFTA's net impact on labor movement power resources will be positive if it enhances labor movement mobilization capacity sufficiently to offset the negative impacts on movement power.
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The article pays homage to the life and work of George Rudé, a member of the historians' group of the Communist Party of Great Britain who taught at Concordia and York universities during the later part of his career.
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The article reviews and comments on the books "The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century," by Peter Linebaugh, and "Customs in Common," by E. P. Thompson.
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The article reviews the book, "From Uniformity to Diversity : Industrial Relations in Canada and the United States," by Pradeep Kumar.
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The article reviews the book, "Clara Zetkin, féministe sans frontières," by Gilbert Badia.
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The recent historiography pertaining to women during World War II has tended to focus on women in either the war industries or armed forces. While the first feminist scholars argued that women experienced a type of second emancipation during this period due to changes in societal attitudes, more recently, historians have contended that women were temporarily treated to certain economic and social benefits during the War because the government and industries were in desperate need of workers. This paper attempts to offer an alternative interpretation of women's experiences during this time, through the investigation of female textile workers in Cornwall, Ontario. Using a dual structural analysis, this study illustrates how male union leaders and company owners often collaborated in maintaining a segregated work force. Instead of experiencing a type of liberation from traditional occupational constraints, Cornwall's female textile workers remained subjugated in lower paying and lower skilled "female" jobs in the mills. Within this industry then, continuity rather than change characterized the experiences of female textile workers during World War II.
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During the 1980s, the unemployment rate in Canada was several percentage points higher than in the US. Prior to this time, the level and the movements in the unemployment rates in the 2 countries were similar. Reasons for the shifts in the unemployment vacancy (UV) relationship in Canada and the US during the past 2 decades are examined to determine whether these shifts can explain this gap in unemployment between the 2 countries. Changing structural imbalances in the labor markets by themselves cannot explain the shifts in the UV curves or the gap in the unemployment rates in the 2 countries. It is concluded that aggregate economic shocks that create some structural imbalances are required to explain the shifts in the UV curves and the differing unemployment experiences in the 2 economies.
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The article reviews and comments on the book "Improper Advances: Rape and Heterosexual Conflict in Ontario, 1880-1929," by Karen Dubinsky.
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The article reviews the book, "International and Comparative Industrial Relations : A Study of Industrialised Market Economies," edited by Greg J. Bamber and Russell D. Lansbury.
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The article reviews the book, "Education for Motherhood: Advice for Mothers in Twentieth-Century Canada," by Katherine Arnup.
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The article reviews the book, "Le Québec en jeu : comprendre les grands défis," edited by Gérard Daigle, with the collaboration of Guy Rocher.
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The article reviews the book, "Japanization at Work," by John Bratton.