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The article completes the memorial appreciation of historian E.P. Thompson, focusing on his seminal work, "The Making of the English Working Class."
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The article reviews the book, "La négociation collective du travail : adaptation ou disparition ?," edited by Colette Bernier, Roch Laflamme, Fernand Morin, Gregor Murray and Claude Rondeau.
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The article reviews and comments on several books including "Working Women, Working Men: São Paulo and the Rise of Brazil's Industrial Working Class, 1900-1955," by Joel Wolfe, "The Brazilian Workers' ABC: Class Conflict and Alliances in Modern São Paulo," by John D. French and "The Workers' Party and Democratization in Brazil," by Margaret E. Keck.
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Contents: Introduction -- 1. British Working Children -- 2. Salvation and the Safety-valve -- 3. The Promised Land -- 4. Family Strategy and Philanthropic Abduction -- 5. Apprenticed or Adopted -- 6. Household and School -- 7. Adulthood -- 8. Twentieth-century Policy. Appendix: Analysis of Case Records. "With a new introduction" - cover. First published in 1980.
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This study is an effort to integrate the analysis of gender dynamics and class conflict in the coalfields of Cape Breton in the 1920s. An "enlarged" view of strike activity is adopted in order to better integrate the actions of non-waged working-class women. ...Women's Labour Clubs constituted the most organized expression of women's commitment to class action, but women also played an important role in crowd actions, and the domestic labour of women itself constituted a hidden form of strike support. This study is concerned to map the discourses of gender, mainly as they relate to class and labour militancy in the working-class community, and in doing so to write women back into the well-established narrative of class conflict in the coalfields. --From author's introduction
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The article reviews the book, "The Struggle for Economic Democracy in Sweden," by Gregg Olsen.
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The article reviews the book, "Farm, Factory, and Fortune: New Studies in the Economic History of the Maritime Provinces," edited by Kris Inwood.
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The restructuring of the economy of Canada continued at a quick pace throughout the recession of the early 1990s. Challenges are faced by unions and their leaders as the workplace undergoes major reorganization as a result of recent economic policy, unrelenting global competition, and political uncertainty. Interviews were conducted with senior and upper middle-level leaders of 8 unions in Ontario in 1992. Interview data were supplemented with an examination of documents. All the union leaders argued that the basic roles of unions and their members' expectations of their unions have not changed despite transformations in the composition of the membership and changes in the structure of the workplace and the economy. Union leaders generally see the importance of the union's involvement in local affairs, but are cautious about their particular union's place in social movements. All leaders agreed that the present climate for labor-management negotiations is adversarial and increasingly contentious.
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The article reviews the book, "La gestion des organisations publiques," by Harold F. Gortner, Julianne Mahler, and Jeanne Bell Nicholson.
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The article reviews the book, "Conflict of Interests: Organized Labor and the Civil Rights Movement in the South, 1954-1968," by Alan Draper.
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The article reviews the book, "The Atlantic Provinces in Confederation," edited by E. R. Forbes and D. A. Muise.
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The article reviews the book, "The Shaker Experience in America: A History of the United Society of Believers," by Stephen Stein.
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The article reviews the book, "The French Worker: Autobiographies From the Early Industrial Era," edited and translated by Mark Traugott.
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CAMI, a unionized Suzuki-General Motors auto plant in Ontario, attempted to construct a workplace characterized by worker commitment and cooperative labor-management relations. These efforts failed. There was a 5-week strike in the Fall of 1992 at the plant. While CAMI was in the start-up mode, labor-management relations were relatively harmonious and the working environment relaxed. With the onset of full production all this changed, and the meaning of "lean" production became clearer. Workers regularly contested the dictates of lean production at CAMI. Interest and participation in quality circle and suggestion programs declined. Proponents of lean production are likely to define CAMI as an aberration by involving the partial implementation thesis or stressing the militancy of the union. In one respect only are they right. The strike does distinguish CAMI as exceptional, at least until there are similar manifestations of industrial conflict in other transplants. However, the conditions that produced the strike appear in unionized as well as non-unionized transplants.
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How did an association formed in 1911 for self-help and social purposes become one of the largest and strongest unions in Ontario? [This book] is the story of that transformation: a history of the evolution of government in Canada's largest province, and of the working women and men who built the Ontario Public Services Employees Union. Analysis and anecdotes are woven into a tale of workers coping with a paternalistic employer, repressive laws and internal battles. Their story is an important part of the province's labour and political heritage. --Publisher's description
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The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is likely to affect labor movement power in Canada and the US. A thorough analysis of NAFTA's impact on labor movement power must examine its impact on the power resources available to labor movements. Four organizational structure variables that affect power resources are: 1. union density, 2. left party legislative strength, 3. organized labor's unity and coherence, and 4. collective bargaining centralization. NAFTA will increase transnational corporate power resources while at the same time reducing all 4 basic types of labor movement organizational power resources in the short to medium run. NAFTA's net impact on labor movement power resources will be positive if it enhances labor movement mobilization capacity sufficiently to offset the negative impacts on movement power.
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The article pays homage to the life and work of George Rudé, a member of the historians' group of the Communist Party of Great Britain who taught at Concordia and York universities during the later part of his career.
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The article reviews and comments on the books "The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century," by Peter Linebaugh, and "Customs in Common," by E. P. Thompson.
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The article reviews the book, "From Uniformity to Diversity : Industrial Relations in Canada and the United States," by Pradeep Kumar.
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The article reviews the book, "Clara Zetkin, féministe sans frontières," by Gilbert Badia.
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