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This article reviews "Workers’s Control" from A Reader on Labor and Social Change, edited by Gerry Hunnius, G. David Gardon and John Case.
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This article reviews "Industry and Humanity" by William Lyon Mackenzie King.
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The article reviews "Aspects historiques du mouvement ouvrier au Québec," by Fernand Harvey.
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Les auteurs veulent connaître les facteurs pouvant motiver les parents des familles à faible revenu à se trouver un emploi (travailler) ou à ne pas s'en trouver (ne pas travailler). Le modèle de motivation utilisé est présenté et explicité à l'aide d'un exemple. S'appuyant sur une revue de la littérature et des entrevues auprès d'informateurs-clés, les facteurs pouvant motiver les parents des familles à faible revenu à participer ou à ne pas participer à la main-d'oeuvre sont décrits et commentés. Finalement, les auteurs formulent une hypothèse sur la relation entre la motivation et le taux de participation à la main-d'oeuvre.
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A complete history of painting in Canada, from the art of the native peoples right up to the 1970's. This outstanding work explodes many myths about Canadian and Quebecois art. In easy to understand language, it explains the effect on Canadian painting of the French, British , and U.S. imperialist regimes that have ruled Canada. This book shows how art has been part of the fight against that domination. --Publisher's description
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...In labour disputes, which accounted for almost half of the incidents in which military forces were used, the presence of troops may not have been viewed as a neutral, stabilizing force by other participants. If this was the case a reassessment is appropriate. With this consideration in mind, this paper will deal with three such incidents, all of which occurred in industrial Cape Breton in the 1920s. While they involved relatively large troop movements and were instrumental in effecting amendments to the Militia Act, they were not unrepresentative of labour disputes during the country's industrial development. --From introduction
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Focuses on the labour turmoil in Vancouver in 1935, in particular the communist/leftist-led strikes of relief camp workers and especially of longshoremen. Examines the hostility toward the strikers of the Vancouver mayor (who coined the term "red menace"), media coverage, and the employer-side Citizen's League. Argues that studies show that the rhetoric of red menace was greatly exaggerated and did not correspond to the reality of the workers' demands.
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In the first years of the twentieth century, British Columbia became the dynamic centre of the socialist movement which was emerging across Canada. Beginning in 1898 the institutional and doctrinal foundations of the provincial movement were laid by eastern Canadian, British and American socialists. Five years later a socialist party with an almost unique ideology and extraordinary power in the labour movement had emerged; nowhere were the socialists more doctrinaire or influential. The purpose of this essay is to examine the institutional and ideological development of British Columbia socialism during its critical formative years. --Introduction
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This article reviews "Manpower Programs in the Policy Mix" edited by Lloyd Ulman.
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Labour history is frequently equated with the internal workings of trade unions and radical parties in isolation from the society on which they are based. This paper treats these institutions as important, though not the sole expressions of working class activity. It discusses reactions to labour unrest and industrial conflict from within the working class, and from without, and the effect of these reactions on community relationships. This paper demonstrates how the relationship of the working class with the middle class changed from one of amity in 1903 to one of hostility in 1913, and that this came about in two ways: (1) through the changing relationships of the principle sub-groupings within the working class, organized labour, the immigrant communities, and the radical parties; and, (2) through changes in middle class attitudes brought about by reactions to this first development and by changes in the local economy. The primary catalyst for change was violence which occurred in four labour disputes during the period. In examining the source of violence and the means of its suppression, the paper will argue that while cultural conditioning influenced the actions and attitudes of those involved, the nature of their class relationships was the decisive factor.
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This article reviews the report "Employment, Income and Equality : A Strategy for Increasing Productive Employment in Kenya" financed by the United Nations Development Programme and organized by the International Labour Office.
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In this paper, the authors discuss some of the policy alternatives available to a Government and a union movement and consider in detail the alternative chosen by one African country, Kenya. Moreover they examine how the Government has sought to reconcile its economic development objectives with granting unions such traditional freedoms as the right to strike, the right to bargain collectively and the right of free association. In doing so they discuss the development of labour legislation in Kenya and examine its effects upon the strike weapon as a source of union power and the effect of strikes on the Kenya economy. Finally they offer some speculations on futur trends of industrial relations in Kenya.
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In 1967 the United Fisherman and Allied Workers Union established a history project to collect historical materials with a view to preparing a comprehensive history of trade union organization in the British Columbia fishing industry. This outline story, the joint work of staff members of The Fisherman, past and present, is the first publication.
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This article reviews "La protection du revenu dans les conventions collectives au Québec" by Jean Bernier with the collaboration of Réal Allard and Pierre Dionne.
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This article reviews "Les relations du travail, employeurs, personnel, syndicats, État" by Dimitri Weiss.
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Les variables de la satisfaction à l'égard du travail et de la satisfaction à regard de la carrière sont souvent associées ensemble dans la constitution d'indices globaux de satisfaction. L'auteur démontre en se servant d'un groupe d'enseignants que ce procédé méthodologique doit être évité dans une recherche car les deux variables sont spécifiquement distinctes entre elles. En l'occurrence, la satisfaction à l'égard du travail— comme jugement général— se réfère au domaine de la décision de l'organisation du travail, et la satisfaction à l'égard de la carrière se réfère, elle, au désir d'avancement dans l'école.
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The author analyses the impact that the Canadian Industrial Disputes Investigation Act of 1907 had in the U.S. His article also tries to show the extent to which the question of arbitration tended to transcend the narrow boundaries of industrial relations practice and acquire a wider political significance.
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