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The article reviews the book, "New Labor History: Worker Identity and Experience in Russia, 1840-1918," edited by Michael Melancon and Alice K. Pate.
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Drawing on the literature as well as themes emerging from interview data collected as part of a multi-year, three-province (Alberta, Nova Scotia and British Columbia), qualitative study (eighty-three semi-structured interviews) of the restructured social services sector in Canada, this article explores discernible types of caring work delineating seven kinds, only one of which is paid. The social service workers' description of their changing worlds show not only extremely heavy workloads but also that their paid, volunteer, community, and union activist work involve many of the same skills, tasks and mind sets, thus blurring the lines between professional and non-professional identities as well as the lines between work and leisure. Moreover, this work was highly gendered and significantly racialized.
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The article reviews the book, "Taking Stands: Gender and the Sustainability of Rural Communities," by Maureen G. Reed.
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The book, "Worked Over: The Corporate Sabotage of an American Community," by Dimitra Doukas, is reviewed.
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The article reviews the book, "Taxing Illusions: Taxation, Democracy and Embedded Political Theory," by Phillip Hansen.
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Inspirés par les explications « pull » et « push » de la résurgence du travail autonome dans les années 1980 et 1990, nous proposons un modèle inédit de l’entrée dans le travail autonome et une évaluation de sa pertinence à partir des résultats d’une enquête originale via l’Internet auprès de 748 travailleurs autonomes québécois. La principale hypothèse de notre modèle propose que le passage au travail autonome découle le plus souvent d’une décision motivée à la fois par des aspirations personnelles et professionnelles spécifiques et par des conditions d’emploi précaires ou insatisfaisantes. Les résultats de notre étude exploratoire confirment la pertinence de notre hypothèse quant à l’influence combinée des facteurs « push » et « pull » sur la décision d’entrer dans le travail autonome. Elle révèle néanmoins des différences significatives entre les déterminants des décisions des hommes et des femmes.
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The article reviews the book, "Silicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream: Gender, Class, and Opportunity in the Twentieth Century," by Glenna Matthews.
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The article reviews the book, "La relation de service : opportunités et questions nouvelles pour l’ergonomie," edited by François Hubault.
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The article reviews the book, "La convention collective au Québec," by Gérard Hébert, Reynald Bourque, Anthony Giles, Michel Grant, Patrice Jalette, Gilles Trudeau and Guylaine Vallée.
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The article reviews the book, "Jacques-Victor Morin: Syndicaliste et Educateur Populaire," by Matieu Denis.
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The article reviews the book, "Le pouvoir de négocier. S’affronter sans violence : l’espace gagnant-gagnant en négociation," by François Delivré.
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This study explores the ways in which spatial configurations have shaped the use of contractors in the export coalfields of Queensland (Australia) and western Canada since the late 1960s. It is argued that the divergent employer strategies pursued after 1996 - whereby Queensland producers dramatically increased their use of contractors while their Canadian counterparts did not-reflects their different spatial placement within the global coal trade. In Canada, the main problem was locational disadvantage due to distance from deep-water. In consequence, employers responded to falling prices by concentrating production in the area of greatest locational advantage. For Queensland producers, the issue was high mine-site labour costs. In this context, using contractors was part of a strategy to transform labour relations through the Workplace Relations Act.
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The article reviews the book, "Rebellious Families: Household Strategies and Collective Action in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," edited by Jan Kok.
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This is a study of horizontal and vertical solidarity within a national labour movement, based on a nationwide survey of members of affiliated unions of the Congress of South African Trade Unions. On the one hand, the survey reveals relatively high levels of vertical and horizontal solidarity, despite the persistence of some cleavages on gender and racial lines. On the other hand, the maintenance and deepening of existing horizontal and vertical linkages in a rapidly changing socio-economic context, represents one of many challenges facing organized labour in an industrializing economy. COSATU's strength is contingent not only on an effective organizational capacity, and a supportive network linking key actors and interest groupings, but also on the ability to meet the concerns of existing constituencies and those assigned to highly marginalized categories of labour.
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The article reviews the book, "At Odds: Gambling and Canadians, 1919-1969," by Suzanne Morton.
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The article reviews the book, "Neither Lady nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South," edited by Susanna Delfino and Michele Gillespie.
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Reviewed: Between History and Tomorrow: Making and Breaking Everyday Life in Rural Newfoundland. Sider, Gerald M.
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The article reviews the book, "Forces of Labor: Workers' Movements and Globalization since 1870," by Beverly J. Silver.
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In order to conduct better class analysis, we need class theory that rises to the challenge of understanding class as a structured social process and relationship taking place in historical time and specific cultural contexts. The study of working classes as historical formations requires the replacement of underdeveloped concepts with theory adequate to the task. This theory should incorporate the knowledge that class never exists outside of other social relations such as gender and race, but is always mediated by those relations, and vice versa. Marx, Gramsci, Thompson and autonomist Marxism, enriched with the appreciation of the multidimensional nature of social being produced by feminism and other perspectives arising from struggles against oppression, provide important resources for the development of such a theory.