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Briefly summarizes the conference, "Making Connections, Workers and Their Communities," held at York University on May 26-28, 1989. Mary DeVan related her doctoral research on Filipino domestic workers in Vancouver, Margaret Oldfield and Belinda Leach adddressed low-paid clerical and garment workers (including the methodological challenges of researching the latter) whose workplace is the home, and Sedef Arat-Koç commented on a recently published paper [entitled "In the Privacy of Our Own Home: Foreign Domestic Workers as a Solution to the Crisis in the Domestic Sphere of Canada"] on the political economy of the relationship of the state to domestic service. Concludes that a holistic approach to women's work including a new commitment to labour-community organization is necessary to uncover the reality of women's invisible household labour.
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The article reviews the book, "Comprendre et appliquer une convention collective," by Ronald Sirard and Alain Gazaille.
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The article reviews the book, "Collective Bargaining In Industrialised Market Economies: A Reappraisal," by John P. Windmuller.
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The article reviews the book, "Bâtir un pays. Histoire des travaux publics au Canadam" edited by Norman R. Ball.
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The article reviews the books "Maurice Sugar: Law, Labor, and the Left in Detroit, 1912-1950," by Christopher H. Johnson, and "Two Who Were There: A Biography of Stanley Nowak," by Margaret Collingwood Nowak.
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In this paper, we construct an index of the "cost of job loss" — defined as the income that a "representative worker" would lose upon being dismissed or laid off — in Canada between 1953 and 1985. Since this measure captures the monetary cost of unemployment, it is superior to the aggregate unemployment rate as an indicator of the relative bargaining power of capital and labour. Changes in the distribution of income between capital and labour are then considered. It is argued that with the decline in the cost of job loss between 1962 and 1973, the relative bargaining power of workers increased, and real wages rose accordingly. Subsequently, the cost of job loss has risen dramatically and real wages have fallen as capital has sought to restore conditions for rapid rates of accumulation.
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La littérature suggère que les personnes âgées de 45 à 64 ans rencontrent trois groupes de difficultés dans la recherche d'un emploi: les problèmes découlant de l'accessibilité aux programmes gouvernementaux, les pratiques discriminatoires des employeurs et les caractéristiques et faiblesses des personnes concernées. Les auteurs vérifient l'importance relative de ces obstacles auprès de 207 répondants.
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The article reviews the book, "Power and Powerlessness in Industry: An Analysis of the Industrial Relations of Production," by Rosemary Harris.
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The article reviews the book "Learning to Earn: School, Work, and Vocational Reform in California, 1880-1930," by Harvey A. Kantor.
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Avant de se demander s'il faut renouveler une institution, ii importe de savoir si elle a une chance de survie, si les principes de fond sur lesquels elle repose sont encore valables, enfin si le renouvellement dont elle pourrait avoir besoin vise des aspects substantiels et constitutifs, ou accessoires et accidentels. Je me propose de repondre aces trois questions, d'abord par un coup d'oeil sur l'histoire de la loi en question, ensuite en rappelant les principes de fond qui ont amene son adoption, en 1934, et, finalement, en esquissant quelques conditions de sa survie et de son renouvellement.
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The article reviews the book, "Social Workers and Labor Unions," edited by Howard Jacob Karger.
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The article reviews the book, "Les Pâtes et Papiers au Québec, 1880-1980 : Technologies, travail et travailleurs," by Jean-Pierre Charland.
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The article reviews the book "Trade Unions in Britain Today," by John Mcllroy.
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The article reviews the book "Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex during World War II," by Ruth Milkman.
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Takes note of articles published in the issue including on the unskilled, the labour/non-labour of women and children, Canadian job loss over the last 30 years, the attitude and ideological underpinning of labour history writing, and the relationship between academics and the labour movement. Discusses the transfer of Canadian Security Intelligence Service records to the National Archives, which had been long promised. Access, however, remains problematic. Explains the increased cost of the journal subscription and two minor corrections to the previous issue are noted, including a book review by VSP rather than BDP.
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Describes a visit to the collection of radical pamphlets, primarily 20th-century and mainly Canadian, at the library of the University of Prince Edward Island. The materials were filed by title on two ranges of eight-foot steel shelves running at least 50 to 60 linear feet. Housed at UPEI since the late 1960s, the collection came as part of the library's purchase of the stock of the Blue Heron Book Store in Toronto, which had been run by the bibliographer, Peter Weinrich. Included are at least 62 titles that pertain to communist party leader Tim Buck. [Note: The collection was later transferred to the Memorial University library. See the article, "The International Labour and Radical History Pamphlet Collection at Memorial University of Newfoundland," by Michael Lonardo, published in the journal in Fall 1994.
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The article reviews the book, "Reform, Labor and Feminism: Margaret Dreier Robins and the Women's Trade Union League," by Elizabeth Anne Payne.