The Canadian Auto Workers: The Birth and Transformation of a Union - Boyle, Kevin (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "The Canadian Auto Workers: The Birth and Transformation of a Union," by Sam Gindin.
Keywords: Automobile industry workers; BOOKS – Reviews; CANADIAN Auto Workers: The Birth & Transformation of a Union; The (Book); GINDIN; Sam; Nonfiction

A Miner's Chronicle: Inco Ltd. and the Unions, 1944-1997 - Brasch, Hans (United Steelworkers of America, Local 6500, 1997)
Chronicles the 26 collective agreements signed by unions with the International Nickel Company (Inco) in Sudbury from 1944 to 1997. Describes the strikes and production shutdowns of 1958, 1966, 1969, 1975, 1978 , 1982, and 1997. Also includes a list of mining fatalities from 1890 to 1997.
Keywords: History; Industrial accidents; International Nickel Company of Canada (INCO); International Union of Mine; Mill and Smelter Workers. Local 598; Labor Unions; Miners; Occupational accidents; Sudbury; Ont.; United Steelworkers of America. Local 6500

The Making of Western Labor Radicals: Denver's Organized Workers, 1878-1905 - Bright, David (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "The Making of Western Labor Radicals: Denver's Organized Workers, 1878-1905," by David Brundage.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; BRUNDAGE; David; MAKING of Western Labor Radicals: Denver's Organized Workers 1878-1905; The (Book); Nonfiction; RADICALS

Final Report: The Effects of Plant Closing or Threat of Plant Closing on the Right of Workers to Organize - Bronfenbrenner, Kate (Cornell University, 1997)
Examines the effects of the sudden plant closings on the principle of freedom of association and the right of workers to organize in the US, Canada, and Mexico.

We'll Close! Plant Closings, Plant-Closing Threats, Union Organizing and NAFTA - Bronfenbrenner, Kate (Cornell University, 1997)
This article is based on Final Report: The Effects of Plant Closing or Threat of Plant Closing on the Right of Workers to Organize. The report was commissioned by the tri-national Labor Secretariat of the Commission for Labor Cooperation (the NAFTA labor commission) "on the effects of the sudden closing of the plant on the principle of freedom of association and the right of workers to organize in the three countries."
Accepted: 2020-11-12T19:32:45Z

Le Monde du travail au Québec: Bibliographie - Burgess, Joanne (Labour/Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Le Monde du Travail au Québec: Bibliographie = The World of Labour in Quebec: Bibliography," by James Douglas Thwaites and André Leblanc.

Thunder Bay: From Rivalry to Unity - Burley, David (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Thunder Bay: From Rivalry to Unity," edited by Thorold J. Tronrud and A. Ernest Epp.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; EPP; A. Ernest; History; Nonfiction; THUNDER Bay: From Rivalry to Unity (Book); TRONRUD; Thorold J.

Servants of the Honourable Company: Work, Discipline, and Conflict in the Hudson's Bay Company, 1770-1879 - Burley, Edith I. (Oxford University Press, 1997)
Historians have tended to view the Hudson's Bay Company `as an organization of crafty fur traders, bold explorers, lively voyageurs, and dour Scots' who opened up the Canadian west and protected it from American control. More recently, social historians have examined the roles of women and Native peoples to show that the HBC `was more than a business.' But, as Professor Edith Burley demonstrates, `the HBC was a business...the purpose of which was to provide shareholders with a return on their investments.' Low paid, subservient workers were required to fulful this purpose. In Servants of the Honourable Company, Professor Burley focuses on the work and workers of the HBC. About 15% of HBC workers were skilled tradesmen, while 70% were common labourers. Until now, however, these `servants' have been largely forgotten. The book looks at these workers from the points of view both of the HBC officers and the London committee and governor who oversaw the operations and of the men themselves, who came from the Orkney Islands, Norway, Scotland, Lower Canada, and the Red River Colony, the settlement created by the HBC in present-day Manitoba to become the nursery of future `halfbreed' workers for the company. The HBC sought workers from pre-industrial societies who would accept the traditional master-servant relationship. To a large extent they did. In fact, they never questioned this central tenet of the HBC hierarchy. They did, however, bargain for higher wages, refuse to work under intolerable and dangerous conditions, object to unfair treatment by authoritarian officers, cause work stoppages in protest for sufficient food and more grog, mutiny against tyrannical ships' captains, and even kill a particularly brutal officer. Servants of the Honourable Company details this important aspect of Canadian working-class experience. –Unattributed synopsis at Amazon

Challenging Racism: Going Beyond Recommendations - Canadian Labour Congress. National Anti-Racism Task Force (Canadian Labour Congress, 1997)
Canada’s unions have long brought workers together in solidarity and unity to carry on the fight against racism in our workplaces and communities. As we mark Human Rights Day—observed annually on December 10—Canada’s unions are calling out rising hate and racism, and underscoring the path set 25 years ago when they released the National Anti-Racism Task Force report titled Challenging Racism: Going Beyond Recommendations. This ground-breaking report explored systemic racism in union structures, our communities, institutions and society. It highlighted the perspectives, concerns, and recommendations of labour and community activists from across the country. –CLC website news release, Human Rights Day, 2022-12-10
https://canadianlabour.ca/canadas-unions-hate-and-racism-cannot-continue-to-go-unchecked/

The Secret World of American Communism - Carley, Michael Jabara (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "The Secret World of American Communism," by Harvey Klehr, John E. Haynes and Fridrikh I. Firsov.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Communism; FIRSOV; Fridrikh I.; HAYNES; John E.; KLEHR; Harvey; Nonfiction; SECRET World of American Communism; The (Book); United States

The Duty to Accomodate: Its Growing Impact on the Grievance Arbitration Process - Carter, Donald D. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
Grievance arbitrators now have a responsibility to interpret and apply human rights legislation in the course of resolving collective agreement disputes. This responsibility, however, raises the question of whether grievance arbitration is the most suitable forum for the application of human rights laws. In Canada, grievance arbitration has been a hybrid process, containing both public and private components. Recent arbitral jurisprudence, however, suggests that arbitrators see themselves as primarily private adjudicators. These cases indicate that arbitrators have been reluctant to give full scope to the duty to accommodate in order to avoid disturbing the terms of the collective agreement. This reluctance to play a full role as human rights adjudicators means that arbitration is not necessarily the most ideal forum for the enforcement of Canadian human rights laws.
Keywords: Arbitrators; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Collective bargaining; Court decisions; Grievance procedures; HUMAN rights; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Changing Work Systems, Changing Social Relations? A Canadian General Motors Plant - Clarke, Louise (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The paper presents findings of an ethnographic case study on social relations in an existing General Motors vehicle assembly plant where the traditional drag chain has been replaced by Swedish automated guided vehicle technology and some aspects of Japanese work organization have been implemented. The findings challenge claims that Fordism is being replaced by a fundamentally new production model, and that this is resulting in more fulfilling work and cooperative social relations. There are many fulfilling work and cooperative social relations. There are many continuities with Fordism and highly contradictory social relations. This and other studies of new work systems suggest, in fact, that contradictions between control and commitment, rather than being minimized or dissolved, can actually be heightened.
Keywords: AUTOMOBILE industry; Automation; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Case studies; Changes; Cooperation; Impact analysis; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Production management; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Stanley Bréhaut Ryerson, un intellectuel de combat - Claveau, Cylvie (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Stanley Bréhaut Ryerson, un intellectuel de combat," edited by Robert Comeau and Robert Tremblay.

What Kind of Unionism: Struggles Among Sydney Steel Workers in the SWOC Years, 1936-1942 - Crawley, Ron (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
In late 1936 steel worker activists in Sydney launched a new organizing drive at the plant under the auspices of the CIO's Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC). This effort drew the support of steel workers in a way that previous organizing attempts had not. However, the militant and self-reliant traditions of the steel workers collided with the cautious strategies and bureaucratic practices of the appointed SWOC leadership in the United States and Canada. As steel workers at Sydney showed great solidarity in their struggle with DOSCO, they also resisted what they saw as undemocratic and highly accommodationist practices by the union's national and international leadership. The struggles within the union embraced the issues of Canadian autonomy and nationalism as well as rank-and-file union control and the democratic rights of union members. It amounted to a struggle over what type of unionism was to be established within the Canadian steel industry.
Keywords: Bureaucracy; Canada; IRON & steel workers; Leadership; STEEL Workers Organizing Committee (U.S.); Steel industry; United States

Grace Hartman: A Woman for her Time - Crowley, Terry (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Grace Hartman: A Woman for her Time," by Susan Crean.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CREAN; Susan; GRACE Hartman: A Woman for Her Time (Book); HARTMAN; Grace; Nonfiction

Les vrais maîtres de la forêt québécoise - Cyr, Jean-Roch (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, Les vrais maîtres de la forêt québécoise," by Pierre Dubois, preface by Richard Desjardins.

Sizing Down: Chronicle of a Plant Closing: With Lessons for Understanding and Survival - Dandaneau, Steven P. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Sizing Down: Chronicle of a Plant Closing: With Lessons for Understanding and Survival," by Louise Moser Illes.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; DOWNSIZING of organizations; ILLES; Louise Moser; Nonfiction; SIZING Down: Chronicle of a Plant Closing: With Lessons for Understanding & Survival (Book)

Crossing The Line: Unionized Employee Ownership and Investment Funds - Dennie, Donald (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Crossing The Line: Unionized Employee Ownership and Investment Funds," by Jack Quarter.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CROSSING the Line: Unionized Employee Ownership & Investment Funds (Book); Employee ownership; Nonfiction; QUARTER; Jack

Le syndicalisme contemporain et son avenir - Desmarais, Jacques (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Le syndicalisme contemporain et son avenir," edited by Henryk Lewandowski and Zbigniew Hajn.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; International; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Gentle Rebel: Letters of Eugene V. Debs - Dick, W. M. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Gentle Rebel: Letters of Eugene V. Debs," edited by J. Robert Constantine.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CONSTANTINE; J. Robert; GENTLE Rebel: Letters of Eugene V. Debs (Book); Nonfiction; STRIKES & lockouts

Documents pour l'étude des expositions et musées pour la prévention des accidents et des maladies du travail au Québec au début du siècle - Dionne, Jean-Claude (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
Public exhibitions about work safety assumed an importance for both workers and employers at the beginning of the 20th century that is difficult to evaluate from a late-20th-century perspective. In Quebec, Louis Guyon, chief inspector of industrial establishments and public edifices, noted with interest expositions in Germany and France. Through his efforts the first North American exposition concerning the prevention of accidents was inaugurated in Montreal on 23 September 1901. Only insufficient government funds prevented Guyon from following European models in creating a worker safety museum. Similarly, a worker health museum did not materialize in the province because of funding problems.

Unionization, Union Involvement, and the Performance If Gainsharing Programs - Dong-One, Kim; Voos, Paula B. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
A study empirically examines the relationships between union status, union involvement, and the performance of gainsharing programs. The predictions of various competing theoretical perspectives are evaluated: 1. the agency/transaction cost approach, 2. the monopoly model, 3. the institutional voice model, and 4. a 2-faces model of labor organization. Gainsharing programs with union involvement in program administration resulted in better perceived performance than average programs in the nonunion sector. However, gainsharing programs in the union sector without union involvement had worse outcomes than those in the nonunion sector. These 2 divergent situations resulted in union status itself having an insignificant relationship with program performance.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Effects; Gainsharing; Labor Unions; Profit sharing plans; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Unionization

Wild Things: Nature, Culture and Tourism in Ontario, 1790-1914 - Dubinsky, Karen (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Wild Things: Nature, Culture and Tourism in Ontario, 1790-1914," by Patricia Jasen.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; JASEN; Patricia; Nonfiction; Ontario; WILD Things: Nature; Culture & Tourism in Ontario 1790-1914 (Book)

Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, No Jobs: The Transformation of Work in the 21st Century - Duffy, Ann; Glenday, Daniel; Pupo, Norene; Broad, Dave; Burman, Patrick W.; Shalla, Vivian; Glenday, Daniel; Stratton-Devine, Kay; Taylor, Laurel; Haryett, Kathy; Burman, Patrick; White, Jerry; et al. (Harcourt Brace Canada, 1997)
[This book] offers a progressive approach to the sociology of work and labour. Each chapter tackles an essential contemporary labour issue and includes original research from top scholars across Canada. The first of four parts is devoted to the contemporary turmoil of working Canadians caused by the upheaval in the manufacturing and service industries. Part Two discusses the tremendous impact of technology on the labour force. Specific case studies raise universal questions. ...Part Three examines issues specific to women in the new and changing workplace. The intrinsic conflict of work and family is established as the context for examining the division of labour inside and outside the family. ...Chapters in the final part examine the loss of manufacturing jobs, and the new realities of unemployment, underemployment, and under-qualification. –Publisher's description (abridged)
Keywords: 21st century; Transformation; Work; Working class

Hard Lessons: The Mine Mill Union in the Canadian Labour Movement - Dunk, Thomas (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Hard Lessons: The Mine Mill Union in the Canadian Labour Movement," edited by Mercedes Steedman, Peter Suschnigg and Dieter K. Buse.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; BUSE; Dieter K.; HARD Lessons: The Mine Mill Union in the Canadian Labour Movement (Book); Labor movement; Nonfiction; STEEDMAN; Mercedes; SUSCHNIGG; Peter

White Guys: Studies in Post-Modern Domination and Difference - Dunk, Thomas (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "White Guys: Studies in Post-Modern Domination and Difference," by Fred Pfeil.
Keywords: BLACK white differences; BOOKS – Reviews; Nonfiction; PFEIL; Fred; WHITE Guys: Studies in Post-Modern Domination & Difference (Book)

The Invention of White Race, Volume 1: Racial Oppression and Social Control - Eltis, David (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "The Invention of White Race: Racial Oppression and Social Control," Volume 1, by Theodore W. Allen.
Keywords: ALLEN; Theodore W.; BOOKS – Reviews; CAUCASIAN race; INVENTION of White Race: Racial Oppression & Social Control (Book); Nonfiction

Roaring Days: Rossland's Mines and the History of British Columbia - Emmons, David M. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Roaring Days: Rossland's Mines and the History of British Columbia," by Jeremy Mouat.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; British Columbia; History; MOUAT; Jeremy; Nonfiction; ROARING Days: Rossland's Mines & the History of British Columbia (Book)

Highwire Act: Power, Pragmatism, and the Harcourt Legacy - Epp, A. Ernest (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Highwire Act: Power, Pragmatism, and the Harcourt Legacy," by Daniel Gawthrop.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; GAWTHROP; Daniel; HIGHWIRE Act: Power; Pragmatism & the Harcourt Legacy (Book); Nonfiction; PRAGMATISM

'Ruffled' Mistresses and 'Discontented' Maids: Respectability and the Case of Domestic Service, 1880-1914 - Fahrni, Magda (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
Domestic service was an institution of considerable importance for working-class women and middle-class householders in Canada between 1880 and 1914. Service was instrumental in shaping class relations, in large part because it brought the working class directly into the bourgeois home. It was thus an arena where bourgeois and working-class versions of respectability met, and sometimes clashed. Service was essential to the elaboration of a respectable bourgeois lifestyle, and was considered a satiable occupation for working women, yet the peculiar restrictions of the occupation ensured that domestics would often find the trappings of respectability difficult to maintain. Domestics walked a fine line between 'respectability' and 'deviance'; indeed, in the eyes of many, service was an institution that straddled this line.
Keywords: Canada; HOUSEHOLD employees; LIFESTYLES; Stockholders; Women employees; Working class

Wives and Mothers, Schoolmistresses and Scullery Maids: Working Women in Upper Canada, 1790-1840 - Fingard, Judith (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Wives and Mothers, Schoolmistresses and Scullery Maids: Working Women in Upper Canada, 1790-1840," by Elizabeth Jane Errington.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Canada; ERRINGTON; Elizabeth Jane; Nonfiction; WIVES & Mothers; Schoolmistresses & Scullery Maids: Working Women in Upper Canada 1790-1840 (Book); WOMEN – Employment

Seeking the Highest Good: Social Service and Gender at the University of Toronto, 1888-1937 - Finkel, Alvin (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book "Seeking the Highest Good: Social Service and Gender at the University of Toronto, 1888-1937," by Sara Z. Burke.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; BURKE; Sara Z.; Nonfiction; SEEKING the Highest Good: Social Service & Gender at the University of Toronto 1888-1937 (Book); Social services

The Union Inspiration in American Politics: The Autoworkers and the Making of a Liberal Industrial Order - Fones-Wolf, Elizabeth (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "The Union Inspiration in American Politics: The Autoworkers and the Making of a Liberal Industrial Order," by Stephen Amberg.
Keywords: AMBERG; Stephen; AUTOMOBILE industry workers – United States; BOOKS – Reviews; Nonfiction; UNION Inspiration in American Politics: The Autoworkers & the Making of a Liberal Industrial Order; The (Book)

Securing the Male Breadwinner: A Feminist Interpretation of PC 1003 - Forrest, Anne (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
It is argued that labor's rights have been effectively the rights of working-class men because only men were constructed as family breadwinners for whom collective bargaining was both necessary and legitimate. Working-class women, by contrast, were defined as non-working wives and mothers, so had no claim to steady jobs at good wages or to union representation in their own right. Secondly, PC 1003 accorded rights to men (but not women) inasmuch as it codified an industrial model of workers' rights. Thirdly, PC 1003 supported and encouraged the growth of a male model of collective bargaining. The implications of a gendered analysis of PC 1003 for the study of industrial relations are discussed.
Keywords: Blue collar workers; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Collective bargaining; Employees; Employment; Gender; Labor Unions; Labor law; Labor relations; Rights; Sexes; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Women

The Labour Stamp: The Image of the Worker on Canadian Postage Stamps - Frank, David (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
Introduces Canadian postage stamps as a form of public identity, memory and iconography, and applies this lens to the representation on stamps of workers and the labour movement. Analyzes the particular stamps where workers and labour are commemorated, reproductions of which are included are in the article. Compares the relatively small number of Canadian labour stamps to those produced in the UK, Australia, France, and the US. Concludes that there should be greater inclusion of workers and unions in the selection and design of stamps, as recommended by the Canadian Committee on Labour History to Canada Post.
Keywords: Canada; Employees; FRANK; David; LABOUR/LE Travail (Book); NATIONAL characteristics; POSTAGE stamps; WRITING About Canada (Book); Women employees

The Revolution Deferred: The Painful Birth of Post-Apartheid South Africa - Freund, William (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "The Revolution Deferred: The Painful Birth of Post-Apartheid South Africa," by Martin J. Murray.
Keywords: APARTHEID; BOOKS – Reviews; MURRAY; Martin J.; Nonfiction; REVOLUTION Deferred: The Painful Birth of Post-Apartheid South Africa (Book); SOUTH Africa

Little Victories and Big Defeats: The Rise and Fall of Collective Bargaining Rights for Domestic Workers in Ontario. - Fudge, Judy (Not One of the Family: Foreign Domestic Workers in Canada, 1997)
The working conditions of workers who are paid to perform domestic chores by the families in whose homes they live and work have proved to be remarkably resistant to legal regulation. The nature of this resil-ience is both ideological and material. While the logic of formal legal equality has accommodated demands by live-in domestic workers for the gradual extension of protective labour legislation to their work, this extension has been partial and ineffective. –Introduction`
Book available at Internet Archive to people with print disabilities: https://archive.org/details/notoneoffamilyfo0000unse
Keywords: Activistes; Bargaining; Collective Agreements; Domestic workers; Ontario; Workers rights; Working class

Labour and Unions in a Period of Transition - Gani, Abdul (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Labour and Unions in a Period of Transition," edited by C. S. Venkata Ratnam, Gerd Botterweck and Pravin Sinha.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Roles; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Gender-Based Wage Differences: The Effects of Occupation and Job Segregation in Israel - Gattiker, Urs E.; Cohen, Aaron (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
A study examines gender differences in the process governing salary disparity between typically female occupations and typically male occupations. The findings indicate that choice of occupation does affect income disparity. The study provides evidence of pay discrimination against men in predominantly female occupations and against women in female- and male-dominated positions. Women did not experience a positive effect by being employed in the public sector, nor did either of the genders working in larger organizations. The implications of the findings for the generalizability of human capital, structural and institutional theories explaining wage disparity in a cross-national context are discussed.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Gender; Labor Unions; Sex discrimination; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Wage differential; Wages & salaries

La sous-traitance forestière dans le Nord-Est ontarien, 1900-1930 - Gaudreau, Guy (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
Cet article dresse un portrait des sous-traitants forestiers à l'oeuvre dans le nord-est Ontarien au cours des premières décennies du XXe siècle. À partir d'une source méconnue, les registres forestiers gouvernement aux des districts de Sudbury et de North Bay, Ontario, l'auteur suit l'évolution de 269 sous-traitants échantillonnés. La durée et l'emplacement de leurs activités, leur ethnicité, les volumes et la nature des contrats obtenus, et le nombre d'entreprises avec lesquelles ils font affaires, constituent les variables majeures de cette étude. Bien que la précarité économique ne fasse pas de doute sur certains plans, notamment par l'obligation qui leur est imposée de déménager sans cesse leurs activités et par les fréquentes interruptions de leurs affaires, elle paraît, en bout de course, avoir été exagérée par l'historiographie. En effet, la situation économique des papetières de la région n'est guère plus reluisante que celle des sous-traitants, sans compter que le mode d'attribution des permis de coupe ontariens autorise la présence de plusieurs autres entreprises forestières régionales, de telle sorte qu'il n'y a pas de monopoles régionaux comme c'est le cas au Québec et au Nouveau-Brunswick. En outre, les sous-traitants font preuve dans les contrats obtenus d'une étonnante capacité d'adaptation.
Keywords: CONTRACTS; Contract labor; FORESTERS; Literature; New Brunswick; Ontario; QUEBEC (Province)

Managerial Strategies, Labour and Employment Relations and the State: The Canadian Case and Beyond - Godard, John (British Journal of Industrial Relations, 1997)
This paper addresses: (1) the extent to which changes appear to have occurred in managerial strategies and labour and employment relations in Canadian firms, and (2) the role of the state relative to anonymous economic forces in accounting for Canadian developments. The general findings are that, while there have been a number of significant changes, these have been more moderate than expected by ‘transformation’ theory; furthermore, the Canadian case is consistent with the argument that state actions play a major role relative to more anonymous economic ‘forces’ in accounting for developments in labour and employment relations. It also suggests an alternative model to that typically assumed by transformation theory, one in which state policies and economic conditions are considered to be important not only for their direct effects on employer policies, but also for their indirect effects, through their implications for worker expectations and union militancy. Although these conclusions are tentative and call for more systematic, comparative research, they are consistent with arguments by Burawoy and others that state actions can serve as an important source of labour regulation at the level of the firm.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-8543.00061/abstract

Histoire de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue - Goulet, Denis; Hudon, Christine; Lanthier, Pierre (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Histoire de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue," edited by Odette Vincent.

Crewe: Railway Town, Company and People, 1840-1914 - Green, David R. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Crewe: Railway Town, Company and People, 1840-1914," by Diane K. Drummond.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CREWE (England); CREWE: Railway Town; Company & People 1840-1914 (Book); DRUMMOND; Diane K.; England; Nonfiction

Internal Versus External Labour Flexibility: A Two-Plant Comparison in Canadian Manufacturing - Grenier, Jean-Noël; Giles, Anthony; Bélanger, Jacques (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article examines the divergent patterns of labor flexibility in 2 Canadian power transformer plants owned by the same company and producing similar products with identical technologies. The case study results are used to point to 3 over-simplifications in the flexibility debate: 1. the claim that "numerical" and "functional" flexibility are incompatible, 2. the argument that North American management relies more heavily on external flexibility than on flexibility, and 3. the widespread contention that the traditional collective agreement is the chief barrier to achieving a more flexible organization of production in North America.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Comparative analysis; Electric utilities; Flexibility; Labor; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Manufacturers; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

In Quest of Emotional Gratification and Cognitive Consonance: Organized Labour and Québec Separatist Nationalism, 1960-1980 - Guentzel, Ralph Peter (McGill University, 1997)
This thesis examines the reaction of organized labour to Quebec separatist nationalism for the period between 1960, the year of the creation of the Rassemblement pour l'independance nationale and the beginning of the Quiet Revolution in Quebec, and 1980, the year of the first referendum on Quebec's constitutional status. The thesis investigates four labour organizations: the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC), the Federation des travailleurs et travailleuses du Quebec (FTQ), the Confederation des syndicats nationaux (CSN), and the Centrale de l'enseignement du Quebec (CEQ). It shows in which ways the positions of the four centrals have been informed by their members' national identifications and the emotional and cognitive mechanisms that resulted from these identifications.
Keywords: Labor unions – Québec (Province) – Political activity.; Québec (Province) – History – Autonomy and independence movements.

Les pratiques d'aide à l'équilibre emploi-famille dans les organisations du Québec - Guérin, Gilles; St-Onge, Sylvie; Haines, Victor; Trottier, René; Simard, Manon (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
La problématique de l'équilibre emploi-famille (ÉEF) est de plus en plus au cœur des préoccupations organisationnelles, à tel point que se développe l'idée qu’il faut gérer cet équilibre, c'est-à-dire plus explicitement qu'il faut implanter ou modifier certaines pratiques de gestion pour aider les employés à surmonter leurs problèmes d'ÉEF. Cette recherche, effectuée auprès de 301 organisations ayant des opérations au Québec, vise à répondre aux questions suivantes : (1) Quel est le degré d'implantation au Québec des diverses pratiques présentées dans la littérature spécialisée ? (2) Sous quelles formes ces pratiques sont-elles implantées ? (3) Quelles sont les organisations qui les ont implantées ? (4) Quels sont leurs effets ? et finalement (5) Existe-t-il à proprement parler des programmes d'aide à l'équilibre emploi-famille dans les organisations québécoises ?
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Corporations; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Work & family

L'efficacite des pratiques de gestion des ressources humaines: le cas de la gestion des professionels syndiques au Quebec - Guérin, Gilles; Wils, Thierry; Lemire, Louise (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
Le malaise professionnel — vu comme un conflit entre les valeurs professionnelles et les exigences organisationnelles — a donné lieu à une abondante littérature au cours des quarante dernières années. Le concept est ici repris dans le but d'élaborer un construit qui s'appuie sur les huit principaux points de tension entre les cadres et les professionnels, soit la nature du travail, l'autonomie, la participation à la prise de décision, le style de gestion du supérieur, les conditions de travail, le développement de carrière, la reconnaissance et l'éthique. Construit à partir de questions mesurant tant les attentes professionnelles que les perceptions de réalisation de 2497 professionnels syndiqués du Québec, le construit de 16 indicateurs se révèle cohérent et valide puisqu'il est significativement corrélé avec les attitudes et comportements généralement associés au malaise par les auteurs.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Human resource management; Labor Unions; Professions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Impact or Layoff Announcements on the Market Value of the Firm - Gunderson, Morley; Verma, Anil; Verma, Savita (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
A study examines the effect of layoff announcements on the market's valuation of firms. The event study methodology is applied to a sample of 214 announcements of layoffs made by major Canadian firms that traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange over the period 1982-1989. The main results are: 1. The market responds to the news of layoffs in a negative fashion, lowering the value of firms that announce layoffs. 2. Almost all of the negative response occurs on the day of the announcement, suggesting that the market is not able to fully anticipate the new information, but that it responds to it very quickly.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Effects; Labor Unions; Layoffs; Securities; Securities markets; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Stock prices; Studies; Valuation

Profiles in Dissent: The Shaping of Radical Thought in the Canadian West - Gutkin, Harry; Gutkin, Mildred (NeWest Press, 1997)
A recounting of the lives of the leaders and organisers who were arrested and charged at the climax of the Winnipeg General Strike and how their efforts helped give birth to an active, organised Prairie labour movement that spread across the nation. –Publisher's description
OCLC: 924930767
Keywords: Biography; Labour leaders; Winnipeg general strike

Debunking the Public Health Myth: Municipal Politics and Class Conflict During the Galt, Ontario Waterworks Campaigns, 1888-1890 - Hagopian, John S. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
This article refutes the assertion that the Galt, Ontario waterworks was built for public health reasons. The two Galt waterworks campaigns (1888 and 1890) are studied in the context of other contemporaneous local events, the most important of which was a moulders' strike in 1889. Popular resistance to businessmen's wants and public support for the striking moulders prompted the formation of a local board of trade and the threat of an industrial exodus from town. The waterworks authorization of 1890 resulted from the victory by buinessmen in this overt class stuggle. The development of Galt's waterworks reflected economic and political interests far more than public health concerns. The findings refut McLaughlin, and illustrate a novel connection between urban politics, infrastructure development, labour rleations, and industrial capitalism.
Keywords: BUSINESSMEN; Capitalism; Industrial relations; POLITICAL doctrines; Public health; WATERWORKS

Évolution de la pratique de la gestion des ressources humaines: une analyse de contenu d'annonces de presse (1975-1985-1995) - Haines, Victor; Arcand, Michel (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
Si, au niveau du discours, la gestion des ressources humaines semble avoir développé de nouvelles approches, qu'en est-il réellement dans la pratique ? Par l'entremise d'une analyse de contenu d'annonces de presse, cette étude retrace l'évolution de certaines dimensions de la pratique de la gestion des ressources humaines entre 1975 et 1995. Les résultats indiquent que la pratique a connu une évolution qui requiert de nouvelles exigences professionnelles.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

New Deals: Business, Labor, and Politics in America, 1920-1935 - Hamilton, David E. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "New Deals: Business, Labor and Politics in America, 1920-1935.," by Colin Gordon.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; BUSINESS & politics; GORDON; Colin; NEW Deals: Business; Labor & Politics in America 1920-1935 (Book); Nonfiction; United States

The Economics of the Trade Union - Heery, Edmund (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "The Economics of the Trade Union," by Alison L. Booth.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; BOOTH; Alison L.; ECONOMICS of the Trade Union; The (Book); Labor Unions; Nonfiction

Desert Capitalism: Maquiladoras in North America's Western Industrial Corridor - Hellman, Judith Adler (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Desert Capitalism: Maquiladoras in North America's Western Industrial Corridor," by Kathryn Kopinak.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Capitalism; DESERT Capitalism: Maquiladoras in North America's Western Industrial Corridor (Book); KOPINAK; Kathryn; Nonfiction

Pathways to Change: Case Studies of Strategic Negotiations - Hercus, Terry (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Pathways to Change: Case Studies of Strategic Negotiations," by Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Robert B. McKersie and Richard E. Walton.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Collective bargaining; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Negotiations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

September 1931: A Re-Interpretation of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's Handling of the 1931 Estevan Strike and Riot - Hewitt, Steve (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
Reassesses the 1931 Estevan miners' strike and riot in light of internal RCMP reports recently released under the federal Access to Information Act. Discusses reporting by local police officials at the time, which was more nuanced and sympathetic to the miners than had previously been believed. However, the RCMP was also under heavy pressure from higher authorities and mine owners to crack down. Three miners were killed (one died in hospital) and eight others injured by the police in a violent confrontation on September 29, 1931. A photograph is reproduced of the common grave where the three miners were buried under the epitaph, "Murdered by RCMP."
Keywords: ESTEVAN (Sask.); HEWITT; Steve; LABOUR/LE Travail (Book); Miners; ROYAL Canadian Mounted Police; Riots; SASKATCHEWAN; STRIKES & lockouts

Relations professionnelles, conventions, régulations : pour prolonger le projet néoréaliste - Hoang-Ngoc, Liêm (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
L'auteur rappelle d'abord les pistes tracées par les travaux néoréalistes en relations industrielles, puis il propose une perspective se situant dans le cadre d'une hétérodoxie institutionnaliste française afin de prolonger cette perspective. Après avoir distingué au sein du rapport salarial les règles organisationnelles et les règles institutionnelles, il porte son attention sur le système de relations professionnelles défini comme l'ensemble des règles institutionnelles. Il développe ensuite une hypothèse d'endogénéité relative des règles de contenu du système de relations professionnelles vis-à-vis des régimes d'accumulation. Puis il élabore une typologie qui met en évidence le type de relations professionnelles qui favorise l'enchaînement macroéconomique propre à chaque régime d'accumulation. Enfin, il considère les différences nationales qui sont mises sur le compte de la capacité exogène des acteurs, dotés d'une rationalité procédurale, à mettre en phase dans le temps les règles du système de relations professionnelles avec la régulation en place, d'où la possibilité de fortes marges d'indétermination. // Three perspectives that have emerged from neorealist studies in industrial relations are explored. An initial analytical contribution of the paper is to hierarchize the various categories of rules, particularly by distinguishing procedural rules from content rules and labor relations rules from human resource management rules. Through the concept of the system of rules, the paper examines the national character of rules located in a single economic space and examines the interaction of these rules with this space. Strategies pursued by collective actors are identified.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Collective bargaining; Labor Unions; Labor relations; R&D; Research & development; Rules; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

The Abuses of Literacy: The Making of a Worker 'Basic Skills' Crisis in England and North America - Hoddinott, Susan (University of Warwick, 1997)
Over the past two decades there has emerged a generalized critique of the quality of the labour supply in industrialized countries in relation to concerns about corporate profitability and national competitiveness. Frequently, the critique has focused, in whole or in part, on the so-called 'literacy' or 'basic skills' competencies of workers. This thesis examines the problematizing of workers' literacy competencies at a time when general educational attainments in Western countries have reached unprecedentedly high levels. Both broad-based and historically informed, the study focuses on the United States, Canada and England over the period of the mid-1980s through the early 1990s. The motives of the agencies and interests which have proclaimed a worker 'basic skills crisis', as well as the processes through which their claims have been disseminated, are analyzed. The ideological and material contexts in which these claims have resonated are described. The thesis concludes that the workforce basic skills 'crisis' is a socially constructed one which has little or no basis in fact. It is an issue which has had utility for a number of interests (including business, labour, educationalists and the state sector), however, and this, it is argued, accounts for the role they have taken in its social construction. The evidence presented here establishes that the workforce literacy issue has had real consequences for workers. It has operated to scapegoat sections of the working class and to further marginalize less formally qualified workers in their workplaces and in the labour market. This-the industrial relations context in which the putative workforce 'basic skills crisis' has operated-forms the principal focus of the thesis. The impacts on workers of actions stemming from the acceptance of the idea of a basic skills crisis-including increasing scrutiny of literacy and language competencies of workers and the promotion and establishment of 'basic skills' programmes of questionable value in workplaces-ought to give cause for many who have endorsed claims of a 'crisis' and embraced workplace literacy to re-evaluate their position.

Sexual Orientation and the Canadian Labour Movement - Hunt, Gerald (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The response of the Canadian labor movement to sexual orientation discrimination has been mixed and uneven. The Canadian Labour Congress, along with several provincial federations and a growing number of unions, have taken a leadership role in promoting equal rights for gays and lesbians, while other labor organizations have done nothing at all. Public sector and Canadian-based unions are much more likely to have been active than have American-based unions, even though there are important exceptions to these trends. These developments are partially explained by regional dynamics, membership demographics, degree of activism, the presence of women's committees, and organizational leadership.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Collective bargaining; Discrimination; Employment discrimination; Gays & lesbians; Labor Unions; Manycompanies; Polls & surveys; Ratings & rankings; Rights; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Statistical data

The Fabrication of Labor: Germany and Britain, 1640-1914 - Huzel, James P. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "The Fabrication of Labor: Germany and Britain, 1640-1914," by Richard Biernacki.
Keywords: BIERNACKI; Richard; BOOKS – Reviews; FABRICATION of Labor: Germany & Britain 1640-1914; The (Book); Labor; Nonfiction

La géométrie du syndicalisme : une analyse comparative des identités et des idéologies - Hyman, Richard (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
Cet article offre un cadre pour l'analyse comparative des orientations politiques des syndicats, en distinguant des types idéaux idéologiques et identitaires qui se rapportent, premièrement, à la négociation sur le marché du travail ; deuxièmement, au renforcement de l'intégration des travailleurs dans la société ; troisièmement, à la poursuite conflictuelle d'intérêts de classe. L'argument est qu'en pratique les mouvements syndicaux européens ont généralement épousé une combinaison de ces orientations dans laquelle deux des trois éléments ont été retenus (souvent de façon contradictoire) comme prioritaires. Les cas de la Grande-Bretagne, de l'Italie et de l'Allemagne sont utilisés pour démontrer différentes combinaisons d'idéologies et d'objectifs, et également pour révéler comment les identités héritées ont récemment été mises sous tension.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Editor's Note = Note du directeur [39, Spring 1997] - Iacovetta, Franca; Quinlan, Michael; Kealey, Gregory S. (Labour/Le Travail, 1997)
A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "Immigration and Labour: Australia and Canada Compared" published in "Labour/Le Travail."
Keywords: LETTERS to the editor; Labor

The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class - Jacobs, Ellen (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "The Struggle for the Breeches: Gender and the Making of the British Working Class," by Anna Clark.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CLARK; Anna; England; Nonfiction; STRUGGLE for the Breeches: Gender & the Making of the British Working Class; The (Book); Working class

Workers and Working Classes in the Middle East: Struggles, Histories, Historiographies - Kayali, Hasan (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Workers and Working Classes in the Middle East: Struggles, Histories, Historiographies," by Zachary Lockman.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; LOCKMAN; Zachary; Nonfiction; WORKERS & Working Classes in the Middle East: Struggles; Histories; Historiographies (Book); Working class

Editor's Note = Note de directeur [40, Fall 1997] - Kealey, Gregory S.; Palmer, Bryan D. (Labour/Le Travail, 1997)
Bryan Palmer is succeeding Gregory Kealey, who is stepping down as editor after 21 years. Mark Leier is succeeding Palmer as the book review editor; Palmer had held the post for nearly 15 years. In turn, Andrew Parnaby and Richard Rennie are the new co-editors of the Notebook, succeeding Leier. Andrée Lévesque continues as the French book review editor. Various editorial board changes are noted. As incoming editor, Palmer offers a reflection on the journal and its path forward.
Keywords: Editors; Labor; Retirement

E.P. Thompson-Objections and Oppositions - Kirk, Neville (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "E. P. Thompson-Objections and Oppositions," by Bryan D. Palmer.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; E.P. Thompson-Objections & Oppositions (Book); Nonfiction; PALMER; Bryan D.; THOMPSON; E. P. (Edward Palmer); 1924-1993

The Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program in Ontario: From the Perspective of Jamaican Migrants - Knowles, Kimberly Jane (University of Guelph, 1997)
The phenomenon of offshore migrant labour in Canada poses an interesting challenge to the literature dealing with unfree labour relations in capitalist societies. This thesis uses in-depth interviews with Jamaican migrant labourers in Ontario, along with supporting statistical data to further our understanding of the subjective domain of labour relations in agriculture. According to the literature The Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program constitutes a system of unfree labour, and many employers in the Ontario agricultural sector benefit from this system. Jamaican migrant workers do not necessarily share this view of unfreedom. While recognising the definite restrictions as defined in the contract, these migrants accept the conditions of employment as a trade off for the opportunity of material advancement not available to them in Jamaica. This discrepancy over the definition of unfree labour reflects the disparities between the North and the South, and needs to be addressed.
Keywords: Social sciences; unfree labor

Loyautés organisationnelle et professionnelle et choix de carrière : le cas des professionnels en ressources humaines au Québec - Labelle, Christiane; Guérin, Gilles; Wils, Thierry (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
Cette étude, réalisée auprès de 1 133 professionnels en ressources humaines au Québec, a identifié, au moyen d'une analyse typologique des loyautés professionnelle et organisationnelle, trois groupes de professionnels. Plusieurs différences de perception concernant les facteurs de remise en question de la carrière ont servi conjointement avec d'autres variables sociodémographiques et de carrière à distinguer et nommer ces trois types de professionnels. Il s'agit des « professionnels établis », « en voie d'être établis » et « non établis ». Une discussion replace ces résultats dans le contexte du renouvellement de la fonction « ressources humaines » qui influence non seulement les tâches et rôles des professionnels du domaine, mais aussi certaines facettes de leur carrière.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Human resource managers; Labor Unions; Professions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Restructuration d'une direction de ressources humaines : le point de vue des acteurs - Labelle, Christiane; Wils, Thierry (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
Depuis quelques années, les services de ressources humaines font l'objet de vives critiques, et ce, dans un contexte de ressources de plus en plus rares. Une façon de contrer cette menace de l'environnement est de « faire les choses autrement » en se structurant différemment. Par exemple, il est possible de passer d'une structure par fonctions (avec des spécialistes) à une structure par équipes multidisciplinaires (avec des généralistes). Le but de cette étude est d'évaluer dans quelle mesure cette nouvelle forme de structuration — par équipes multidisciplinaires — d'une direction de ressources humaines (DRH) a un impact sur les acteurs touchés par cette réorganisation (gestionnaires et membres de la DRH). Inspirées principalement de l'approche de l'évaluation des DRH par les clients, deux enquêtes par questionnaires ont été réalisées dans une organisation du secteur public. A partir d'un échantillon de 138 individus (79 gestionnaires et 59 membres de la DRH), l'analyse statistique révèle que la restructuration est perçue plus positivement par les gestionnaires que par les membres de la DRH.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

L'indemnisation des victimes d'accidents du travail et des maladies professionnelles : aspects juridiques en droit québécois - Laflamme, Anne-Marie (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "L'indemnisation des victimes d'accidents du travail et des maladies professionnelles : aspects juridiques en droit québécois," by Michel Sansfaçon.
Keywords: Book reviews; 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

Age-Related Injuries Among Male and Female Assembly Workers: A Study in the Swedish Automobile Industry - Laflamme, Lucie (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
A study investigates whether there is evidence of age-related impairment in injury occurrence among assemblers in the Swedish automobile industry. A retrospective analysis of injuries sustained by male and female assemblers over a 10-year period was conducted, employing 5 age categories divided in to 10 yearly strata and 3 time periods. Age-related injury ratios (IR) were calculated for all injuries. Contrary expectation, IRs for older assemblers were generally low while consistently high IRs were recorded for younger assemblers, and for both male and female workers.
Keywords: AUTOMOBILE industry; Accidents; Age; Age and employment; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Correlation analysis; Industrial accidents; Labor Unions; Occupational accidents; Occupational safety; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Droits et conditions de travail des employés des agences de location de main-d'oeuvre - Laflamme, Roch; Carrier, Dany (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
Un contexte économique difficile, des besoins de ressources humaines de plus en plus flexibles et une offre accrue de main-d’œuvre ont contribué à l'émergence de nouvelles formes d'emploi à temps partiel ou temporaire, souvent comblées par des agences de location de main-d’œuvre temporaire. Cet article cherche à présenter les conséquences pratiques qu'entraîne une relation d'emploi tripartite, employeur/salarié/agence, sur les droits et les conditions de travail des employés des agences de location de main-d’œuvre temporaire.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Contract labor; Labor Unions; Labor law; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Temporary employment

La part des militants: Biographie et mouvement ouvrier - Lagana, Marc (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "La part des militants: biographie et mouvement ouvrier," by Michel Dreyfus and Claude Pennetier.

Worker's Control on the Railroad: A Practical Example "Right Under Your Nose" - Lamonde, Fernande; Cameron, Nancy (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Worker's control on the railroad: a practical example 'right under your nose,'" edited by by G.R. Pool and D.J. Young.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Railroads; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Le travail déraciné : l'impartition flexible dans la dynamique sociale des entreprises forestières du Québec - Lapointe, Paul-André (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Le travail déraciné : l'impartition flexible dans la dynamique sociale des entreprises forestières du Québec," by Daniel Mercure.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employees; Forest products; Forest products industry; Labor Unions; Outsourcing; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Seniority and Employment Equity for Women - Legault, Marie-Josée (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Seniority and Employment Equity for Women," by Louise Dulude.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employment; Labor Unions; Sex discrimination; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Women

Plots, Shots, and Liberal Thoughts: Conspiracy Theory and the Death of Ginger Goodwin - Leier, Mark (James Mark) (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
Examines longstanding conspiracy theories, as well as the reconsideration of forensic evidence given in Susan Mayse's book, "Ginger: The Life and Death of Albert Goodwin," that the British-born miner and labour activist was murdered by Dominion Police on military orders of the federal government in 1918. Concludes that there was no proof of conspiracy nor was there sufficient evidence to show that the police shooter had intent to murder. Argues, however, that this does not absolve the government and business from culpability since they were responsible for taking Canada into an imperial war - and Goodwin, who opposed conscription and the war, was being pursued by the police for evading conscription.
Keywords: CAMPBELL; Dan; CONSPIRACY; CONSPIRACY theories; Canada; GOODWIN; Albert; LABOUR/LE Travail (Book); LEIER; Mark; SELF-defense (Law)

Things That Never Added Up To Me: Songs of Love, War, Theology, Golf and the Great American Railroad - Leier, Mark (James Mark) (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Things That Never Added Up To Me: Songs of Love, War, Theology, Golf and the Great American Railroad," by Al Grierson.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; GRIERSON; Al; Music; Nonfiction; THINGS That Never Added up to Me: Songs of Love; War; Theology; Golf & the Great American Railroad (Book)

Conflits du travail, changement social et politique en France depuis 1950 - Lequin, Jacques-André (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Conflits du travail, changement social et politique en France depuis 1950," by Monique Borrel.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Social conditions & trends; Strikes

Paying the Price of Freedom: Family and Labor among Lima's Slaves, 1800-1854 - Lipsett-Rivera, Sonya (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Paying the Price of Freedom: Family and Labor Among Lima's Slaves, 1800-1854," by Christine Hünefeldt.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; HUNEFELDT; Christine; Nonfiction; PAYING the Price of Freedom: Family & Labor Among Lima's Slaves 1800-1854 (Book); Slavery

Bibliography: Recent Publications in Canadian Labour History / Bibliographie : Travaux récents en histoire des classes populaires canadiennes - Lonardo, Michael; Sweeney, Robert C. H. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
Compilation of recent English/French publications on Canadian labour history that emphasize the period 1800-1975. Materials pertaining to the post-1975 period may also be included, although more selectively. [See the database, Canadian Labour History, 1976-2009, published at Memorial University of Newfoundland.]

Motives for Profit Sharing: A Study of Canadian Chief Executive Officers - Long, Richard J. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
A study seeks to explain why companies do or do not introduce employee profit sharing, through a telephone survey of CEOs at 626 Canadian companies. In addition to examining some of the usual contextual variables, the study goes beyond previous work by directly questioning CEOs about their motives for adopting or not adopting profit sharing, and by including managerial philosophy as a possible factor in their decision-making process. Results indicated that managerial philosophy and company size were the 2 key predictors of incidence or profit sharing. However, the firms most likely to adopt profit sharing in the future were those experiencing a high growth in sales coupled with a low growth in employees. Surprisingly, unionization was not related to either presence of, or intention to implement, profit sharing.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Chief executive officers; Correlation analysis; Executives; Labor Unions; Polls & surveys; Profit sharing plans; Size of enterprise; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Northern Sandlots: A Social History of Maritime Baseball - Lorenz, Stacy L. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Northern Sandlots: A Social History of Maritime Baseball," by Colin D. Howell.
Keywords: BASEBALL – History; BOOKS – Reviews; HOWELL; Colin D.; NORTHERN Sandlots: A Social History of Maritime Baseball (Book); Nonfiction

Retirement Plans and Pensions: An Empirical Study - Luchak, Andrew A. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
Based on 512 survey respondents, the age at which people voluntarily planned to retire was found to be influenced most strongly by incentives for early retirement embodied in their pension plan. The planned age of retirement was also influenced by the accuracy of information about pension plan features as well as by the respondents' age, gender, health status, and marital status, especially the employment and pension status of the spouse. Implications for public policy and human resource practices of the firm, as well as for implicit contracting are discussed.
Keywords: Age and employment; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Early retirement; Labor Unions; Pension funds; Pension plans; Regression analysis; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Canadian Railway Workers and World War I Military Service - MacKinnon, Mary (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article discusses the retention of employee records to keep track of railway workers serving the Canadian armed forces during World War I. It discusses the impact of the war on the Canadian economy, citing how it deepened the depression, how it affected the business performance of railways, including the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), and how railway employment fell between 1913 and 1915. It mentions the support given by the railway industry to the war effort which is evident in its collaboration with the metal manufacturing sector in producing shells, as well as its assistance to government efforts to boost munitions production. It also explores how companies monitor employees enlisted to serve the military and how this encouraged them to have an accurate record keeping.
Keywords: Armed forces; CANADIAN Pacific Railway Co.; Canada; RAILROADS – Employees; RECORDS management; WAR – Economic aspects; WEAPONS industry; WORLD War; 1914-1918

Espace social de l'entreprise et logiques d'action ouvrières - Maroy, Christian; Fusulier, Bernard (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
Les logiques d'action des ouvriers du secteur industriel à l'endroit de la formation et des changements du travail ne sont pas homogènes. Elles sont tributaires de leurs caractéristiques personnelles mais aussi de leurs positions objectives dans l'espace social des entreprises qui les emploient. Des différences importantes de logiques apparaissent ainsi selon la génération des salariés, selon le moment de leur socialisation initiale au travail, ou selon la longueur de la scolarisation initiale. Mais la position dans l'entreprise intervient également. L'article s'appuie sur une monographie d'un équipementier automobile en Wallonie (Belgique) qui depuis une dizaine d'années développe une politique accentuée de modernisation technique et sociale. Le but de la recherche est de saisir les réactions des salariés à ces politiques managériales, en particulier en ce qui concerne la politique de formation. La recherche s'appuie sur une vingtaine d'interviews de travailleurs d'exécution des deux principaux ateliers et sur une étude statistique et documentaire.
Keywords: Attitudes; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employees; Labor Unions; Organizational change

Résistance et transgression. Études en histoire des femmes au Québec - Marshall, Dominique (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Résistance et transgression. . Études en histoire des femmes au Québec," by Andrée Lévesque.

Private Policing and Surveillance of Catholics: Anti-Communism in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto, 1920-1960 - Maurutto, Paula (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
This study examines the private policing and surveillance tactics adopted by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto to prevent the spread of communism, particularly within its congregation. Catholic "spies" and informants kept the Church abreast of communist maneuverings in ethnic communities, religious organizations, and on university campuses. An extensive moral and educational campaign was launched by the Church to create a bulwark against the Reds. These actions highlight the historical role of voluntary organizations in the policing of citizens and the maintenance of national security. Policing is redefined as a phenomenon that operated beyond the exclusive domain of the state. The analysis seeks to introduce a broader notion of national security and policing by examining the interplay between public and private institutions.
Keywords: CATHOLICS; Communists; Labor; National security; Ontario; SECURITY management; Toronto (Ont.)

Fantasy, the Bomb, and the Greening of Britain: Romantic Protest, 1945-1980 - Mayer, Jill (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Fantasy, the Bomb, and the Greening of Britain: Romantic Protest, 1945-1980," by Meredith Veldman.
Keywords: 20th century; BOOKS – Reviews; FANTASY; the Bomb & the Greening of Britain (Book); GREAT Britain; History; Nonfiction; VELDMAN; Meredith

Ideal Surroundings: Domestic Life in a Working-Class Suburb in the 1920s - McDonald, Robert A.J. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Ideal Surroundings: Domestic Life in a Working-Class Suburb in the 1920s," by Suzanne Morton.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; IDEAL Surroundings: Domestic Life in a Working-Class Suburb in the 1920s (Book); MORTON; Suzanne; Nonfiction; Working class

Clients and Consciousness: Drawing Militancy from Confusion on the Front Lines of the State - McElligott, Greg (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
This article uses the experience of the Canada Employment and Immigration Union to argue that progressive political action is still possible on the front lines of the state. The CEIU has used client coalitions to defend and transform its membership, and these efforts have been aided by the contradictions of the neoconservative project itself. Union successes have occurred when clients and community groups are on side, real material gains are conceivable, and the issues at stake impinge on the discretionary decisions of frontline workers. Union efforts are seen to constitute a prototypical strategy of "countermanagement," which can establish the foundations for a new, more democratically-accountable state.
Keywords: CONTRADICTION; EMIGRATION & immigration; Employees; Labor; Labor Unions; Skilled labor

Réaliser l'équité salariale; L'équité salariale : mise en oeuvre et enjeux - Mercier, Jacques (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the books, "Réaliser l'équité salariale," by Alain Gazaille and "L'équité salariale : mise en oeuvre et enjeux," by Marie-Thérèse Chicha.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Equal pay for equal work; Labor Unions; Labor law; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Les conditions difficiles dans les emplois des femmes et les instances gouvernementales en santé et en sécurité du travail - Messing, Karen; Boutin, Sophie (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
Les femmes participent de plus en plus au marché du travail, mais les normes et pratiques qui s'appliquent à la santé au travail ont été élaborées à un moment où les travailleurs étaient surtout des hommes. En 1990, les secteurs d'activité désignés comme étant les plus prioritaires pour l'intervention par la Commission de la santé et de la sécurité du travail du Québec avaient un taux de masculinité qui s'élevait à plus de 85 %. Dans cet article, nous démontrons une certaine exclusion des femmes de la prévention en santé au travail, nous donnons des explications pour cette exclusion et nous proposons des mesures de correction.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employment; Labor Unions; Laws & regulations; Occupational health & safety; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Women; Working conditions

Canada and the Aboriginal Peoples, 1867-1927 - Miller, James Rodger (Canadian Historical Association, 1997)
OCLC: 964085850

Fighter with a Heart: Writings of Charles Owen Rice, Pittsburgh Labor Priest - Moran, Martin (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Fighter with a Heart: Writings of Charles Owen Rice, Pittsburgh Labor Priest," edited by Charles McCollester.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor; Labor Unions; Religion; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Union leadership

Copper and Class Struggle - Mouat, Jeremy (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews and comments on the books "Race and Labor in Western Copper: The Fight for Equality, 1896-1918," by Philip J. Mellinger and "Copper Crucible: How the Arizona Miners' Strike of 1983 Recast Labor-Management Relations in America," by Jonathan D. Rosenblum.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; COPPER Crucible (Book); MELLINGER; Philip J.; Nonfiction; RACE & Labor in Western Copper: The Fight for Equality 1896-1918 (Book); ROSENBLUM; Jonathan D.

The Entrepreneurial Role of Organized Labour in the British Columbia Motion Picture Industry - Murphy, David G. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
Research into an industrial sector reflecting principles of the emergent network model of production indicates that organized labor can play a positive role in post-Fordist system of industrial governance. Within the dynamic motion picture industry of British Columbia (B.C.), organized labor was the key organizational factor in the birth and rapid expansion of the agglomeration of small, specialized film production firms. In this process, B.C. film unions have become the dominant actors in forging collaborative relations between local production companies, between the sector and the state, and between the district and other film centers, so critical to the success of the network model.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Motion picture industry; Roles; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Horses of a Shared Colour: Interpreting Class and Identity in Turn-of-the-Century Vancouver - Nelles, H. V. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews several books including "Red Flags and Red Tape: The Making of a Labour Bureaucracy," by Mark Leier and "Making Vancouver: Class, Status and Social Boundaries," by Robert A. J. McDonald.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; LEIER; Mark; MAKING Vancouver: Class; Status & Social Boundaries (Book); MCDONALD; Robert A. J.; 1944-; Nonfiction; RED Flags & Red Tape: The Making of a Labour Bureaucracy (Book)

"Unions Aren't Native": The Muckamuck Restaurant Labour Dispute, Vancouver, B.C. (1978-1983) - Nicol, Janet Mary (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
Examines the roles of organized labour, the employer, the government, and the First Nations community with regard to the protracted labour dispute at the Muckamuck Restaurant in Vancouver, BC that ended in 1983 with the restaurant's closure. The case study draws on archival materials in addition to the author's recollections as a former union organizer and picketer during the strike. Concludes that although the strike had a downside, including the state's failure to protect the all-female First Nations workers from the employer's discriminatory and illegal practices, it was nevertheless significant in several respects.
Keywords: British Columbia; Canada; LABOR organizing; LABOR turnover; Labor Unions; Labor disputes; RESTAURANT employees; VANCOUVER (B.C.)

Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest - O'Donnell, Lorraine (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest," by Anne McClintock.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; IMPERIAL Leather: Race; Gender & Sexuality in the Colonial Contest (Book); Imperialism; MCCLINTOCK; Anne; Nonfiction

Spudwrench - Kahnawake Man - Obomsawin, Alanis (National Film Board of Canada, 1997)
This documentary by acclaimed filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin introduces us to Randy Horne, a high steel worker from the Mohawk community of Kahnawake, near Montreal. As a defender of his people's culture and traditions, he was known as "Spudwrench" during the 1990 Oka crisis. Offering a unique look behind the barricades at one man's impassioned defense of sacred territory, the film is both a portrait of Horne and the generations of daring Mohawk construction workers that have preceded him. [The third film in Obomsawin's series on the events of 1990.]–Website description
Keywords: Biography; Claims; Government relations; History; Kahnawake Indian Reserve; Mohawk Indians; Native Crisis; 1990; Politics and government; Québec (Province)

Quelques arpents d'Amérique. Population, économie, famille au Saguenay, 1838-1971 - Ouellet, Fernand (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Quelques arpents d'Amérique. Population, économie, famille au Saguenay, 1838-1971," by Gérard Bouchard.

Ireland Before and After the Famine: Explorations in Economic History, 1800-1925 - Owens, Gary (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Ireland Before and After the Famine: Explorations in Economic History, 1800-1925," by Cormac O'Grada.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; FAMINES; IRELAND; IRELAND Before & After the Famine: Explorations in Economic History 1800-1925 (Book); Nonfiction; O Grada; Cormac

Book Notes [39, Spring 1997] - Palmer, Bryan D. (Labour/Le Travail, 1997)
The article briefly reviews "Free Books for All: The Public Library Movement in Ontario, 1850-1930," by Lome Bruce, "The Wages of Slavery: From Chattel Slavery to Wage Labour in Africa, the Caribbean and England ," edited by Michael Twaddle, "Progress Without People: New Technology, Unemployment, and the Message of Resistance," by David F. Noble, "The Workers of Nations: Industrial Relations in a Global Economy," edited by Sanford M. Jacoby, "Labour's High Noon: The Government and the Economy, 1945-1951," edited by Jim Fyrth, "Can Europe Work? Germany and the Reconstruction of Postcommunist Societies," edited by Stephen E. Hanson and Willfried Spohn, "Biographical Dictionary of European Labor Leaders," edited by Thomas Lane, "Peasant Metropolis: Social Identities in Moscow, 1929-1941," by David L. Hoffmann, "Catching the Wave: Workplace Reform in Australia," by John Mathews, and "Everyday Forms of State Formation: Revolution and Negotiation of Rule in Modern Mexico," edited by Gilbert M. Joseph and Daniel Nugent.

Book Notes [40, Fall 1997] - Palmer, Bryan D. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article briefly reviews "Possible Worlds: Experiments in British Columbia," by AH Brown, "The Crest of the Mountain: The Rise of CUPE Local Five in Hamilton," by Ed Thomas, "Free to All: Carnegie Libraries and American Culture, 1890-1920," by Abigail A. Van Slyck, "North American Auto Unions in Crisis: Lean Production as Contested Terrain," edited by William C. Green and Ernest J. Yanaretla, "Trade Union Politics: American Unions and Economic Change 1960s-1990s," edited by Glenn Perusek and Kent Worcester, "Social Work in Practice," by Gerald A.J. de Montigny, "Engineering Labour: Technical Workers in Comparative Perspective," edited by Peter Meiksins and Chris Smith, "Miners, Unions, and Politics, 1910-1947," edited by lan Campbell, Nina Fishman and David Howell, "Gender and Class in Modern Europe," edited by Laura L. Frader and Sonya O. Rose.

What Do We Need A Union For? The TWUA in the South, 1945-1955 - Palmer, Bryan D. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "What Do We Need A Union For? The TWUA in the South, 1945-1955," by Timothy J. Minchin.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; History; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Textile Workers of America (TWUA); Textile industry

The Big Sleep: The Malartic Mine Fire of 1947 - Palmer, Bryan D.; Lunn, Robin (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
Introduces "The Big Sleep" by Jack Timmerman (1915-1953), an unpublished, graphic account of the Malartic Mine Fire of 1947 that resuled in the deaths of 12 miners at the gold mine in northwestern Quebec. Provides a biography of Timmerman, who was working at the mine at the time, as well as framing the disaster in terms of the persistence and frequency of such events.
Keywords: ACCIDENT investigation; Gold mines & mining; INQUESTS; LABOUR/LE Travail (Book); LUNN; Robin; MINE fires; PALMER; Bryan D.; QUEBEC (Province)

The British election: A commentary - Panitch, Leo; Leys, Colin (Labour/Le Travail, 1997)
Critiques the British Labour Party's abandonment of its long-standing commitment to "parliamentary socialism" and the electoral platform of the incoming "New Labour" government of Tony Blair. Concludes that new forms of socialist organization are necessary since the path forward does not lie in transforming the Labour Party.

Local and Regional Response to Global Pressure: The Case of Italy and its Industrial Districts - Papillon, Benoît Mario (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Local and Regional Response to Global Pressure : The Case of Italy and its Industrial Districts," edited by Francesco Cossentino, Frank Pike and Werner Sengenberger.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Globalization; International relations; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Labor unions; Planning & development; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

La sécurité d'emploi dans le secteur public, Essai - Paquet, Renaud (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "La sécurité d'emploi dans le secteur public, Essai," by Louis Borgeat.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Civil service; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

How the 'Reds' Got Their Man: The Communist Party Unmasks an RCMP Spy - Parnaby, Andrew; Kealey, Gregory S. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
Documents the exposure of Jack Esselwein, also known as Sergeant John Leopold, who, as an undercover operative of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, joined the Communist Party of Canada. His identity was revealed after a series of police raids on August 11, 1931, which led to the arrest of a number of leading Communists, including Tim Buck. Esselwein testified at the trial in November 1931 whereby the Communists were convicted and sentenced to penitentiary terms under the notorious section 98 of the criminal code. They had already discovered that Esselwein was a police spy. The Toronto Daily Star report (published November 13, 1931) on Esselwein's unmasking is included in the article.
Keywords: BUCK; Tim; Canada; Communist Party of Canada; ESSELWEIN; Jack; LEOPOLD; John; MALCOLM; Bruce; MCEWEN; Tom; Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP); SPIES

In Search of the Working Class: Essays in American Labor History and Political Culture - Parnaby, Andy (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "In Search of the Working Class: Essays in American Labor History and Political Culture," by Leon Fink.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; FINK; Leon; IN Search of the Working Class: Essays in American Labor History & Political Culture (Book); Nonfiction; Working class

Reluctant Host: Canada's Response to Immigrant Workers, 1896-1994 - Patrias, Carmela (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Reluctant Host: Canada's Response to Immigrant Workers, 1896-1994," by Donald H. Avery.
Keywords: AVERY; Donald H.; BOOKS – Reviews; Foreign workers; Nonfiction; RELUCTANT Host: Canada's Response to Immigrant Workers 1896-1994 (Book)

La flexibilité du travail dans le secteur du textile et de l'habillement en Grèce du Nord - Pelagidis, Theodore (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
Cette étude a pour objectif la mise en relief des formes et caractéristiques que revêt la flexibilité — du travail principalement — du système productif de l'agglomération de Thessalonique, région connue pour son potentiel et la souplesse de ses structures de production et de travail. La première partie traite des concepts de flexibilité numérique et de flexibilité fonctionnelle dans le cadre de l'entreprise flexible, ainsi que des diverses interprétations qui en ont été faites. Nous utilisons ensuite ces concepts, dans la deuxième partie, pour étudier les caractéristiques de la flexibilité du système de production de l'agglomération de Thessalonique dans ses branches les plus dynamiques, à savoir l'habillement et le textile. L'enquête sur le terrain permet de préciser les traits distinctifs et de dégager la forme de flexibilité qui semble fonder le dynamisme de ce système productif.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employees; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Textile industry

What Impact Has Privatization Had on Pay and Employment?: A Review of the Uk Experience - Pendleton, Andrew (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The features and objectives of privatization in the UK are examined. The centrality of labor management and industrial relations objectives to the program are outlined, with particular attention to the capacity of privatization to reduce political influences on pay determination and to encourage labor-shedding improvements in efficiency. The paper than considers the available evidence of the effects of privatization on pay and employment. It is found that pay levels have registered above-average increases since privatization. The evidence on employment reductions is more mixed. It is argued that greater product and labor market competition are necessary if the predicted effects of privatization are to be fully realized.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Efficiency; Employment; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Privatization; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Wages & salaries

Union and Employer Confederation Views on Current Labour Relations in 21 Industrialized Nations - Peterson, Richard B.; Sargent, John (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
A study reports the results of a cross-sectional mail survey sent to top officials of union and employer confederations in 21 industrialized market economies in Western Europe, North America, and Japan. The results regarding their assessment of the current labor relations situation in their own country show some significant differences related to employer vs. union side and by economic groupings. It is concluded that the relatively stable labor-management relationships during the 1960s and 1970s has apparently given way to greater divergence among the major industrial nations in recent years.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; International; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Trends

Diagnosing Unemployment - Phillips, Paul (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Diagnosing Unemployment," by Edmond Malinvaud.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; DIAGNOSING Unemployment (Book); MALINVAUD; Edmond; 1923-2015; Nonfiction; Unemployment

Les Ouvriers, la Patrie et la Révolution Paris 1914-1919 - Piette, Christine (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Les Ouvriers, la Patrie et la Révolution Paris 1914-1919," by Jean-Louis Robert.

The Law of Servants and the Servants of Law: Judicial Regulation of Labour Relations in Montreal, 1830-1845 - Pilarczyk, Ian C. (McGill University, 1997)
Labour relations in Montreal during the years 1830 to 1845 were characterized by flux. The encroachment of expanding industrialization brought with it new social phenomena and pressures, new technology, and a fundamental restructuring of employment relationships. Master-servant relations still contained elements of the deeply stratified and paternalistic labour relationships ingrained in the cultural and social fabric of earlier eras, but increasingly began to exhibit the rudiments of purely contractual relationships which would come to define the modern industrial era. Courts came to play an increasingly important role in resolving labour disputes between parties. While historically the law favored the strict contractual and socio-economic interests of masters, courts began to enforce the reciprocal duties owed by masters to their servants. Servants were accorded greater access to the courts to protect their interests, with the knowledge that they had recourse to extra-judicial means of protest if the law was not sufficiently responsive.

Between Bargaining and Politics: An Introduction to European Labor Relations - Poole, Michael (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Between Bargaining and Politics: An Introduction to European Labor Relations," by Hans Slomp.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Politics; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

The Making of the Indian Working Class: The Case of the Tata Iron and Steel Company, 1880-1946 - Prashad, Vijay (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "The Making of the Indian Working Class: The Case of the Tata Iron and Steel Company, 1880-1946," by Vinay Bahl.
Keywords: BAHL; Vinay; BOOKS – Reviews; INDIA; MAKING of the Indian Working Class: The Case of the Tata Iron & Steel Co. 1880-1946; The (Book); Nonfiction; Working class

Women of the Commonwealth: Work, Family, and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts - Prentice, Alison (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Women of the Commonwealth: Work, Family and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts," edited by Susan L. Porter.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Nonfiction; PORTER; Susan L.; WOMEN – Employment; WOMEN of the Commonwealth: Work; Family & Social Change in 19th-Century Massachusetts (Book)

Ninety-Nine Days: The Ford Strike in Windsor, 1945 - Pryke, Ken (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Ninety-Nine Days: The Ford Strike in Windsor, 1945," by Herb Colling.
Keywords: 99 Days: The Ford Strike in Windsor 1945 (Book); BOOKS – Reviews; COLLING; Herb; Nonfiction; STRIKES & lockouts

Grosse Ile: Canada's Irish Famine Memorial - Quigley, Michael (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
Documents the horrific conditions at the quarantine station located on Grosse Île, a small island in the St. Lawrence River south of the port of Quebec City, during the Irish famine. In 1847-48, newly arrived Irish immigrants died by the thousands of malnutrition and typhus while under quarantine at Grosse Île. Mass graves were dug at the site for the victims, as had been done for the victims of the cholera epidemic of 1832. Discusses the political and economic plight of Ireland - in particular, the decisions of the governing British elite - that resulted in mass starvation and the exodus overseas. In 1996, the Canadian government recognized Grosse Île as an Irish memorial.
Keywords: CHOLERA; EPIDEMICS; FAMINES; GROSSE Ile (Montmagny; Quebec); LABOUR/LE Travail (Book); MEMORIALS; QUEBEC (Province); QUIGLEY; Michael

Making Fast Food: From the Frying Pan into the Fryer - Reiter, Ester (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997)
An examination of the impact of the fast food industry on work and family life. Ester Reiter worked full-time at a Burger King outlet for ten months gathering information for this study. In Making Fast Food she shares her experiences and analyses the profound effect the fast food industry has had on women's work, youth employment, the labour movement, the family, and the community. Family life, for example, has changed dramatically in the last forty years as many activities that were traditionally part of the home have been replaced by services available in the marketplace. The second edition includes an epilogue that brings the study up to date. Reiter examines the way the fast food model is being adopted in other areas, such as health, and explores unionization in fast food businesses. –Publisher's description. Artwork by Richard Slye. Contents: The market moves into the family and the family moves into the market – The restaurant industry in Canada – The fast food invasion – Burger King: a case study – Working in a Burger King outlet – Modern times in the hamburger business – Martialling workers' loyalty – Is this the work situation of the future?
Book available at Internet Archive to people with print disabilities: https://archive.org/details/makingfastfoodfr0000reit_p7m3
Keywords: Burger King; Canada; Convenience foods; Fast food restaurants; Food industry and trade

On the Line at Subaru Isuzu: The Japanese Model and the American Worker - Rinehart, James W. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "On the Line at Subaru Isuzu: The Japanese Model and the American Worker," by Laurie Graham.
Keywords: AUTOMOBILE industry; BOOKS – Reviews; GRAHAM; Laurie; Nonfiction; ON the Line at Subaru Isuzu: The Japanese Model & the American Worker (Book); United States

Économie et société en Acadie, 1850-1950 - Robichaud, Léon (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Économie et société en Acadie, 1850-1950," by Jacques Paul Couturier and Phyllis E. Leblanc.

"Kitchen Economics for the Family;" Paid Education and the Canadian Autoworkers Union - Roth, Reuben N. (University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 1997)
This thesis examines the Paid Education Leave (PEL) program of the Canadian Autoworkers Union (CAW), fomerly the Canadian Region of the United Autoworkers Union (UAW). This four-week program takes place at the CAW Family Education Centre in Port Elgin, Ontario and potentiatly provides 90% of the CAW's members with class-based, union-centred, labour education. Interviews conducted with key CAW sources uncover PEL's histoncal roots. A chronicle of the stniggle to establish PEL is detailed in relation to the International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention 140 on Paid Educational Leave. Thematic oral-history interviews were conducted with six CAW Local 222 members, al1 former participants of PEL. Interviews are used to illustrate a detailed description of the program's pedagogy and curriculum. Interview respondents were Generai Motors (GM) of Canada workers located in Oshawa, Ontario. Several policy and programmatic suggestions are made, including increased understanding of, and elevated respect for, informal learning.

Globalization and the Decline of Social Reform - Sacouman, R. James (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Globalization and the Decline of Social Reform," by Gary Teeple.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; GLOBALIZATION & the Decline of Social Reform (Book); Globalization; Nonfiction; TEEPLE; Gary

California Red: A Life in the American Communist Party - Sangster, Joan (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "California Red: A Life in the American Communist Party," Dorothy Ray Healy and Maurice Isserman.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CALIFORNIA Red: A Life in the American Communist Party (Book); COMMUNIST parties; HEALY; Dorothy Ray; ISSERMAN; Maurice; Nonfiction

Nationalsozialistische Frauenpolitik vor 1933: Dokumentation - Schade, Rosemarie (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Nationalsozialistische Frauenpolitik vor 1933: Dokumentation," edited by Hans-Jurgen Arendt, Sabine Hering and Leonie Wagner.
Keywords: ARENDT; Hans-Jurgen; BOOKS – Reviews; HERING; Sabine; NATIONAL socialism & women; NATIONALSOZIALISTISCHE Frauenpolitik vor 1933: Dokumentation (Book); Nonfiction; WAGNER; Leonie

Race, Class, Women and the State: The Case of Domestic Labour in Canada. - Schecter, Tanya (McGill University, 1997)
This thesis examines the history of female immigrant domestic labour in Canada from a socialist feminist perspective. Over the past hundred years, Canadian immigration policy with respect to domestic workers became increasingly regressive with the shift in the racial composition of foreign female domestics. The women's movement contributed to this change as gains in Canadian women's public rights did not effectively challenge the dominant social paradigm of women's roles, and so left intact the public-private divide and the sexual division of labour to which were allied biases of race and class. The women's movement thus became an unwitting participant in the formulation of regressive immigration policies which rebounded on the women's movement itself, reinforcing its internal divisions.

Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism 1945-1960 - Scheinberg, Stephen J. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism 1945-1960," by Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; FONES-Wolf; Elizabeth A.; Free enterprise; Nonfiction; SELLING Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor & Liberalism 1945-1960 (Book)

Nineteenth-Century Collective Violence: Toward a North American Context - See, Scott W. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The study of collective violence has generally reinforced national stereotypes that Canada is a "Peaceable Kingdom" and that the United States is extraordinarily violent. This article assesses the historiography of collective violence since the 1960s and offers specific suggestions for further exploration into Canada's riotous experiences. Scholars often assume that Canada's collective violence has been infrequent and less destructive than American episodes. Future research – with a focus on nativism, the social legitimacy of the crowd, religious and ethnic conflict, the entrenchment of powerful state institutions, and vigilantism – might prove otherwise. Regardless, Canadian collective violence will be better understood if it is conceptualized in a North Atlantic context.
Keywords: Canada; Historiography; NATIVISM; Riots; VIGILANCE committees; violence

Labor and Community: Mexican Citrus Worker Villages in a Southern California County, 1900-1950 - Seixas, Peter (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Labor and Community: Mexican Citrus Worker Villages in a Southern California County, 1900-1950," by Gilbert G. Gonzalez.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; GONZALEZ; Gilbert G.; LABOR & Community: Mexican Citrus Worker Villages in a Southern California County 1900-1950 (Book); Labor; Nonfiction

Information = Note to Readers - Sexton, Jean (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Railway Bound: The CBRE, the ACCL and the Development of a National Working-Class Community, 1908-1930 - Sheffer, Warren James (Queen's University, 1997)
The 1920s is generally seen as a period of defeat for Canadian labour. With the rise of monopoly capital, strike activity and union membership steadily declined in the face of wage cuts, new technologies and corporate welfare schemes. The continental alliance of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada (TLC) that, for the most part, provided labour's leadership during this crisis, proved ineffective. By 1927 a secessionist movement challenged the legitimacy of the AFL/TLC alliance. In March of that year, the Canadian Brotherhood of Railroad Employees (CBRE), gathered with the One Big Union (OBU), the Canadian Federation of Labour (CFL), and communist-influenced unions, including the Mine Workers' Union of Canada and the Lumber Workers' Industrial Union, to form the All-Canadian Congress of Labour (ACCL). It is the focus of this thesis to bring the Congress front and centre and to provide an alternative interpretation of its effort to build a national labour movement in the 1920s–one that was neither opportunistic, anti-communist, nor right-wing. Instead, this thesis supports the contention that the ACCL was a counter-hegemonic, working-class initiative that aimed to improve the political representation and material conditions of the Canadian worker.
Keywords: Canadian Brotherhood of Railway; Transport and General Workers – History

Class, Democracy & Labor in Contemporary Argentina - Sheinin, David (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Class, Democracy and Labor in Contemporary Argentina," by Peter Ranis.
Keywords: ARGENTINA – Social conditions – 1983-; BOOKS – Reviews; CLASS; Democracy & Labor in Contemporary Argentina (Book); Nonfiction; RANIS; Peter

Arctic Revolution: Social Change in the Northwest Territories, 1935-1994 - Smith, Donald B. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book "Arctic Revolution: Social Change in the Northwest Territories, 1935-1994," by John David Hamilton.
Keywords: ARCTIC Revolution Social Change in the Northwest Territories 1935-1994 (Book); BOOKS – Reviews; HAMILTON; John David; Nonfiction; Social change

Cold Warrior: C.S. Jackson and the United Electrical Workers - Smith, Doug (Canadian Committee on Labour History, 1997)
C.S. Jackson was the labour leader that the establishment loved to hate. Tough, intelligent, courageous, and incorruptible, he was one of the founders of industrial unionism in Canada in the 1930's. He served as the head of the Canadian division of the United Electrical Workers for 43 years. During that time he battled with some of the world's largest corporations, with powerful politicians who had him interned, and with most of the leadership of the Candian labour movement. Long-associated with the Communist Party, Jackson and the UE were victimized by the Cold War, expelled from the Canadian Congress of Labour, and subjected to red-baiting raids conducted by unions under more moderate political leadership. But in the Cold War, which disfigured both Canadian society and the Candian labour movement, he gave as good as he got. This biography demonstrates that Jackson thrived on conflict and challange and rarely shrank from a confrontation - in either his public or private life. Making extensive use of interviews conducted with Jackson and his associates, it provides an intimate portrayal of one of the most controversial and successful radical labour leaders in Canadian history. –Publisher's description
https://archive.org/details/coldwarriorcsjac0000smit https://www.aupress.ca/books/cclh09-cold-warrior/
Keywords: 20th century; Biography; History; Jackson; C.S. (Clarence Shirley); 1906-1993; Labor Unions; Labor leaders; Labor movement; Officials and employees; United Electrical; Radio and Machine Workers of America

From Artisans to Paupers: Economic Change and Poverty in London, 1790-1870 - Smith, Timothy B. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "From Artisans to Paupers: Economic Change and Poverty in London, 1790-1870," by David R. Green.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; FROM Artisans to Paupers: Economic Change & Poverty in London 1790-1870 (Book); GREEN; David R.; Nonfiction; POVERTY

"We Ask for British Justice": Workers and Racial Difference in Late Imperial Britain - Smith, Tori (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "We Ask for British Justice": Workers and Racial Difference in Late Imperial Britain," by Laura Tabili.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Nonfiction; Race discrimination; TABILI; Laura; WE Ask for British Justice: Workers & Racial Difference in Late Imperial Britain (Book)

Union Mergers in Hard Times: The View From Five Countries - Solomon, Norman A. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Union Mergers in Hard Times: The View From Five Countries," by Gary N. Chaison.
Keywords: Acquisitions & mergers; Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Unnecessary Debts - Spotton, Brenda (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Unnecessary Debts," by Lars Osberg and Pierre Fortin.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; DEBT; FORTIN; Pierre; Nonfiction; OSBERG; Lars; UNNECESSARY Debts (Book)

Voracious Idols and Violet Hands: Iconoclasm in Reformation Zurich, Strasbourg and Basel - Stayer, James M. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Voracious Idols and Violet Hands: Iconoclasm in Reformation Zurich, Strasbourg and Basel," by Lee Palmer Wandel.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; ICONOCLASM; Nonfiction; VORACIOUS Idols & Violet Hands: Iconoclasm in Reformation Zurich; Strasbourg & Basel (Book); WANDEL; Lee Palmer

Angels of the Workplace: Women and the Construction of Gender Relations in the Canadian Clothing Industry, 1890-1940 - Steedman, Mercedes (University of Toronto Press, 1997)
In this study of the clothing industry in Canada, historian Mercedes Steedman examines how the intricate weaving together of the meanings of class, gender, ethnicity, family, and workplace served, often unconsciously, to create a job ghetto for women. Although 'girls', as working women were labelled, comprised a significant majority of garment workers - 80 percent in 1881, at the very beginnings of industrialization; 68 percent in 1941, when the percentage of women in all industrial sectors in Canada was only just over 15 percent - their roles were circumscribed both in the workplace and in the trade union bureaucracy. When strikes occurred, women were at the front of picket lines, gaining sympathy and favourable media coverage for the workers' cause. But when negotiations among union leaders, management, and government officials took place, women were conspicuous by their absence, and the subsequent agreements and job classifications invariably left them with lower wages and marginal status - in an industry where they were numerically dominant and often valued as the better workers. In "Angels of the Workplace," Professor Steedman presents a history of both the garment industry and the role of women in it. The rise of left-wing unionism held out some hope for a more equitable work environment, but by the 1930s a 'new unionism' that focused on labour-management co-operation - and on maintaining male hegemony on the shop floor and at the bargaining table - had formalized gender discrimination in the needle trades for the rest of the century. – Publisher's description. Contents: Introduction: Across the Great Divide – The Industrial Fields of Activity: Send Forth Your Daughters – Worlds Apart: Women and Unions in the Needle Trades, 1890-1920 – From Shop-Floor Action to New Unionism: The War Years and After – Taking a Stand: Civil War in the Needle Trades – 'A Real Man's Fight': Clothing Battles in the Depression Years – When the Boys Get Together: Orchestrating Consent – After the Acts: Setting the Standards, Putting on the Pressure – Conclusion: 'This Group of Girls and Men .... '
https://archive.org/details/angelsofworkplac0000stee
Keywords: 20th century. Sex discrimination in employment; 20th century. Women; Canada; Clothing workers; Employment; History; History. Clothing trade; History. Labor unions; History. Sex discrimination in employment; History. Women labor union members; Women clothing workers

Protecting Women: Labor Legislation in Europe, the United States, and Australia, 1880-1920 - Stewart, Mary Lynn (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book ,"Protecting Women: Labor Legislation in Europe, the United States, and Australia, 1880-1920," edited by Ulla Wikander, Alice Kessler-Harris and Jane Lewis.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; KESSLER-Harris; Alice; LEWIS; Jane; Nonfiction; PROTECTING Women: Labor Legislation in Europe; the United States & Australia 1880-1920 (Book); WIKANDER; Ulla; WOMEN – Employment – Law & legislation

Bad Girls and Masked Men: Recent Works on Sexuality in US History - Strange, Carolyn (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews and comments on extensivel on several books including "The Girl Problem: Female Sexual Delinquencies in New York 1900-1930," by Ruth M. Alexander, "Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture and the Making of the Gay Male World," by George Chauncey, and "Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the U.S.," by Mary E. Oden.
Keywords: ALEXANDER; Ruth M.; BOOKS – Reviews; CHAUNCEY; George; DELINQUENT Daughters: Protecting & Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the US (Book); GAY New York: Gender; Urban Culture & the Making of the Gay Male World (Book); GIRL Problem: Female Sexual Delinquencies in New York 1900-1930; The (Book); Nonfiction; ODEN; Mary E.

Inside Babylon: The Caribbean Diaspora in Britain - Tabili, Laura (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Inside Babylon: The Caribbean Diaspora in Britain," edited by Winston James and Clyde Harris.
Keywords: 20th century; BOOKS – Reviews; GREAT Britain; HARRIS; Clyde; History; INSIDE Babylon: The Caribbean Diaspora in Britain (Book); JAMES; Winston; Nonfiction

People of the Bays and Headlands: Anthropological History and the Fate of Communities in the Unknown Labrador - Thornton, Patricia A. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "People of the Bays and Headlands: Anthropological History and the Fate of Communities in the Unknown Labrador," by John C. Kennedy.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; History; KENNEDY; John C.; NEWFOUNDLAND & Labrador; Nonfiction; PEOPLE of the Bays & Headlands: Anthropological History & the Fate of Communities in the Unknown Labrador (Book)

"When our membership awakens": Welfare Work and Canadian Union Activism, 1950-1965 - Tillotson, Shirley (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
Rather than seeing the mainstream, anti-communist labour leadership in the post-war era as opponents of membership activism and as politically right wing, we might more accurately see them as ideologically-diverse architects of an activism designed to suit the institutional conditions of the new industrial legality in the Cold War era. Labour bureaucrats they indisputably were, but the new regime of industrial relations prompted them to re-examine and to attempt to democratize the basis of their institutional power. Evidence for this thesis is supplied through a study of welfare work and its promoters. Further evidence lies in a survey of idological interpretations of union welfare work and the political uses to which it was put.
Keywords: Anti-communist movements; COLD War; 1945-1989; Civil service; INDUSTRIAL welfare; LABOR laws & legislation; Labor leaders; Social movements

Women Workers and Technological Change in Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Tilly, Louise A. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Women Workers and Technological Change in Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," edited by Gertjan de Groot and Marlou Schrover.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; DE Groot; Gertjan; Nonfiction; SCHROVER; Marlou; WOMEN Workers & Technological Change in Europe in the 19th & 20th Centuries (Book); Women employees

ISO 9000 : une force de management - Todorov, Branimir; Laflamme, Marcel (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "ISO 9000 : une force de management," by Branimir Todorov.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Quality management; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Les secrets de la préparation financière à la retraite - Tremblay, Louis (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Les secrets de la préparation financière à la retraite," by Louis Ascah.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Retirement planning; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Lawyers Against Labor - Tucker, Eric (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Lawyers Against Labor: From Individual Rights to Corporate Liberalism," by Daniel R. Ernst.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; ERNST; Daniel R.; LABOR laws & legislation; LAWYERS Against Labor: From Individual Rights to Corporate Liberalism (Book); Nonfiction

Arvida au Saguenay. Naissance d'une ville industrielle - Vallières, Marc (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Arvida au Saguenay: Naissance d'une ville industrielle," by José Igartua.

The Impact of Compressed Workweek on Absenteeism - Venne, Rosemary A. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
A study consists of absenteeism measures for a group of prison guards who switched from an 8-hour work day to a 12-hour day compressed workweek (CWW) schedule with absenteeism measures for one year prior to the onset of the schedule and 2 years on the new schedule. Absenteeism data were compared between the CWW group and a comparison group of regular schedule guards and between the pre-CWW and CWW periods. Absenteeism levels were higher for the CWW group compared to the comparison group, and were higher over the CWW period when compared to the pre-CWW period. In the best specified models, those guards on the CWW had higher absenteeism than the comparison group, though the latter difference was not statistically significant.
Keywords: Absenteeism; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Effects; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Working hours; Workweeks

'Cowering Women, Combative Men?': Femininity, Masculinity, and Ethnicity on Strike in Two Southern Ontario Towns, 1964-1966 - Ventresca, Robert A. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
In August 1964, the souther Ontario local 523 of the United Electrical and Radio Machine Workers led some 450 female auto-parts workers onto the picket-line. A year later, the same union local led over 1,200 male steelworkers in a strike against the Steel Company of Canada. In both cases, Italian immigrants joined with their non-Italian co-workers in a show of class solidarity. Italian men framed their decision to strike in terms of a manly duty as the family's decision maker and breadwinner; Italian women assumed the role of aggressive labour militant with relative equanimity, while the more outwardly militant Italian men expressed considerable personal uncertainty and fear even while they engaged in a public display of cross-ethnic class solidary. The paper explores how gender, class and ethnicity interact to influence the dynamics of labour militancy in the two strikes, though it also gives due consideration to the structural factors that helped to determine the outcome of both strikes.
Keywords: Canada; Foreign workers; IRON & steel workers; Labor disputes; STRIKES & lockouts; Skilled labor

L'État, l'autonomie collective et le travailleur - Étude comparée du droit italien et du droit français de la représentativité syndicale - Verge, Pierre (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "L'État, l'autonomie collective et le travailleur - Étude comparée du droit italien et du droit français de la représentativité syndicale," by Stamatina Yannakourou.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor law; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Competitive Advantage Through People: Unleashing the Power of the Work Force - Villeneuve, François (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Competitive Advantage Through People: Unleashing the Power of the Work Force," by Jeffrey Pfeffer.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Competitive advantage; Human resource management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Sociologie de l'entreprise et de l'innovation - Vultur, Mircea (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Sociologie de l'entreprise et de l'innovation," by Norbert Alter.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Organizational behavior; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

The Labour-Management Relationship and Organization Outcomes - Wagar, Terry H. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
Based on responses from 752 unionized organizations in Canada, a study examines the association between the quality of labor-management relations and a number of organizations outcomes. The average relationship between an employer and its major bargaining unit was moderately cooperative, with 28% of respondents reporting adversarial relations and 5% indicating a highly cooperative relationship. Results from ordered probit estimation indicated that more favorable organizational outcomes (as measured by management perceptions) were generally associated with a more cooperative relationship between union and management.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Effects; Labor Unions; Labor relations; R&D; Research & development; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Unionization

L'État des relations professionnelles : traditions et perspectives de la recherche - Weiss, Dimitri (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "L'État des relations professionnelles : traditions et perspectives de la recherche," edited by Gregor Murray, Marie-Laure Morin and Isabel Da Costa.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Professions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

"From Fordist Worker Resistance to Post-Fordist Capitalist Hegemony?" - Wells, Don (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews and comments extensivley on the books "Capitalism Comes to the Backcountry: The Goodyear Invasion of Napanee," by Bryan Palmer and "Working at Inglis: The Life and Death of Canadian Factory," David Sobel and Susan Meurer.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CAPITALISM Comes to the Backcountry: The Goodyear Invasion of Napanee (Book); MEURER; Susan; Nonfiction; PALMER; Bryan; SOBEL; David; WORKING at Inglis: The Life & Death of Canadian Factory (Book)

Backing and filling: The 1997 Canadian election - Whitaker, Reginald; Rennie, Richard (Labour/Le Travail, 1997)
Discusses the federal Liberals' majority win under Jean Chrétien and its implications for the other political parties.

Occupational Determinants of Professional Union Membership - White, Frank (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
Empirical studies of union membership usually group all professionals together in one occupational category. A current study uses a simultaneous equations approach to analyze the union or collective bargaining association membership status of a sample of 9,417 employed Canadian professionals and managers from 16 different occupational groups. The results support the hypothesis that there are significant differences among professions in the probability of their members being in unions or collective bargaining associations. The relative differences are explicable in terms of the characteristics of the professions concerned.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Classification; Collective bargaining; Labor Unions; Memberships; Professionals; Professions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Team Toyota: Transplanting the Toyota Culture to the Camry Plant in Kentucky - Wils, Thierry (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Team Toyota: Transplanting the Toyota Culture to the Camry Plant in Kentucky," by Terry L. Besser.
Keywords: AUTOMOBILE industry; Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Japanese management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Producing Nurses: Nursing Training in the Age of Rationalisation at Kingston General Hospital, 1924-1939 - Wishart, James Michael (Queen's University, 1997)
In 1924, the General Hospital at Kingston, Ontario, began a process of rationalisation, following Taylorist principles of scientific management. In concurrence with the restructuring of other N orth American hospitals, and with the advice given in professional literature, the Governors of K.G.H. secured the services of R.F. Armstrong, a civil engineer. His mandate was to facilitate the transformation of K.G.H. into an efficient, economical modem health institution which would attract not just indigent patients, but also upper-class, paying clients. Part I of this paper analyses the process by wrhich rationalisation was wreaked upon student nurses in the K.G.H. Nurse Training School, considering these women not primarily as students but as an unpaid labour force. I argue that administrators employed a combination of paternalism and scientific management in an attempt to conform student-wrorkers into an 'ideal nurse labourer', as defined by historically specific discourses of gender, class, and Canadian nation/race which converged in the image of the Nurse. Balancing this 'top-down' approach, Part II of the paper attempts to reconstruct student-workers' experiences of and responses to nursing training. Using nurses' cultural productions and oral interview's, I explore the concept of 'everyday resistance' in the contexts of the Nurses' Home and the hospital workshop, arguing that the continual supervision and surveillance endured by student-workers did not preclude successful attempts to wrrite their own script for their experience of nursing. To the contrary, nurses-in-training developed a culture of mutuality which provided them with the resources to resist and ameliorate the most repressive and totalising aspects of hospital labour and residence life. The result of this reconsideration of nursing training is an increased understanding of student nurse labourers as individuals with hopes and expectations of their own, rather than simply dutiful, obedient daughters in the hospital 'family' who accepted their subordination to the 'ethic of service'.
Keywords: Education; Health and environmental sciences; Ontario; Social sciences

On the March: Labour Rebellions in the British Caribbean, 1934-39 - Yelvington, Kevin A. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "On the March: Labour Rebellions in the British Caribbean, 1934-1939," by O. Nigel Bolland.
Keywords: BOLLAND; O. Nigel; BOOKS – Reviews; GREAT Britain; Nonfiction; ON the March: Labour Rebellions in the British Caribbean 1934-1939 (Book); STRIKES & lockouts

Autowork - Zieger, Robert H. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Autowork," edited by Robert Asher and Ronald Edsforth.
Keywords: ASHER; Robert; AUTOMOBILE industry workers – United States; AUTOWORK (Book); BOOKS – Reviews; EDSFORTH; Ronald; Nonfiction

Obesity as a Covered Disability Under Employment Discrimination Law: An Analysis of Canadian Approaches - Zwerling, Harris L. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
Since the passage of the first anti-discrimination laws in North America, the number of groups of classes protected has slowly expanded to include the disabled. British Columbia is the only jurisdiction in Canada in which obesity per se has been found to be a covered disability. All other Canadian jurisdictions that have explicitly addressed the issue require claimants to prove that their obesity is a disabling condition and has an underlying involuntary medical cause. Despite the reticence of various human rights agencies, there is ample legal basis for including obesity as a covered disability under human rights law.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employment discrimination; HUMAN rights; Labor Unions; Laws & regulations; Legislation; Obesity; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; provinces

Rural and Urban Labour Processes: A Comparative Analysis of Australian and Canadian Development - Ferland, Jacques; Wright, Christopher (Labour History, 1996)
[E]xamines labour process developments within Canada and Australia during the later 19th and early 20th centuries. In contrast to traditional labour process studies, which have focused upon the development of sophisticated forms of managerial control within modern industry, this comparative analysis stresses the much simpler forms of labour control that existed within Canadian and Australian rural and urban workplaces. The paper explores the reasons underlying differences in labour process developments, and argues for the need to broaden labour process analysis in order to take account of spatial and geographic variations in working life.
Keywords: AUSTRALIA; Canada; LABOR process; LABOR productivity; MANAGERIAL economics; PRODUCTIVE life span; Work environment

Working Conditions under Lean Production: A Worker-based Benchmarking Study - Lewchuk, Wayne; Robertson, David (Asia Pacific Business Review, 1996)
Benchmarking is being used extensively in management's drive to achieve ‘world class’ levels of performance. The majority of benchmarking studies have little if anything to say about working conditions or the tradeoffs between productivity improvements and the conditions of working life. This article is based on a study which focuses on working conditions as described by workers, raising questions about the tradeoffs betwcen work reorganization and the quality of working life under Lean Production. The results, based on a survey of 1670 workers at 16 different companies, suggest that work life under Lean Production has not improved. Compared with workers in traditional Fordist style plants, those at Lean companies reported their work load was heavier and faster. They rcported work loads were increasing and becoming faster. They reported it was difficult to change things they did not like about their job and that it was becoming more difficult to get time off. While our survey results suggest that working in traditional Fordist plants is far from paradise, they also suggest that working in Lean plants is worse. At a minimum, our results should be viewed as a wake-up call to those who have painted a positive picture of work under Lean Production.

Abstracts / Résumés [37, Spring 1996] (Labour/Le Travail, 1996)
English/French abstracts of articles published in the issue.

Abstracts, Volume 38 - Joint Issue of L/LT 38 and Labour History 71; Australia and Canada: Labour Compared (Fall/Automne 1996) (Labour/Le Travail, 1996)

Index, Volume 37 (Spring/Printemps 1996) (Labour/Le Travail, 1996)

Livres reçus (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Maps for Volume 38 - Joint Issue of L/LT 38 and Labour History 71; Australia and Canada: Labour Compared (Fall/Automne 1996) (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)

Publications: Canadian Committee on Labour History (Labour/Le Travail, 1996)
List of recent publications by the Committee.

Publications récentes (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Gender and Racial Inequality at Work: The Sources and Consequences of Job Segregation - Andiappan, P. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
The article reviews the book, "Gender and Racial Inequality at Work: The Sources and Consequences of Job Segregation," by Donald Tomaskovic-Devey.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Equality; Human capital; Human resource management; Labor Unions; Management science; Race; Segregation; Sexes; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

We Lived a Life and Then Some: The Life, Death, and Life of a Mining Town - Angus, Charlie; Griffin, Brit (Between the Lines, 1996)
Based on in-depth oral interviews with local residents, and rich archival sources, We Lived A Life and Then Some relates the common person’s struggle to overcome harsh working conditions and government neglect. The unique culture of the hardrock mining town of Cobalt is exposed through the eyes of retired miners, young welfare mothers, and grade-school children. Angus and Griffin reveal why, in spite of great adversity, Cobalt remains a distinctive and cohesive working-class community. –Publisher's description
https://btlbooks.com/book/we-lived-a-life-and-then-some

The White Women's Labor Laws: Anti-Chinese Racism in Early Twentieth-Century Canada - Backhouse, Constance (Law and History Review, 1996)
This article chronicles the prosecution of two Chinese men under a 1912 Saskatchewan statute forbidding “Chinese” men from employing “white” women. The “Act to Prevent the Employment of female labour in Certain Capacities” was motivated largely by anti-immigration and racist attitudes, and white workers' concerns about the competitive pricing of Chinese goods and services. Its effect was to bar Chinese business owners from hiring the cheapest labour available in the province.
Keywords: Canada; Canadian; Chinese; Crown; Saskatchewan; act; biographical; biography; business; class; classism; construct; discrimination; employment; ethnicity; historical; history; immigration; labor; labour; law; legal; legislation; political; race; racism; social; supreme court; trial; white; working-

Stanley Bréhaut Ryerson, un intellectuel de combat - Beaudry, Lucille; Bernard, Jean-Paul; Dansereau, Bernard; Denis, Serge; Endicott, Stephen Lyon; Fecteau, Jean-Marie; Frank, David; Fuyet, Hervé; Levesque, Andrée; Massé, Georges; Saint-Pierre, Céline; Comeau, Robert; et al. (Vents d'Ouest, 1996)
Historien reconnu à l'échelle internationale, Stanley Bréhaut Ryerson a été un précurseur par sa réinterpretation de l'histoire des peuples de Canada. Ses ouvrages se tiennent une place tout à fait singulièredans l'historiographie canadienne. Intelluelle d'envergure, il a su allier l'excellence scientifique à la responsibilité sociale ; tout au longue une carrière de plus de soixante années, il a conservé ce profil de militant et d'historien engagé. Sa recherche, toujours inspirée des problèmes de société, a été animée par des valeurs de justice, de solidarité et de liberté. Cet ouvrage auquel participent quatorze collaborateurs qui veut faire connaître le plus important historien Marxiste du Canada. Il vise égalment rétracer la trajectoire militante et le cheminement intellectuel progressiste qui a laissé derrière lui une œuvre fort imposante. –Résumé de l'éditeur
Keywords: Ryerson; Stanley Bréhaut; 1911-

Good Industrial Relations, Joint Problem Solving, and HRM - Beaumont, Phillip B.; Harris, Richard I. D. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
A question of concern to researchers in many advanced industrialized economies is whether new human resource management practices fit comfortably with the existing collective bargaining relationship in unionized establishments. Analysis of the current research, based on the 1990 national Workplace Industrial Relations Survey, indicates that an index of human resource management practices is negatively related to management reports of the quality of the existing employee-management relationship in unionized establishments, in contrast to the position in nonunion establishments. This finding is consistent with some existing case study research which indicates that human resource management practices are marginalizing the union-collective bargaining role in unionized organizations. Yet a case study of the paper industry indicates that such marginalization does not occur if the existing relationship is more of a joint problem solving one.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Human resource management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Problem solving; Research; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Postscript: Comparative Research and the 'New World Order' - Bergquist, Charles (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
Discusses the papers on the labour history of Australia and Canada presented in the volume. Argues that more attention should have been paid to the factors that enabled union incorporation in Australia half a century in advance of Canada as well as to the labour aspects of both countries' export economies. Compares the Argentinean experience (the author is a Latin America specialist) with that of Canada and Australia. Concludes that, in the era of the neoliberal new world order, comparative studies like these are valuable since the labour movement is vital to the health of democracy.
Keywords: AUSTRALIA; Canada; Comparative studies; ECONOMIC structure; INCORPORATION; Labor; Labor Unions; Labor movement; RELATIONS of production

Les comités paritaires de formation professionnelle au Québec : vers une plus grande coopération dans les relations du travail ? - Bilodeau, Michèle Bilodeau; Grenier, Jean-Noël; Bernier, Colette (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
Cet article examine le fonctionnement de quelque dix-sept comités paritaires de formation professionnelle mis en place aux niveaux local et sectoriel au Québec. La question posée est de savoir si de tels comités paritaires participent d'une évolution des relations du travail davantage axées sur la coopération dans un domaine, celui de la formation de la main-d’œuvre, normalement exclu du champ de la négociation collective ? Si la réponse est positive en ce qui concerne les comités sectoriels, au niveau des comités locaux les résultats de l'étude dégagent plutôt trois figures de relations du travail dont la plus importante demeure celle de relations mixtes faites à la fois de coopération et de conflit.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Occupational training; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

La Littérature prolétarienne en Belgique francophone depuis 1900 - Biron, Michel (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)

The National Archives and Left-Wing Sources from Russia: Records of the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion, the Communist Party of Canada and Left-Wing Internationals - Bolotenko, George (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
Describes the 10,000 pages of primary resources on the Mackenzie~Papineau Battalion dating from the Spanish Civil War (1936-38) and the 22,000 pages of materials on the Communist Party of Canada , the Comintern, and other internationals from the 1920s and 30s on microfilm at the Public Archives of Canada. The documents, which are mostly in English, were acquired in 1994-95 from the Russian Centre for the Preservation and Study of Records of Contemporary History, which preserves the archives of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The organization follows the original structure and description of the fonds; subdivisions of records are identified, each with a separate file list. Included in the trove are eight substantial files, about 1,200 peges in all, on union activity and labour in Canada and Soviet-Canadian relations during the years 1943-1979. Concludes by noting that, had the Public Archives the funds, there are far more resources on the Canadian left and Soviet-Canadian relations that could be acquired from Moscow.
Keywords: ARCHIVES; BOLOTENKO; George; CANADA. National Archives; Canada; Communist Party of Canada; GOVERNMENT publications; LABOUR/LE Travail (Book); SPAIN. Ejercito Popular de la Republica. MacKenzie-Papineau Battalion

Taylored Lives: Narrative Productions in the Age of Taylor, Veblen, and Ford - Boris, Eileen (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
The article reviews the book "Taylored Lives: Narrative Productions in the Age of Taylor, Veblen and Ford," Martha Banta.
Keywords: BANTA; Martha; BOOKS – Reviews; Labor Unions; Nonfiction; TAYLORED Lives: Narrative Productions in the Age of Taylor; Veblen & Ford (Book)

Union Structure and Strategy in Australia and Canada - Bray, Mark; Rouillard, Jacques (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
The aim of this paper is to identify and explain the main differences in the structures and strategies of the national union movements in Australia and Canada during the 20th century. Parallel historical narratives reveal that the differences between the two union movements ebbed and waned. They were most similar to each other in the 19th century and after the 1960s, while there was more convincing evidence of divergence in the intermediate period. Following Ross Martin, the explanation offered for these trends emphasises the relationships between unions, political parties and the state. The earlier growth of mass unionism and the political strategies adopted in Australia after their defeats in the 1890s produced more sympathetic state policies (specifically compulsory arbitration from around the turn of the century), which allowed Australian unions to prosper in ways which Canadian unions did not begin to enjoy until the 1940s. At the same time, differences in the types of state policies in the two countries subsequently affected both the structure of unions, Canadian unions being more fragmented at national level than their Australian counterparts, and the strategies they employed, Canadian unions relying more on decentralized collective bargaining compared to the more centralized arbitration approach of Australian unions.
Keywords: ABSTRACTS; Labor Unions

Pourquoi la conciliation volontaire n'est-elle pas plus efficace que la conciliation obligatoire? - Brossard, Michel; Ross, Claudette (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
Les auteurs tentent, à partir des résultats d'une recherche présentés dans un article récent de la revue, d'expliquer pourquoi la conciliation volontaire n'est pas plus efficace que la conciliation obligatoire. La comparaison des objectifs, des comportements et des tactiques adoptés par les parties dans chacun des régimes fait ressortir des conclusions inattendues. Parmi celles-ci, les deux plus surprenantes sont les suivantes. Tout d'abord le changement de régime légal exerce une influence sur le comportement des parties non pas durant le processus mais au moment de son enclenchement. Ensuite il a engendré certains effets contre-productifs sur l'efficacité du processus par rapport au but visé par le législateur.
Keywords: Arbitration; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

La vie dans les organisations: des indicateurs de succès - Brunet, Luc (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
The article reviews the book, "La vie dans les organisations: des indicateurs de succès," by Roch Laflamme.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Hours-of-Rest Regulations in the Canadian Shipping Industry - Buck, Leslie; Greenley, Michael; Loughnane, Dermot; Webb, Robert (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
A paper discusses hours of rest for Canadian shipping employees on the basis of statutory regulations, the research literature, and consultations with representatives of the shipping industry during 4 workshops held in different parts of Canada. Topics include analyses of current regulations, operational practices and research on work and rest and on time of day and rest, and recommendations for change. The analyses found that current regulations do not distinguish between sleep and recreation during rest periods and fail to take into account time of day effects in relation to quality of sleep. The proposed changes in the regulations require the use of non-rotating 24-hour duty schedules providing for minimum rest periods and maximum work periods.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employees; Labor Unions; Labor law; Labor relations; Regulation; Research; Shift work; Shipping industry; Sleep; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Transportation; Working hours

Hope and Deception in Conception Bay: Merchant-Settler Relations in Newfoundland 1785-1855 - Bumsted, J. M. (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
The article reviews the book "Hope and Deception in Conception Bay: Merchant-Settler Relations in Newfoundland 1785-1855," by Sean T. Cadigan.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; BUSINESSPEOPLE; CADIGAN; Sean T.; HOPE & Deception in Conception Bay: Merchant-Settler Relations in Newfoundland 1785-1855 (Book); Nonfiction

Bill Pritchard's Propaganda Tour of Alberta, Winter 1915-16 - Campbell, J. Peter; Pritchard, William A. (Bill) (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
Introduces Pritchard's unpublished memoir of his speaking tour of rural Alberta on behalf of the Socialist Party of Canada during the bitterly cold winter of 1915-16.
Keywords: Alberta; CAMPBELL; Peter; LABOUR/LE Travail (Book); PRITCHARD; Bill; Propaganda; Socialism; Socialist Party of Canada

Report - Canada. Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples; Erasmus, George; Dussault, René (Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, 1996)
The Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples (RCAP) concerns government policy with respect to the original historical nations of this country. Those nations are important to Canada, and how Canada relates to them defines in large measure its sense of justice and its image in its own eyes and before the world. The RCAP was established by Order in Council on August 26, 1991, and it submitted its report in October 1996. –Website description. Contents: v. 1. Looking forward, looking back (695 pages) – v.2. Restructuring the relationship (1,063 pages) – v.3. Gathering strength (668 pages) – v.4. Perspectives and realities (612 pages) – v.5. Renewal: A twenty-year commitment (609 pages).
Last Modified: 2016-11-02
Keywords: Canada; Canada. Autochtones; Canada. Native peoples; Conditions sociales. Autochtones; Custody; Deaths in custody. Government policy. Indians of North America; Economic conditions. Autochtones; Economic conditions. Indians of North America; Economic conditions. Inuit; Government relations. Health Services; Indigenous. Medicine; Traditional. Indians; North American. Inuits. Native peoples; Government relations. Indians of North America; Government relations. Inheemse volken; Government relations. Mtis; Government relations. Native peoples; Indians of North America; Politics and government. Native peoples; Politique et gouvernement. Autochtones; Relations avec l'tat. Autochtones; Social conditions. Indians of North America; Social conditions. Inuit; Social conditions. Native peoples

Charles Millard, A Canadian in the International Labour Movement: A Case Study of the ICFTU 1955-61 - Carew, Anthony (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
Shortly after its formation in 1949, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) became hamstrung by disagreements over cold war issues. General Secretary Oldeubroek's caution was criticized by the Americans, and Charles Millard, Canadian Director of the Steelworkers, was appointed Regional Director, a post established to counterbalance Oldenbroek's influence and to revitalise the organization. However, Millard's zeal was insufficient to compensate for his shortage of international experience, and lack of guile left him vulnerable to opponents among the movement's power brokers. At odds with both the American and British union leaderships, he resigned in 1961, a victim of the constraints placed on labour internationalism by the Cold War.
Keywords: COLD War; 1945-1989; Free trade; INTERNATIONAL Confederation of Free Trade Unions; INTERNATIONAL labor activities; Labor Unions; MILLARD; Charles

Making Western Canada: Essays on European Colonization and Settlement - Cavanaugh, Catherine Anne; Mouat, Jeremy (Garamond, 1996)
This ground-breaking collection demonstrates the research interests of a new generation of scholars. Stressing such themes as gender, race and class, the book is compelling evidence that Western Canadian history is far more complex and subtle than its depiction in the traditional literature. The contributors emphasize the way society has been made, and the extent to which it was - and is - the product of human agency rather than possessing an intangible existency beyond the interaction of groups of people. –Publisher's description
OCLC: 35937451
Keywords: Amérique du Nord (Ouest) Histoire; Aufsatzsammlung; Canada (Ouest) Histoire; Canada History; Canada; Western History; Geschichte; Geschiedschrijving; History; Kanada West; Kolonisation; Siedlung; Sociale geschiedenis; Western Canada