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The article reviews the book, "Work and Wages: Natural Law, Politics and the Eighteenth-Century French Trades," by Michael Sonenscher.
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Data on 430 union organizing campaigns in the US are used to examine the incidence and patterns of organizing tactics in representation campaigns. The results show that most traditional tactics were widely used, but most new organizing strategies and tactics were infrequently used in the sample of representation campaigns. None of the corporate power tactics were used in more than 5% of the campaigns. The community acceptance and integration tactics tended to be used less often than the classical approach tactics but more often than the corporate power tactics. Service unions tended to use the classical approach tactics less often and the corporate power and the community acceptance and integration tactics more often than manufacturing unions. Manufacturing unions used paid advertisements more often than service unions, perhaps because they have more resources at their disposal to do so. The importance of new organizing strategies seems to have been exaggerated in the literature.
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The article reviews the book, "Moncton 1871-1929. Changements socio-économiques dans une ville ferroviaire," edited by Daniel Hickey.
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The article reviews the book, "Religion, Revolution and English Radicalism: Nonconformity in Eighteen-Century Politics and Society," by James Bradley.
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The article reviews the book, "Unions and Economic Competitiveness," edited by Lawrence Mishel and Paula B. Voos.
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The article reviews the book, "Robust Unionism. Innovations In The Labor Movement," by Arthur B. Shostak.
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The article reviews the book, "Work Family Conflicts: Private Lives ― Public Responses," by Bradley K. Googins.
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The article reviews the book, "For Democracy, Workers, and God: Labor Song-Poems and Labor Protest, 1865-1895," by Clark D. Halker.
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The article reviews the book, "Artisans into Workers: Labor in Nineteenth Century America," by Bruce Laurie.
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The article reviews the book, "Order Against Chaos: Business Culture and Labor Ideology in America, 1880-1915," by Sarah Lyons Watts.
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The article reviews the book, "The Butte Irish: Class and Ethnicity in an American Mining Town, 1875-1925," by David M. Emmons.
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The article reviews the book, "Education for Struggle: The American Labor Colleges of the 1920 and 1930s," by Richard J. Altenbaugh.
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The article reviews the book, "Femmes de parole: L'histoire des Cerles de fermières du Québec 1915-1990," by Yolande Cohen.
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The article reviews the book, "Joint Training Programs: A Union-Management Approach to Preparing Workers for the Future," edited by Louis A. Ferman, Michele Hoyman, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld and Ernest J. Savoie.
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The article reviews the book, "Understanding Employee Ownership," edited by Corey Rosen and Karen M. Young.
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Recent developments in the new technology debate suggest that the effects of technological change may be more complex and ambiguous than managerialist and labor process writers have argued. The process of technological change in an employing organization involves a number of distinct stages. A recent study challenged the position that technological change brings about the deskilling of workers. It is demonstrated that the independent influence of technology is a necessary compliment to an examination of the way outcomes of change are chosen and negotiated. The study used a set of survey data based on 435 unionized employing organizations in Atlantic Canada.
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The article reviews the book, "Managing Innovation: A Study of British and Japanese Factories," by D. H. Whittaker.
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The successful implementation of information technology in a teachers federation in a Canadian province is examined. At least 3 key factors seem to account for successful implementation: 1. the presence of an influential and energetic technology advocate, 2. the involvement of users in the implementation, and 3. a general ethos in the organization that encourages excellence in the services provided by staff but within a collegial framework. It is clear that the federation was successful in harmonizing the interests of employees and members. The appointment of an executive assistant was crucial in focusing attention on the technology issue. Building on the mission given to him by the elected officials, the executive assistant played a key role in gaining organizational commitment to new technology. Also important to success was the attention the federation paid to getting input from professional and non-professional staff about decisions concerning information technology.
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Discusses industrial studies (the equivalent of labour studies) provision for trade unionists in Great Britain with implications for Canada. Provides a historical overview of workers' education since WWI that saw increasing consolidation under the Trade Union Congress, which strongly emphasized work place skills training rather than a broad understanding of labour history and the social and political economy. The Labour government's 1975 Employment Protection Act provided financial support to this instrumentalization that in turn led to further compromise by the TUC under the succeeding Conservative government. Concludes that the professionalization of the TUC curriculum has resulted in a narrowing of its scope, and that it should not be emulated in Canada, where there has been support for broader studies of the labour movement both through universities and labour-supported institutions.
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The article reviews the book, "The Permanent Revolution? Conservative Law and the Trade Unions," by John McIlroy.