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Takes note of the poetry published in the issue, including an accompanying essay. Bryan Palmer will soon be contributing as the review editor. Following an SSHRCC investigation of alternative formats, the print publication of the journal will continue to have primacy over microfiche.

Takes note that a previously published book review by Jacques Roulliard is being reprinted with corrections in the current issue.

Replies to Michael Piva's "comment" on statistics regarding the proportion of the Ontairo working population who were members of the Knights of Labor. Concedes that there was an error, but argues with Piva's usage of 1891 Canadian census data and his pessimistic assessment of the Knights' impact.

The article provides reviews of: Women's History Sources: A Guide to Archives and Manuscript Collections in the United States, 2 v., edited by Andrea Hinding / review by Linda Kealey -- Marxism and Culture: The CPUSA and Aesthetics in the 1930s, by Lawrence H. Schwartz / review by Peter Fitting -- A Bibliography of Canadian Folklore in English, compiled by Edith Fowke and Carole Henderson Carpenter / review by Laurel Doucette.

An annotated bibliography of left wing novels about the lives of working people during the 20th century. Includes some collections of poetry, drama and short stories as well as a smattering of non-fictional material such as oral and life histories. Includes over 3,000 titles originally in some 50 languages by circa 1,500 authors from over 90 countries. --Publisher's description

This article reviews three books: "Reconcilable Differences," by Paul Weiler, "Grievance Arbitration of Discharge Cases," by George W. Adams, and "Labour Law and Industrial Relations in Canada," by H.W. Arthurs, D.D. Carter, and H..J. Glasbeek.

L'objet de cette étude est de vérifier si la transformation des horaires de travail peut affecter directement la qualité de la vie au travail. Les auteurs précisent d'abord le nouveau concept de qualité de vie au travail, ils font ensuite le tour des différents types horaires alternatifs de travail et enfin analysent d'une façon particulière l'horaire variable à la lumière de quelques cas pratiques.

Le Conseil fut saisi d'un conflit de distribution du travail entre syndicats rivaux engendré par l'absence de quelque mention relative à la fonction disputée dans leurs certificats d'accréditation ou conventions collectives alors que ladite fonction existait au moment de leur accréditation respective. Le Conseil a expliqué le fondement de sa juridiction en vertu des articles 158(1) et 119 du Code pour trancher de tels litiges. Il a rappelé, par ailleurs, sa politique habituelle quant au caractère approprié de l'unité et l'objectif des votes de représentation lors du dépôt, par un syndicat maraudeur, d'une requête en accréditation visant à représenter une unité dont la délimitation épouse fidèlement celle pour laquelle le syndicat en place a déjà été accrédité. Enfin, en étudiant la nature de la fonction litigieuse tel qu 'elle a évolué depuis sa création jusqu'au moment de l'audition de la présente affaire, le Conseil a déterminé que la convention collective du syndicat requérant ne s'appliquait pas à la fonction litigieuse sauf quant à certains aspects de ce travail.

Le Conseil canadien des relations du travail a rendu une décision dans laquelle il a étudié la légalité de certaines clauses des protocols de retour au travail, le statut des substituts engages et promus durant la grève ainsi que la doctrine de la conversion d'une grève économique en une grève dite de pratiques déloyales. Au terme de cette decision il a déclaré l'employeur «coupable» d'avoir commis un certain nombre de pratiques déloyales et a ordonné, en conséquence, que les employés grévistes soient réintégrés, une fois la grève terminée, dans leurs fonctions antérieures ou à des postes substantiellement équivalent meme si pour cela, les substituts engagés durant la grève devaient être déplacés, transférés, retrogrades ou tout simplement congédiés par l'employeur de façon à faire place aux grévistes. Selon l'approche adoptee par le Conseil, le statut des substituts originant de l'extérieur de l'unité engages en période de grève ne saurait être que temporaire et n 'est susceptible de se transformer et de devenir permanent que lors de la survenance de certains événements. L'octroi de la permanence par l'employeur avant que ces événements ne soient survenus constitue en soi une pratique déloyale ayant pour effet de convertir la grève en une grève dite de pratiques déloyales de travail et, partant, de conférer un droit absolu à la reintegration aux grévistes dont les postes ont été comblés subséquemment à la conversion.

Les effets découlant de l'octroi d'un certificat d'accréditation et l'émasculation de l'unité de négociation.

This article reviews the book, "Capital and Labour in Canada 1650-1860," by H. Clare Pentland.

Compilation of recent English/French publications on Canadian labour history that emphasize the period 1800-1975. Materials pertaining to the post-1975 period may also be included, although more selectively. [See the database, Canadian Labour History, 1976-2009, published at Memorial University of Newfoundland.]

Portrays the life and thought of Oscar Douglas Skelton (1878-1941), a liberal reformer who became Canada's top civil servant under Mackenzie King's government. Focuses on Skelton's perspectives on labour, capitalism, socialism, and Marxism.

This article reviews the book, "Popular Disturbances in England, 1700-1870," by John Stevenson.

The purpose of this paper is to offer an analysis and overview of the causes and implications of the renaissance of homeworking in many industries in Western Europe, North America and Australia since the 1960's.

This article reviews the book, "Canadian Papers in Rural History, Vol. III," edited by Donald H. Akenson.

This article reviews the book, "Women for Hire: A Study of the Female Office Worker," by Fiona McNally.

This article reviews three books: "Women and Household Labor," edited by Sarah Fenstermaker Berk, "Working Women and Families," edited by Karen Wolk Feinstein, and "Urban Survival: The World of Working Class Women," by Ruth Seidel.

This article reviews the book, "Sharing the Work: An Analysis of the Issues in Worksharing and Jobsharing," by Noah M. Meltz, Frank Reid, and Gerald S. Swartz.

On 18 November 1941, the gold miners of Kirkland lake struck for union recognition. The Kirkland Lake strike was a bitter struggle between the mine operators and their employees and became a national confrontation between the federal government and the labour movement over the issue of collective bargaining. Locally, the dispute was affected by the company-town environment and by the mine operators' paternalistic view of labour relations. Through the difficult winter womenths, the community -- polarized by the events -- tried to deal with both the 'political' and social impact of the conflict. The author's father, Larry Sefton, emerged as one of the local leaders of the strike, which itself was a training ground for many future trade unionists. The strike was waged in the special circumstances of the war economy, and was a microcosm of wartime developments, which produced unprecedented union growth, serious industrial unrest, hostile management response, and generally antagonistic labour/government relations. Professor MacDowell shows that, even though the strike was lost, its eventual effect on labour policy gave the dispute its particular significance. To win the strike, government intervention and the introduction of collective bargaining were necessary, yet the only intervention was by the Ontario Provincial Police, who were ordered to assist the mining companies to operate with strike-breakers. The federal government refused to intervene, in spire of virtually unanimous support for the strike by the Canadian labour movement. MacDowell confludes that the strike succeeded in unifying organized labour behind the demand for collective-bargaining legislation. It highlighted the inadequacy of the government's wartime labour poilcy, and ultimately forced the government to authorize collective bargaining, first for Crown companies and then for all industrial workers. Thus, the Kirkland Lake strike was not only an important wartime dispute affecting policy development, but it also established a special legacy for trade unionists as part of the history of their movement. --Publisher's description