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The importance of religion to social and labour radicalism in English Canada has been identified by several scholars, but few labour historians have built on these insights. Some scholars who study labour or socialist leaders at least briefly assess the impact of their subject’s religious background or their relationship to social gospel, while a few historians of working-class ethnic communities explore religion as a facet of their subjects’ lives. Discussion of religion, however, is usually a small part of a larger project. On this theme, Lynne Marks replies to Bryan Palmer’s critique of her book, "Revivals and Roller Rinks: Religion, Leisure and Identity in Late Nineteenth-Century Small-Town Ontario."
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New Corporation, Technology and the Workplace: Global Strategies, Local Change, by Timothy Marjoribanks, is reviewed.
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This paper analyzes the evolution of Jim Crow employment patterns in the Canadian railway industry from the 1880s to World War I. It presents race as a central organizing principle in employers' decision to hire black railwaymen for their sleeping and dining car departments. Canadian railway managers actively sought out African American, West Indian, and African Canadian labour, believing that they constituted an easily manipulated group of workers. White railroaders fought the introduction of black employees, arguing that they undermined white manhood and railway unionism. Trade union leaders demanded and won a racialized division of the workforce, locking black workers into low-waged service position when they had initially enjoyed a broader range of employment options. In effect, white railway trade unionists and their employers embraced segregation as a rational model for peaceful working conditions. Black railroaders, on the other hand, resisted the encroachment of segregationist policies by forming their own union, the Order of Sleeping Car Porters. They pressured for change by exposing the scope of Jim Crow practices in the railway industry and trade unionism.
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The article reviews the book, "Labour before the Law: The Regulation of Workers' Collective Action in Canada, 1900-1948," by Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker.
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Cooperative forms of enterprise are often held up as a progressive, moderate alternative to the privations of the capitalist market economy. This paper considers the Prince Rupert Fishermen's Co-op and its relations with organized labour in the north of British Columbia. The paper describes a contradiction within the co-op based on the possibilities of social ownership within a market economy. Through a discussion of the escalating labour conflicts between the co-op and its non-member employees the weaknesses of co-operative enterprises are revealed.
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The article reviews the book, "Domestic Goods: The Material, the Moral, and the Economic in the Post-war Years/A History of Domestic Space: Privacy and the Canadian Home," by Joy Parr.
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The article reviews the book, "Gentlemen Engineers: The Working Lives of Frank and Walter Shanly," by Richard White.
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The article reviews the book, "Canadian Marxists and the Search for a Third Way," by J. Peter Campbell.
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The article reviews the book, "Rédaction d’une convention collective : guide d’initiation," edited by Serge Tremblay.
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The article reviews the book, "Citizens and Nation: An Essay on History, Communication, and Canada," by Gerald Friesen.
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The article reviews the book, "Rebel Life: The Life and Times of Robert Gosden, Revolutionary, Mystic, Labour Spy," by Mark Leier.
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The article is the text of the speech given in honour of Shirley Goldenberg as recipient of CIRA's award at its annual conference in 2000.
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This study examines the nature of education and training for full-time union staff and officials in Canada and explores some of the factors that affect such provision. It was designed to complement similar studies of other countries and to contribute to more general discussions of labor education. The study compares the opportunities of training for Canadian union staff with similar provision in Britain and the US and locates the discussion about further training within the contexts of existing programs of labor education and current debates about the revitalization of the labor movement. The study concludes with a call for more systematic discussion of these issues and analysis of different programmatic models.
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The article reviews the book, "The World's Strongest Trade Unions: The Scandinavian Labor Movement," by Walter Galenson.
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The article reviews the book, "For Home, Country, and Race: Constructing Gender, Class, and Englishness in the Elementary School, 1880-1914," by Stephen Heathorn.
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Hard Work: The Making of Labor History, by Melvyn Dubofsky, is reviewed.