The American Way of Seeing Class - Palmer, Bryan D. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews and comments on the book, "The Fall of the House of Labor: The Workplace, the State, and American Labor Activism, 1865-1925," by David Montgomery.
Keywords: FALL of the House of Labor: The Workplace; the State & American Labor Activism 1865-1925; The (Book); Labor movement; MONTGOMERY; David; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; books

Book Notes [24, Fall 1989] - Palmer, Bryan D.; Kealey, Gregory S.; VDP (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article briefly reviews "Canadian Corporate Power," by Henry Veltmeyer, "People and Places: Studies of Small Town Life in the Maritimes," edited by Larry McCann, "Schooling and Scholars in Nineteenth-Century Ontario," by Susan E. Houston and Alison Prentice, "No Bleeding Heart: Charlotte Whitton, A Feminist on the Right," by P.R. Rooke and R.L. Schnell, "The Memoirs of Giovanni Veltri," edited by John Potestio, "Feminist Research: Prospect and Retrospect," edited by Peta Tancred-Sheriff, "Waterfront Warlord: The Life and Violent Times of Hal C. Banks," by Peter Edwards, "Free Trade and the Future of Women's Work: Manufacturing and Service Industries," by Marjorie Griffin Cohen, "The History of the Ontario Liquor Board Employees' Union," by Beverly Dalys, "Labour Law Under the Charter: Proceedings of a Conference." sponsored by the Industrial Relations Centre, School of Industrial Relations and Faculty of Law, Queen's University, "The State of the Art in Industrial Relations," edited by Gerard Hébert, Hen C. Jain, and Noah M. Meltz, "Case Critical: The Dilemma of Social Work in Canada," by Ben Carniol, "From Culture to Power: The Sociology of English Canada," by Robert J. Brym, with Bonnie Fox, "On the Archival Heritage of the Finnish Canadian Working-Class Movement: A Researcher's Guide and Inventory to the Finnish Organisation of Canada Collection at the National Archives of Canada," by Edward W. Laine, "On the Line: Essays in the History of Auto Work," edited by Nelson Lichtenstein and Stephen Meyer, " To Toil the Livelong Day' : Women at Work, 1780-1980," edited by Carol Groneman and Mary Beth Norton, "Hard Times in Paradise: Coos Bay, Oregon, 1850-1985," by William G. Robbins, "Working Lives: An Oral History of Rhode Island Labor," edited by Paul M. Buhle, and "A History of Rhode Island Working People," edited by Paul Buhle, Scott Malloy, and Gail Salisbury, "Professionalism and Social Change: From the Settlement House Movement to Neighborhood Centers, 1886 to the Present," by Judith Ann Trolander, "Raising Less Corn and More Hell: Midwestern Farmers Speak Out," by Jim Schwab, "The Party of Fear: From Nativist Movements to the New Right in American History," by David H. Bennett, "The American Perception of Class," by Reeve Vannenun and Lynn Weber Cannon, "Prudent Revolutionaries: Portraits of British Feminists Between the Wars," by Brian Harrison, "Trade Unions and the New Industrialization of the Third World," edited by Roger Southall, "Pass Controls and the Urban African Proletariat," by Doug Hindson / reviews by Bryan D. Palmer – " First Days, Fighting Days. Women in Manitoba History," edited by Mary Kinnear / review by VDP [see editor's note for correction made in no. 25 (Spring 1996), page 6] – "The Road from Coorain," by Jill Ker Conway / review by Gregory S. Kealey.

Sesto San Giovanni: Workers, Culture, and Politics in an Italian Town, 1880-1922 - Passerini, Luisa (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Sesto San Giovanni: Workers, Culture, and Politics in an Italian Town, 1880-1922," by Donald Howard Bell.
Keywords: GENERATION of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in 19th-Century America; A (Book); LABOR market; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; STROMQUIST; Shelton; books

Revolutionary Rehearsals - Petras, James (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Revolutionary Rehearsals," edited by Colin Barker.
Keywords: GENERATION of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in 19th-Century America; A (Book); LABOR market; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; STROMQUIST; Shelton; books

The TUC Overseas: The Roots of Policy - Petter, Martin (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "The TUC Overseas: The Roots of Policy," by Marjorie Nicholson.
Keywords: GENERATION of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in 19th-Century America; A (Book); LABOR market; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; STROMQUIST; Shelton; books

Women's Work 1840-1940 - Phillips, Paul (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Women's Work, 1840-1940," by Elizabeth Roberts.
Keywords: Nonfiction; REVIEWS; ROBERTS; Elizabeth; WOMEN – Employment; WOMEN'S Work; 1840-1940 (Book); books

Social Change and the Labouring Poor: Antwerp, 1770-1860 - Polasky, Janet L. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Social Change and the Labouring Poor: Antwerp, 1770-1860," by Catharina Lis.
Keywords: GENERATION of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in 19th-Century America; A (Book); LABOR market; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; STROMQUIST; Shelton; books

Human Resources and the Performance of the Firm - Portis, Bernard (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
This article reviews the book, "Human Resources and the Performance of the Firm," by Morris M. Kleiner, Richard N. Block, Myron Roomkin & Sidney W. Salsburg.

Organizational Behavior - Portis, Bernard (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
This article reviews the book, "Organizational Behavior," by Robert P. Vecchio.

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750 - Pritchard, James (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen, Pirates, and the Anglo-American Maritime World, 1700-1750," by Marcus Rediker.
Keywords: BETWEEN the Devil & the Deep Blue Sea: Merchant Seamen; Pirates & the Anglo-American Maritime World 1700-1750 (Book); INDUSTRIALIZATION; Nonfiction; REDIKER; Marcus; REVIEWS; books

Workers Without a Cause: Italian Immigrant Labour in Montreal, 1880-1930 - Ramirez, Bruno (Arrangiarsi: The Italian Immigration Experience in Canada, 1989)
The term arrangiarsi is normally defined as "making do" or "getting by." This book marks the first attempt to provide a comprehensive treatment of the Italian presence in Canada, and to capture the experience of the Italian immigrants who helped to build this country. Through historical, literary, and artistic approaches, this collection of essays explores how these immigrants saw and were seen: what were their ambitions, their setbacks, their strategies for adapting to the new land. In addition to the editors, contributors include: the late Robert Harney , Bruno Ramirez, Gabriele Scardellato, Laurier Lacroix, Paul-André Linteau, Susan Iannucci, Nicoletta Serio, and William Boelhower. –Publisher's description
Chapter summary by Brendan O'Donnell: https://quescren.concordia.ca/en/search?page-len=1&sort=score&page=19&all=labour

The Legal Structure of Collective Bargaining in Education - Rees, Ruth (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "The Legal Structure of Collective Bargaining in Education," by Kenneth H. Ostrander.
Keywords: BRITISH Labour & the Cold War (Book); Labor Unions; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; WEILER; Peter; books

The Road to Revolution in Spain: The Coal Miners of Asturias, 1860-1934 - Reid, Donald (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "The Road to Revolution in Spain: The Coal Miners of Asturias, 1860-1934," by Adrian Shubert.
Keywords: GENERATION of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in 19th-Century America; A (Book); LABOR market; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; STROMQUIST; Shelton; books

Feminism and Political Economy. Women Work, Women's Struggles - Reiter, Ester (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book "Feminism and Political Economy. Women Work, Women's Struggles," edited by Heather Jon Maroney and Meg Luxton.
Keywords: FEMINISM & Political Economy. Women Work; Women's Struggles (Book); Feminism; LUXTON; Meg; MARONEY; Heather Jon; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; books

Negotiating Wage Settlements: A Structural Approach - Reshef, Yonatan (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
While attracting a growing research attention, the wage determination process has largely been studied from an economic perspective. This study, in contrast, adopts a combined, economic and structural approach in an attempt to account for wage gains and concessions. This paper asks, which determinants, other than economic factors, may impact the outcomes of wage settlements? Given their economic and political environments, what are the choices available to parties pursuing the maximization of wage settlements? A logit analysis of 405 agreements filed with Alberta Labour, in 1987, shows that structural variables bear important impacts on the likelihood of wage negotiations to result in wage increases. This, in turn, carries important implications for union and management wage bargaining tactics which are also discussed.

The New Populism - Richards, John (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews several books, including "The New Populism: The Politics of Empowerment," edited by Harry C. Boyte and Frank Riessman, "Citizen Action and the New American Populism," by Harry C. Boyte, Heather Booth and Steve Max, and "Beyond Revolution," by Daniel A. Foss and Ralph Larkin.
Keywords: BEYOND Revolution (Book); BOOTH; Heather; BOYTE; Harry C.; CITIZEN Action & the New American Populism (Book); FOSS; Daniel A.; LARKIN; Ralph; MAX; Steve; NEW Populism: The Politics of Empowerment; The (Book); REVIEWS; RIESSMAN; Frank; books

Worker Participation and the Politics of Reform - Rinehart, James W. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Worker Participation and the Politics of Reform," edited by Carmen Siriarmi.
Keywords: BRITISH Labour & the Cold War (Book); Labor Unions; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; WEILER; Peter; books

Thirty Acres - Ringuet (Philippe Panneton) (McClelland and Stewart, 1989)
One of the most important books to come out of Quebec, Thirty Acres (Trente arpents) traces the course of one man’s life as he enters into the age-old rhythms of the land and of the seasons. At the same time, it is a novel on a grand social scale, spanning and documenting the tumultuous half-century in which a new, industrial urban society crowded out Quebec’s traditional rural one. Winner of the Governor General’s Award and numerous other national and international literary prizes, Thirty Acres is a universal story of birth and death, renewal and reversal, ascent and decline, and a masterpiece of irony and realism. –Publisher's description
Governor General Literary Awards
Keywords: Industrial; Quebec; Rural; Urban

Economic Restructuring and Technological Change: Resistance and Control Among Inside Workers and Letter Carriers at Canada Post Corporation, St. John's, Newfoundland - Ripley, Paul (Memorial University, 1989)
This thesis is a comparative study of the changing work experience and relations of two groups of Canadian postal employees in St. John's, Newfoundland. Two related factors are identified as underwriting these changes: technological based reorganization of work and the demand of a conservative state for a move to a private sector model of operations. The latter factor includes the requirement for a deficit free, and even profit-generating, operation at Canada Post Corporation and the divestment of public ownership. Underlying this empirical analysis is a theoretical interest in the labour process, technology and the managerial problem of control. – I argue in this thesis that among inside postal workers, members of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, technological change and the bureaucratic reorganization of work which has surrounded it has undermined their ability to resist management incursions on the shop floor. The subsequent shift in the frontier of control has enabled management to implement a number of productivity and efficiency measures, which from the workers' point of view, has had a major negative effect on their work experience and relations. Moreover, the recent move toward privatization and the generation of more flexible, casual labour further undermines the ability of workers to defend themselves. – While inside workers have had a continuous history of conflict over the degradation of work through technological change, letter carriers have experienced a relatively stable, institutionalized relationship with management during the past 15 years. This relationship, in contrast to the inside workers', may be characterized as "consent" based. However, with growing pressure on management to solve the economic "crisis" at Canada Post, the status quo between letter carriers and management is eroding and an ultimately antagonistic set of interests is being revealed. – The data from this comparative study lead to the conclusion that recent interest in the notion of consent within the labour process literature has definite theoretical and empirical limits which become apparent in examining production relations in periods of economic instability. On the other hand, the question of control of labour and technologicl change cannot be addressed in formulistic, determinist fashion. Rather, the unique organizational and historical characteristics of "each" labour process must be understood in its own context.

On the Stroll: Free Agents and Bonded Labour in the Street Prostitution Industry - Robertson, Margaret Susan (University of Saskatchewan, 1989)
This study analyzes the concept of alienated labour in the practice of street prostitution in Canada's prairie region and explores the relationship between profit-making relations in street prostitution and the exploitation of street prostitutes in this region. It begins with a brief introduction to the themes of social control that dominate within the Sociology of Prostitution and a discussion of the sources and limitations of data employed. The basic proposition that is drawn from this discussion is that the exploitation of street prostitutes is secured in the organization of the labour process of street prostitution. The review of relevant literature is organized around the basic themes of supply, demand and profit.. This organizational scheme allows the evaluation and critique of the loose application of economic concepts to the causal analysis of prostitution. It concludes with the finding that prostitution is the expression of a profit-making relation and establishes a basis for the analysis of the appropriation of labour within profit-making relations. In light of the focus on the regulation of working activity in economic organization, Marx's theory and method of historical materialism is identified as a fruitful conceptual framework for the analysis of this relation. The discussion of subjective interpretations of Marx's theory of alienation is followed by a detailed discussion of the ontological continuity and epistemological focusing of Marx's intellectual outlook. This leads into an explication of Marx's theory of alienation. A detailed description of the street prostitution commodity market and the street prostitution industry is constructed around the producer's relation to the product and activity of labour in the circulation and production of commodified intimacy. This is followed by a specific analysis of the concept of alienated labour as it is expressed in the social relations of production of the street prostitution industry. The conclusion that is reached is that two forms of alienated labour can be identified within the street prostitution industry in the Canadian prairie region. As free agents, the working activity of prostitutes is subject to regulation by the market and overall structure of the street prostitution industry, and the appropriation of labour is expressed in circulation. As bonded labour the working activity of prostitutes is subject to regulation by the social relations of production that are established between male owners and female workers. As such, the appropriation of labour is accomplished through relations of dependency and domination that are expressed in the production of commodified intimacy and the exploitation of the prostitute is stripped of any appearance of freedom.

What Was So Great About Herbert Gutman? - Roediger, David (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Power and Culture: Essays on the American Working Class," by Herbert G. Gutman, edited by Ira Berlin.
Keywords: BERLIN; Ira; GUTMAN; Herbert George; 1928-1985; Nonfiction; POWER & Culture: Essays on the American Working Class (Book); REVIEWS; Working class; books

Disaffected Patriots: London Supporters of Revolutionary America 1760-1782 - Rogers, Nicholas (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book "Disaffected Patriots: London Supporters of Revolutionary America 1769-1782," by John Sainsbury.
Keywords: DISAFFECTED Patriots: London Supporters of Revolutionary America; 1769-1782 (Book); LEGAL rights; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; SAINSBURY; John; books

Labour People: Leaders and Lieutenants, Hardie to Kinnock - Rogers, Nicholas (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Labour People: Leaders and Lieutenants, Hardie to Kinnock," by Kenneth O. Morgan.
Keywords: BRITISH Labour & the Cold War (Book); Labor Unions; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; WEILER; Peter; books

Histoire du syndicalisme au Québec: des origines à nos jours - Rouillard, Jacques (Boréal, 1989)
Basé sur une documentation en partie inédite, voici l'histoire du syndicalisme québécois depuis le début du XIXe siècle jusqu'en 1985, histoire qui évolue sensiblement au même rythme que celle des autres mouvements syndicaux en Amérique du Nord. –Publisher's description
Keywords: Syndicalism – Québec (Province) – History

The Tin Flute - Roy, , Gabrielle (McClelland & Stewart, 1989)
The Tin Flute, Gabrielle Roy’s first novel, is a classic of Canadian fiction. Imbued with Roy’s unique brand of compassion and compelling understanding, this moving story focuses on a family in the Saint-Henri slums of Montreal, its struggles to overcome poverty and ignorance, and its search for love. An affecting story of familial tenderness, sacrifice, and survival during the Second World War, The Tin Flute won both the Governor General’s Award and the Prix Fémina of France. The novel was made into a critically acclaimed motion picture in 1983. –Publisher's description
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tin_Flute
Keywords: Montreal; Quebec; Poor; Poverty; Slums; Social Class and Equality

A White Man's Province: British Columbia Politicians and Chinese and Japanese Immigrants, 1858-1914 - Roy, Patricia (University of British Columbia Press, 1989)
"We are not strong enough to assimilate races so alien from us in their habits … We are afraid they will swamp our civilization as such." – Nanaimo Free Press, 1914. This book examines how British Columbians changed their attitudes towards Asian immigrants from one of toleration in colonial times to vigorous hostility by the turn of the century and describes how politicians responded to popular cries to halt Asian immigration and restrict Asian activities in the province. White workingmen objected to Asian sojourning habits, to their low living standards and wages, and to their competition for jobs in specific industries. Because employers and politicians initially supported Asian immigrants, early manifestations of antipathy often appeared just as another dispute between capital and labour. But as their number increased, complaints about Asians became widespread, and racial characteristics became the nucleus of such terms as a “white man’s province” – a “catch phrase” which, as Roy notes, “covered a wide variety of fears and transcended particular economic interests.” The Chinese were the chief targets of hostility in the nineteenth century; by the twentieth, the Japanese, more economically ambitious and backed by a powerful mother country, appeared more threatening. After Asian disenfranchisement in the 1870s, provincial politicians, freed from worry about the Asian vote, fueled and exploited public prejudices. The Asian question also became a rallying cry for provincial rights when Ottawa disallowed anti-Asian legislation. Although federal leaders such as John A. Macdonald and Wilfrid Laurier shared a desire to keep Canada a “white man's country,” they followed a policy of restraint in view of imperial concerns. The belief that whites should be superior, as Roy points out, was then common throughout the Western world. Many of the arguments used in British Columbia were influenced by anti-Asian sentiments and legislation emanating from California, and from Australia and other British colonies. Drawing on almost every newspaper and magazine report published in the province before 1914, and on government records and private manuscripts, Roy has produced a revealing historical account of the complex basis of racism in British Columbia and of the contribution made to the province in these early years by its Chinese and Japanese residents. –Publisher's description
Book available at Internet Archive to people with print disabilities: http://archive.org/details/whitemansprovinc0000royp
Keywords: Chinese – British Columbia – History

La Population syndiquée au Québec - Roy, Rita; Lipsig-Mummé, Carla (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
Qui est syndiqué-ε aujourd'hui au Québec? Après une revue des principauxchangements survenus dans le marché du travail depuis 1975, changements qui serésument en trois traits: la féminisation, la précarisation et la tertiairisation, l'articletrace le portrait des charactéristiques internes de la population syndiquée. L'article compare ensuite les syndiqués avec non-syndiquées et la maind'oeuvre potentielle, quant à l'âge, au sexe, au niveau de scolarité, au secteurd'activité, au statut d'emploi, et au salaire moyen. Il conclut que la population syndiquée se distingue par rapport à son âge moyen relativement élevé, sa surreprésenttion relative des hommes, sa relative sécurité d'emploi, son salaire relativement élevé, et sa concentration sectorielle. Enfin, il tente de mettre en lumière l'impact des nouveaux paramètres démographiques sur le difficile repositionnement stratégique en voie de se cristalliser au sein du mouvement syndical québécois.
Keywords: FEMINISTS; LABOR market; LABOR supply; Labor Unions; Labor movement; job security

The Role of the State in Canadian Labour Relations - Sack, Jeffrey; Lee, Tanya (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
The authors examine the role of the State in industrial relations in Canada. They address themselves particularly to the questions in which circumstances and to what extent the State should intervene.

My Life as a Newfoundland Union Organizer: The Memoirs of Cyril W. Strong. 1912-1987 - Sager, Eric W. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "My Life As a Newfoundland Union Organizer: The Memoirs of Cyril W. Strong. 1912-1987," by Cyril W. Strong, edited by Gregory S. Kealey.
Keywords: Biographies; KEALEY; Gregory S.; MY Life As a Newfoundland Union Organizer: The Memoirs of Cyril W. Strong 1912-1987 (Book); Nonfiction; REVIEWS; books

Whalers No More: A History of Whaling on the West Coast - Sager, Eric W. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Whalers No More: A History of Whaling on the West Coast," by W. A. Hagelund.
Keywords: HAGELUND; W. A.; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; WHALERS No More: A History of Whaling on the West Coast (Book); WHALING; books

Labour Pains: Women's Work in Crisis - Saint-Pierre, Céline (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Labour Pains: Women's Work in Crisis," by Pat Armstrong.

Le choc du passé. Les années trente et les sans-travail. Bibliographie sélective annotée - Saint-Pierre, Jocelyn (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Le choc du passé. Les années trente et les sans-travail. Bibliographie sélective annotée," by Centre Populaire de Documentation de Montréal.

Employee Performance as a Function of Job Orientation and Job Design - Sales, Carol; Levanoni, Eliahu; Knoop, Robert (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
Two weaknesses in previous job design research were examined: the overuse of self-report measurements and the questionable use of Growth Need Strength as a moderator between job characteristics and employee performance. Job orientation was hypothesized to moderate the relationship between job characteristics and employee performance. Results indicated that job orientation moderated the relationship between job characteristics and quality of performance but not between job characteristics and quantity of performance, job involvement and satisfaction with work.

Dreams of Equality: Women on the Canadian Left, 1920-1950 - Sangster, Joan (University of Toronto Press, 1989)
Canadian women on the political left in the first half of the twentieth century fought with varying degrees of commitment for women's rights. Women's dreams of equality were in part a vision of economic and class equality, though they also represented profound desires for equality with men - both within their own parties and in the larger society. In both the Communist Party of Canada and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, a male-dominated leadership seldom embraced women's causes wholeheartedly or as a doctrinal priority. So-called women's issues, whether birth control, consumer issues, or equal pay, usually took second place to an emphasis on the general needs of workers or farmers. Nonetheless, many women continued to promote their feminist causes through the socialist movement, in the hope that, eventually, the socialist New Jerusalem would see their dreams of equality fulfilled. In Dreams of Equality, Joan Sangster chronicles in fascinating detail the first tentative stages of a politically aware women's movement in Canada, from the time of women's suffrage to the 1950's when the CPC went into decline and the CCF began to experience the changes that would evolve into the New Democratic Party a decade later. –Publisher's description. Originally published: Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1989. Contents: Preface –Theory and practice: early Canadian socialists explore the woman question – The Communist Party of Canada confronts the woman question – Red revolutionaries and pink tea pacifists: communist and socialist women in the early 1930's – Militant mothering: women in the early CCF – More militant mothering: communist women during the popular front – From working for war to prices and peace: communist women during the 1940's – The CCF confronts the woman question – Conclusion: women and the party question.
Book available at Internet Archive to people with print disabilities: https://archive.org/details/dreamsofequality0000sang

Dreams of Equality: Women on the Canadian Left, 1920-1950 - Sangster, Joan (McClelland & Stewart, 1989)
Canadian women on the political left in the first half of the twentieth century fought with varying degrees of commitment for women's rights. Women's dreams of equality were in part a vision of economic and class equality, though they also represented profound desires for equality with men - both within their own parties and in the larger society. In both the Communist Party of Canada and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, a male-dominated leadership seldom embraced women's causes wholeheartedly or as a doctrinal priority. So-called women's issues, whether birth control, consumer issues, or equal pay, usually took second place to an emphasis on the general needs of workers or farmers. Nonetheless, many women continued to promote their feminist causes through the socialist movement, in the hope that, eventually, the socialist New Jerusalem would see their dreams of equality fulfilled. In this book, Joan Sangster chronicles in fascinating detail the first tentative stages of a politically aware women's movement in Canada, from the time of women's suffrage to the 1950's when the CPC went into decline and the CCF began to experience the changes that would evolve into the New Democratic Party a decade later. In Dreams of Equality, Joan Sangster chronicles in fascinating detail the first tentative stages of a politically aware women's movement in Canada, from the time of women's suffrage to the 1950's when the CPC went into decline and the CCF began to experience the changes that would evolve into the New Democratic Party a decade later.
Available at Internet Archives for readers with print disabilities: http://archive.org/details/dreamsofequality0000sang
Keywords: Right and left (Political science)

Beyond the Vote: Canadian Women and Politics - Sangster, Joan; Kealey, Linda (University of Toronto Press, 1989)
This collection of essays focuses on the experiences of women as poliutical activists in twentieth-century Canada, both in the mainstream of party politics and in groups outside the mainstream. The latter include women in the socialist and labour movements, the farm and peace movements, and women active in variouss ethnic communities. Expanding the notion of politics, the authors highlight the widespread naturee of women's activism - particularly at the local level - and challenge the easy formulation that women were primarily interest in the vote and lost interest in politics when they acquired it. Some of the essays suggest that even the suffrage campaign has been misrepresented as solely a middle-class movement. Women evolved their own styles of political pparticipation shaped by local contexts, class, culture, family, and life cycle. Women often organized at the community level, and worked both in combination with men and in women-only settings. Contributors to the volume explore women's involvement in organizations from the political left to right, and women's efforts to shape Canada's political priorities and activities. Politically minded women often found that their best outless for commitment and service was through women's organizations, which addressed their needs and provided a base for effective action. –Publisher's description
Book available at Internet Archive to readers with print disabilities: http://archive.org/details/beyondvotecanadi0000unse

British Labour and the Cold War - Saville, John (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "British Labour and the Cold War," by Peter Weiler.
Keywords: BRITISH Labour & the Cold War (Book); Labor Unions; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; WEILER; Peter; books

Predictors of Acceptance of Early Retirement Offers for Workers - Schell, Bernadette; Lebrasseur, Rolland; Renaud, Robert (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether previously identified socio-demographic, psychographic, health state, financial state, and attitudinal variables could successfully discriminate blue-collar workers in the resource industries in Northern Ontario who accepted companies' retirement offers from those who rejected them. Such a discriminant function was developed and discussed. The «hit rate» was an impressive 76%.

American Technology and the British Vehicle industry - Seely, Bruce E. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "American Technology and the British Vehicle Industry," by Wayne Lewchuk.
Keywords: AMERICAN Technology & the British Vehicle Industry (Book); INDUSTRIES; LEWCHUK; Wayne; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; books

Les relations du travail dans l'industrie de la construction - Sexton, Jean (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
This article reviews the book, "Les relations du travail dans l'industrie de la construction," by Carol Jobin.

L'avenir des relations industrielles dans les Amériques: Introduction - Sexton, Jean; Dion, Gérard (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)

The Secret Plague: Venereal Disease in Canada, 1838-1939 - Shorter, Edward (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "The Secret Plague: Venereal Disease in Canada, 1838-1939," by Jay Cassel.
Keywords: CASSEL; Jay; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; SECRET Plague: Venereal Disease in Canada 1838-1939; The (Book); SEXUALLY transmitted diseases; books

Corporate Strategy and Plant Closures. The S.K.F. Experience - Silver, Jim (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book "Corporate Strategy and Plant Closures. The S.K.F. Experience," by J. Paul Grayson.
Keywords: BUSINESS planning; CORPORATE Strategy & Plant Closures: The S.K.F. Experience (Book); GRAYSON; J. Paul; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; books

Unheard Voices: Labour and Economies Policy in a Competitive World - Silver, Jim (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Unheard Voices: Labour and Economies Policy in a Competitive World," by Ray Marshall.
Keywords: BRITISH Labour & the Cold War (Book); Labor Unions; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; WEILER; Peter; books

Conflict and Class: Scottish Workers, 1700-1838 - Smout, T. C. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Conflict and Class: Scottish Workers, 1700-1838," by W. Hamish Fraser.
Keywords: GENERATION of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in 19th-Century America; A (Book); LABOR market; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; STROMQUIST; Shelton; books

Idle Hands, Clenched Fists: The Depression in a Shipyard Town - Soderlund, Richard J. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Idle Hands, Clenched Fists: The Depression in a Shipyard Town," by Stephen F. Kelly.
Keywords: DEMONSTRATIONS (Collective behavior); IDLE Hands; Clenched Fists: The Depression in a Shipyard Town (Book); KELLY; Stephen F.; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; books

Saving Plants and Jobs : Union Management Negotiations in the Context of Threatened Plant Closing - Solomon, Norman A. (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
This article reviews the book, "Saving Plants and Jobs : Union Management Negotiations in the Context of Threatened Plant Closing," by Paul F. Gerhart.

Work and New Technologies - Stevenson, Paul (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Work and New Technologies," edited by Chris DeBresson, Margaret Lowe Benston and Jesse Vorst.
Keywords: BRITISH Labour & the Cold War (Book); Labor Unions; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; WEILER; Peter; books

"Histoires d'immigrees:" Itinéraires d'ouvrières Colombiennes, Grecques, Haïtiennes et Portugaises de Montréal - Stoddart, Jennifer (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Histoires d' immigrees: Itinéraires d' ouvrières Colombiennes, Grecques, Haïtiennes et Portugaises de Montréal," by Micheline Labelle, Geneviève Turcotte, Marianne Kempeneers, and Deidre Meintel.
Keywords: EMIGRATION & immigration; HISTOIRES d'immigrees: Itineraires d'ouvrieres Colombiennes; Grecques; Haitiennes et Portugaises de Montreal (Book); KEMPENEERS; Marianne; LABELLE; Micheline; MEINTEL; Deidre; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; TURCOTTE; Genevieve; books

Bernstein to Brandt: A Short History of German Social Democracy - Stokes, Lawrence D. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Bernstein to Brandt: A Short History of German Social Democracy," edited by Roger Fletcher.
Keywords: BRITISH Labour & the Cold War (Book); Labor Unions; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; WEILER; Peter; books

Dying for Work: Workers' Safety and Health in Twentieth-Century America - Storey, Robert H. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Dying for Work: Workers' Safety and Health in Twentieth-Century America," edited by David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz.
Keywords: DYING for Work: Workers' Safety & Health in 20th-Century America (Book); Industrial safety; MARKOWITZ; Gerald; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; ROSNER; David; books

The Decline of Organized Labor in the Unites States - Swartz, Donald (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "The Decline of Organized Labor in the United States," by Michael Goldfield.
Keywords: DECLINE of Organized Labor in the United States; The (Book); GOLDFIELD; Michael; Labor Unions; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; books

The Language of Agrarianism in Manitoba, 1890-1925 - Taylor, Jeffery M. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
Manitoba agrarianism underwent a change during the settlement and post- settlement period as a nineteenth century oppositional vision was displaced by an accommodationist position in the twentieth century. This article delineates this change by reconstructing the language of radicalism employed by the Patrons of Industry and the language of accommodation that became pm-eminent in the Manitoba Grain Growers Association and the United Farmers of Manitoba. It is suggested that, by viewing these languages as distinct entities with their own discursive unity, it is possible and necessary to view agrarian ideology at some distance from its putative class location.
Keywords: AGRICULTURAL systems; Agricultural laborers; Agriculture; Farmers; MANITOBA; Radicalism; SOCIETIES; etc.

Labour Relations : An Experiential and Case Approach - Thompson, Mark (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
This article reviews the book, "Labour Relations : An Experiential and Case Approach," by Roger Wolters & William H. Holley.

Employers' Associations and Industrial Relations : A Comparative Study - Thwaites, James (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
This article reviews the book, "Employers' Associations and Industrial Relations : A Comparative Study," by John P. Windmuller & Alan Gladstone.

Labour Law under the Charter - Trudeau, Gilles (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
This article reviews the book, "Labour Law under the Charter," by Gilles Trudeau.

Safety at Work : The Limits of Self Regulation - Tucker, Eric (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
This article reviews the book, "Safety at Work : The Limits of Self Regulation," by Sandra Dawson, Paul Willman, Martin Bamford & Alain Clinton.

Les accords "atypiques" et le droit des rapports collectifs du travail - Vallée, Guylaine (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
Ce texte aborde un phénomène méconnu, celui des accords atypiques, et esquisse les principaux problèmes d'ordre juridique soulevés par leur existence.

Unequal Opportunities: Women 's Employment in England, 1800-1918 - Valverde, Mariana (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Unequal Opportunities: Women 's Employment in England, 1800-1918," edited by Angela John.
Keywords: GENERATION of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in 19th-Century America; A (Book); LABOR market; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; STROMQUIST; Shelton; books

The Spinners and Weavers of Auffay: Rural Industry and the Sexual Division of Labor in a French Village, 1750-1850 - Vardi, Liana (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Small Differences: Irish Catholics and Irish Prolestants, 1815-1922: An International Perspective," by Gay L. Gullickson.
Keywords: GENERATION of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in 19th-Century America; A (Book); LABOR market; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; STROMQUIST; Shelton; books

Le droit des conventions collectives de travail en République fédérale d'Allemagne - Verge, Pierre (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
This article reviews the book, "Le droit des conventions collectives de travail en République fédérale d'Allemagne," by Francis Kessler.

Trade Unions Today and Tomorrow - Verge, Pierre (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
This article reviews the book, "Trade Unions Today and Tomorrow," by G. Spyropoulos.

Marxism in the United States: From 1870 to the Present Day - Wald, Alan (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Marxism in the United States: From 1870 to the Present Day," by Paul Buhle.
Keywords: BUHLE; Paul; Communism; MARXISM in the United States: From 1870 to the Present Day (Book); Nonfiction; REVIEWS; books

Chinese Working Class Lives: Getting By in Taiwan - Watson, C. G. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Chinese Working Class Lives: Getting By in Taiwan," by Hill Gates.
Keywords: GENERATION of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in 19th-Century America; A (Book); LABOR market; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; STROMQUIST; Shelton; books

Un commentaire européen - Weiss, Dimitri (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
Un commentaire européen.

Inhuman Relations: Quality Circles and Anti-Unionism in American Industry - Wells, Donald M. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Inhuman Relations: Quality Circles and Anti-Unionism in American Industry," by Guillermo J. Grenier.
Keywords: BRITISH Labour & the Cold War (Book); Labor Unions; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; WEILER; Peter; books

Old Labor and New Immigrants in American Political Development Union, Party, and State, 1875-1920 - Wiebe, Robert (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Old Labor and New Immigrants in American Political Development Union, Party, and State, 1875-1920," by Gwendolyn Mink.
Keywords: LABOR market; MINK; Gwendolyn; Nonfiction; OLD Labor & New Immigrants in American Political Development: Union; Party & State 1875-1920 (Book); REVIEWS; books

La gestion stratégique des ressources humaines: Un reniement du rôle social de l'entreprise? - Wils, Thierry; Labelle, Christiane; Guérin, Gilles; Le Louarn, Jean-Yves (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
Les etudes empiriques indiquant que la strategie d'entreprise n 'explique pas toute la variation des pratiques de gestion des ressources humaines, les auteurs proposent une reformulation du cadre theorique afin de reduire cet inexplique.

Builders of Canada: History of the Finnish Organization in Canada, 1911-1971 - Wilson, J. Donald (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Builders of Canada: History of the Finnish Organization in Canada, 1911-1971," by William Eklund.
Keywords: ASSOCIATIONS; institutions; etc.; BUILDERS of Canada: History of the Finnish Organization in Canada 1911-1971 (Book); EKLUND; William; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; books

Charles H. Millard, Architect of Industrial Unionism in Canada - Wilson, Jeffrey L. (Wilfrid Laurier University, 1989)
In 1937 the strike at General Motors in Oshawa resulted in the first major victory for the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in Canada. The president of the Oshawa local was Charles Millard (1896-1978), who subsequently played an influential role in most of the major developments in organized labour between 1937 and 1956. He was the first National Director of the Canadian branch of the United Steel Workers of America in 1943, a position which he retained until his retirement in 1956. Under his leadership the steelworkers’ union became a dominant force in the Canadian Congress of Labour (CCL), taking a very active role in political action initiatives, and achieving a number of strategic victories through strike action. Millard was personally involved in the creation of the CCL and its subsequent development. He was also very active in opposing the Communist faction within organized labour, and labored throughout his career to further the relationship between organized labour and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF). Despite Millard’s many significant contributions during what was a formative period for both organized labour and the CCF, he has been mostly ignored. This thesis sketches Millard’s life, focusing on the major events in which he was involved.

Southern Capitalists: The Ideological Leadership of an Elite, 1832-1885 - Woodman, Harold D. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book "Southern Capitalists: The Ideological Leadership of an Elite, 1832-1885," by Laurence Shore.
Keywords: Capitalism; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; SHORE; Laurence; SOUTHERN Capitalists: The Ideological Leadership of an Elite; 1832-1885 (Book); books

The Legislation of Labour Relations in Canada Post - Wright, Michael D. (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
This paper situates the events surrounding the passing of the Postal Services Continuation Actin a social, political and historical context. The significance of the back-to-work legislation is discussed and the problems it présents for laborer are analyzed.

Capital and Labour on the Kimberley Diamond Fields, 1871-1890 - Youé, Christopher P. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Capital and Labour on the Kimberley Diamond Fields, 1871-1890," by Robert Vicat Turrell.
Keywords: BRITISH Labour & the Cold War (Book); Labor Unions; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; WEILER; Peter; books

La QVT une voie vers l'excellence - Zaoré, Roger (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
This article reviews the book, "La QVT une voie vers l'excellence," by Pierre R. Turcotte.

La proteccion del empleo en las Américas. - Zapata, Francisco (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
Frente a la crisis economica y la reconversion industrial necesitada por los cambios tecnologicos, el mercado del empleo ha cambiado mucho. El autor estudia aquilas medidas de proteccion del empleo y los sistemas de seguro de desempleo que estan estableciendose en diferentes paises Latinoamericanos.

Solidarity or Survival: Americon Labor and European Immigrants, 1830-1924 - Zucchi, John E. (Labour / Le Travail, 1989)
The article reviews the book, "Solidarity or Survival: American Labor and European Immigrants, 1830-1924," by A. T. Lane.
Keywords: LANE; A. T.; Labor Unions; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; SOLIDARITY or Survival: American Labor & European Immigrants 1830-1924 (Book); books

Telephone Workers' Reaction to the New Technology - Zureik, Elia; Mosco, Vincent; Lochhead, Clarence (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1989)
The purpose of this study is to provide data that shed light on the reactions of workers to the introduction ofthe new technology in three différent occupational groups within a segment of the Canadian téléphone industry.

Abstracts = Résumés [v. 21, Spring 1988] (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
English/French abstracts of articles in the issue.

Index — volume 43 — 1988 (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1988)

Liste des appréciateurs 1988 / 1988 List of Referees (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1988)

Livres reçus / Books Received (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1988)

Publications récentes / Recent Publications (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1988)

Union Organizing and Staying Organized - Albo, Gregory (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
This article reviews the book, "Union Organizing and Staying Organized," by Ken Gagala.
Keywords: KESTNER; Joseph; Nonfiction; PROTEST & Reform: The British Social Narrative by Women 1827-1867 (Book); REVIEWS; SOCIAL problems; books

Sexual Harassment in the Workplace - Andiappan, P. (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1988)
This article reviews the book, "Sexual Harassment in the Workplace," by Arjun P. Aggarwal.

Tug of War, Ottawa and the Provinces Under Trudeau and Mulroney - Armstrong, Christopher (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
This article reviews the book, "Tug of War, Ottawa and the Provinces Under Trudeau and Mulroney," by David Milne.
Keywords: MILNE; David; 1882-1953; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; TUG of War; Ottawa & the Provinces Under Trudeau & Mulroney (Book); War; books

Between Women: Domestics and Their Employers - Armstrong, Pat (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
This article reviews the book, "Between Women: Domestics and Their Employers," by Judith Rollins.
Keywords: KESTNER; Joseph; Nonfiction; PROTEST & Reform: The British Social Narrative by Women 1827-1867 (Book); REVIEWS; SOCIAL problems; books

Bureautique et organisation du travail de secrétariat dans la fonction publique québécoise - Audet, Claudine; Vinet, Alain (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1988)
Cet article s'attache aux modifications survenues dans l'organisation du travail de secrétariat suite à l'implantation dans la fonction publique québécoise de la technologie bureautique du traitement de texte.

Canadian Readings in Personnel and Human Resource Management - Audet, Michel (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1988)
This article reviews the book, "Canadian Readings in Personnel and Human Resource Management," by Shimon L. Dolan & Randall S. Schuler.

La flexibilité des marchés du travail : essai bibliographique/Labour Market Flexibility : A Bibliography Essay - Audet, Michel (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1988)
This article reviews the book, "La flexibilité des marchés du travail : essai bibliographique/Labour Market Flexibility : A Bibliography Essay," by Michel Audet.

Theories of the Labor Movement - Audet, Michel (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1988)
This article reviews the book, "Theories of the Labor Movement," by Simeon Larson & Bruce Nissen.

Paradigmes, écoles de pensée et théories en relations industrielles - Audet, Michel; Larouche, Viateur (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1988)
Cet article tente de classifier les principales théories de relations industrielles en fonction des paradigmes largement popularises en sciences sociales. Cette classification repose sur des caractéristiques traditionnellement reconnues dans le domaine scientifique, ce qui la distingue de la littérature existante.

Once a Cigar Maker: Men, Women, and Work Culture in American Cigar Factories, 1900-1919 - Babcock, Robert H. (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
This article reviews the book, "Once a Cigar Maker: Men, Women, and Work Culture in American Cigar Factories, 1900-1919," by Patricia A. Cooper.

Housing, the State and the Poor: Policy and Practice in Three Latin American Cities - Bakan, Abigail B. (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
The article reviews the book, "Housing, the State and the Poor: Policy and Practice in Three Latin American Cities," by Alan Gilbert and Peter M. Ward.

New Departures in Industrial Relations : Developments in the U.S., the U.K. and Canada - Barbash, Jack (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1988)
This article reviews the book, "New Departures in Industrial Relations : Developments in the U.S., the U.K. and Canada," by Jack Barbash.

The New Industrial Relations in the US: Phase II - Barbash, Jack (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1988)
The author examines phase II of the new industrial relations in the United States, the labor strategy of American management on the offensive.

Institutional Economics and the American Trade Union Movement - Barkin, Solomon (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1988)
In the context of the major changes of the eighties, the author examines how institutional economists and unions can be of great assistance one to the another.

"Knowledge is Essential for Universal Progress but Fatal to Class Privilege": Working People and The Schools in Vancouver During The 1920s - Barman, Jean (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
Labour historians have characterized the 1920's as a time of working-class quiescence. The reality in the case of Vancouver was more complex. The workplace may have become quieter, but working people were not inert. Organized activity focused on the city's schools, not to overturn the system but to obtain fairer consideration for the children of working people. By opting for reform over class confrontation, working people allied themselves with like-minded, largely middle-class individuals equally concerned with educational reform. Considerable improvement of facilities resulted, despite active opposition by business interests concerned with immediate economic advantage. The consequence was that more children of working people, and more children generally, stayed in school a little longer.

Droit du travail - Barré, Alain (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1988)
This article reviews the book, "Droit du travail," by Robert P. Gagnon, Louis Lebel & Pierre Verge.

High Technology Industries and Non-Union Establishments in Britain - Beaumont, P. B.; Harris, R. I. D. (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1988)
This paper seeks to remedy some existing research deficiencies in Britain where discussions of the high technology non-union relationship have overwhelmingly consisted of small partial studies of the electronics industry.

American Technology and the British Vehicle Industry - Bélanger, Jacques (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1988)
This article reviews the book, "American Technology and the British Vehicle Industry," by Wayne Lewchuk.

The Militant Worker: Class and Radicalism in France and America. (English) - Bélanger, Paul R. (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
This article reviews the book, "The Militant Worker: Class and Radicalism in France and America," by Scott Lash.
Keywords: LASH; Scott; MILITANT Worker: Class & Radicalism in France & America; The (Book); Nonfiction; REVIEWS; Radicalism; books

The Long Distance Feeling: A History of the Telecommunications Workers Union - Bernard, Elaine (Simon Fraser University, 1988)
...In this thesis we examine the history of the telephone workers, from their earliest organizing efforts to their public campaigns of today. In restricting the restructuring of their work, telephone workers have often been in the leadership successfully applying and developing militant labour tactics, from the first successful "hello girls" strike of 1902 to the dramatic provincial-wide seizing of exchanges by telephone workers in 1981. The history of the Telecommunications Workers Union provides a valuable case study of workers' efforts to build and maintain their union in [the] face of massive and continual technological change.

La formation des traditions de solidarité ouvrière chez les mouleurs montréalais: la longue marche vers le syndicalisme (1859-1881). (French) - Bischoff, Peter C. (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
Cet article recherche les causes de la lenteur du développement des traditions syndicales chez les mouleurs montréalais. Fondé en 1859, le syndicat des mouleurs montréalais connaît deux décennies de stagnation relative avant que ses effectifs s'accroissent considérablement. Dans d'autres villes canadiennes, durant la même période, les mouleurs forment rapidement de puissants syndicats. A Montréal, les différences ethniques et linguistiques entre mouleurs d'origine britannique et mouleurs canadiens-français, et les tensions qu'elles engendrent durant la période, semble être au centre du problème. Seule une minorité de mouleurs, composée d'éléments écossais, irlandais, anglais et américains, se regroupent au sein d'un syndicat dès ses débuts. Les mouleurs non-syndiqués, majoritairement canadiens-français, optent apparemment pour un militantisme de type spontané ou organisé sur une base ponctuelle, qui s'appuie sur leur autonomie fonctionnelle au travail. Ce n'est qu' à la suite d'un processus d'adaptation relativement long, et sous la menace d'une dégradation de leur métier, que les mouleurs entreprennent l'unification de leurs rangs autour d'une organisation permanente de réglementation et dedéfense de leur métier. L'essor du syndicat s'effectue alors sous l'impulsion des mouleurs canadiens-français et, en seconde place, des mouleurs canadiens-irlandais.
Keywords: History; LABOUR/LE Travail (Book); Labor; Labor Unions; MONTREAL (Quebec); QUEBEC (Province); Work environment

The Stalinist Image of Canada: The Cominform and Soviet Press, 1947-1955 - Black, J.L. (Joseph Laurence) (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
Examines media coverage of Canada in the Soviet Union during the Cold War years from 1947-1955. Provides background on the post-World War II political situation in Europe including the founding of Cominform, the Soviet-East European news bureau, and its publication, "For a Lasting Peace." Argues that Soviet commentators, including academics, followed the line of the Stalinist dictatorship in viewing the Canadian state as subordinate to monopoly capital and under increasing US domination. Canadian communist party leader Tim Buck was also frequently quoted or featured, as was peace activist James Endicott. Concludes that the tone of the coverage moderated somewhat after Stalin's death in 1953, reflecting changes in the Soviet leadership and in policy direction. (Note: The author also published the book, "The Soviet Perception of Canada, 1917-1987: An Annotated Bibliographic Guide" (1988).)
Keywords: CONSTITUTIONAL history; Canada; Communism; LABOUR/LE Travail (Book); SOVIET Union; STALINISM

Labour and Love: Women's Experience of Home and Family, 1850-1940 - Bradbury, Bettina (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
The article reviews the book, "Labour and Love: Women's Experience of Home and Family, 1850-1940," edited by Jane Lewis.

Theatre as a Weapon: Workers' Theatre in the Soviet Union, Germany and Britain, 1917-1934 - Brown, Lorraine A. (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
The article reviews the book, "Theatre as a Weapon: Workers' Theatre in the Soviet Union, Germany and Britain, 1917-1934," by Richard Stourac and Kathleen McCreery.

The Golden Sword: The Coming of Capitalism to the Colorado Mining Frontier - Brundage, David (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
The article reviews the book, "The Golden Sword: The Coming of Capitalism to the Colorado Mining Frontier," by Michael Neuschatz.

La nouvelle Commission québécoise des relations du travail (1988) - Brunet, Yves W.; Beaulieu, Luc; Cantin, Isabelle (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1988)
Après avoir résumé les motifs allégués par le ministre du Travail du Québec au soutien du projet de loi 30 et des objectifs qu'il y visait, les auteurs analysent les changements institutionnels apportes par cette loi, précisent le rôle et le mandat de la Commission et étudient en détail son fonctionnement et ses pouvoirs.

Frances Willard: A Biography - Buhle, Mari Jo (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
The article reviews the book, "Frances Willard: A Biography," by Ruth Bordin.

Children of the City: At Work and At Play - Bullen, John (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
The article reviews the book, "Children of the City: At Work and At Play," by David Nasaw.

Company Town [work poem] - Burch, Brian; Turner, Michael B. (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
Presents work-related poetry including "Company Town," "Co-opted," and "Abandoned Cannery," by Michael B. Turner, and "Bosses," "Office Worker Poem," and "I Missed a Farmworkers Meeting Because" by Brian Burch.
Keywords: ABANDONED Cannery (Poem); BOSSES (Poem); BURCH; Brian; I Missed a Farmworkers' Meeting Because (Poem); TURNER; Michael B.

La productivité des intelligences - Camiré, André (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1988)
La gestion des ressources humaines n'est ni une science, ni un ensemble de techniques mais un art: l'art de mobiliser des individus à la réalisation d'un objectif commun. Pourtant, la grande majorité des activités reliés à la gestion des ressources humaines ne tiennent pas toujours compte de la nature et des caractéristiques des individus. L'objet de cet article est de proposer une typologie des styles de gestion qui remet en cause la façon traditionnelle d'aborder la gestion des personnes et la productivité organisationnelle.

Workplace Relations, Skills-Training and Technological Change at Plant-Level - Campbell, Adrian; Warner, Malcolm (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1988)
This paper critically looks at workplace relations, skills training and technological change and asks whether they are necessarily linked together in an inflexible way, particularly where microelectronics applications are concerned. It then goes on to argue that 'automation' can lead to the re-assembly of skills where mass-markets become differentiated at saturated levels of demand, with important implications for training-strategies.

Sports Pioneers: A History of the Finnish-Canadian Amateur Sports Federation 1906-1986 - Campbell, J. Peter (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
The article reviews the book, "Sports Pioneers: A History of the Finnish-Canadian Amateur Sports Federation 1906-1986," edited by Jim Tester, et al.

The Great Economic Debate: Failed Economics and a Future for Canada - Campbell, Robert Malcolm (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
The article reviews the book, "The Great Economic Debate: Failed Economics and a Future for Canada," by Cy Gonick.

The Knights in Fiction: Two Labor Novels of the 1880s - Carr, Graham (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
The article reviews the book, "The Knights in Fiction: Two Labor Novels of the 1880s," edited by Mary C. Grimes.

Canadian Labour Relations Under the Charter: Exploring the Implications - Carter, Donald D. (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1988)
Can legal tools used by judges and lawyers adequately deal with the public policy issues that underly any alteration of our present system of industrial relations.

A Class Act: An Illustrated History of the Labour Movement in Newfoundland and Labrador - Cherwinski, W. J. C. (Walter Joseph Carl) (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
This article reviews the book, "A Class Act: An Illustrated History of the Labour Movement in Newfoundland and Labrador," by Bill Gillespie.

Women's Work, Markets, and Economic Development in Nineteenth-Century Ontario - Cohen, Marjorie Griffin (University of Toronto Press, 1988)
In this study Marjorie Griffin Cohen argues that in research into Ontario’s economic history the emphasis on market activity has obscured the most prevalent type of productive relations in the staple-exporting economy – the patriarchal relations of production within the family economy. Cohen focuses on the productive relations in the family and the significance of women’s labour to the process of capital accumulation in both the capitalist sphere and independent commodity production. –Publisher's description
Book available at Internet Archive to people with print disabilities: https://archive.org/details/womensworkmarket00marj OCLC: 1066945817

Solidarity Forever, An Oral History of the IWW - Collomp, Catherine (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
This article reviews the book, "Solidarity Forever, An Oral History of the IWW," by Stewart Bird, Dan Georgakas, and Deborah Shaffer.
Keywords: GEORGAKAS; Dan; Nonfiction; Oral history; REVIEWS; SHAFFER; Deborah; SOLIDARITY Forever: An Oral History of the IWW (Book); books

Art and Labor: Ruskin, Morris and the Craftman Ideal in America - Cook, Ramsay (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
The article reviews the book, "Art and Labor: Ruskin, Morris and the Craftman Ideal in America," by Eileen Boris.

Working-Class Patients and the Medical Establishment, Self-help in Britain from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to 1948; The Social History of Occupational Health - Cooter, Roger (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
The article reviews two books: "Working-Class Patients and the Medical Establishment, Self-help in Britain from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to 1948," by David Green, and "The Social History of Occupational Health," edited by Paul Weindling.
Keywords: GREEN; David; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; WORKING Class Patients & the Medical Establishment: Self-Help in Britain From the Mid-19th Century to 1948 (Book); Working class; books

Une méthodologie de comparaison des salaires pour les emplois spécifiques du secteur public - Cousineau, Jean-Michel; Rabeau, Yves (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1988)
Vu qu'un grand nombre d'emplois du secteur public n'ont pas de point de comparaison dans le marche, les auteurs suggèrent une méthode de comparaison avec des professions comparable.

Native People, Native Lands: Canadian Indians, Inuit and Metis - Cox, Bruce Alden (Carleton University Press, 1988)
The changing roles of native women, devices for assimilation, the re-birth of the Metis: these are among the issues examined in this collection of provocative essays which explore the link between aboriginal culture and economic patterns. –Publisher's description. Contents: The Iroquois wars and native arms / Brian J. Given – Epidemics / Susan Johnston – Ktaqamkuk Ilnui Saqimawoutie : aboriginal rights and the myth of the micmac mercenaries in Newfoundland / Dennis Bartels – Families of mixed descent in the Western Great Lakes Region / Harriet Gorham – The significance of hunting territories today / Adrian Tanner – Waswanipi Cree management of land and wildlife: Cree ethno-ecology revisited / Harvey A. Feit – The Innu bands of Labrador / Eleanor Leacock – The home guard Cree and the Hudson's Bay Company / J.E. Foster – The Métis Nation: buffalo hunting versus agricullture in the Red River Settlement, 1810-1870 / Herman Sprenger – The Métis: genesis and rebirth / Jennifer S.H. Brown – Indian reserves in Western Canada: Indian homelands or devices for assimilation? / J.L. Tobias – Slave raiding on the North Pacific Coast / Leland Donald – Women traders in the maritime fur trade / Loraine Littlefield – Fishing is women’s business: changing economic roles of carrier women and men / Jo-Anne Fiske – The marginalization of the Tsimshian cultural ecology: the seasonal cycle / James Andrew MacDonald – Changing perceptions of the industrial development of the North / Bruce Alden Cox – Capital and economic development: a critical appraisal of the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Commission / Michael J. Asch – Survival and adaptation of the Innu ethnic identity: the importance of the Inuktituk / Jean-Philippe Chartrand – Prospects for the northern Canadian native economy / Bruce Alden Cox – Recent publications in Canadian native studies / John A. Price.
Book available at Internet Archive to people with print disabilities: https://archive.org/details/nativepeoplenati0000unse
Keywords: Canada; Canada. Eskimos; Canada. Eskimos. Indians of North America. Indians of North America; Canada. Indians of North America; Canada. Indiens d'Amrique; Canada. Inuit; Canada. Mtis; Indians of North America; Mixed descent; Mixed descent. Inuits; Mtis

Strikes in Nova Scotia 1970-1985 - Cruikshank, D. (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
This article reviews the book, "Strikes in Nova Scotia 1970-1985," edited by C. H. J. Gilson.
Keywords: GILSON; C. H. J.; Nonfiction; Nova Scotia; REVIEWS; STRIKES in Novia Scotia 1970-1985 (Book); books

A Union Member's Perspective on Technological Change - Cunningham, Bart; Hull, Dennis (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1988)
After having defined some of concerns union members have with technological change, this paper outlines the recent history of such changes in the telecommunications industry before offering a viewpoint on future responses to the issue.

L'amnistie des fautes disciplinaires - D'Aoust, Claude (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1988)
L'auteur étudie l'effet atténuant de l'écoulement du temps qui, à la limite, rend inopposable aujourd'hui une faute qu'on aurait du reprocher hier au salarie qui lui mérite une sanction.

Culture and Class in Anthropology and History: A Newfoundland Example - Davis, Susan G. (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
This article reviews the book, "Culture and Class in Anthropology and History: A Newfoundland Example," by Gerald M. Sider.
Keywords: Anthropology; CULTURE & Class in Anthropology & History: A Newfoundland Example (Book); Nonfiction; REVIEWS; SIDER; Gerald M.; books

Women's Liberation and the Dialectics of Revolution: Reaching for the Future - Delaney, Sheila (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
This article reviews the book, "Women's Liberation and the Dialectics of Revolution: Reaching for the Future," by Raya Dunayevskaya.
Keywords: KESTNER; Joseph; Nonfiction; PROTEST & Reform: The British Social Narrative by Women 1827-1867 (Book); REVIEWS; SOCIAL problems; books

Recent Acquisitions at the National Archives of Canada - DeLottinville, Peter; Lochead, Richard; Robinson, Daniel (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
Updates new or additions to existing archival resources on labour history, labour relations, and nationally significant organizations and individuals affecting the lives of working of working people that were incorporated into the National Archives since the last listing published in the journal (no. 10, Autumn 1982). A second listing by Richard Lochead and Daniel Robinson describes oral histories on labour in the National Archives' Moving Image and Sound Division. Each entry includes the subject, the participants, the production or publication for which it was intended (if applicable), and the duration.

The Tenant Movement in New York City, 1904-1984 - Doucet, Michael J. (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
The article reviews the book, "The Tenant Movement in New York City, 1904-1984," edited by Ronald Lawson.

Shifting Gears, Changing Labor Relations in the U.S. Automobile Industry - Drago, Robert (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
This article reviews the book, "Shifting Gears, Changing Labor Relations in the U.S. Automobile Industry," by Harry C. Katz.
Keywords: KESTNER; Joseph; Nonfiction; PROTEST & Reform: The British Social Narrative by Women 1827-1867 (Book); REVIEWS; SOCIAL problems; books

A Brotherhood of Memory: Jewish Landsmanshaften in the New World - Dubofsky, Melvyn (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
This article reviews the book, "A Brotherhood of Memory: Jewish Landsmanshaften in the New World," by Michael R. Weisser.
Keywords: BROTHERHOOD of Memory: Jewish Landsmanshaftn in the New World; A (Book); BROTHERHOODS; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; WEISSER; Michael R.; books

Workers and Allies : Female Participation in the American Trade Union Movement, 1824-1976 - Dumont, Micheline (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1988)
This article reviews the book, "Workers and Allies : Female Participation in the American Trade Union Movement, 1824-1976," by Judith O'Sullivan & Rosemary Gallick.

The Coalminers and Their "Red" Union: The Amalgamated Mine Workers of Nova Scotia, 1932-1936 - Earle, Michael (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
The Amalgamated Mine Workers of Nova Scotia (AMW) was a Communist-led union of coal miners that broke away from the established United Mine Workers of America (UMW) in the early depression years, at a time when only Communists called for trade-union militance. The new union adopted principles of extreme rank-and-file democracy and radical resistance to company demands for wage cuts. It held the allegiance of the majority of miners in the province for several years, but its rival, the UMW, was supported by the coal company and the government. Moreover, the AMW never carried out its threats of a district strike to win recognition. After several years of the dual union situation, the miners saw the necessity of unity in confrontations with the company. In addition, the UMW was resurgent in the United States and had begun to take a more militant stance. Finally, changes in the policy of the Communist Party caused it to press for reunification. In rejoining the UMW, however, the miners were obliged to surrender many of their aspirations for district autonomy and inner-union democracy.

E.C. Drury: Agrarian Idealist - English, John (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
The article reviews the book, "E. C. Drury: Agrarian Idealist," by Charles M. Johnston.

Prophetic Sons and Daughters: Female Preaching and Popular Religion in Industrial England; Independent Spirits: Spiritualism and English Plebeians, 1850-19 - Epstein, James (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
The article reviews two books: "Prophetic Sons and Daughters: Female Preaching and Popular Religion in Industrial England," by Deborah M. Valenze, and "Independent Spirits: Spiritualism and English Plebeians, 1850-1960," by Logie Barrow.

American Labour's Longue Durée: Class Conflicts (and the lack of them) in Cincinnati - Fink, Leon (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
The article reviews and comments on "Workers on the Edge: Work, Leisure, and Politics in industrializing Cincinnati, 1788-1890," by Steven J. Ross.
Keywords: Nonfiction; REVIEWS; ROSS; Steven J.; Social conflict; WORKERS on the Edge: Work; Leisure & Politics in Industrializing Cincinnati; 1788-1890 (Book); books

The Cold War, Alberta Labour, and the Social Credit Regime - Finkel, Alvin (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
In the period following World War II, Alberta's Social Credit government passed several pieces of restrictive legislation which limited labour's ability to organize workers and to call strikes. The enforcement of labour law also reflected an anti-union bias. This article argues that Social Crediters, who had a penchant for conspiracy theories, believed that union militancy was the product of the manoeuverings of an international communist conspiracy. Their labour legislation was intended to foil the conspiracy's plans in Alberta and incidentally to reassure potential investors, particularly in the oil patch, of a good climate for profit-taking. But the path for such legislation was made smoother by the conservatism of one wing of the labour movement in the province and the fear of being tarnished with the communist brush by the other wing. On the whole, the Alberta experience casts a grim reflection on the theory that the post-war period provided a measure of industrial democracy for Canadian workers.
Keywords: Alberta; COLD War; 1945-1989; LABOR laws & legislation; LABOUR/LE Travail (Book); Labor; SOCIAL credit

Labour Law and Union Growth: The Case of Ontario - Forrest, Anne (University of Warwick, 1988)
What role the law should play in encouraging the growth of trade unions is a matter of considerable controversy in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Limits to growth in other sectors of the economy coupled with heightened employer hostility to unionism have made the extension of collective bargaining to the tertiary sector the most pressing task for unions in the 1980s. In a limited way, the Canadian procedure for certifying and recognizing unions is being considered as a model for labour law reform. And there is much to recommend the Canadian system. It is far more efficient than its American counterpart. There are fewer delays, fewer unlawful interventions by employers, and a substantially higher likelihood that newly organized unions will be granted certification. Even so, unions have failed to break into the trade, finance, and services industries that are so critical to their future. Taken as a whole, Canadian labour law tends to block rather than promote the growth of unions in the unorganized sectors of the economy. The certification procedure is only one aspect of a legal regime that has as its primary purpose the preservation of industrial peace, not the encouragement of union growth. By shaping bargaining structure and regulating bargaining tactics, Canadian labour law tilts the balance of power in favour of employers. Small, fragmented unions are frequently pitted against large corporations and as there is nothing to stop antiunion employers from using their overwhelming strength to frustrate the collective bargaining process, efforts to organize the tertiary sector have failed.

Strikes in Nova Scotia, 1970-1985 - Frank, David (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1988)
This article reviews the book, "Strikes in Nova Scotia, 1970-1985," by C.H.J. Gilson.

The Country of Coal - Frank, David (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
The article reviews and comments on "British Coalminers in the Nineteenth Century: A Social History," by John Benson, "Independent Collier: The Coal Miner as Archetypal Proletarian Reconsidered," edited by Royden Harrison, "Keir Hardie: The Making of a Socialist," by Fred Reid, "By the Sweat of their Brow: Womee Workers at Victorian Coal Mines," by Angela John, "Work Relations in the Coal Industry: The Hand-Loading Era, 1880-1930," by Keith Dix, "The Miner's Freedom: A Study of the Working Life in a Changing Industry," by Carter Goodrich, "Life, Work, and Rebellion in the Coal Fields: The Southern West Virginia Miners, ,1880-1922," by David Corbin, and "Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence and Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley," by John Gaventa.
Keywords: BENSON; John; BRITISH Coalminers in the 19th Century: A Social History (Book); BY the Sweat of Their Brow: Women Workers at Victorian Coal Mines (Book); HARRISON; Royden; INDEPENDENT Collier: The Coal Miner As Archetypal Proletarian Reconsidered (Book); JOHN; Angela; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; books

Industrial Relations and New Technology - Fréchet, Guy (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1988)
This article reviews the book, "Industrial Relations and New Technology," by Annette Davies.

Worker Participation in Canada: Some Lessons from the Past - Fricke, John G. (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1988)
The author examines how the participation scheme proposed by the Royal Commission on the Economie Union and Development Prospects for Canada (Macdonald Commission) can be made viable and enduring.

Voluntarism and Compulsion: The Canadian Federal Government's Intervention in Collective Bargaining from 1900 to 1946 - Fudge, Judith (University of Oxford, 1988)
In February 1944 the Canadian federal government introduced Order in Council PC 1003, a system of compulsory collective bargaining which has been conventionally characterized as the culmination of the gradual evolution in federal labour relations policy towards the greater recognition of trade unions and collective bargaining. The issue addressed in this thesis is whether this characterization is accurate. As against the tendency to present federal intervention in collective bargaining as having developed towards some inevitable maturity, the account presented herein seeks to draw attention to the suppressed alternatives of history. Thus, the thesis begins with an examination of PC 1003'S historical antecedents dating back to 1900. This is followed by an examination of the developments during the Second World War. Instead of concentrating upon federal collective bargaining policy as a means of responding to wartime pressures by establishing a mechanism for mediating and resolving disputes between labour and capital, the thesis emphasizes the extent to which the policy was part of the large post-war settlement. By ignoring this, the conventional account has failed to provide any guidance for understanding either the actual provisions wheich were introduced or the longevity of PC 1003 as the dominant institutional model for Canadian labour relations. By contrast, if PC 1003 is understood as part of an attempt to forge a post-war settlement between labour and capital it is possible to identify the general thrust of the Order. Although it represented a fundamental shift in Canadian labour policy in that employers were compelled to recognize unions for the purpose of collective agreements, PC 1003 did not radically alter the balance of power to make it easier to organize or constrain managerial prerogatives. In fact, PC 1003 was consistent with the federal government's historical preoccupation with promoting responsible unions and attaining industrial peace and stability.

Marxism, Wars and Revolutions: Essays From Four Decades - Gabbert, Mark A. (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
This article reviews the book, "Marxism, Wars and Revolutions: Essays From Four Decades," by Isaac Deutscher.
Keywords: KESTNER; Joseph; Nonfiction; PROTEST & Reform: The British Social Narrative by Women 1827-1867 (Book); REVIEWS; SOCIAL problems; books

Poor Labouring Men: Rural Radicalism in Norfolk, 1870-1923 - Gaffield, Chad (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
The article reviews the book, "Poor Labouring Men: Rural Radicalism in Norfolk, 1870-1923," by Alun Howkins.

The Economy of British America, 1607-1789 - Gallay, Alan (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
This article reviews the book, "The Economy of British America, 1607-1789," by John J. McCusker & Russell R. Menard.
Keywords: ECONOMY of British America 1607-1789; The (Book); Economic history; MCCUSKER; John J.; MENARD; Russell R.; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; books

Changements dans les législations du travail au Canada - Gauvin, Michel; Brennan, Geoffrey (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1988)
Changements dans les legislations du travail au Canada.

Double Day, Double Burden: Women in the Garment Industry - Ghorayshi, Parvin (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
This article reviews the book, "Double Day, Double Burden: Women in the Garment Industry," by Charlene Gannagé.
Keywords: DOUBLE Day; Double Burden: Women in the Garment Industry (Book); GANNAGE; Charlene; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; Women employees; books

Strikes in Essential Services - Giles, Anthony (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1988)
This article reviews the book, "Strikes in Essential Services," by Gillian S. Morris.

The Social Foundations of Industrial Power : A Comparison of France and Germany ; International and Comparative Industrial Relations - Giles, Anthony (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1988)
This article reviews the book, "The Social Foundations of Industrial Power : A Comparison of France and Germany," by Marc Maurice, François Sellier & Jean-Jacques Silvestre. This article reviews the book, "International and Comparative Industrial Relations," by Greg J. Bamber & Russell D. Lansbury.

Comment - Gonick, Cy (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
Replies to Gilbert Levine's "Relations Between Unions and Universities in Research" published in the same issue. Argues that Levine's criticism is partly misplaced, i.e., that unions are excessively focussed on the here-and-now, that they want propaganda in place of analysis, that they lack the staff to evaluate the research being done, and that they do not know how to properly take advantage of researchers. Concludes that unions' preoccupation with social democratic politics leads them to reject explanations and lines of reasoning that cannot easily be accommodated by the status quo, and that union leaders must address the issue for an academic-labour rapprochement to occur. See also the article, "Academic Research on Labour: Strengthening Union-University Links," by Pradeep Kumar, published in the journal (no. 25, Spring 1990).
Keywords: Criticism; EDUCATION – Research; LABOR unions & education; LABOUR/LE Travail (Book); LEVINE; Gilbert

Feminism: Some Recent Canadian Contributions - Gorham, Deborah (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
The article reviews and comments on "The Politics of Diversity: Feminism, Marxism and Nationalism" (1986), edited by Robert Hamilton and Michéle Barrett, and Mariana Valverde's "Sex, Power and Pleasure" (1985).

Historical Atlas of Canada - Greer, Allan (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
The article reviews the book, "Historical Atlas of Canada: From the Beginning to 1800," edited by R. Cole Harris.

You Are What You Eat (what the restaurant had for dinner) [Work Poem] - Grierson, Al (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
Presents seven poems by Al Grierson published in the Work Poetry section of the journal: "You Are What You Eat (what the restaurant had for dinner)," "Slapstick," "It's All Our Fault," "Lunchroom Poem at the Millwork Plant," "Coon Hunting on the Afternoon Shift, "sticker crew," and "Michelle."

Une analyse des comportements de travailleurs masculins et féminins selon deux formes d'absence au travail - Haccoun, Robert R.; Dupont, Serge (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1988)
Les auteurs utilisent des données provenant d'entrevues afin de décrire les activités hors-travail d'un échantillon d'employés d'hôpital lors de journées passées à l'extérieur du travail.

The Political Apparatuses of Production: Generation and Resolution of Industrial Conflict in Canada and Britain - Haiven, Larry (University of Warwick, 1988)
This study explores the subject of cross-national variations in industrial conflict, looking specifically at a 'matched set' of factories in Canada and Britain. The comparison between these two countries is intriguing. Since 1943, Canadian governments have sought to regulate industrial conflict by a distinct formula whose three pillars are a) legally enforceable collective agreements meant to circumscribe disputable issues, b) the outlawing of strikes during the term of the collective agreement, and c) the substitution, for industrial action, of a well-defined grievance and arbitration procedure to settle the disputable issues arising during that term. Dispute resolution is formal, collective agreements are comprehensive and arbitral jurisprudence is encyclopaedic. In Britain, on the other hand, dispute resolution has been left almost entirely to the parties themselves. Collective agreements are not enforceable and sketch the barest details of co-regulation. An ill-defined body of 'custom and practice' still governs in most day-to-day disputes. Strikes are legally possible for all groups of employees at any time on any issue related to the workplace. And arbitration, though available, is voluntary and widely shunned by both parties. Dispute resolution is highly informal. While one might, from this comparison, predict a higher level of strike activity in Britain, Canada has equalled or surpassed Britain over the past twenty-five years in industrial conflict. Why might this be so? The study reviews several sets of theories on cross-national variations in industrial conflict and finds that the Canada-Britain comparison does not fit any of them. Suggesting a synthesis of the "institutional" and "political economy” theoretical approaches, it proposes to concentrate on the political struggle over production at the shop floor in a "politics of production" approach. Defining four "political apparatuses of production" (interests, rights, adjustments and enforcements), the study examines how these "microinstitutions" for conflict-handling articulate with three key loci on the frontier of control where conflict can erupt (discipline, the structuring of the internal labour market and job control). Through the use of intensive interviews in four workplaces (two in each country) in the brewing and aluminium fabrication industries and the analysis of general data on industrial relations in the two countries, the analytical framework is applied to examine the generation and resolution of industrial conflict.

Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York - Hamilton, Marybeth (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
This article reviews the book, "Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York," by Kathy Peiss.
Keywords: CHEAP Amusements: Working Women & Leisure in Turn-Of-The-Century New York (Book); Nonfiction; PEISS; Kathy; REVIEWS; Women employees; books

Women and Work in Pre-Industrial England - Hamilton, Roberta (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
This article reviews the book, "Women and Work in Pre-Industrial England," edited by Lindsey Charles and Lorna Duffin.
Keywords: DUFFIN; Lorna; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; WOMEN & Work in Pre-Industrial England (Book); Women employees; books

Black Labor on a White Canal: Panama, 1904-1981 - Handy, Jim (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
This article reviews the book, "Black Labor on a White Canal: Panama, 1904-1981," by Michael L. Conniff.
Keywords: KESTNER; Joseph; Nonfiction; PROTEST & Reform: The British Social Narrative by Women 1827-1867 (Book); REVIEWS; SOCIAL problems; books

On the Job: Confronting the Labour Process in Canada - Heron, Craig; Storey, Robert H.; Steedman, Mercedes; Frank, David; Foster, John Bellamy; Lowe, Graham S.; Reiter, Ester; Radforth, Ian; Strong-Boag, Veronica; Kealey, Gregory S.; Craven, Paul; Traves, Tom; et al. (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1988)
Every day millions of Canadians go out to work. They labour in factories, offices, restaurants, and retail stores, on ships, and deep in mines. And every day millions of other Canadians, mostly women, begin work in their homes, performing the many tasks that ensure the well-being of their families and ultimately, the reproduction of the paid labour force. Yet, for all its undoubted importance, there has been remarkably little systematic research into the past and present dynamics of the world of work in Canada. The essays in this volume enhance our understanding of Canadians on the job. Focusing on specific industries and kinds of work, from logging and longshoring to restaurant work and the needle trades, the contributors consider such issues as job skill, mass production, and the transformation of resource industries. They raise questions about how particular jobs are structured and changed over time, the role of workers' resistance and trade unions in shaping the lives of workers, and the impact of technology. Together these essays clarify a fundamental characteristic shared by all labour processes: they are shaped and conditioned by the social, economic, and political struggles of labour and capital both inside and outside the workplace. They argue that technological change, as well as all the transformations in the workplace, must become a social process that we all control. –Publisher's description
Available at Internet Archive to readers with print disabilities: https://archive.org/details/isbn_0773505997

Proletarianization and Family History - Hilden, Patricia (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
This article reviews the book, "Proletarianization and Family History," edited by David Levine.
Keywords: LEVINE; David; 1946-; Nonfiction; PROLETARIANIZATION & Family History (Book); Proletarianization; REVIEWS; books

An Index to the Publications of the Committee on Canadian Labour History, 1986 - Hong, Robert (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)

A Study of the Point St. Charles Shops of the Grand Trunk Railway in Montreal, 1880-1917 - Hoskins, Ralph F. H. (McGill University, 1988)
This study concentrates on the choice of the site for the railway's Montreal terminus (and shops) in 1853, and on analyzing the shops' payrolls for the period 1880-1917. The most important findings are: [1.] The site chosen at the head of the Victoria Bridge was farm land purchased from four religious communities. It had been recommended in 1852 in an independent report based largely on its proximity to the water which would permit easy trans-shipment between rail and water transport. [2.] The Shops were divided into the Motive Power and Car Departments; the former being mainly a metal-working area with anglophones strongly predominating, the latter a wood-working area with francophones predominating (from 1902 onwards). [3.] Working hours in the Shops generally amounted to 7 1/2 to 9 hours per day or to 45 to 55 hours per week. The skilled metal workers usually earned more than the skilled woodworkers. [4.] The majority of the workers, including 90% of the anglophones, lived within two miles (3.2 km) of the Shops. Early in the period, 82% of the fraancophones did likewise but, by l9l7, this had dropped to 55%.
OCLC: 18982173
Keywords: Academic theses; Thèses et écrits académiques; dissertations

Understanding Technological Change - Hull, James P. (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
The article reviews the book, "Understanding Technological Change," by Chris De Bresson, with Jim Petersen.

The Origins of Patriarchy: Gender and Class in the Ancient World - Hunter, Virginia (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
The article reviews and comments on "The Creation of Patriarchy," by Gerda Lerner, and "Women's Work, Men's Property. The Origins of Gender and Class," edited by Stephanie Coontz and Peta Henderson.

Overcoming the Inevitable: Restricting Child Factory Labour In Late Nineteenth Century Ontario - Hurl, Lorna F. (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
This paper investigates the changing experience of child factory labour in late 19th and early 20th century Ontario. It explores the largely accepted, though untested assumptions that restrictive legislation (the Ontario Factory Act of 1884) was achieved at the behest of middle and upper-class social reformers whose concern was motivated by a new concept of childhood. The evidence provided reveals that, contrary to historical myth, organized labour was the motivating force behind the anti-child labour legislation. It also indicates that, once proclaimed, the legislation was poorly monitored and enforced and, as such, was largely ineffective in curtailing the practice of child labour. Despite this, however, the paper provides evidence to show that child factory labour did decline significantly after the mid-1890s. The explanation offered is essentially one of changes in the demand for and the supply of child labor. That is, the centralization and accumulation of industrial capital in concert with technological advances in production restricted opportunities for child factory labor. At the same time, improvements in workers' standards of living reduced the need for families to send children to work. The study does not deny the importance of the changing concept of childhood in curtailing child labour. However, rather than being afforded primacy, the new views of childhood are seen as part of the social backdrop which made employers of children subject to criticism and adult workers desirous of protecting children's 'tender years'.
Keywords: Child labor; LABOR laws & legislation; LABOUR/LE Travail (Book); Labor movement; Ontario

Trade Unions and Politics - Hyman, Richard (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
This article reviews the book, "Trade Unions and Politics," by Ken Coates and Tony Topham.
Keywords: COATES; Ken; Labor Unions; Nonfiction; REVIEWS; TOPHAM; Tony; TRADE Unions & Politics (Book); books

Keeping Left? CERES and the French Socialist Party - Judt, Tony (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
The article reviews the book, "Keeping Left? CERES and the French Socialist Party," by David Hanley.

Temps supplémentaire et création d'emplois: le cas du Canada, du Québec et de l'Ontario - Kamel, Nawal; Roy, Paul-Martel (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1988)
Après avoir résumé la problématique et la réglementation du temps supplémentaire au Québec, au Canada et dans d'autres pays, les auteurs présentent le phénomène du temps supplémentaire dans l'ensemble des branches d'activité au Canada, au Québec et en Ontario pour la période allant de 1975 à 1984.

The Access to Information Act: A 1988 Review - Kaplan, William (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
Reviews and comments on judicial interpretations of the federal Access to Information Act of 1984, including third party applications, exemption cases, personal information cases, procedural cases (the journal's editor and a journalist were involved in this case, which was decided in favour of CSIS), and user fees, deemed refusals [i.e., delays in processing a request], and other issues. Concludes that, overall, the courts have failed to give full effect to the legislation. Also notes that the government ignored the recommendations of a parliamentary standing committee for amendments.

The Hawk's Nest Incident: America's Worst Industrial Disaster - Kazin, Michael (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
The article reviews the book, "The Hawk's Nest Incident: America's Worst Industrial Disaster," by Martin Cherniak.

Class, Gender, and Region: Essays in Canadian Historical Sociology - Kealey, Gregory S. (Committee on Canadian Labour History, 1988)
The essays are gathered around two themes: the relationship of sociology and social history, and the intersection of gender, ethnicity, and region with class. Unlike most Canadian essay collections, the contributors and their subjects cover Canada from British Columbia to Newfoundland, with forays into Cape Breton and central Canada. The volume contains articles by Ian McKay, Gordon Darroch, James R. Conley, Alicja Muszynski, Gillian Creese, and Jim Overton. An interesting collection of some of the new work being done in Canada by historians and sociologists, Class, Gender, and Region reflects Charles Tilly’s suggestion that “there should be no disciplinary division of labour: simply both doing social history.” –Publisher's description (Athabasca University Press) Contents: Introduction / Gregory S. Kealey – The crisis of dependent development: class conflict in the Nova Scotia coalfields, 1872-1876 / Ian McKay –Class in nineteenth-century, central Ontario: a reassessment of the crisis and demise of small producers during early industrialization, 1861-1871 /Gordon Darroch – “More theory, less fact?” Social reproduction and class conflict in a sociological approach to working-class history / James R. Conley – Race and gender: structural determinants in the formation of British Columbia’s salmon cannery labour force / Alicja Muszynski – The politics of dependence: women, work, and unemployment in the Vancouver labour movement before World War II / Gillian Creese – Public relief and social unrest in Newfoundland in the 1930s: an evaluation of the ideas of Piven and Cloward / James Overton.
https://www.aupress.ca/books/cclh03-class-gender-and-region/
Keywords: Historical sociology

Class, Gender, and Region: Essays in Canadian Historical Sociology - Kealey, Gregory S.; Committee on Canadian Labour History (Committee on Canadian Labour History, 1988)
The essays are gathered around two themes: the relationship of sociology and social history, and the intersection of gender, ethnicity, and region with class. Unlike most Canadian essay collections, the contributors and their subjects cover Canada from British Columbia to Newfoundland, with forays into Cape Breton and central Canada. The volume contains articles by Ian McKay, Gordon Darroch, James R. Conley, Alicja Muszynski, Gillian Creese, and Jim Overton. An interesting collection of some of the new work being done in Canada by historians and sociologists, Class, Gender, and Region reflects Charles Tilly's suggestion that "there should be no disciplinary division of labour: simply both doing social history." –Publisher's description
https://archive.org/details/classgenderregio0000unse
Keywords: Canada; Classes sociales; Conditions sociales; Historical sociology; Regionalism; Régionalisme; Social classes; Social conditions; Sociologie historique

Editor's Note = Note du directeur [21, Spring 1988] - Kealey, Gregory S. (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
The editor reports on the Notebook section introduced in the previous issue as well as the interdisciplinary coverage of labour. The forthcoming issue will launch an annual review of Access to Information legislation, while issue 23 will update on archival and bibliographic resources for the study of labour.

Editor's Note = Note du directeur [22, Fall 1988] - Kealey, Gregory S. (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
Expresses appreciation to three departing editorial board members, in particular André LeBlanc. Notes the introduction of a new section on access to information and the return of the section on labour accessions at the National Archives. Publication of the updated Canadian labour bibliography is deferred until a later issue. The editor apologizes and notes the correction to be made on p. 145 of Alvin Finkel's article [The Cold War, Alberta Labour, and the Social Credit Regime] in the previous issue.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the Public Archives of Canada, and Access to Information: A Curious Tale - Kealey, Gregory S. (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
Keywords: Canada; Intelligence service; LABOUR/LE Travail (Book); PUBLIC Archives of Canada; ROYAL Canadian Mounted Police; WORKING papers

Mediation as a Conflict-Solving Device in Collective Industrial Disputes - Keller, Berndt (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1988)
This paper is an attempt to schematize and survey those recent efforts of industrial relationists and labor economists to examine mediation within an inter-disciplinary framework.

Communist Resistance in Nazi Germany - Kitchen, Martin (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
The article reviews the book, "Communist Resistance in Nazi Germany," by Allan Merson.

Solidarity and Fragmentation: Working People and Class Consciousness in Detroit, 1875-1900 - Krause, Paul (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
The article reviews the book, "Solidarity and Fragmentation: Working People and Class Consciousness in Detroit, 1875-1900," by Richard Jules Oestreicher.

Estimates of Unionism and Collective Bargaining in Canada - Kumar, Pradeep (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1988)
This paper presents new estimates of unionization and collective bargaining coverage for Canada from a special Statistics Canada household survey conducted in December 1984. The new estimates are comparee with the old estimates.

Les nouvelles lois du travail et l'activité de grève - Lacroix, Robert; Lespérance, André (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1988)
Les auteurs évaluent l'effet de deux types de lois du travail sur l'activité de grève, à savoir celles visant à réduire telle activité et d'autres qui ne cherchent pas à la reduire mais qui peuvent l'affecter indirectement par leur incidence sur les rapports de force syndical-patronal.

Accident du travail et modernisation du processus de production: le cas de l'industrie forestière québécoise - Laflamme, Lucie; Vinet, Alain (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1988)
Réalisée dans l'industrie forestière, cette étude traite des effets de la mécanisation de l'abattage et de l'ébranchage sur la fréquence et la gravite des accidents du travail ainsi que sur les conditions dans lesquelles ceux-ci se produisent.

Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars - Lamarre, Jean (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
The article reviews the book, "Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars," by Elizabeth Ewen.

The New Democrats, 1961-1986: The Politics of Change - Lamoureux, André (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
The article reviews the book, "The New Democrats 1961-1986: The Politics of Change," by Desmond Morton.

The Fire-Dwellers - Laurence, Margaret (McClelland and Stewart, 1988)
Stacey MacAindra burns – to burst through the shadows of her existence to a richer life, to recover some of the passion she can only dimly remember from her past. The Fire-Dwellers is an extraordinary novel about a woman who has four children, a hard-working but uncommunicative husband, a spinster sister, and an abiding conviction that life has more to offer her than the tedious routine of her days. Margaret Laurence has given us another unforgettable heroine – human, compelling, full of poetry, irony and humour. In the telling of her life, Stacey rediscovers for us all the richness of the commonplace, the pain and beauty in being alive, and the secret music that dances in everyone’s soul. –Publisher's description
Keywords: Canada; Class Consciousness; Fiction; Pink-collar work; Social Class and Equality; Women

Winning the Second Battle: Canadian Veterans and the Return to Civilian Life 1915-1930 - Lees, Elizabeth (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
The article reviews the book, "Winning the Second Battle: Canadian Veterans and the Return to Civilian Life, 1915-1930," by Desmond Morton and Glenn Wright.

Notebook [21, Spring 1988] - Leier, Mark (James Mark) (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
The call for papers at several conferences is reported, as are other forthcoming conferences of interest. The spring issue (no. 27) of Archivaria will be on documenting labour. A new program in social history at Carnegie Mellon University is noted. The John Dryer Collection at Wayne State University has opened; it has one of the premier archival collections on American Trotskyism.

Notebook [22, Fall 1988] - Leier, Mark (James Mark) (Labour / Le Travail, 1988)
Takes note of calls for papers and a forthcoming conference. Reports on an addition to Wayne State University's Raya Dunayevskaya Collection, the effort to set up an international research network on coal miners and coal mines, and the Women's Labour History Project documentary entitled "Keep the Home Fires Burning." The spring 1989 edition of Archivaria will have a labour theme.

Public Service Labour Relations : Recent Trends and Future Prospects - Lemelin, Maurice (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1988)
This article reviews the book, "Public Service Labour Relations : Recent Trends and Future Prospects," by Treu Tiziano et al.