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The article reviews the book, "Histoire des relations du travail dans la construction au Québec," by Louis Delagrave.
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The rise of the New Economy has restructured work, necessitated changing skills requirements, as well as spurred new training needs amongst employees. Such new skills and training needs are prerequisites to survive and thrive in the New Economy. Importantly, these skills and training are also prerequisites for upward mobility in a system of inequality. This paper illustrates the case of Malaysian tellers as the Malaysian banking industry operates in the New Economy. Although the New Economy and the emergence of the sales culture requires Malaysian tellers to be more knowledgeable, this paper argues that due to their unionised status and given their positions at the bottom rung of the occupational hierarchy, tellers in Malaysia are disadvantaged and often excluded in the process of training and knowledge acquisition.
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The article reviews the book, "The New Mole: Paths of the Latin American Left," by Emir Sader.
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The article reviews the book, "Derelict Paradise: Homelessness and Urban Development in Cleveland, Ohio," by Daniel R. Kerr.
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The article reviews the book, "The Way of the Bachelor: Early Chinese Settlement in Manitoba," by Alison Marshall.
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The article focuses on discrepancies between institutional stipulations for apprenticeship placement conditions in the Quebec Training for a Semiskilled Trade (TST) program in contrast to socio-environmental realities encountered by students in the workplace. An intervention research study was held in order to integrate Occupational Health and Safety concerns into the training program. The methodological frame used data triangulation, including document analysis, teacher and student interviews and workplace observation. Contrary to program stipulations, most students were guided by several coworkers during apprenticeships. Insufficient access to resources, however, has led to young workers encountering difficulties in getting assistance when needed. The traditional supervisor-apprentice partnership would be best revised to maximize the use of all valuable on-site resources and ensure students develop skills to stay healthy at work.
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The article reviews the book, "Les nouvelles dimensions du politique : relations professionnelles et régulations sociales," edited by Laurent Duclos, Guy Groux and Olivier Mériaux.
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The article reviews two books written by Andrée Lévesque including "Éva Circé-Côté. Libre-penseuse, 1871-1949" and "Chroniques d'Éva Circé-Côté. Lumière sur la société québécoise, 1900-1942."
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The article reviews the book, "Being Again of One Mind: Oneida Women and the Struggle for Decolonization," by Lina Sunseri.
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The article reviews the book, "Perspectives internationales sur le travail des jeunes," edited by Mircea Vultur and Daniel Mercure.
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The article reviews the book, "The River Returns: An Environmental History of the Bow," by Christopher Armstrong, Matthew Evenden, and H.V. Nelles.
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Pays homage to the feminist, union organizer, and Indigenous rights' activist Madeleine Parent, who was zealous in her lifetime pursuit of social justice.
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The article reviews the book, "Canadian Labour in Crisis: Reinventing the Workers' Movement," by David Camfield.
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The article reviews the book, "Precarious Liberation: Workers, the State, and Contested Social Citizenship in Postapartheid South Africa," by Franco Barchiesi.
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The article reviews the book, "Poverty, Regulation and Social Justice: Readings on the Criminalization of Poverty," edited by Diane Crocker and Val Marie Johnson.
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Child labour has been present in North America since the beginnings of European colonization, and regulation of their industrial employment dates at least to the early nineteenth century in Rhode Island (Abbott). Given moral injunctions to keep children from mischief and utilitarian demands for labour and family income, such regulation remained basically ineffective. With industrial expansion following the American Civil War children established themselves as a major presence in the workforce and occasionally appeared in industrial stories such as Rebecca Harding Davis’s “Life in the Iron Mills” (1861).
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Using panel data from a large sample of Canadian establishments, the authors examine whether there is any link between adoption of an employee profit-sharing plan and subsequent employee earnings. Overall, growth in employee earnings during the five-year period subsequent to adoption of profit sharing was significantly higher in establishments that had adopted profit sharing, as compared with those establishments that had not done so. Employees in establishments that paid high wages before profit sharing adoption appeared to benefit more than employees in other establishments, although employees in other establishments did eventually benefit from profit sharing.
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Mobile Living Across Europe II: Causes and Consequences of Job-Related Spatial Mobility in Cross-National Comparison, edited by Norbert F. Schneider and Beate Collet, is reviewed.