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Although a great deal has been written about the western Canadian working class in the first two decades of the twentieth century, there is still a need to examine the nature of the labour-capital relations in a small prairie city like Saskatoon. Even though the Saskatoon working class lived and worked in an agricultural economy, it was far from being passive and conservative in ils relationship with the ruling class, especially in the period that led to the labour revolt of 1919. This relationship was based on class conflict, similar to what other workers were experiencing on a national and international basis. Class conflict was not restricted to the workpalce, for it also involved the working-class community when it came to matters of unemployment, living conditions. inflation, and the tragedies of war which enhanced the evils of capitalism. The Saskatoon working class issued both an economic and political response to prairie capitalism which included an astute understanding of the rules of the game and a form of radical politics which aimed at a transformation of society.
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This article reviews the book, "From Consent to Coercion: The Assault on Trade Union Freedoms," by Leo Panitch & Donald Swartz.
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This article reviews the book, "Natives and Newcomers: Canada's "Heroic Age" Reconsidered," by Bruce G. Trigger.
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This article reviews the book, "Migrant Laborers," by Sharon Stichter.
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This article reviews the book, "Mitarbeiter beteiligung. Grundlagen - Befunde - Modelle" [Employee participation . Basics - Findings - Models], by Günter Schanz.
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This article reviews the book, "New Forms of Work Organization and thier Social and Economic Development," by Peter Grootings, Bjorn Gustavsen & Lajos Héthy.
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This article reviews the book, "Let Us Rise: A History of the Manitoba Labour Movement," by Doug Smith.
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This article reviews the book, "Part-time, Casual and Other Atypical Workers: A Legal View. Research and Current Issues Series," by Geoffrey England.
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This article reviews the book, "Image Worlds: Corporate Identities at Genera! Electric," by David E. Nye.
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This article reviews the book, "The History of the German Labour Movement: A Survey," by Helga Grebing.
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The story of the Newfoundland Industrial Workers' Association (NIWA) is one which has largely been passed over in the writing of the island's labour history. Yet this organization figures prominently in the events which helped shape the labour-capital relationship during the World War I years. As the Canadian and international record will testify, these years were critically important to the development of modern working-class organizations, while maintaining a direct link to the previous struggles of an earlier era. Centred in St. John's, but exerting an Island-wide influence, the NIWA arose out of a pressing need for working people to confront the economic and political realities of their class in a manner intended to redress the subservient and exploitive circumstances to which they were subjected. This thesis examines the NIWA in terms of its structure, membership, and mandate and attempts to place this movement into the larger context of the international labour revolt of 1917 to 1920. In doing so, it argues that class formation, development, and conflict is central to history.
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The article reviews and comments on "The Miners of Decazeville: A Genealogy of Deindustrialization," by Donald Reid.
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This article reviews the book, "Women in the Workplace: Effects on Families," edited by Kathryn M. Borman, Daisy Quarm, and Sarah Gideonse.
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L'auteur passe en revue certaines caractéristiques générales des études économétriques des effets du salaire minimum sur l'emploi et présente un bilan des résultats des études canadiennes et québécoises sur le sujet tout en référant à l'occasion à la littérature empirique américaine.
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Provides a biography of Charles Kerr, whose Chicago publishing house began to publish socialist rather than religious materials in the wake of the Pullman Strike of 1894; the left-wing press celebrated its centenary in 1986. See also the obituary of Fred Thompson (Fall 1987, no. 20), who was on the company's board of directors.
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In this article the author analyzes the last decade's work in the social history of the working class in the United States and Canada. Utilizing the dual themes of structures of meaning and structures of power, he surveys many of the major works published since 1976.
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This article reviews the book, "Women in the Campaign to Organize Garment Workers, 1880-1917," by Carolyn Daniel McCreesh.
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This article reviews the book, "Labour Law. Cases, Material and Commentary," by The Labour Law Casebook Group.
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This article reviews the book, "Les normes du travail," by Jean-Louis Dubé & Nicola Di Lorio.
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The article reviews and comments on "Invitation to Industrial Relations" by T om Keenoy, "Working Order," by Eric Batstone, "Unions on the Board," by Eric Batstone, Anthony Ferner, and Michael Terry, and "Consent and Efficiency: Labour Relations and Management Strategy in the State Enterprise," by Eric Batstone, Anthony Ferner, and Michael Terry.
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