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This article reviews the book, "Strikes in Australia," by Malcolm Waters.
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This article reviews the book, "Eve & the New Jerusalem: Socialism & Feminism in the Nineteenth Century," by Barbara Taylor.
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This article reviews the book, "Work, Community and Power: The Experience of Labor in Europe and America, 1900-1925," edited by James E. Cronin and Carmen Sirianni.
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This article reviews the book "The Lockeport Lockout: An Untold Story in Nova Scotia's Labour History," by Michael Lynk and Sue Calhoun.
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Le 13 décembre 1984, la Corporation des conseillers en relations industrielles du Québec présentait son mémoire à la Commission consultative sur le travail, présidée par le juge René Beaudry. Il nous est apparu d'intérêt d'extraire de ce mémoire les 20 «propositions d'actions» et les quelques commentaires sous-jacents présentes à la Commission Beaudry.
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L'auteur résume les grandes étapes du mouvement ouvier au Québec depuis le début du siécle en les situant dans le contexte économique, social et politique de chaque période, et en soulignant quelques-uns de ses thémes préférés: les diverses strates dans la classe ouvriére elle-même, l'insuffisance chronique du revenu moyen des salariés pour leur assurer une vie décente, l'opposition systématique des employeurs et des gouvernements au mouvement syndical.
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Cette étude analyse les différents aspects des conventions et recommandations adoptées par l'Organisation internationale du Travail en ce qui concerne l'élimination de la discrimination et la promotion de l'égalité des chances en matière d'emploi et de profession. La principale est la Convention no 111, de 1958, aujourd'hui ratifiée par 107pays; elle a été complétée par la suite par d'autres instruments concernant des causes de discrimination qui n'étaient pas pleinement couvertes par la convention no 111. L'étude montre les précisions qui ont été apportées à la définition de la discrimination et à la détermination des mesures à prendre pour son élimination dans l'action des organes de contrôle de l'application des conventions et dans le développement des activités pratiques de l'OIT.
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This article reviews the book, "Labor Arbitration in State and Local Government," by Richard A. Lester.
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This article reviews the book, "Boss Whistle: The Coal Miners of Vancouver Island Remember," by Lynne Bowen.
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This article reviews the book, "A Dictionary of Marxist Thought," edited by Tom Bottomore, et al.
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This paper analyzes the Communist Party of Canada's view of the woman question, the role women played in the party, and the party's successes and failures in its attempts to organize working-class women. The Communist Party's view of the woman question was shaped by the advice of the USSR and the Communist International, as well as by the party's social base and the political understanding of its own membership. The Communist Party's Women's Department helped to create a new national organization for women, the Women's Labor Leagues, which, led by Florence Custance, experienced substantial growth in the 1920s. The Communist Party gave more attention to women's inequality than had previous socialist parties, although it failed to live up to its stated aims to organize working-class women and encourage women's participation in the revolutionary movement.
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This article reviews Labour's response to the Amendments, and concludes that the new amendments to The Trade Union Act indicate that the Government of the day leans more towards management's objectives than those of trade unions with regard to collective bargaining.
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This paper takes advantage of newly developed total factor productivity measures available from the Economic Council of Canada to examine the relationship between the factor inputs, particularly the labour input, and productivity.
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Documents the Italian enclave in the pulp-and-paper town of Powell River, BC, prior to World War II. Analyzes primary sources to show that by the mid-1920s the Italian-origin group formed the largest among non-Anglophones in the community. However, the emergent "Little Italy" was impacted adversely by layoffs from the papermill during the 1930s. The study was intended as a first step toward a comprehensive history of Italian migration and immigration to BC before WWII.
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This article reviews the book, "Faces of Feminism: A Study of Feminism as a Social Movement," by Olive Banks.
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This article reviews the book, "Poverty and Policy in American History," by Michael B. Katz.
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This article reviews the book, "Gold Mountain: The Chinese in the New World," by Anthony B. Chan.
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This article reviews the book, "Class, Culture and Community: A Biographical Study of Social Change in Mining," by Bill Williamson.
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This article reviews the book, "Duplessis and the Union Nationale Administration," by Richard Jones.
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At the end of the nineteenth century, the socialist movement in Canada began a campaign to create national political organizations and to forge links with the working class, The strongest of these organizations was the Socialist Party of Canada (SPC), which elected several provincial deputies in the West after 1903, and won the affiliation of a number of unions, above all District 18 of the United Mine Workers of America. This article analyzes the socialist project in the coal mining regions of Alberta and British Columbia, 1900-20. Here, mining conditions provoked long and hard working-class struggles, such as the violent strike of non-union miners on Vancouver Island in 1912-4, or the general strike of miners in the Crow's Nest Pass in 1919. Socialist politics had the sympathy of the militants but more importantly, of the mass of electors in these regions. Contrary to the mythology of the frontier, the majority of working-class socialists comprised stable industrial communities. And the Marxist programme of the SPC offered an alternative to each of the great ethnic blocks in the coalfields: European immigrants on the one hand, and English-speaking workers on the other. Be that as it may, the socialists suffered a decisive defeat after 1914. The historical juncture of 1919 created new marching orders for the miners: towards the Communist Party, or the "reformist" socialism of the CCF.
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