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In the study of the economic and labour history of the West Coast Native people of British Columbia most research has centered on activities such as fishing, farming and forestry. This thesis turns the attention from what was primarily men's work in the dominant society to the Coast Salish wool working industry where women worked with the help of their children and husbands. I examine the significant economic and cultural contribution Coast Salish woolworkers had on West Coast society, the meeting place woolworkers' sweaters provided between the Coast Salish and the newcomers and the changes which took place in the industry during the last century. This story includes many voices most of which are recorded in newspapers, correspondence and journals, and in the memories of those that lived and worked in the industry.
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The article briefly reviews "Socialist Realist Painting," by Matthew Cullerne Bown, "The Cold War and the University: Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years," edited by André Schiffrin, "On History," by Eric Hobsbawm, "Writing on the Line: 20th Century Working Class Women Writers," by Sarah Richardson, Mcrylyn Cherry, Sammy Palfrey, and Gail Chester, "Historical Dictionary of Organized Labor," by James C. Docherty, "Protest, Power, and Change: An Encyclopedia of Nonviolent Action from ACT-UP to Women's Suffrage," edited by Roger S. Powers and William B. Vogele, "Organizing Dissent: Contemporary Social Movements in Theory and Practice," edited by William K. Carroll, "Communism in America: A History in Documents," edited by Albert Fried, "Artisans into Workers: Labor in Nineteenth-Century America," by Bruce Laurie, "Hollywood as Historian: American Film in Cultural Context," revised edition, edited by Peter C. Rollins, "The History of Canadian Business, 1867-1914," by R.T. Naylor, and "The Communist Manifesto," [150th anniversary edition, published by Monthly Review Press] by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
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The article reviews the book, "Young Sidney Hook: Marxist and Pragmatist," by Christopher Phelps.
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The article reviews the book, "Workers in a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy," by Kim Moody.
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In July 1997, the CAW-backed workers at nine Vancouver Starbucks outlets became the first "barristas" in North America to secure a collective agreement with the trendy, Seattle-based international coffee giant. On the first anniversary of that historical union drive, Labour/Le Travail spoke with 25-year-old-Laurie Banong, Starbucks employee and union activist, about organizing young service sector workers, working with the CAW, and what trade unionism means to her. --Editors' introduction
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The article reviews the book, "Striking Flint: Genora (Johnson) Dollinger Remembers the 1936-37 General Motors Sit-Down Strike," by Genora Johnson Dollinger and Susan Rosenthal.
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The article reviews the book, "Homo Economics: Capitalism, Community, and Lesbian and Gay Life," edited by Amy Gluckman and Betsy Reed.
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The article reviews the book, "Utopianism and Radicalism in a Reforming America, 1888-1918," Francis Robert Shor.
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The article reviews the book, "Changing Lives: Women in Northern Ontario," edited by Margaret Kechnie and Marge Reitsma-Street.
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The article reviews the book, "Organizing the Unemployed: Community and Union Activists in the Industrial Heartland," by James J. Lorence.
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The article reviews the book, "Power at Odds: The 1922 National Railroad Shopmen's Strike, by Colin J. Davis.
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This study presents the first empirical evidence of the impact of unions on benefits and total compensation in Canada. It also provides new evidence on the union wage impact and union wage differentials for a wide range of selected groups in the labor market. Using micro data from the Canadian General Social Survey of 1989, the results show that the union impact is to increase total compensation by 12.4%, compared to an impact of 10.4% on wages. Even though the union impact on total compensation is 2% greater than the impact on wages, given that benefits comprise only about 6% of total compensation in this sample, the percentage impact of unions on benefits is estimated to be 45.5%. This latter estimate implies a very substantial impact on unions on benefits in Canada, as large or larger than those reported in the US.
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Until well into the 20th century, Newfoundland and Labrador's primary economic activity was in the fisheries. Most of the workforce was in the inshore cod fishery, a small-boat operation in which family enterprises caught, split, salted and dried the fish to produce a finished product that was traded to a merchant. Fishers were not wage workers but commodity producers, like farmers. Even in the Labrador and Grand Banks fisheries and the annual seal hunt, the workers were treated as independent contractors, paying for their own gear and supplies and receiving shares rather than wages. --Introduction
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The article reviews the book, "Recast Dreams: Class and Gender Consciousness in Steeltown," edited by D.W. Livingstone and J. Marshall Mangan.
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The article reviews and comments extensively on the iconic recording, "The Anthology of American Folk Music and Working-Class Music," reissued with additional notes by Smithsonian Folkways in 1997. The original recordings were made by Harry Smith between 1927 and 1932; the anthology was first assembled and issued in 1952 by Ralph Rinzler. The author concludes that while the collection is an amazing and insightful document of its time, it is also representative of a particular American cultural and political mythology. The conclusion also briefly discusses why there is no comparable Canadian anthology.
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The article reviews the book, "A Thousand Blunders: The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and Northern British Columbia," by Frank Leonard.
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The article reviews the book, "Misères du présent, richesse du possible," by André Gorz.
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The article reviews the book, "Whittaker Chambers: A Biography," by Sam Tanenhaus.
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The article reviews the book, "Workers Against Lenin: Labour Protest and the Bolshevik Dictatorship," by Jonathan Aves.
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The article reviews the book, "From the Knights of Labor to the New World Order: Essays on Labor and Culture," by Paul Buhle.
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