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This article reviews the book, "The Quality of Working Life in Western and Eastern Europe," by Cary L. Cooper & Enid Memford, Edited.

This article reviews the book, "The Zero-Sum Society. Distribution and the Possibilities for Economic Change," by Lester C. Thurow.

This article reviews two books: "Bolshevik Feminist: The Life of Aleksandra Kollontai," by Barbara Evans Clements, and "Selected Writings of Alexandra Kollontai," edited and translated by Alix Holt.

This article reviews the book, "A Darkened House: Cholera in Nineteenth-Century Canada, " by Geoffrey Bilson.

This article reviews the book, "'An Impartial Umpire': Industrial Relations and the Canadian State, 1900-1911," by Paul Craven.

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.

First published in 1981, H. Clare Pentland's Labour and Capital in Canada, 1650-1860 is a seminal work that analyzes the shaping of the Canadian working class and the evolution of capitalism in Canada. Pentland's work focuses on the relationship between the availability and nature of labour and the development of industry. From that idea flows an absorbing account that explores patterns of labour, patterns of immigration and the growth of industry. Pentland writes of the massive influx of immigrants to Canada in the 1800s--taciturn highland Scots who eked out a meagre living on subsistence farms; shrewd lowlanders who formed the basis of an emerging business class; skilled English artisans who brought their trades and their politics to the new land; Americans who took to farming; and Irish who came in droves, fleeing the poverty and savagery of an Ireland under the heel of Britain. Labour and Capital in Canada is a classic study of the peoples who built Canada in the first two centuries of European occupation. --Publisher's description. Edited, with an introduction by Paul Phillips. Contents: Slavery in Canada -- The Pre-Industrial Pattern: Personal Labour Relations -- Canada's Labour Force: Population Growth and Migration -- Population Growth and Migration: The Irish -- The Transformation of Canada's Economic Structure -- The Transformation of Canadians.