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This paper is concerned with the factors affecting the attitudes of workers who manufacture Asbestos products toward occupational health issues.
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This article reviews the book, "Social Inequality and Class Radicalism in France and Britain," by Duncan Gallie.
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Much Marxist literature on industrialization has assumed that production has been carried out on an increasingly large-scale, centralized basis since the nineteenth century, and that as workers become concentrated together in production, and as the labour process becomes more uniform, there is a homogenization of the working class . This thesis challenges these assumptions and attempts to develop a critical, Marxist anthropology of industry and labour through an examination of the clothing industry and clothing workers in Quebec. In the 19th century the clothing industry in Quebec developed largely on the basis of outwork and sub-contracting. This hindered the development of large-scale factory production, and created a fragmerited, dispersed labour force. ln the 1930s, clothing workers responded to the decentralization of production and intense competition between clothing manufacturers by organizing unions, but these tended to reinforce the occupational, gender and ethnic divisions within the labour force. These dynamics are examined in their contemporacy form in the context of a clothing factory where the production process is sub-divided into distinct phases which separate workers by gender, occupational category, and department. Workers reinforce this fragmentation by defining their interests on the basis of their occupational group. Within the largest group, the female sewing machine operators, competition between individual operators combines with an informal ethnic division of labour to further separate workers from one another. Analysis of the structure of the clothing industry shows that not aIl capitalist production is increasingly large-scale or centralized. And rather than being increasingly homogeneous, the clothing proletariat is is marked by a nincreasingly hierarchical and heterogeneous organnization.
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This article reviews the book, "La gestion par projet : aspects stratégiques," by Pierre Beaudoin.
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This article reviews the book, "Comparative Industrial Relations : An Introduction to Cross National Perspectives," by R. Bean.
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This article reviews the book, "At Home and at Work: The Family's Allocation of Labor," by Michael Gcerken and Walter R. Gove.
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This article reviews the book, "Twentieth Century Canada," by J. L. Granatstein, Irving Abella, David Bercuson, R.C. Brown and H.B. Neatby.
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This article reviews the book, "Working for the Railroad: The Organization of Work in the Nineteenth Century," by Walter Licht.
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This article reviews the book, "Black Intellectuals and the Dilemmas of Race and Class in Trinidad," by Ivaar Oxaal.
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This article reviews the book, "Shifting Gears: Changing Labor Relations in the U.S. Automobile Industry," by Harry C. Katz.
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This study examines the effectiveness of multi-predictor selection System as compared with any other alternative selection system which relies on only one predictor.
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This article reviews the book, "Canada Labour Relations Board - Federal Law and Practice," by J. Dorsey.
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This article reviews the book, "Industrial Conflict Resolution in Market Economies," by T. Hanami & R. Blanpain.
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This article reviews the book, "Principes de droit du travail," by R. Blanpain.
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This article reviews the book, "Syndicats et droit syndica l: Le droit syndical dans l'entreprise," by Jean-Maurice Verdier.
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This article reviews the book, "Forever Feminine: Women's Magazines and the Cult of Femininity," by Marjorie Ferguson.
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This article reviews the book, "Classes of Contemporary Japan," by Rob Stevens.
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This article reviews the book, " Office Work Can Be Dangerous to Your Health," by Jeanne Stellman and Mary Sue Henifin.
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Although characterized by unequal exchange, the impact of the fur trade on the aboriginal societies of what became British Columbia involved minimal disruption because the indigenous modes of production were easily articulated with mercantile capitalism. It was the problems arising from competition and increasing costs of transportation that led the Hudson's Bay Company to begin commodity production in agriculture, fishing and lumbering, thereby initiating capitalist wage-labour relations and paving the way for the subsequent disastrous decline in the well-being of Native peoples in the province.
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During World War II, the government of Canada sought to prevent strikes primarily through the use of "compulsory conciliation:" in specified industries, strikes and lockouts were prohibited until a government-sponsored board had investigated the dispute and delivered its report. This paper examines the operation of that regime during the war years. It highlights the tension between two alternative views of the boards' function (adjudication and mediation), indicates how the government manipulated the conciliation process in order to prevent or delay strikes, discusses briefly the reasons invoked by boards in their judgements, and demonstrates the frustration arising from the government's reluctance to prescribe clear norms of industrial conduct. In the turbulent wartime economy, compulsory conciliation failed to achieve the level of industrial peace demanded of it. Eventually, mandatory wage controls and a labour code modeled on the American Wagner Act were adopted, restricting the scope of the conciliation regime.
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