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The article reviews the book, "United We Stand: A History of Winnipeg's Civic Workers," by Jim Pringle.
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The article reviews the book, "Doing What the Day Brought: An Oral History of Arizona Women. Rothschild," by Mary Logan and Pamela Claire Hronek.
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The article reviews the book, "Norme et marginalités. Comportements féminins aux19e-20e siécles ," edited by Elaine Gubin.
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This paper examines how women fared in the Canadian unemployment insurance scheme from the end of the World War II until the early 1960s. The implementation of UI in this period reinforced women's marginal economic position, as they were channelled into low-wage Sectors and their access to income security benefits limited. The tatter resulted, in particular, from a special UI regulation for married women, in effect from 1950 to 1957. The eventual revocation of this regulation can be attributed to changes in women's labour force participation, in their political representation in women's organizations and trade unions, and in attitudes concerning the proper role for women.
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The article reviews the book "Housing the North American City," by Michael Doucet and John Weaver.
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The article reviews the book, "The Origins and Evolution of the Field of Industrial Relations in the United States," by Bruce E. Kaufman.
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Explores the technological changes that transformed the Pacific Coast logging industry during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Scholars and popular historians alike have depicted the introduction of steam power and overhead logging systems as responses to environmental factors. The analysis offered here, presented in the context of the labor process debate, suggests that nature structured, but did not determine, technological innovation. At the beginning of the period under study, the instability of the productive setting dictated that loggers' conceptual and physical skills controlled the pace of production. The adoption of increasingly sophisticated technologies by 1930 had given logging operators unprecedented power in their relationship with both nature and workers. Some new skilled positions had been created, but the overall effect of technological change was to undermine loggers' collective control over the labor process.
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The article reviews the book, "The Social Gospel in Black and White: American Racial Reform, 1885-1912," by Ralph E. Luker.
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The content of union planning, as well as union leader perceptions of the effectiveness and extent of implementation of their plans are explored. Data were gathered from a survey of all national and international unions in North America. Results indicate that 24.4% of the respondent unions engage in long-range planning, with education, budgeting, and political action being the most frequently cited topics. In terms of actual implementation of plans, resources are critical, as are the support and involvement of the national union president. Unions who represent a higher percentage of part-time employees, and those in the manufacturing, service, and utilities industries are signficantly more likely to have implemented a higher proportion of their plans.
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The article reviews two books: "Histoire des Franco-Américains de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, 1775-1990," by Armand Chartier, and "Les Franco-Américains de la Nouvelle-Angleterre, 1776-1930," by Yves Roby.
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The article reviews the book, "Homer Stevens: A Life in Fishing," by Homer Stevens and Rolf Knight.
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This article uses a case study of an Ontario factory manufacturing clocks and watches to explore the way in which industrial paternalism was used as an industrial relations strategy by both management and workers. Paternalism, in this case an amalgam of 19th-century traditional paternalism and 20th-century welfare capitalism, was premised on unequal economic relations, and on the ideological hegemony of management, but it was also and more importantly a negotiated process in which workers participated in order to secure better working conditions and wages, respect, and dignity.
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The article reviews the book, "Labour's War:The Labour Party During the Second World War," by Stephen Brooke.
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The article reviews the book, "Little Germany: Ethnicity, Religion, and Class in New York City, 1845-80," by Stanley Nadel.
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The article reviews the book, "Close Ties: Railways, Government, and the Board of Railway Commissioners, 1851-1933," by Ken Cruikshank.
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The article reviews the book, "Trends, Patterns and Impact of Strikes," by Y.R.K. Reddy.
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Data collected as part of a comprehensive mail survey of unionized Canadian firms conducted in 1991 provided information on industrial relations developments in nearly 1,000 firms across key sectors of the economy in Canada. The survey had 2 related major purposes - to assess the extent of innovations in Canadian firms and their impact on industrial relations. The most common innovation was labor-management committees, followed by flexible work systems and profit sharing. The least common were pay systems, semi-autonomous work groups, and quality circles. Job enrichment was in between. Findings establish the empirical validity of innovations and indicate that industrial relations are indeed in transition. But the data also suggest that this transition is limited. The pragmatic initiatives at the firm-level point towards a change, though far short of a transformation, in Canadian industrial relations.
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The article reviews the book, "The Power to Manage? Employers and Industrial Relations in Comparative-Historical Perspective," edited by S. Tolliday and J. Zeitlin.
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The article reviews the book, "Labor's Capital. The Economics and Politics of Private Pensions," by Teresa Ghilarducci.
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The article reviews the book, "Masters to Managers. Historical and Comparative Perspectives on American Employers," ed. by Sanford P. Jacoby.