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The article reviews the book, "Économie du travail," 2e éd., by Jean-Michel Cousineau.
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The need to reexamine academic orthodoxy in the light of recent feminist scholarship is particularly pressing in the case of industrial relations. A study focuses on industrial relations as conceptualized and practiced by academics in Canadian business schools where systems theory remains the predominant analytical paradigm. The purpose of the study is to show that industrial relations so constructed is profoundly gender-biased. As a discipline, industrial relations is growing out of touch, not only with the changing realities of the workplace, but also with academic discourse in the social sciences. While some attention is paid to the so-called women's issues - maternity leave, sexual harassment policies, pay equity, and other issues - attention is limited. What is missing from industrial relations as presently defined and practiced is an analysis of gender relations as power relations.
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The article reviews the book, "Echoes from Labor's Wars: The Expanded Edition," by Dawn Fraser,
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The article reviews the book, "'Ole Boy': Memoirs of a Canadian Labour Leader, J.K. Bell," by Sue Calhoun.
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The author discusses his experiences teaching labour history at the university, trade union, and public levels, as well as a media commentator on labour-related issues. Concludes that labour historians can make a distinctive contribution to the historical pursuit of meaning by shifting the terms of public discourse toward a working-class perspective.
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The article reviews the book, "Women from Spillertown: A Memoir of Agnes Burns Wieck," by David Thoreau Wieck.
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Analyzes employment transitions and precarity for the period 1988-89 using Statistics Canada data including age, gender, education, and students relative to other groups. Concludes that young people have the most difficulty entering the labour market, gender made little difference, people in the middle range of education that did not complete degrees are more affected than those at the extremes, and that part-time students are the most affected. Also concludes that Ontario was the least affected region, that large firms were less affected, that the tertiary employment and primary occupational sectors appeared to be more favoured, and that those without employment protection but with a pension plan also appeared to be more fortunate.
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Discusses the Manitoba Federation of Labour-University of Manitoba three-year certificate program and the students who enroll in it. Describes the impetus for the program and reports on interviews with six 1978-79 graduates in order to assess the impact both of the the program and the distinctive labour history course, originally designed and taught economist H. Clare Pentland, that was particularly successful. Concludes that more consideration be given to course design and pedagogy to create teaching and learning experiences that are memorable.
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The article reviews the book ,"Par monts et par vaux: Migrants canadiens-français et italiens dans I'économie nord-atlantique, 1860-1914," by Bruno Ramirez.
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Cet article examine s'il y a un lien entre le recours à l'absence pour maladie de longue durée et certaines conditions d'exécution du travail, chez des employées de bureau d'une grande institution financière du Québec.
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The barriers to re-employment identified by Canadian respondents in a study in part represent accurate reflections of the problems facing the mature unemployed, however, many of the beliefs and attitudes of employers represent inaccurate or unfounded perceptions. The most frequently cited barrier to the re-employment of older job-hunters was that older workers are less qualified for contemporary employment than younger workers. Socio-cultural orientations of stereotyping assume that the media and other socializing agents directly and effectively teach prevailing cultural stereotypes. This suggests that there are a number of things which can be done within organizations to focus attention on the inappropriate role that stereotypes play in the evaluation of older workers.
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The article reviews the book, "Economic Restructuring and Industrial Relations in Australia and New Zealand: A Comparative Analysis," edited by Mark Bray and Nigel Haworth.
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The article reviews the book, "The State of the Unions," edited by George Strauss, Daniel Gallagher, and Jack Fiorito.
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The article reviews the book, "The Invention of Free Labor: The Employment, Relation in English and American Law and Culture, 1350-1870," by Robert J. Steinfeld.