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The article reviews the book, "Labor and the State in Egypt: Workers, Unions, and Economic Reconstruction," by Marcia Pripstein Posusney.

The article reviews the book, "Growth in Disability Benefits: Explanations and Policy Implications," edited by Kalman Rupp and David C. Stapleton.

The Toronto Mechanics' Institute (1831-1883) served as one of the principle institutions of art instruction, the employment of artists (female and male), and exhibition of art in 19th century Toronto. Artists and illustrators now well known in the annals of Canadian art including Laura Bell, Mary Cooper, Richard Baigent, William Bengough, Robert Gagen, William Hind, Henry Martin, George Reid, Kivas Tulley, John Tully, and E. K. Westmacott were amongst the list of teachers and exhibitors at this Institute which attracted 6,000 to 9,000 people and as many as 700 paintings and photographs to its Annual Exhibition by mid-century. Founded for the advancement of worker self-education in the period prior to the Rebellion, the Toronto Mechanics' Institute continued to play a vital role for the Toronto working class in both practical design and fine art throughout the century until the emergence of public adult educational provisions in the latter quarter of the century. The minute books and annual reports of the Mechanics' Institute provide an instructive source for the researcher and demonstrate that contrary to some received wisdom that the mechanics' institutes were middle-class institutions, the Toronto Mechanics' Institute witnessed many lively debates on relevant social topics and remained committed to a working-class orientation throughout its existence despite the changing compositions of its Board. This article sets forth some archival findings and makes some theoretical refinements to the debates on the Mechanics' Institute in the hope of contributing to the on-going research.

The article reviews the book, "McLibel: Burger Culture on Trial," by John Vidal.

The article reviews the book, "T. A. Crerar: A Political Biography," by J.E. Rea.

The article reviews the book, "Democracy is Power: Rebuilding Unions from the Bottom Up ," by Mike Parker and Martha Gmelle.

The article reviews the book, "Poverty and Inequality: The Political Economy of Redistribution," by Jon Neill.

The article reviews the book, "Caring for Profit: How Corporations Are Taking Over Canada's Health Care System," by Colleen Fuller.

The article reviews the book, "Health and Social Organization: Towards a Health Policy for the 21st Century," edited by David Blane, Eric Brunner, and Richard Wilkinson.

The article reviews the book, "Relever les défis de la gestion des ressources humaines," by Sylvie St-Onge, Michel Audet, Victor Haines and André Petit,

Le syndicat SUD-PTT est une scission récente (1989) de la CFDT, la deuxième centrale syndicale en France. Il est animé par une génération de militants marqués par Mai 1968, politiquement proches de l'extrême gauche. Mais ces militants sont aux prises avec une génération de nouveaux adhérents, dans un contexte d'urgence sociale. Idéologie et préférence partisane sont mises de côté au nom du pragmatisme, tandis qu'un sens élevé des questions transversales aboutit à un syndicalisme sociétal original, qui a fait école dans différents secteurs.

The article reviews the book, "Die unheimliche Macht des Geldes: Finanzierungsstrategien der Bürgerlichen Frauenbewegung in Deutschland zwischen 1865 und 1933," by Gilla Dölle.

The article reviews the book, "Frauen und Staat/Les Femmes et l'État," edited by Brigitte Studer, Regina Wecker, and Beatrice Ziegler.

The article reviews the book, "The Politics of Retirement in Britain, 1878-1948," by John Macnicol.

The article reviews the book, "Négociation en relations du travail: nouvelles approches," by Pierre Deschênes, Jean-Guy Bergeron, Reynald Bourque and André Brand.

Cet article traite des exclusions légales et sociales qui affectent la main-d’œuvre agricole saisonnière véhiculée quotidiennement au Québec, dont la grande majorité sont des immigrants résidant à Montréal. Une recherche sociale sur le terrain a révélé, sur certaines fermes, un haut roulement de main-d’œuvre et des conditions de travail en deçà du seuil légalement et humainement admissible : non-respect des personnes, du temps de travail, des normes de santé et sécurité, discrimination. À partir des résultats de cette étude, de recherches sur les modifications de l'agriculture québécoise au XXe siècle ainsi que de l'analyse de contenu de mémoires de l'Union des producteurs agricoles (UPA), les auteures mettent en lumière le rôle de l'UPA dans les exclusions légales successives des salariés agricoles et remettent en question son discours sur la pénurie de main-d’œuvre, contredite par la recherche.

In this article, we discuss representations of women's identifies as workers in the wartime newspaper, Aircrafter, produced by management at the Canadian Car and Foundry Company Limited in Fort William, Ontario, during World War II. We argue that Aircrafter functioned as an ideological mechanism by which pre-war, middle-class prescriptions of femininity, emphasizing women's roles as decorative homemakers in the private sphere, survived the challenges of women's war work to shape post-war gender roles. The article demonstrates the efficacy of this ideological mechanism by revealing the comprehensive way in which different rhetorical styles and varied sections of the newspaper -- the front page news and pictures, the editorial page, the women's page entitled "The Femmine Touch," as well as cartoons and pin-ups -- collectively conveyed an ambivalent attitude that both praised and questioned women's war work in traditionally male jobs thus reinforcing pre-war socially prescribed forms of femininity. This research reveals how state policies concerning representations of women workers in government war propaganda influenced a northwestern Ontario war plant and shaped the ideological atmosphere which the women war workers at Canadian Car would have to negotiate as part of their daily working lives.

It is widely believed that both economic security and management policies that foster employee trust increase the willingness of employees to be flexible with respect to work practices and to accept economic policies that foster competition in product markets. These claims, however, rest either on fairly indirect evidence - an apparent association between the presence in countries of institutions that provide economic security and better performance on one or another macroeconomic indicator - or on a series of generally sketchy case studies. In this article relevant data are analyzed from a representative sample of pulp and paper industry employees in Canada. The results provide only weak support for claims with respect to the effects of employment security and trust, thus suggesting some modifications to the standard interpretation.

The article reviews the book, "Spectres of Capitalism: A Critique of Current Intellectual Trends," by Samir Amin.

Chronicles the work of the Organization for Jewish Colonization in Russia (ICOR) during the 1920s and 30s in support of a Soviet government initiative that established a Jewish Autonomous Region in Birobidzhan in the far east of the Soviet Union. ICOR was also founded in opposition to the Zionist movement for a Jewish national state in Palestine. Controlled by the US and Canadian communist parties, the organization was comprised mostly of Yiddish-speaking East European Jews. In 1933, ICOR claimed a membership of 10,000 members including a Canadian section with members in 10 cities in four provinces. The Canadian section also published a periodical, "Kanader Icor." Concludes that the project for a Jewish Autonomous Region was a largely fraudulent scheme that unravelled under the weight of the Stalinist purges in the Soviet Union as well as developments in the international sphere.