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The article reviews the book, "Le Capital au XXIe siècle," by Thomas Piketty.

Director Min Sook Lee's award-winning documentary follows the story of migrant workers who come to labour in Ontario greenhouses as part of Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program. Many are women recruited by brokers who illegally charge fees upwards of $7,000, with greenhouse owners complicit in the scam. The film examines the lives of a group of strong, vibrant migrant women who resist systemic oppression and exploitation. --TV Ontario website description

This report is a study of occupational health and safety conditions at Ontario Disability Support Program (ODSP) offices in the wake of two sets of changes: The reorganization of work associated with the Modernized Service Delivery Model (MSDM) introduced in 2010 (commonly referred to as Modernization), and the 2014 implementation of the Social Assistance Management System, a new computer system knowns as SAMS. As I crossed Ontario interviewing ODSP workers and read dozens of pages of comments workers added to their online survey, I heard and read numerous stories of frustration and disappointment with the changes, frustrations that were negatively affecting the health of workers. However, I also heard how many ODSP workers had been looking forward to these changes.

Previous research has understood the migrations of gay men and other queer people through a lens of identity development, whereby relocation is driven by processes of coming out and consuming particular urban amenities. Meanwhile, labour geographers have largely overlooked sexuality, seeking to understand work-related migration in relation to gender, race, citizenship and the collective organization of workers. Drawing on the migration narratives of gay-identified men living in Ottawa, Canada, and Washington, DC, USA, we argue that the norms governing gender and sexuality within various workplaces, economic sectors and locales continuously influence migration related to work and inextricably linked processes of social reproduction. In particular, we explain how the affective needs of gay workers both deflect them from and attract them to particular locales and workplaces. In their migration destinations, gay workers tend to also transform the norms of social reproduction within workplaces and sectors. While gay workers may use migration to successfully negotiate the uneven landscapes of inclusion and visibility in North America, their agency is also constrained by the ongoing of regulation of sexuality in both workplaces and social and community environments.

In this article, we compare current Canadian nursing home workers’ experiences and conditions of care to past work and care conditions to determine changes and similarities over the period from 1970 to the present. Employing a feminist political economy framework and a team-based rapid ethnography approach, our study involved observations of and in-depth interviews with management, health providers, support staff, informal care providers, union officials, and residents between 2012 and 2015. The historical substudy drew on interviews of past and present workers of one large long-term residential care home in Ontario. While improvements have been made in training and in the physical safety of staff and residents in these gendered spaces of work, there has been a persistence, if not intensification, in job precarity; inadequate staffing levels coupled with heavy workloads; routinized, assembly-line types of work; and cost-cutting on supplies.

The article reviews the book, "Ressources humaines. Gérer les personnes et l’ordre social dans l’entreprise," by Évelyne Léonard.

The article reviews the book, "Elizabeth Gurley Flynn: Modern American Revolutionary," by Lara Vapnik.

This thesis is an historical examination of the multi-layered processes of deindustrialization in Sydney, Nova Scotia. The history of a steel plant formerly located in the centre of the city is used as a case study through which the mechanisms of deindustrialization are fully explored. In 1967, the provincial government of Nova Scotia nationalized the Sydney Works. This marks a significant divergence from previous studies of deindustrialization, which have traditionally focused on the wave of industrial closures in the North American heartland during the 1970s and 1980s. Framed by oral history accounts of former steelworkers, this dissertation reveals the combined impact of Canadian regionalism, political economy, and working-class cultures of resistance on local experiences of industrial decline. This represents a synthesis between the econo-political historiography of deindustrialization favoured in the 1980s and the cultural/representational approaches of the 1990s and 2000s. The title, “Deindustrialization on the Periphery,” speaks to the specific national and regional contexts that frame the decline of Sydney Steel. The longue durée of economic change on the rural resource frontier has been understudied. In Cape Breton, the devastation wrought by the end of industry has roots that stretch back to the early 20th century. Tracing these through the use of Harold Innis’ “staples trap,” my thesis reveals how deindustrialization stretches from decades before closure to the years after a mine, mill, or factory are shuttered for the last time. Workers and other residents in Sydney continue to face the bodily aftermath of workplace injury, occupational, and environmental illness long after the structures of the plant have been demolished. But so, too, have experiences of working at the mill and living in the neighbourhoods that surrounded its gates created particular forms of culture, solidarity, and identity. My research is more than a eulogy for a defunct steel town. It seeks to expose the tensions between different forms of memory and experience, and to examine how the industrial past remains inextricably connected to the “post-industrial” present.

This article reviews the book, "Détroit pas d’accord pour crever. Une révolution urbaine," by Dan Georgakas and Marvin Surkin; translated from English by Laure Mistral.

Les recherches sur le choix de demeurer dans un emploi sont peu nombreuses ou traitent ce sujet à travers des modèles sur le roulement de personnel (turnover), considérant que les mêmes déterminants influencent de manière opposée l'intention de rester ou de quitter. De plus, à l'exception notable de Cossette et Gosselin (2012), les chercheurs ne traitent que le choix de rester dans l'entreprise, mêlant dans la même variable expliquée le choix de rester dans un emploi et celui de la mobilité intra-organisationnelle.Cette recherche poursuit deux objectifs: 1- identifier des concepts associés au souhait de rester dans son emploi; 2- explorer les relations entre les variables identifiées et le désir de rester. L'apport de cette recherche est double. Il s'avère tout d'abord théorique puisque nous avons identifié les variables associées au souhait de rester dans un emploi. Les résultats obtenus permettent de proposer un modèle théorique décrivant les relations entre trois groupes de variables (identification, contextes personnel et au travail) et le souhait de rester. Nous montrons, en particulier, l'influence probable des variables d'identification au contenu du travail sur le souhait de rester dans l'emploi, réalité rarement prise en compte dans les analyses sur ce sujet, que nous définissons comme un état où un salarié établit une équivalence entre ce qu'il est et ce qu'il fait. Cette identification est obtenue suite aux succès obtenus par la personne, qui lui indiquent ses compétences et lui procurent un sentiment d'efficacité, source de fierté. Le second apport de cette recherche est méthodologique. Il semble fécond d'associer une analyse des entretiens, appliquant les principes de la théorie enracinée, à un traitement statistique de type analyse des correspondances multiples, peu connu des chercheurs anglosaxons. // Title in English: Identification with Work Content as a Determinant of the Desire to Stay in a Job. Research on the choice to remain in a job is limited, and that which exists tends to be based on turnover models that consider that the determinants influencing the intent to remain or to leave a job are the same. Furthermore, with the exception of Cossette and Gosselin (2012), scholars have traditionally only dealt with the choice to remain within a company and have not made any distinction between variables that explain the choice of employees to remain in a particular job or to be intraorganizationally mobile.This research serves two purposes: 1- it identifies the concepts related to the desire to stay in a job; 2- it explores the interrelationships between identified variables and the desire to stay in a job. The contribution of this research is twofold: the first is theoretical in so far as we identify the variables associated with the desire to remain in a job. The findings make it possible to propose a theoretical model that describes the relationships between three groups of variables (identification, personal context, and work context) and the desire to stay. In particular, we show the likely influence of how people identify with work content upon the desire to remain in a job. Rarely taken into account in analyses on this topic, we define this influence as a condition where an employee establishes equivalence between what he/she is and what he/she does. This identification follows the success achieved by a person that attests to his/her range of skills and provides him/her with a feeling of efficacy. The person identifies with this source of pride. The second contribution of this research is methodological. It appears to be fruitful to associate interview analysis, applying the principles of grounded theory, with a statistical process, such as a Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA), an approach that is little known to Anglo-Saxon scholars.

This article reviews the book, "Les critiques de la gestion," by Jean Nizet and François Pichault.

The effects of neoliberal capitalism have had a significant impact on the structure of the Canadian labour market and economy, but also on the employment opportunities for young workers in the early 21st century. And despite being the most educated generation ever, the millennials are faced with fewer full-time, secure jobs. Many have opted to embrace self-employment, sometimes not by choice but by necessity. This qualitative study embraced similar themes from the McMaster University/United Way of Toronto/PEPSO study, “The Precarity Penalty,” to determine how self employment affects their personal, work, social and community lives. One-on-one interviews were conducted with 10 Hamilton millennials (born 1981-1997), who were recruited through the Hamilton Chamber of Commerce’s affiliated organizations, Hamilton HIVE and Young Entrepreneurs and Professionals Hamilton. A total of 28 questions explored five topical areas: 1) their employment relationship; 2) how their employment relationship affected their life outside of work – i.e., family life, friends, community involvement; 3) physical and mental health; 4) their outlook on the future in terms of employment-related opportunities and potential barriers; and 5) their overall view on work and the current generation of workers. This research provided a glimpseinto the challenges that young, well-educated, self-employed millennials face, and their views on work and the labour market today. and their views on work and the labour market today. --From Executive Summary

The Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) is a transnational labour agreement between Canada, Mexico, and various Caribbean countries that brings thousands of Jamaican migrant workers to Canada each year to work on farms. This thesis explores Jamaican SAWP workers’ experiences of stress in Ontario, and situates these experiences within a system of power and international inequality. When describing their experiences of stress and suffering in Ontario, many Jamaican workers drew analogies between historic and modern slavery under the SAWP. However, stress discourses also inspired workers to emphasise their resilience, and many workers gave equal attention to explaining their inherent strength as “Jamaicans”, which they associate with national independence and the history of slavery. In this way, I suggest stress discourses are sites of flexibility and resilience for Jamaican workers, and this thesis presents the foremost cultural, political, and historical factors that support Jamaican workers’ resilience in Ontario. Moreover, the predominant coping strategies workers employ in Ontario will be explored within the context of their restricted agency under the SAWP. This thesis concludes with a discussion of stress as an expression of subjectivity that is characterised by strength, faith, and the history of slavery.

This study, co-published by CCPA and Oxfam Canada, looks at how women in Canada and around the world are affected by rising inequality, including the burden of unpaid work, the undervaluing of work in

Nursing embodies the seemingly timeless characteristics of feminine healing, caring, and nurturing, yet this archetypally female vocation also boasts a distinctive and complex history. Bedside Matters traces four generations of Canadian nurses to explore changes in who became nurses, what work they performed, and how they organized to defend their occupational interests. Whether in the apprenticeship method of the early twentieth century or in the present day restructuring of hospital work, the position of nurses within the health-care system has been structured by class, gender, and ethnic and racial relations. Located between the doctors and untrained or subsidiary patient-care attendants, nurses have struggled to define the boundaries of their occupation vis à vis other members of the health-care hierarchy, even as tensions between bedside and administrative nurses created divisions within nursing itself. Focusing on the daily labours of 'ordinary nurses', McPherson argues that the persisting sex-typing of nursing as women's work has meant that gender consistently complicated nursing's easy categorization as either professional or proletariat. Combining archival records and oral histories, the author shows how nurses, in their work, activities, and social and sexual attitudes, sought recognition as skilled workers in the health-care system. --Publisher's description

The article reviews the book, "The Canadian Oral History Reader," edited by Kristina R. Llewellyn, Alexander Freund, and Nolan Reilly.

This study investigates the TPP's chapter on "temporary entry for business persons" to understand its potential consequences for Canadian immigration policy and the Canadian labour market. It examines the general provisions that apply to all TPP countries as well as Canada's specific commitments for different categories of workers under the TPP. The study finds that the TPP will give more leeway to employers to hire migrant workers and transfer employees across borders—even in industries and regions where unemployment is high and domestic workers are available—without offering mobility rights to workers themselves. Although the short-term impact on the Canadian labour market will likely be small, the potential long-term impact of the TPP's temporary entry provisions is significant. Like other aspects of the TPP, these provisions override Canada's existing immigration policy and cannot be changed by a future government.

The article reviews the book, "Reform or Repression: Organizing America's Anti-Union Movement," by Chad Pearson.

This article reviews the book, "Refonder le système de protection sociale. Pour une nouvelle génération de droits sociaux," by Bernard Gazier, Bruno Palier and Hélène Périvier.