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This article reviews "Le perfectionnement des cadres en France et aux États-Unis" by Pierre Demarne with the collaboration of Jean-Baptiste Jeener.

This article reviews "Les installations électriques en moyenne tension" by J. Boulouvard.

This article reviews "Méthodologie vers une science de l’action" by R. Coude and A. Molès.

This article reviews "Plaidoyer pour la grande organisation" by Léonard R. Sayles.

This article reviews "Principes de la gestion budgétaire" by M. Fuster.

This article reviews "Procedures and Policies of the New York State Labor Relations Board" by Kurt L. Hanslowe.

This article reviews "Profit Sharing in Perspective" by B.L. Metzger.

This article reviews "The Economics of Health and Medical Care" the Proceedings of the Conference on the Economics of Health and Medical Care (Michigan).

This article reviews "Workbook to Accompany "Principles of Economics" " by William P. Yoke, John O. Blackburn, and David McFarland.

This article reviews "Written Communications for Business Administrators" by Robert D. Hay.

This book looks at two important aspects in Canadian society: its class structure and the composition of its elites or power holding groups. A recurring theme in the analysis of both class and elite groups is that Canada has found itself in the middle of the twentieth century with inadequate institutional arrangements for the industrial society it has become. Its educational systems have failed to provide the necessary skills which in large measure have been recruited through immigration. Its elites have been drawn largely from middle and upper class "British charter groups." The author further submits that the strong emphasis in the Canadian value system on regionalism and ethnic differentiation has resulted in the fragmentation of the society, particularly at the political level, and lef tit incapable of dealing with some of its major problems as an industrial society. Although this is a sociological study in which evidence in related to social theory, the author has tried to avoid technical terms, and this, together with the particular relevance at the present time of a discussion of the nature of Canadian society, will make this book interesting to laymen as well as specialists. --Publisher's description. Contents: Part I: The Structure of Class 1. Class and Power: The Major Themes 2. Class, Mobility, and Migration 3. Ethnicity and Social Class 4. Classes and Incomes 5. Rural Decline and New Urban Strata 6. Social Class and Educational Opportunity Part II: The Structure of Power 7. Elites and the Structure of Power 8. The Concentration of Economic Power 9. The Economic Elite and Social Structure 10. The Structure of Organized Labout 11. The Labour Elite 12. The Canadian Political System 13. The Political Elite 14. The Federal Bureaucracy 15. The Ideological System: The Mass Media 16. The Ideological System: The Higher Learning and the Clergy 17. Relations Between Elites Appendixes 1. Class and Social Structure: Tables and Figures 2. The Concentration of Economic Power 3. How the Other Elites Were Selected.

This article reviews "Regulating Union Government" edited by Marten S. Estey, Philip Taft, and Martin Wagner.

In his paper, the author presents methods to forecast long-term manpower requirements : employer interviews, extrapolation of trends derived from historical data, standard growth curves, examination of the technology and manpower demand in new firms and industries, study of occupational growth prospects and requirements, comprehensive econometric models. And finally, the article contains a brief examination of French and American current research and practices in long-term manpower forecasting.

L'auteur démontre, au moyen de clauses significatives, que la seule lecture du texte des conventions collectives ne permet pas de connaître toute la portée des transformations technologiques sur les relations de travail. Une recherche menée sur le terrain s'avère nécessaire à cette fin. L'auteur étudie également le rôle des clauses d'ancienneté en cas de transformations technologiques.

This study sees the 1900 strike on the Fraser River as providing the setting in which trade unions began in the fisheries of British Columbia, and analyzes both the strike itself and its background from that point of view. In the two decades to 1890, the Fraser River salmon canning industry grew relatively slowly, limited by the problems of developing techniques for processing, finding labor for packing, and accumulating capital from profits. In the 10 years to 1900, these difficulties had been mostly overcome, and fresh capital, attracted by sizeable profits, nearly tripled the number of canneries. This boom ended in a crisis of over-expansion, marked by strikes and company mergers. One unforeseen effect of license limitation in the seasons I889-I89I was a change from paying fishermen a daily wage to paying them at so much per fish, and consequently the start of a series of disputes between canners and fishermen over fish prices. Though in general prices rose throughout the 1890*s, the individual fishermen failed to benefit, partly because of price cuts and limits on deliveries during periods of a heavy supply of fish, and partly because of the increasing number of fishermen licensed in each succeeding year. In an attempt to increase their bargaining strength, white resident fishermen campaigned for changes in federal fishery regulations to restrict competition from Japanese and American fishermen, and to reduce the number of cannery licenses. The first fishermen's organization, formed in 1893 to further this end, did not survive its unrelated involvement in a strike that year against price cuts. The amendments to the fishery regulations in 1894 and, to an even greater degree, in 1898 reflected the success of this group in gaining their ends by political means. To try to redress the balance, the canners created in 1898 their own closely-knit organization, the British Columbia Salmon Packers’ Association. The difficulties of the seasons of 1898 and 1899, basically caused by over-expansion, led the canners to tighten their organization further by creating in January, 1900, the Fraser River Canners’ Association, a cannery combine with power to set maximum fish prices and production quotas for each cannery, and to levy fines on violators of its decisions. About the same time, and partly in reaction to the canners' move, separate unions of fishermen were organized, first at New Westminster, then at Vancouver. The Vancouver union tried and failed to enroll Japanese fishermen who formed in June, 1900, the Japanese Fishermen's Benevolent Society. The Canners’ Association refused to negotiate prices with fishermen's union representatives or to set a minimum price for sockeye. When the sockeye season opened July 1 the fishermen struck, demanding 25 cents a fish through the season. By July 10, the strike included all fishermen on the river—white, Japanese and Indian. After another week, the Canners' Association felt forced to negotiate and in a series of meetings the two sides came close to settlement. At this point, however, the canners broke off negotiations and made a separate agreement with the Japanese for 20 cents for the first 600 fish in a week and 15 cents thereafter. The canners then provoked an "incident" as an excuse for three friendly justices of the peace to call out the militia to Steveston. In spite of the Japanese defection and the presence of the militia, the remaining strikers held out for another week. Mediation by E. P. Bremner, Dominion Labor Commissioner, and Francis Carter-Cotton, publisher of the Vancouver News-Advertiser, secured them a negotiated settlement which, though not including any union recognition, guaranteed 19 cents throughout the season. This success led to the creation in January, 1901, of the Grand Lodge of British Columbia Fishermen's Unions, the first coast-wide fishermen's organization in British Columbia. The strike marked the beginning of continuous union activity in the industry and the start of a tradition of radical leadership that persists to the present day.

L'auteur analyse du point de vue méthodologique et du point de vue substantif la thèse exposée par Selig Perlman dans« A Theory of the Labor Movement ». Il en examine la consistance intrinsèque, l’utilité et les faiblesses. Il conclut que la théorie de Perlman est fondamentalement une apologie anti-marxiste dirigée principalement contre des propositions de Lénine. Une telle approche apporte une conception incomplète et normative du phénomène syndical. C'est pourquoi la thèse de Perlman demeure au niveau de généralisations dont l’utilité est limitée. En effet, considérant la base de la solidarité, les buts, les méthodes et les comportements syndicaux, elle ne fournit qu'une explication partielle, parfois subjective, des diverses composantes de faction syndicale.

The author in this article examines the status of unions and collective agreements under the new Québec Labour Code. He first presents a brief historical review of the laws and decisions concerning this matter not only in Québec but also in the common law provinces. He goes on stating the conditions prevailing in Québec as well as in the other provinces up to the enactment of the Code. He finally analyses the new provisions of the Labour Code governing the status of unions and collective agreements covered by it.

In this paper, the author explains how the relationships between Canadian and American trade union centers have developed. Up to the year 1897, there was no continuous relation between union organizations of both countries. The new binational policy adopted by the majority of the TLC delegates at its 1902 convention brought-forth the split in the Canadian labor movement. The unions expelled from the TLC founded the NTLC which became the CFL in 1908. When the latter disappeared in 1927, the French Canadian labor movement was about the only one to maintain its opposition to the American influence.

With the present paper, the author covers some of the developments which have known, since 1948, the various Canadian jurisdictions in the field of public policy and labour relations. The principal topics are: labour economics, labour-management relations and finally industrial peace and the changing role of government.

La Cour suprême du Canada décide, à la majorité, que la Commission des Relations du Travail, en excluant de l'unité de négociation les employés de moins de seize ans, n'a pas outrepassé sa compétence, et qu'en conséquence un bref de prohibition logé contre celle-ci doit être rejeté (1) La Commission des Relations ouvrières de Québec, appelante, et Burlington Mills Hosiery Company of Canada Limited, intimée, et The United Textile Workers of America, Local 311, mise-en-cause; Rapports judiciaires du Canada R.C.S. 1964, pp. 342-351; MM. les JJ: Taschereau, J.C., Abbott et Judson, majoritaires; MM. les JJ. Cartwright et Fauteux, dissidents. François Mercier, c.r. et G. Vaillancourt, c.r., pour l'appelante; Lawrence Marks, c.r. et Guy Gagnon, pour l'intimée. Philip Cutler, pour la mise-en-cause.