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The article reviews the book, "Marching Together: Women of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porter," by Melinda Chateauvert.

Discusses French, German and American approaches to writing social history, and why the author, a German, found a home in the French tradition of Marianne Debouzy, whom he also came to know. Illustrates how small stories can illuminate the bigger historical picture.

During most of their history, Canadian universities, institutions staffed by and serving largely middle class people, have not been hospitable to organized labour or the political left. Professors who expressed support for such causes generally found that doing so often strained the limits of academic freedom as it was understood by governing boards, administrators, a good many academics, and many people outside the institutions. If the situation has improved during the last three decades, one reason is that faculty unions have become commonplace. More important, however, may be that the outside world has come to pay less attention to what professors say, on almost any subject, than used to be the case.

The article reviews the book, "Mixed Methodology: Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches," by Abbas Tashakkori and Charles Teddlie.

Examines the US courts' interventions in the labour arena including in the Detroit newspapers' dispute and investigations of the Teamsters' alleged corruption that overturned the election of a reform candidate. Argues that the anti-corruption crusade is a smokescreen for a global order controlled by big business.

Introduces the symposium held in Paris on 6-7 November 1998 in honour of social historian Marianne Debouzy (1929-2021), who was a member of Labour/Le Travail's international advisory board, on the occasion of her retirement. Summarizes the six papers chosen for publication in the issue.

The judicial and political failure of Prime Minister R. B. Bennet's New Deal legislation during the mid-1930's shifted the struggle to reconstitute capitalism to the provincial and municipal levels of the state. Attempts to deal with the dislocations of the Great Depression in Ontario focused on the "sweatshop crisis" that came to dominate political and social discourse after 1934. Ontario's 1935 Industrial Standards Act (ISA) was designed to bring workers and employers together under the auspices of the state to establish minimum wages and work standards. The establishment of New Deal style industrial codes was premised on the mobilization of organized capital and organized labor to combat unfair competition, stop the spread of relief-subsidized labor, and halt the predations of sweatshop capitalism. Although the ISA did not bring about extensive economic regulation, it excited considerable interest in the possibility of government intervention. Workers in a diverse range of occupations, from asbestos workers to waitresses, attempted to organize around the possibility of the ISA. The importance of the ISA lies in what it reveals about the nature of welfare, wage labor, the union movement, competitive capitalism, business attitudes toward industrial regulation, and the role of the state in managing the collective affairs of capitalism. The history of the ISA also suggests that "regulatory unionism," as described by Colin Gordon in his work on the American New Deal, may have animated key developments in Canadian social, economic, and labor history.

The article reviews the book, " Legalizing Gender and Equality: Courts, Markets and Unequal Pay for Women in America," by Robert L. Nelson and William P. Bridges

Critiques the documentary, "Prairie Fire," including that the narrative is framed by the "western exceptionalist" historical interpretation, which narrows the Strike's significance.

Jusqu'à présent, peu de recherches se sont intéressées au roulement des membres au sein des organismes professionnels. La présente étude comble, en partie, cette lacune en analysant les intentions de rester membre ou non (ainsi que de redevenir membre ou non) des professionnels appartenant (ou ayant appartenu) à un organisme professionnel en ressources humaines ou en relations industrielles. À partir de données collectées par questionnaires (n = 916 membres actifs et 217 membres inactifs), des analyses de régression ont permis d'isoler plusieurs facteurs explicatifs importants comme l'attachement affectif à l'organisme. Les résultats obtenus permettent, entre autres, de mettre à jour différentes logiques d'affiliation à un organisme professionnel.

Ce texte examine le profil des travailleurs qui sont prêts à réduire volontairement leurs heures de travail pour participer à un programme départage de l'emploi. Nos résultats montrent que, contrairement aux enquêtes agrégées, les variables de capital humain (salaire, éducation), le statut marital, le sexe ainsi que la présence d'enfants en bas âge ne jouent aucun rôle dans la détermination de la probabilité à participer à un programme départage de travail. Par contre, l'âge et l'ancienneté affectent à la baisse cette probabilité. Par ailleurs, ce qui est plus révélateur c'est le fait que l'attitude à l'égard du loisir, ainsi que les caractéristiques de l'emploi occupé par les individus sont les principaux déterminants des choix des individus en termes de réduction des heures de travail.

The article reviews the book, "Derecho sindical," by José Manuel Lastra Lastra.

The article reviews the book, "La puissance du stress : une valeur ajoutée," by Jean-Pierre Hogue and Pierre Brulé.

The article reviews and comments on the books, "Taking Care of Business: Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland, and the Tragedy of American Labor" by Paul Buhle; "Working for Wages: The Roots of Insurgency" by Martin Glaberman and Seymour Faber; "A Covert Life: Jay Lovestone, Communist, Anti-Communist, and Spymaster" by Ted Morgan; and "Democracy is Power, Rebuilding Unions from the Bottom Up" by Mike Parker and Martha Gruelle.

The article briefly reviews Francis Wheen's "Karl Marx," "Compass Points: Navigating the 20th Century," edited by Robert Chodos; William R. Haycraft's "Yellow Steel: The Story of the Earthmoving Equipment Industry ;" "Rosa Luxembourg: Reflections and Writings," edited by Paul Le Blanc; "No Gods, No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism," edited by Daniel Guérin, with translation by Paul Sharkey; Lynne Bowen's "Robert Dunsmuir, Laird of the Mines;" Nikolai Bukharin's "How It All Began: The Prison Novel;" Neil Tudiver's "Universities for Sale: Resisting Corporate Control over Canadian Higher Education;" Cynthia R. Commachio's "The Infinite Bonds of Family: Domesticity in Canada, 1850-1940;" Harry Fisher's "Comrades: Tales of a Brigadista in the Spanish Civil War;" Eve Blau's "The Architecture of Red Vienna, 1919-1934;" Alan Kidd's "State, Society, and the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England;" "Nationalism, Labour, and Ethnicity, 1870-1939," edited by Stefan Berger and Angel Smith; and "Tough Girls: Women Warriors and Wonder Women in Popular Culture," by Sherrie A. Inness.

The article reviews the book, "Slave in a Box: The Strange Career of Aunt Jemima," by M.M. Manring.

The article reviews the book, "The Wages of Influence: Labor and Management in Postwar Japan," by Andrew Gordon.

Argues that class analysis is still relevant to coalition building. Analyzes the UPS strike of 1997 which focused successfully on gaining broad support for part-time workers. Abridged version of a conference paper given in January 1998 at the Catholic University Leuven (Belgium).

Although there is substantial evidence that, on average, employee profit sharing improves company performance, little is known about the conditions under which it does so or the mechanisms through which it operates. This study identifies possible consequences and moderators of profit sharing, and then utilizes a data set from 108 Canadian profit-sharing firms to empirically examine them. Virtually all of the predicted consequences emerged, although to varying degrees. Three main factors moderated their emergence. Results were significantly more favorable in firms that had a high involvement managerial philosophy, that communicated extensively about profit sharing, and that allocated the profit-sharing bonus according to measures of individual employee performance.

The article reviews the book, "Just Another Car Factory: Lean Production and its Discontents. Rinehart," by James Rinehart, Christopher Huxley, and David Robertson.