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The editor notes that articles on conferences and labour-related archival resources are included in the issue, and that a bibliography is forthcoming. Appreciation is expressed for two departing members of the editorial board.

Toronto's Industrial Revolution of the 1850s and 1860s transformed the city's economy and created a distinct working class. This book examines the workers' role in the transition to industrial capitalism and traces the emergence of a strong trade union movement in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Immigrant workers were already organized along ethnic lines and vol­untary societies like the Orange Order played an informal but active part in the broad pattern of social change. Artisan groups were more directly instrumental in developing strategies to cope with the new pressures of industrial capitalism. In the period covered by this book Toronto's moul­ders and printers maintained and even strengthened the traditions of work­ers' control in the shop. The shoemakers and coopers were less successful, but the lessons of their defeats made them important early members of the Knights of Labor in the 1880s.The Knights of Labor gave new direction to labour organization. Ttiey recruited all workers regardless of skill, sex, creed, or race, and spear­headed the direct involvement of Toronto workers in electoral politics. The final chapters of the book trace the tortured path of working class politics from the early activities of the Orange Order to the emergence of a vibrant minority socialist tradition. Between I867 and I892 Toronto workers established a strong institu­tional base for the new struggles between craft unionism and monopoly capitalism in the early twentieth century and Kealey's detailed study of its development adds a new and important dimension to our understanding of Canadian labour history. -- Publisher's description.

This article reviews the book, "Révolution industrielle et travailleurs : une enquête sur les rapports entre le capital et le travail au Québec à la fin du 19e siècle," by Femand Harvey.

This article reviews the book, "Les aspects humains de l’organisation," by J.L. Bergeron, N. Côté-Léger, J. Jacques & L. Bélanger.

This article reviews the book, "150 ans de luttes. Histoire du mouvement ouvrier au Québec," edited by Louis Fournier, et al.

This article reviews the book, "Public Access: Citizens and Collective Bargaining in the Public Schools," by Robert E. Doherty, Edited.

This article reviews the book, "Developing Employee Relations," by Peter Warr, Stephen Fineman, Nigel Nicholson & Roy Payne.

This article reviews the books, "Industrial Democracy in Western Europe: A North American Perspective," by John Crispo, and "The Canadian Industrial Relations System," by John Crispo.

Based on participant observation and in-depth interviews, this book describes the work women do in their homes, caring for children and partners, and maintaining the house. It shows how their lives are shaped by domestic responsibilities and challenges the ways in which their work is neither recognized nor valued. Arguing that the work they do is socially necessary and central to the economy, it calls for a transformation of current social and economic relations. -- Publisher's description (2009 reprint).

This article reviews the book, "The Limits of Legitimacy: Political Contradictions of Contemporary Capitalism," by Alan Wolfe.

In this paper, the authors extend the literature on union wage effect in two ways. They use aggregate industry data in a simultaneous-equations model to provide an estimate for the union wage effect in Canada which recognizes the endogenity of union coverages. And they suggest a possible cause for the difference in results obtained for the U.S. by Ashenfelter and Johnson, on the one hand, and Kahn on the other.

Ceci est le premier d'une série d'articles sur les principaux changements apportés à la législation du travail par les différentes administrations canadiennes. On y retrouvera des mentions aux projets de loi, règlements d'application et autres textes réglementaires ayant une importance significative. Le présent article fait état des modifications proposées ou adoptées entre le Ierjanvier et le 30 avril 1980.

Le Conseil a décidé que l'employeur en l'occurrence une banque, avait agi illégalement en octroyant une augmentation de salaire à tous ses employés à l'exception de ceux qui travaillaient dans des succursales pour lesquelles une demande en accréditation avait été agréée par le Conseil ou qui était encore pendante devant celui-ci. Dans cette affaire, l'employeur avait fait connaître sa prise de position antisyndicale en annonçant ladite augmentation et ses réserves quant aux employés mentionnés plus haut, au moyen d'une lettre circulaire qui fut distribuée dans toutes ses succursales. Ces gestes constituent une entrave à la formation et à l'administration du syndicat plaignant quant à ses efforts et dans ses espoirs de réussir à syndicaliser les employés d'autres succursales; en même temps, ils constituent des menaces à peine voilées à l'endroit de ces employés et de la discrimination quant à ceux qui ont voulu exercer leurs droits en vertu du Code. Finalement, il y a modification illégale des conditions de travail des employés travaillant dans des succursales pour lesquelles une requête en accréditation était pendante puisque le consentement du Conseil n'a pas été requis par l'employeur avant de donner effet à ladite augmentation de salaire.

L'article 161.1 du Code s'applique indistinctement à tout le système de présentation à l'emploi instauré en vertu d'une convention collective conclue dans le champ d'application du Code Canadien du Travail entre un syndicat et un employeur tombant sous sa juridiction et ce, peu importe le fait qu'en vertu du même système, ce syndicat s'occupe aussi de présenter des personnes à des employeurs qui ne se trouvent pas à être régis par la législation fédérale.

L'embargo sur le temps supplémentaire décrété par le syndicat doit être considéré comme illégal tant que les prérequis menant à l'acquisition du droit de grève n 'auront pas été respectés. Société Radio-Canada et Syndicat des employés de production du Québec et de l'Acadie. Dossier 725-54; décision du 5 décembre 1979, motifs de décision communiqués le 18 mars 1980 (no 236); Panel du Conseil: Me Marc Lapointe, président, Me Nicole Kean et M. Jacques Archambault, membres.

The bureaucratic model becomes more and more self-defeating in present time because it is highly inadequate to meet the challenges of the modem world. Literature on the alternative models of collective work is now available. These are also several highly encouraging practical experiences. Fewer and fewer people still trust that any substitute for bureaucracy is just unrealistic.

This thesis deals with the working class of two advanced capitalist countries and focuses upon ideological conflict within working class organizations such as trade unions and political parties. The outcome of such conflicts within working class organizations is considered to be an expression of the state of working class consciousness at a given time. Within this broad context particular attention is paid to the ideology of social democracy which has been dominant in working class organizations in both countries during the modern period albeit to different degrees. The thesis uses a comparative approach and pays considerable attention to the interaction between the working class and its societal environment- the political economies of the two countries, the activities of the capitalist class and the impact of its ideology upon the working class. Using this approach the thesis deals with the emergence of social democracy as the hegemonic working class ideology, its main features particularly as they were developed in the post-war period, the emergence of possible contradictions between social democratic parties and ideology, and their working class supporters, and, utilizing an historical analysis of previous ideological shifts in working class organisations, the possibility of social democracy being superceded in its hegemonic role is considered. In dealing with such matters the issues of nationalization and incomes policies were judged to be especially salient and are discussed in some detail. In the course of this study theories which posited an end to ideological conflict in the advanced capitalist societies are considered and rejected. The past, present and future of social democracy, of ideological conflict, and of the working class itself, was found to be considerably more dynamic, complex and open to change than such theories had imagined.

This study empirically evaluates current personnel practices in 216 Canadian firms. Specifically, 33 decision areas are considered in an attempt to determine the role of Canadian personnel departments in the organization's decision making process. Also evaluated is the possible impact of size, ownership and geographic differences on the level of involvement by personnel departments.