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The article briefly reviews "Canada's Urban Past: A Bibliography to 1980," compiled by Alan F.J. Artibise and Gilbert A. Stelter; "International Handbook of Industrial Relations: Contemporary Developments and Research," edited by Albert A. Blum; "Rhetoric of Protest and Reform, 1878-1898," edited by Paul Boase; "Philosophers Look at Canadian Confederation," edited by Stanley G. French; "The Past Before Us; Contemporary Historical Writing in the United States," edited by Michael Kammen; "The Third Century: America as a Post-Industrial Society," edited by Seymour Martin Lipset; Al Nash's "Ruskin College: A Challenge to Adult and Labor Education;" "The Organization of Knowledge in Modern America, 1860-1920," edited by Alexandra Oleson and John Voss; "Labor and American Politics: A Book of Readings," revised edition, edited by Charles M. Rehmus, Doris B. McLaughlin, and Frederick H. Nesbitt; "American Workers Abroad: A Report to the Ford Foundation," edited by Robert Schrank; Edward Shils' "The Calling of Sociology and Other Essays on the Pursuit of Learning" (3rd volume of 4); "Unfinished Business: An Agenda for Labor, Management, and the Public," by Abraham J. Siegel and David B. Lipsby; "The History of American Electoral Behavior," edited by Joel H. Silbey, Allan G. Bogue, and William H. Flanigan; Lawrence Stone's "The Past and the Present;" "Essays in British Business History," edited by Barry Supple; "The American Labour Movement and Other Essays," by R.H. Tawney, edited by J.M. Winter; "History and Society," by R.H. Tawney, edited by J.M. Winter; and "The Current Industrial Relations Scene in Canada, 1981," edited by W.D. Wood and Pradeep Kumar.

This essay poses a critique of selected recent writing on American and British working-class culture, arguing against the tendency to categorize culture into discrete ideal types. It argues the importance of locating culture materially and historically, developing a notion of periodization that recognizes particular stages of development and levels of conflict and struggle. As such it poses an implicit rejection of recent Canadian polemics directed against the study of the cultural.

This thesis examines the labour market experience of Chinese post-war immigrants in Montreal's ethnic and general labour markets. It provides empirical information on the Chinese ethnic labour market in Montreal and assesses the theoretical relevance of the distinction of an ethnic labour market from the general labour market for the understanding of the socio-economic attainment of immigrants in Canada. The findings reveal significant segmental differences in the composition of the labour force, employment characteristics, mobility patterns, and monetary returns to human capital investment. These indicate the distinctiveness of the ethnic labour market and provide support for Wiley's (1968) thesis of the ethnic mobility trap. Theoretical implications of these findings for studies of occupational achievements of immigrants in Canada are discussed.

This study looks at Industrial Relations decision-making in 18 decision-areas, in a multinational firm. It analyses the problem in terms ofa model of strategie importance and examines in detail the inter-organizational variance of centralization of the Company's four main product divisions. Substructural autonomy appears to increase with the size of subsidiary, but seems to level off once they have attained a certain size. The average size of subsidiary and average degree of conflict for each of the divisions were also found to be related in a somewhat unexpected way.

This article reviews the book, "Les communistes au Québec 1936-1956," by Robert Comeau & Bernard Dionne.

First published in 1981, H. Clare Pentland's Labour and Capital in Canada, 1650-1860 is a seminal work that analyzes the shaping of the Canadian working class and the evolution of capitalism in Canada. Pentland's work focuses on the relationship between the availability and nature of labour and the development of industry. From that idea flows an absorbing account that explores patterns of labour, patterns of immigration and the growth of industry. Pentland writes of the massive influx of immigrants to Canada in the 1800s--taciturn highland Scots who eked out a meagre living on subsistence farms; shrewd lowlanders who formed the basis of an emerging business class; skilled English artisans who brought their trades and their politics to the new land; Americans who took to farming; and Irish who came in droves, fleeing the poverty and savagery of an Ireland under the heel of Britain. Labour and Capital in Canada is a classic study of the peoples who built Canada in the first two centuries of European occupation. --Publisher's description

The article reviews and comments on "The October Revolution" and "On Stalin and Stalinism," by Roy. A Medvedev, "Lenin's Government: Sovnarkom, 1917-1922," by T.H. Rigby, and "Is the Red Flag Flying?" by Albert Szymanski.

This article compares and contrasts the attempts by workers in Britain, France, Germany, the United States, and Canada to organize industrial unions at the beginning of the twentieth century. It starts with the premise that revolutionary industrial unionism was an international phenomenon, arising from similar socioeconomic conditions in the advanced capitalist countries, and that simultaneous movements to found "one big union" of all industrial workers should be seen in this light. The article proceeds to analyze the different views of industrial unionists on the subjects of dual unionism, organization and politics within an overall tendency in favour of one big unionism. It argues that syndicalism was only one faction active in the movement and that revolutionary industrial unionism was much broader in scope than syndicalism. The article further analyzes the social bases of the movement among unskilled workers and specific groups of skilled workers in the mass production industries. Finally, it points out the tactical originality of the movement and why its tactics posed a revolutionary challenge to capitalist control of the economy.

Two tests of a model of problem-solving in labor negotiations are reported, using samples of private-sector negotiations and in the Pacific Northwest.

This article reviews the book, "A Theory of Behavior in Organizations," by James C. Naylor, R.D. Pritchard & D.R. Ilgen.

This article reviews the book, "Role Theory: Expectations, Identities, and Behaviors," by Bruce J. Briddle.

This article reviews the book, "Giustizia e Mezzogiorno. Il caso dello statuto dei lavoratori," by Mirella Giannini.

This article reviews the book, "Comrade and Lover: Rosa Luxemburg's Letters to Leo Jogiches," edited and translated by Elzbieta Ettinger.

Thispaper aims atproviding an adéquate foundation for addressing practical and theoretical industrial relations issues likely to be important to the banking industry in the future.

This paper aims at presenting the results of a study of trade union members in the United Kingdom and at establishing a central theoretical framework which will facilitate a systematic accumulation of knowledge on this subject.

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This article reviews the book, "Communisme et anticommunisme au Québec (1920-1950)," by Marcel Fournier.

This paper traces the rise and fall in Ontario of the Workers Educational Association (WEA), a voluntary association whose main purpose was to organize inexpensive, non-credit night classes taught by university professors for the working class. The Association was an offshoot of the British WEA. ln Ontario the main impetus for establishing an Association in 1918 came from members of Toronto's intellectual elite. One of their aims was to teach labour people "responsible behaviour" at a time when the labour movement seemed to be gaining influence and becoming more radical. Working-class people within the WEA proved less malleable than the academics had hoped, and the Association soon became a workers' organization, largely controlled by some of its working-class members. It offered many liberal arts courses and, in the late 1930s and 1940s, developed innovative labour education and research programmes which proved of lasting benefit to the labour movement. Although continually threatened by the University of Toronto administration, the WEA failed in the 1950s because certain labour leaders, using Cold War tactics, opposed a labour educational institution that they could not control.

Cet article montre comment les Canadiens-français occupent une fonction d'infériorité à l'intérieur de l'entreprise.