The Lonesome Death of Alexander Reder, Alien Cloakmaker - Tucker, Eric (The Beaver, 1999)
By the end of the nineteenth century politicians could no longer overlook the demands of the burgeoning labour movement. New laws began to set minimum standards in employment. One act protected striking Canadian workers by preventing employers from hiring across the line in the U.S. On paper it looked like progressive legislation. But when it came time to put the law into practice, there was an absence of will. Not even a tragic suicide could change the status quo. –Introduction

Abstracts = Résumés [43, Spring 1999] (Labour/Le Travail, 1999)
English/French abstracts of articles in the Spring 1999 issue.

Abstracts = Résumés [44, Fall 1999] (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
English/French abstracts of articles in the Fall 1999 issue.

Alberta Labour History Institute (ALHI): Workers' History, Workers' Stories (Alberta Labour History Institute (ALHI), 1999)
The Alberta Labour History Institute collects, preserves, and disseminates the stories of Alberta’s working people and their organizations. This website includes full transcripts, podcasts, and profiles of our interviewees. It also includes videos, booklets, themed essays, annual calendars, and a link to a book created by ALHI. –Website description

Index, Volume 43 (Spring/Printemps 1999) (Labour/Le Travail, 1999)

Index — volume 54 — 1999 (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
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Liste des appréciateurs 1999 (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
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Livres reçus (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
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Publications récentes (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
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Resúmenes (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
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Resúmenes [v. 54, no. 4, Fall 1999] (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
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Why Statutory Union Recognition Is Bad Labour Policy: The North American Experience - Adams, Roy J. (Industrial Relations Journal, 1999)
The proposed British legislation is modelled on that of the United States which has been a clear failure in its stated goal of encouraging the practice and procedure of collective bargaining (Adams, 1993). It has instead perpetuated a culture of labour-management animosity that many other nations have 113been able, to their benefit, to overcome (Adams, 1995c).

Acts of Resistance: Against the New Myths of Our Time - Armstrong, Lawrin (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Acts of Resistance: Against the New Myths of Our Time," by Pierre Bourdieu.

Planners and Politicians: Liberal Politics and Social Policy 1957-1968 - Arneil, Barbara (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Planners and Politicians: Liberal Politics and Social Policy, 1957-1968," by P.E. Bryden.

The Idea of the Middle Class: White Collar Workers and Peruvian Society 1900-1950 - Atack, Peter McKenzie (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "The Idea of the Middle Class: White Collar Workers and Peruvian Society 1900-1950," by D.S. Parker.

Power, Place and Identity: Historical Studies of Social and Legal Regulation in Quebec - Backhouse, Constance (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Power, Place and Identity: Historical Studies of Social and Legal Regulation in Quebec," edited by Tamara Myers, Kate Boyer, Mary Anne Poutanen and Steven Watt.

The Highs and Lows of the Minimum Wage Effect: A Time‐Series Cross‐Section Study of the Canadian Law - Baker, Michael; Benjamin, Dwayne; Stanger, Shuchita (Journal of Labor Economics, 1999)
We examine the effects of minimum wage legislation in Canada over the period 1975–93. For teenagers we find that a 10% increase in the minimum wage is associated with roughly a 2.5% decrease in employment. We also find that this result is driven by low frequency variation in the data. At high frequencies the elasticity is positive and insignificant. The difference in the elasticity across the bandwidth has implications for the interpretation of employment dynamics as a result of minimum wage policy and experimental design in minimum wage studies. It also provides a simple reconciliation of the ‘‘new minimum wage research,’’ which reports very small negative, or positive, elasticities.

Marx's Wage Theory in Historical Perspective: Its Origins, Development, and Interpretation - Baragar, Fletcher (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Marx's Wage Theory in Historical Perspective: Its Origins, Development, and Interpretation," by Kenneth Lapides.

Filipino Peasant Women: Exploitation and Resistance - Barber, Pauline Gardiner (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Filipino Peasant Women: Exploitation and Resistance," by Ligaya Lindio-McGovern.

Seal of Approval: The History of the Comics Code - Barker, Martin (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Seal of Approval: The History of the Comics Code," by Amy Kiste Nyberg.

Working: Images of Canadian Labour, 1900-2000 = Travailler : images de la vie ouvrière au Canada, 1900-2000 - Barna, Laszlo (Key Porter Books, 1999)
The companion book to The Labour Millenium Project, a four-part documentary film series and CD-ROM –Page 4 of cover. Text in English and French.
OCLC: 43283537
Keywords: 1900-1999; Canada; Grèves et lock-out Canada Histoire 20e siècle Ouvrages illustrés; History; Labor movement; Labor movement Canada History 20th century Pictorial works; Labor unions; Labor unions Canada History Pictorial works; Mouvement ouvrier Canada Histoire 20e siècle Ouvrages illustrés; Pictorial works; Strikes and lockouts; Strikes and lockouts Canada History 20th century Pictorial works; Syndicats Canada Histoire Ouvrages illustrés; Travailleurs Canada Histoire 20e siècle Ouvrages illustrés; Working class; Working class Canada History 20th century Pictorial works

Women Working the NAFTA Food Chain: Women, Food and Globalization - Barndt, Deborah; Harjo, Joy; Friedmann, Harriet; Reiter, Ester; Martinez-Salazar, Egla; Baron, Antonieta; Appendini, Kirsten; Ansley, Fran; Eyerman, Ann; Kainer, Jan; Field, Debbie; Villagomez, Maria Dolores; et al. (Second Story Press, 1999)
This collection of compelling and original research makes connections in Canada, the US and Mexico among women who work in fast-food restaurants, supermarkets and agricultural production. The fourteen chapters take a critical look at how the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has affected these women's working and living conditions, sharpening our understanding of how the workplace has been restructured in order to fulfill consumer demands for tomatoes, exotic flowers and fruits, as well as fast-food burgers and fries. Food activists in Latin America, the US and Canada propose alternatives to counteract the oppressive conditions of free trade and globalization. –Publisher's description. Contents: "Perhaps the world ends here" / Joy Harjo – Introduction: In the belly of the beast: A moveable feast / Deborah Barndt – Remaking "traditions": How we eat, what we eat and the changing political economy of food / Harriet Friedmann – Whose "choice"?: "Flexible" women workers in the tomato food chain / Deborah Barndt – Serving the McCustomer: Fast food is not about food / Ester Reiter – The "poisoning" of Indigenous migrant women workers and children: From deadly colonialism to toxic globalization / Egla Martinez-Salazar – Mexican women on the move: Migrant workers in Mexico and Canada / Antonieta Barrón – "From where have all the flowers come?": Women workers in Mexico's non-traditional markets / Kirsten Appendini – Putting the pieces together: Tennessee women find the global economy in their own backyards / Fran Ansley – Serving up service: Fast-food and office women workers doing it with a smile / Ann Eyerman – Not quite what they bargained for: Female labour in Canadian supermarkets / Jan Kainer – Putting food first: Women's role in creating a grassroots system outside the marketplace / Debbie Field – Grassroots responses to globalization: Mexican rural and urban women's collective alternatives / Maria Dolores Villagomez – Women as organizers: Building confidence and community through food / Deborah Moffett & Mary Lou Morgan – A day in the life of Maria: Women, food, ecology and the will to live / Ofelia Perez Peña – A different tomato: Creating vernacular foodscapes / Lauren Baker.
https://www.canadianscholars.ca/books/women-working-the-nafta-food-chain#tab_overview

Flexibilité et créations d'emplois : un défi pour le dialogue social en Europe - Beaucage, André (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Flexibilité et créations d'emplois : un défi pour le dialogue social en Europe," by Hedva Sarfati.
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Changing Industrial Relations in Europe - Beaumont, P. B. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Changing Industrial Relations in Europe," edited by A. Ferner and R. Hyman.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Changes; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Les politiques de l'emploi en Europe et aux Éats-Unis - Bellemare, Diane (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Les politiques de l'emploi en Europe et aux Éats-Unis," edited by Jean-Claude Barbier and Jérôme Gautié.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employment; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

The Workers' Educational Association: A Study in Social Change and Resistance in Canadian Working Class Culture. - Benjamin, Amanda (Concordia University, 1999)
This thesis examines the effects of the Workers' Educational Association of Toronto (WEA) on social change in Canada between 1917-1945. This study attempts to establish the social importance of this organization in the history of adult education in Canada. The WEA was an educational organization that attempted to provide a link between labour and learning by making educational opportunities available to the working class. The data for this study were obtained from an analysis of the Ontario and Canadian WEA archives. The thesis first examines the history of the WEA and demonstrate its place in the history of adult education in Canada. Secondly, this study suggests that the WEA was the impetus for change in Canada, and in particular for Toronto's working class. The study found that the WEA used a form of critical pedagogy to achieve its goals which brought about social change. This study reinforces the usefulness of critical pedagogy as an approach for adult education when social change is an objective.

The Effects of High Performance Work Practices on Job Satisfaction in the United States Steel Industry - Berg, Peter (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
A unique data set is used to examine how different practices associated with high performance work systems in the steel industry affect the job satisfaction of workers. While the effect of these practices on organizational performance is widely studied, few have examined their effects on workers. Their analysis in this paper is based on data from a sample of 1,355 hourly workers in the US steel industry across 13 plants. The results indicate that the effect of high performance practices on job satisfaction depends primarily on how work roles and job duties are defined, on good employee-management relations and on practices that help balance work and family responsibilities. These results show that those who are able to use their skills and knowledge on the job, those who report positive employee-management relations, and those who believe the company helps them balance work and family responsibilities have relatively high probabilities of being very satisfied with their jobs.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Job satisfaction; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Statistical analysis; Steel industry; Studies; Work environment

Sixties Rock: Garage, Psychedelic, and Other Satisfactions - Berger, Harris M. (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Sixties Rock: Garage, Psychedelic, and Other Satisfactions," by Michael Hicks.

Mutations du travail et nouveau modèle de qualification/formation - Bernier, Colette (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
Ce texte questionne la thèse aujourd'hui dominante d'une tendance à la requalification du travail. Il resitue d'abord le débat théorique entre la thèse de la déqualification et celle de la requalification du travail en montrant comment toutes deux présentent le même problème à savoir une vision linéaire et uniforme de l'évolution des qualifications. Il démontre ensuite qu'actuellement, la question ne se pose plus tant en termes d'évolution qu'en termes de rupture par rapport au modèle taylorien/fordien d'organisation du travail et appelle donc un changement de paradigme. Sur cette base, l'auteure reprend des données d'études de cas effectuées sur une quinzaine d'années dans le secteur tertiaire pour se demander si se met en place un nouveau modèle de qualification/formation. Les données récentes permettent de voir un nouveau modèle en train d'émerger dans certains secteurs. Ce modèle met de l'avant une organisation basée sur la polyvalence des emplois faisant appel à de nouveaux savoirs et donnant une importance certaine à la formation. Pourtant, ce modèle n'est pas synonyme d'une requalification générale dans ces secteurs où se dessinent plutôt des mouvements opposés de déqualification/requalification qui s'appliquent différemment aux personnels en place. En conclusion, l'auteure appelle à sortir de l'entreprise pour analyser les restructurations actuelles du travail à la lumière des mutations tout aussi importantes du marché de l'emploi qui ont nom l'exclusion et la précarisation.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employees; Labor Unions; Qualifications; Skilled labor; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Training

Vers une formation «continue» de la main-d'oeuvre au Québec ? - Bernier, Colette (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
Dans ce texte, l'auteure se demande si les pratiques récentes des entreprises québécoises dans le domaine de la formation de la main-d’œuvre sont de nature à développer les compétences de cette même main-d’œuvre. Pour répondre à cette question, elle examine les innovations de formation des entreprises en se demandant si elles vont dans le sens d'une formation continue de la main-d’œuvre. L'examen porte d'abord sur la dynamique des innovations de formation au sein de l'entreprise, ensuite sur les liens qu'elles entretiennent avec l'organisation du travail, sur les relations qu'elles induisent entre l'école et l'entreprise et, finalement, sur l'inscription de ces formations dans le temps. Si l'auteure conclut à un changement significatif des pratiques de formation des entreprises, elle note pourtant que celles-ci sont encore trop axées sur les objectifs productivistes de l'entreprise et s'inscrivent trop peu souvent dans le sens d'une formation « continue » de la main-d’œuvre.
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Making Our Mark: Labour Arts and Heritage in Ontario - Beveridge, Karl; Johnston, Jude (Between the Lines, 1999)
Finally, a book that documents the rich history of labour arts in Ontario. Making Our Mark presents over 100 projects, showcasing the vibrant banners, photos, plays and lyrics that form the heart and soul of the labour movement. Diverse examples spring from the Artist in the Workplace Program, the Mayworks Festivals, independent labour arts projects, and exhibitions organized the Ontario Workers Arts and Heritage Centre. Making Our Mark celebrates the songs of Arlene Mantle and Charlie Angus, photos by First Nations ironworkers, and dance performances by Tom Brouillette and the Boilermakers, to name a few.... Publisher's description
Keywords: Ontario

Feminist Success Stories = Célébrons nos réussits féministes - Blackford, Karen A.; Garceau, Marie-Luce; Kirby, Sandra (University of Ottawa Press = Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa, 1999)
Abuses by international corporations, withdrawal of social services and implementation of regressive legislation continue to impoverish women and reduce the quality of their everyday lives: women have reason to be demoralized. Recognizing this challenging and difficult situation, this volume reviews women's successes at feminizing Canadian institutions. It is intended to hearten the women's movement, and show the potential for feminist change and suggest ways to realize this potential
OCLC: 1154995194
Keywords: Canada; Feminism; Feminism Canada; Feminism and feminist theory; Femmes Éducation Canada; Féminisme Canada; Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory; Social issues and processes; Society and culture: general; Society and social sciences Society and social sciences; Volunteers; Volunteers Canada; Women Education; Women Education Canada; Women Employment; Women Employment Canada; Women Health and hygiene; Women Health and hygiene Canada; canadian institutions; feminist; women

The Workers' Revolt in Canada, 1917-1925 - Bortz, Jeffrey (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "The Workers' Revolt in Canada, 1917-1925," edited by Craig Heron.

Coopération patronale-syndicale et réorganisation du travail - Bourque, Reynald (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
Cette étude présente les principaux résultats d'une recherche menée au Québec auprès de huit syndicats locaux des secteurs de la métallurgie et du papier affiliés à la CSN, qui ont négocié des ententes de participation syndicale à la gestion de l'organisation du travail au début des années 1990. La recherche a porté sur les contextes, les processus et les résultats de la coopération patronale-syndicale dans chacun des cas étudiés au cours de la période 1990 à 1997. L'analyse révèle d'abord que ces ententes, conclues pour la plupart dans un contexte de réduction des emplois, aménagent des modalités de participation formelle des syndicats à la gestion de l'organisation du travail. Les principaux changements intervenus concernent l'élargissement des tâches, le décloisonnement des métiers et le travail en équipe. Ces changements se sont accompagnés dans tous les cas de modifications aux règles conventionnelles de gestion des emplois et d'un allongement de la durée des conventions collectives. L'analyse longitudinale met en évidence un recul ou un plafonnement de la participation syndicale dans la majorité des cas après quelques années d'expérimentation. Les principaux facteurs associés au déclin de la participation syndicale sont l'imposition unilatérale par l'employeur de changements organisationnels et la perception de la part des salariés d'un partage inéquitable des gains découlant de la réorganisation du travail.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employees; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Metal industry; Participatory management; Pulp & paper industry; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Selling Tradition: Appalachia and the Construction of an American Folk 1930-1940 - Bowman, Rob (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Selling Tradition: Appalachia and the Construction of an American Folk, 1930-1940," by Jane S. Becker.

The Representation Gap: Change and Reform in the British and American Workplace - Brossard, Michel (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "The Representation Gap: Change and Reform in the British and American Workplace," by Brian Towers.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Women Teachers and Feminist Politics 1900-39 - Brown, Helen (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Women Teachers and Feminist Politics 1900-39," by Alison Oram.

The Yankee International: Marxism and the American Reform Tradition, 1848-1876 - Buhle, Paul (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "The Yankee International: Marxism and the American Reform Tradition, 1848-1876," by Timothy Messer-Kruse.

The Moral Economy of the Commons: Ecology and Equity in the Newfoundland Cod Fishery, 1815-1855 - Cadigan, Sean (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
A sense of determinism about the emergence of capitalism and the ruthless over-exploitation of nature in European colonial expansion pervades much of North American environmental and ecological history. The attempts of 19th-century Newfoundland fishing people to regulate access to common-property marine resources suggests that some European settlers were also capable of non-capitalist forms of ecological management. Fishers protested against the introduction of new fishing technology in response to localized exhaustion of cod stocks. Some of these protests involved the destruction of newer equipment, while others were anonymous assaults on the equipment's owners. The protests represented attempts to forestall the depletion of marine resources by the further capitalization of the fishery. By the late 1840s the demands for conservation measures became more organized politically under the leadership of mercantile agent Willam Kelson. Although he was conservative and paternalistic, Kelson's criticism of the unrestrained employment of technology in the fishing industry had radical implications. Kelson supported the desire to preserve a customary and equitable right of access to fish for present and future generations. The preservation of equitable access may been seen as an ecological norm of a moral economy that ran counter to the individualistic and accumulative values of a nascent local capitalist political economy.

Managing the Marginal: Regulating and Negotiating Decency in Vancouver's Beer Parlours, 1925-1954 - Campbell, Robert A. (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
Little historical work has been done in Canada on public drinking in general and public drinking after prohibition in particular. For British Columbia this neglect is a real oversight because hotel saloons were transformed into hotel beer parlours after prohibition. The first parlours opened in Vancouver in 1925, and, like saloons, they catered to a working-class clientele. Parlours held sway until 1954 when a new Government Liquor Act provided for additional venues of public drinking. One did not have to sit long in a Vancouver parlour to realize that more than alcohol consumption was being regulated. Parlours also regulated class, gender and sexuality, and race.

Service in the Field: The World of Front-Line Public Servants - Carroll, Barbara Wake; Siegel, David; Institute of Public Administration of Canada (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999)
A tribute to the most important people in government. The most important people in government are not the prime minister, premiers, and senior bureaucrats but the people who work in government field offices across the country, providing service to Canadians. The first book to focus exclusively on the role of field-level public servants in Canada, Service in the Field examines the work they do and the relationship between field and head offices. As governments attempt to focus more on service delivery, it has become apparent that little is known about the people who actually provide the services. Barbara Wake Carroll and David Siegel discuss structural issues and analyse the various administrative reforms developed in the last few years. They highlight field officers' perceptions of the problems in the system and suggest ways to improve field office-head office relations and the operation of field offices generally. The authors' analysis is based on more than two hundred interviews with federal and provincial civil servants in all ten provinces, in the smallest hamlets and largest cities across Canada. Using extensive quotations from these interviews, the authors allow public servants to tell their own stories and, in so doing, provide examples of the application of systematic qualitative research to Canadian political science. –Publisher's description, Contents: Who Are These People and What Do They Do? – Research Described – "How We Do Things around Here" – Service to the Public – Workplace Environment – Two Solitudes or One Big Happy Family? Dealing with Head Office – Administrative Reform: How It Plays in the Field – Bureaucrats Are People Too – Where Do We Go from Here? Implications for Implementation and Management Theory.
Book available at Internet Archive to people with print disabilities: https://archive.org/details/serviceinfieldwo0000carr

No Car, No Radio, No Liquor Permit: The Moral Regulation of Single Mothers in Ontario, 1920-1997 - Carstairs, Catherine (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "No Car, No Radio, No Liquor Permit": The Moral Regulation of Single Mothers in Ontario, 1920-1997, by Margaret Little.

Taking on Goliath: The Emergence of a New Left Party and the Struggle for Democracy in Mexico - Caulfield, Norman (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Taking on Goliath: The Emergence of a New Left Party and the Struggle for Democracy in Mexico," by Kathleen Bruhn.

Workers' Control in Latin America, 1930-1979 - Caulfield, Norman (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Workers' Control in Latin America, 1930-1979," edited by Jonathan C. Brown.

Articulation institutionnelle et orientations du système de formation professionnelle au Québec - Charest, Jean (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
Le système québécois de formation professionnelle a connu des transformations importantes au cours des années 90. La nouvelle articulation institutionnelle de ce système a été traversée par diverses influences politiques et économiques, dont une caractéristique majeure est la participation soutenue des principaux acteurs des relations industrielles. Nous proposons ici une analyse de ce que nous nommons la modernisation du système de formation professionnelle au Québec en retraçant les orientations de départ et leur logique sous-jacente, en identifiant les influences extérieures permettant de spécifier l’expérience québécoise et en concluant sur les principaux enjeux qui confrontent les acteurs.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Occupational training; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Réduction du temps de travail: mode d'emploi - Charest, Jean (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Réduction du temps de travail: mode d'emploi," by Jean-Pierre Mongrand.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Working hours

Labour Market Regimes and Patterns of Flexibility: A Sweden-Canada Comparison - Chaykowski, Richard (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Labor Market Regimes and Patterns of Flexibility: A Sweden-Canada Comparison," by Axel Van Den Berg, Bengt Furaker and Leif Johansson.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; LABOR market; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Workplace Change and Continuous Bargaining - Clarke, Louise; Haiven, Larry (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
This paper reports on a remarkable partnership between Saskatoon Chemicals and a local of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union. The partnership emerged after years of bitter relations and, on the basis of great union strength, progressed to involve continuous, interest-based bargaining and an extensive, jointly determined work redesign process. Both parties achieved significant benefits from the high performance partnership before the high performance work system was developed. Evidence also shows that continuous bargaining can work. Divisions within the union over its appropriate role and accountability helped to prevent co-optation, and ultimately led to a return to a more traditional labor-management relationship. The case raises important questions for unions, regarding industrial democracy in a rapidly changing work context.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Chemical industry; Collective bargaining; Employees; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Participatory management; Partnerships; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Contracting Masculinity: Gender, Class, and Race in a White-Collar Union, 1944-1994 - Creese, Gillian (University of Toronto Press, 1999)
The history of labour in Canada is most often understood to mean – and presented as – the history of blue-collar workers, especially men. And it is a story of union solidarity to gain wages, rights, and the like from employers. In Contracting Masculinity, Gillian Creese examines in depth the white-collar office workers union at BC Hydro, and shows how collective bargaining involves the negotiation of gender, class, and race. Over the first 50 years of the office union's existence male and female members were approximately equal in number. Yet equality has ended there. Women are concentrated at the lower rungs of the job hierarchy, while men start higher up the ladder and enjoy more job mobility; men's office work has been redefined as a wide range of 'technical' jobs, while women's work has been concentrated in a narrow range of 'clerical' positions. As well, for decades Canadian Aboriginals and people of colour were not employed by BC Hydro, which has resulted in a racialized-gendered workplace. What is the role of workers and their trade unions in constructing male and female work, a process that is often seen as the outcome solely of management decisions? How is this process of gendering also racialized, so that women and men of different race and ethnicity are differentiallv privileged at work? How do males in a white-collar union create and maintain their own image of masculinity in the face of a feminized occupation and a more militant male blue-collar union housed within the same corporation? What impact does the gender composition of union leadership have on collective bargaining? How do traditions of union solidarity affect attempts to bargain for greater equity in the office? These are the central questions that Contracting Masculinity seeks to answer in this in-depth look at a Canadian union. –Publisher's description
Book available at Internet Archive to people with print disabilities: https://archive.org/details/contractingmascu0000cree

From Protest to Powerlessness: A Marxist Analysis of the Ontario NDP - Crow, Daniel W. (Brock University, 1999)
Using Marxist state theory as an analytical framework, this thesis explains the problems faced by the Ontario New Democratic Party government (1990-1995) in implementing a social democratic agenda. Not only was the government constrained in its ability to implement progressive policy, but it was also pushed to implement a Social Contract (involving legislated wage cuts to public sector employees) that alienated the party's base of support, making it more difficult for the party to organize in the future. Although this study relies predominantly on a reinterpretation of existing research on the topic, some primary research is used in the analysis, including interviews with members of the labour movement and former MPPs and analysis of the news media's treatment of the party/ government. Historical and class analytical perspectives are used to explain the evolution of the ONDP's structure and policies, as well as to assess the relative strength of the working class and its ability to support a social democratic political agenda. It was found that the ONDP' s unwillingness to develop a long term plan for social democracy, and its inability to act as a mass party or to build a strong working class movement, made it more difficult for the party to succeed when it formed the government. Moreover, the class nature of the capitalist state, along with pressure exerted by a well mobilized capitalist class, worked to limit the government' s options.

Life on the Line: One Woman's Tale of Work, Sweat, and Survival - De Santis, Solange (Penguin Random House Canada, 1999)
Just when Solange De Santis had achieved success and security in the white-collar world of journalism, she decided to leave it all to work on the line during the final year and a half of a General Motors van plant in Scarborough, Ontario. –Publisher's description
Book available at Internet Archive to people with print disabilities: https://archive.org/details/lifeonlineonewom0000desa
Keywords: Assembly Line; Automotive; Blue-collar work; Gender; Journalist; Ontario Scarborough; Pink-collar work

La syndicalisation des salaries du communautaire - Deslauriers, Jean-Pierre; Paquet, Renaud; Sarrazin, Marc (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
Au cours de la dernière décennie, plusieurs auteurs se sont interrogés sur les facteurs qui ont fait chuter le taux de syndicalisation dans certains pays et qui sont à la source de sa stagnation dans d'autres. Parmi les facteurs de nature structurelle, le déplacement des emplois de la grande entreprise vers la petite entreprise, de l'entreprise publique vers l'entreprise privée, du secteur manufacturier vers le secteur des services constituent ceux qui reviennent le plus souvent. Dans la foulée de la restructuration des services, on peut constater au Québec comme dans d'autres pays occidentaux, un mouvement en faveur de nouvelles formes d'organisation sociale visant la production de biens et services. Ces organisations prennent la forme de petites entreprises communautaires du secteur des services privés, ajoutant ainsi à la masse de salariés, pour la plupart non syndiqués, de ce secteur. Cet article vise à évaluer le potentiel de syndicalisation des salariés du communautaire. Cette évaluation qualitative est faite à partir de données recueillies lors d'entrevues dans six entreprises types du secteur communautaire dans l'Outaouais, de commentaires rassemblés lors de réunions de groupes focus d'informateurs-clé et de rencontres avec des représentants syndicaux. Les données sont analysées à l'aide d'un modèle explicatif de la propension à se syndiquer. Suivent quelques considérations stratégiques pour les organisations syndicales intéressées par la syndicalisation de ces groupes de salariés.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Membership drives; Nonprofit organizations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Les entreprises et l'emploi: les nouvelles formes de qualification du travail - Doray, Pierre (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Les entreprises et l'emploi : les nouvelles formes de qualification du travail," by Annette Dubé and Daniel Mercure,
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Job skills; Labor Unions; Qualifications; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

The State of Working America, 1998-99 - Dresser, Laura (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "The State of Working America, 1998-99," by Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, and John Schmitt.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Business conditions; Economic conditions; Economic indicators; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

The Trials of Masculinity: Policing Sexual Boundaries, 1870-1930 - Dummitt, Chris (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "The Trials of Masculinity: Policing Sexual Boundaries, 1870-1930," by Angus McLaren.

The Mill: A Worker's Memoir from 1945 to 1948 - Edwards, Alfred; Heron, Craig (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
Historian Craig Heron introduces the 1945-48 memoir of Alfred Edwards, who worked at National Knitting MIlls, a textile mill in Hamilton, Ontario. Edwards, who had been a union activist prior to WWII, describes the changes in the relations of production that he observed upon his return to the plant from military service. He also discusses the decision of the shop union to join the Textile Workers Union of America, the struggle for local control in a bureaucratized international union, and the conflict between social democratic and communist unions at the Canadian Congress of Labour convention in Toronto in 1947.

The Burger International - Featherstone, Liza (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
Discusses efforts to unionize fast-food workers, in particular the drive at the McDonald's in Squamish, BC. [Note: The workers voted to decertify less than a year later, before a collective agreement was signed.]

Losing the Hearts and Minds, or How Clio Disappeared from Canadian Public Schools - Fink, Leon (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews and comments on J. L. Granatstein's "Who Killed Canadian History?" (1998), Ken Osborne's "In Defence of History: Teaching the Past and the Meaning of Democratic Citizenship" (1995), and Bob Davis's "Whatever Happened to High School History? Burying the Political Memory of Youth: Ontario, 1945-1995" (1995).

Empire of Free Trade: The East India Company and the Making of the Colonial Marketplace - Fisher, Michael H. (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Empire of Free Trade: The East India Company and the Making of the Colonial Marketplace," by Sudipta Sen.

Michel Chartrand : les voies d'un homme de parole - Foisy, Fernand (Lanctöt Éditeur et Fernand Foisy, 1999)
On peut dire de Michel Chartrand qu'il est le dernier des vrais. À lui seul, il représente tout un programme politique: liberté, égalité, fraternité et justice, ces vieilles idées révolutionnaires dont on s'est plu, à maintes reprises, à annoncer la fin. À lui seul, il représente le courage, celui d'affirmer et de défendre en tout temps ses idées, qui, en fait, ne sont pas si vieilles. Ce combat, c'est l'histoire de sa vie, celle d'un homme en tout temps minoritaire, d'un simple citoyen de l'opposition qui n'a jamais connu le pouvoir mais qui aura sans doute réussi à exercer, en plusieurs occasions, un véritable contre-pouvoir. On a dit de Michel Chartrand qu'il était excessif, colérique, enragé, mal engueulé, mais c'est aussi un incorruptible, un insoumis, un idéaliste, un perpétuel insurgé, un prophète. Dans cet ouvrage, qui n'a pas la prétention d'une vraie biographie, mais qui nous permet également de survoler les moments marquants de l'histoire du Québec et du mouvement ouvrier, Fernand Foisy, qui a interviewé une centaine de personnes, amis ou détracteurs, nous présente le portrait d'un homme engagé, passionné par la politique, amoureux des mots et de la vie, celui qui fut pendant plus de cinquante ans l'époux assidu d'une autre personne exemplaire, Simonne Monet. À lire et à relire ce portrait d'un homme à part et pourtant bien de son temps, il m'arrive de croire à cette utopie toujours dérangeante d'un partage juste et équitable des grandes richesses, malgré le nouvel ordre mondial qu'on tend à nous imposer violemment. –Résumé de l'éditeur
OCLC: 44673517
Keywords: Biographies; Chartrand; Michel; 1916-; Chartrand; Michel; 1916-2010; Dirigeants syndicaux Québec (Province) Biographies; Labor leaders; Labor leaders Québec (Province) Biography; Politics and government; Québec; Québec (Province) Conditions sociales 1960-1991; Québec (Province) Politics and government 1960-; Québec (Province) Politique et gouvernement 1960-; Québec (Province) Social conditions 1960-1991; Since 1960; Syndicalism; Syndicalism Québec (Province); Syndicalisme Québec (Province); Travailleurs Québec (Province) Conditions sociales; Working class Québec (Province) Social conditions; Working class Social conditions

Labour History and the Interlocking Hierarchies of Class, Ethnicity, and Gender: A Canadian Perspective - Frager, Ruth A. (International Review of Social History, 1999)
This paper develops the concept of interlocking hierarchies [within the working class] by focusing on the Canadian situation. While emphasizing the complex dynamics of worker resistance and adaptation, the paper briefly examines the shortcomings of Canadian working-class historiography. The paper then explores the significance of interlocking hierarchies and sketches the ways in which this analytical framework can be applied, first by emphasizing gender issues and secondly by emphasizing ethnicity in the Canadian context, particularly in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. (I use the term ‘‘ethnicity’’ broadly in order to avoid using the term ‘‘race’’ as much as possible, so as not to lend credence to the notion that ‘‘race’’ represents a fixed biological category.) In emphasizing ethnicity, the paper focuses first on issues concerning immigrant workers from Asia and then on issues concerning immigrant workers from southern and eastern Europe. –From author's introduction

Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America - Frank, David (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Working-Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America," Steven J. Ross.

Paying the Price of Principle - Fudge, Judy (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
Discusses the socio-political context of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal's ruling regarding the pay equity complaint of the Public Service Alliance of Canada. The complaint was upheld, but the federal government filed an appeal. Argues for a new understanding of the labour market to counter the devisiveness of the prevailing neo-classical model.

Unions and New Office Technology - Gattiker, Urs E.; Paulson, Dan (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
To explain white collar workers' expectations about what unions should do when technological change occurs in the workplace, 2 attitude scales were used. The data indicate that the industries in which employees works as well as their perception about whether computerized technology makes their job rewarding or creates de-skilling are all significant predictors of their attitude regarding a union's decision to accept or resist technological change. Non-union members and managers, in contrast to union members, appear to be concerned about: 1. bread-and-butter issues, and 2. quality of work issues and therefore, are somewhat less likely to feel positive about a union that accepts and helps workers adapt to new office technology.
Keywords: Automation; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employee attitude; Labor; Labor Unions; Models; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Technological change; White collar workers

Les causes d'une participation à la grève: grévistes et non-grévistes de la Noranda Mines Ltd, juin 1934 - Gaudreau, Guy (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
À partir des fiches du personnel de la Noranda Mines Ltd, l'auteur cherche à cerner les facteurs objectifs qui ont incité quelque 300 travailleurs à déclencher une grève le 12 juin 1934. Comme d'une part, la participation à la grève est inscrite sur les fiches, mais comme d'autre part, la majorité des travailleurs ont refusé de respecter les piquets de grève, deux groupes d'ouvriers-mineurs, les grévistes et les non-grévistes, peuvent ainsi être distingués lors du conflit. Hormis leurs orientations idéologiques, ces travailleurs ont-ils adopté face à la grève une attitude qui peut s'expliquer par leurs caractéristiques socioprofessionnelles? Au centre de cette analyse: les immigrants qui composent la majorité de la main-d'oeuvre. Puisqu'ils sont divisés sur les mérites de la grève, le texte examine l'influence de leur degré d'enracinement au pays sur leur militantisme.

Les récoltes des forêts publiques au Québec et en Ontario, 1840-1900 - Gaudreau, Guy (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999)
Focusing on the transition from the production of squared timber to that of milled lumber and, finally, wood pulp, Gaudreau traces the constant depletion of the resource and the companies' resulting, inexorable push westward from Quebec into Ontario - an economic migration that led to the establishment of significant francophone communities across northern Ontario. He shows how recent generations of Quebec historians have failed to provide adequate historical explanations because of an overly exclusive focus on Quebec. Gaudreau's work provides an important historiographic corrective, showing that the history of Quebec is part of a complex fabric that, like the forests themselves, does not recognize provincial boundaries. Detailed annual data on the volume of principal forest products produced from Crown lands in Quebec and Ontario during the second half of the nineteenth century compiled systematically for the first time form the backbone of this study. Based on these data Gaudreau describes and clarifies the timing, scale, and significance of transitions in forest outputs as spruce joined pine as the principal type of wood logged and as milled lumber and subsequently pulp wood joined, and eventually replaced, square timber as the key product. The book addresses the implications of resource depletion and the economic and historical changes in the forestry industry, including the transition from a commercial and artisanal process to an industrial process and the implications this had for colonization and migration. –Publisher's description
https://dokumen.pub/recoltes-des-forets-publiques-au-quebec-et-en-ontario-1840-1900-9780773567429.html
Keywords: Forest reserves – Ontario – History – 19th century

Organisation du travail et gestion de la main-d'oeuvre dans la filière automobile - Gérin-Lajoie, Jean (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Organisation du travail et gestion de la main-d'oeuvre dans la filière automobile," by Gorgeu, Armelle, René Mathieu and Michel Pialoux.
Keywords: AUTOMOBILE industry; Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

International and Comparative Employment Relations - Giles, Anthony (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "International and Comparative Employment Relations," edited by Greg J. Bamber and Russell D. Lansbury.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Manycountries; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Industrial relations in the new workplace: research, policy and practice - Giles, Anthony; Lapointe, Paul-André; Murray, Gregor; Bélanger, Jacques (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
Introduces the international colloquium co-sponsored by Laval University's Industrial Relations Centre and the Canadian Workplace Research Network held in September 1997.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; R&D; Research; Research & development; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

New Forms of Work Organization: Can Europe Realise its Potential? - Godard, John (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "New Forms of Work Organization–Can Europe Realise its Potential?," by EPOC Research Group.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employees; Employment; Labor Unions; Participatory management; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Work environment

Solidarité et détermination: histoire de la Fraternité des policiers et policières de la Communauté urbaine de Montréal - Goulet, Henri; Rouillard, Jacques (Boréal, 1999)
En 1999, la Fraternité des policiers et policières de Montréal célébrait son cinquantième anniversaire. Quelles sont les étapes qui ont marqué la vie de ce syndicat? –Résumé de l'éditeur
OCLC: 48383766

Labor and Urban Politics: Class Conflict and the Origins of Modern Liberalism in Chicago, 1864-1897 - Green, Julie (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Labor and Urban Politics: Class Conflict and the Origins of Modern Liberalism in Chicago, 1864-97," by Richard Schneirov.

Radical Roots: The Shaping of British Columbia - Griffin, Harold (Commonwealth Fund, 1999)
[T]his history is a major contribution in recording the tumultuous times and many sharp battles of the working class in British Columbia. –From introduction by Maurice Rush
OCLC: 44670229
Keywords: British Columbia; British Columbia History; Colombie-Britannique Histoire; History; Populism; Populism British Columbia History; Populisme Colombie-Britannique Histoire; Radicalism; Radicalism British Columbia History; Radicalisme Colombie-Britannique Histoire

Facteurs explicatifs de la démobilisation chez les diplômés universitaires récemment embauchés - Guérin, Gilles; Wils, Thierry; Carrière, Jules (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
Dans cette recherche, nous tentons d'expliquer le phénomène de démobilisation chez les diplômés universitaires récemment embauchés à partir de leurs attentes et des possibilités de réalisation de ces attentes offertes par l'organisation. Différents modèles explicatifs sont testés et celui qui considère les attentes et les possibilités de réalisation comme des effets indépendants se révèle bien plus significatif que le modèle classique des attentes insatisfaites. L'effet des attentes initiales sur la démobilisation s'avère très réduit, remettant ainsi en cause l'hypothèse des attentes excessives qui augmenteraient les risques de démobilisation. Par contre, le défaut par l'organisation de responsabiliser, d'utiliser les compétences et d'informer est beaucoup plus préjudiciable.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employment; Expectations; Job satisfaction; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; University graduates

Considering the Third Revolution: Popular Movements in the Revolutionary Era - Harrison, J. Frank (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article review and comments extensively on Murray Bookchin's "Considering the Third Revolution: Popular Movements in the Revolutionary Era," 2 vols. (1998).

Gestion Intégrale de la Qualité: univers des acteurs et contexte d'innovation - Harrisson, Denis (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
Following a brief review of the concept of quality, the article analyzes the representations and practices of quality by managers and employees at four Quebec manufacturing plants - Comtel, Microcom, Primétal and Afcan. Each was involved in the transformational process of Total Quality Management. Concludes that there is a duality: either quality management reinforces the relationship of subordination to managerial authority, or, on the contrary, it is based on a negotiated agreement in which unions and workers make themselves heard.

Labor and the Wartime State: Labor Relations and Law during World War II - Haydu, Jeffrey (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Labor and the Wartime State: Labor Relations and Law during World War II, by James B. Atleson.

"Trouble Enough": Gender, Social Policy and the Politics of Place in Vancouver and Saskatoon, 1929-1939 - Healy, M. Theresa (Simon Fraser University, 1999)
Relief policy in English Canada in the 1930s was the forerunner of the Canadian welfare state. As practised, the strength of relief lay in local responsibility but this was also a weakness. The aims of relief policy were undermined by the politics of place: the impact of specific historical and spatial circumstances at the local level. Relief policy was not uniformly enforced nor were the outcomes exactly as intended. The objectives, to provide minimal necessities, to exclude individuals and families from relief rolls, to control gender and familial roles, and to impose middle class societal prescription, were not met. Instead, a complex negotiation of responsibilities and expectations was undertaken. Relief recipients, were able to win some concessions. Further, the fragility of social categories used to implement relief policies was crystallized. The conflict between the ideals of policy and people's realities becomes apparent when two very different cities are compared. Using extensive oral history interviews and contemporary relief policy documents and relief department records, this research shows that while the principles of relief were almost identical in Saskatoon and Vancouver, the practice of relief in these two cities revealed the dependency of relief policy upon face to face delivery. Designed to eliminate potential abuse by recipients, the system barely controlled it. Further, local responsibility also ensured that citizens had access to the mechanisms of local politics and tools for change. The local population in Saskatoon was able to win considerable and significant improvements to relief while Vancouver's system remained virtually untouched, in spite of dramatic and revolutionary local activities which reached the national stage.

Implications of Small Bargaining Units and Enterprise Unions on Bargaining Disputes: A Look into the Future? - Hebdon, Robert; Hyatt, Douglas; Mazerolle, Maurice (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
Using a large data set of large and small bargaining units, the implications for collective bargaining disputes of the evolution toward small bargaining units and the move to non-traditional forms of representation are examined. It is found that smaller bargaining units, as well as independent unions in both the public and private sectors, are less likely to reach an impasse. This finding supported those hypothesizing the cooperative nature of these organizations. These 2 sets of results suggest that the movement to smaller bargaining units, and towards more independent representation, will result in a higher proportion of directly negotiated settlements in the future. However, a reduced incidence of impasse does not necessarily mean a reduction in industrial conflict. Evidence is found of a shift away from a collective expression of conflict such as strikes, to more individual expressions. Thus, in the future, there may be a greater need for internal conflict resolution systems.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Collective bargaining; Collective bargaining unit; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Statistical analysis; Studies; Trends

Changes in Job Duration in Canada - Heisz, Andrew (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
Using monthly data from the Canadian Labour Force Survey, changes in the complete duration of new job spells from 1981 through 1996 are investigated. While the average complete length of new jobs did not increase or decrease over a period, investigation of the distribution of complete job lengths reveals 2 important changes. First, the probability that a new job would end within 6 months rose during the 1980s, but then reversed during the 1990s, meaning that there was little net change over the period as a whole. Second, the conditional probability that a job that had lasted 6 months would continue on past 5 years rose through the whole period. This pattern of change was found among virtually all demographic subgroups examined, suggesting that an economy-wide explanation must be sought.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Demographics; Employee turnover; Employment; LABOR market; Labor Unions; Occupational mobility; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Stability; Statistical analysis; Studies

The CIO, 1935-1955 - Heron, Craig (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "The CIO, 1935-1955," by Robert H. Zieger.

Daimler-Benz in the Third Reich - Herrigel, Gary (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Daimler-Benz in the Third Reich," by Neil Gregor.

Then and Now: New Examinations of the Sixties - Hewitt, Steve (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews and comments on the books, "The Other Side of the Sixties: Young Americans for Freedom and the Rise of Conservative Politics," by John A. Andrew III, "Blues for America: A Critique, A Lament, and Some Memories," by Doug Dowd, "The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground," by Ron Jacobs, "Living Inside Our Hope: A Steadfast Radical's Thoughts on Rebuilding the Movement," by Staughton Lynd, and "Direct Action: Radical Pacifism from the Union Eight to the Chicago Seven," by James Tracy.

The Woman Worker, 1926-1929 - Hobbs, Margaret (Margaret Helen); Sangster, Joan; Canadian Committee on Labour History (Canadian Committee on Labour History, 1999)
This volume presents the inaugural issue and articles from The Woman Worker, the official newspaper of the Canadian Federation of Women's Labor Leagues, during its 1926 to 1929 run. Edited by prominent Communist Party of Canada leader Florence Custance, The Woman Worker's objective was to "champion the Protection of Womanhood, and the cause of the Workers generally." In this collection, Hobbs and Sangster have provided an introductory chapter examining the evolution The Woman Worker, its editor Florence Custance, the Communist-led Women's Labor Leagues, and, more generally, the socio-economic and political context of the mid to late 1920s. Each chapter includes an introduction and suggestions for further reading. Chapters include women and wage work, protective legislation, feminism and social reform, peace and war, women and the sex trade, marriage, the family and domestic labour, and the local Women's Labor Leagues at work. –Publisher's description
https://archive.org/details/womanworker192610000unse
Keywords: 20th century; Canada; Employment; Employment History Sources; History; History Sources; Social conditions; Social conditions Sources; WOMEN labor union members; Woman worker (Toronto; Ont.); Women; Women employees

The Polish Coal Miners' Union and the German Labor Movement in the Ruhr, 1902-1934: National and Social Solidarity - Horn, Gerd-Rainier (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "The Polish Coal Miners' Union and the German Labor Movement in the Ruhr, 1902-1934: National and Social Solidarity," by John J. Kulczycki.

The Fur Trade in Canada: An Introduction to Canadian Economic History - Innis, Harold Adams; Ray, Arthur J. (University of Toronto Press, 1999)
At the time of its publication in 1930, The Fur Trade in Canada challenged and inspired scholars, historians, and economists. Now, almost seventy years later, Harold Innis's fundamental reinterpretation of Canadian history continues to exert a magnetic influence. Innis has long been regarded as one of Canada's foremost historians, and in The Fur Trade in Canada he presents several histories in one: social history through the clash between colonial and aboriginal cultures; economic history in the development of the West as a result of Eastern colonial and European needs; and transportation history in the case of the displacement of the canoe by the York boat. Political history appears in Innis's examination of the nature of French-British rivalry and the American Revolution; and business history is represented in his detailed account of the Hudson's Bay and Northwest Companies and the industry that played so vital a role in the expansion of Canada. In his introduction to this new edition, Arthur J. Ray argues that The Fur Trade in Canada is the most definitive economic history and geography of the country ever produced. Innis's revolutionary conclusion - that Canada was created because of its geography, not in spite of it - is a captivating idea but also an enigmatic proposition in light of the powerful decentralizing forces that threaten the nation today. Ray presents the history of the book and concludes that "Innis's great book remains essential reading for the study of Canada. –Publisher's description. Includes bibliographical references (p. [421]-441) and index.
https://utorontopress.com/9781487516840/the-fur-trade-in-canada/
Keywords: Fur trade – Canada – History

La fonction formation et développement de la main-d'oeuvre et l'innovation diffuse : quelques pistes de réflexion et d'action - Jacob, Réal (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
L'auteur cherche ici à établir un parallèle entre l'évolution du contexte affaires des organisations et le renouvellement de la fonction formation et développement de la main-d’œuvre. L'un des principaux défis des intervenants en ce domaine réside alors dans la capacité de ceux-ci à mobiliser des stratégies d'apprentissage qui favorisent la synergie entre les savoirs tacites et explicites facilitant ainsi la création de nouveaux savoirs collectifs qui sont à la base de l'innovation diffuse.
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; Training

Capturing Women: The Manipulation of Cultural Imagery in Canada's Prairie West - Janovicek, Nancy (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Capturing Women: The Manipulation of Cultural Imagery in Canada's Prairie West," by Sarah Carter.

Who Supports the Family? Gender and Breadwinning in Dual-Earner Marriages - Janssens, Angélique (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Who Supports the Family? Gender and Breadwinning in Dual-Earner Marriages," by Jean L. Potuchek.

Analyzing the History of Women's Politics in the Shadow of the Millennium - Judson, Sarah Mercer (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews and comments on several books: Kristi Anderson's "After Suffrage: Women and Partisan and Electoral Politics before the New Deal" (1996), Suzanne Marilley's "Woman Suffrage and the Origins of Liberal Feminism in the United States, 1820-1920" (1996), and Susan Marshall's "Splintered Sisterhood, Gender and Class in the Campaign against Woman Suffrage" (1997).

UNITE's Victory at Richmark: Community-Based Union Organizing in Communities of Color - Juravich, Tom; Hilgert, Jeff (Labor Studies Journal, 1999)
As the labor movement refocuses its commitment to organizing, it is turning increasingly toward organizing in communities of color. We know from quantitative research that workers of color are more likely to organize and are concentrated in low-wage industries that are more sus ceptible to organizing. Despite major victories such as Justice for Janitors in Los Angeles and a string of victories by UNITE in the South, unions have much to learn about organizing in communities of color. This article is an in-depth analysis of UNITE's victory among predominantly El Salvadoran workers at the Richmark plant in Everett, Massachusetts. It is based on interviews with union staff, community activists, and workers at the Richmark plant. Given its unusual circumstances, Richmark is in many ways not a model for organizing. Yet there are important lessons to be learned from the Richmark victory that extend beyond this Everett- based plant and inform organizing in communities of color. First, UNITE did not just enter the El Salvadoran community for this campaign but already had a presence in the community. Second, UNITE organizers recognized and nurtured the rank-and-file leadership that emerged. And, finally, the organizers and staff at UNITE were flexible, adapting both to the situation and to the workers at Richmark. While schooled in a specific model of organizing, they were able to look beyond those models and emerged victorious.

The Use and Abuse of Postmodernism - Keating, Craig (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article revews and comments on "The Undeclared War: Class Conflict in the Age of Cyber Capitalism," by James Laxer, and "Postmodern Management: The Emerging Partnership Between Employees and Stockholders," by William McDonald Wallace.

Stratégies de résistance et travail des femmes - Kempeneers, Marianne (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Stratégies de résistance et travail des femmes," edited by Angelo Soares.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employment; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Women

The Origins of Capitalism - Kennedy, Geoff (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "The Origins of Capitalism," by Ellen Meiksins Wood.

Technology and Gender Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China - Kennedy, Thomas L. (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Technology and Gender Fabrics of Power in Late Imperial China," by Francesca Bray.

Between the Scylla and Charybdis of Anarchy and Despotism: The State, Capital, and the Working Class in the Great Depression, Toronto, 1929-1940 - Klee, Marcus Aurelius (Queen's University, 1999)
The Great Depression of the 1930s was the culmination of severe contradictions building within a maturing capitalist world economy, and has been credited, in conjunction with the Second World War, for structuring the post-war compromise around a national welfare state, full employment, Keynesian fiscal policy, demand management, and the expansion of trade union rights. Despite the importance of this decade in Canadian history, and the highly developed literature on the Roosevelt administration and the American New Deal, few writers have attempted to probe the finer contours of the Great Depression in Canada. This thesis is broadly structured around the threat of social disorder which state officials and social workers perceived to be rooted in the economic malaise of the decade. Attempts to manage the poor through municipal welfare schemes and efforts to regulate the family through newly developed “socialized tribunals” were paired with a campaign to contain juvenile delinquency and structure the leisure time of working-class adolescents. The order that social workers sought to impose on the working-class family and child was materially related to struggles to bring order to the economy. The ideological retreat from laissez-faire capitalism by business and the state coalesced with a burgeoning and militant union movement that propelled the state towards active intervention in the economic, social, moral, and political relations of capital and labor. Pushed in part by an escalation in strike-related violence, the state tentatively embarked on a program of economic control through the Industrial Standards Act, opened legal space for union activities, and attempted to introduce the first minimum wage for male workers. The thesis explores the role of unions, representing both men and women, skilled and unskilled, in structuring the re-organization of capitalism in Toronto's transportation, construction, and service industries, yet draws upon the paradigm of state-centered regulatory regimes which emerged in the state's treatment of the unemployed, the family, and youth. Policies designed to contain 'chiseling' employers, wayward youth, and cheating husbands all faltered because the state was unwilling or incapable of stepping too heavily into the private sphere or interfering with the prerogatives of private property. The resulting half-measures produced a set of contradictions inherent in initiatives designed to accommodate both labor and capital and generated intense struggles against the 'sweatshop,' while bringing the twin issues of the family wage and relief-subsidized competition to the forefront of political and economic mobilization. The largely ineffectual attempts to bring order to political, economic and social life witnessed the emergence of a nascent regulatory state, tied to significant pockets of organized capital, and contingently supported by organized labor. This particular constellation of social forces not only attained a degree of ideological prominence during the depression, but was of profound importance in shaping the second-half of the twentieth century.
Keywords: Anarchy; Capital; Despotism; Great Depression; Ontario; Social sciences; State; Toronto; Working class

Le guide Québec inc. 1997. Profil des 500 plus grandes entreprises au Québec - Laberge, Yves (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Le guide Québec inc. 1997. Profil des 500 plus grandes entreprises au Québec," by Jean Auclair, Pierre Auger and Raymond Boisvert.
Keywords: Book reviews; 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

Fonction formation - Laflamme, Roch (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Fonction formation," by Jacques Sayer.
Keywords: Book reviews; 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; Training

Native Migrant Labour in the Southern Alberta Sugar-beet Industry: Coercion and Paternalism in the Recruitment of Labour* - Laliberte, Ronald F.; Satzewich, Vic (Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, 1999)
Research has begun to increasingly document Native peoples' participation in wage employment in Canada. Despite an acknowledgement of native participation in wage labour, little is known of the role of the state in mobilizing Native workers for Canadian industry. Using the case of Native migration to the southern Alberta sugar-beet industry in the 1950s and 1960s, this paper analyzes the role of the state in the mobilization of the native workers for employment. We show that the various levels of the state, acting through federal/provincial manpower committees and the Indian Affairs Branch of the federal government, used a variety of paternalistic and coercive measures to help farmers in southern Alberta recruit and retain Native workers. One of the main measures used by the federal and provincial governments to coerce Native people into migration was to cut off social assistance benefits to those Native people deemed to be employable.

Are Quality Improvement and Downsizing Compatible? A Human Resources Perspective - Lam, Helen; Reshef, Yonatan (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
Quality improvement (QI) and downsizing have been 2 popular initiatives to enhance firm competitiveness. When used together, the relationship between them is neither simple nor straightforward. Although there have been many separate studies of QI and downsizing, there is a paucity of empirical work on the relationship between them and their organizational implications. A study is presented that seeks to fill this lacuna by shedding light on: 1. how employees respond to these initiatives when combined, 2. their compatibility, and 3. ways to alleviate the negative effects of one initiative on the other.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Corporations; Downsizing; Human resource management; Labor Unions; Organizational behavior; Quality control; Quality management; Reorganization; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Les conséquences des changements administratifs et technologiques sur l'organisation du travail à l'usine Fraser d'Edmundston au Nouveau-Brunswick, 1947-1974 - Lang, Nicole (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
Examines the work regimen at Fraser Companies pulp and paper mill in Edmundston, New Brunswick, from 1947-74 to verify the thesis of Marxist political economist Harvey Braverman on the deskilling and degradation of work in the 20th century. Discusses ownership, administrative and technological changes as well as company-union relations. Twenty francophone longtime workers were interviewed. Concludes that although many jobs were eliminated, deskilling is a complex issue.

Un siècle d'histoire industrielle : Belgique, Luxembourg, Pays-Bas, industrialisation et sociétés, 1873-1973. - Lanthier, Pierre (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Un siècle d'histoire industrielle : Belgique, Luxembourg, Pays-Bas, industrialisation et sociétés, 1873-1973," by René Leboutte, Jean Puissant, and Denis Scuto.

Why Unions Matter - Le Blanc, Paul (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Why Unions Matter," by Michael D. Yates.

A Bibliography of British Columbia Labour History - Leier, Mark (James Mark) (Rebel Life: The Life and Times of Robert Gosden, Revolutionary, Mystic, Labour Spy, 1999)
The history of British Columbia is a history of class struggle. From the time of the fur trade to the present, working people and their battles to make a better world have transofrmed the politics, economics, laws, and workplaces of the province. This bibliography will make this history more accessible to trade unionists, students, and the general public. ...The bibliography was compiled by graduate students of Simon Fraser University's History Department: Dennis Pilon, Todd McCallum, Andy Parnaby, and David Sandquist. –Introduction
Keywords: History; Labor leaders; Labor movement

Debating Productivity - Leier, Mark (James Mark) (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
Reprint of an article first published in the Vancouver Sun, entitled "Productivity Latest Stick to Beat Workers." Discusses the debate that it generated.

Girls on Film - Leier, Mark (James Mark) (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
Briefly describes the newly released documentary, "The Plywood Girls," which focuses on the hundreds of women who worked at the sawmill in Port Alberni, BC, during the Second World War.

La carrière polyvalente de Gustave Francq, figure marquante du syndicalisme international au Québec (1871-1952) - Leroux, Éric (Université de Montréal, 1999)
Cette thèse porte sur la carrière du syndicaliste Gustave Francq (1871-1952). Grâce aux nombreux postes d'importance qu'il a occupés dans le mouvement syndical et à la visibilité qu'il a obtenue par la publication d'un journal hebdomadaire durant près de 30 ans, Francq est considéré comme une figure marquante du syndicalisme international au Québec dans la première moitié du )0(e siècle. Personnage polyvalent, il se distingue des autres syndicalistes de son époque, entre autres, par la multiplicité de ses champs d'intérêt: typographe et syndicaliste, il compte aussi à son actif une carrière d'homme d'affaires, de journaliste, de militant politique et de haut fonctionnaire au gouvernement du Québec. La thèse vise à rendre compte du personnage dans sa globalité et sa complexité, c'està-dire en examinant tant sa vie professionnelle que sa vie privée. Pour ce faire, nous abordons sa carrière sous trois angles: l'action syndicale, l'action politique et l'action sociale. Au Québec, il est certes l'un des plus importants défenseurs du syndicalisme de métiers et de la Fédération américaine du travail (FAT). Il prône l'organisation des travailleurs sur la base des syndicats de métiers, reconnaît la légitimité du système capitaliste, favorise les relations harmonieuses entre le Capital et le Travail et témoigne d'une grande confiance dans l'État comme arbitre des relations de travail. À cet égard, il se distancie des positions fondamentales du syndicalisme de métiers, telles que défendues par la FAT. Au début de sa carrière, Francq touche à l'action politique ouvrière. Défendant des positions travaillistes, il dirige le Parti ouvrier de Montréal de 1906 à 1916 et s'oppose systématiquement aux socialistes. Il remet cependant en question son engagement politique entre 1916 et 1921 avec la montée des socialistes au sein du Parti ouvrier et la multiplication des défaites des candidatures ouvrières. 11 se rapproche alors considérablement du Parti libéral avec lequel il a des affinités. Sur le plan social, il mène plusieurs combats depuis le début du siècle pour améliorer les conditions de vie de l'ensemble de la classe ouvrière. Ses principales revendications touchent la réforme du système scolaire québécois, la démocratisation de l'administration municipale montréalaise, la promotion des coopératives de consommation et de production et l'amélioration de la législation des accidents de travail. Au cours de sa carrière, Francq siège donc à diverses commissions gouvernementales comme la Commission fédérale d'appel du travail (1918), la Commission de la charte de la ville de Montréal (1920), la Commission des accidents de travail (1923) et la Commission du salaire minimum des femmes dont il occupe la présidence de 1925 à 1937. Intellectuel du mouvement ouvrier, Francq défend des positions libérales et travaillistes au début du siècle, pour évoluer progressivement vers une position de libéral réformiste au tournant des années 1920. Or si sa conception de l'action politique ouvrière se transforme rapidement au lendemain de la Première Guerre mondiale, il témoigne d'une grande fidélité idéologique tout au long de sa vie à l'égard du syndicalisme de métiers et de son rôle de réformateur social. Croyant à la nécessité et à la possibilité d'améliorer le système socio-économique et les institutions politiques, il est animé de préoccupations sociales majeures axées sur une meilleure répartition de la richesse et un engagement substantiel de l'État dans le champ des politiques sociales. Malgré leur importance numérique, peu d'historiens se sont penchés sur l'étude des syndicats internationaux au Québec, et ce, même si leurs effectifs dépassent largement ceux des syndicats catholiques depuis le début du siècle. S'inscrivant dans le renouvellement des études à caractère biographique, notre thèse vise donc à mettre de l'avant la carrière d'un des principaux dirigeants du syndicalisme international au Québec.
https://doi.org/1866/28812

Le travail en équipe dans un univers de production allégée : contrainte ou opportunité ? - Lévesque, Christian; Côté, Pascale (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
Prenant appui sur des données collectées auprès des travailleurs de l'usine de la GM à Boisbriand, cette étude cherche à mettre en évidence que leur évaluation du travail en équipe est intimement associée à la dynamique sociale qui prévaut au sein des équipes. Les résultats suggèrent que leur évaluation varie selon la capacité de coopération et d'action des travailleurs, laquelle est fortement liée aux modalités du marchandage de l'effort. Dans le cadre de ce marchandage continue sur les lieux de travail, le rôle joué par les chefs d'équipe apparaît comme un enjeu central. Il peut en effet constituer un catalyseur ou un frein à l'émergence de nouvelles capacités d'agir en commun au sein des équipes.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Manufacturers; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Teamwork

Making Peace with the 60s - Levy, Peter B. (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Making Peace with the 60s," by David Burner.

The Remaking of the Japanese Working Class - Lewis, Michael (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews and comments on Kazuo Nimura's "The Ashio Riot of 1907: A Social History of Mining in Japan" (1997) and Yuko Ogasawara's "Office Ladies and Salaried Men: Power, Gender, and Work in Japanese Companies" (1998).

Race and Ethnic Relations in Canada - Li, Peter S. (Oxford University Press, 1999)
Race and Ethnic Relations in Canada was first published in 1990 by Oxford University Press as a collection of twelve original essays that provided a comprehensive overview of government policies and academic theories that affect the way race and ethnic relations are structured and interpreted in Canada. This second edition takes into account social changes and academic debates of the 1990s and updates materials and arguments in the original edition. The contributors, all leading Canadian sociologists and social scientists, discuss a wide range of topics, including theories of race and ethnicity, demographic trends, the 'vertical mosaic', immigration, multiculturalism, employment equity, policy on Native peoples, and language policy. The book is essential reading for understanding Canada's race and ethnic relations. –Publisher's description. Contents: Part 1: Introduction. Race and Ethnicity / Peter S. Li – Demographic Overview of Ethnic Origin Groups in Canada / Madeline A. Kalbach, Warren E. Kalbach. Part 2: Race, Ethnicity, and the State. Immigration, Diversity, and Minority Communities / Morton Weinfeld and Lori A. Wilkinson – State Policies and Practices as Racialized Discourse: Multiculturalism, the Charter, and Employment Equality / Frances Henry and Carol Tator – Altered State: Federal Policy and Aboriginal Peoples / James Frideres – The Multiculturalism Debate / Peter S. Li – Language Policy in Canada / Wilfrid Denis. Part 3: Perspectives on Race and Ethnicity. Revisiting the Vertical Mosaic: Occupational Stratification Among Canadian Ethnic Groups / Hugh Lautard and Neil Guppy – Studies of Ethnic Identity, Ethnic Relations, and Citizenship / K. Victor Ujimoto – Intergroup Competition in the Symbolic Construction of Canadian Society / Raymond Breton – The Political Economy of Race and Ethnicity / Vic Satzewich – Feminist Intersectional Theorizing / Daiva K. Stasiulis.
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/race-and-ethnic-relations-in-canada-9780195414776?cc=ca&lang=en&
Keywords: Canada; ETHNIC relations; Race relations

Bibliography: Recent Publications in Canadian Labour History = Bibliographie : Travaux récents en histoire des classes populaires canadiennes - Lonardo, Michael; Sweeny, Robert C. H. (Labour/Le Travail, 1999)
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.]

Strikes, Bogeys, Spares, and Misses: Pin-boy and Caddy Strikes in the 1930s - MacMillan, Ian (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
Examines the strikes waves of pin-boys and golf caddies during the 1930s in Canada. Argues that two distinct typologies may be discerned between bowling alleys and golf courses in terms of workplaces/cultures and work patterns. Considers the roles of various actors including the state, the employer-side YMCA, and the communist Workers Unity League. Concludes by offering observations on the impact of subsequent technological change, mass culture and the commodification of leisure time, and how the strikes illustrate the historic connection between the social wage (relief) and the labour market in the service sector.

Clearcutting the Pacific Rain Forest: Production, Science and Regulation - Marchak, Patricia (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Clearcutting the Pacific Rain Forest: Production, Science, and Regulation." by Richard A. Rajala.

Older Workers' Adjustments to Plant Closures - Mazerolle, Maurice J.; Singh, Gangaram (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
This article investigates whether older workers affected by plant closures are more likely to be discouraged from participation in the labor force and to be bitter towards employers as well as whether they are less likely to report career growth in subsequent employment situations. The data indicated that older workers are less likely to report the career-growth effect. In addition, post-closure training activities reduced the likelihood of the discouraged-worker effect for the 45-55 age group. The respondents from the older age groups who undertook post-closure training activities were more likely to report the poisoning effect and less likely to report the career-growth effect. It is argued that the results relate to the definition of the age groups, the transferability of human capital, and the value of community support. The implication of the results for public and institutional policies are discussed.
Keywords: Age and employment; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employee attitude; Employees; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Older workers; Plant closures; Psychology; Regression analysis; Shutdowns; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

The Westray Chronicles: A Case Study in Corporate Crime - McCormick, Chris (Fernwood, 1999)
Was the Westray mining disaster a tragic accident or a corporate crime gone unpunished? In this book authors from backgrounds as diverse as engineering to public relations are brought together to create a holistic picture of what happened at Westray. From an analysis of the geology of the underlying coal seam to an assessment of the difficulties of pinning legal responsibility on the company, the government or any of the managers, this book constitutes one of the few case studies of corporate crime in Canada. The contributors offer the reader challenging new ways to think about workplace disasters and occupational injuries. Each contributor brings their special expertise to bear in a way that makes complicated issues transparent to the most general reader. At the same time, footnotes and references guide the reader who desires more extensive information. – Publisher's description
OCLC: 48811303
Keywords: 1900-1999; Charbon Mines et extraction Accidents Nouvelle-Écosse Stellarton Histoire 20e siècle; Coal mine accidents; Coal mine accidents Nova Scotia Stellarton History 20th century; History; Nova Scotia Plymouth (Pictou); Nova Scotia Stellarton; Tragédie minière de Westray; Plymouth; Pictou; N.-É.; 1992; Westray Mine Disaster; Plymouth; Pictou; N.S.; 1992

Jack London: A Life - McCrostie, James (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Jack London: A Life," by Alex Kershaw.

Defining Work: Gender, Professional Work, and the Case of Rural Clergy - Mellow, Muriel (McGill University, 1999)
The goal of this thesis is to question conventional definitions of work through the detailed study of a professional group—specifically rural clergy—whose work falls outside the parameters of accepted definitions of work. According to the feminist literature, work and non-work are differentiated typically by dichotomies which privilege a masculine model of work and devalue women's experience; thus, "real work" is defined as an activity which is paid rather than unpaid, public rather than private, instrumental and intellectual rather than emotional. Professional work definitions also obscure the way in which "work" relies on activities which are linked with the feminine in these dichotomies. Through in-depth qualitative interviews with rural clergy, I explore the extent to which women and men draw on these gendered dichotomies to define work. In some ways, the approach of clergy counters conventional work norms: for them, emotional labour is a priority, work is not limited to a specific time or place, and public and private lives frequently overlap. I demonstrate how clergy define their work in terms of obligation, context, visibility, and time. Furthermore, I also argue that clergy delineate work in terms which still reflect a masculinized work norm specific to their profession. This "clergy masculinized mode" professionalises emotional labour by separating it from the facilitating work of female volunteers; it assumes a worker free from domestic demands in order to fulfil professional obligations within a flexible time frame; and it overlooks how the overlap of the public and private spheres is sustained by the work of wives. Thus, delineating work is particularly problematic for female clergy because professional demands are confounded with demands for adjunct work typically performed by women. My findings (1) highlight alternative markers of work which are suggestive for feminist theory; 2) point to a gap in theorizing about the gendering of work when conventional dichotomies fail to reinforce each other (as in the case of public, yet unpaid, volunteer work); and 3) recognize the possibility that varying masculinities define work.
OCLC: 721250783
Keywords: Electronic Thesis or Dissertation; Rural clergy; Sex role in the work environment

Class, Gender, and Power in the Mining Communities of the Americas - Mercier, Laurie (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews and comments extensively on Elizabeth Jameson's 'All That Glitters: Class, Conflict, and Community in Cripple Creek' (1998) and Janet L. Finn's 'Tracing the Veins: Copper, Culture, and Community from Butte to Chuquicamata' (1998).
Keywords: 1800-1999; CANADA – Economic conditions; History; Social conditions; Wales

Les nouveaux modèles de qualification fondés sur la flexibilité : entre la professionnalisation et la taylorisation du travail - Mercure, Daniel; Dubé, Annette (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
Cet article traite des transformations récentes des formes de qualification du travail. Il est le fruit d'une vaste enquête sur la dynamique des emplois dans le secteur manufacturier au Québec. Les auteurs analysent d'abord les modifications cruciales de la dynamique des entreprises. Ensuite, ils examinent les nouvelles qualifications exigées des travailleurs, à savoir les compétences nécessaires pour accomplir les tâches, ainsi que les principaux profils de qualification privilégiés par les employeurs en vue du recrutement. L'article met en relief l'émergence de trois modèles inédits de qualification, tous fondés sur la flexibilité, soit le modèle flexible de type professionnel-conceptuel, le modèle flexible de type taylorisé et le modèle flexible de type adroit-analytique.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employees; Labor Unions; Manufacturers; Qualifications; Recruitment; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

From Job-Based Pay to Skill-Based Pay in Unionized Establishments: A Three-Plant Comparative Analysis - Mericle, Kenneth; Dong-One, Kim (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
Analyzing the experiences of 3 unionized manufacturing firms in North America, 2 relatively unexplored issues in previous literature are examined: 1. skill based pay in unionized organizations, and 2. the transition from job-based pay to skill-based pay. The 3 cases showed substantial variety, particularly in the areas of practical details of SBP and the work system in which SBP operates. The cases show that SBP can be successfully designed and implemented in older unionized workplaces with strong contract language. Specifically, it was found that SBP can be introduced even where numerous job classifications are retained and that seniority rights are not inconsistent with an effective SBP system.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Comparative analysis; Compensation; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Manufacturers; Organizational change; Pay for performance; Salaries pensions etc; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Eh, Paesan!: Being Italian in Toronto - Migliore, Sam (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Eh, Paesan!: Being Italian in Toronto," by Nicholas DeMaria Harney.

Playing Indian - Miller, J. R. (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Playing Indian," by Philip J. Deloria.

The Trouble With Normal: Postwar Youth and the Making of Heterosexuality - Millward, Liz (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "The Trouble with Normal: Postwar Youth and the Making of Heterosexuality," by Mary Louise Adams.

Researching the World of Work: Strategies and Methods in Studying Industrial Relations - Montreuil, Sylvie (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
This article reviews the book, "Researching the World of Work - Strategies and Methods in Studying Industrial Relations," edited by Keith Whitfield and George Strauss.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; R&D; Research; Research & development; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Is U.S. Labor Changing as Fast as the Workplace? - Moody, Kim (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews and comments extensively on the books, "A New Labor Movement for the New Century" (1998) edited by Gregory Mantsios and "Unions and Workplace Reorganization" (1997) edited by Bruce Nissen.

La relation entre le contexte de l'évaluation du rendement et l'indulgence de l'évaluateur - Morin, Denis; Murphy, Kevin R.; Larocque, Alain (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
La présente étude s'insère dans les multiples efforts de recherche déployés pour mieux circonscrire les paramètres de l'évaluation du rendement. À partir du modèle de Murphy et Cleveland (1995), les auteurs développent une méthodologie originale qui permet de tester empiriquement auprès de 106 fonctionnaires de la fonction publique québécoise la motivation de l'évaluateur à produire des évaluations indulgentes de leurs subordonnés. Les résultats révèlent que l'indulgence s'avère une réponse à un contexte défavorable d'évaluation : les variables contextuelles influencent significativement les appréciations faites par l'évaluateur.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Performance appraisal; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

The Ethics of the New Economy - Morin, Fernand (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
This article reviews the book, "The Ethics of the New Economy," edited by Leo Groarke.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Business ethics; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Hard Bargain: Transforming Public Sector Labour-Management Relations - Murphy, David G. (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Hard Bargain: Transforming Public Sector Labour-Management Relations," by Peter Warrian.

Relations industrielles et nouveaux systèmes productifs : recherche, politiques et pratiques - Murray, Gregor; Lapointe, Paul-André; Bélanger, Jacques; Giles, Anthony (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
Présente le colloque international coparrainé par le Centre de relations industrielles de l'Université Laval et le Réseau canadien de recherche sur les milieux de travail qui s'est tenu en septembre 1997.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; R&D; Research; Research & development; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Pistol Packin' Mama: Aunt Molly Jackson and the Politics of Folksong - Narvéez, Peter (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Pistol Packin' Mama: Aunt Molly Jackson and the Politics of Folksong," by Shelly Romalis.

Peronism Without Peron: Unions, Parties, and Democracy in Argentina - Newton, Ron (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Peronism Without Peron: Unions, Parties, and Democracy in Argentina," by James W. McGuire.

Enlisting Women for the Cause: Women, Labour, and the Left in Canada, 1890-1920 - Nicol, Janet Mary (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Enlisting Women for the Cause: Women, Labour, and the Left in Canada, 1890-1920" by Linda Kealey.

All-American Anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement - Palmer, Bryan D. (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "All-American Anarchist: Joseph A. Labadie and the Labor Movement," by Carlotta R. Anderson.

Book Notes [43, Spring 1999] - Palmer, Bryan D. (Labour/Le Travail, 1999)
The article briefly reviews "Dismantling a Nation: The Transition to Corporate Rule in Canada," 2nd edition, by Stephen McBridc and John Shields, "A Nation of Immigrants: Women, Workers, and Communities in Canadian History, 1840s-1960s," edited by Franca Iacovetta, Paula Draper, and Robert Ventresca, "Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women's History," 3rd edition, edited by Veronica Strong-Boag and Anita Clair Fellman, "Gendering the Vertical Mosaic: Feminist Perspectives on Canadian Society," by Roberta Hamilton, "Canadian Political Parties," edited by Daniel Azoulay, "Introducing Canada: An Annotated Bibliography of Canadian History in English," by Brian Gobbett and Robert Irwin, "Uncommon People: Resistance, Rebellion, and Jazz," by Eric Hobsbawm, "Steelworkers in America: The Nonunion Era," by David Brody, "Forging American Communism: The Life of William Z. Foster," 2nd edition, by Edward P. Johanningsmeier, "Labor Histories: Class, Politics, and the Working-Class Experience," edited by Eric Arnesen, Julie Greene, and Bruce Laurie, "Waterfront Workers: New Perspectives on Race and Class," edited by Calvin Winslow, "Cutting Edge: Technology, Information, Capitalism, and Social Revolution," edited by Jim Davis, Thomas Hirsch, and Michael Stack, "Capitalism and the Information Age: The Political Economy of the Global Communication Revolution," edited by Robert W. McChesney, Ellen Meiksins Wood, and John Bellamy Foster, "When We Were Good: The Folk Revival," by Robert Cantwell, "Swings and Misses: Moribund Labor Relations in Professional Baseball," by Kenneth M. Jennings, and "Ms. Mentor's Impeccable Advice for Women in Academia," by Emily Toth.

Book Notes {}44, Fall 1999] - Palmer, Bryan D. (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article briefly reviews "Not One of the Family: Foreign Domestic Worker," edited by Abigail B. Baikan and Daiva Stasiulis, "The Ethics of the New Economy: Restructuring and Beyond," edited by Leo Groarke, "Working: Images of Canadian Labour, 1900-2000 = Travailler: Images de la vie ouvrière au Canada, 1900-2000," by Laszlo Barna, "Working People: An Illustrated History of the Canadian Labour," 4th edition, by Desmond Morton, "Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and What Women Are Worth," by Marilyn Waring, "Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale: Women in the International Division of Labour," by Maria Mies, "Rocking the Boat: Union Women's Voices, 1915-1975," by Brigid O'Farrell and Joyce L. Kornbluh, "Organized Labour and American Politics. 1894-1994: The Labor-Liberal Alliance," edited by Kevin Boyle, "The Pullman Strike and the Crisis of the 1890s: Essays on Labor and Politics," edited by Richard Schneirov, Shelton Stromquist, and Nick Salvatore, "Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century," 25th anniversary edition, by Harry Braverman, with a new introduction by John Bellamy Foster, "New Approaches to Disability in the Workplace," edited by Terry Thomason, John F. Burton, Jr., and Douglas E. Hyatt, "The State of Working America, 1998-99," edited by Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, and John Schmitt, " Island Stories: Unravelling Britain, Theatres of Memory," v. 2, by Raphael Samuel, edited by Alison Light, with Sally Alexander and Gareth Stedman Jones, "Shaping History: Ordinary People in European Politics, 1500-1700," by Wayne Te Brake, and "The Maquiladora Reader: Cross-Border Organizing Since NAFTA ," edited by Rachael Kamel and Anya Hoffman.

Industrial Cathedrals of the North = Les cathédrales industrielles du nord - Palu, Louie; Angus, Charlie (Between the Lines, 1999)
Headframes dominate the landscape of mining communities in Northeastern Ontario and Northwestern Quebec. Distinctive structures built to house the apparatus at the head of the mine shaft, headframes tower above their surroundings, reminding every resident that without the mine, there would be no reason for their settlement to exist. For the past several years, photographer Louie Palu and writer Charlie Angus have been documenting historic mining sites in the north. Many of these have since been erased from the landscape. Co-produced with Prise de parole. –Publisher's description
OCLC: 40339540

Paternalism and Identity: The Role of Personal Labour Organization in the Formation of Group Identity Among the Metis in the Rupertsland Fur Trade and the Aboriginal People in the Northern Australian Cattle Industry - Parker, Leanna (University of Saskatchewan, 1999)
The question of the origins of a Metis identity in Canada is one that has been contemplated by several scholars. These scholars have taken various approaches to the question, many focusing solely on the social and political aspects of Metis history. While such approaches can be useful, they ignore the crucial influence of the economic and labour relations of the Rupertsland fur trade in the development and expression of a distinct Metis identity in western Canada. The unique economic and labour relations of the Rupertsland fur trade, identified by H. Clare Pentland as personal labour relationships, allowed a cohesiveness and inter-connectedness to develop between the Aboriginal labourers and their European employers which emphasized the interdependencies inherent in the industry. However, while personal labour relations were an important catalyst for the development and expression of a distinct Metis identity, it is too simplistic to suggest that it was these relations alone that encouraged such a phenomenon. The northern Australian cattle industry utilized similar economic and labour relations and yet a distinct mixed descent identity did not develop in Australia. Therefore, the external influences in the industry must also be examined. The four most important external influences that encouraged the development of a Metis identity in Canada and discouraged a similar event in Australia were: the needs of the colonial employers in regards to land tenure; the economic opportunities available to the people of mixed descent; the educational opportunities available to the people of mixed descent; and, the time depth of contact in both industries. These four external influences combined with the use of personal labour organization in the Rupertsland fur trade encouraged the development and expression of a distinct Metis identity in Canada.

Remembering the Mac-Paps (Update) - Parnaby, Andrew (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reports that the monument honouring the Canadian veterans of the Spanish Civil War is almost completed. On 4 December 1998, Spanish Civil War veterans from Canada, Britain, Demark, Israel, and the United States witnessed the unveiling of a plaque and eight stone columns near the provincial legislature in Victoria, BC.

What's Law Got To Do With It? The IWA and the Politics of State Power in British Columbia, 1935-1939 - Parnaby, Andrew (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
In the wake of President Roosevelt's New Deal for labour in the us, the International Woodworkers of America (IWA) experienced tremendous growth in Oregon and Washington. Fearing the arrival of the IWA in BC, the provincial government enacted the Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration (ICA) Act as a means to stanch the growth of militant industrial unionism. It was at the company town of Blubber Bay, BC, that the ICA Act was tested for the first rime as capital, labour, and the state struggled over the pith and substance of the new legistation. Drawing on the insights of critical legal theorists and neo-institutionalists, this article examines the multiple ways in which the state, law, and legal process shaped both the formation of the IWA and the nature of class struggle itself. In particular, it illustrates how the expansion of formal collective bargaining, as well as the age-old legal remedies available at common and criminal law, worked together to set limits and erect boundaries on collective working-class action and, in the end, forge a "responsible union."

On Economic Policies of Unemployment in Europe - Pelagidis, Theodore (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
A study is presented that deals with the unemployment problem in Europe. While the prevailing explanations of sources of unemployment - jobless growth, rigid labor markets, and the process of globalization - are rejected, it is argued that technological backwardness, slow growth, and investment rates are responsible for the high European unemployment rate. A change in the mix of economic policy implement in Europe is proposed in order to decelerate real interest rates and increase investments, GDP, and employment.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Economic impact; Economic policy; European Union; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Unemployment

Passive Smoke: The EPA's Betrayal of Science and Policy - Pérusse, Michel (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Passive Smoke: The EPA's Betrayal of Science and Policy," by Gio B. Gori and John C. Luik.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Cancer; Causes; Labor Unions; Laws & regulations; Smoking in the workplace; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

The End of Parliamentary Socialism - Pilon, Dennis (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "The End of Parliamentary Socialism," by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys.

Unfair Masters and Rascally Servants? Labour Relations Among Bourgeois, Clerks and Voyageurs in the Montréal Fur Trade, 1780-1821 - Podruchny, Carolyn (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The Montreal fur trade labour system was organized around indentured servitude, patemalism, and cultural hegemony. French Canadian labourers signed legal contracts promising to obey their master in exchange for board and wages. These legal contracts were overshadowed by "social contracts" which signified continual negotiating for fair working conditions. Although voyageurs did not challenge the structure of the master and servant relationship, they continually pushed at the boundaries of their rights as workers. They diminished master authority through a "counter-theatre" of resistance, which inctuded working slowly, complaining, stealing provisions, and desetting the service.

Labor and the State in Egypt: Workers, Unions, and Economic Reconstruction - Power, Jane (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Labor and the State in Egypt: Workers, Unions, and Economic Reconstruction," by Marcia Pripstein Posusney.

Growth in Disability Benefits: Explanations and Policy Implications - Pozzebon, Silvana (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Growth in Disability Benefits: Explanations and Policy Implications," edited by Kalman Rupp and David C. Stapleton.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Disability pensions; Labor Unions; Public policy; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Social security

Art and Industrial Society: The Role of the Toronto Mechanic's Institute in the Promotion of Art, 1831-1883 - Ramsay, Ellen L. (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The Toronto Mechanics' Institute (1831-1883) served as one of the principle institutions of art instruction, the employment of artists (female and male), and exhibition of art in 19th century Toronto. Artists and illustrators now well known in the annals of Canadian art including Laura Bell, Mary Cooper, Richard Baigent, William Bengough, Robert Gagen, William Hind, Henry Martin, George Reid, Kivas Tulley, John Tully, and E. K. Westmacott were amongst the list of teachers and exhibitors at this Institute which attracted 6,000 to 9,000 people and as many as 700 paintings and photographs to its Annual Exhibition by mid-century. Founded for the advancement of worker self-education in the period prior to the Rebellion, the Toronto Mechanics' Institute continued to play a vital role for the Toronto working class in both practical design and fine art throughout the century until the emergence of public adult educational provisions in the latter quarter of the century. The minute books and annual reports of the Mechanics' Institute provide an instructive source for the researcher and demonstrate that contrary to some received wisdom that the mechanics' institutes were middle-class institutions, the Toronto Mechanics' Institute witnessed many lively debates on relevant social topics and remained committed to a working-class orientation throughout its existence despite the changing compositions of its Board. This article sets forth some archival findings and makes some theoretical refinements to the debates on the Mechanics' Institute in the hope of contributing to the on-going research.

No Justice, No Peace: The 1996 OPSEU Strike Against the Harris Government of Ontario - Rapaport, David (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999)
The Ontario Public Service Employee Union (OPSEU) was an early target of the Mike Harris Common Sense Revolutionaries, neo-conservatives on a mission to shrink the social safety net, radically reduce social programs, and subvert Ontario's collective bargaining regimes. In No Justice, No Peace David Rapaport uses detail, insights, and anecdotes from over 150 interviews - with picket line captains, local executives, union leadership, journalists, mediators, and union and management negotiators among others - to provide an insider's view of the strike and its political and economic contexts, often told in the strikers' own voices. Vice-president from 1991 to 1997 of OPSEU's huge Region 5, covering Toronto, Rapaport describes how the election of the Harris government and the early "Common Sense Revolution" cutbacks led to a large opposition movement, the labour/social justice coalition, the Days of Action, and the province-wide OPSEU strike. No Justice, No Peace traces the politics involved, from ideology and belief in free trade to the downsizing of public and private enterprises, from the restructuring and privatization of the public sector to collective bargaining between OPSEU and the Ontario Government, and, finally, to the strike vote and the picket line. –Publisher's description
https://www.mqup.ca/no-justice–no-peace-products-9780773518582.php
Keywords: Civil Service Strike; Ontario; 1996.; Strikes and lockouts

McLibel: Burger Culture on Trial - Reiter, Ester (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "McLibel: Burger Culture on Trial," by John Vidal.

T. A. Crerar: A Political Biography - Rennie, Bradford J. (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "T. A. Crerar: A Political Biography," by J.E. Rea.

Democracy is Power: Rebuilding Unions from the Bottom Up - Roberts, Christopher (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Democracy is Power: Rebuilding Unions from the Bottom Up ," by Mike Parker and Martha Gmelle.

Poverty and Inequality: The Political Economy of Redistribution - Rose, Ruth (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Poverty and Inequality: The Political Economy of Redistribution," by Jon Neill.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; POVERTY; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Welfare

Caring For Profit: How Corporations Are Taking Over Canada's Health Care System - Rosenthal, Susan (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Caring for Profit: How Corporations Are Taking Over Canada's Health Care System," by Colleen Fuller.

Health and Social Organization: Towards a Health Policy for the 21st Century - Rosenthal, Susan (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Health and Social Organization: Towards a Health Policy for the 21st Century," edited by David Blane, Eric Brunner, and Richard Wilkinson.

Relever les défis de la gestion des ressources humaines - Saba, Tania (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Relever les défis de la gestion des ressources humaines," by Sylvie St-Onge, Michel Audet, Victor Haines and André Petit,
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Human resource management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

SUD-PTT, un nouveau syndicalisme «politique» ? - Sainsaulieu, Ivan (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
Le syndicat SUD-PTT est une scission récente (1989) de la CFDT, la deuxième centrale syndicale en France. Il est animé par une génération de militants marqués par Mai 1968, politiquement proches de l'extrême gauche. Mais ces militants sont aux prises avec une génération de nouveaux adhérents, dans un contexte d'urgence sociale. Idéologie et préférence partisane sont mises de côté au nom du pragmatisme, tandis qu'un sens élevé des questions transversales aboutit à un syndicalisme sociétal original, qui a fait école dans différents secteurs.
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

Die unheimliche Macht des Geldes: Finanzierungsstrategien der Bürgerlichen Frauenbewegung in Deutschland zwischen 1865 und 1933 - Schade, Rosemarie (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Die unheimliche Macht des Geldes: Finanzierungsstrategien der Bürgerlichen Frauenbewegung in Deutschland zwischen 1865 und 1933," by Gilla Dölle.

Frauen und Staat/Les Femmes et l'État - Schade, Rosemarie (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Frauen und Staat/Les Femmes et l'État," edited by Brigitte Studer, Regina Wecker, and Beatrice Ziegler.

The Politics of Retirement in Britain, 1878-1948 - Schniedewind, Karen (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "The Politics of Retirement in Britain, 1878-1948," by John Macnicol.

Négociation en relations du travail: nouvelles approches - Sexton, Jean (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Négociation en relations du travail: nouvelles approches," by Pierre Deschênes, Jean-Guy Bergeron, Reynald Bourque and André Brand.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Collective bargaining; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Exclusions légales et sociales des travailleurs agricoles saisonniers véhiculés quotidiennement au Québec - Simard, Myriam; Mimeault, Isabelle (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
Cet article traite des exclusions légales et sociales qui affectent la main-d’œuvre agricole saisonnière véhiculée quotidiennement au Québec, dont la grande majorité sont des immigrants résidant à Montréal. Une recherche sociale sur le terrain a révélé, sur certaines fermes, un haut roulement de main-d’œuvre et des conditions de travail en deçà du seuil légalement et humainement admissible : non-respect des personnes, du temps de travail, des normes de santé et sécurité, discrimination. À partir des résultats de cette étude, de recherches sur les modifications de l'agriculture québécoise au XXe siècle ainsi que de l'analyse de contenu de mémoires de l'Union des producteurs agricoles (UPA), les auteures mettent en lumière le rôle de l'UPA dans les exclusions légales successives des salariés agricoles et remettent en question son discours sur la pénurie de main-d’œuvre, contredite par la recherche.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Farmworkers; Labor Unions; Seasonal employment; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Working conditions

"Beauty and the Helldivers": Representing Women's Work and Identities in a Warplant Newspaper - Smith, Helen; Wakewich, Pamela (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
In this article, we discuss representations of women's identifies as workers in the wartime newspaper, Aircrafter, produced by management at the Canadian Car and Foundry Company Limited in Fort William, Ontario, during World War II. We argue that Aircrafter functioned as an ideological mechanism by which pre-war, middle-class prescriptions of femininity, emphasizing women's roles as decorative homemakers in the private sphere, survived the challenges of women's war work to shape post-war gender roles. The article demonstrates the efficacy of this ideological mechanism by revealing the comprehensive way in which different rhetorical styles and varied sections of the newspaper – the front page news and pictures, the editorial page, the women's page entitled "The Femmine Touch," as well as cartoons and pin-ups – collectively conveyed an ambivalent attitude that both praised and questioned women's war work in traditionally male jobs thus reinforcing pre-war socially prescribed forms of femininity. This research reveals how state policies concerning representations of women workers in government war propaganda influenced a northwestern Ontario war plant and shaped the ideological atmosphere which the women war workers at Canadian Car would have to negotiate as part of their daily working lives.

The Production of Flexible Attitudes in the Canadian Pulp and Paper Industry - Smith, Michael R. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
It is widely believed that both economic security and management policies that foster employee trust increase the willingness of employees to be flexible with respect to work practices and to accept economic policies that foster competition in product markets. These claims, however, rest either on fairly indirect evidence - an apparent association between the presence in countries of institutions that provide economic security and better performance on one or another macroeconomic indicator - or on a series of generally sketchy case studies. In this article relevant data are analyzed from a representative sample of pulp and paper industry employees in Canada. The results provide only weak support for claims with respect to the effects of employment security and trust, thus suggesting some modifications to the standard interpretation.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Effects; Employment security; Flexibility; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Paper industry; Pulp & paper industry; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Statistical analysis; Studies

Spectres of Capitalism: A Critique of Current Intellectual Trends - Soron, Dennis (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Spectres of Capitalism: A Critique of Current Intellectual Trends," by Samir Amin.

Red Star Over Birobidzhan: Canadian Jewish Communists and the "Jewish Autonomous Region" in the Soviet Union - Srebrnik, Henry (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
Chronicles the work of the Organization for Jewish Colonization in Russia (ICOR) during the 1920s and 30s in support of a Soviet government initiative that established a Jewish Autonomous Region in Birobidzhan in the far east of the Soviet Union. ICOR was also founded in opposition to the Zionist movement for a Jewish national state in Palestine. Controlled by the US and Canadian communist parties, the organization was comprised mostly of Yiddish-speaking East European Jews. In 1933, ICOR claimed a membership of 10,000 members including a Canadian section with members in 10 cities in four provinces. The Canadian section also published a periodical, "Kanader Icor." Concludes that the project for a Jewish Autonomous Region was a largely fraudulent scheme that unravelled under the weight of the Stalinist purges in the Soviet Union as well as developments in the international sphere.

Challenges for Work and Family in the Twenty-First Century - St-Onge, Sylvie; Guérin, Gilles (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Challenges for Work and Family in the Twenty-First Century," edited by Dana Vannoy and Paula J. Dubeck.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Families & family life; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Working conditions

Leisure Settings. Bourgeois Culture, Medicine, and the Spa in Modern France - Stewart, Mary Lynn (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Leisure Settings. Bourgeois Culture, Medicine, and the Spa in Modern France," by Douglas Peter Mackaman.

The Soviet World of American Communism - Storch, Randi (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "The Soviet World of American Communism," by Harvey Klehr, John Earl Haynes, and Kyrill M. Anderson.

Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism Since the New Deal - Storey, Robert (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism since the New Deal," by Sanford M. Jacoby.

The Frontiers of Punishment and Gender - Strange, Carolyn (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews and comments on Anne M. Butler's "Gendered Justice in the American West: Women Prisoners in Men's Penitentiaries" (1997) and Joy Damousi's "Depraved and Disorderly: Female Convicts, Sexuality and Gender in Colonial Australia" (1997).

Nationalism and the International Labor Movement: The Idea of the Nation in Socialist and Anarchist Theory - Sweeney, Dennis (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Nationalism and the International Labor Movement: The Idea of the Nation in Socialist and Anarchist Theory," by Michael Forman.

Strikes and Solidarity: Coalfield Conflict in Britain 1889-1966 - Tailby, Stephanie (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Strikes and Solidarity: Coalfield Conflict in Britain 1889-1966," by Roy A. Church and Quentin Outram.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Coal industry; Coal mining; History; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Strikes

Caught in the Middle: Contradictions in the Lives of Sociologists from Working-Class Backgrounds - Teeple, Gary (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Caught in the Middle: Contradictions in the Lives of Sociologists from Working-Class Backgrounds," by Michael D. Grimes and Joan M. Morris.

Régulation sociale et action collective pour l'emploi en France - Thuderoz, Christian; Trompette, Pascale (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
L'apparition récente, dans le paysage institutionnel français, d'accords d'entreprise sur l'emploi conduit l'analyste à s'interroger sur la nature du processus aboutissant à de tels compromis sociaux (s'agit-il d'un processus d'échange ?), sur les produits de cette activité (comment caractériser ce type d'accords collectifs ? Où réside la novation ?) et, enfin, sur le sens de ces compromis (en termes de légitimité comme en termes d'action collective pour l'emploi). En mobilisant une sociologie attentive aux processus, cet article explore cette nouvelle dynamique de négociation. On s'attachera à la comprendre comme une forme étendue de régulation conjointe, érigeant l'entreprise comme espace pertinent d'expérimentation de nouvelles pratiques contractuelles et dans laquelle le jeu et les arrangements des acteurs locaux occupent une place centrale.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Grievance Resolution: Perceived Goal Interdependence and Interaction Patterns - Tjosvold, Dean; Morishima, Motohiro (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
A study identifying behaviors and perceptions of the individuals involved that affect grievance resolutions is presented. Based on conflict research, the study proposes that cooperative goals promote the direct, open-minded consideration of opposing views which leads to quality solutions efficiently developed. Management and union representatives in 2 large Western Canadian forest product companies were interviewed about grievances they had handled that were and were not settled within their committee. They first described in detail a recent, significant grievance and then answered specific questions to code the incident. Structural-equation results and the analysis of the qualitative data suggest that cooperative goals induce the open-minded discussion of diverse views, which in turn results in high-quality, integrative solutions. However, with competitive goals, managers and employees interacted close-mindedly and were unable to agree upon integrative solutions efficiently. If replicated, the framework developed can help structure interdependence and guide skill training in grievance handling.
Keywords: Behavior; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Effects; Forest products industry; Grievance procedures; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Statistical analysis; Studies

Pensions and Productivity - Tremblay, Louis (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Pensions and Productivity," by Stuart Dorsey, Christopher Cornwell and David Macpherson.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Pension funds; Productivity; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Organizing the Bench: Medical Laboratory Workers in the Maritimes, 1900–1950. - Twohig, Peter Lawrence (Dalhousie University, 1999)
Medical laboratory technology is the third largest health profession in Canada. Yet, these workers are largely invisible, both to the public and historiographically. Even recent studies of laboratory medicine make only fleeting reference to workers at the bench. This study examines the origins of the laboratory workforce at the Pathological Institute in Halifax in particular, and the Maritime provinces more generally. It utilizes hospital, university and archival records to demonstrate how this workforce was created as part of a "health care team" and the implications this had for the workers themselves. As Canadian hospitals grew in number and bed capacity over the opening decades of the twentieth century, they also grew in complexity. Hospitals added new services, including departments such as dietetics, x-ray and expanded laboratory facilities. As these services matured, the routine work passed from physicians working alone to specially trained workers. Yet, this process was not uniform and remained remarkably incomplete. In the first half of the twentieth century, laboratory workers did not share a common education, training experience, or labour process. Hospital workers in the Maritimes and elsewhere did not necessarily perform discrete tasks and many, notably nurses, assumed duties in the laboratory. The workers themselves had diverse educations and work experiences. Well into the 1950s, the "laboratory worker" was a diffuse concept. The demands of patients and physicians for enhanced services, the constraints of budgets, recruitment and retention problems, and the interests and desires of workers themselves combined to shape laboratory work. Viewed from the laboratory, the story of the twentieth century Canadian hospital is not one of ever-expanding specialization, but rather a complex milieu where the social relations of skill and gender found bold articulation.
Accepted: 2014-10-21T12:35:52Z

Pluralité des statuts de travail et protection des droits de la personne : quel rôle pour le droit du travail ? - Vallée, Guylaine (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
Le droit du travail s'est développé dans le cadre de rapports sociaux de travail homogènes, constitués d'emplois stables, réguliers et continus, occupés par des salariés travaillant à temps plein, exécutant leur travail pour un seul employeur, sous son contrôle et sur les lieux mêmes de l'entreprise. Plusieurs des formes particulières d'emploi qui se développent sur le marché du travail ne correspondent cependant plus à cette image classique: travail autonome, travail à domicile, à temps partiel, à durée déterminée, occasionnel ou sur appel, relation tripartite de travail. Les moyens mis en œuvre en droit du travail pour assurer la protection des travailleurs sont-ils appropriés pour régir efficacement ces nouveaux statuts de travail ? Ce texte examine comment le droit du travail québécois traite des nouveaux statuts d'emploi et propose des pistes de réflexion pour adapter le droit du travail à ces caractéristiques nouvelles du marché du travail.
Keywords: 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

Expanding Class: Power and Everyday Politics in Industrial Communities: The Netherlands, 1850-1950 - van Lente, Dick (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Expanding Class: Power and Everyday Politics in Industrial Communities: The Netherlands, 1850-1950," by Don Kalb.

Au-delà de l'emploi - Transformations du travail et devenir du droit du travail en Europe - Verge, Pierre (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Au-delà de l'emploi - Transformations du travail et devenir du droit du travail en Europe," edited by Alain Supiot.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Les dilemmes de l'ANACT : ambiguïté ou complémentarité? - Verge, Pierre (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
Cette analyse du contenu de /'Accord nord-américain de coopération dans le domaine du travail (ANACT), compte tenu de l'expérience résultant de ses cinq années d'application, cherche à en cerner la nature véritable, malgré une certaine dose d'ambiguïté qui lui est inhérente. A-t-il pour objet de protéger le commerce trinational ou le travail ? Dans quelle mesure s'impose-t-il aux trois droits nationaux en cause ? S'agit-il d'un objectif d'effectivité ou de progression de ces normes nationales du travail ? Enfin, pour ce qui est de la mise en œuvre de l'Accord, l'approche en est-elle une de coopération ou de confrontation ?
Keywords: Administration; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Free trade & protection; International aspects; Labor Unions; Labor law; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Gestion des ressources humaines : typologies et comparaisons internationales - Vinet, Alain (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Gestion des ressources humaines : typologies et comparaisons internationales," by Diane-Gabielle Tremblay and David Rolland.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Human resource management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Sociologie du travail et gestion du personnel - Vinet, Alain (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Sociologie du travail et gestion du personnel," by Michael De Coster, Michel, with the collaboration of d'Annie Cornet and Christine Delhaye,
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Human resource management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Sociology; work

The New South Rebellion: The Battle against Convict Labor in the Tennessee Coalfields, 1871-1896 - Waldron, Caroline (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "A New South Rebellion: The Battle against Convict Labor in the Tennessee Coalfields, 1871-1896," by Karin A. Shapiro.

The Workingmen's Protective Association, Victoria, B.C., 1878: Racism, Intersectionality and Status Politics - Warburton, Rennie (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
Examines the racist Workingmen's Protective Association of Victoria, British Columbia, which in 1879 petitioned the federal government to sanction Chinese labour. Explores the international, national and local contexts that gave impetus to the WPA, the interconnected elements of race, status, gender, and class that comprised it, and the WPA's animus toward capitalist employers who hired imported Chinese workers. Concludes that although the WPA was short-lived, the resentment that fuelled it continued to grow in Western Canada, resulting in such notorious measures as the Chinese head tax of 1885 and the Chinese Immigration Act of 1923.

Keeping the Dream Alive: The Survival of the Ontario CCF/NDP, 1950-1963 - Wardhaugh, Robert (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Keeping the Dream Alive: The Survival of the Ontario CCF/NDP, 1950-1963," by Dan Azoulay.

The Management of Labour: A History of Australian Employers - Waring, Peter (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "The Management of Labour: A History of Australian Employers," by Christopher Wright.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; History; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Trois usines mexicaines - Warrian, Peter (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Trois Usines Mexicaines," by Jean Gérin-Lajoie.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Effects; Globalization; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Multinational corporations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Education and Unemployment in Israel, 1976-1994: Reducing the Anomaly - Weisberg, Jacob; Meltz, Noah M. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1999)
In industrialized economies, unemployment rates are inversely related to education levels. Data from 1963 to 1994 show that Israel is an anomaly exhibiting an inverted U-shaped relationship. Workers with 9-12 years of schooling consistently experienced a higher level of unemployment than the schooling groups with less and more education. Multivariate regression analysis of data for Israel during the 1976-1994 period indicates that this inverted U-shaped relationship is moderating. The national unemployment rate and a time trend variable had positive and significant effects tending to strengthen the inverted U-shaped relationship. However, an increase in the unemployment rate within the 0-8 education group relative to the 9-12 group and a decline in the labor force participation rate of the 0-8 group overrode these factors, resulting in a flattening of the inverse relationship. The major factor responsible for the anomaly in the education-unemployment relationship in Israel appears to be government policies intended to protect low-educated immigrants with large families. A reduction in government support over recent years seems to have increased the exposure of the least educated to labor market forces.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Education; Employment; Labor Unions; Multivariate analysis; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Unemployment

Les marginaux, les exclus et l 'Autre au Canada aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles - Wien, Thomas (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Les marginaux, les exclus et l 'Autre au Canada aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles," edited by André Lachance.

"The police beat them up just to keep warm": A Finnish-Canadian Communist Comments on Environmental Depredation and Capitalist Exploitation in Early 20th-Century British Columbia - Wilson, J. Donald (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
Wilson introduces "Something From Canada" by Augusti Bernhard Mäkelä, the Finnish Marxist journalist and publicist. Originally published in 1913, Mäkelä's article bluntly condemns the capitalist exploitation of BC workers (including immigrant labour) and the pillaging of BC's resources. Mäkelä arrived in Canada from Finland in 1901 when he was nearly 40. Apart from a sojourn in Finland from 1907-10, he lived in the Finnish communal settlement of Sointula on Malcolm Island, British Columbia, until his death in 1932.

Raising Baby by the Book: The Education of American Mothers - Wolf, Jacqueline H. (Labour / Le Travail, 1999)
The article reviews the book, "Raising Baby by the Book: The Education of American Mothers." by Julia Grant.

The Canadian Auto Workers: An Inspirational Story - Rinehart, James W. (Monthly Review: An Independent Socialist Magazine, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "The Canadian Auto Workers: The Birth and Transformation of a Union," by Sam Gindin.
Keywords: books

"Still in Training?" Labor Unions and the Restructuring of Canadian Labor Market Policy - Rutherford, Tod D. (Economic Geography, 1998)
[Links] the development of union training initiatives and their relationship to state labor market policy to an emerging literature on trade unions in industrial geography. In particular, I examine labor's involvement in state policy in Canada and consider the impact it has had on the direction of these initiatives at the federal, provincial, and sectoral levels, with particular reference to the Canadian Labor Force Development Board (CLFDB), the Ontario Training and Adjustment Board (OTAB), and sectoral training initiatives by the Canadian Auto Workers and the United Steel Workers of America. Researchers in geography and industrial relations have linked post-Fordism to an enhancement of local union strategies and have suggested that one possible configuration of skill development under an emerging Schumpeterian Workfare State would include labor as an important stakeholder-especially at the regional level in a high skill/high-wage virtuous circle of development. However, in Canada labor has been organized historically on a largely local level and has been relatively weak in the formulation of state policy, nationally and provincially. If anything, labor has sought to overcome the legacy of localism. Although unions differ in central-local relations, overall they have fought for effective national, provincial, and sectoral representation in these initiatives. Labor has been able to achieve some input into this process, but the success or failure of these programs reflects more on national, provincial, and sectoral institutions, in particular the structure of capital, than on local factors or strategies by labor.
Keywords: Canada; Employee training; Labor Unions; Labour Force Development Board

Glen Makahonuk: Union Leader and Social Activist. Born September 15, 1951. Died December 10, 1997 of an Inoperable Brain Tumor at His Home in Saskatoon, Age 46 - Kossick, Don (Briarpatch, 1998)
Most people knew [Glen] as an active and seemingly tireless trade union leader, rather than as a historian, but it was his sense of history that shaped his activities. Almost from day one, when he joined the staff of the University of Saskatchewan and became a member of the Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 1975, he was active in union affairs. As his local's grievance chairperson for almost 20 years, he handled over 1,200 grievances. He was later elected president of the local, a position he held for 11 years until his death. He also served – simultaneously – as one of CUPE's vice- presidents on the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour (six years), as president of the 22,000-member CUPE Saskatchewan (five years) and on CUPE's National Executive Board in two different positions for the last six years. Glen believed there was more to unions than just collective bargaining and handling grievances. He was a strong proponent of social unionism, of working in solidarity with coalitions of community, anti-poverty, and social action groups. As National CUPE president Judy Darcy noted: "Glen was a trade unionist and a socialist in the true sense of both words. There was no problem too big or too small for Glen – from defending a member's grievance to fighting for social and economic justice for workers in Canada and around the world." For Glen, the most important people at his funeral would have been his family, as well as the hundreds of working men and women who came to show their love and respect for him. Nonetheless, everyone was pleased to see three Saskatchewan cabinet ministers among the mourners. Each of them had been on the receiving end of Glen's blunt and frequent criticism of some of their government's policies. Despite that, they were there out of respect for his integrity and commitment to working people.
Keywords: Political Science

Daniel O'Donoghue: 'Grand Old Man' of Canada's Labour Movement - Parsons, Vic (The Beaver, 1998)
Daniel O'Donoghue was a printer, leader in many early labour organizations, founding member of the Canadian Labour Union, an MPP, and as the first Dominion fair-wages officer, a federal civil servant. ...He promoted a largely American model of labour politics. Based on the notion that labour's goals would best be achieved through established political parties rather than independently, his moderating influence still prevails. –Introduction

Abstracts / Résumés [v.41, Spring 1998] (Labour/Le Travail, 1998)
English/French abstracts of articles published in the issue.

Abstracts / Résumés [v.42, Fall 1998] (Labour/Le Travail, 1998)
English/French abstracts of articles in the Fall 1998 issue.