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This paper investigates the role of women's issues in the decision to join unions by examining a successful organizing drive in a predominantly female workplace. The main focus of the discussion is the identification of women's issues where they were not immediately apparent to workers and union representatives. The theoretical question raised by this case study is the extent to which women workers' relationship to unions is similar to or different from men workers'. Contemporary industrial relations discourse tends to emphasize the similarities between women and men, without taking into account well-documented differences in women's paid and unpaid work and union experiences. From a feminist perspective, the conclusion that gender is unimportant in organizing campaigns often rests on an inadequate analysis of what constitutes women's workplace/union issues.
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Laboring for Rights: Unions and Sexual Diversity Across Nations, edited by Gerald Hunt, is reviewed.
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The article reviews the book, "Colliers Across the Sea: A Comparative Study of Class Formation in Scotland and the American Midwest, 1830-1924," by John H. M. Laslett.
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The article reviews the book, "Les logiques de la réciprocité. Les transformations de la relation d’assistance aux États-Unis et en France," by Sylvie Morel.
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Drawing on a case study evidence from the automotive, steel, and glass making industries, this article examines the role played by the national union in shaping local unions' abilities to develop and sustain the capabilities critical to managing on-going workplace restructuring. Evidence suggesting the importance of 5 national union characteristics is presented. These characteristics are the breadth of the national union's representational coverage; the extent of its education and training focus on new workplace issues; the resources it devotes to research on the implications of new workplace practices; the presence of multiple communications channels; and its structuring of local union representation.
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Using gender as its analytic lens, this article examines segmentation in the Canadian labour market by focusing on the standard employment relationship. It illustrates how standard employment was crafted upon a specific gender division of paid and unpaid labour, the male breadwinner norm, and was only available to a narrow segment of workers. To this end, it traces how from the lOSO's the standard employment relationship was supplemented by a growth in jobs associated with, and filled primarily by, women workers and it shows how women's increasing labour market participation in the late 1960s and early 1970s shaped demands for equality in employment policies. Since the 1980s, a deterioration in the standard employment relationship has undermined both demands for and the basis of gender equality strategies and the article concludes by raising the question of the normative basis for regulating employment in order to move towards strategies for reregulation.
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The article reviews the book, "Droit de l’arbitrage de grief," 5e édition, by Rodrigue Blouin and Fernand Morin
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The article reviews the book, "Imagining Internationalism in American and British Labor, 1939-49," by Victor Silverman.
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The article reviews the book, "Becoming Lean : Inside Stories of U.S. Manufacturers," edited by Jeffrey K. Liker.
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The article reviews the book, "Learning from Saturn," by Saul A. Rubinstein and Thomas A. Kochan.
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The article reviews the book, "Testing the New Deal: The General Textile Strike of 1934 in the American South," by Janet Irons.
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This article discusses the potential advantages of large scale, government administered workplace surveys and the limitations of these surveys in the past. It then reviews and 1995 AWIRS, the 1998 WERS, and the 1999 WES in accordance with how well they appear to have succeeded in overcoming these limitations, and, more generally, with their implications for the conduct of industrial relations research. It is argued that the 1995 AWIRS does not appreciably overcome the limitations of previous surveys.
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Three reports are reviewed: 1. Reports of the Advisory Committee on Labour Management Relations in the Federal Public Service, Ottawa, Canada, 2. First Report: Identifying the Issues, and 3. Second Report: Working Together in the Public Interest.
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The article reviews the book, "Free Trade: Risks and Rewards," edited by L. Ian MacDonald.
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The article reviews the book, "Freedom and Security: An Introduction to the Basic Income Debate," by Tony Fitzpatrick.
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The article reviews the book, "Stations of the Cross: Adorno and Christian Right Radio," by Paul Apostolidis.
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The article reviews the book, "Health and Work: Critical Perspectives," edited by Norma Daykin and Lesley Doyal.
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The articles traces the genealogy of the idea of work from the perspectives of philosophy, anthropology and sociology. Work is a productive action that also provides the means of existence. Precarious work, however, reveals the limits of this conception. Contrary to the "end of work" thesis, the author argues that work is integral to society, but in a form that does not take the people's labour rights into account, thus undermining their citizenship. This form of integration, which affects young workers especially, can be called "flexploitation." --From author's conclusion
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Over the last 2 decades, Swedish capital has undergone a rapid internationalization. This has presented a significant challenge to the distinctive nature of the Swedish economy in general and its employment relations system in particular. A key question arising is: to what extent, and in what ways, are Swedish multinationals influenced by the distinctiveness of the country of origin in the way they manager their international workforces? This paper shows how the firm has adopted practices experienced in its foreign operations and deployed these throughout the corporation. The findings are explained with reference to managerial perceptions of the strengths and weaknesses of different "national business systems."
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The article reviews the book, "Ghislain Dufour témoigne des 30 ans du CPQ," by Ghislain Dufour.