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The article reviews the book, "The New Day Recalled: Lives of Girls and Women in English Canada, 1919-1939," by Veronica Strong-Boag.
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The article reviews the book, "Si le Travail m'était conté autrement...Les Travailleuses de la CTCC-CSN : quelques fragments d'histoire," by Nadia Fahmy-Eid and Louis Piché.
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The article reviews the book, "Femmes et emploi : le défi de l'égalité," by Hélène David.
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As a permanent population established itself on the island of Newfoundland in the 19th century, the various sectors of society jostled each other for a share of control over their society. In the Conception Bay outports of Harbour Grace and Carbonear the social divisions and alliances which spawned an active culture of resistance formed around ethno-religious groups, political affiliation, and social class. The first part of this paper will recount a number of diverse collective plebeian acts and look at the natives and loyalties connected with each. Part two deals with election violence with which the population used informal means to affect change in a formal theatre. Section three is devoted to the largest plebeian disturbance of the decade; the 1832 sealers' strike. Here fishermen overcame their various social biases to work in class ways for their common good.
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The article reviews the book "John Maclean," by B. J. Ripley and J. McHugh.
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The article reviews the book,"That Noble Dream: The 'Objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession," by Peter Novick.
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The article reviews the book, "The Social Credit Phenomenon in Alberta," by Alvin Finkel.
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The article reviews the book, "The Dark Side of Victorian Halifax," by Judith Fingard.
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This article reviews the book, "British and Norwegian Offshore Industrial Relations : Pluralism and Neo-Corporatism as Contexts of Strategic Adaptation," by Svein S. Andersen.
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The article reviews the book, "Grupa pracownicza jako przedmiot i podmiot motywowania," by Alicja Kozdroj.
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This article reviews the book, "Worker Dislocation : Case Studies of Causes and Cures," by Robert F. Cook.
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The article reviews the book, "Capital-Labour Relations in the U.S. Textile Industry," by Barry E. Truchil.
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As the Canadian and international record will testify, the years between 1917-1920 were critically important to workers' aspirations for industrial unionism. An account of the Newfoundland Industrial Workers' Association (NIWA) has largely been passed over in the writing of the Island's labour history. Yet this organization figures prominently in the events which helped to shape the labour-capital relationship during the wartime period. In the Newfoundland context, the effective use of the strike weapon during this period is a telling indicator of the heightened sense of militancy resulting from the temporary convergence of labour organizations around issues relating to the war. Centred in St. John's. but exerting an Island-wide presence, the NIWA arose Out of a pressing need for Newfoundlanders to address the economic and political exigencies of World War I. This article examines the NIWA in terms of its structure, membership, and mandate for change with specific reference to the major confrontation waged between the NIWA and their principal opponent, the Reid Newfoundland Company in the spring of 1918.
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The article reviews the book, "Unequal Work," by Veronica Beechey.
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The article reviews the book, "What's a Coal Miner to Do? The Mechanization of Coal Mining," by Keith Dix.
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The article reviews the books "The New Canadian Political Economy," by Wallace Clement and Glen Williams and "Open for Business: The Roots of Foreign Ownership in Canada," by Gordon Laxer.
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The article reviews the book, "Socialist Cities: Municipal Politics and the Grass Roots of American Socialism," by Richard W. Judd.
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An attempt is made to analyze 110 recent Canadian common law wrongful dismissal cases to identify principles pertaining to compensation management policies and practices. Each case involved "constructive dismissal," in which the employee sued the employer for altering a fundamental condition of employment. The case law is divided into pay level issues, pay form issues, pay structure issues, and pay communication issues. The courts typically will decide that constructive dismissal has occurred when the employer reduces, withdraws, or withholds an aspect of the compensation package. An attempt to clarify an ambiguous remuneration package also may constitute a breach of employment contract. In addition, courts have been sympathetic to employees whose opportunity to receive future income has been limited by an employer's actions. Employers are obliged to fulfill remuneration promises when there is evidence that those promises existed. Changing the form of remuneration can result in constructive dismissal, depending on the circumstances and the test used by the court.