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The article reviews the book, "Derelict Paradise: Homelessness and Urban Development in Cleveland, Ohio," by Daniel R. Kerr.
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The article reviews the book, "The Way of the Bachelor: Early Chinese Settlement in Manitoba," by Alison Marshall.
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The article focuses on discrepancies between institutional stipulations for apprenticeship placement conditions in the Quebec Training for a Semiskilled Trade (TST) program in contrast to socio-environmental realities encountered by students in the workplace. An intervention research study was held in order to integrate Occupational Health and Safety concerns into the training program. The methodological frame used data triangulation, including document analysis, teacher and student interviews and workplace observation. Contrary to program stipulations, most students were guided by several coworkers during apprenticeships. Insufficient access to resources, however, has led to young workers encountering difficulties in getting assistance when needed. The traditional supervisor-apprentice partnership would be best revised to maximize the use of all valuable on-site resources and ensure students develop skills to stay healthy at work.
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The article reviews the book, "Les nouvelles dimensions du politique : relations professionnelles et régulations sociales," edited by Laurent Duclos, Guy Groux and Olivier Mériaux.
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The article reviews two books written by Andrée Lévesque including "Éva Circé-Côté. Libre-penseuse, 1871-1949" and "Chroniques d'Éva Circé-Côté. Lumière sur la société québécoise, 1900-1942."
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The article reviews the book, "Being Again of One Mind: Oneida Women and the Struggle for Decolonization," by Lina Sunseri.
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The article reviews the book, "Perspectives internationales sur le travail des jeunes," edited by Mircea Vultur and Daniel Mercure.
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The article reviews the book, "The River Returns: An Environmental History of the Bow," by Christopher Armstrong, Matthew Evenden, and H.V. Nelles.
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A eulogy for the social and human rights activist Madeleine Parent is presented.
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The article reviews the book, "Canadian Labour in Crisis: Reinventing the Workers' Movement," by David Camfield.
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The article reviews the book, "Precarious Liberation: Workers, the State, and Contested Social Citizenship in Postapartheid South Africa," by Franco Barchiesi.
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The article reviews the book, "Poverty, Regulation and Social Justice: Readings on the Criminalization of Poverty," edited by Diane Crocker and Val Marie Johnson.
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Child labour has been present in North America since the beginnings of European colonization, and regulation of their industrial employment dates at least to the early nineteenth century in Rhode Island (Abbott). Given moral injunctions to keep children from mischief and utilitarian demands for labour and family income, such regulation remained basically ineffective. With industrial expansion following the American Civil War children established themselves as a major presence in the workforce and occasionally appeared in industrial stories such as Rebecca Harding Davis’s “Life in the Iron Mills” (1861).
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Using panel data from a large sample of Canadian establishments, the authors examine whether there is any link between adoption of an employee profit-sharing plan and subsequent employee earnings. Overall, growth in employee earnings during the five-year period subsequent to adoption of profit sharing was significantly higher in establishments that had adopted profit sharing, as compared with those establishments that had not done so. Employees in establishments that paid high wages before profit sharing adoption appeared to benefit more than employees in other establishments, although employees in other establishments did eventually benefit from profit sharing.
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Mobile Living Across Europe II: Causes and Consequences of Job-Related Spatial Mobility in Cross-National Comparison, edited by Norbert F. Schneider and Beate Collet, is reviewed.
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The article reviews the book, "Labor's Civil War in California: The NUHW Healthcare Workers' Rebellion," by Cal Winslow.
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Uranium miners in Elliot Lake went on a wildcat strike in 1974 to protest their occupational health concerns on the job after a spike in cancer cases. They learned that the provincial government had known of the poor working conditions causing their illnesses, but had not informed them of the dangers or acted to improve their situation. As a result of union and political pressure, the Ontario government created the Ham Commission to investigate and make recommendations. Its hearings revealed the industry's scandalous conditions, and its report eventually resulted in the Ontario Health and Safety (OHS) Act in Ontario. It did not cover the miners until 1984, so they worked through their internal health and safety committees to gain improvements in the work environment. Others have discussed this situation in relation to the emergence of the OHS and environmental movements. This paper discusses the events in terms of the mine owners' attitudes towards their employees, the industry's relationship to governments, and the impact of the uranium mining industry (part of the nuclear industry) on the local community and environment.
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In February 1913, when a teacher at Montreal's Aberdeen School made disparaging remarks about her Jewish pupils, five boys called a strike. Hundreds of Jewish children congregated in the park across from the school where they appointed strike leaders, established a negotiating committee, and resolved not to return to class until the teacher apologized. Some of them marched to the Baron de Hirsch Institute and the newspaper office of the Keneder Adler to demand that action be taken. The Aberdeen students showed maturity in their understanding of "the strike" as a strategic response to perceived injustice, their politicization with respect to relations between the Jewish and Anglo-Protestant communities, and class consciousness. The years 1912 and 1913 had been arduous for working-class Jews living along the St-Laurent Street corridor who experienced a lengthy tailors' strike followed by an economic depression. The youthful strikers were acutely aware of the difficulties of being both working class and Jewish. We argue that the collective actions of the Aberdeen School strikers reveal a close connection to the labour activism of their parents and to the downtown Jewish community. Their response to the teacher's anti-Semitic comments is an example of the historical agency of children.