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The article reviews the book, "Jock Tar in History: Essays in the History of Maritime Life and Labour," edited by Colin Howell and Richard Twomey.
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Reports that two recent journal articles have received awards. Corrects the omission of the cover credit as well as a line that was dropped from the article, "With Our Own Two Hands," both published in the previous issue.
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Discusses the articles, research reports, document and critique sections, and review essays published in the issue. Three papers from the Canadian Committee on Labour History's symposium in June 1992 are also presented. A paper published in v. 25 of the journal has received an award. A correction is made to page 324 of the previous issue, for which the editor apologizes to the review writer.
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The article reviews the book, "Rethinking Social Policy: Race, Poverty, and the Underclass," by Christopher Jencks.
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Introduces the Communist writer, educator, and activist Margaret Fairley, who in the 1950s edited a book of Canadian oral labour history that was left unfinished. The book, entitled "With Our Own Hands," included three manuscripts - memoirs of Claude Theodore, Peter Cordoni, and A.J. MacDonald - that are published for the first time. Collectively, they shed light on the largely rural, immigrant, working-class experience of Canada in the early 20th century. MacDonald's reminiscences also describe life in the village of Cadott, Wisconsin, in the 1890s, before the family moved to Alberta. The manuscripts are located at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.
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The article reviews the book, "The Eastern Airlines Strike: Accomplishments of the Rank-and-File Machinists and Gains for the Labor Movement," by Ernie Mailhot, Judy Stranahan, and Jack Barnes.
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Cette étude compare l'influence, sur le risque qualitatif d'accidents, de deux lignes d'assemblage de matériel de transport. L'organisation de la production de ces lignes diffère par le nombre de postes réduit sur l'une d'elles, ce qui intensifie la coactivité entre travailleurs à chaque phase du processus. Les 150 accidents avec perte de temps des assembleurs survenus sur ces deux lignes d'assemblage de véhicules routiers pendant trois ans sont regroupés en six classes homogènes, à partir d'une analyse multivariée de leurs caractéristiques. Aucun lien significatif n'est toutefois observé entre ces classes d'accidents et les lignes d'assemblage. Il est discuté que l'intensification de la coactivité puisse être un facteur de contribution à la fréquence des accidents mais non à leur type.
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The article reviews the book, "Le Mariage en question," by Renée Dandurand.
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The article reviews the book ,"Pionnières québécoises et regroupement de femmes d'hier à aujourd' hui," by Simone Monet-Chartrand.
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A study was performed to measure the centrality of beliefs about unions, to outline general tendencies in the centrality of workers' beliefs about unions, and to identify the salient beliefs of different typical working-class perspectives on labor unions. One technique for measuring centrality is to ask respondents to identify the importance of each belief in relation to their other beliefs concerning some social object. In the Q sort, each participant was given 48 one-sentence statements about unions, each typed on a separate card, and asked to physically sort them following a quasi-normal pattern. Some 100 workers in Hamilton, Ontario, completed the Q sort during the summer of 1987. Two dimensions are most salient for Hamilton workers: defense and rights. An average Q sort for the individuals sharing each typical union belief system was calculated. An exploratory factor analysis revealed 6 typical perspectives on unions. A key finding of this study is that there are typical ambivalent and antiunion perspectives on unions, just as there are typical prounion perspectives.
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The article reviews the book, "Histoire de I'École Polytechnique de Montréal, 1873-1990: La Montée des Ingénieurs Francophones," by Robert Gagnon.
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The article reviews the book, "À nouveau travail, formations nouvelles," by Collette Bernier and Anne Filion.
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The article reviews and comments n former automobile worker Ben Hamper's "Rivethead: Tales from the Assembly Line" (1991) and labour lawyer Thomas Geoghegan's "Which Side Are You On? Trying to Be for Labor When It's Flat on Its Back" (1991).
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Takes note of forthcoming conferences, the Arkansas History Quarterly, and the annual summer course on comparative labour history taught at the University of Washington.
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Reports forthcoming conferences and new publications. The Reuther Archives of Labour and Urban Affairs at Wayne State University is to be added to the National Bibliographic System. The Steel Project at University College of Cape Breton has a wide variety of archival resources on steelmaking technology and workers. The files of the Detroit Red Squad have been deposited at the Detroit Public Library, but will remain closed until 2018.
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The article reviews the book,"Markets, Firms, and the Management of Labour in Modern Britain," by Howard F. Gospel.
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The article reviews the book, "Worker Protection, Japanese Style : Occupational Safety and Health in the Auto Industry," by Richard E. Wokutch.
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The article reviews the book, "European Labor Unions," edited by Joan Campbell.
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The article reviews the book, "The Pristine Culture of Capitalism: A Historical Essay on Old Regimes and Modern States," by Ellen Meiksins Wood.
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Compilation of recent English/French publications on Canadian labour history that emphasize the period 1800-1975. Materials pertaining to the post-1975 period may also be included, although more selectively. [See the database, Canadian Labour History, 1976-2009, published at Memorial University of Newfoundland.]