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This article reviews the book, "Bibliographie du droit du travail canadien et québecois," by René Laperriere.

À la suite de la création d'une commission consultative et d'une conférence socio-économique sur le travail devant aboutir à la reforme de Code du travailau Québec l'auteur met en doute la validité de l'approche fragmentaire envisagée.

This article reviews the book, "La médiation pré-arbitrale en matière de conflits de droits," by the journée d'étude à l'École de relations industrielles.

This article reviews the book, "Never Done: A History of American Housework," by Susan Strasser.

To understand the family economy of the working class in the period of early industrial capitalism it is necessary to go beyond a simple consideration of the sufficiency of wages, to put aside the equation of work with wage labour and to examine other ways in which survival could be enhanced. This paper begins an examination of non-wage-based survival strategies. It focuses on animal raising, gardening, the taking in of boarders and house sharing in mid- to late-nineteenth-century Montreal. These particular survival strategies can be ascertained to some extent from people's responses to the census taker. Analysis of their responses as found in the manuscript schedules of 1861 and 1871 constitutes the core of the paper. Professionals and proprietors were most likely to keep cows, the semi- and unskilled pigs. Pigs were outlawed in this period, while cows remained legal. Gardening, too, was largely eliminated on the narrow, densely built lots of the working class. The outlawing of pigs represents one of a complex of changes that, over the length of a generation, severely curtailed the proletariat's access to means of supplementing their wages and altered the contributions a wife and children could make to the family economy.

The family economy of the working class in the period of early industrial capitalism is examined in this thesis. Changes in the involvement of family members in wage labour, in education, in non-wage and domestic labour at home as well as in patterns of marriage, childbearing and residential arrangements are assessed. Analysis is based on data collected from the manuscript censuses for two working class Montreal wards, Ste. Anne and St. Jacques between 1861 and 1881. This is complemented by information from other contemporary quantitative and descriptive sources. The roles of fathers, children and mothers are examined in separate chapters for age and gender combined with class position to determine people's roles in the family and in the wider economy. Within the working class, the level and regularity of men's wages set the contours of the family economy conditioning the need for and the nature of other survival strategies. Differences of around 25 cents a day translated over a year into the possibility of divergent standards of living, roughly dividing the working class into separate, identifiable fractions. Each favoured particular survival strategies and exhibited different patterns of family labour commitment, marriage, reproduction and residence. Over this period the contours of working class youth were reshaped. Growing numbers of children aged six to twelve attended school. An increasing proportion of older children were drawn into wage labour. Boys were more likely to work for wages than girls. Girls worked in a narrower range of jobs and for a shorter span of their lives. On marriage most ceased wage earning. With whatever money others earned, they tried to ensure that the family's wage labourers faced each day sufficiently fed, clothed and rested to work. And, in abysmal living conditions they produced and socialized the next generation of workers. Occasionally seeking wage labour themselves, raising animals or gardens, or sharing their homes helped some women to come closer to balancing family budgets. Working class women remained, however, both economically and legally dependent on their husbands. This dependence was highlighted in the problems that widows faced when they tried to raise and feed a fatherless family.

This article reviews the book, "Abolition and After the Paper Box Wages Council," by C. Craig, Jill Rubery, Roger Tarling & Frank Wilkinson.

This article reviews the book, "Theories of Organizations: Form, Process and Transformation," by Jerald Hage.

This article reviews the book, "Culture and Adult Education: A Study of Alberta and Quebec", by Hayden Roberts.

This article reviews the book, "Deer Forests, Landlords, and Crofters: The Western Highlands in Victorian and Edwardian Times", by Willie Orr.

The present study reports on the experiences of a group of 58 former Canadian Admiral employees who enrolled in academic upgrading or retraining programs sponsored by the Federal government. The emphasis is placed on their student role, and expectations for the future, since all were still in retraining.

In March 1902, 3000 men were in St. John's prepared to go to the ice when rumours of lowered wages precipitated a major strike. The event produced minimal violence and delayed the fleet's sailing for only two days. Nevertheless, it was the only major sealing labour action in the era of the famous "wooden walls" and for the first time some limits were placed on the power of the Water Street merchant elite. Long-range causes involve many aspects of Newfoundland political, social, and economic organization; results included sealing safety legislation and encouragement of the foundation of William Coaker's Fisherman's Protective Union. The article discusses the background, evolution, and significance of the strike.

This Commission was established by the federal government and was publicly announced on June 27, 1983. The Terms of Reference required the Commission to explore the most efficient, effective, and equitable means of promoting equality in employment for four groups: women, native people, disabled persons, and visible minorities. .At the same time, it was to inquire specifically into the employment practices of 11 designated crown and government-owned corporations. It was clear at the outset that only a broad approach would serve, and the Commission therefore treated the 11 designated corporations as illustrative models of the issues under study. No corporation's employment practices can be assessed fairly in a cultural vacuum. It would be difficult at best to make judgements about the adequacy of the practices of crown and government-owned corporations without placing these practices in the context of what other Canadians do, believe, or expect. --From "The Process" [introduction]

This article reviews the book, "A Flannel Shirt and Liberty: British Emigrant Gentlewomen in the Canadian West, 1880-1914", edited by Susan Jackel.

L'auteur expose les grandes lignes des changements profonds apportes au Code du travail français par les lois Auroux en 1982. Il explicite les motivations qui éclairent leur présentation ainsi que l'accueil qui leur a été fait.

This article reviews the book, "Class, Power and Property: Essays on Canadian Society", by Wallace Clement.

This article reviews the book, "The Militancy of British Miners," by V.L. Allen.

This article reviews the book, "L'arbitrage des griefs et les infractions disciplinaires à caractère criminel," by Francine Gauthier-Montplaisir.

Cette étude passe en revue les modèles économiques usuels de détermination des avantages sociaux qui, pour la plupart, ont été développes et testes aux États-Unis. Elle présente des résultats d'estimation inédits pour le Canada et en tire un certain nombre d'implications pour les finances publiques, la politique économique et la compréhension du fonctionnement des marches du travail.

This article reviews the book, "Renewal in the Workplace : A Critical Look at Collective Bargaining," by Harry Antonides.