Gender Based Differences in Promotions of Clerical Workers - Swimmer, Gene (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1990)
An attempt is made to empirically address the issue of whether promotions of female clerical employees are less likely when education and other qualifications are held constant. A model was developed for the probability of promotion. The data were drawn from a large public employer and covered the period of the early 1980s. Questionnaires were sent to all employees, with a 75% response rate. The questionnaires supplemented employer records. Results of the study demonstrated that female clerks were not treated in the same way as their male counterparts in regard to promotions to junior levels of management. The regressions predicted that, if females had been subject to the male criteria, their success in obtaining the promotions would have been almost double its actual value and higher than the actual success of males. The results also indicated a prima facie case of discrimination in promotion. The results were especially important since most discussion of affirmative action focuses on increasing the number of women in upper levels of management.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Clerical personnel; Employee promotions; Labor Unions; Office workers; Regression analysis; Sex discrimination; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Union-Management Relations in Canada - Swimmer, Gene (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1990)
This article reviews the book, "Union-Management Relations in Canada," 2nd ed., by John C. Anderson, Morley Gunderson, and Allen Ponak.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Reproducing Families: The Political Economy of English Population History - Thompson, E.p. (Labour / Le Travail, 1990)
The article reviews the book, "Reproducing Families: The Political Economy of English Population History," by David Levine.
Keywords: Economics; LEVINE; David; 1946-; Nonfiction; REPRODUCING Families: The Political Economy of English Population History (Book); REVIEWS; books

Administering Danger in the Workplace: The Law and Politics of Occupational Health and Safety Regulation in Ontario, 1850-1914 - Tucker, Eric (University of Toronto Press, 1990)
For Ontario workers during the industrial revolution the workplace was often an environment of terrible danger. Injuries and illness from unsafe working conditions were commonplace. Over time these conditions spurred efforts for reform from activists, legislators, and the courts. But change was slow in coming. To understand the impact of industrial revolution on the health and safety of workers generally, and on women and children in particular, tucker uses their testimony before various commissions, newspapers, and reported court cases. Initial efforts to effect change were made through the courts; they were largely unsuccessful. When the judiciary refused to regulate the risk-creating conduct of employers, through either the civil or the criminal law, workers and Victorian reformers found common ground in successfully promoting factory legislation. By prescribing and enforcing minimum standards, a measure of regulatory responsibility for the health of workers generally and women and children in particular was shifted from the market to the state. Class interest and gender ideology played a substantial role in this process. But the legislation's implementation belied its promise. The government was unwilling to provide adequate enforcement resources and inspectors accepted the conventional wisdom that workers had to adjust to the 'normal' hazards of industry, which were reasonable and, therefore, legal. Even when the accident rate began to soar as a result of the 'second industrial revolution, ' the authorities remained complacent. Tucker says that in industrial capitalist social formation, the nature and degree of hazards to which workers are exposed are determined largely by the employer-worker balance of power. Their respective power resources both shape and are shaped by the ideological, legal, political, and administrative environment in which they are deployed. Throughout the last half of the nineteenth century and up to the First World War, state regulation of occupational health and safety was substantially subordinated to market-driven forces; it still is today
Book available at Internet Archive to people with print disabilities: https://archive.org/details/administeringdan0000tuck/page/n9/mode/2up
Keywords: Factory laws and legislation; Factory laws and legislation Ontario History; History; Hygiène industrielle Droit Ontario Histoire; Hygiène industrielle Ontario Histoire; Industrial hygiene; Industrial hygiene Law and legislation; Industrial hygiene Law and legislation Ontario History; Industrial hygiene Ontario History; Industrial safety; Industrial safety Law and legislation; Industrial safety Law and legislation Ontario History; Industrial safety Ontario History; Ontario; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare; Sécurité du travail Droit Ontario Histoire; Sécurité du travail Ontario Histoire; Usines Droit Ontario Histoire

Hidden Among the Smokestacks: Toronto's Clothing Industry, 1871-1901 - Tulchinsky, Gerald (Old Ontario: Essays in Honour of J.M.S. Careless, 1990)
Keywords: Careless; J. M. S.; 1919-

Are We Those Names? - Valverde, Mariana (Labour / Le Travail, 1990)
The article reviews the books "Am I That Name?: Feminism and the Category of Women in History," by Denise Riley and "Gender and the Politics of History," by Joan Wallach Scott.
Keywords: AM I That Name? Feminism & the Category of Women in History (Book); GENDER & the Politics of History (Book); Nonfiction; REVIEWS; RILEY; Denise; SCOTT; Joan Wallach; books

Politics as if Women Mattered: A Political Analysis of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women - Vickers, Jill; Rankin, Pauline; Appelle, Christine (University of Toronto Press, 1990)
The National Action Committee on the Status of Women marked the twentieth anniversary of its founding in 1992. Today, it is the umbrella organization for roughly six hundred women’s groups in Canada. The authors of this study argue that, if women’s movements are to achieve their equality goals, they must develop enduring institutions that allow women’s efforts to be organized over the course of several generations. The authors examine the process of institutionalization through an in-depth study of the National Action Committee. In the belief that women’s movements in Canada have become more or less permanent features of the political system, operating parallel to its official structures, the author argue the need for a feminist political science that can accommodate the study of both women’s politics in their autonomous movements and women’s conventional activities in official politics. Indeed, this book undertakes political analysis ‘as if women mattered’: it focuses on women’s interests and draws on feminist theory while remaining connected to the broad framework of political science. The book documents NAC’s evolution as a ‘parliament of women.’ It shows how the organization moved from a fairly narrow status-of-women focus in its policies to a broadly conceived policy framework that linked such apparently sex-neutral issues as free trade, federalism, and taxation to feminism. Although the more comprehensive feminist approach to public policy proved dangerous for NAC in a conservative era, it also solidified its role and reputation as a major play in equality-seeking politics in Canada. –Publisher's description. Contents: Introduction : NAC and women's politics in Quebec ; NAC and women's politics in the first nations ; NAC and the politics of the 'new force' ; NAC as the coordinating institution of the English-Canadian women's movement ; Highlights of NAC's development – The intellectual and political context for the development of NAC : An overview of women's movements and the National Action Committee ; Canadian political culture and Canadian women's movements ; Radical influences on feminist political culture ; NAC's political-opportunity structure: the Canadian political system – NAC in the shadow of the royal commission: the founding era, 1972-1978 : 'Social' movements and the political process ; The founding of NAC – The struggle for NAC: the transitional era, 1979-1982 : The issues in conflict: grafting on a radical grass roots ; Two coalitions competing for the future of NAC – A new Parliament of women: institutionalizing NAC, 1982-1988 : Getting NAC 'back on track' ; The great leap forward: the expansion examined ; Opposition on the right ; Organizational review – Agency, leadership, representation, and democracy in NAC : A revolution of rising expectations: NAC member groups ; Leadership and accountability: is anyone here in charge? ; Representation: the heart of the matter ; Process and democracy in NAC – The policy process: structures for a new Parliament of women : Changing conceptions of the policy process in NAC ; Evolving policy structures in NAC ; NAC's ability to deal with short-term policy issues ; NAC's approach to long-term policy issues – Feminist ideology and policy making in NAC : In search of a framework: understanding the ideological trends in NAC ; The development of a feminist ideological spectrum in NAC: some benchmark issues ; From a status-of-women approach to a feminist politics – Conclusion : What is success? ; Can NAC's role as a Parliament of women continue? ; Is radical liberalism outmoded as a cultural basis for NAC politics? ; Will NAC survive? – Appendixes : A. Ideological forces among Anglophone NAC delegates, 984 AGM ; B. Groups affiliated with NAC by type, circa 1987-1988.
OCLC: 27384344

Santé et sécurité du travail - Vinet, Alain (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1990)
The article reviews the book, "Santé et sécurité du travail," by Micheline Plasse.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Workers' Knowledge of Their Legal Rights and Resistance to Hazardous Work - Walters, Vivienne; Denton, Margaret (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1990)
The paper presents data from a study of workers' knowledge, perceptions and actions regarding occupational health and safety. The correlates of workers' knowledge of health and safety legislation are analyzed, as well as the links between their knowledge and their resistance to hazardous work. The data suggest that workers who are most disadvantaged in the workplace are least likely to be aware of their rights. The correlates of action regarding health and safety are less clear, though knowledge of the legislation was related to resistance to hazardous work.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Laws & regulations; Occupational health & safety; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

L'entreprise à l'écoute - Weiss, Dimitri (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1990)
The article reviews the book, "L'entreprise à l'écoute," by Michel Crozier.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

The New Unionism: Employee Involvement in the Changing Corporation - Wells, Donald M. (Labour / Le Travail, 1990)
The article reviews the book, "The New Unionism: Employee Involvement in the Changing Corporation," by Charles C. Heckscher.
Keywords: AMERICAN Rubber Workers & Organized Labor; 1900-1941 (Book); CENTRAL labor councils; NELSON; Daniel; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; books

The Commercial Fishery of the Canadian Great Lakes - West, John J. Van (Labour / Le Travail, 1990)
The article reviews the book, "The Commercial Fishery of the Canadian Great Lakes," by A. B. McCullough.
Keywords: COMMERCIAL Fishery of the Canadian Great Lakes; The (Book); Canada; Fisheries; MCCULLOUGH; A. B.; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; books

Hospital Strike: Women, Unions, and Public Sector Conflict - White, Jerry Patrick (Thompson Educational Publishing, 1990)
Book review: https://cbra.library.utoronto.ca/items/show/8985
Keywords: Hospital Strike; Ontario; 1981; Hospitals; Strikes and lockouts; Women labor union members

Mail & Female: Women and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers - White, Julie (Thompson Educational, 1990)
In Mail & Female, Julie White chronicles and analyzes changes at the Post Office during the thirty years prior to the merger between the Canadian Union of Postal Workers and the Letter Carriers Union of Canada in January 1989. She focuses on CUPW activities and changes during a period which saw both inside workers and postal managers move from thinking of Post Office jobs as men's work to jobs no longer characterized in gender-specific terms. Mail & Female: Women and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers is an original contribution to women's and labour studies in Canada. CUPW changed from refusing women membership in the union in the late 1950s to its present position where its collective agreement is regarded as one of the most progressive for women. This book documents and analyzes these changes. –Publisher's description
OCLC: 29357073
Keywords: Canada; Canadian Union of Postal Workers; Discrimination à l'égard des femmes Canada; Femmes dans les syndicats Canada; Frau; Postal service Canada Employees; Postal service Employees; Postes Canada Personnel; Sex discrimination against women; Sex discrimination against women Canada; Syndicat des postiers du Canada; Women labor union members; Women labor union members Canada

Planification des ressources humaines dans la fonction publique fédérale - Wils, Thierry; Bourgeois, Robert-Paul; Labelle, Christiane (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1990)
La planification des ressources humaines en tant que nouveau style de gestion des ressources humaines est en train d'émerger dans le secteur privé. La présente étude montre qu'elle commence également à apparaître dans le secteur public. À partir d'une enquête par entrevue (n = 11) et par questionnaire (n = 76), cette recherche indique que la planification des ressources humaines a fait son apparition dans certaines parties de la fonction publique fédérale.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Labour Versus the State: The Conflicting Policy Interests and Ideas of the Canadian Trade Union Movement and the Federal Conservative Government, 1984-1988. - Wise, Bruce (Carleton University, 1990)
The subject of this research is the conflicting policy interests and ideas of Canadian organized labour and the federal Conservative government between 1984 and 1988. This conflict is placed within the context of the political and economic changes accompanying the international restructuring of capital and focusses on the opposition of the Canadian trade union movement to federal economic development policies. The struggle of ideas and interests surrounding specific policy areas is detailed. These areas include deficit reduction, the privatization of Crown corporations and government services, deregulation of certain economic activities and sectors and comprehensive bilateral free trade with the United States. Labour's opposition is shown to have manifested in a new strategy for building a broad-based coalition with other popular interests, in an effort to defeat the Conservative government and their policies at the polls. The research work concludes with speculation as to the future of labour and popular-coalition politics.

The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History - Wylie, Robin (Labour / Le Travail, 1990)
The article reviews the book, "The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History," by Craig Heron.
Keywords: CANADIAN Labour Movement: A Short History; The (Book); HERON; Craig; Labor movement; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; books

From Plant to Politics: The Canadian UAW, 1936-1984 - Yates, Charlotte A. B. (Charlotte Alyce Bronwen) (Carleton University, 1990)
This thesis studies the historically varied political strategies pursued by the Canadian branch of the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers in the union's attempts to shift the balance of power in its favour between 1936 and 1984. In so doing, the thesis examines and explains the Canadian UAW's changing relations to governments, corporations and political parties. Particular emphasis is placed on explaining the conditions under which this union pursued militant forms of political action. The analytical framework used in this work is constructed around an understanding of unions as strategic actors which make choices under limits arising from the historical, political-economic and internal conditions in which the union operates. In turn, a union's strategic capacity–defined as its ability to pursue a particular course of action successfully–is understood as being determined by both external conditions, such as the state of the economy, and by the internal resources and dynamics of the union. The most important external constraint on the Canadian UAW's strategic pursuits was the construction/destruction of the Fordist mode of regulation, which was organized around a wage/productivity trade-off and encouraged the institutionalization of labour-management relations, union control of membership militancy and the practice of 'responsible' unionism. At the same, it is argued that the Canadian UAW shaped the nature of this compromise and the timing of its own acceptance of this arrangement. More specifically, the Canadian UAW's distinctive organizational structure and collective identity are argued to have delayed the union's acceptance of the practices of 'responsible' unionism and influenced the particular regulatory mechanisms put into place in the Canadian auto industry. Overall, this study finds that, in contrast to current interpretations of union postwar political behaviour, Canadian Autoworkers continued to pursue militant, mobilization-based forms of political action until the early 1960's. It was only at this time that Canadian Autoworkers appeared to accept constraints on their militancy in exchange for improved wages and benefits and greater access to political decision-making. This period of detente between the UAW, governments and corporations was short-lived, however, owing both to emergent strains within the union between the rank and file and the leadership and the crisis of Fordism. Consequently, the UAW, in an attempt to protect its organizational integrity and position of strength in the workplace and society, returned to militant forms of political action, the effects of which were a shift in the balance of power in favour of the union and Canadian Autoworkers' split from their International union.
OCLC: 23693105

Abstracts = Résumés [v. 23, Spring 1989] (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
English/French abstracts of articles in the issue.

Abstracts / Résumés [v. 24, Fall 1989] (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
English/French abstracts of articles in the issue.

Index, v. 19-20, 1987 (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
Index of volumes 19-20 (1987) of the journal.

Index — volume 44 — 1989 (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)

Liste des appréciateurs 1989 (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)

Livres reçus / Books Received (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)

Livres reçus / Books received (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)

Publications récentes / Recent Publications [v. 44, no. 1, 1989] (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)

Publications récentes / Recent Publications [v. 44, no. 2, 1989] (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)

Publications récentes / Recent Publications [v. 44, no. 3, 1989] (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)

Publications récentes / Recent Publications [v. 44, no. 4, 1989] (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)

Prison of Grass: Canada from a Native Point of View - Adams, Howard (Fifth House Books, 1989)
Originally published in 1975, this important book is now back in print in a revised and updated edition. Since its first publication it has become a classic of revisionist history. Bringing a Native viewpoint to the settlement of the West, Howard Adam's book shook its readers. What Native people had to say for themselves was quite different from the convenient picture of history that even the most sympathetic books by white authors had presented. Until Adams's book, the cultural, historical, and psychological aspects of colonialism for Native people had not been explored in depth. In Prison of Grass Adams objects to the popular historical notion that Natives were warring savages, without government, seeking to be civilized. He contrasts the official history found in the federal government's documents with the unpublished history of the Indian and Métis people. In this new edition Howard Adams brings the latest statistics to bear on his arguments and provides a new Preface. –Publisher's description. Contents: The basis of racism – The communal Indian society – Fur traders trespass – Colonization and missionaries – Ossification of Native society – The Halfbreed Nation and the civil war – Subjugation of the Indians and Metis – Causes of the 1885 struggle – Ottawa invades the Northwest – Courtroom : the mask of conquest – The underdevelopment of Native communities – Schooling the Redman – The white ideal and the colonized personality – The failure of Native leadership – Decolonization and nationalism – The struggle for liberation – Appendix A. Casualties of Indians and Metis in 1885 Battles.

Canada, What's Left? - Adkin, Laurie E. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Canada, What's Left?," edited by John Richards and Don Kerr.
Keywords: CANADA – Politics & government; CANADA; What's Left? (Book); KERR; Don; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; RICHARDS; John; books

Canadian Communism: The Stalin Years and Beyond - Akers, David (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Canadian Communism: The Stalin Years and Beyond," by Norman Penner.
Keywords: CANADIAN Communism: The Stalin Years & Beyond (Book); Communism; Nonfiction; PENNER; Norman; REVIEWS; books

Racial Discrimination in Employment in Canada - Andiappan, P.; Crestohl, Mark; Singh, Jang B. (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
The purpose of this study is to examine recent developments in the legal remedies for racial discrimination in employment in Canada.

Labour in British Society - Andrew, Donna T. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Labour in British Society," by Richard Price.
Keywords: GENERATION of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in 19th-Century America; A (Book); LABOR market; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; STROMQUIST; Shelton; books

La gestion empresarial en latinoamérica y su impacto en las relaciones laborales - Aparicio-Valdez, Luis (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
El autor presenta aquilas nuevas tendencias de relaciones de trabajo, tanto del punto de vista de la gestion empresarial como de la negociacion colectiva identificando losfactores economicos y sociales que influencian su evolucion. Tambien compara el estado de estas nuevas tendencias en America Latina con otros paises del mundo.

Strategy Organization Design, and Human Resource Management - Audet, Michel (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
This article reviews the book, "Strategy Organization Design, and Human Resource Management," by Charles C. Snow.

Nouveaux modes de gestion et relations industrielles au Canada - Audet, Michel; Bélanger, Laurent (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
Après avoir décrit le contexte dans lequel évoluent les organisations contemporaines, les auteurs cherchent à en dégager l'impact sur le système canadien de relations industrielles, plus particulièrement la gestion des ressources humaines et les relations du travail.

A U.S. Commentary - Barkin, Solomon (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
A U.S. Commentary.

Human Resources Management Examines itself and its Limitations - Barkin, Solomon (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
In the present paper, the author is analysing and criticizing the prevalence of human resources management (HRM) in the study of industrial relations over the past few years, as shown in a previous article of this journal. This controversial topic is subject to discussion and exchange of views which can be sustained through this forum.

The First National Unemployment Survey: Unemployment and the Canadian Census of 1891 - Baskerville, Peter; Sager, Eric (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The 1891 Census asked Canadians if they had been unemployed in the week preceding the taking of the census. On the basis of a preliminary analysis of responses from working class areas in British Columbia, we comment on the nature of this source, and on the possibility of using it to determine both the extent of unemployment and the characteristics of the unemployed. We demonstrate our conclusion that this source has significant utility by testing the hypothesis that unemployment was a structural problem in the industrial capitalist labour market and not simply a result of specific deficiencies in part of the labour force.
Keywords: Canada; EMPLOYMENT (Economic theory); Human capital; LABOR demand; LABOR market; LABOR supply; Unemployment

After the Strike : Changing the Teacher-Board Relationship - Beatty, Carol; Gandz, Jeffrey (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
This paper describes four strike situations, following which teachers and school boards tried to engineer changes to theirprestrike relationships. The authors analyse these situations and identify some ofthefactors which appeared to distinguish the successes from the fallures.

Caring For Profit : Economic Dimensions of Canada's Health Industry - Bélanger, Gérard (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
This article reviews the book, "Caring For Profit : Economic Dimensions of Canada's Health Industry," by Malcolm C. Brown.

Argentina: From Anarchism to Peronism - Bergquist, Charles (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Argentina: From Anarchism to Peronism," by Ronaldo Munck with Ricardo Falcon and Bernardo Galitelli.
Keywords: BRITISH Labour & the Cold War (Book); Labor Unions; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; WEILER; Peter; books

And You Know It - Binning, Sadhu (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
Poem published in the "work poetry" section of the journal.
Keywords: AND You Know It (Poem); BINNING; Sadhu

Farmworkers Are Workers Too - Binning, Sadhu (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
Poem published in the "work poetry" section of the journal.
Keywords: BINNING; Sadhu; FARMWORKERS Are Workers Too (Poem)

The Dangerous Dogs - Binning, Sadhu (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
Poem published in the "work poetry" section of the journal.
Keywords: BINNING; Sadhu; DANGEROUS Dogs; The (Poem)

The Postman - Binning, Sadhu (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
Poem published in the "work poetry" section of the journal.
Keywords: BINNING; Sadhu; POSTMAN; The (Poem)

"Rock in a Stream:" Living with the Political Economy of Underdevelopment in Cape Breton - Bittermann, K. R. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "'Rock in a Stream': Living With the Political Economy of Underdevelopment in Cape Breton," edited by Constance P. deRoche and John E. deRoche.
Keywords: DEROCHE; Constance P.; DEROCHE; John E.; Economics; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; ROCK in a Stream: Living With the Political Economy of Underdevelopment in Cape Breton (Book); books

The Retrieval of Labour History in the United States: A review of two recent films on the class war in the West Virginia coal fields - Black, Errol; Dolecki, Joe (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews and comments on two films: "Even the Heavens Weep: The West Virginia Coal Wars," directed by Danny L. McGuire and "Matewan," directed by John Sayles.
Keywords: EVEN the Heavens Weep: The West Virginia Coal Wars (Film); MATEWAN (Film); MCGUIRE; Danny L.; MOTION pictures – Reviews; SAYLES; John; 1950-

Cleared for Takeoff : Airline Labour Relations since Deregulation - Boivin, Jean (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
This article reviews the book, "Cleared for Takeoff : Airline Labour Relations since Deregulation," by Jean T. Mckelvey.

Public Sector Bargaining - Boivin, Jean (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
This article reviews the book, "Public Sector Bargaining," by Benjamin Aaron, Joyce M. Najita & James L. Stern.

The Crisis of Mexican Labor - Boyer, Richard (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "The Crisis of Mexican Labor," by Don La Botz.
Keywords: BRITISH Labour & the Cold War (Book); Labor Unions; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; WEILER; Peter; books

Urban Domestic Servants in 19th-Century Canada/Les domestiques en milieu urbain canadien au XIXes siècle - Bradbury, Bettina (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Urban Domestic Servants in 19th-Century Canada/Les Domestiques En Milieu Urbain Canadien au XIXe Siècle," by Claudette Lacelle.
Keywords: HOUSEHOLD employees; LACELLE; Claudette; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; URBAN Domestic Servants in 19th-Century Canada/Les Domestiques En Milieu Urbain Canadien au XIXe Siecle (Book); books

Le contrat d'emploi - Breton, Rejean (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
This article reviews the book,"Le contrat d'emploi," by A.E. Aust.

Les limites du modèle-type du fonctionnement des cercles de qualité - Brossard, Michel (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
Le modèle-type utilisé pour guider le fonctionnement des cercles de qualité n'a pas le caractère général que cherche à lui attribuer la documentation sur cette forme de gestion participative dans l'entreprise. En précisant, à l'aide d'une étude de cas, que ce modèle-type correspond à une étape spécifique (en l'occurrence l'implantation et les premiers mois) du développement de la formule, cette recherche fait ressortir sa portée limitative pour orienter le fonctionnement des cercles de qualité, une fois franchie la période immédiate consécutive à leur création.

The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1960s - Buhle, Paul (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1960s," by Alan Wald.
Keywords: GENERATION of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in 19th-Century America; A (Book); LABOR market; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; STROMQUIST; Shelton; books

Three Dollar Dreams - Burrill, William J. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Three Dollar Dreams," by Lynne Bowen.
Keywords: BOWEN; Lynne; Industrial relations; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; THREE Dollar Dreams (Book); books

Work, Workers and Working-Class History: A Review Essay - Campbell, Robert A. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews and comments on several books including "The Character of Class Struggle: Essays in Canadian Working Class History, 1850-1985," edited by Bryan D. Palmer, ""On the Job: Confronting the Labour Process in Canada," edited by Craig Heron and Robert Storey, and "Working Lives: Vancouver 1886-1986," edited by the Working Lives Collective.
Keywords: CHARACTER of Class Struggle: Essays in Canadian Working Class History 1850-1985; The (Book); HERON; Craig; Nonfiction; ON the Job: Confronting the Labour Process in Canada (Book); PALMER; Bryan D.; REVIEWS; STOREY; Robert; WORKING Lives: Vancouver 1886-1986 (Book); books

Feminism, Class Consciousness and Household Work Linkages Among Registered Nurses in Victoria - Carroll, William K.; Warburton, Rennie (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
This survey of 179 Registered Nurses at a large acute care hospital deals with connections between the practices in which nurses are engaged in households and workplaces and the consciousness which both informs and arises from those practices. A large majority of respondents was opposed to male prerogatives and in favour of more domestic equality and removing pay inequities for women. On more controversial gender issues and with respect to class politics, respondents' opinions were diverse. Younger, more subordinate, better educated nurses and those with working class spouses and relatively egalitarian domestic arrangements manifested progressive attitudes on class and gender issues, but these statistical relationships were weak. The lack of clear-cut correspondence between social position and consciousness may reflect nurses' contradictory experiences in, for example, cross-class marriages and quasi-professional work situations.
Keywords: ATTITUDES toward work; NURSES – Training of; PHYSICIAN practice patterns; SOCIAL consciousness; VICTORIA; Work environment

Compulsory Arbitration in New Zealand - The First Forty Years - Carter, Donald D. (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
This article reviews the book, "Compulsory Arbitration in New Zealand - The First Forty Years," by James Holt.

Grievance Arbitration and the Charter: The Emerging Issues - Carter, Donald D. (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
The Charter has had the effect of casting a long shadow of uncertainty over our established industrial relations institutions. Nowhere is this more true than in the area of grievance arbitration. In this paper, the author deals with the issues at stake, and the reasons why bot h arbitrators and judges are having such difficulty in deciding upon the extent to which grievance arbitration should be influenced by the Charter.

Décisions rendues par le Conseil canadien des relations du travail - Clarke, Graham (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
Trois chauffeurs travaillant pour la Société canadienne des postes ont reçu des suspensions après avoir refusé de franchir une ligne de piquetage avec leurs camions. Les trois soutiennent qu'ils ont refusé de travailler parce qu'ils craignaient l'existence d'un danger. Les trois chauffeurs étaient membres d'un syndicat, mais la ligne de piquetage qu'ils devaient franchir avait été montée par un autre syndicat. Le Conseil a maintenu trois plaintes déposées par les chauffeurs contestant la discipline imposée par leur employeur. Le Conseil a jugé que les travailleurs avaient des raisons valables d'avoir refusé de franchir la ligne de piquetage. De plus, le Conseil a déterminé que les grévistes qui se trouvaient sur la ligne de piquetage étaient des «employés» aux fins de la Partie II du Code. Enfin, étant donné que la Société canadienne des postes n 'a pas suivi les procédures prévues dans la Partie II du Code lors de l'invocation du droit de refus, le Conseil n'avait d'autre choix que de maintenir les trois plaintes.

People, Resources and Power: Critical Perspectives on Underdevelopment and Primary Industries in the Atlantic Region - Clement, Wallace (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "People, Resources and Power: Critical Perspectives on Underdevelopment and Primary Industries in the Atlantic Region," edited by Gary Burrill and Ian McKay.
Keywords: BURRILL; Gary; MCKAY; Ian; Nonfiction; PEOPLE; Resources & Power: Critical Perspectives on Underdevelopment & Primary Industries in the Atlantic Region (Book); POWER (Social sciences); REVIEWS; books

Le droit de se taire : histoire des communistes au Québec, de la Première Guerre mondiale à la Révolution tranquille - Comeau, Robert; Dionne, Bernard (VLB, 1989)
De la Première Guerre mondiale jusqu'aux débuts de la Révolution tranquille, le Parti communiste du Canada, contrairement à la plupart des partis politiques canadiens et québécois, n'auru connu qu'une quinzaine d'années de liberté d'expression. De 1921, date de sa création, aux années 60, d'interdiction en interediction, d'une répression à l'autre, le Parti communiste du Canada, n'aura qu'un droit : celui de se taire. Dans un essai historique aussi documenté que magistral, Robert Comeau et Bernard Dionne, entourés de leurs collaborateurs, analysent avec perspicacité et rigeur les principales phases de l'activité communiste au Canada et au Québec, les luttes ouvrières nationales, l'envronnement internationales et les idées marxistes-léninistes avec lesquels le Parti communiste devra composer tout au long de sa jeune existence. –Résumé de l'éditeur
Keywords: Communist Party of Canada – History

Frontier Labourers, Crafts in Crisis and the Western Labour Revolt: The Case of Vancouver, 1900-1919 - Conley, James R. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
Studies of the 1918-19 labour revolt in western Canada have generally emphasized the leading role of frontier resource workers. In contrast, recent studies of the labour revolt in central Canada and elsewhere have stressed the workplace struggles of craftsmen threatened by changes in the labour process. These interpretations are assessed through a historical comparison of the experiences of workers in the Vancouver area between 1900 and 1919. First, comparison of participants in the major events of the 1918-19 revolt shows that it grew out of the interests, solidarities, and histories of collective action of both frontier labourers and craftsmen in crisis. Second, continuities between strike waves in 1900-03, 1910-13,and 1917-19 show that sources of the 1918-19 labour revolt in Vancouver lay within the city, rather than being only an effect of the western resource frontier or of exceptional wartime conditions. Strengthened mobilization, militant strike action, repressive employers, and growing but threatened power were conditions of the labour revolt in Vancouver in 1918-19. Instead of being unique, the experience of Vancouver workers was similar to that of workers elsewhere in Canada and internationally.
Keywords: Canada; LABOR market; LABOR process; PRODUCTION (Economic theory); Skilled labor; Work environment

Independent Spirits: Spiritualism and English Plebians, 1850-1910 - Cook, Ramsay (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Independent Spirits: Spiritualism and English Plebians, 1850-1910," by Logie Barrow.
Keywords: GENERATION of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in 19th-Century America; A (Book); LABOR market; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; STROMQUIST; Shelton; books

Farm Women: Some Contemporary Themes - Cooper, Barbara J. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
This report examines some of the persistent themes in the social science literature about farm women since the middle of this century. It is one researcher's attempt to deal with the wide variety of perspectives from which farm women have been studied and to suggest the usefulness of some of the material for future scholarship.
Keywords: Canada; FARM life; LABOR literature; Labor; Research; SOCIAL science literature; Social aspects; WOMEN in agriculture

Maritime Labour and Crew List Analysis: Problems, Prospects, and Methodologies - Cooper, Malcolm (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The case for systematic attention by labour historians to the crew list collection held in the Maritime History Archive of the Memorial University of Newfoundland is argued in terms of the historical interest of British maritime labour in the 19th and 20th centuries, and of the richness of the material itself. Maritime labour was characterised by a series of hiring practices and business dynamics which make it particularly worthy of attention. The impact of steam and steel technology, in- creased capitalization and government attention, and the emergence of a collective identity within the workforce, combine to produce a unique but important labour phenomenon which the existence of almost complete demographic and employment data bring well within the grasp of the historian. Various methodologies for studying the material are discussed, and the preferred method of studying the workforce of one large firm over a short period of time is illustrated with a brief case study.
Keywords: Human capital; LABOR market; LABOR supply; MANPOWER; MERCHANT mariners; SUPPLY & demand; UNIVERSITIES & colleges

Nouvelles technologies et droit du travail au Canada - Côté, André C. (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
Le Canada s'interrogeant sur l'adéquation de ses catégories juridiques face aux impératifs des nouvelles conditions d'exercice du travail subordonné liées aux nouvelles technologies, l'auteur examine d'abord le cadre légal et ensuite les dispositions conventionnelles palliatives ou complémentaires sur ce sujet.

A Generation of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labour Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America - Craven, Paul (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "A Generation of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labour Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America," by Shelton Stromquist.
Keywords: GENERATION of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in 19th-Century America; A (Book); LABOR market; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; STROMQUIST; Shelton; books

State, Class, and Bureaucracy - Cuneo, Carl J. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "State, Class, and Bureaucracy: Canadian Unemployment Insurance and Public Policy," by Leslie A. Pal.
Keywords: Nonfiction; PAL; Leslie A.; REVIEWS; STATE; Class & Bureaucracy: Canadian Unemployment Insurance & Public Policy (Book); UNEMPLOYMENT insurance – Law & legislation; books

The Tyranny of Work: Alienation and the Labour Process - Cuneo, Carl J. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "The Tyranny of Work: Alienation and the Labour Process," by James W. Rinehart.
Keywords: LABOR process; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; RINEHART; James W.; TYRANNY of Work. Alienation & the Labour Process; The (Book); books

Le congédiement en droit québécois en matière de contrat individuel de travail - d'Aoust, Claude (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
This article reviews the book, "Le congédiement en droit québécois en matière de contrat individuel de travail," by Georges Audet and Robert Bonhomme.

Itinéraires professionnels masculins et féminins en milieu bancaire: Le cas de la Banque d'Hochelaga, 1900-1929 - Dagenais, Michèle (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
L'objet de cet article est de retracer le processus de féminisation des emplois de bureau dans le milieu bancaire, en examinant le cas des employés masculins et féminins du siège social de la Banque d'Hochelaga, entre 1900 et 1929. En premier lieu, il présente les incidences qu'a eu la révolution administrative sur l'organisation du travail bancaire et surtout sur la répartition sexuelle des tâches. Tandis que les hommes sont présents dans l'ensemble des groupes d'emplois, les femmes occupent un éventail plus restreint de postes. Bien des études jusqu'à ce jour en ont conclu que les femmes n'auraient eu d'autres possibilités que d'occuper les emplois subalternes et mal rétribués, laissant aux employés masculins les postes qualifiés. Ce type de conclusions pose de nombreaux problèmes dans la mesure où il présente la main-d'oeuvre féminine comme étant un groupe homogène et masque la diversité des expériences professionnelles féminines. L'analyse comparative des intinéraires individuels au sein de la banque, plutôt que l'étude plus conventionnelle de la seule organisation du travail, permet de faire émerger cette diversité des expériences et des pratiques professionnelles et ce, tant chez les femmes que chez les hommes.
Keywords: DIVERSITY in the workplace; Division of labor; Feminism; Industrial relations; LABOR organizing; OCCUPATIONAL roles; SEX discrimination in employment; WOMEN bank employees; Women employees

Histoire de l'administration publique québécois 1867-1970 - Dauphinais, Paul (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Histoire de l'administration publique québécoise, 1867-1970," by James Iain Gow.

The Struggle to Organise: Resistance in Canada's Fishery - Davis, Anthony (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "The Struggle to Organise: Resistance in Canada's Fishery," by Wallace Clement.
Keywords: CLEMENT; Wallace; Canada; Fisheries; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; STRUGGLE to Organise: Resistance in Canada's Fishery; The (Book); books

Histoire du syndicalisme au Québec. Des origines à nos jours. - Denis, Roch (Politique, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Histoire du syndicalisme au Québec. Des origines à nos jours," by Jacques Rouillard.
Keywords: Histoire; Quebec

Social, Economic and Political Factors Influencing the Supply and Demand of Foreign Domestic Workers - DeVan, Mary Elizabeth (University of British Columbia, 1989)
This thesis addresses the issue of foreign domestic workers. The government of Canada has been involved in the recruitment of people to perform domestic service for households since the turn of the century. The devaluation of domestic labour and increasing employment opportunities for Canadian women resulted in a constant shortage of labour to fill the demand. A variety of programs have been initiated to solve the "servant problem" culminating in the Foreign Domestic Movement in 1981. Within this policy foreign domestics are classified as a category of migrant labour and, as such, are formally denied citizenship rights. The majority of workers who come to Canada as foreign domestics under this program are Filipino women. These women often migrate to Canada as domestic workers due to limited options for employment in their home country. Their need to remain in Canada due to limited options in the Philippines, the lack of political rights in Canada, and the restrictions placed on workers who enter Canada under the Foreign Domestic Movement combine to situate these women in a position of dependence and vulnerability. In addition, live-in domestics perform devalued labour within an isolated work setting, and are often not included within provincial labour standards. These conditions keep wages depressed and lessen the ability to bargain for improved conditions of employment. The thesis problem is examined within an historic context. In addition to a literature review of the specific topic and related areas of gender and migrant labour, the data are from Statistics Canada, Employment and Immigration and the Special Collections Division of the University of British Columbia. The data shows : the labour market activity of Canadian women, the shift away from domestic service as other alternatives became open, the increasing number of dual income earning families, and the number of foreign domestics recruited to provide domestic service for Canadian households. Interviews with a variety of people draw out the particular factors leading to the reasons for the supply and demand of this group of workers. In addition, the interviews point to specific problems frequently experienced by women who work as live-in domestics.

A Comparative Approach to the Study of Community and Work in Canadian Mining and Forestry Towns - Dignard, Louise (Carleton University, 1989)
The purpose of the thesis is to compare mining and forestry single-industry-towns in Canada in terms of their community and work structures. More specifically, what is examined is how these structures interconnect at local levels and impact upon social relations and class consciousness. Following a critical review of selected literature in political economy, labour and community studies, insights from Harold Innis' staple theory are expanded in order to link these three theoretical approaches and to justify the analysis of community and work in specific resource contexts. Drawing from this discussion, a comparative model of forestry and mining town structures is outlined. The main underlying idea is that the overall structure of forestry towns could be seen as more modern–in spite of its traditional elements–for it is more diversified and opaque, whereas that of mining towns is more archaic–despite the modern features of its industry–because of the greater control industry has on economic and community life. This theoretical model however needs further empirical testing.

L'avenir du syndicalisme au Canada. - Dion, Gérard; Hébert, Gérard (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
Le syndicalisme au Canada jouit d'une situation assez avantageuse par rapport à celle de la plupart des pays industrialises, mais les transformations rapides effectuées tant dans l'ensemble de l'économie que dans la composition du marche du travail et les interprétations que les tribunaux donneront à la Charte canadienne des droits et les libertés l'affecteront surement. Il est évident que le syndicalisme continuera d'exister, mais il est difficile de prédire la forme qu'il aura, surtout s'il ne se donne pas la peine de prendre les virages qui s'imposent.

Images of Industrial Life and Organizing - Donegan, Rosemary (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
Presents black-and-white reproductions of 12 images from the the exhibition, "Images/Images Industrielles." Curated by Rosemary Donegan, the exhibition was produced by the Art Gallery of Hamilton and sponsored by National Museums of Canada. The exhibition, which toured nationally in 1987-88, included painting, sculpture, graphics, photographs, and the promotional arts from the first half of the twentieth century. Those chosen for the journal have a labour event or social issues theme, as indicated in the annotations accompanying each image.
Keywords: ART – Exhibitions; Canada; Exhibitions; PHOTOGRAPH collections; PHOTOGRAPHY exhibits

Feminist Organizing for Change: The Contemporary Women's Movement in Canada - Dubinsky, Karen (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Feminist Organizing for Change: The Contemporary Women's Movement in Canada," by Nancy Adamson, Linda Briskin, and Margaret McPhail.
Keywords: ADAMSON; Nancy; BRISKIN; Linda; FEMINIST Organizing for Change: The Contemporary Women's Movement in Canada (Book); Feminism; MCPHAIL; Margaret; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; books

Barons of Labor: The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Period - Dubofsky, Melvyn (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Barons of Labor: The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Period," by Michael Kazin.
Keywords: GENERATION of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in 19th-Century America; A (Book); LABOR market; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; STROMQUIST; Shelton; books

The Question of the Commons: The Culture and Ecology of Communal Resources - Duncan, Colin A.M. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "The Question of the Commons: The Culture and Ecology of Communal Resources," edited by Bonnie M. McCay and James M. Acheson.
Keywords: BRITISH Labour & the Cold War (Book); Labor Unions; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; WEILER; Peter; books

E. Sylvia Pankhurst: Portrait of a Radical - Dyck, Ian (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "E. Sylvia Pankhurst: Portrait of a Radical," by Patricia Romero.
Keywords: E. Sylvia Pankhurst: Portrait of a Radical (Book); Nonfiction; PANKHURST; E. Sylvia (Estelle Sylvia); 1882-1960; REVIEWS; ROMERO; Patricia; books

Workers and the State in Twentieth Century Nova Scotia - Earle, Michael J.; Gorsebrook Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies (Published for the Gorsebrook Research Institute of Atlantic Canada Studies by Acadiensis Press, 1989)
The origins of the modern system of industrial relations in Canada as seen in the key struggles and compromises with the power of employers and governments in the province of Nova Scotia. Focusing on changes in coal-mining, fishing and the public sector, this collection offers a challenging case study in Canadian labour history. –Publisher's description
Keywords: History; Industrial relations; Labor Unions; Nova Scotia; Strikes and lockouts

German White-Collar Workers and the Rise of Hitler - Eley, Geoff (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "German White-Collar Workers and the Rise of Hitler," by Hans Speier.
Keywords: GENERATION of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in 19th-Century America; A (Book); LABOR market; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; STROMQUIST; Shelton; books

The Systems Approach as Theory for Multinational Industrial Relations in Developing Countries - Fajana, Sola (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
This paper raises issues which show that the impact of the multinational companies in the industrial relations Systems of developing countries are much too profound that the Systems approach may not be suitable for explaining, predicting, and formulating policies in industrial relations in these countries in particular and beyond the level of nation states in general.

El sindicato en el ano 2000 temas, y desafios. - Falabella, Gonzalo (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
En este articulo, el autor trata del paso de las sociedades industriales a post-industriales, particularmente en America Latina, y como se puede transformar el sindicalismo para sobrevivir en este contexto.

The New England Working Class and the New Labour History - Faler, Paul G. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "The New England Working Class and the New Labour History," edited by Herbert G. Gutman and Donald H. Bell.
Keywords: BELL; Donald H.; GUTMAN; Herbert George; 1928-1985; NEW England Working Class & the New Labour History; The (Book); Nonfiction; REVIEWS; Working class; books

Charité bien ordonnée. Lepremier réseau de lutte contre la pauvreté à Montréal au 19e siècle - Fecteau, Jean-Marie (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Charité bien ordonnée. Lepremier réseau de lutte contre la pauvreté à Montréal au 19e siècle," by Huguette Lapointe-Roy.

Mabel Dodge Luhan: New Woman, New Worlds - Fellman, Anita Clair (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Mabel Dodge Luhan: New Woman, New Worlds," by Lois Palken Rudnick.
Keywords: GENERATION of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in 19th-Century America; A (Book); LABOR market; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; STROMQUIST; Shelton; books

Feud: Hatfields, McCoys and Social Change in Appalachia, 1860-1900 - Fellman, Michael (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Feud: Hatfields, McCoys and Social Change in Appalachia, 1860-1900," by Altina L. Waller.
Keywords: FEUD: Hatfields; McCoys & Social Change in Appalachia 1860-1900 (Book); Nonfiction; REVIEWS; Social change; WALLER; Altina L.; books

Socialism and Democracy in Alberta: Essays in Honour of Grant Notley - Ferguson, Barry (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Socialism and Democracy in Alberta: Essays in Honour of Grant Notley," edited by Larry Pratt.
Keywords: Nonfiction; PRATT; Larry; REVIEWS; SOCIALISM & Democracy in Alberta: Essays in Honour of Grant Notley (Book); Socialism; books

Business History and the Buried Treasures of the Theory of Value - Ferland, Jacques (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Monopoly's Moment: The Organization and Regulation of Canadian Utilities, 1830-1930," by Christopher Armstrong and H. V. Nelles.
Keywords: ARMSTRONG; Christopher; LABOR market; MONOPOLY'S Moment: The Organization & Regulation of Canadian Utilities 1830-1930 (Book); NELLES; H. V.; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; books

'In Search of the Unbound Prometheia': A Comparative View Of Women's Activism in Two Quebec Industries, 1869-1908 - Ferland, Jacques (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
One of the most salient features of women's earlier contribution to the labour movement in Quebec, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, is the prominent and often militant role of female cotton workers. Long before they formed an industrial labour organization, the cotton "girls" rose persistently, in most mills, against various attempts to further appropriate absolute and relative surplus-value. After having formally joined forces with fellow male unionists, they carried with this activism a more acute challenge to managerial prerogatives and patriarchal standards of criminality in a major assault on child and gender-related abuses. The following essay explores, in a comparative mode and from the perspective of the workplace, why female cotton workers were more assertive and have left far greater evidence of their proneness to strike than other women operatives in the boot and shoe industry. It also focuses on two important episodes of female militancy at the Hochelaga and Ste. Anne mills in order to provide a socio-economic context to their activism and to witness how solidarity could evolve rapidly into estrangement over sensitive gender-related issues.
Keywords: Activism; DEMONSTRATIONS (Collective behavior); EQUALITY in the workplace; Labor Unions; Labor movement; QUEBEC (Province); SEX discrimination in employment; Social aspects; WOMEN agricultural laborers; Women employees

The Crossroads of Class and Gender: Industrial Homework, Subcontracting, and Household Dynamics in Mexico City - Folch-Serra, Mireya (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "The Crossroads of Class and Gender: Industrial Homework, Subcontracting, and Household Dynamics in Mexico City," by Lourdes Beneri and Martha Roldan.
Keywords: BRITISH Labour & the Cold War (Book); Labor Unions; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; WEILER; Peter; books

Times Were Hard: The Pattern of Women's Paid Labour in St. John's Between the Two World Wars - Forestell, Nancy M. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
Examines the pattern of women's paid labour in St. John's, Newfoundland, in the 1920s and 30s. Emphasizes the effect of life cycle changes on women's participation in the city's workforce. Argues that a woman's age, marital status, and class were the most important factors in determining whether the woman worked outside of the home or engaged in paid labour in the household. Considers other, related factors—including number of children, stage of the family cycle, as well as age and religion—in terms of their impact on women's labour force participation and the type of work performed. Concludes that women worked of necessity to support the home, that the vast majority were single, under 25, and living with their parents, that working-class women were far more likely to work than middle-class women, and that class also influenced the type of employment secured. Includes eight tables of census data.
Keywords: ATTITUDES toward work; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Employment; History; History–History of North And South America; LABOR process; New Brunswick; PERFORMANCE standards; SAINT John (N.B.); SOCIAL factors; WORK – Sociological aspects; WORK structure; Women; Women employees

The Rise and Fall of National Bargaining in the Canadian Meat-Packing Industry - Forrest, Anne (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
The author addresses the questions of why industry-wide bargaining was developed in the Canadian meat-packing industry and why it suddenly collapsed.

New Technology at Work - Fréchet, Guy (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)

What Does the Future Hold for U.S. Unionism? - Freeman, Richard B. (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
The author explores the reasons for the recent decline in U.S. private sector unionization and considers four possible scenarios of change in the future.

Revolution in History - Gabbert, Mark A. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Capital and Labour on the Kimberley Diamond Fields, 1871-1890," edited by Roy Porter and Mikulas Teich.
Keywords: BRITISH Labour & the Cold War (Book); Labor Unions; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; WEILER; Peter; books

Taking the Veil: An Alternative to Marriage, Motherhood, and Spinsterhood in Quebec, 1840-1920 - Gaffield, Chad (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book "Taking the Veil: An Alternative to Marriage, Motherhood, and Spinsterhood in Quebec, 1840-1920," by Marta Danylewycz.
Keywords: DANYLEWYCZ; Marta; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; Social history; TAKING the Veil: An Alternative to Marriage; Motherhood & Spinsterhood in Quebec 1840-1920 (Book); books

The Character and Circumstance of Canada's Industrialization - Gaffield, Chad (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews and comments on two books: "Bushworkers and Bosses: Logging in Northern Ontario, 1900-1980," by Ian Radforth, and "Working in Steel: The Early Years in Canada, 1883-1945," by Craig Heron.
Keywords: BUSHWORKERS & Bosses: Logging in Northern Ontario; 1900-1980 (Book); HERON; Craig; Nonfiction; RADFORTH; Ian; REVIEWS; WORKING in Steel: The Early Years in Canada 1883-1945 (Book); books

Les changements technologiques: Une stratégie d'étude exploratoire - Gagnon, Yves-Chantel; Landry, Maurice (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
Cet article présente une stratégie d'investigation reliée à l'implantation de changements technologiques dans les milieux syndiqués.

Managing Technological Development. Strategic and Human Resources Issues - Gattiker, Urs E.; Matejko, Alexander J. (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
This article reviews the book, "Managing Technological Development. Strategic and Human Resources Issues," by Urs E. Gattiker & Laurie Larwood.

Changements dans les législations du travail au Canada - Gauvin, Michel; Brennan, Geoffrey (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
Changements dans les législations du travail au Canada.

Changements dans les législations du travail au Canada - Gauvin, Michel; Brennan, Geoffrey (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
Changements dans les legislations du travail au Canada.

Changements dans les législations du travail au Canada / Changes in Canada Labour Law - Gauvin, Michel; Brennan, Geoffrey (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
Changements dans les législations du travail au Canada.

The Politics of the Imagination: A Life of F.R. Scott - Gauvreau, Michael (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "The Politics of Imagination: A Life of F. R. Scott," by Sandra Djwa.
Keywords: Biographies; DJWA; Sandra; Nonfiction; POLITICS of Imagination: A Life of F.R. Scott; The (Book); REVIEWS; books

The Impact of a Strike on the Attitudes and Behavior of a Rural Community - Gilson, Clive H. J.; Spencer, Ian S.; Granville, S. (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
This paper reviews the role and significance of the 1987-1988 Antigonish Bank Strike upon the rural community.

The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 - Glaberman, Martin (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews and comments on two books: "In the Name of the Working Class: The Inside Story of the Hungarian Revolution," by Sandor Kopacsi, and "1956 Counter-Revolution in Hungary," by Janos Berecz.
Keywords: 1956 Counter-Revolution in Hungary (Book); BERECZ; Janos; IN the Name of the Working Class: The Inside Story of the Hungarian Revolution (Book); KOPACSI; Sandor; 1922-2001; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; books

Chicago's Pride: The Stockyards. Packingtown, and Environs in the Nineteenth Century - Goheen, Peter G. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Chicago's Pride: The Stockyards. Packingtown, and Environs in the Nineteenth Century," by Louise Carroll Wade.
Keywords: CHICAGO'S Pride: The Stockyards; Packingtown & Environs in the 19th Century (Book); LABOR market; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; WADE; Louise Carroll; books

Bitter Choices: Blue-Collar Women in and out of Work - Goldfield, Michael (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Bitter Choices: Blue-Collar Women in and out of Work," by Ellen Israel Rosen.
Keywords: GENERATION of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in 19th-Century America; A (Book); LABOR market; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; STROMQUIST; Shelton; books

Woodworkers and Legitimacy: The IWA in Canada, 1937-1957 - Gray, Stephen (Simon Fraser University, 1989)
During the late 1930s and early 1940s, as a part of broad North American phenomenon of industrial militancy and labour law reform, the International Woodworkers of America (IWA) became recognized as the legitimate bargaining agency for most woodworkers throughout the Pacific coast. In British Columbia, as a basis for consolidating trade unionism and furthering the class struggle within the important forest industry, a well-organized cadre of communist trade union militants channelled the syndicalist and revolutionary traditions of earlier twentieth century woodworkers organization into District One of the IWA, and into compliance with state institutions governing industrial relations that emerged during World War Two. By 1948, though, the quest for legitimacy had entrammelled the communist leaders of District One in a restrictive web of institutional, bureaucratic and political relationships from which they sought escape by serving ties with the union they had struggled hard to establish. Their fledgling Woodworkers' Industrial Union of Canada, considered illegitimate by both the state and the mainstream labour movement, attracted only a small minority of woodworkers and enjoyed a very short, unremarkable history. Through a detailed examination of union, industry and state records of industrial relations activity, this thesis provides both narrative and analysis of a complex course of events leading from the era of the open shop, through the attainment or union recognition and a period of consolidation, to a final confrontation in 1947-48 within the Canadian IWA between two distinct visions of trade union practice. Ultimately, the early, militant woodworker traditions, subsumed within communist industrial unionism, proved to be in contradiction with the institutional structures governing relations between labour and capital in postwar Canada. The post-1948 leaders of IWA District One more closely reflected the emerging North American reality in their approach to trade unionism and industrial relations than did their predecessors. Out of the intense struggles of the 1930s and 40s, a full-blown business unionism emerged by the latter 1950s as the governing programme of the modern Canadian IWA, albeit a programme not universally accepted by rank-and-file woodworkers....
Keywords: British Columbia; History; Iron and steel workers; Labor laws and legislation; Labor unions; Miners; Organizing; Trail

The Political Consequences of Unemployment: An Application of the "Power Model" of Blue-Collar Radicalism - Grayson, J. Paul (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
In this article it is argued that in order to be understood, the political attitudes and behaviour of the unemployed must be seen in conjunction with the potential of external organizations to channel the potential discontent resulting from termination. Such an approach is consistent with the 'power model' of blue-collar radicalism. The potential of this approach in understanding the political consequences of unemployment is revealed through a longitudinal analysis of two plant closures in Canada.

Fruits of the Earth - Grove, Frederick Philip (McClelland and Stewart, 1989)
During the author's travels, he meets Menalcas, a caricature of Oscar Wilde, who relates his fantastic life story. But for all his brilliance, Menalcas is only Gide's yesterday self, a discarded wraith who leaves Gide free to stop exalting the ego and embrace bodily and spiritual joy. Later Fruits of the Earth, written in 1935 during Gide's short-lived spell of communism, reaffirms the doctrine of the earlier book. But now he sees happiness not as freedom, but a submission to heroism. In a series of 'Encounters', Gide describes a Negro tramp, a drowned child, a lunatic and other casualties of life. These reconcile him to suffering, death and religion, causing him to insist that 'today's Utopia' be 'tomorrow's reality'. –Publisher's description
Book available at Internet Archive to people with print disabilities: https://archive.org/details/fruitsofearth0000grov
Keywords: Agriculture; Blue-collar work; Farming; Pioneers; Prairies

Freedom, Democracy and Economic Welfare - Gunderson, Morley (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
This article reviews the book, "Freedom, Democracy and Economic Welfare," by Michael A. Walker.

British Columbia Loggers and the Lumber Workers Industrial Union, 1919-1922 - Hak, Gordon H. (Gordon Hugh) (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
In early 1919 a new union was created in British Columbia, an organization that brought together provincial loggers for the first time. Despite much initial success, the Lumber Workers Industrial Union was moribund by 1922, and it soon disappeared completely from provincial logging camps. As well as examining the grievances of the loggers, the changing nature of the logging industry, and the actions of employers, this history of the LWIU also offers insights into the character of the Canadian working class in the post-War years by highlighting the struggles of the Socialist Party of Canada, the One Big Union, and the Industrial Workers of the World to dominate the LWIU. Furthermore, this article draws Out and assesses the divergent programmes of the LWIU leaders, who were aligned with the Socialist Party of Canada, and the men in the camps, exposing a fundamental gap in the post-War socialist agenda.
Keywords: AGRICULTURAL systems; Agricultural laborers; Agriculture; British Columbia; Canada; FEMINISTS; Farmers; HOSTILITY (Psychology); INDUSTRIAL workers; LABOR market; LABOR process; LABOR supply; Labor Unions; Labor movement; Lumber industry; MANITOBA; One Big Union; PRODUCTION (Economic theory); Political parties; Radicalism; SOCIAL democracy; SOCIALISTS; SOCIETIES; etc.; SUSPICION; Skilled labor; Socialism; Work environment; job security

Le mouvement étudiant québécois: son passé, ses revendications et ses luttes (1960-1983) - Hamel, Thérèse (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book,"Le mouvement étudiant québécois: son passé, ses revendications et ses luttes (1960-1983)," by Pierre Bélanger.

In the Buzzard's Shadow: Craft Subculture, Working-Class Activism, and Winnipeg's Custom Tailoring Trade, C1882-1921 - Hample, John Erwin (University of Manitoba, 1989)
Winnipeg tailoring craftworkers formed four unions during 1882-1921. This master's thesis in Canadian labour history finds that their institutionally-differentiated practice of labour organization expressed a sustained remedial effort to codify, enforce and reformulate elements of their craft subculture. They mounted this effort in response to the competitive constraints of clothing sector capitalism as these conditioned workplace experience in the city trade as well as the tailors' identifications with other working-class Winnipeggers. The study first discusses the reproduction of tailoring craft subculture in the energing city market, and offers a periodized sketch of the 'double jeopardy' which merchant tailors faced as master artisans and as clothing sector capitalists. The remaining chapters employ this periodization to organize discussion of the course of working-class activism pursued by the tailors. During c1882-1900, the integration of national markets in sewn clothing and in tailoring craft labour power exhausted the jour tailors' earliest attempts - the 'Winnipeg Operative Tailors Union' (fl. 1882) and Harmony Local Assembly 9036 of the Knights of Labor (fl. 1886-87) - to devise a viable labour organization. Only with the chartering of Journeymen Tailors' Union Local 70 (fl. 1892- 1919) was this achieved. During c1901-13, Local 70 secured significant wage and other concessions from boss tailors. Wheat Boom-era economic development, coupled with a persisting city-market skills scarcity, broadly favoured such gains. Meanwhile, JTU Local 70 inbibed ideas about industrial unionism and social radicalisn which were encouraged by such figures as John T. Mortimer (d1908), a Socialist Party of Canada activist. During c1914-21, the custom tailors' experience was overshadowed by the exigencies of war-making, the labour revolt, and of the post-war recession. Paradoxically, Local 70 momentarily became in 1918 the largest JTU local in Canada, yet soon bolted from the international parent body to reconstitute itself as Tailors' Industrial Unit Number One of the One Big Union. The study interprets this development in terms of Local 70's war-time isolations from the south and the east, which were counterbalanced by an epochal quickening of working-class activist identifications and social conflict in the city itself. But the new OBU Unit retained the jour tailors' craft-bounded distinctiveness within the OBU's organizational structure, and was blooded in 1921 attempting to enforce a contractual measure inherited from Local 70. The study's major primary sources include the local labour press, as well as an intensive reading of the JTU's journal, The Tailor, 1887-1921. The study's general approach is indebted chiefly to perspectives suggested by the work of Gregory S. Kealey, Herbert Gutman, Eric Hobsbawm, David Montgomery, Geoffrey Crossick, and David H. Bensman.

Using the Privacy Act as a Research Tool - Hannant, Larry (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
Discusses the federal Privacy Act of 1982, which permits individuals to request information about themselves held by the government. The request must come from the individual who may correct errors or turn the information over to researchers. The process of submitting the request to government ministries is also discussed, as well as the range of exceptions to disclosure, such as national security. Concludes by describing how the Act was used to request material (including news clippings on file) for a biography of Claire Culhane, the radical political activist and social reformer.
Keywords: ACCESS to information; CONFIDENTIAL records; Canada; DATA security; DISCLOSURE of information; Federal legislation; INFORMATION resources – Law & legislation; PERSONAL information management; RIGHT of privacy

Housing in Postwar Canada - Harris, Richard (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Housing in Postwar Canada: Demographic Change, Household Formation and Housing Demand," by John R. Miron.
Keywords: HOUSING in Postwar Canada: Demographic Change; Household Formation & Housing Demand (Book); Housing; MIRON; John R.; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; books

L'état de la discipline en relations industrielles au Canada: Un brin d'histoire et une postface - Hébert, Gérard (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
L’état de la discipline en relations industrielles au Canada : un brin d’histoire et une postface.

The Social Organization of Industrial Conflict: Control and Resistance in the Workplace - Henley, Kevin (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "The Social Organization of Industrial Conflict: Control and Resistance in the Workplace," by P.K. Edwards and Hugh Scullion.
Keywords: BRITISH Labour & the Cold War (Book); Labor Unions; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; WEILER; Peter; books

Communists, Gangsters, and Canadian Sailors - Heron, Craig (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews and comments on two books: "Against the Tide: The Story of the Canadian Seamen's Union," by Jim Green, and "Everything That Floats: Pat Sullivan, Hal Banks, and the Canadian Seamen's Unions of Canada," by William Kaplan.
Keywords: AGAINST the Tide: The Story of the Canadian Seamen's Union (Book); CANADIAN Seamen's Union; EVERYTHING That Floats: Pat Sullivan; Hal Banks & the Seamen's Unions of Canada (Book); GREEN; Jim; KAPLAN; William; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; books

Freedom of Association in Canada: The Dilemma for Trade Unions in a Liberal Society - Hudson, Stephanie Lee (University of British Columbia, 1989)
Trade unions in a liberal society are caught on the horns of a dilemma over freedom of association. In respect to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, unions are faced with relying on the positive freedom to associate as a defence for union security clauses, and, at the same time, denying freedom from association claims of those who do not wish to participate in union membership and/or union activities. The aim of this thesis is to explore that dilemma, and to assess some of the possible strategies union leaders could employ to come to terms with it. The dilemma that trade unions face consists of several elements. The source of the dilemma is found in the conflict over negative and positive liberty and the nature of freedom, and more specifically over competing visions of freedom of association in the trade union context. This conflict has found its way into the courts; in particular, the Lavigne case, which challenges political expenditures by unions (in certain circumstances), has generated much controversy and resulted in two opposing judicial decisions. However, the courts are not the only arena in which an attempt is being made to balance the competing claims of liberty; the political realm offers another avenue through which trade unions could attempt to influence labour legislation. However, unlike other intervenors such as women's or aboriginal groups, the trade union movement was largely absent from pre-Charter Joint Committee hearings. In hindsight it is quite clear that labour's non-participation represented a missed opportunity to influence the wording of freedom of association in a way that would make challenges from a negative liberty standpoint more difficult. In addition, the post-Charter prospects of lobbying government to implement legislation which would prevent negative liberty claims from succeeding (possibly through the "notwithstanding" clause in the Charter) appear quite dismal. Thus, a trade union strategy which would look for a political avenue out of its dilemma was not implemented pre-Charter and looks doubtful post-Charter. Nonetheless, in terms of the individual and his freedom (of association) in a liberal society, a fair balance between negative and positive liberty claims should be struck; one which allows limited coerion of the individual in the form of union security (the agency shop), but also restricts trade unions in the form of limits on political expenditures. This balance may, however, seriously threaten the political role of the trade union community. But, while individuals retain their right to exercise negative liberty claims, whether or not they exercise them depends upon their moral beliefs. And an individual convinced of the importance of the trade union community and the threat to that community posed by negative liberty claims, will be much less likely to exercise his right to invoke freedom from association. Unions might be able to meet this difficulty, however, by working towards a consensus about the importance of the trade union community and, more particularly, its political objectives. Such a strategy may be the most suitable alternative that trade unions can adopt in a liberal society.

Office Automation: A Review of the Litterature - Hugues, Karen D. (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
The impact of new technologies on clerical workers has been intensely debated. This paper assesses current research on the key issues of employment, skill and quality of working life, drawing implications for Canadian clérical workers. The author argues that a reliance on deterministic research models has produced unduly pessimistic forecasts about the impact of new office technologies. Research which is sensitive to the mediated nature of automation is necessary for improving forecasts for the Canadian office. So too is the consideration of employer, union and state activity in influencing automation outcomes.

The Historical Meanings of Work - Hundert, E. J. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book " The Historical Meanings of Work," edited by Patrick Joyce.
Keywords: CAPITALIST societies; HISTORICAL Meanings of Work; The (Book); JOYCE; Patrick; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; books

The Immigrant World of Ybor City: Italians and Their Latin Neighbors in Tampa, 1880-1980 - Iacovetta, Franca (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "The Immigrant World of Ybor City: Italians and Their Latin Neighbors in Tampa, 1880-1980," by Gary R. Mormino and George E. Pozzetta.
Keywords: IMMIGRANT World of Ybor City: Italians & Their Latin Neighbors in Tampa 1880-1980 (Book); Immigrants; MORMINO; Gary R.; Nonfiction; POZZETTA; George E.; REVIEWS; books

The New Resource Management in U.S. Workplaces: Is it Really New and is it Only Nonunion? - Ichniowski, Casey; Delaney, John T.; Lewin, David (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
This paper uses new data on business units to document the type and extent of human resource management policies and practices currently in place in unionized and nonunion businesses in the United States.

The Science of Social Redemption: McGill, the Chicago School, and the Origins of Social Research in Canada - Jacobs, Ellen (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "The Science of Social Redemption: McGill, the Chicago School, and the Origins of Social Research in Canada," by Marlene Shore.
Keywords: Nonfiction; REVIEWS; SCIENCE of Social Redemption: McGill; the Chicago School & the Origins of Social Research in Canada; The (Book); SHORE; Marlene; Social sciences; books

Racial Minorities and Affirmative Action/Employment Equity Législation in Canada - Jain, Harish C. (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
The purpose of this article is to highlight the disadvantaged status of visible minorities in public and private sector organizations and the need for affirmative action/employment equity programs to ameliorate their disadvantaged statut, to describe and analyze public policy on employment equity at the federal and provincial levels, to evaluate the effectiveness of the federal EE initiatives; and to provide policy implications and recommendations for strengthening public policy initiatives.

AIDS: Need for Policy in the Workplace - Jain, Hem C. (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
This paper deals with the workplace implications resulting from the incidence of AIDS for employers, AIDS victims, and coworkers of AIDS virus sufferers in North America. It discusses myths and misconceptions about AIDS as well as the medical facts and the legal aspects of the AIDS controversy. It examines the role of human resource management specialists in handling AIDS concerns, such as testing job applicants, terminating employees with the AIDS virus, developing educational programmes, and writing policy statements. Finally, it makes recommendations on how to effectively deal with the AIDS crisis in workplace settings.

Making Mondragon : The Growth and Dynamics of the Worker Cooperative Complex - Jain, Hem C. (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
This article reviews the book, "Making Mondragon : The Growth and Dynamics of the Worker Cooperative Complex," by William Foote White & Kathleen King Whyte.

Le recul du travail des enfants au Québec entre 1940 et 1960: une explication des conflits entre les familles pauvres et l'État providence - Jean, Dominique (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
Du milieu de 20e siècle, les gouvernements québécais et Canadian ont resserré le contrôle du travail des enfants. Cet article tente de retracer l'effet de la loi des allocations familiales de 1945, de la loi de fréquentation scolaire obligatoire de 1943 et de la loi des familiales et la main-d'œuvre en général, sur les valeurs des parents et les normes publiques. Il avance que les lois ont eu le recul du travail des enfants dans la province, mais d'une façon que l'État n'esceuptait pas. Plus que les gouvernants, à leur compte les nouveaux droits des enfants euchâssés dans ces mesures, pour permiettre à leurs fils et à leurs filles d'aller plus longtemps à l'école.
Keywords: Child labor; EMPLOYMENT policy; Family allowances; Government policy; LABOR laws & legislation; QUEBEC (Province); Welfare economics

Employment in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe - Jecchinis, Chris (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
This article reviews the book, "Employment in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe," by Jan Adam.

Proletarian Peasants: The Revolution of 1905 in Russia's Southwest - Johanson, Christine (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Proletarian Peasants: The Revolution of 1905 in Russia's Southwest," by Robert Edelman.
Keywords: GENERATION of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in 19th-Century America; A (Book); LABOR market; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; STROMQUIST; Shelton; books

Exorcising Exceptionalism - Johnson, Christopher H. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Working Class Formation: Nineteenth-Century Patterns in Europe and the United States," edited by Ira Katznelson.
Keywords: KATZNELSON; Ira; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; WORKING Class Formation: 19th-Century Patterns in Europe & the United States (Book); Working class; books

The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine - Johnson, Robert E. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine," by Robert Conquest.
Keywords: GENERATION of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in 19th-Century America; A (Book); LABOR market; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; STROMQUIST; Shelton; books

Leisure, Sport and Working Class Cultures - Joyce, C.A. Tony (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Leisure, Sport and Working Class Cultures," by Hart Cantelon, Robert Hollands, Alan Metcalfe, and Alan Tomlinson.
Keywords: BRITISH Labour & the Cold War (Book); Labor Unions; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; WEILER; Peter; books

Editor's Note = Note du directeur [24, Fall 1989] - Kealey, Gregory S. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The editor notes that various aspects of women's work are explored in the special issue. Also noted is the article on historical researchers' use of Privacy Act, including issues arising from Access to Information and Privacy Acts. The editor updates on his own experiences in this regard.
Keywords: INFORMATION policy; WOMEN – Employment

The War Series, Part 1, 1939-1941 - Kealey, Gregory S.; Whitaker, Reginald (Committee on Canadian Labour History, 1989)
From its inception in 1919-1920 the Royal Canadian Mounted Police security service compiled periodic reports on "subversive" activity in Canada, which were circulated to the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Through use of Canada's Access to Information legislation Gregory S. Kealey and Reg Whitaker have acquired copies of the extant Bulletins, which are now held by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service....This volume covers the early years of World War II when the Communist Party of Canada was illegal and many CPC leaders were interned. –Publisher's description
https://archive.org/details/rcmpsecuritybull0000unse_a7i2
Keywords: 20th century; Canada; Communism; History; Internal security; Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP); Subversive activities; WORLD War; 1939-1945

Future Directions for American Labor and Human Resources Policy - Kochan, Thomas A.; McKersie, Robert B. (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
This paper discusses four commonly debated approaches to American labor and human resource policy and argues for the most ambitious of these.

Les Chinois à Montréal, 1877-1951 - Lamarre, Jean (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Les Chinois à Montréal, 1877-1951," by Denise Helly.

A Short History of the International Worker's Holiday, 1886-1986 - Larivière, Claude (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "A Short History of the International Worker's Holiday, 1886-1986," by Philip S. Foner.

Difficultés de recrutement dans les PME québécoise: Quelques causes et solutions possibles - Larrivée, Liette; d'Amboise, Gérald (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
Il existe une difficulté majeure de recrutement de main-d'oeuvre de production qualifiée dans les PME québécoises. Ce texte expose les résultats d'une étude visant à mieux comprendre ce problème dans le sous-secteur de la machinerie. Les auteurs ont vérifié auprès de propriétaires-dirigeants quelques hypothèses relatives aux circonstances et au degré d'intensité de cette difficulté managériale. Plusieurs facteurs concourent à l'existence de cette dernière, mais le degré d'originalité du produit fabriqué par l'entreprise et le niveau de formation-expérience exigé dans son recrutement paraissent déterminer grandement l'ampleur du défi de trouver un personnel spécialisé adéquat.

Cent ans de solidarité. Histoire du CTM, 1886-1986 - LeBlanc, André E. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Cent ans de solidarité. Histoire du CTM, 1886-1986," by Conseil des Travailleuses et Travailleurs du Montréal Métropolitain.
Keywords: CONSEIL Des Travailleuses Et Travailleurs Du Montreal Metropolitain (Book); Labor Unions; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; books

Guide des archives des Unions internationales à Montréal - LeBlanc, André E. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Guide des archives des Unions internationales à Montréal," by Jean-François Cardin and Jacques Rouillard.
Keywords: CARDIN; Jean-Francois; GUIDE des archives des Unions internationales a Montreal (Book); INTERNATIONAL agencies; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; ROUILLARD; Jacques; books

Histoire de la Fédération des travailleurs du papier et de la forêt (CSN) - Legendre, Camille (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Histoire de la Fédération des travailleurs du papier et de la forêt (CSN), Vol. 1: 1907-1958," by Gilbert Vanasse.
Keywords: FEDERATION des travailleurs du papier et de la foret

Notebook [23, Spring 1989] - Leier, Mark (James Mark) (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
Takes note of forthcoming conferences, calls for papers, and a query regarding BC labour activist Robert Raglan Gosden.

Notebook [24, Fall 1989] - Leier, Mark (James Mark) (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
Takes note of forthcoming conferences and calls for papers. Reports that Elaine Bernard has left Simon Fraser University for a position at Harvard. Also reports on the Labour Archives Bulletin of the Canadian Association of Archivists, the deposit of records of the Trades Union Congress at the University of Warwick library, a United Farmworkers' boycott, and ways to support for the strike for a first collective agreement at Oxford University Press in Toronto. The editor re-issues a query for information (first published in the previous volume) regarding Robert Raglan Gosden (1881-1961), a BC labour activist who during the early 20th century was also a police spy.

Solidarity on Occasion: The Vancouver Free Speech Fights of 1909 and 1912 - Leier, Mark (James Mark) (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The labour and socialist movement of British Columbia before World War One was home to a number of competing tendencies and factions. While the different groups could and did work together on occasion, their relations with each other were often marked by hostility and suspicion. The Vancouver free speech fights of 1909 and 1912 illustrate dramatically the in-fighting between the Socialist Party of Canada. the Industrial Workers of the World, and the Vancouver Trades and Labor Council. The different approaches of the organizations to the issue of free speech reflect their different ideologies, constituencies, and clans strata, and the actions of the SPC suggest that the party was, despite its impossiblist rhetoric, more interested in pragmatic trade unionism and social democracy than revolution. In refusing to put its faith in parliamentary democracy, the IWW demonstrated that it had a more consistent and deeper analysis of capitalist society than moat historians have suggested, but this very analysis and the actions consistent with it meant the IWW could be increasingly marginalized and isolated. (English)
Keywords: British Columbia; HOSTILITY (Psychology); INDUSTRIAL workers; Labor movement; Political parties; SOCIAL democracy; SOCIALISTS; SUSPICION; Socialism

The Damndest Radical: The Life and World of Ben Reitman, Chicago's Celebrated Social Reformer, Hobo King, and Whorehouse Physician - Leier, Mark (James Mark) (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "The Damndest Radical: The Life and World of Ben Reitman Chicago's Celebrated Social Reformer, Hobo King, and Whorehouse Physician," by Roger A. Bruns.
Keywords: BRUNS; Roger A.; DAMNDEST Radical: The Life & World of Ben Reitman Chicago's Celebrated Social Reformer; Hobo King & Whorehouse Physician (Book); Nonfiction; REITMAN; Ben L. (Ben Lewis); 1879-1942; REVIEWS; books

Flexible Rigidities: Industrial Policy and Structural Adjustment in the Japanese Economy, 1970-80 - Levine, Solomon G. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Flexible Rigidities: Industrial Policy and Structural Adjustment in the Japanese Economy, 1970-80," by Ronald P. Dore.
Keywords: GENERATION of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in 19th-Century America; A (Book); LABOR market; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; STROMQUIST; Shelton; books

Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR, 1931-1941 - Lewin, Moshe (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR, 1931-1941," by Robert Conquest.
Keywords: GENERATION of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in 19th-Century America; A (Book); LABOR market; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; STROMQUIST; Shelton; books

Empty Promises: Quality of Working Life Programmes and the Labour Movement - Lewis, Gary A. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Empty Promisses: Quality of Working Life Programmes and the Labour Movement," by Donald M. Wells.
Keywords: EMPTY Promises: Quality of Working Life Programs & the Labor Movement (Book); Labor movement; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; WELLS; Donald M.; books

Irish Migrants in the Canadas: A New Approach - Little, J. I. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Irish Migrants in the Canadas: A New Approach," by Bruce S. Elliott.
Keywords: ELLIOTT; Bruce S.; IRISH Migrants in the Canadas: A New Approach (Book); Immigrants; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; books

Class, Community, and the Labour Movement Wales and Canada, 1850-1930 - Llafur (Society) (Llafur/CCLH, 1989)
This collection of essays stems from a joint conference held at the University College of Wales at Aberystwyth by the Committee on Canadian Labour History and the Society for the Study of Welsh Labour History. An Introduction by David Montgomery places the essays in a broader international perspective. Contributors from Wales include John Williams, Christopher Turner, Merfyn Jones, Dot Jones, and Deian R. Hopkin. Canadian essays are by Craig Heron, Robert Babcock, Bruno Ramirez, Allen Seager, Linda Kealey, Varpu Lindstrom-Best, and Gregory S. Kealey. The volume includes photographs, maps and tables. –Publisher's description. Contents: The rise and decline of the Welsh economy, 1890-1930 / John Williams – Labour and industrial capitalist development in the North Atlantic Region, 1880-1920 / Robert Babcock – The second Industrial Revolution in Canada, 1890-1930 / Craig Heron – Conflicts of faith? / Christopher Turner – Serfdom and slavery / Dot Jones – Of men and stones / Merfyn Jones – Migration and regional labour markets, 1870-1915 / Bruno Ramirez – No special protection–no sympathy / Linda Kealey – Miners'struggles in Western Canada, 1890-1930 / Allan Seager – Canadian mining towns / Varpu Linstrom-Best – The parameters of class conflict / Gregory S. Kealey – The great unrest in Wales, 1910-1913 / Deian R. Hopkin. Papers from a conference of Committee on Canadian Labour History and Llafur, the Society for the Study of Welsh Labour History, held in April 1987 near Newtown in Mid-Wales.
https://archive.org/details/classcommunityla0000unse
Keywords: 19th century; 20th century; Canada; Congresses; Congresses. Labor movement; Congresses. Working class; Economic conditions; History; Social conditions; Wales; Working class

The Canadian Labour Bibliography/La Bibliographie Du Mouvement Ouvrier Canadien 1988 - Lonardo, Michael (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
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 also the database, Canadian Labour History, 1976-2009, published at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Keywords: LISTS; books

Patterns of Workplace Innovation in Canada - Long, Richard J. (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
This paper reports the results of a large-scale Canadian survey of nine types of workplace innovation — profit sharing, gain sharing, pay for knowledge, job sharing, job enrichment, semi-autonomous work groups, quality circles, labour management committees, and 'other' joint problem solving groups. The paper assesses the incidence ofeach type, patterns of implementation, survival rates, and trends over time.

Employment Security - Lovell, Malcolm R. Jr (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
The authors is preoccupied with the performance of given societies in providing work opportunites for their citizens, and in developing private and public policies which contribute to employment security.

Papel del Estado en las relaciones industriales en América Latina - Lucena, Hector (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
El author analiza como las medidas politicas y economicas tomadas por los Estados han cambiado los sistemas de relaciones industriales en algunos paises de America Latina. Presenta las relaciones de trabajo como un "factor estrategico de desarollo" y estudia como esta influido por las relaciones que tienen los gobiernos con los sindicatos y las empresas, eso a traves de los diversos cambios, sobre todo economicos, ocurridos desde los ultimos 10 anos.

Economic Crisis, Trade Unions and the State - Magnusson, Warren (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Economic Crisis, Trade Unions and the State," edited by Otto Jacobi. Bob Jessop, Hans Kastendiendiek, and Marino Regini.
Keywords: GENERATION of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in 19th-Century America; A (Book); LABOR market; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; STROMQUIST; Shelton; books

The Worst Street in North London, Campbell Bunk, Islington, Between the Wars - Malcolmson, Patricia E. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "The Worst Street in North London, Campbell Bunk, Islington, Between the Wars," by Jerry White.
Keywords: GENERATION of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in 19th-Century America; A (Book); LABOR market; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; STROMQUIST; Shelton; books

Witness Against War: Pacifism in Canada, 1900-1945 - Malcolmson, Robert (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Witness Against War: Pacifism in Canada, 1900-1945," by Thomas P. Socknat.
Keywords: Nonfiction; PACIFISM; REVIEWS; SOCKNAT; Thomas P.; WITNESS Against War: Pacifism in Canada 1900-1945 (Book); books

Décisions rendues par le Conseil canadien des relations du travail - Marleau, Véronique L. (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
Dans la foulée de la décision qu'il avait rendue dans Société canadienne des postes et Shoppers Drug Mart Limited, le Conseil a récemment été amené à examiner de nouveau l'application des dispositions relatives aux droits de successeur dans le secteur des postes. Il a conclu à deux reprises, mais pour des motifs différents, que la concession de l'exploitation d'un bureau de poste avec marge brute à l'intérieur d'une pharmacie ne constituait pas une vente d'entreprise au sens du Code canadien du travail (le Code) parce qu'aucun transfert au sens des dispositions relatives aux droits de successeur n 'avait été établi. Contrairement à la situation prévalant dans Shoppers Drug Mart Limited, dans ces deux affaires, la Société canadienne des postes (la Société) n'avait consenti aux concessionnaires aucune exclusivité à l'égard de la vente des produits et services postaux pour le territoire visé dans chacun des contrats.

Décisions rendues par le Conseil canadien des relations du travail - Marleau, Véronique L. (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
Saisi de cinq requêtes complexes impliquant un groupe important de professionnels, le Conseil canadien des relations du travail (le Conseil) a pour la première fois effectué une étude exhaustive des dispositions du Code canadien du travail (le Code) qui traitent du statut des professionnels dans la détermination des unités de négociation. Après avoir abordé toutes les difficultés suscitées par l'application de ces dispositions, le Conseil adopte une interprétation restrictive de la notion de «professionnel au sens du Code».

Capitalism vs Socialism? Canadian and Swedish Labour Market Policies Compared - Matejko, Alexander J. (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
This article reviews the book, "Capitalism vs Socialism? Canadian and Swedish Labour Market Policies Compared," by Joseph Smucker & Axel Van Den Berg.

Designing Effective Organizations. The Sociotechnical Systems Perspective - Matejko, Alexander J. (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
This article reviews the book, "Designing Effective Organizations. The Sociotechnical Systems Perspective," by William A. Pasmore.

The Individual, Work and Organization. Behavioural Studies in Business and Management Students - Matejko, Alexander J. (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
This article reviews the book, "The Individual, Work and Organization. Behavioural Studies in Business and Management Students," by Robin Fincham & Peter S. Rhodes.

Thriving on Chaos. Handbook for a Managerial Revolution - Matejko, Alexander J. (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
This article reviews the book, "Thriving on Chaos. Handbook for a Managerial Revolution," by Tom Peters.

The Canadian Working Class and Industrial Legality, 1939-1949 - Matheson, David William Tudor (Queen's University, 1989)
With few expections trade union histories, even those emanating from the broad left, trace the development of the union movement through a series of hard-won victories codified in modern collective bargaining law. This thesis joins with more recent critical approahcees to industrial legality in a fundamental quesstioning of the effect of progressive legal victories. American scholarship especially has begun to probe the limitations imposed by a framework of rigid legal rules that work as much to circumscribe the expression of workers' interests as they do to promote them. In an attempt to understand this two-sidedness of industrial legality, the first chapter of the thesis embarks on a theoretical examination of law, paying particular attention to the meaning of the base/superstructure configuration. The chapter builds on the original writings of Marx and Engels - which never fully developed a theory of 'law' - bringing their concepts into the context of twentieth-century capitalism and highlighting the role of class struggle. In this way, the law is revealed as growing out of, and sharing, the essential values that constitute cpaitalist accumulation - values that elevate property and the procewss of production and accumulation above the aspirations of the working class. The second chapter traces the development of industrial legality in Canada, situating it in terms of class formation, class struggle, and the role of the state. This is a synthetic account of the formative years of Canadian industrial legislation, setting the stage for the analysis of collective agreements that follows. Chapter 3 explores the developing content of collective agreements forged in the 1940s through a sample of 120 contracts signed between employers and the Steelworkers, Packinghouse Workers, and Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. Of particular interest is the effect of management rights clauses, union security and seniority clauses, and grievance procedures. Finally, the last chapter will consider the dilemmas facing unions that now find themselves caught in the web of legality, with alienated memberships and the possibilities for class-action severely circumscribed.
OCLC: 24215238
Keywords: Academic theses; Thèses et écrits académiques

Rough Work and Rugged Men: The Social Construction of Masculinity in Working-Class History - Maynard, Steven (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
This paper uses two recent books in Canadian labour history, Craig Heron's "Working in Steel" and Ian Radforth's "Bushworkers and Bosses," to briefly review the place of masculinity in working-class history. The author suggests that while Heron and Radforth introduce masculinity into their studies, they do not fully develop all of its meanings and functions. Drawing upon the literature on the social construction of work, gender, and sexuality, the paper then goes on to suggest some ways in which we can begin to explore aspects of masculinity and sexuality within working-class history.
Keywords: EMPLOYMENT (Economic theory); HUMAN sexuality – Psychological aspects; LABOR market; LABOR supply; Masculinity; SOCIAL constructionism

The Regulation of Desire: Sexuality in Canada - Maynard, Steven (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "The Regulation of Desire: Sexuality in Canada," by Gary Kinsman.
Keywords: Gender; KINSMAN; Gary; Nonfiction; REGULATION of Desire: Sexuality in Canada (Book); REVIEWS; books

Separate Spheres: The Organization of Work in a Confectionery Factory: Ganong Bros., St. Stephen, New Brunswick - McCallum, Margaret E. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
Ganong Bros., a family-owned confectionery factory, is a major employer in a small town in southwestern New Brunswick. Up to the end of the Second World War, the period of this study, the numbers employed in the confectionery industry fluctuated dramatically with the variable seasonal demand for confectionery. At Ganong Bros., less than half the total workforce was employed for more than half the year. Work in the factory was divided along gender lines men made the candy, and women added the finishing touches. About two-thirds of the factory employees were women, most of them young and single. These women could be considered as a reserve army of labour, since many of them worked for a few weeks only, in the busiest season. But when women were not available to fill positions in traditionally female departments, Ganong Bros. management did not consider hiring men instead, even when the women's wages compared favourably to men's. Management decisions about the organization of work in the factory were influenced not only by technical or financial considerations, but by unquestioned assumptions about what work was appropriate to each gender.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; CONFECTIONERY; Confectionary industry; Division of labor; Employment; Employment discrimination; FAMILY-owned business enterprises; GANONG Bros. Ltd.; History–History of North And South America; INDUSTRIAL management; Women; Women employees

Building the Educational State: Canada West, 1836-1871 - McCann, Phillip (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Building the Educational State: Canada West, 1836-1871," by Bruce Curtis.
Keywords: BUILDING the Educational State: Canada West 1836-1871 (Book); CURTIS; Bruce; Education; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; books

Workers, Capital, and the State of British Columbia: Selected Papers - McDonald, Robert A. J. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Workers, Capital, and the State of British Columbia: Selected Papers," edited by Rennie Warburton and Donald Coburn.
Keywords: COBURN; Donald; Economics; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; WARBURTON; Rennie; WORKERS; Capital & the State in British Columbia: Selected Papers (Book); books

Women's Work, Markets and Economic Development in Nineteenth Century Ontario - McInnis, R. M. (R. Marvin) (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Women's Work, Markets and Economic Development in Nineteenth-Century Ontario," by Marjorie Griffin Cohen.
Keywords: COHEN; Marjorie Griffin; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; WOMEN'S Work; Markets & Economic Development in Nineteenth-Century Ontario (Book); WOMEN'S history; books

Skilled Service and Women's Work: Canadian Nursing, 1920-1939 - McPherson, Kathryn Mae (Simon Fraser University, 1989)
This thesis examines the experiences, attitudes and actions of the women who trained and worked as graduate nurses during the 1920-1939 years–of the third generation of hospital-trained Canadian nurses. The 1920s and 1930s were decades of crisis for Canadian nursing, and the occupation's majority, working in the private duty sector, was most severely affected by the problems of oversupply and underemployment. The economic crisis was national in scope, and endemic to the health care system, and was therefore exacerbated rather than created by the depression of the 1930s. In order to analyze the structure and content of the occupation during these years of crisis, a wide variety of national sources were consulted, supplemented by a detailed case study of nursing in the prairie metropolis of Winnipeg, Manitoba. This research on Canadian nursing during the 1920s and 1930s adds another chapter to the growing scholarly literature on Canadian women and work. It also contributes to the secondary literature on the social history of medicine and of labour in two particular ways. First, as the largest health care workforce, the actions of graduate nurses during the 1920s and 1930s, their agency, served as a critical, force within the development of the Canadian health care system, a force frequently overlooked within medical history. Secondly, the third generation of Canadian nurses borrowed from the organizational strategies of both professionals and trade unions, but neither concept fully captured the reality of nurses' occupational identity as women and as workers. This thesis argues that the third generation of Canadian nurses was recruited from sex-segregated female labour market. The many rituals and routines which constituted nursing technique were based on a theoretical understanding and practical application of the germ theory. As such, nursing practice during the interwar years must be defined as scientific. Nurses' scientific skills permitted practioners to integrate caring and curing, and thereby to create their own definition to what constituted skilled service. Out of this self-definition came a specific occupational identity which was reflected in the many associations designed to reflect nurses' interests. As the interwar decades progressed, conflict developed within nursing organizations as to appropriate solutions to the economic crisis. The compromise solution, hospital employment of graduate nurses, initiated the demise of both the apprenticeship system of hospital staffing, and private duty nursing. This solution successfully prevented the fracturing of nursing organizations in the 1920s and 1930s, but also facilitated the transformation of hospital staffing which would occur in the World War II years. This research suggests that the scholarly literature on professionalism, and on labour organizations, must more fully account for gender as a historical determinant. In suggesting a historical periodization for Canadian nursing history, and in focussing on the third generation of Canadian nurses who struggled through the economic crisis of the interwar decades, this thesis contributes to the growing body of scholarly literature dedicated to placing nursing history in history.

Job Security in Canada - Meltz, Noah M. (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
The author analyses the question of job security. He proposes alternative definition of this concept, examines recent trends in Canada, and deals with the objectives of job security.

Technologies nouvelles et aspects psychologiques - Mercier, Jean (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
This article reviews the book, "Technologies nouvelles et aspects psychologiques," by Alain Larocque, Yvan Bordeleau, Rene Boulard, Bruno Fabi, Viateur Larouche & Alain Rondeau.

Small Differences: Irish Catholics and Irish Prolestants, 1815-1922: An International Perspective - Miller, David W. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Small Differences: Irish Catholics and Irish Prolestants, 1815-1922: An International Perspective," by Donald Harman Akenson.
Keywords: GENERATION of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in 19th-Century America; A (Book); LABOR market; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; STROMQUIST; Shelton; books

Les militants socialistes du Québec, d'une époque à l'autre - Moreau, Robert A. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Les militants socialistes du Québec, d'une époque à l'autre," by Henri Gagnon.

D'un entrepreneur à un autre: l'accréditation ne suit pas - Morin, Fernand (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
Un donneur d'ouvrage confie le même service à un autre entrepreneur spécialisé, ce dernier ne peut être lie par l'accréditation et la convention collective du prédécesseur-concurrent. Telle serait la portée pratique d'un récent jugement de la Cour suprême du Canada commente par l'auteur. L'approche retenue par la Cour pour justifier cette révision, celle de la question juridictionnelle, y est fortement critique parce qu'elle inciterait les tribunaux judiciaires à servir d'instances d'appel là où le législateur voulut écarter cette voie.

Liberté d'expression et droit au travail: l'arbitrage de la Cour suprême du Canada - Morin, Fernand (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
Liberté d’expression et droit au travail : l’arbitrage de la Cour suprême du Canada.

Women's Work and Chicano Families, Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley - Muszynski, Alicja (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Women's Work and Chicano Families, Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley," by Patricia Zavella.
Keywords: Nonfiction; REVIEWS; WOMEN'S Work & Chicano Families: Cannery Workers of the Santa Clara Valley (Book); Women employees; ZAVELLA; Patricia; books

A Lost Life: Three Studies in Socialism and Nationalism - Naylor, James (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "A Lost Life: Three Studies in Socialism and Nationalism," by David Howell.
Keywords: GENERATION of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in 19th-Century America; A (Book); LABOR market; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; STROMQUIST; Shelton; books

Working-Class History in English Canada in the 1980s : An Assessment - Naylor, James (Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region / Revue d'histoire de la region atlantique, 1989)
Slightly more than a decade ago "the new working-class history" emerged in Canada. It was an occasion marked by considerable enthusiasm as ringing manifestos promised "to bring back ordinary working people from their long exile on the margins of Canadian history". Existing institutional histories of trade unions and industrial relations, it was pointed out, told us remarkably little about the experience of workers or, in more general terms, about the nature of social class in Canadian history. On the basis of this critique of the existing historiography, a new generation of working-class historians set out an ambitious agenda. –From author's introduction

Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water: Noncitizen Arabs in the Israeli Labor Market - Naylor, R. T. (Robin Thomas) (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Hewers of Wood and Drawers of Water: Noncitizen Arabs in the Israeli Labor Market," by Moshe Semyonov and Noah Lewin-Epstein.
Keywords: GENERATION of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in 19th-Century America; A (Book); LABOR market; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; STROMQUIST; Shelton; books

Annals of the Labour Poor: Social Change and Agrarian England, 1660-I900 - Neeson, J. M. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Annals of the Labour Poor: Social Change and Agrarian England, 1660-I900," by K. D. M. Snell.
Keywords: GENERATION of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in 19th-Century America; A (Book); LABOR market; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; STROMQUIST; Shelton; books

The Development of the Pacific Salmon-Canning Industry: A Grown Man's Game - Newell, Dianne (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1989)
The Pacific salmon fishery and the canning industry it supports have recently lost their status as the one of the most valuable fisheries in the world. In this study of early modern business, Dianne Newell discusses the beginning of the North American salmon canning industry, working from archives left by one of the leaders in the field, Henry Doyle. Doyle (1874-1961) was founder and first general manager of a major consolidation of packing companies, British Columbia Packers Association (established in 1902), which became British Columbia Packers Ltd., one of the few pioneer fish-packing companies that remains viable today. He was recognised by friends and enemies alike as the unofficial industry historian not only for British Columbia but also for Alaska and the Pacific US coastal states. Doyle was a vora-cious collector of "intelligence," whose extensive papers, now stored in the archives of the University of British Columbia, constitute the only comprehensive insider's history of the rise of the industry. Newell has culled this collection of documents for revealing highlights, important trends, and events within this profitable industry. These documents are reproduced in the text and are supported by editorial essays, annotations, a statistical appendix, and a lengthy glossary of historical terms. The result is an intriguing combination of both the personal and the scholarly view of this industry through its most exciting and critical years. –Publisher's description
Book available at Internet Archive to people with print disabilities: https://archive.org/details/developmentofpac0000unse/page/n5/mode/2up

Determinants of Union Commitment Among University Faculty - Ng, Ignace (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
This paper investigates the relationship between the union commitment of faculty members and a number of factors, including job satisfaction, general union beliefs, attitude towards the university, work aspects and demographic characteristics. The results show that faculty members are committed to both the university and the Association. Dissatisfaction with the university administration fosters union commitment whereas negative attitudes towards unions in general reduce that commitment. Demographic characteristics and work aspects have little influence on the faculty commitment to the Faculty Association.

Canada in the European Age, 1453-1919 - Ommer, Rosemary E. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Canada in the European Age, 1453-1919," by R. T. Naylor.
Keywords: CANADA in the European Age; 1453-1919 (Book); Economic history; NAYLOR; R. T.; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; books

The Bedroom and the State: The Changing Practices and Politics of Contraception and Abortion in Canada, 1880-1980 - Overall, Christine (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "The Bedroom and the State: The Changing Practices and Politics of Contraception and Abortion in Canada, 1880-1980," by Angus McLaren and Arlene Tigar McLaren.
Keywords: Abortion; BEDROOM & the State: The Changing Practices & Politics of Contraception & Abortion in Canada 1880-1980; The (Book); MCLAREN; Angus; MCLAREN; Arlene Tigar; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; books

Book Notes [23, Spring 1989] - Palmer, Bryan D. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article briefly reviews "The Assault on Trade Union Freedoms: From Consent to Coercion Revisited," by Leo Panitch and Donald Swartz, "Downturn: The Origins of the Employers ' Offensive and the Tasks for Socialists," pamphlet by Paul Kellogg, "The Chinese in Canada," by Peter S. Li, "The Politics of Community Services: Immigrant Women, Class and State," by Roxana Ng, "The Bank of Upper Canada," [edited with an introduction] by Peter Baskerville, "Red Moon Over Spain: Canadian Media Reaction to the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939," by Mary Biggar Peck, "Good Girls Bad Girls: Sex Trade Workers and Feminists Face to Face," edited by Laurie Bell, "Work and Labor in Early America," by Stephen Innes, "Paupers and Poor Relief in New York City and Its Rural Environs, 1700-1830," by Robert E. Cray, Jr., "The Paddy Camps: The Irish of Lowell, 1821-1861," by Brian C. Mitchell, "German Workers in Chicago: A Documentary History of Working-Class Culture from 1850 to World War I," edited by Hartmut Keil and John B. Jentz, "Out of the Crucible: Black Steelworkers in Western Pennsylvania, 1875-1980," by Dennis C. Dickerson, " Looking Backward, 1988-1888; Essays on Edward Bellamy," edited by Daphne Patai, "The Loud Silents: Origins of the Social Problem Film," by Kay Sloan, "Writing Red: An Anthology of American Women Writers, 1930-1940," edited by Charlotte Nekola and Paula Rabinowitz, "Equal or Different: Women's Politics, 1800-1914," edited by Jane Rendall, "War, Law, and Labour: The Munitions Acts, State Regulation, and the Unions, 1915-1921," by Gerry R. Rubin, "Marxism and Trade Union Struggle: The General Strike of 1926," by Tony Cliff and Donny Gluckstein, "Work in France: Representations, Meaning, Organization, and Practice," edited by Steven Laurence Kaplan and Cynthia J. Koepp, "The Making of an Insurrection: Parisian Sections and the Gironde," by Morris Slavin, "The Workers' Revolution in Russia, 1917: The View from Below," edited by Daniel H. Kaiser, "International Labour and the Third World: The Making of a New Working Class," edited by Rosalind E. Boyd, Robin Cohen, and Peter C.W. Gutkind, "Trade Unions in Communist States," by Alex Pravda, Blair A. Ruble, and "State Theories: From Liberalism to the Challenge of Feminism," by Murray Knuttila.

If I Had a Hammer: The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Left - Palmer, Bryan D. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1960s," by Maurice Isserman.
Keywords: GENERATION of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in 19th-Century America; A (Book); LABOR market; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; STROMQUIST; Shelton; books