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Although Marxist social historians have proclaimed that anthropology provides an analytical framework for modem social history, they have not specified which specific schools of anthropology should be sustained nor which anthropological theories have been validated by historical investigation. Contemporary debates in anthropology and historical anthropology reveal that historical materialism and anthropology use different methods of abstraction and that any marriage of anthropology and historical materialism will produce only conceptual confusion unless these basic differences are taken into account. The problem is seen in its most acute form in the uncritical adoption by social historians of the concept of "culture," which has brought contemporary social history to a theoretical impasse.

Assesses the currents of Canadian labour history, with emphasis on the 1970s.

This article reviews two books: "The Cultural Crisis of Modern Medicine," edited by John Ehrenreich, and "Health Care in America: Essays in Social History," edited by Susan Reverby and David Rosner.

This article reviews the book, "De l'abbittibbi-têmiskaming 5," by Benoît-Beaudry Gourd, et al.

This article reviews the book, "The League for Social Reconstruction: Intellectual Origins of the Democratic Left in Canada 1930-1942," by Michiel Horn.

This article reviews the book, "Le Québec et ses Historiens de 1840 à 1920: La Nouvelle France de Garneau à Groulx," by Serge Gagnon.

The research findings presented here indicate that justice is deterred because of legislative restrictions that preclude certain grievance issues from adjudication.

The article reviews and comments on "50 Years of Labour in Algoma: Essays on Aspects of Algoma's Working-Class History," by Francis M. Heath, C.D. Martin, Gail E. Tessier and Livo Ducin (pseud.), "Cobalt: Year of the Strike, 1919," by Brian F. Hogan, "Interlude: The Story of Elliot Lake," by Joan Kurisko, "Yankee Takeover at Cobalt!," by John Patrick Murphy, and "Steam Into Wilderness: Ontario Northland Railway, 1902-1962," by Albert Tucker.

This article reviews the book, "The Army and Civil Disorder: Federal Military Intervention in Labor Disputes, 1877-1900," by Jerry M. Cooper.

The article reviews and comments on "Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery," by Leon F. Litwack, "One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation," by Roger L. Ransom and Richard Sutch, "The Wheel of Servitude: Black Forced Labor after Slavery," by Daniel A. Novak, "The Roots of Black Poverty: The Southern Plantation Economy after the Civil War," by Jay R. Mandle, and "Social Origins of the New South: Alabama, 1860-1885." by Jonathan M. Wiener.

The article briefly reviews "Canada's Urban Past: A Bibliography to 1980," compiled by Alan F.J. Artibise and Gilbert A. Stelter; "International Handbook of Industrial Relations: Contemporary Developments and Research," edited by Albert A. Blum; "Rhetoric of Protest and Reform, 1878-1898," edited by Paul Boase; "Philosophers Look at Canadian Confederation," edited by Stanley G. French; "The Past Before Us; Contemporary Historical Writing in the United States," edited by Michael Kammen; "The Third Century: America as a Post-Industrial Society," edited by Seymour Martin Lipset; Al Nash's "Ruskin College: A Challenge to Adult and Labor Education;" "The Organization of Knowledge in Modern America, 1860-1920," edited by Alexandra Oleson and John Voss; "Labor and American Politics: A Book of Readings," revised edition, edited by Charles M. Rehmus, Doris B. McLaughlin, and Frederick H. Nesbitt; "American Workers Abroad: A Report to the Ford Foundation," edited by Robert Schrank; Edward Shils' "The Calling of Sociology and Other Essays on the Pursuit of Learning" (3rd volume of 4); "Unfinished Business: An Agenda for Labor, Management, and the Public," by Abraham J. Siegel and David B. Lipsby; "The History of American Electoral Behavior," edited by Joel H. Silbey, Allan G. Bogue, and William H. Flanigan; Lawrence Stone's "The Past and the Present;" "Essays in British Business History," edited by Barry Supple; "The American Labour Movement and Other Essays," by R.H. Tawney, edited by J.M. Winter; "History and Society," by R.H. Tawney, edited by J.M. Winter; and "The Current Industrial Relations Scene in Canada, 1981," edited by W.D. Wood and Pradeep Kumar.

This essay poses a critique of selected recent writing on American and British working-class culture, arguing against the tendency to categorize culture into discrete ideal types. It argues the importance of locating culture materially and historically, developing a notion of periodization that recognizes particular stages of development and levels of conflict and struggle. As such it poses an implicit rejection of recent Canadian polemics directed against the study of the cultural.

This study looks at Industrial Relations decision-making in 18 decision-areas, in a multinational firm. It analyses the problem in terms ofa model of strategie importance and examines in detail the inter-organizational variance of centralization of the Company's four main product divisions. Substructural autonomy appears to increase with the size of subsidiary, but seems to level off once they have attained a certain size. The average size of subsidiary and average degree of conflict for each of the divisions were also found to be related in a somewhat unexpected way.

This article reviews the book, "Les communistes au Québec 1936-1956," by Robert Comeau & Bernard Dionne.

The article reviews and comments on "The October Revolution" and "On Stalin and Stalinism," by Roy. A Medvedev, "Lenin's Government: Sovnarkom, 1917-1922," by T.H. Rigby, and "Is the Red Flag Flying?" by Albert Szymanski.

This article compares and contrasts the attempts by workers in Britain, France, Germany, the United States, and Canada to organize industrial unions at the beginning of the twentieth century. It starts with the premise that revolutionary industrial unionism was an international phenomenon, arising from similar socioeconomic conditions in the advanced capitalist countries, and that simultaneous movements to found "one big union" of all industrial workers should be seen in this light. The article proceeds to analyze the different views of industrial unionists on the subjects of dual unionism, organization and politics within an overall tendency in favour of one big unionism. It argues that syndicalism was only one faction active in the movement and that revolutionary industrial unionism was much broader in scope than syndicalism. The article further analyzes the social bases of the movement among unskilled workers and specific groups of skilled workers in the mass production industries. Finally, it points out the tactical originality of the movement and why its tactics posed a revolutionary challenge to capitalist control of the economy.

Two tests of a model of problem-solving in labor negotiations are reported, using samples of private-sector negotiations and in the Pacific Northwest.

This article reviews the book, "A Theory of Behavior in Organizations," by James C. Naylor, R.D. Pritchard & D.R. Ilgen.

This article reviews the book, "Role Theory: Expectations, Identities, and Behaviors," by Bruce J. Briddle.

This article reviews the book, "Giustizia e Mezzogiorno. Il caso dello statuto dei lavoratori," by Mirella Giannini.