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First published in 1957, [this book] has established itself as one of the best brief surveys on the subject available today. Many of the features of the original book have been retained in this second edition: its conciseness, its clarity of style, and its analysis of Canadian labour relations in the wider North American context. In the complex and dynamic field of of industrial relations in Canada, many important developments have occurred since 1957. Even in such a slow-moving area as labour disputes legislation and pollicy, provincial and federal governments have passed a considerable amount of new legislation since 1957. In his extensive revision, Professor Jamieson deals with these developments. This new edition also places increased emphasis on problem areas in labour relations, for example, the labour scene in Quebec, the incidence of industrial conflict and strikes, and the influence of American-dominated unions in Canada. For this edition Professor Jamieson has provided a revised and enlarged bibliography which should serve as excellent guide to the increasing range of literature now available in the field of industrial relations. --Publisher's description

In the 1880s Canadians began to cope with the meaning of their emerging industrial society. During that decade the federal government first investigated industrial conditions and provincial governments passed Canada's first factory legislation. The same period saw the resurgence of an articulate and angry labor movement protesting against the excesses of modern industry. Through the Royal Commission on the Relations of Labor and Capital we can perhaps gain our best insight into the everyday world of workers and capitalists in late nineteenth-century Canada. The commission gathered evidence in Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick and talked to thousands of workers, businessmen, and other concerned citizens. This edited version of its investigation includes much of the best testimony; it describes working class living conditions, the emergence of organized labor, and the attitudes of businessmen to industrial capitalism. The testimony takes us with the commissioners on their tour of New Brunswick cotton mills, Capre Breton coal pits, Ontario shops and foundries, and Quebec City wharves; it explores as well the darkest corners of Montreal cigar factories. Industrialists discuss profits, markets, sources of raw material, and problems with labor. But what is perhaps more important, the working people themselves are also heard, men and women who in most historical records appear as little more than cold statistics. The warmth and humanity of these Canadians reflecting on their lives and on the society around them bring the commission documents to life. Aging craftsmen, ten-year-old saw-mill hands, girls from the spindles and looms, describe their workplaces, wages, hours, and aspects of their lives away from the job. These almost unique interviews allow us to enter their intellectual and cultural world – to learn of their past and present and of some of their hopes and aspirations. The Labor Commission reports and testimony are essential for an understanding of the Canadian working class as it was being transformed by the new techniques of industrial production. --Publisher's description

This paper represents a distillation of an earlier, more ambitious essay on the creation of an industrial working class in late Victorian Toronto; its focus will be on living and working conditions during the transition to industrial capitalism, a necessary prelude to any discussion of working class consciousness.

This research study examines the attitudes of French and English workers of New Brunswick, and it attempts to show similarities and differences in the attitudes of the two cultural groups. Specifically, the worker's attitudes towards his co-workers, economic benefits, administrative practices, physical conditions, and the work itself are examined and analyzed. Overall, the study points out that there are no significant differences between the attitudes of French and those of English. But the differences are likely to increase in the years to come because of social trends.

This article reviews "Effective Management, Social Psychological Approach" by David J. Lawless.

This article reviews "Programmes Learning Aid for Personnel Administration" by George S. Odiorne.

This article reviews "Taux du Syndicalisme au Québec" from the Ministère du travail et de la main-d’oeuvre (Québec).

This article reviews "Operations Research for Managerial Decisions" by Donald R. Plane and Gary A. Kochenberger.

This article reviews "Where Have All the Robots Gone? Worker Dissatisfaction in the 70’s" by Harold L. Sheppard and Neal Q. Herrick.

Le présent article s'inscrit dans la suite logique d'un texte précédemment publié. Les auteurs y dépouillent une variété de définitions opérationnelles de la satisfaction au travail à partir desquelles ils opèrent un choix en accord avec leur position théorique. Ils procèdent ensuite à une revue sommaire des instruments de mesure disponibles et des considérations méthodologiques pertinentes afin de suggérer un devis propre à faciliter l'élaboration d'un instrument de mesure adéquat.

Total labour costs can be considered to be a function of the hourly wage, a quasi-fixed component (mainly fringe benefits and training cost) and overtime rate. The theoretical model employee in this paper suggests that an increase in the ratio of quasi-fixed cost to overtime rate leads to an increase in the amount of scheduled overtime work instead of employment. The model, tested with Canadian data, yields statistically significant results.

This paper looks beneath the national unemployment numbers to examine in detail the dimension of Canada’s youth unemployment problem. After an outline of the empirical dimensions of youth unemployment in Canada, a theoritical framework is set out to explain the particular characteristics of youth unemployment. Finally, some policy recommendations are presented.

This article reviews "Le changement du lieu de travail – étude d’un cas de reclassement" by Grégoire Tremblay with the collaboration of Isabel Romao.

This paper presents the union point of view on collective bargaining costing.

Year by year the trade union movement assumes new significance. [This book] records labour's progress through about 130 years of Canadian history. During these years there were thousands of strikes, negotiations, organizing campaigns, legislative and political struggles. Many of the outstanding events are described here. One of the important features of this book is its outline of how Canadian unions came to form connections with United States unions - the origins, status, and significance of International Unions in Canada. The writer has sought to give an account of trade union evolution as a whole from the period 1827-1959. In addition he has outlined certain continuing spheres of Labour's effort, such as organization of the unorganized, the fight for better conditions, legislative and political action, peace and Canadian independence. -- Publisher's description

Table of contents: Introduction -- Chronology of the Vancouver Strike and the On to Ottawa Trek, 1935. Part 1: Recollections of the On to Ottawa Trek. A Note on Editing, part 1. Prelude to Struggle -- The Origin of the Family -- The Slave Camps -- Strike -- The Trek. Part 2: Documents Related to the Vancouver Strike and the on to Ottawa Trek. A Note on Editing, part 2. The Report of the Macdonald Commission -- The Vancouver Relief Camp Strike -- The On to Ottawa Trek -- The Interview Between the Delegation of Strikers and the Prime Minister and His Cabinet, June 22, 1935 -- Continuing Documents on the Trek -- The Regina Riot -- Debate in the House of Commons . Footnotes for Part 1. Suggestions for Further Reading.

In this paper, the author relates his practical experience with fringe benefit costing in British Columbia.

This job very much needed doing, and Dr. Masters has done it in a scholarly, judicial, yet forthright manner. The hysteria engendered by the Winnipeg general strike of 1919, heightened by the singularly unenlightened form that government intervention took, continues to trail clouds of distortion and bitterness. By careful analysis of facts, circumstances, and personalities of the strike leaders, Dr. Masters has cleared away the haze and given us a historical record of the utmost value. --review, Canadian Forum (on book jacket cover)

An earnings identity may be constructed to relate consistently changes in factor earnings, share of income, productivity, unit costs and price deflator. The case of labour is the most relevant, and is readily illustrated by using GNP and Labour Force statistics. These 'global' changes may be linked up in workable fashion with changes in the Consumer Price Index and wage statistics. The attempt to refine the terms of the identity introduces problems of consistency of definition and improves Utile on the crude results.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the geographic origins, the social and educational backgrounds and the occupational and career patterns of top executives in Canadian Companies.