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This article reviews "L’année sociale 1964" by Guy Spitaels.

This article reviews "Le secret en matière d’inventions" by André Bertin.

This article reviews "Pareto & Mosca" edited by James H. Meisel, part of the Series The Makers of Modern Social Science.

This article reviews "Readings in Labord Economics" edited by Gordon F. Bloom, Herbert R. Northrup and Richard L. Rowan.

This article reviews "The Management of Conflict, Appeal Systems in Organizations" by William G. Scott.

This article reviews "Toward a Theory of Wage Structure" by L.R. Salkever.

This article reviews "Labor Migration and Economic Growth : A Case Study of Puerto Rico" by Stanley L. Friedlander.

This article reviews "The Global Businessman" edited by Charles F. Stewart.

This article reviews "The Politics of Wage-Price Decisions" by Murray Edelman and R.W. Fleming.

This article reviews "The Responsible Businessman" edited by John A. Larson.

In his article, the author shall emphazise that the manager's role is to relate technology to human values. Traditionally, the governing value has been productivity in the economic sense. He shall suggest that a wider range of human values must be supported, e.g. the satisfying growth of the individual employee.

L'auteur, dans le présent article, tente de faire le point sur un certain nombre d'aspects caractérisant la situation des employés professionnels en ce qui touche leur statut juridique dans le droit québécois du travail, et plus particulièrement en ce qui a trait à l'organisation syndicale et à la négociation collective.

L’auteur, dans l'article qui suit, tente de montrer dans quel sens s'est exprimée l'évolution sociale du Québec et comment ces nouvelles données communautaires redéfinissent l'exercice de la profession médicale chez nous. Il pose aussi quelques problèmes auxquels le corps médical doit faire face à l'heure actuelle.

The choice of the years 1905 to 1919 as the formative years of the trade union movement in Saskatchewan was by no means arbitrary. The years 1905 marked the formation of the first permanent, non-railway local union. The intervening years until 1919 were years of further formation and consolidation, of recognition and entrenchment, of expansion and demise, of hope and of failure. The fifteen years in question were the heyday of the craft unions, and more specifically of the building trades which expanded to meet the demands of a new and rapidly developing province. Like the people of the province, generally these unions expressed great optimism for the future. At times their expansion showed a distinct lack of rhyme or reason, but then no one was overly concerned with caution. Besides, there was no reason to be cautious when crops were good and there was an ever-increasing number of acres from which these crops could be gleaned. Only with the war was this optimistic speculation checked; only then did organized labour realize that security was an obscure quantity, quick to disappear, and that the position of the workingman had to be bolstered by means which were at variance with the established order. The upheaval of 1919 which resulted produced a Thermidorean reaction, the legacy of which had its effects throughout the 1920's and even into the 1930's.

Dans cet article, l’auteur décrit les attitudes des présidents et des arbitres en essayant de les classifier selon les tendances qu'il qualifie de juridique, sociologique, médiationniste, compromissionniste.

Industrial relations, which in the past have focused almost entirely on union-management relations, have recently been expanded to include such new areas of interest as manpower and poverty problems. At the University of Toronto a new Centre for Industrial Relations has been established, a research-oriented institution whose primary objective is to further scholarly investigations into all phases of industrial relations. To launch the new Centre a conference was held with distinguished Canadian and international authorities invited to discuss the challenges and responses for Industrial Relations in the next decade, from various points of view. This volume, based on the papers presented, will be a welcome contribution to knowledge in this challenging field. In Part I, "An International Perspective," David A. Morse considers the conference's general theme in terms of its world-wide ramifications. Part II, "Collective Bargaining in an Age of Change," is devoted mainly to a discussion of the impact of industrial change on collective-bargaining institutions and practices. James R. Bright begins with a reminder that there are two schools of thought about the effect of automation upon such variables as skill and wage differentials. Then Frederick Harbison and Arnold R. Weber assess the recent record of collective bargaining: Professor Harbison provides a wide-ranging analysis of the performance of the American collective-bargaining system to date, and Professor Weber describes the effect of technological change upon the respective power of union and management, upon negotiating procedures, and upon the substantive results of collective bargaining. Harry W. Arthurs explores the role of law in coping with change, especially the technological variety. The third part of the volume, "On the Frontier of Industrial Relations," considers two of the many new industrial relations problems: Wilbert E. Moore, discussing the individual in an organizational society, asks for a reconsideration of the roles of institutional responses to the challenges posed by industrialization. Finally, there are two discussions devoted to one of the most pressing economic and social problems: poverty. The Honourable Maurice Sauvé, who, as Canada's Minister of Forestry, is in charge of the Agriculture Rehabilitation and Development Act, discusses the earnest response of governments to the challenge of poverty; Tom Cosgrove, discussing the United States "war on poverty," reviews the dimensions of the challenge posed by poverty in the United States and outlines the federal legislative response to date. These provocative contributions should be received with great interest by representatives of labour, management, and government, as well as by those members of the public who are concerned with the problems of a growing industrial society. --Publisher's description

The author states that the conventional wisdom has viewed collective bargaining in the public service as unnecessary, impractical and illegal. And he adds that, in general, and until recently, the prevailing practices in the United States and Canada have been in close harmony with the conventional wisdom. But the restless change of events threatens the existing state of affairs, described by the conventional wisdom, with progressive obsolescence. And the author answers the two following questions: Can the industrial relations system of the private sector be applied to public employment? To what extent does the nature of government employment raise unique problems? The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. J.K. Galbraith « The Affluent Society »

This article reviews "Dictionnaire biographique du Canada" first volume, from the years 1000 to 1700.

L'auteur expose l’objet, la méthode, les difficultés et les résultats d'une commission conjointe de recherche dans un cas de conversion industrielle.