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This study has 2 objectives: 1. to understand the extent of social investment among union-based pension funds as well as labor-sponsored investment funds in Canada, and 2. to understand the factors that affect social investment strategies among such funds. The data indicate that pension funds in Canada have minimal social investment. There is somewhat higher social investment among labor-sponsored investment funds, and particularly labor-sponsored investment funds with genuine union membership. The study also explores factors related to social investment by funds.
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[The article focuses] on a particular conflict in South Africa — the strike this past winter of several thousand Volkswagen workers in Uitenhage, outside of Port Elizabeth, a region known as "the Detroit of South Africa" — and [places] it within the context of a worsening material situation for most South Africans and growing political contusion and tension within the ruling "Triple Alliance" of the African National Congress (ANC), the Confederation of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), and the South African Communist Party (SACP). At this moment, there is an intensifying struggle over privatization and restructuring, a pending battle between pubhc employees and the ANC-run state; and growing enmity between COSATU and the ANC, driven by dissent within COSATU affiliates, over these issues of privatization, the pay of public employees, and a call for the revisions of labour laws in place since 1994, These particular conflicts and the overall situation rest, of course, on South Africa's location within the global economy and the different ways that internal forces are responding to it. In examining these internal forces we can learn more about not only the challenges of economic globalization but also the prospects for challenging it. --From author's introduction
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Managing the Multinational: An International Study of Control Mechanisms, by Anne-Wil Kathie Harzing, is reviewed.
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Managing Competitive Crisis: Strategic Choice and the Reform of Workrules, by Martyn Wright, is reviewed.
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The article pays homage to Marcel Pepin for his lifetime of service and commitment to the labour movement.
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The article reviews the book, "Women on the Defensive: Living through Conservative Times." by Sylvia Bashevkin.
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This paper consider the potential for union revival in Canada and the US. Although unions have devoted considerably energy and resources to new initiatives, the overall evidence leads to generally pessimistic conclusions. The level and direction of union density rates indicates the 2 labor movements lack the institutional frameworks and public policies to achieve sustained revival. Significant gains in union membership and density levels will require nothing less than a paradigm shift in the industrial relations systems - a broadening of the scope and depth of membership recruitment, workplace representation and political activities.
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The article reviews the book, "Class Action: Reading Labor, Theory and Value," by William Corlett.
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The article reviews the book, "Le temps de travail de ceux qui ne le comptent pas," by Bernhard Brunhes Consultants, edited by Danielle Kaisergruber.
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New Paths in Working Time Policy, edited by jean-Yves Boulin and Reiner Hoffmann, is reviewed.
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The Killing of Karen Silkwood: The Story Behind the Kerr-McGee Plutonium Case, 2nd edition, by Richard Rashke, is reviewed.
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The article reviews the book, "A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution and Cooperation," by Peter Singer.
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L’auteur livre quelques réflexions personnelles sur la spécificité de la réponse européenne à la question sociale telle qu’elle se pose aujourd’hui. Davantage qu’une émanation de la politique de l’Union européenne, il voit dans le modèle social européen un patrimoine commun aux peuples de l’Europe en matière d’emploi et de travail. Ce concept traduit une triple réalité : une régulation sociale fondée sur la concertation ; un régime élaboré de protection sociale et l’existence de services publics à finalité sociale, ainsi qu’un interventionnisme actif de l’État en matières industrielle, économique et sociale. Si ce modèle doit faire face à des critiques et à des difficultés, l’évolution semble davantage aller dans le sens de son adaptation que dans celui de sa disparition.
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Globalization and Labour in the Asia Pacific Region, edited by Chris Rowley and John Benson, is reviewed.
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The Quality of Work: A People-Centred Agenda, by Graham S. Lowe, is reviewed.
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The article reviews the book, "Colonial Industrialization and Labor in Korea: The Onoda Cement Factory," by Soon-Won Park.
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Economic Conditions and Welfare Reform, edited by Sheldon H. Danziger, is reviewed.
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The article reviews the book, "Capital Moves: RCA's 70-Year Quest for Cheap Labor," by Jefferson Cowie.
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The article reviews the book, "Prometheus Wired: The Hope for Democracy in the Age of Network Technology," by Darin Burney.
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The article reviews and comments on several books, including "The End of Utopia: Politics and Culture in an Age of Apathy" by Russell Jacoby, "Whose Millennium? Theirs or Ours?" by Daniel Singer, and "Utopistics, Or Historical Choices of the Twenty-first Century," by Immanuel Wallerstein.