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This article reviews the book, "International Encyclopedia for Labour Law and Industrial Relations," by Roger Blanpain, Edited.

This article reviews the book, "Labor Relations Law," by B.J. Taylor & F. Witney.

The purpose of this paper is to reveal those universal socioeconomic conditions which generally foster strikes, and the most general labor relations-related reasons for conflicts which eventually resuit in strikes.

Ce conflit impliquant surtout des travailleurs irlandais dura plusieurs mois; il fut marqué par des émeutes sanglantes qui firent au moins six morts. Le rappel des événements est suivi des témoignages recueillis par les commissaires chargés de l'enquête et du rapport officiel rédigé par ces derniers. Cette façon de procéder de l'auteur permet de porter un jugement éclairé sur la condition ouvrière au Québec au siècle dernier. --Description de l'éditeur

This article reviews the book, "Deux systèmes de relations industrielles en Belgique," by Thérèse Klein-Beaupain.

This article reviews the book, "The Public Service Alliance of Canada : A Look at a Union in the Public Sector," by Maurice Lemelin.

This article reviews the book, "The Shrinking Perimeter," by Hervey A. Juris & Myron Roomkin, Edited.

Le distingué directeur de cette revue— à qui l'on me permettra de rendre hommage pour son éminente contribution, durant quelque trente-cinq années d'un labeur important et fructueux, à une meilleure compréhension des relations de travail dans notre société— m'a invité à laisser un instant mon rôle de juge pour tenter de me rapprocher de celui de « savant », me faisant ainsi un honneur auquel j'aurais mauvaise grâce d'être insensible. Mon premier réflexe était de refuser cette aimable invitation, non pas par modestie ou timidité, mais par crainte des procès d'intention ou autres interprétations ou reproches que pourrait susciter un tel écart de conduite. Pour un juge, la façon normale, sinon la seule, de communiquer avec le monde extérieur n 'est-elle pas la délivrance et la publication de ses jugements? Et les juges du travail n'ont-ils pas mieux à faire qu'à prétendre faire oeuvre scientifique et concurrence aux docteurs du savoir? Chacun son métier, et les vaches n 'en seront que mieux gardées! Pensez, monsieur le juge, aux retards de la justice: que vos jugements courts et vite rendus! Le monde n 'a que faire de vos discours ou dissertations, non plus que de vos inutiles digressions, si justement fustigées sous le vocable d'obiter dictum, qui dérangent la belle ordonnance de la chose jugée et son confort juridique. Et pourtant... S'agit-il, comme l'on m'y invite si aimablement, de « contribuer à faire avancer la science »?— Peut-être bien en définitive, et tant mieux s'il peut en être ainsi. Je me garderai bien, toutefois, d'en avoir la prétention. Mon propos est plus modeste. J'ai accepté cette invitation dans l'espoir d'amorcer ou de renouer un dialogue. Car, dans le domaine des relations du travail tout particulièrement, le dialogue m'apparaît une impérieuse nécessité. Je n 'ai jamais pensé que nos jugements devaient avoir le caractère de vérités absolues ou définitives. Leur autorité est bien relative, non seulement dans les cas d'espèce qu 'ils ont pour première fonction de trancher à l'égard des seules parties en cause, mais surtout dans leur dimension plus générale où ils ne sont que des jalons de recherche vers une meilleure justice et une meilleure compréhension de la réalité vécue. La réalité des relations du travail dépasse largement le cadre judiciaire, même si ce que l'on appelle droit du travail doit y correspondre le plus possible, non seulement en tant que reflet et aboutissement, mais aussi en tant que dynamique d'évolution. C'est pourquoi il m'apparaît essentiel que les acteurs principaux des relations du travail, le patronat et les syndicats, participent à cette dynamique, non seulement en tant que plaideurs ou justiciables, mais aussi comme citoyens, et qu'à ce titre ils prennent part à la réflexion et à la discussion que l'élaboration des politiques administratives ou jurisprudentielles devrait normalement susciter, une part entièrement et « responsablement » assumée. La critique des arrêts, dont il y a lieu de déplorer la pauvreté, voire même l'absence, devrait être un élément particulièrement fécond de ce nécessaire dialogue; et je ne pense pas à la seule critique juridique. C'est dans cet esprit, esprit de recherche, esprit d'ouverture à la critique et au dialogue, non seulement avec les « savants », mais aussi et surtout avec les « acteurs » des relations de travail, que je présente ici, extraites d'un jugement que je commettais le 13 mars 1980 dans une affaire concernant l'INSTITUT DE RÉADAPTATION DE MONTRÉAL, certaines réflexions sur la détermination des unités de négociation. Cette année marque le dixième anniversaire du Tribunal du travail et, l'an dernier, le département des relations industrielles de l'Université Laval soulignait, par son colloque annuel, le quinzième anniversaire de notre Code du travail. Cela pourrait suffire à justifier, pour tous les navigateurs en perpétuel mouvement sur la mer agitée des relations de travail, la nécessité défaire le point. Qu 'en est-il, notamment, de la question fondamentale qu'est la détermination des unités de négociation à l'aube du cinquantenaire du Wagner Act? Quel est le chemin parcouru? Quelle est la destination? Y a-t-il lieu de redresser la course?

This article attempts to explore the "free system of collective bargaining" in Canada, with a view to gaining insight into the validity and the efficacity of the adversary concept in industrial relations.

This article reviews the book, "L’univers politique et syndical des cadres," by Gérard Grunberg & René Mouriaux.

This article reviews the book, "The Miners: One Union, One Industry ; A History of the National Union of Mineworkers, 1939-46," by R. Page Arnot.

Recent attempts to extend Marx's analysis of capitalism by developing a class-based theory of the role and functions of the capitalist state have turned on the debate between the "instrumentalist" and "structuralist" perspectives. Subsequent critiques and extensions of these two conceptions of the relations between the state and the major classes within capitalist society have raised the issues of the role of class struggle in the development of state structure and policy as well as the impact of the capitalists state itself on the nature of class relations. Although theorists have pointed to the mutually conditioning effects characterizing the relationship between the state and social classes, there has bee little empirical examination of this relationship. The precise nature of the kinds of mechanisms linking various social classes and the state together with the concrete effects of these links on state and class relations required further specification. In response to this significant gap in the development of the theory of the capitalist state, the present research was formulated to address the issue of specifying the forms of mediation between the state, industrial capitalists and labour through an analysis of the history of maximum hours, minimum wage, and workmen's compensation legislation in Ontario between 1900 and 1939. These areas of legislation were chosen because of their significance, for both capitalists and workers; they represent a potential drain on accumulated surplus for owners of capital and a potential improvement in subsistence and working conditions for labour. The development of legislation in each of these areas thus provided a focus for examining relations between owners of industrial capital, wage labour, and the state. The major sources of data for the primary analysis covering the period from 1900 to 1939 consisted of private papers, published and unpublished government documents located in the Public Archives of Ontario and the Public Archives of Canada, labour newspapers, and the journal of the Canadian Manufacturers' Association. The analysis of relations between workers, employers, and the state around limitations on working hours, minimum wage regulation, and the establishment of a workmen's compensation program identifies a number of modes by which capitalist domination in the workplace is mediated to the level of political relations. These modes of mediation function through mutually reinforcing economic, political and ideological forms and have as their primary effect the frustration of the political organization of labour as a class. Capitalist modes of mediation are parallelled and supported by the modes of mediation adopted by the state in its role of managing class relations. In the process of the development of the areas of legislation which are the focus of this study, the state functioned to maintain the hegemony of capitalist social relations of production by transforming the economic class struggle and processing labour demands in such a way that subsequent state policy and structure were guided in the direction of comparability with prevailing class relations of domination and subordination.

Cette recherche porte sur les clivages ethniques au sein du groupe de la haute direction des grandes entreprises ayant leur siège social au Québec. Des différences significatives de comportement à l'égard des francophones ont été enregistrées entre firmes canadiennes francophones et anglophones et entre canadiennes et étrangères. Ce souci de contrôle est encore plus affirmé dans les firmes possédées totalement par des étrangers.

The paper falls under four main heads: 1) the environment of éducation in Canada, past, présent and future; 2) Public Service collective bargaining at the national level, including some observations on collective bargaining for teachers, keeping in mind the spécial interests of this audience and your interest in the general scene, at least for purposes of this early session; 3) options in the resolution of conflict; here I propose to comment first on characteristics of third party intervention, particularly as they may lead to binding arbitration, and then make comments and criticisms on emergency arbitration. There then foliows a conclusion the brevity of which will leave you in a state of disbelief.

To satisfy the continuing need for agricultural labour in western Canada, especially at harvest time, the CPR after 1890 ran cheap harvest excursions from Eastern and central Canada each August and September. Accordingly, to insure an adequate supply of workers and potential settlers the railway companies, together with the federal and provincial governments, created an image of the prairies as a land of opportunity offering plentiful jobs at high wages. Owing to a variety of factors, however, unprecedented numbers responded to the 1908 appeal causing unexpected problems for all concerned. Some of those in the Maritime contingent were particularly troublesome as, bored and thirsty, they went on a rampage which touched most of the communities on the Main Line from Chalk River to Winnipeg. Once in the West distribution problems plagued all the excursionists with the result that places like Winnipeg, Moose Jaw, and Regina had too many harvesters on hand, while other places faced shortages. Consequently, numerous men wandered about aimlessly looking for work and often were forced to accept alternate employment at substantially less money than they had expected. The result was that the image of the West as capable of satisfying all those who went there in search of work was temporarily tarnished.

Class Relations in Canadian mining are explored as changes occur first as a result of the formal subordination of labour through capitalist penetration of petty commodity production then through the real subordination of labour within capitalism. It is argued that the once autonomous position of craftsmen and tradesmen in the surface and underground operations of hardrock mines are being subjected to de-skilling as capital uses technology and the division of labour to maximize its control. Parallel with the mechanization of mines and the automation of surface operations is the introduction of "people technology" in the form of modular training schemes, also designed to maximize capital's control and ease its ability to replace workers.

Minutes of the annual meeting held in Saskatoon, June 4, 1979.

This article reviews the book, "The Double Ghetto: Canadian Women and Their Segregated Work," by Pat and Hugh Armstrong.

Après quinze ans d'expérimentation au Québec, un ancien ministre du travail sous deux gouvernements se demande s'il ne faudrait pas reconsidérer certains principes et certaines modalités du régime de négociation collective dans les secteurs gouvernemental et para-gouvernemental.

This book is an insightful and detailed analysis of Canadian labour relations policy at the beginning of the 20th century, and of the formulation of distinctive features which still characterize it today. The development and reception of this policy are explained as a product of ideological and economic forces. These include the impact of international unionism on the Canadian working class, the emergence of scientific management in business ideology, and the special role of the state in economic development and the mediation of class relationships. The ideas and career of Mackenzie King, including his 'new liberalism,' and his activities in regard to the Department of Labour are examined, revealing how he moulded Canada's official position in the relations between capital and labour. With a focus on King's intellectual qualities in an international context, the author brings out another dimension, portraying him as Canada's first practising social scientist. The book examines implementation of policy through an analysis of the work of the Department of Labour through detailed case studies of government interventions in industrial disputes. The initial acceptance of the labour relations policy by the labour movement is explained and its repudiation in 1911 is examined against a background of setbacks which reflected its practical limits as much as its philosophical orientation. The result is a study which moves beyond a particular concern with labour policy to illuminate the contours of Canadian life in a crucial period of national development. --Publisher's description