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The article briefly reviews "Law, Society, and the State: Essays in Modem Legal History," edited by Louis A. Knafla and Susan W.S. Binnie, "Public Sector Bargaining in Canada: Beginning of the End or End of the Beginning!," edited by Gene Swimmer and Mark Thompson, "Ships and Memories: Merchant Seafarers in Canada's Age of Steam ," by Eric Sager, "Canadian Women's Issues," 2 volumes. Volume I — "Strong Voices," by Roach Pierson, Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Paula Bourne, and Philinda Masters; Volume II — "Bold Visions," by Ruth Roach Pierson and Marjorie Griffin Cohen, "Strategies for the Year 2000: A Woman's Handbook," by Deborah Stienstra and Barbara Roberts, and Jean Barman, "Children, Teachers and Schools in the History of British Columbia," edited by Neil Sutherland and J. Donald Wilson, "Four Quarters of the Night: The Life Journey of an Emigrant Sikh," by Tara Singh Bains and Hugh Johnston, "Under the Northern Lights: My Memories of Life in the Finnish Community of Northern Ontario," by Edward W. Laine, edited by Nelma Sillanpaa, "Sojourners and Settlers: The Macedonian Community in Toronto to 1940," by Lillian Petroff, "The Dynamics of Industrial Competition: A North American Perspective," by John R. Baldwin, "Regional Integration and Industrial Relations in North America," edited by Maria Lorena Cook and Harry C. Katz, "From Chattel Slaves to Wage Slaves: The Dynamics of Labour Bargaining in the Americas," edited by Mary Turner, "Conflicting Paths: Growing Up in America," by Harvey J. Graff, "Industrializing America: The Nineteenth Century," by Walter Licht, "Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America," by Paul Avrich, "The Populist Persuasion: An American History," by Michael Kazin, "American Labor in the Era of World War II," edited by Sally M. Miller and Daniel A. Cornford, "Aspects of Political Censorship, 1914-1918," by Tania Rose, "The Imagined Slum: Newspaper Representation in Three Cities, 1870-1914," by Alan Mayne, "Gender and the Politics of Social Reform in France, 1870-1914," edited by Elinor A. Accampo, Rachel G. Fuchs, and Mary Lynn Stewart, "A New International History of the Spanish Civil War," by Michael Alpert, "The Wartime System of Labor Service in Hungary: Varieties of Experience," edited by Randolph L. Braham, "Trade Union Growth and Decline: An International Study," by Walter Galenson, "Workplace Industrial Relations and the Global Challenge," edited by Jacques Bélanger, P.K. Edwards, and Larry Haiven, "Industrialization and Labor Relations: Contemporary Research in Seven Countries," edited by Stephen Frenkel and Jeffrey Harood, "Contemporary Collective Bargaining in the Private Sector," edited by Paula B. Voos, "Women in the Latin American Development Process," edited by Christine E. Bose and Edna Acosta Belen, and "Imagining Home: Class, Culture and Nationalism in the African Diaspora," by Sidney Lemelle and Robin D.G. Kelley,

The article reviews the book, "Strikes: Causes, Conduct and Consequences," by Douglas Blackmur.

The article reviews and comments on the book, "It's Not About a Salary...Rap, Race and Resistance in Los Angeles," edited by Brian Cross.

On Different Planes: An Organizational Analysis of Cooperation and Conflict Among Airline Unions by David J. Walsh is reviewed.

The article reviews the book, "The Mutual Gains Enterprise: Forging a Winning Partnership among Labor, Management, and Government," by Thomas A. Kochnan and Paul Osterman.

The article reviews the book, "Strategic Negotiations: A Theory of Change in Labor-Management Relations," by Richard E. Walton, Joel E. Cutcher-Gershenfeld, and Robert B. McKersie.

The article reviews the book, "In Search of Participation: A Study of Some Successful Companies," by J.S. Sodi, Rama J. Joshi, H.V.V. Chellappa, S. Masilamani, Sarita A. Kalia, and Harinda Sanhu.

A chapter of the book "Labour/Le Travail" is presented. It examines the structure of the worker protest and union formation in Canada and Australia during the 19th century. It explores the works of Bryan Palmer, Douglas Cruikshank and Gregory S. Kealey. It mentions the impacts of the differences in strikes, worker protest and union growth between two countries on labor organization.

The article reviews the books "Canadian History: A Reader's Guide: Beginnings to Confederation," vol. 1, by M. Brook Taylor and "Canadian History: A Reader's Guide: Confederation to the Present," vol. 2, by Doug Owram.

The article reviews the book, "When Strikes Make Sense and Why: Lessons from Third Republic French Coal Miners," by Samuel Cohn.

The article reviews the book, "Droit de l'arbritrage du grief," by Rodrigue Blouin, Rodrigue and Fernand Morin

Cet article identifie quels sont, parmi 21 objectifs et 23 comportements des parties durant la conciliation, ceux qui sont reliés à l'efficacité du processus. Les données ont été recueillies par questionnaire auprès de 732 porte-parole patronaux et syndicaux ayant oeuvré en conciliation volontaire au Québec en 1987-88. Le résultat le plus frappant est que les objectifs poursuivis par chacune des parties n'agissent à peu près pas sur l'issue du processus.

The article reviews the book, "Histoire de la FTQ, 1965-1992: La plus grande centrale syndicale au Québec," by Louis Fournier.

The article reviews the book, "The Splendid Vision: Centennial History of the National Council of Women of Canada, 1893-1994," by Naomi E.S Griffiths.

En France, comme dans la plupart des pays européens depuis les années quatre-vingts, se développe l'idée que face à un taux de chômage à deux chiffres une issue à l'état d'anomie dans lequel s'installe la société peut venir d'une flexibilité massive de la force de travail. L'article étudie comment émergent, dans les actions engagées autour des licenciements et des reconversions d'emploi, les éléments essentiels constitutifs d'un mythe des temps modernes énonçant la capacité des élites à produire une modernisation régulée de nos sociétés industrielles. L'auteur approche cette question en l'insérant dans le cadre plus large d'une sociologie du temps social.

The article reviews the book, "Cohésion sociale et emploi," edited by B. Eme and J.L. Laville.

Canadian women's history, though relatively new in the history of the profession, is now considered by some to be passé, past its prime, out of touch with the realities of the postmodern world of the 1990s. In fact, there is also a new interpretation of the historical evolution of Canadian women's history emerging, which situates women's history in the one dimensional past, gender history in the three dimensional future. ...[W]e need to re-examine the Canadian women's history which was actually written over the last twenty years as well as the current direction of gender history, then assess the theoretical and political underpinnings of both. We may actually find more overlapping continuities, similarities and problems. --Introduction than stark contrasts and oppositions.

In 1963, the Ontario Government established a Women's Bureau within the Department of Labour to do research, public relations work, and policy development relating to working women in the province. This article examines the early evolution of the Women's Bureau from 1963 to 1970 assessing the reasons for its establishment and the successes and failures of its early programs designed to aid working women. The Bureau urged the government to consider anti-discrimination legislation, and in 1970 it helped to develop new legislation designed to enhance women's equality by legalizing maternity leave, banning discrimination based on marital status, and abolishing job posting by sex. Drawing on recent debates about the state and employment policy, particularly those looking at the relationship between feminist and labour activists and the state, this article asks whose interests the Bureau represented, and whether or not this state-initiated legislation designed to enhance gender equality was effective, either in the short or long term.

Current arguments about the causes of differing union density rates in the US and Canada range from public opinion hypothesis and differences in labor law, to increased US managerial hostility. Survey data on managers' and workers' attitudes in the 2 countries are used to examine the competing arguments. Using questions that probe opinions toward various aspects of union-firm relations, it is found that managers' attitudes in the 2 countries do not differ. This finding suggests that increased US managerial hostility is not the cause of the divergent unionization rates. US workers are the most militant of the 4 groups, with Canadian workers in the middle, between managers and US workers.

The article reviews the book, "Fourmies et les premier mai," edited by Madeleine Rebérioux.