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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.
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The article reviews the book, "Sharing the Work, Sparing the Planet: Work Time, Consumption, and Ecology," by Anders Hayden.
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The article reviews the book, "Making the Amalgamated: Gender, Ethnicity, and Class in the Baltimore Clothing Industry, 1899-1939," by Jo Ann E. Argersinger.
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Discusses the anti-Chinese racism surrounding the No. 1 Mine disaster of 1887, when Chinese miners were unfairly blamed for the tragedy. A sign and plaque were unveiled in 1999 at the disaster's site in Nanaimo, BC, where 53 of the 150 miners killed were Chinese.
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Challenging Professions: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Women's Professional Work, edited by Elizabeth Smyth, Sandra Acker, Paula Bourne and Alison Prentice, is reviewed.
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In most studies of the automotive industry in Canada, the workforce has been constructed as uniformly white and male. However, a tiny number of Black men have long had a presence in the industry, occupying the dirtiest, most hazardous, and least desirable jobs in the auto foundries of St. Catharines and Windsor, Ontario. This paper attempts to reconstruct the working lives and union involvements of these men. The paper highlights the themes of racialization and gendering within the sphere of capitalist production. In examining multiple oppressions, simultaneously experienced and resisted, the study furthermore demonstrates the ways in which relations of domination are far more complex and historically-contingent than most analyses of industry and "the auto worker" have suggested.
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The article reviews the book, "A Young Man's Benefit: The Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Sickness Insurance in the United States and Canada, 1860-1929," by George Emery and J. C. Herbert Emery.