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The article reviews the book, "The Jacobin clubs in the French Revolution, 1793-1795," by Michael L. Kennedy.
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À partir d’une liste exhaustive des lois spéciales de retour au travail adoptées au Québec entre 1964 et 2001 inclusivement, les auteurs en présentent, sous la forme d’un tableau détaillé, certaines caractéristiques : un sommaire de leur contenu, la durée approximative du conflit auquel chacune des lois entendait mettre fin, le caractère légal ou illégal de l’arrêt de travail, sa durée ainsi que des commentaires de nature factuelle. Cet exercice permet de dégager quelques observations sur la fréquence d’utilisation de ce moyen exceptionnel et il conduit à identifier les domaines d’activité les plus souvent touchés par de telles interventions. Il montre aussi que le législateur prend souvent en compte, pour justifier l’usage de cet outil extraordinaire de règlement d’un différend, non seulement les critères relatifs au maintien de la santé et de la sécurité publiques, mais parfois aussi les inconvénients majeurs pouvant résulter du conflit. C’est qu’en pareille matière, l’adoption d’une loi se situe toujours aux frontières du droit et de la politique.
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The article reviews the book, "State and society in transition: The politics of institutional reform in the eastern townships, 1838-1852," by J.I. Little.
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The paper argues that Walter Reuther was affiliated with the US Communist Party in the mid to late 1930s. At the time, Reuther was a vice president of the United Automobile, Aircraft, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America; he went on to become UAW president from 1946 till his death in 1970. The author discusses a previously unknown archival document that summarized the February 1939 Detroit meeting attended by Communist state, national and trade union leaders, including Reuther. The author calls for a reassessment of the scholarly literature on the historical UAW and Reuther.
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The article reviews the book, "Montreal of yesterday: Jewish life in Montreal 1900-1920," by Israel Medres; translated from Yiddish by Vivian Felsen.
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Culture of Misfortune: An Interpretive History of Textile Unionism in the United States, by Clete Daniel, is reviewed.
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This article uses time-series data from two aluminium plants from Canada and the U.K. to analyze the social relations of productivity. The eventual turn to teamwork reflected, not hard evidence that productivity change had dried up, but a belief that they were the next step towards further improvement. By considering the structure of social relations over time in each smelter, this paper contributes to ongoing debates on the complex connections between productivity growth and organizational innovation. On the basis of direct observation and interviews, the article also reveals some of the social dynamics generating productivity growth and describes the development of idiosyncratic competencies. It stresses how the development of teamwork was historically in line with the productive ethos that had developed over time under continuous process technology.
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By distinguishing between Canadien and Acadien workers, on the one hand, and Canada workers, on the other, this essay examines some of the cognitive implications of L/LT’s epistemological commitment to a Canada-centered interpretation of labour history, particularly with respect to francophone working-class minorities. It argues that this labour history journal is representative of how emphasis on Canada-based workers and labour yields its own definition of class experience, a geopolitical definition that does not necessarily correspond to the ethnically-grounded “national” aspirations and struggles of French-Canadian and Acadian workers.
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The paper reviews the book, "1939: L 'Alliance de la dernière chance," by Michael Carley, published in English as "The Alliance That Never War."
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The article reviews the book, "J. B. McLachlan: A Biography," by David Frank.
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The article reviews and comments on severa; books, "Engendering the State: Family, Work, and Welfare in Canada," by Nancy Christie; "The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America, by Beatrix Hoffman; Aux origines sociales de l'État-providence: Familles québécoises, obligation scolaire et allocations familiales, 1940-1955," by Dominique Marshall; and "Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in Twentieth-Century U.S. History," by Alice O'Connor.
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In the last two decades, Brazilian unionism and the left have experienced an unprecedented development, posing for the first time in history, a real challenge to the ruling classes. The effects of this new political reality on labour history took a while to be felt, but in recent years a whole new historiography has emerged, leading to the constitution of the Mundos do Trabalho (Worlds of Labour) work group, an official branch of the National History Association.
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The article reviews the book, "Disposable people: New slavery in the global economy," by Kevin Bales.
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The article reviews the book, "Employment dispute resolution and worker rights in the changing workplace," edited by Adrienne E. Eaton and Jeffrey H. Keefe.
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The article reviews the book, "American Crucible: Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century," by Gary Gerstle.
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The legal approach in Canada towards the regulation of trade union democracy has sought to balance individual member's rights with respect for the autonomy of unions. While the United States and England have heavily legislated the areas of internal trade union affairs, Canada has enacted relatively few laws in this area. Rather, unions in Canada have enjoyed considerable legal freedom to develop their own democratic practices and culture. The irony of this approach is that it is the Canadian courts, rather than the more experienced and liberal labour relations boards, that are the final legal arbiters over most internal union matters. However, this is slowly changing. Several provinces have recently enacted modest changes that direct their labour boards to hear complaints from union members respecting the fairness of internal hearings. In the absence of extensive statutory regulation, union constitutions and the democratic traditions behind them become significant legal documents
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The article reviews the book, "Trade unions and democratization in South Africa, 1985-1987," edited by Glenn Adler and Eddie Webster.
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Remember Kirkland Lake: The Gold Miners' Strike of 1941-42, revised edition by Laurel Sefton MacDowell, is reviewed.
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A comment is presented of Richard P. Chaykowski and George A. Slotsve's "Government Administered Workplace Surveys and Industrial Relations in Canada" (2002). Their article comments on Godard's 2001 article, "New Dawn or Bad Moon Rising? Large Scale Government Administered Workplace Surveys and the Future of Canadian IR Research."