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The article reviews the book, "The Crossroads of Class and Gender: Industrial Homework, Subcontracting, and Household Dynamics in Mexico City," by Lourdes Beneri and Martha Roldan.
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Examines the pattern of women's paid labour in St. John's, Newfoundland, in the 1920s and 30s. Emphasizes the effect of life cycle changes on women's participation in the city's workforce. Argues that a woman's age, marital status, and class were the most important factors in determining whether the woman worked outside of the home or engaged in paid labour in the household. Considers other, related factors—including number of children, stage of the family cycle, as well as age and religion—in terms of their impact on women's labour force participation and the type of work performed. Concludes that women worked of necessity to support the home, that the vast majority were single, under 25, and living with their parents, that working-class women were far more likely to work than middle-class women, and that class also influenced the type of employment secured. Includes eight tables of census data.
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The author addresses the questions of why industry-wide bargaining was developed in the Canadian meat-packing industry and why it suddenly collapsed.
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The author explores the reasons for the recent decline in U.S. private sector unionization and considers four possible scenarios of change in the future.
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The article reviews the book, "Capital and Labour on the Kimberley Diamond Fields, 1871-1890," edited by Roy Porter and Mikulas Teich.
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The article reviews the book "Taking the Veil: An Alternative to Marriage, Motherhood, and Spinsterhood in Quebec, 1840-1920," by Marta Danylewycz.
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The article reviews and comments on two books: "Bushworkers and Bosses: Logging in Northern Ontario, 1900-1980," by Ian Radforth, and "Working in Steel: The Early Years in Canada, 1883-1945," by Craig Heron.
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Cet article présente une stratégie d'investigation reliée à l'implantation de changements technologiques dans les milieux syndiqués.
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This article reviews the book, "Managing Technological Development. Strategic and Human Resources Issues," by Urs E. Gattiker & Laurie Larwood.
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Changements dans les législations du travail au Canada.
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Changements dans les législations du travail au Canada.
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Changements dans les legislations du travail au Canada.
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Changements dans les législations du travail au Canada.
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The article reviews the book, "The Politics of Imagination: A Life of F. R. Scott," by Sandra Djwa.
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This paper reviews the role and significance of the 1987-1988 Antigonish Bank Strike upon the rural community.
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The article reviews and comments on two books: "In the Name of the Working Class: The Inside Story of the Hungarian Revolution," by Sandor Kopacsi, and "1956 Counter-Revolution in Hungary," by Janos Berecz.
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The article reviews the book, "Chicago's Pride: The Stockyards. Packingtown, and Environs in the Nineteenth Century," by Louise Carroll Wade.
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The article reviews the book, "Bitter Choices: Blue-Collar Women in and out of Work," by Ellen Israel Rosen.
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During the late 1930s and early 1940s, as a part of broad North American phenomenon of industrial militancy and labour law reform, the International Woodworkers of America (IWA) became recognized as the legitimate bargaining agency for most woodworkers throughout the Pacific coast. In British Columbia, as a basis for consolidating trade unionism and furthering the class struggle within the important forest industry, a well-organized cadre of communist trade union militants channelled the syndicalist and revolutionary traditions of earlier twentieth century woodworkers organization into District One of the IWA, and into compliance with state institutions governing industrial relations that emerged during World War Two. By 1948, though, the quest for legitimacy had entrammelled the communist leaders of District One in a restrictive web of institutional, bureaucratic and political relationships from which they sought escape by serving ties with the union they had struggled hard to establish. Their fledgling Woodworkers' Industrial Union of Canada, considered illegitimate by both the state and the mainstream labour movement, attracted only a small minority of woodworkers and enjoyed a very short, unremarkable history. Through a detailed examination of union, industry and state records of industrial relations activity, this thesis provides both narrative and analysis of a complex course of events leading from the era of the open shop, through the attainment or union recognition and a period of consolidation, to a final confrontation in 1947-48 within the Canadian IWA between two distinct visions of trade union practice. Ultimately, the early, militant woodworker traditions, subsumed within communist industrial unionism, proved to be in contradiction with the institutional structures governing relations between labour and capital in postwar Canada. The post-1948 leaders of IWA District One more closely reflected the emerging North American reality in their approach to trade unionism and industrial relations than did their predecessors. Out of the intense struggles of the 1930s and 40s, a full-blown business unionism emerged by the latter 1950s as the governing programme of the modern Canadian IWA, albeit a programme not universally accepted by rank-and-file woodworkers....
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