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The article reviews the book, "Land and Sea: Environmental History in Atlantic Canada," edited by Claire Campbell and Robert Summerby-Murray.

Assesses the 2013 resolution of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage to conduct a thorough and comprehensive review of significant aspects in Canadian history. Takes note of trends in historiography and comments on the Canadian Historical Association's letter, which called for a balanced and non-partisan approach to the review.

This article reviews the book, "Too Asian: Racism, Privilege, and Post-Secondary Education," ed. by Jeet Heer, Michael C.K. Ma, Davina Bhandar and R.J. Gilmour.

The article reviews the book, "L'interculturalisme. Un point de vue québécois," by Gérard Bouchard.

The article reviews the book, "The Last Plague: Spanish Influenza and the Politics of Public Health in Canada," by Mark Osborne Humphries.

The article reviews the book, "Basements and Attics, Closets and Cyberspace: Exploration In Canadian Women's Archives," edited by Linda M. Morra and Jessica Schagerl.

The late 19th century witnessed an explosion of interest in canoeing as sport, recreation, and leisure in Canada, the United States, and Britain. One of the enduring legacies of the “canoe boom” was the American Canoe Association (ACA), a transnational organization established in 1880 to “unite all amateur canoeists for the purpose of pleasure, health, or exploration.” Annual meet­ings were central to realizing this mission. For two weeks in August, hundreds of enthusiasts from Canada and the United States came together to camp out, socialize, and race canoes. The encampments would not have occurred – or at the very least they would have looked drastically different – without the carpenters, cooks, servers, performers, and general labourers the organization hired to do the heavy work of construction, maintenance, and service. In spite of their importance, these workers exist, at best, on the margins of the official accounts of the meets; in most cases, they are altogether ignored. Recovery of this labouring past is difficult, and admittedly fragmentary. However, it is critical to the history of labour and of sport.

Takes note in this concluding commentary of the papers presented and argues that Stephen Harper was not unlike other prime ministers (e.g., the impact of Pierre Trudeau's 1982 Constitution Act) in his attempts to alter symbols and institutions associated with Canada's national identity. Discusses the resistance to Harper's changes at the national level as well as the criticism of Canada by James Anaya, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Concludes that Harper was intent on consolidating a new Conservative power elite.

This paper provides an overview and analysis of three recent decisions on privacy rights by Canada's highest courts, and considers their implications for workplace privacy law, particularly the issue of employer monitoring of employees' e-mail and internet use. In contrast to earlier case law, in which a U.S. -influenced, property-based approach to privacy prevailed, these decisions, in the author's view, signal the emergence of a more meaningful and nuanced conception of workplace privacy. The author further argues that this concep- tion is consistent with a movement (however incremental) towards a model of "privacy self-management" in the workplace, which is characterized by two key principles - proportionality and shared accountability. This model recognizes that, in ensuring a proper measure of privacy protection for employees, work- place parties are under reciprocal affirmative duties. In taking action that may infringe employee privacy, the employer would be required to use means that are rationally related to legitimate business objectives and that are minimally invasive of privacy, as well as to carefully elucidate any applicable policies through the provision of privacy awareness education. Employees, for their part, would be required to accept a share of the responsibility for their own privacy, by clearly indicating to the employer what material or content they consider to be private.

This article reviews the book, "Consuming Modernity: Gendered Behaviour and Consumerism before the Baby Boom," ed. by Cheryl Krasnick Warsh and Dan Malleck.

This article rejects the claim - maintained, until very recently, before the ILO by the International Organisation of Employers (JOE) - that the right to strike is not protected by international law. The author notes that in advan- cing this position, the IDE focused on the interpretation of ILO Convention 87 on freedom of association, which, though it does not specifically address the right to strike, has been read as implicitly including such a right by the ILO's independent Committee of Experts. In his view, regardless of whether or not Convention 87 includes a right to strike, that right is clearly protected by a number of other international law sources, among them the ILO Constitution, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. He also describes how the European Court of Human Rights, in developing a normative basis for the right to strike in recent ground-breaking decisions, has relied on a wide range of treaties, including ILO Convention 87. The author emphasizes that the ques- tion has important implications not only for constitutional litigation in Canada (where both the federal and provincial governments have been criticized by the ILO supervisory bodies for their frequent resort to back-to- work legislation), but for basic labour rights globally (such as in Cambodia, where the recent killing of striking workers has underlined the need for universal standards). The paper concludes with a postscript in which the author reflects on two key developments that occurred shortly before this issue of the CLELJ went to press: the Supreme Court of Canada's recognition, in the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour case, of a right to strike under section 2(d) of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms guaranteeing freedom of association; and the concession by the IOE, less than a month after the Supreme Court's decision, that ILO instruments do in fact protect the right to strike.

Introduces four papers given by former PhD students of Bettina Bradbury at a roundtable on the feminist historian at Brock University in May 2014.

This article reviews the book, "Feminist History in Canada: New Essays on Women, Gender, Work, and Nation," edited by Catherine Carstairs and Nancy Janovicek.

Les questions de justice et d’équité dans le management demeurent une préoccupation majeure pour les salariés (Ambrose et Schminke, 2003). Pourtant, en gestion des ressources humaines, l’influence des perceptions de justice organisationnelle sur la motivation intrinsèque au travail, n’a suscité que très peu de recherches (Grenier et al., 2010). Cet article propose justement, d’analyser l’effet différencié des quatre dimensions de la justice organisationnelle sur cette forme de motivation au travail. Il propose aussi de mettre en évidence le rôle de la reconnaissance de la part des supérieurs hiérarchiques dans l’étude de la motivation intrinsèque, mais aussi d’analyser la relation entre la justice et la reconnaissance. Ainsi, le cadre théorique mobilisé dans cette recherche repose sur les apports de la théorie de l’autodétermination (Deci et Ryan, 1985), ceux de la théorie de la justice organisationnelle (Greenberg, 1987) et la littérature sur la reconnaissance (Brun et Dugas, 2002).Pour ce faire, un rappel des fondements théoriques permettant d’établir les liens existant entre ces variables a d’abord été réalisé, afin de montrer comment la justice organisationnelle et la reconnaissance de la part des supérieurs hiérarchiques peuvent favoriser la motivation intrinsèque au travail. Ensuite, des analyses de régressions multiples ont permis de présenter les résultats de l’étude empirique réalisée sur une population de 787 salariés venant de divers secteurs d’activités. Fondée ainsi uniquement sur une enquête par questionnaire, cette étude a permis d’analyser les liens qui pouvaient s’opérer entre ces trois concepts. Il s’avère que la perception de justice organisationnelle, notamment dans la distribution des ressources de l’organisation, dans les relations interpersonnelles et dans les informations communiquées, peut avoir une influence positive sur la motivation intrinsèque au travail. Cet impact de la justice organisationnelle sur la motivation intrinsèque au travail peut aussi être fortement renforcé par la reconnaissance de la part des supérieurs hiérarchiques.

A response from the authors of the book that was reviewed entitled "Constitutional Labour Rights in Canada: Farm Workers and the Fraser Case" is presented. They all shared a commitment to the goal of promoting labour rights for agricultural workers and a belief that constitutional litigation could be a tool through which that objective was advanced. They want the implication of this formulation to be clear: they do not believe that constitutional rights and constitutional litigation were ever or are now the only or even the best means for advancing the struggle for labour rights for farm workers. However, the reality is that laws actively prescribe and sustain a particular balance of power. Laws actively construct relationships of domination/subordination and constrain the space for particular kinds of collective workplace action.

The article reviews the book, "Constitutional Labour Rights in Canada: Farm Workers and the Fraser Case," by Fay Faraday, Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker.

The article reviews the book, "More of a Man: Diaries of a Scottish Craftsman in Mid-Nineteenth Century North America," edited by Andrew C. Holman and Robert B. Kristofferson.

Argues that Prime Minister Stephen Harper's effort to reshape understandings of history and national identity, such as the $28 million celebration of the War of 1812, is consistent with Conservative government's "illiberal" agenda for the country going forward. Discusses the research strategy of the Canadian Museum of History, which focuses on the world wars and Confederation rather than working people, as well as the government's labour record.

Half a century ago, on the verge of the Information Age, the sociologist Edward Shils took the measure of how matters stood with privacy. He argued that privacy was being systematically engulfed by societal elites - government, journalists, business, and social scientists - even as they sought privacy for themselves. He saw a passive populace, indifferent to the intrusion, and a near- total absence of protective law. This essay reflects on what Shils saw from the perspective of a half-century's experience. It argues that the populace is no longer passive, that the public's concern for privacy as consumers has had a rip- ple effect in a concern for privacy in employment. Nor is the law totally absent; but the legislative approach has been piecemeal, attending only to those per- ceived abuses that most strike the public ire. In terms of the common law, in its address to the large lacunae left by legislation, the legal establishment - repre- sented by the American Law Institute - continues to serve as a handmaiden to those business interests that had and would continue to engulf employee privacy.