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The article reviews the book, "Strikes and the Media: Communication and Conflict," by Nicholas Jones.

The article reviews the book, "Understanding Capital," by Duncan Foley.

In linking the discontinuities in the development of industrial relations theory in Canada with succeeding historical phases in the evolution of Canadian industrial relations, this article argues that an understanding of industrial relations theory must be historically grounded. It identifies four phases of theoretical development and suggests that the hold of Systems theory on the discipline should be understood as the product of a specific historical period which is now giving way to the emergence of new approaches.

The article reviews the book, "Emma Goldman in America," by Alice Wexler.

The industrialization of the fisheries of British Columbia began in the second half of the nineteenth century, with the canning of salmon for export to Great Britain. Since fish was an essential staple in the diet of the native peoples living in the pacific northwest, its capture and processing was a vital part of their economic activity. Salmon canners sought a factory labour force at the cheapest possible wage. To the extent that native peoples continued to meet subsistence needs, at least partially, through the native economy, when employed for wages they did not have to be paid the full costs of the production and reproduction of their labour power. Of all the groups employed, native women and their children received the lowest wages and least secure conditions of employment. The paper explores the use of race and gender by salmon canners as a means of creating a labour force and paying it the lowest wages possible, according to the ability of each group to partially realize subsistence needs through pre-capitalist relations of production. Special attention is given to the place of native women in this process.

This paper reviews some of the options that unions have followed in the past, and details some of the types of political activities in which unions can presently engage. The focus is on various legal constraints that may hinder union political activity.

In 1978, the Cargill grain export terminal in Thunder Bay, Ontario, underwent a modernization program that included the installation of a computerized process control system. The introduction of this technology challenged the prevailing division of labor in the grain industry under which a management supervisor issued commands by telephone and hourly workers responded by physically moving the grain through the terminal. Under the new system, grain movements were controlled by two operators sitting at computer terminals in a control room. Management claimed control of the control room as an extension of the supervisor's role and in the initial automation plan both control room operators were to be supervisors. The union representing hourly employees saw this as a threat to its control over physical operations. An unstable compromise was worked out under which management and the union would share control room duties. Four years of negotiations and an arbitration hearing failed to fully resolve the issue in this test case for grain industry automation.

This article reviews the book, "The District of Columbia Fire Fighters' Project," by Robert McCarl.

The article briefly reviews "The Illustrated History of Canada," edited by Craig Brown, "The Current Industrial Relations Scene in Canada, 1987," by Pradeep Kumar, et al., "Work and New Technologies: Other Perspectives," edited by Chris DeBresson, et al., "Sources in the Law Library of McGill University for a Reconstruction of the Legal Culture of Quebec, 1760-1890," by G. Blaine Baker, et al., "Saskatchewan Workers: A List of Sources," by Robin Wylie, "Essays on New France," by W.J. Eccles, "Land, Settlement, and Politics on Eighteenth-Century Prince Edward Island," by J.M. Bumsted, "Unemployment: International Perspectives," edited by Morley Gunderson, Noah Meltz, and Sylvia Ostry, "Engines of Change: The American Industrial Revolution, 1790-1860," by Brooke Hindle and Steven Lubar, "The Labor Movement in the United States: A History of the American Working Class from 1890 to1896," by Friedrich A. Sorge, translated by Kai Schoenhals, "The Cold War Against Labor," v. 1-2, edited by Ann Fagan Ginger and David Christiano, "Black American Politics: From the Washington Marches to Jesse Jackson," by Manning Marable, "'Slaves of the Depression': Workers' Letters About Life on the Job," edited by Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner, "Reasons for Pardoning the Haymarket Anarchists," by John P. Atgeld; "Memoirs of a Wobbly," by Henry E. McGuckin; and "The Flivver King: A Story of Ford-America," by Upton Sinclair, "Politics and People in Revolutionary England," edited by Colin Jones et al., "The Tories and the People, 1880-1935," by Martin Pugh, "Class, Power and Social Structure in British Nineteenth-Century Towns, " edited by R.J. Morris, "The Culture of Capital: Art, Power and the Nineteenth-Century Middle Class," edited by Janet Wolff and John Seed, "1919: Britain on the Brink of Revolution," by Chanie Rosenberg, "The People of Paris: An Essay in Popular Culture in the 18th Century," by Daniel Roche, "Money and Liberty in Modern Europe: A Critique of Historical Understanding," by William M. Reddy, " Festival of the Oppressed: Solidarity, Reform and Revolution in Poland, 1980-1981," by Colin Barker, "Latin American Labor Organizations," edited by Gerald Michael Greenfield and Sheldon L. Maram, and "Theories of the Labor Movement," edited by Simeon Larson and Bruce Nissen.

The article briefly reviews "The Government Generation: Canadian Intellectuals and the State, 1900-1945," by Doug Owram, "Canadian Labour History: Selected Readings," edited by David J. Bercuson, "Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women's History," edited by Veronica Strong-Boag and Anita Clair Fellman, "First Contract: Women and the Fight to Organize," by Carole Conde and Karl Beveridge, "Will You Have a Union in 1995?" Vector Union Report, edited by Marc Zwelling, "The Guild at Forty: The Struggle Continues," by Roger Stonebanks, "The Canadian Welfare State: Evolution and Transition," edited by Jacqueline S. lsmael, "The Benevolent Slate: The Growth of Welfare in Canada," edited by Allan Moscovitch and Jim Albert, "The Bedroom and The State: The Changing Practices and Politics sf Contraception ana Abortion in Canada, 1880-1980," by Angus McLaren and Arlene Tigar McLaren, "Power and Place: Canadian Urban Development in the North American Context," edited by Gilbert A. Stelter and Alan F. J. Artibise, "Democracy and Capitalism: Properly, Community, and the Contradicttons oo Modern Social Thought," by Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, "A Vision of Unity: History of the Bakery and Confectionery Workers International Union," and "Challenge and Change: History of the Tobacco Workers International Union," by Stuart Bruce Kaufman, "Labor Leaders in America," edited by Melvyn Dubofsky and Warren Van Tine, "Confrontation, Class Consciousness, and the Labor Process: Studies in Proletarian Class Formation," edited by Michael Hanagan and Charles Stephenson, "The Miners' Strike: Loss Without Limit," by Martin Adeney and John Lloyd, "Women and Work in Preindustrial Europe," edited by Barbara Hanawalt, "Collected Essays: v. 1 — Writing and Revolution in 17th Century England; v. 2 — Religion and Politics in 17th Century England; v. 3 — People and Ideas in 17th Century England," by Christopher Hill, "France: Fin de Siècle," by Egen Weber, and "Bailing Out the System: Reformist Socialism in Western Europe, 1944-1985," by Ian Birchall / reviews by Bryan D. Palmer -- "Morning in His Heart: The Life and Writings of Watson Kirkconnell," by J.R.C. Perkin and James B. Snelson / review by Gregory S. Kealey.

This article reviews the book, "Sisterhood Denied: Race, Gender, and Class in a New South Community," by Dolores E. Janiewski.

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The article reviews the book, "Work in the Canadian Context: Continuity Despite Change," edited by Katherine L. P. Lundy and Barbara Warmer.

This article reviews the book, "Technological Change in the Auto Industry," by David Robertson & Jeff Wareham.

This article reviews the book, "La flexibilité du marché de l'emploi : un enjeu économique et social," by Hedva Sarfati & Catherine Kobrin.

This paper examines Ontario Labour Relations Board decisions regarding the inclusion of part-time workers in bargaining units front 1976 to 1986.

The article reviews the book, "Technology on the Frontier: Mining in Old Ontario," by Dianne Newell.

The article reviews the book, "Immigrants on the Hill: Italian-Americans in SL Louis, 1882-1982," by Gary Ross Mormino.

This article reviews the book, "The Transformation of American Capitalism: From Competitive Market Structures to Centralized Private Sector Planning," by John R. Munkirs.

This article reviews the book, "Sisterhood and Solidarity: Workers ' Education for Women, 1914-1984," edited by Joyce Kornbluh and Mary Frederickson.