Index, Volume 41 (Spring/Printemps 1998) (Labour/Le Travail, 1998)

Project: Remembering the Mac-Paps (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
Fund-raising appeal by the Association of Veterans and Friends of the MacKenzie-Papineau Battalion, in co-operation with the British Columbia Federation of Labour and the provincial government, in order to erect a monument to the BC veterans of the Mac-Paps and the International Brigades.

Lesbian Motherhood: An Exploration of Canadian Lesbian Families - Adams, Mary Louise (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Lesbian Motherhood: An Exploration of Canadian Lesbian Families," by Fiona Nelson.

Land and Freedom - Armstrong, Lawin (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews and comments on the film, "Land and Freedom" (1995), directed by Ken Loach, with screenplay by Jim Allen. Concludes that this portrayal of the Spanish Civil War - in which idealistic volunteers including the central character - a young, unemployed, working-class communist from Liverpool - are betrayed by the Stalinists - deserves "five red stars" as cinema, history, and politics.

Le stratège du XXIe siècle : vers une organisation apprenante - Barrette, Jacques (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Le stratège du XXIe siècle : vers une organisation apprenante," by Pierre Dionne and Jean Roger.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Corporate culture; Knowledge economy; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Nouvelles formes d'organisation du travail - Bélanger, Laurent (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Nouvelles formes d'organisation du travail," edited Michel Grant, Paul R. Bélanger and Benoît Lévesque,
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; work

On a Cold Road: Tales of Adventure in Canadian Rock - Bidini, Dave. (Penguin Random House Canada, 1998)
Dave Bidini, rhythm guitarist with the Rheostatics, knows all too well what the life of a rock band in Canada involves: storied arenas one tour and bars wallpapered with photos of forgotten bands the next. Zit-speckled fans begging for a guitar pick and angry drunks chucking twenty-sixers and pint glasses. Opulent tour buses riding through apocalyptic snowstorms and cramped vans that reek of dope and beer. Brilliant performances and heart-sinking break-ups. Bidini has played all across the country many times, in venues as far flung and unalike as Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto and the Royal Albert Hotel in Winnipeg. In 1996, when the Rheostatics opened for the Tragically Hip on their Trouble at the Henhouse tour, Bindini kept a diary. In On a Cold Road he weaves his colourful tales about that tour with revealing and hilarious anecdotes from the pioneers of Canadian rock - including BTO, Goddo, the Stampeders, Max Webster, Crowbar, the Guess Who, Triumph, Trooper, Bruce Cockburn, Gale Garnett, and Tommy Chong - whom Bindini later interviewed in an effort to compare their experiences with his. The result is an original, vivid, and unforgettable picture of what is has meant, for the last forty years, to be a rock musician in Canada. –Publisher's description
https://archive.org/details/oncoldroadtaleso00bidi
Keywords: Blue-collar work; Drinking; Memoir; Musician; Rock Band Music; Toronto (Ont.); White-collar work; Winnipeg

Technology, Globalisation and Economic Performance - Boucher, Lysette (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Technology, Globalisation and Economic Performance," edited by Daniele Archibugi and Jonathan Mitchie.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Economic impact; Globalization; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Technology

Contexte organisationnel et efficacité de la procédure de règlement des griefs : Résultats d'une étude empirique au Québec - Bourque, Reynald; Bergeron, Jean-Guy; Grant, Michel; White, Frank (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
Le présent article analyse l’efficacité de la procédure de règlement de 1 148 griefs dans neuf municipalités et huit hôtels de la région de Montréal pendant la période d’application de leurs deux dernières conventions collectives. Un bon climat de relations industrielles entre les parties et l’amélioration de ce climat d’une convention collective à l’autre diminuent de façon significative le délai nécessaire pour régler un grief sans que le règlement se fasse à une étape antérieure de la procédure. L’expérience du chef de service accélère le règlement du grief alors que l’expérience du délégué syndical le ralentit. Par contre, certaines caractéristiques de l’emploi, notamment le statut et le quart de travail, influencent à la fois le délai et l’étape du règlement. L’effet sur l’efficacité de la procédure de règlement des griefs d’autres caractéristiques comme l’origine ethnique du plaignant, le type et l’objet du grief sont aussi examinés.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Grievance procedures; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

APEC: No Place for Labour - Bowles, Paul (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
Critiques the trade-and-investment agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic Co-operation summit held in Vancouver in November 1997.

Assis ou debout ? Réflexions sur l'implantation de l'organisation modulaire de travail dans le vêtement - Brossard, Michel (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
Une recherche récente réalisée par John T. Dunlop et David Weil montre que les entreprises du vêtement sont peu nombreuses à avoir réussi à implanter l’organisation modulaire de travail et que pour y arriver, elles adoptent une stratégie d’ensemble comprenant trois étapes importantes. Comme les exigences de la variante la plus poussée de cette nouvelle forme d’organisation du travail sont élevées, cet article propose d’introduire une étape préparatoire supplémentaire dans le processus pour en augmenter la diffusiion.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Clothing industry; Labor Unions; Management; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Teamwork

The Business Records of the Ford Motor Company of Canada Ltd., 1897-1971 - Burr, Christina (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
Describes the business records of the Ford Motor Company of Canada that were deposited at the University of Windsor Archives in fall 1997, and their value for research on labour and work history.

CLR James: A Political Biography - Camfield, David (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "CLR James: A Political Biography," by Kent Worcester.

The Cult of Spontaneity: Finnish-Canadian Bushworkers and the Industrial Workers of the World in Northern Ontario, 1919-1934 - Campbell, J. Peter (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
In the 1920s and early 1930s the Industrial Workers of the World were a force to be reckoned with among Finnish bushworkers in northern Ontario. Although the Lumber Workers Industrial Union no. 120, affiliated with the Industrial Workers of the World, was smaller than its rival, the Lumber Workers Industrial Union of Canada, affiliated with the Communist Party, the Wobbly union played a major role in bushworker strikes in the mid-1920s and early 1930s. Committed to anti-authoritarianism, decentralization, and rank-and-file initiative, Finnish Wobbly bushworkers were part of an ethnic-based working-class culture in which the economic struggles of the bushworkers were made possible by the tireless work of Finnish Wobbly women, who were the backbone of Wobbly social, cultural, and organizational life in urban centres like Port Arthur. In a 20th century dominated by bureaucracy, legality, and state-directed social programs, the Finnish Wobblies of northern Ontario leave a legacy of dedication to self-education and self-activity in an age so often identified with the demise of the Wobblies and the victory of mass culture.

Organizing to Win: New Research on Union Strategies - Chaison, Gary N. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Organizing to Win: New Research on Union Strategies," edited by Kate Bronfenbrenner, Sheldon Friedman, Richard W. Hurd, Rudolph A. Oswald and Ronald L. Seeber.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Membership drives; Organizational structure; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Globalization, Work and Industrial Relations - Chaykowski, Richard P.; Giles, Anthony (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
Since the early 1980s, the worldwide expansion of product and capital markets has been cited as one of the singlemost significant factors driving the transformation of economic and social relations, both in industrialized countries as well as in the developing countries. Much of this process of economic transformation has been generated as a result of the conjunction of a set of changes in several mutually reinforcing, yet endogenous, factors. Policy makers could once meaningfully refer to an industrial relations system as being defined primarily at the level of a national or sub-national government jurisdiction. While researchers and policy makers still refer to the notion of an industrial relations system, the process of internationalization has clearly begun to erode the relevance of this concept at least in the sense of its traditional meaning.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Changes; Globalization; International; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

After Lean Production: Evolving Employment Practices in the World Auto Industry - Clarke, Louise (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "After Lean Production: Evolving Employment Practices in the World Auto Industry," edited by Thomas A. Kochran, Russell D. Lansbury and John Paul MacDuffie.
Keywords: AUTOMOBILE industry; Automobile production; Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employment practices; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Speech - Cohen, Marjorie Griffin (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The following excerpt is taken from a public lecture given by Marjorie Griffen Cohen, Professor of Economics and Chair of Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University (SFU), entitled "Economic Fundamentalism and its Threat to Democracy."The address, part of the 1998 President's Lecture series at SFU, examined the ascendency of neoliberalism — "economic fundamentalism"— in the post-World War II period and its impact on the political, economic, and social institutions that "supported the ideas of equality and democracy in industrialized countries." In this passage, Cohen sketches a "political approach" to countering the erosion of the welfare state and what she calls the "marketization" of social and economic life. –Editor's introduction

Mechanomorphosis: Science, Management, and "Human Machinery" in Industrial Canada, 1900-45 - Comacchio, Cynthia (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
By the early 20th century, the changes taking place in western industrial capitalist nations prompted an adaptive shift in the socioeconomic delineation of human bodies, and in scientific theories about how they worked and how they could be put to work. Just as the rising social sciences borrowed from medicine to convey images of social malaise, medicine increasingly appropriated an industrial vocabulary to conceptualize bodily health. Depicted variously as a machine, a motor, a factory in itself, the human body absorbed industrial symbolism. Modem industry demanded an intensification of labour that made bodily efficiency paramount. The corresponding definition of health also shifted, from emphasis on physical endurance, which could be secured by simple replacement of outworn workers, to optimum labour efficiency, which had to be actively instilled in all workers, present and future. Scientific management programs were easily integrated with regulatory medical notions concerning the human body and human nature, as science, medicine and technology combined forces to promote a machine ethic that equated modernity, progress, efficiency, and national health. This paper considers the relationship between changing conceptualizations of the human body, developing medical influence and state regulation of health, and attempts to "Taylorize" the labour process in early 20th century Canada.

Forging Business-Labour Partnerships: The Emergence of Sector Councils in Canada - Cournoyer, Michel (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Forging Business-Labour Partnerships : The Emergence of Sector Councils in Canada," edited by Morley Gunderson and Andrew Sharpe.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Formations of Class & Gender - Creese, Gillian (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Formations of Class & Gender," by Beverley Skeggs.

Unions and Workplace Reorganization - Dabscheck, Braham (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Unions and Workplace Reorganization," edited by Bruce Nissen.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Organizational change; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Working conditions

Un métier et une vocation. Le travail des religieuses au Québec de 1901 à 1971 - Daigle, Johanne (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Un métier et une vocation. Le travail des religieuses au Québec de 1901 à 1971," by Danielle Juteau and Nicole Laurin.

The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945 - Danysk, Cecilia (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "The Fruits of Their Labor: Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Poverty, 1870-1945," by Cindy Hahamovitch.

Anti-Racism and the Organized Labour Movement - Das Gupta, Tania (Racism and Social Inequality in Canada: Concepts, Controversies, and Strategies of Resistance, 1998)
Until the 1960s, racism was a fairly blatant aspect of Canadian society. Racism played an obvious role in shaping individual attitudes, state policies and institutional arrangements in the economy, the political system and civil society. But to what extent does racism continue to inform and structure how our institutions operate today, what is the social meaning of race in contemporary Canadian society, and what is the most effective way to combat racism in all its forms? The chapters in this book seek answers to these important questions. They analyze, in different ways, the conditions that give rise to racism in various forms, the extent to which racism permeates the way certain social institutions operate, how groups of people have organized against racism, and the ways that racism is linked to class, gender and ethnicity. They also try to provide readers with some conceptual tools and empirical evidence as a basis for discussion and debate about the meaning of race, racism, racialization and social inequality in contemporary Canada. This book may disappoint those looking for simple answers and those who are looking for the final word on whether Canada is indeed a racist society. The contributors do not fully agree on the significance of race and racism in contemporary Canada. Some see race and racism as a fundamental organizing principle of our society and of certain institutional spheres; others see racism as more situational, subtle and muted in its forms and consequences; others point to the racialization of certain aspects of Canadian society but do not necessarily see this as being equivalent to racism; and still others argue that allegations of racism in certain institutional spheres tend to be overplayed at the expense of class and gender differences. –Publisher's description
Keywords: Canada; Equality; Race relations; Racism

Union merger support: A tale of two theories - Devine, Kay; Reshef, Yonatan (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
The individual decision making of the Energy and Chemical Workers' Union rank and file members in their choice to support or oppose a 3-way merger with the Paperworkers' Union and the Communications and Electrical Workers' Union is examined. Two theories, one economic and one behavioral, are used to explain member voting preferences. Results demonstrate that both instrumental and image considerations need to be taken into account when predicting the outcome of a union merger vote.
Keywords: Acquisitions & mergers; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Decision making; Decision theory; Labor Unions; Memberships; Regression analysis; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Voter behavior

Le paysage industriel à Sudbury = Sudbury, The Industrial Landscape - Donegan, Rosemary (Art Gallery of Sudbury = Galerie d'art de Sudbury, 1998)
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Art Gallery of Sudbury, July 30-Sept. 20, 1998.
OCLC: 39516297
Keywords: 1900-1999; Exhibition catalogs; Industrie dans l'art Expositions; Industries in art; Industries in art Exhibitions; Landscape painting; Canadian; Landscape painting; Canadian 20th century Exhibitions; Ontario Sudbury (Greater Sudbury); Painting; Canadian; Painting; Canadian 20th century Exhibitions; Peinture canadienne 20e siècle Expositions; Peinture de paysages canadienne 20e siècle Expositions; Sudbury (Greater Sudbury; Ont.) In art Exhibitions

The Transformation of the Canadian Labour Movement from International to National Union Dominance: Tracing the Roots of Breakaways - Duff, Lenore (Carleton University, 1998)
This thesis examines the dramatic shift from international to national union dominance in Canada. Within this context, this analysis explores breakaway activity, and discusses the broader significance of this phenomenon in relation to the labour movement in Canada. It identifies factors critical to the development of international unions. and factors related to their decline, both in Canada as reflected in breakaways, and in the United States as reflected in the general decline of the labour movement. and concludes that contextual factors and individual responses have been central to this process. Ultimately. this thesis illustrates existing distinctive elements of the Canadian labour movement. and suggests that these became more apparent over time. It identifies changes that occurred in objective and subjective conditions that led to the expression of this distinctiveness in a series of breakaways that contributed to the 'Canadianization'. if not the dramatic differentiation, of the labour movement in Canada.

Tous à l'école. État, communautés rurales et scolarisation au Québec de 1826 à 1859 - Dumont, Micheline (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Tous à l'école. État, communautés rurales et scolarisation au Québec de 1826 à 1859," by Andrée Dufour.

Decentralization of bargaining structure: Four cases from the U.S. paper industry - Eaton, Adrienne E.; Kriesky, Jill (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
In recent years, there has been a trend in many countries toward a decentralization of collective bargaining structures. Two methods are employed to provide a deeper analysis than previous studies of the forces that determine bargaining structure. First, a framework is built to analyze bargaining structure by integrating previous theoretical and empirical work on the topic. Second, the framework is applied to 4 bargaining unit level case studies in the US' pulp and paper industry. By examining the dissolution of 2 centralized bargaining structures and union attempts to reestablish centralization through ratification voting pools in 2 others, the relative importance of economic, tactical and organizational factors in the continued decentralization of US paper industry bargaining is revealed.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Case studies; Collective bargaining; Decentralization; Hypotheses; Labor Unions; Labor negotiations; Paper industry; Pulp & paper industry; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Trends

Labour in Southern Africa - Epprecht, Marc (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews and comments on the following two books: Alan H. Jeeves and Jonathan Crush's "White Farms, Black Labor: The State and Agrarian Change in Southern Africa, 1910-1950" and Jonathan Crush and Charles Ambler's "Liquor and Labor in Southern Africa."

The International Unions and the Workers' Revolt in Quebec, 1914-1925 - Ewen, Geoffrey (York University, 1998)
This thesis contributes to our understanding of both international unionism and of the labour revolt in Quebec, two neglected areas in Quebec labour history. It examines the industrial conflict of the war years and the post-war revolt in 1919 and 1920, a period of militancy characterized by rapid trade union growth and aggressive strike action by international unions. During the same period workers renewed their interest in independent political action and briefly attained a small measure of success. A major focus of this study is the ethnic, religious, political and gender divisions within the international unions and the labour party in Quebec. The labour revolt was, however, ultimately unsuccessful. While this was because employers were generally stronger than organized workers, especially in the depression of the 1920s, it also faltered on profound divisions within the Quebec working class. The emergence of a Catholic labour movement as a serious rival to secular international unions created one of the most important divisions within the Quebec working class. This thesis constitutes a significant revision to our understanding of the formative years of this confessional movement. While there is a large body of work on Catholic organizations, few studies have examined either their role in the 1919 labour revolt, or the specific nature of the rivalry with the international unions. Inter-union rivalry in the years from 1916 to 1925 is an important theme of this study. Catholic union promoters conducted an experiment in the industrial relations of social harmony which involved attempting to replace class conflict with harmonious relations with employers. While eschewing strike action, Catholic unions and their supporters often helped employers undermine international union strikes in the hope of destroying and supplanting the more aggressive secular organizations. The result was that the Catholic labour movement impeded the growth of the American-based unions and contributed to the defeat of the workers' revolt.
Keywords: Catholic labour movement

Mastered By the Clock: Time, Slavery and Freedom in the American South - Fellman, Michael (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South, by Mark M. Smith.

Overcoming the Dilemmas in Walton and Mckersie's Mixed Bargaining Strategy - Fells, R. E. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
Far more attention has been paid to Walton & McKersie's (1965) distributive and integrative models of bargaining than to their strategies in a mixed bargaining situation; in particular the emphasis has been on developing cooperation in the form of the integrative or mutual gains approaches. A paper reexamines the mixed bargaining model and, drawing on a case study, identifies a number of features of negotiation which enable the parties to overcome the difficulties associated with the strategy. It is suggested that the mixed bargaining model is more appropriate in the industrial relations context than approaches which focus on cooperation.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Collective bargaining; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Negotiations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Race Against Empire: Black Americans and Anti-Colonialism, 1937-1957 - Ferguson, Karen (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Race against Empire: Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957," by Penny M. Von Eschen.

What Do We Need a Union For?: The TWUA in the South, 1945-1955 - Fink, Gary M. (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "What Do We Need a Union For? The TWUA in the South, 1945-1955," by Timothy J. Minchin.

Major Douglas and Alberta Social Credit - Finkel, Alvin (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Major Douglas and Alberta Social Credit," by Bob Hesketh.

The Industrial Relations Significance of Unpaid Work - Forrest, Anne (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
In this paper I challenge the prevailing theoretical framework [of study in industrial relations] that marginalizes women by examining how unpaid work on and off the job is and is not analyzed in the literature and by demonstrating its importance to issues as central to the discipline as wages, job allocation, and industrial conflict. In the section entitled, "Unpaid Work on the Job," I argue that the concept of the "effort bargain"— how unpaid work is currently studied in industrial relations — obscures pay discrimination against women because it is more likely to implicitly recognize as work the tasks associated with jobs traditionally performed by men than many of the tasks associated with jobs performed by women. Under the heading, "Unpaid Work in the Household," I argue that unpaid work in the home determines, in part, how paid work is allocated and, in particular, how the social construction of women as non-workers/wives and mothers by researchers naturalizes women's place in the secondary labour market and reifies men's access to "breadwinner jobs." Finally, I conclude by arguing that incorporating unpaid work into the study of industrial relations is necessary to move women from the margins to the centre of discourse. –From author's introduction

Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff: An Organized Guide to Films about Labor - Frank, David (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Working Stiffs, Union Maids, Reds, and Riffraff: An Organized Guide to Films about Labor," by Tom Zaniello.

Corporate-Subsidiary Relations, Local Contexts and Workplace Change in Global Corporations - Frenkel, Stephen J.; Royal, Carol (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
Workplace change in 2 subsidiaries of a multinational pharmaceutical corporation is examined. One affiliate is located in the UK, the other in South Africa. It is shown how variations in subsidiary relations with corporate headquarters reflect differences in the strategic power and resources of subsidiaries, as well as differences of a local nature. These differences are reflected in variations in the scope, pace, and content of workplace change.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Corporations; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Management; Management theory; Multinational corporations; Organizational structure; Pharmaceutical industry; Reorganization; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Subsidiaries

Women, Work, and Protest in the Italian Diaspora: An International Research Agenda - Gabaccia, Donna; Iacovetta, Franca (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
Interrogates the currents of scholarly inquiry into the Italian emigration of the 19th and 20th centuries. Argues for a woman-centred, gendered, and proletarian history of this diaspora, and suggests new areas of investigation.

La CSN et les autres groupes syndicaux - Gagnon, Mona-Josée (La CSN: 75 ans d'action syndicale et sociale, 1998)
https://classiques.uqam.ca/contemporains/gagnon_mona_josee/CSN_et_autres_groupes_syndicaux/CSN_et_autres_groupes_syndicaux.html OCLC: 39930391
Keywords: 1900-1999; Conference papers and proceedings; Confédération des syndicats nationaux; Confédération des syndicats nationaux Congresses; Confédération des syndicats nationaux. Congrès; History; Industrial relations; Industrial relations Québec (Province) History 20th century Congresses; Industrial relations Québec (Province) History Congresses; Labor unions; Labor unions Québec (Province) History Congresses; Labor unions Social aspects; Labor unions Social aspects Québec (Province) Congresses; Québec; Québec (Province) Conditions sociales 20e siècle Congrès; Québec (Province) Conditions économiques 20e siècle Congrès; Québec (Province) Economic conditions 20th century Congresses; Québec (Province) Social conditions 20th century Congresses; Relations industrielles Québec (Province) Histoire 20e siècle Congrès; Relations industrielles Québec (Province) Histoire Congrès; Syndicalism; Syndicalism Québec (Province) History 20th century Congresses; Syndicalism Québec (Province) History Congresses; Syndicalisme Québec (Province) Histoire 20e siècle Congrès; Syndicalisme Québec (Province) Histoire Congrès; Syndicats Aspect social Québec (Province) Congrès; Syndicats Québec (Province) Histoire Congrès

La « modernisation » du syndicalisme québécois ou la mise à l’épreuve d’une logique représentative - Gagnon, Mona-Josée (Sociologie et sociétés, 1998)
Cet article propose une conceptualisation de l’action syndicale à l’échelle des milieux de travail illustrée par le cas québécois.La construction du concept de logique représentative permet de cerner les fondements de l’action syndicale. Des résultatsd’enquêtes de terrain, menées principalement dans le secteur manufacturier, sont utilisés pour décrire les changements à l’oeuvredans le champ des relations du travail. La description des conséquences de ces changements et l’analyse subséquente conduisentà proposer que la logique représentative traditionnelle des syndicats est ébranlée et qu’à terme, c’est le sens de l’actionsyndicale qui en est altéré.
https://classiques.uqam.ca/contemporains/gagnon_mona_josee/modernisation_syndicalisme/modernisation.html

Le mouvement syndical - Gagnon, Mona-Josée (L'année politique au Québec : 1996-1997, 1998)
C'est un portrait contrasté qu'il faut faire de l'année syndicale 1995-1996. D'une part, les organisations syndicales ont été extrêmement présentes dans la vie politique québécoise, à leur initiative mais aussi en raison du statut privilégié qu'on leur confère dans les pratiques gouvernementales (québécoises) de consultation. D'autre part, si l'on considère la mission première des organisations syndicales, qui est de défendre les conditions de travail de ses membres et plus généralement des salariés, on constate que l'année écoulée a été marquée par la «défensivité». Hors quelques coups d'éclat, le syndicalisme québécois n'a guère réussi à renverser les tendances à la rationalisation et donc aux baisses d'effectifs salariés. Qu'il s'agisse du secteur public ou du secteur privé, les syndicats sont loin d'être les meneurs de jeu. –Introduction
OCLC: 41446687
Keywords: Québec (Province) Conditions sociales 1960-; Québec (Province) Conditions économiques 1960-; Québec (Province) Politique et gouvernement 1985-

Management de la flexibilité - Galambaud, Bernard (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Management de la flexibilité," by Christophe Everaere.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Management; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Angels of the Workplace: Women and the Construction of Gender Relations in the Canadian Clothing Industry, 1890-1940 - Gamber, Wendy (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Angels of the Workplace: Women and the Construction of Gender Relations in the Canadian Clothing Industry, 1890-1940," by Mercedes Steedman.

La mobilité des ouvriers-mineurs du Nord ontarien et québécois, 1900-1939 - Gaudreau, Guy; Daoust, Alain; Reilly, Karey (Laurentian University / Université Laurentienne, 1998)
Ce livre amorce une réflexion sur la mobilité des travailleurs miniers du Nord en exploitant une variété de sources, parmi lesquelles figurent les archives des sociétés mineurs qui composent le matérial le plus riche de l'ouvrage. Non seulement la mobilité géographique des travailleurs y est examiné, mais aussi leur mobilité interne. En fait, les mines ont aussi une lieu d'apprentissage pour une minorité des travailleurs et non uniquement une lieu de confrontation, comme les historiens ont l'habitude de la faire. Un des thèmes marquants de l'étude demeure le fait que les politiques d'embauche des entreprises ont fortement influencé la composition ethnique de la force de travail, et conséquemment, celle de la population de nord ontarien et québécois. –Quatrième de couverture
Keywords: Labor mobility – Ontario; Northern – History

Just Another Car Factory ? Lean Production and its Discontents - Gérin-Lajoie, Jean (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Just Another Car Factory ? Lean Production and its Discontents," by James Rinehart, Christopher Huxley and David Roberts.
Keywords: AUTOMOBILE industry; Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Management; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

After Marxism - Glaberman, Martin (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "After Marxism," by Ronald Aronson.

"We Are All Leaders": The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930s - Glaberman, Martin (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "'We Are All Leaders': The Alternative Unionism of the Early 1930's," edited by Staughton Lynd.

Strikes and the Law - Godard, John (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
This paper adopts a critical sociological approach to analyze how labor law shaped a 23-day strike at a western Canadian university in the fall of 1995. A chronology of the strike is provided, followed by a brief analysis of how both economic and sociological models contribute to understanding the rationale of the strike. The implications of specific labor laws for this rationale are discussed, with an extension of the critical legal studies tradition by an establishment of how legal biases against unions shape strike activity.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Colleges & universities; Labor Unions; Labor law; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Strikes; University professors

Hard Bargain: Transforming Public Sector Labour-Management Relations - Goldenberg, Shirley (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Hard Bargain: Transforming Public Sector Labour-Management Relations," by Peter Warrian.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Civil service; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Public sector; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Getting Ahead of the Class: Reflections on Good Will Hunting - Golfman, Noreen (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
Analyzes the 1997 film, "Good Will Hunting," as a romantic comedy that foregrounds character-in-spiritual-at the expense of any serious consideration of class or the individual's position within the social. The author also discusses the film's reception, including by her students.

San'ya Blues: Laboring Life in Contemporary Tokyo - Gordon, Andrew (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "San'ya Blues: Laboring Life in Contemporary Tokyo," by Edward Fowler.

Solving the Labour Problem at Imperial Oil: Welfare Capitalism in the Canadian Petroleum Industry, 1919-1929 - Grant, H. M. (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
Facing industrial unrest in each of its Canadian petroleum refineries, the Imperial Oil Company embarked on a wide-ranging industrial-relations initiative in 1919. Patterned after Mackenzie King's "Rockefeller Plan," the logic was clear: joint worker-management councils would alleviate shop-floor discontent; a package of welfare benefits would reduce absenteeism and turnover; and a share-purchase plan would enhance worker loyalty to the Company. Where similar attempts at corporate welfarism in Canada generally failed, Imperial Oil enjoyed a union-free status until 1946, and freedom from work stoppages until the early 1950s. What made it unique in this regard was its willingness and capacity to buy labour harmony; and in an era hostile to organized labour, its workers succeeded in extracting important monetary concessions as the price of their loyalty. Imperial Oil thus offers a cogent example of the conditions necessary for King's variant of welfare capitalism to flourish.

Academic Contests? Merit Pay in Canadian Universities - Grant, Hugh (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
The application of merit pay in Canadian universities is examined. Designed to motivate and reward greater productivity, the effectiveness of merit pay depends upon the relative importance of competitive versus cooperative behavior in the academic workplace, the capacity to evaluate individual performance, and the ability to design clear financial signals appropriate to the objectives of the institution. Differences among universities can be expected to produce differences in compensation methods. A logit analysis is conducted that suggests that an institution's likelihood of having a merit pay scheme varies according to region; that it increases with the emphasis placed on graduate training and research; and that it declines in the presence of a unionized faculty association. This suggests that the adoption of performance-based pay is apt to meet stronger resistance in undergraduate and unionized institutions.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Colleges & universities; Compensation plans; Effectiveness; Labor Unions; Merit increases; Regression analysis; Salaries pensions etc; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; University professors

My Name's Not George: The Story of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: Personal Reminiscences of Stanley G. Grizzle - Grizzle, Stanley G.; Cooper, John (Umbrella Press, 1998)
OCLC: 37984515
Keywords: Autobiographies; Biographies; Blacks Employment Canada Hstory Sources; Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters History Sources; Canada; Grizzle; Stanley G.; 1918-2016; History; Préposés aux pullmans Canada Histoire Sources; Préposés aux pullmans Syndicats Canada Histoire Sources; Pullman porters; Pullman porters Canada History Sources; Pullman porters Labor unions; Pullman porters Labor unions Canada History Sources; Sources; autobiographies (literary genre)

The New Left and Labor in the 1960s - Gross, James A. (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "The New Left and Labor in the 1960s," by Peter B. Levy.

Harmonization of Labour Policies Under Trade Liberalization - Gunderson, Morley (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
The pressures for the harmonization of labor laws and policies under trade liberalization are outlined, with particular attention to inter-jurisdictional competition for investment and jobs. This is followed by an analysis of the linkages that are necessary for there to be downward harmonization, with some discussion of the empirical evidence (and lack of evidence) on those linkages. Opposing pressures towards divergence and away from convergence and harmonization are also discussed. The paper concludes with some observations on the advantages and disadvantages of harmonization and the appropriate policy responses.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Free trade & protection; International; Labor Unions; Labor law; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Standardization; Trade liberalization

Continuity and change in Australian industrial relations: Recent developments - Hampson, Ian; Morgan, David E. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
The recent accession to power of a conservative government in Australia would seem to mark a major change in Australian industrial relations. However, a more subtle reading of events suggests that key ingredients of the new government's reform package were actually foreshadowed, even partially implemented, by the former Australian Labor Party government. The latter was well known for its enthusiastic implementation of orthodox economic policies, albeit in a context of corporatism. This suggests a degree of continuity between the policies of the ALP and Liberal/National Coalition governments. At the same time, there are ingredients of significant change, some of them on the face of it minor, but which, over time, are likely to erode the power of unions and sharpen the divide between the union and non-union sectors.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Changes; Economic policy; Effects; Governmental reform; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Labour of Love: The Fight to Create a More Humane Canada - Hargrove, Buzz; Skene, Wayne (Macfarlane Walter & Ross, 1998)
The outspoken leader of the Canadian Auto Workers Union now offers his passionate perspective in Labour of Love: The Fight to Create a More Humane Canada. Buzz Hargrove offers his reasons for his strong belief in unions, a scathing critique of Bob Rae's NDP and the Tories' "Common Sense Revolution," and an insightful analysis of Canada. Hargrove believes that "Days of Action" protests are vital in a society whose governments are threatening to unravel the already suffering Canadian social programs. Political and labour junkies will be riveted by Hargrove's unflinching look at the conservative policies that could destroy a country he loves. –Publisher's description
Keywords: 1993-; Canada; Hargrove; Buzz; Industrial policy; Labor Unions; Politics and government; Politique et gouvernement; Politique industrielle; Syndicats

The Slumbering Volcano: American Slave Ship Revolts and the Production of Rebellious Masculinity - Hartman, Saidiya (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "The Slumbering Volcano: American Slave Ship Revolts and the Production of Rebellious Masculinity," by Maggie Montesinos Sale.

Behavioural Determinants of Public Sector Illegal Strikes: Cases from Canada and U.s. - Hebdon, Robert (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
A framework for analyzing illegal public sector strikes is developed that explains observed patterns of behavior of employees, unions, managers, and third parties. It is found that no-strike laws diminish such positive effects of right-to-strike bargaining systems as eliciting information, adjusting expectations, and providing catharsis. A new theoretical outline helps understand and explain such illegal strike characteristics as the suddenness of strike development, the rank-and-file nature, lack of union control, conflict without clearly defined union objectives, and breakdown of the conflict regulation process by neutral agencies. Three policy issues emerge: 1. some conflict could have been avoided with a broader scope of bargaining, 2. mandatory and more responsive third party procedures should be legislatively provided, and 3. such information about worker discontent as grievance usage should be made available to dispute settlement agencies and mediators before conflict escalates out of control.
Keywords: Bargaining; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Civil service; Labor Unions; Labor law; Organizational behavior; Problems; Public sector; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Strikes; Studies

La naissance du syndicalisme catholique à Chicoutimi - Hébert, Jean-François (La pulperie de Chicoutimi. Un siècle d'histoire, 1998)

The Vertical Mosaic Revisited - Helmes-Hayes, Richard C.; Curtis, James E. (University of Toronto Press, 1998)
When The Vertical Mosaic first appeared in 1965, it became an instant classic. Its key message was that Canada was not the classless democracy it fancied itself to be. In fact, Canada was a highly inegalitarian society comprising a 'vertical mosaic' of distinct classes and ethnic groups. This collection of papers by five of Canada's top sociologists subjects John Porter's landmark study to renewed scrutiny and traces the dramatic changes since Porter's time - both in Canadian society and in the agenda of Canadian sociology. Based on papers written for a conference held in commemoration of the thirtieth anniversary of The Vertical Mosaic's publication, the five essays revisit the central themes of the original work, including gender and race inequality; citizenship and social justice; and class, power, and ethnicity from the viewpoint of political economy. An introduction by the editors provides a historical biography of Porter and discusses his influence on Canadian sociology. –Publisher's description. Contents: Power, ethnicity, and class: Reflections thirty years after The vertical mosaic / Wallace Clement – Ethnicity and race in social organization: Recent developments in Canadian society / Raymond Breton – Missing women: A feminist perspective on The vertical mosaic / Pat Armstrong – Three decades of elite research in Canada: John Porter's unfulfilled legacy / Michael Ornstein – Social justice, social citizenship, and the welfare state, 1965-1995: Canada comparative context / Julia S. O'Connor.
Book available at Internet Archive to people with print disabilities: https://archive.org/details/verticalmosaicre0000unse_i0h9/mode/2up OCLC: 1158939274
Keywords: Canada; Canada Conditions sociales 1945-; Canada Social conditions 1945-; Classes sociales Canada; Porter; John; 1921-1979; Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) Canada; Power (Social sciences); Power (Social sciences) Canada; Since 1945; Social classes; Social classes Canada; Social conditions

Industrial Relations Under Liberal Democracy: North America in Comparative Perspective - Heron, Craig (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Industrial Relations under Liberal Democracy: North America in Comparative Perspective," by Roy J. Adams.

The Workers' Revolt in Canada, 1917-1925 - Heron, Craig (University of Toronto Press, 1998)
Canadians often consider the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 to be the defining event in working-class history after the First World War. This book, the collaboration of nine labour historians, shows that the unrest was both more diverse and more widespread across the country than is generally believed. The authors clarify what happened in working-class Canada at the end of the war and situate 'the workers' revolt' within the larger structure of Canadian social, economic, and political history. They argue that, despite a national pattern, the upsurge of protest took a different course and faced a different set of obstacles in each region of the country. Their essays shed light on the extent of the revolt nationally while retaining a sensitivity to regional distinctiveness. –Publisher's description
Available at Internet Archive to readers with print disabilities: https://archive.org/details/workersrevoltinc0000unse OCLC: 244764736
Keywords: 20th century. Labor movement; 20th century. Mouvement ouvrier; 20th century. Working class; Canada; Conflits; General. Labor movement. Working class. Arbeidersbeweging. Protestacties. Opstanden. Stakingen. Arbeiterbewegung. Genre/Form: Electronic books. History; Histoire; History; Labor & Industrial Relations. HISTORY; Labor movement; Labor. POLITICAL SCIENCE

Career Paths of Nursing Professionals: A Study of Employment Mobility - Hiscott, Robert Dennis (Carleton University Press, 1998)
A comprehensive study of the nursing profession using data collected from over 1600 surveys. This is the first and only comprehensive labour market study of the largest group of nursing professionals in any one province in Canada. It explores the career paths of more than 1600 registered nurses and registered practical nurses, using survey data collected in 1992-1993, just as these front line caregivers faced the sea change wrought by governmental restructuring in Ontario hospitals. A "snapshot" of key labour force and market issues in the nursing field, the study provides important baseline data from which the impact of present and future public policy trends and changes can be monitored, reviewed, and researched. The dimensions studied here include recent demographic shifts, the various forms of employment mobility, levels of voluntarism, career interruption, and nurses' reasons for leaving the field. Each line of inquiry raises pressing questions about the professional lives of those who work most directly and dynamically with patients but whose careers are being altered, perhaps detrimentally, by reorganization in the Canadian health care system. –Publisher's description
Book available at Internet Archive to people with print disabilities: https://archive.org/details/careerpathsofnur0000hisc

Working in the Offshore Petroleum Industry - House, J. Douglas (John Douglas) (The Challenge of Oil: Newfoundland's Quest for Controlled Development, 1998)
...This chapter about working in the offshore petroleum industry will examine the nature and conditions of the work, industrial relations and offshore safety. Since the industry is truly international, and since evidence on the offshore workplace is hard to come by (because of the industry's reluctance to release such data), I will draw upon the fragment evidence available from other parts of the world as well as from Newfoundland. –From author's introduction
Keywords: Offshore oil industry – Government policy – Canada

The Struggle for Canadian Sport - Howell, Colin (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "The Struggle for Canadian Sport," by Bruce Kidd.

A Nation of Immigrants: Women, Workers, and Communities in Canadian History, 1840s-1960s - Iacovetta, Franca; Draper, Paula; Ventresca, Robert (University of Toronto Press, 1998)
This collection brings together a wide array of writings on Canadian immigrant history, including many highly regarded, influential essays. Though most of the chapters have been previously published, the editors have also commissioned original contributions on understudied topics in the field. The readings highlight the social history of immigrants, their pre-migration traditions as well as migration strategies and Canadian experiences, their work and family worlds, and their political, cultural, and community lives. They explore the public display of ethno-religious rituals, race riots, and union protests; the quasi-private worlds of all-male boarding-houses and of female domestics toiling in isolated workplaces; and the intrusive power that government and even well-intentioned social reformers have wielded over immigrants deemed dangerous or otherwise in need of supervision.Organized partly chronologically and largely by theme, the topical sections will offer students a glimpse into Canada's complex immigrant past. In order to facilitate classroom discussion, each section contains an introduction that contextualizes the readings and raises some questions for debate. A Nation of Immigrants will be useful both in specialized courses in Canadian immigration history and in courses on broader themes in Canadian history. –Publisher's description. Contents: The Irish in nineteenth-century Canada: class, culture, and conflict – American Blacks in nineteenth-century Ontario: challenging the stereotypes – Settling the Canadian West: the 'exotic' continentals – 'Women's work': paid labour, community-building, and protest – Men without women: 'bachelor' workers and gendered identities – Demanding rights, organizing for change: militants and radicals – Encountering the 'other': society and state responses, 1900s-1930s – Regulating minorities in 'hot' and 'cold' war contexts, 1939-1960s.
Book available at Internet Archive to people with print disabilities: https://archive.org/details/nationofimmigran00iaco/page/n3/mode/2up

Women in the Mines: Stories of Life and Work - Johnson, Tom (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Women in the Mines: Stories of Life and Work," by Marat Moore.

Gender, Corporate Restructuring and Concession Bargaining in Ontario's Food Retail Sector - Kainer, Jan (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
Collective bargaining at 3 major supermarket chains in Ontario is examined. It is argued that the retail unions in the sector have a long history of business unionism which is no longer effective in the face of aggressive corporate demands for concessions. Unions are now unable to defend the full-time, and most secure, segment of their membership. Furthermore, the corporate drive for labor flexibility is rapidly expanding the part-time workforce and eroding wage levels. Because women are disproportionately represented in the low-wage part-time category and have the least access to full-time positions, they are the most vulnerable to corporate restructuring. The gender specific implications of restructuring are examined in an analysis of the recently province-wide strike at the Miracle Food Mart chain.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Collective bargaining; Employment practices; Grocery trade; Labor Unions; Part time employment; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Strikes; Studies; Supermarkets; Women

Enlisting Women for the Cause: Women, Labour, and the Left in Canada, 1890-1920 - Kealey, Linda (University of Toronto Press, 1998)
[This book] re-creates the experiences of Canadian women on the left in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a crucial period when women became more prominent in the work force, in labour unions, and in politics, where they fought for, and ultimately won, the vote. The book examines discourse on women's work and on attempts to regulate it; labour activism, including formal membership in unions and parties as well as women's auxiliaries and organizations such as the Women's Labor League; and women's militancy during the First World War and the troubled postwar period. The author argues that while women helped mount an opposition to the inequalities inherent in industrial capitalism, they also had to struggle to move beyond the supporting role they were forced to play in the very movements to which they belonged. Kealey explores what the left thought about women's participation in politics and in left-wing organizations across the country, and also looks at the nature of that participation itself. The scope of her book puts it in the forefront of its field. –Publisher's description. Contents: Only a Working Girl': Women's Work and Regulation, 1890-1914 – Gender Divisions: Women in Labour Organizations, 1890-1914 – 'A Socialist Movement Which Does Not Attract the Women Cannot Live': Women in the Early Socialist Movement – 'Full of the Spirit of Revolt': Women in the Socialist Party of Canada and the Social Democratic Party – 'Wanted – Women to Take the Place of Men': Organizing Working Women in the Era of War and Reconstruction – 'This Crimson Storm of War': Women, War, and Socialism – 'No Special Protections...No Sympathy': Postwar Militancy and Labour Politics.

Fragments: Cool Memories III, 1991-1995 - Keating, Craig (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Fragments: Cool Memories III, 1991-1995," by Jean Baudrillard.

A History of Workmen's Compensation, 1898-1915: From Courtroom to Boardroom - Keelor, John (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "A History of Workmen's Compensation, 1898-1915: From Courtroom to Boardroom," by Paul B. Bellamy.

Women's Work, Men's Work: The Informal Slave Economies of Lowcountry Georgia - Kellow, Margaret M. R. (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Women's Work, Men's Work: The Informal Slave Economies of Lowcountry Georgia," by Betty Wood.

The Resettlement of British Columbia: Essays on Colonialism and Geographical Change - Kelm, Mary-Ellen (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "The Resettlement of British Columbia: Essays on Colonialism and Geographical Change," by Cole Harris.

A Female Economy: Women's Work in a Prairie Province, 1870-1970 - Kinnear, Mary (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998)
A comprehensive overview of women's place in the work force. A Female Economy analyses a hundred years of women's work in Manitoba from the province's entry into Confederation in 1870 to the publication of the Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in 1970. Mary Kinnear shows that, whether women were working in the household or on a farm for no direct monetary reward or working for wages in the industrial, service, and professional sectors, their work was undervalued. Kinnear details how ordinary women - including early pioneers, East European immigrants, Native women, and professional women - lived and what they thought of the world of work, often telling their stories in their own words. She highlights the cultural and economic expectations for women and juxtaposes the activities society deemed suitable for women with what they actually did. Kinnear argues that a host of factors, such as class and ethnicity, differentiated their choices but that these women shared many common experiences. While women's own views furnish the main theme, A Female Economy contributes to a developing debate in feminist economics. By focusing on women's experiences in the sexually segregated economy of a Canadian province at the geographic centre of Canada, Kinnear furnishes a paradigm for women's economic activity in most western industrializing societies at the time. –Publisher's description
Book available at Internet Archive to people with print disabilities: https://archive.org/details/femaleeconomywom0000kinn

Portraits of the Japanese Workplace: Labor Movements, Workers, and Managers - Kinzley, W. Dean (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Portraits of the Japanese Workplace: Labor Movements, Workers, and Managers," by Kumazawa Makoto.

Winners and Losers: A Multivariate Content Analysis of Israel's Tribunal for Voluntary Arbitration - Kirschenbaum, Alan; Harel, Gedaliahu; Sivan, Niza (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
The objective of this paper is to examine the arbitration process instituted in arbitration tribunals and propose a parsimonious model to enhance the predictive ability of theoretical factors affecting the outcome of public sector labor disputes. The basic data set was generated by a content analysis of 101 awards made by Israel's Tribunal for Voluntary Arbitration during its first 8 years of operation (1977-1984). Results are discussed within the context of employee groups choosing arbitration over strikes as a means of winning demands.
Keywords: Arbitration; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Models; Public sector; Regression analysis; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Creating German Communism, 1890-1990: From Popular Protests to Socialist State - Kitchen, Martin (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Creating German Communism, 1890-1990: From Popular Protests to Socialist State," by Eric D. Weitz.

The Plywood Girls: Women and Gender Ideology at the Port Alberni Plywood Plant, 1942-1991 - Klausen, Susanne (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
Created in January 1942 to supply war materials to the Canadian military, the Port Alberni, British Columbia, plywood mill was a haven for women mill workers. Many of the women who worked at Alberni Plywoods moved to the Vancouver Island town from Canada's economically depressed Prairie Provinces. Although women comprised four-fifths of the mill's work force by January 1943, women were largely excluded from the skilled positions at the plant. A gender-based hierarchy remained in place throughout the war, with men in the supervisory and high-skill roles, and women concentrated in unskilled positions. After the war, the mill did not expel its female workforce, but it hired only males.

Stepping Left: Dance and Politics in New York City, 1928-1942 - Kozol, Wendy (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Stepping Left: Dance and Politics in New York City, 1928-1942," by Ellen Graff.

The Past is at Our Feet: The Workers' City Project in Hamilton, Ontario - Kristofferson, Robert B. (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The Ontario Workers Arts and Heritage Center has published a Workers' City Kit that describes three walking tours of significant labor history sites in Hamilton, Ontario. Historians used a vast array of local sources to create the walking tours. The first tour, "Downtown Hamilton," explores the city's late-19th-century industrial sites. The second, "Hamilton's East End," features the city's Stelco, Westinghouse, and International Harvester plants. The third, "Hamilton's North End," showcases the residential neighborhoods populated by Hamilton's industrial workers.

Éducation et travail en Grande-Bretagne, Allemagne et Italie - Lallement, Michel (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Éducation et travail en Grande-Bretagne, Allemagne et Italie," edited by Annette Jobert, Catherine Marry, and Lucie Tanguy.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Education; Employment; Labor Unions; Schools; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Modèles migratoires et intégration socio- économique des Canadiens français de la vallée de la Saginaw, Michigan, 1840-1900. (French) - Lamarre, Jean (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
Cet article examine la migration et Γ intégration socio-économique des Canadiens français dans la vallée forestière de la Saginaw, au Michigan, entre 1840 et 1900. Les principales conclusions révèlent que les Canadiens français ont contribué de façon marquée à toutes les étapes du développement socio-économique de la vallée. Si plusieurs migrants se sont dirigés directement vers le Michigan, d'autre sont d'abord amorcé leur migration vers les centres forestiers du nord-est pour ensuite poursuivre leur migration en suivant le déplacement de la frontière forestière vers le Midwest. Leur «culture de mouvement,» conjuguée à une longue expérience de travail sur le continent dans le domaine forestier, a fait en sorte que le Michigan est apparu comme une destination toute naturelle dans l'esprit des Canadiens français à la recherche de meilleures conditions de vie.

Activists in the Age of Rights: The Struggle for Human Rights in Canada, 1945-1960 - Lambertson, Ross (University of Victoria, 1998)
From 1945 to 1960 Canada began to move into what has been called “the age of rights.” At the end of the Second World War the nation paid lip service to “British liberties,” but both the state and private individuals frequently violated the libertarian rights of political radicals as well as the egalitarian rights of certain unpopular ethnic and religious minorities. By 1960 a discourse of human rights had largely replaced the British liberties approach, and the country enjoyed a far higher level of respect for minority rights, in part because of a number of legal changes—Supreme Court decisions, anti-discrimination legislation, and a Bill of Rights. This dissertation examines this shift, focussing upon the activities of members of the Canadian “human rights policy community.” Relying largely upon primary resources, it presents a number of case studies, demonstrating how human rights activists dealt with the deportation of Japanese Canadians, the Gouzenko Affair, the problem of discriminatory restrictive covenants, the Cold War, the need for an effective fair accommodation law in Ontario in general and the town of Dresden in particular, and the struggle for a bill of rights. In presenting these case studies, this dissertation also focusses upon the activities of a number of key interest groups within the human rights community: the coalition known as the Cooperative Committee on Japanese Canadians, the Canadian Jewish Congress, the Jewish Labour Committee, and a number of civil liberties organizations (especially the liberal Civil Liberties Association of Toronto and the communist Civil Rights Union). Attention is paid to the reasons for their successes and failures; within the general context of economic, social, and cultural changes, special attention is paid to the way in which these interest groups made their own history, using their own history, using the resources available to them.

Histoire de la Côte Nord - Landry, Nicolas (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Histoire de la Côte Nord," edited by Pierre Frénette.

Workin' on the Contract: St Lucian Farmworkers in Ontario, A Study of International Labour Migration - Larkin, Sherrie N. (McMaster University, 1998)
This dissertation examines the seasonal round of St Lucian contract workers who travel to Ontario every year for temporary employment in the Foreign Agricultural Resources Management Service program (FARMS). The study's focus is divided among Ontario growers as employers, St Lucian agricultural workers as employees, residents of a rural town in Southwestern Ontario, and governmental departments that influence the FARMS program in Canada and in St Lucia. The main argument of the dissertation is that labour migration has been an integral part of St Lucian history since emancipation on the island. It is both an economic strategy and a symbol of the freedom emancipation promised. While factors external to the island, such as the need for agricultural labour in Ontario and a long history of connections between Canada and the British West Indies influence where St Lucians travel, the propensity of these men and women to leave the island and return can only be explained in terms of St Lucia's history as a British colony. Within this history, labour migration emerges in conjunction with other strategies of enduring yet resisting the plantation economy that characterized the island for centuries. Although "workin' on the contract" in Canada is used by St Lucians for individual social and economic goals, it derives its meaning from the shared cultural beliefs and values of the island's society.
Accepted: 2014-06-18T17:05:31Z

Histoire de la Coopérative fédérée de Québec. L'industrie de la terre - Larocque, Paul (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Histoire de la Coopérative fédérée de Québec. L'industrie de la terre," by Jacques Saint-Pierre.

Industrial Homework, Economic Restructuring and the Meaning of Work - Leach, Belinda (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The recent "renaissance" of industrial homework is attributed to the search for flexible labour in processes of economic restructuring. This paper argues that common-sense ideas about the meaning of work in western capitalist society underpin the use of industrial homework as a flexible strategy for economic efficiency in the context of corporate and state restructuring of the economy. Drawing on an ethnographic study of homework in Southern Ontario, the paper discusses some of the ways in which the meaning of work is ambiguous, situationally specific and continuously redefined in the homework context. It is argued that this is possible because of the awkward location of the homework labour process, occupying as it does space and time usually associated with home and family.

Portrait of a Labour Spy: The Case of Robert Raglan Gosden, 1882-1961 - Leier, Mark (James Mark) (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
This paper examines the life of Robert Raglan Gosden, 1882-1961. Gosden was an unskilled worker who joined the Industrial Workers of the World and advocated violent revolution. He took part in the Vancouver Island mining strikes of 1912-1914, and was a key player in the 1916 provincial election scandal. By 1919, however, he was an informant for the RCMP. The paper outlines Gosden's career and analyzes the complex way his class experience shaped his construction of masculinity as well as his radical politics and his later activity as a labour spy.
Keywords: Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)

Patrick Lenihan: From Irish Rebel to Founder of Canadian Public Sector Unionism - Lenihan, Patrick (Canadian Committee on Labour History, 1998)
Patrick Lenihan displayed rare courage and unwavering commitment to social justice, from his childhood in revolutionary Ireland through his leading role in the Communist Party of Canada to the formation of the first national union of public employees. Patrick Lenihan: From Irish Rebel to Founder of Canadian Public Sector Unionism chronicles a lifetime of rebellion, protest, and organizing, aganist the backdrop of the major economic, social, and political struggles of this century. Lenihan was constantly watched, repeatedly arrested, and often imprisoned, but he emerged time and again as a leader in the cause of the downtrodden, the working poor, and the unemployed. The On-to-Ottawa Trek, the work camps of the 1930's, the radicalism of the western mine towns, the Cold War – Pat Lenihan was involved in it all, front and center. Drawn from interviews conducted by Gilbert Levine and written in an unadorned, engaging style, Patrick Lenihan is far more than the story of Canada's most infuential and colorful figures. It makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of western radicalism, Canadian communism, state repression union organizing, and the daily struggles which have shaped 20th-century Canada. –Publisher's description
https://archive.org/details/patricklenihanfr0000leni
Keywords: 20th century; Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE); History; Labor movement; Lenihan; Patrick; 1903-1981

Stanley Bréhaut Ryerson (1911-1998) - Lévesque, Andrée (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
Pays tribute to the life and work of Stanley Bréhaut Ryerson—a prominent and influential Marxist historian who was also a member of the Communist Party. A photo of Ryerson is included.

The Death of Uncle Joe - Lévesque, Andrée (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "The Death of Uncle Joe," by Alison Macleod.

Men at work: Labourers and building craftsmen in the towns of northern England, 1450-1750 - Levine, David (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Men at work: Labourers and building craftsmen in the towns of northern England, 1450-1750," by Dbnald Woodward.

The Tenant League of Prince Edward Island, 1864-1867 - Little, J. I. (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "The Tenant League of Prince Edward Island, 1864-1867: Leasehold Tenure in the New World," by Ian Ross Robertson.

The Ideology of the Socialist Party of America, 1901-1917 - Lloyd, Brian (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "The Ideology of the Socialist Party of America, 1901-1917," by Anthony V. Esposito.

Bibliography: Recent Publications in Canadian Labour History - Lonardo, Michael; Sweeney, Robert C. H. (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
Compilation of recent English/French publications on Canadian labour history that emphasize the period 1800-1975. Materials pertaining to the post-1975 period may also be included, although more selectively. [See the database, Canadian Labour History, 1976-2009, published at Memorial University of Newfoundland.]

Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain: History, the New Left, and the Origins of Cultural Studies - LoPatin, Nancy (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain: History, the New Left, and the Origins of Cultural Studies," by Dennis Dworkin.

The Sky Never Changes: Testimonies from the Guatemalan Labor Movement - Lovell, W. George (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "The Sky Never Changes: Testimonies from the Guatemalan Labor Movement," by Thomas F. Reed and Karen Brandow.

The Future of Work - Lowe, Graham S. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
What are the trends shaping the future of work? How can unions respond in ways that will invigorate the labor movement for the 21st century? A paper addresses these questions by first presenting a critique of the future-of-work literature, followed by a detailed analysis of the best available Canadian evidence of the major forces already exerting pressures for change on workplaces. The shape of tomorrow's workplace is visible today. Unions will continue to play a vital role in Canadian society by adapting their organizing and collective bargaining strategies to the often contradictory economic, labor market, organizational, human resource management, and demographic trends evident today.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Future; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Social aspects; Trends; work

Farm Wives' Work: A Comparative Study of Dairy and Potato Farming in New Brunswick, Canada - Machum, Susan Tracey (University of Edinburgh, 1998)
Using a comparative case study research design, the thesis examines the similarities and differences in farm wives' work on family owned and operated dairy and potato farms in New Brunswick, Canada. New Brunswick, Canada was selected as the research site because of the opportunity it provided to study two highly contrasting but comparable farm industries. Potato production is an intense and seasonal process, involving the planting, tending and harvesting of a field crop. Dairy farms are all-year operations involving animal husbandry and milk collection on a daily schedule. Potatoes are sold in 'open', uncertain markets; milk is sold in a 'closed' market protected and regulated in the provincial Milk Marketing Board. The differing labour demands, marketing arrangements and other conditions surrounding the production and sale of milk and potatoes made them ideal industries to study the effects of a farm's commodity on farm wives' work. The family, farm and work histories of fourteen farm wives on potato farms and sixteen farm wives on dairy farms were gathered, between November 1995 and September 1996, using an in-depth, open-ended interview format. What the farm sets out to produce effectively establishes its labour requirements, its work rhythms, as well as the marketing and pricing arrangements farm families will face. As a result, the farm's commodity provides the key for understanding the various ways farm wives' become 'incorporated' into their husband's work. Dairy farmers are not engaged in the same work as potato farmers even though both are called farmers and there are similarities in their work. It is not enough to study farm wives' work without ascertaining the particularities of being a dairy farmer's wife or a potato farmer's wife. At the same time both sectors must contend with agricultural restructuring, the cost-price squeeze and the economic uncertainties facing their rural communities. In examining the implications of this case study for future research on farm women's work, the thesis adds we must re-evaluate the spatial locations of work - household, on farm, off farm and community - and analytic dichotomies of work - productive and reproductive, paid and unpaid, direct and indirect - in order to better appreciate how farm wives contribute to family farming and how family farming contributes to farm wives' work.

Does the International Labour Movement Need Salvaging? Communism, Labourism, and the Canadian Trade Unions, 1921-1928 - Manley, John (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
Until the Communist Party of Canada (CPC) turned to the tactic of Class Against Class in 1928-29, it confined its trade-union work almost wholly to "boring from within" the international craft unions of the American Federation of Labor/Trades and Labour Congress of Canada. Although "the party" played a dominant part in the very limited industrial conflict of the 1920s, its attempt to transform the international unions into organs of class struggle was wholly unsuccessful, in part because its "line" presumed a far higher degree of rank and file combativeness than actually existed, and in part because Canadian "labourists" actively resisted its best efforts. Where the CPC believed that the international unions needed to be "renovated," the internationals themselves disagreed. Socialist Plumbers' official John W. Bruce posed the question "Does the International Labour Movement need Salvaging?" which he then answered - to general labourist approval - by reaffirming the progressive character of craft unionism and its tried and tested, non-revolutionary methods. The party's failure to break through this complacency - and labourists' growing resentment of its attempts to do so - predisposed it to accept the Comintern's "New Line" in 1928.

Les effets de la mobilité temps complet - temps partiel sur la rémunération future - Mayer, Francine (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
Ce texte s'appuie sur le fichier longitudinal de l'Enquête sur l'activité 1988-90 de Statistique Canada. Il examine les effets des conditions de la mobilité entre l'emploi à temps complet et l'emploi à temps partiel sur la rémunération future des femmes canadiennes. Les résultats d'est imat ion confi rment les conclusions des études américaines quant à l'effet négatif des interruptions d'emploi et des épisodes d'emploi à temps partiel sur le salaire dans le dernier emploi à temps complet. Mais, plus spécifiquement, ils montrent que les femmes qui subissent une déqualification au moment du passage à temps partiel enregistrent une baisse de salaire dans l'emploi à temps complet le plus récent, de l'ordre de 14 %, comparativement aux salariées qui n'ont pas connu de déqualification. En outre, le «travail à temps réduit réversible», c'est-à-dire les transitions entre temps complet et temps part iel, dans les deux directions, sans changement de profession ou d'employeur, agit positivement sur la rémunération future, contrairement aux situations ou ces transitions impliquent au moins un changement d'emploi.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employment; Labor Unions; Part time employment; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Wages & salaries; Women

Queer Musings on Masculinity and History - Maynard, Steven (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
Commentates on the satirical piece, "To the Dartmouth Station" (1976), and the author's article, "Rough Work and Rugged Men" (1989), both of which were published in the journal, in order to raise questions regarding the historical study of working-class masculinity. Argues for greater use of the analytical lens of sexuality to interrogate the concept of masculinity, including that masculinity is in crisis, and to explore workingmen's gender identities and sexual practices. Considers issues of sexuality and indications of homosexual subcultures in historically male occupations such as seafaring, lumbering and mining. Concludes that the investigation of how men's sexual and gender relations existed in relationship to other forms of power highlights the potential of gay history to both complicate and expand historical understandings of working-class men's gender identities.

Paying for the Piper: Capital and Labour in Britain's Offshore Oil Industry - McBride, Michelle (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Paying for the Piper: Capital and Labour in Britain's Offshore Oil Industry," byCharles Woolfson, John Foster, and Matthias Beck.

'Not a Sex Question'? The One Big Union and the Politics of Radical Manhood - McCallum, Todd (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
In March 1919, over 230 union delegates assembled at the Western Labor Conference in Calgary to chart a radical new direction for wage workers through the creation of a revolutionary industrial union centre, the One Big Union (OBU). This essay argues that the practices of the OBU's radical manhood, their particular sense of what it meant to be a union man, shaped the organization's structure and politics as well as the emergent culture which fostered such widespread working-class radicalism. Drawing upon already existing practices espoused by Canadian labourists and American Wobblies as well as fashioning new ones, OBU men distinguished radical manhood from both the class politics and the masculinities of male bosses and scabs. While the organization of working women was not seen as an important issue at the WLC, the upsurge in women's militancy during the labour revolt prompted OBU supporters to encourage these women to join their male comrades. At times, advocates of the One Big Union posed the questions of women's oppression and emancipation as crucial elements of the union's purpose; their infrequent ideological commitment, however, too often failed to translate into organizational gains for working-class women and the development of feminist practices within the union. In their challenge to the bourgeois order, OBU men created a program that, in the prevailing context of gender relations, meant that the One Big Union would bring about the transformation, but not the eradication, of men's power.
Keywords: One Big Union

Woody, Cisco, & Me: Seamen Three in the Merchant Marine - McCallum, Todd (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Woody, Cisco, and Me: Seamen Three in the Merchant Marine," by Jim Longhi.

Striking Performances: Performing Strikes - McCollester, Charles J. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Striking Performances: Performing Strikes," by Kirk W. Fuoss.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; History; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Strikes

Cynicism and Postmodernity - McKay, Ian (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Cynicism and Postmodernity," by Timothy Bewes.

Doctrines of Development - McMichael, Philip (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Doctrines of Development," by M.P. Cowen and R.W. Shenton.

Social Exclusion and Anti-Poverty Policy : A Debate; Lessons for Welfare Reform: An Analysis of the AFDC Caseload and Past Welfare-to-Work Programs - Morel, Sylvie (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
The article reviews the books, "Social Exclusion and Anti-Poverty Policy : A Debate," edited by Charles Gore and José B. Figueiredo, and "Lessons for Welfare Reform: An Analysis of the AFDC Caseload and Past Welfare-to-Work Programs" by Dave M. O'Neill and June Ellenoff O'Neill.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; POVERTY; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Welfare

Working People - Morton, Desmond (McGill-Queen's University Press, 1998)
Keywords: Labor unions

La régulation paritaire du changement à l'épreuve de la mondialisation - Murray, Gregor; Lévesque, Christian (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
La mondialisation n'est pas un phénomène qui détermine la capacité de régulat ion des syndi cats à l 'échelon des établissements. Son impact ne peut être saisi qu'à travers les dynamiques sociales propres aux milieux de travail touchés par le changement. Cet article identifie les conditions et les ressources associées à la régulation paritaire des changements et évalue en quoi les exigences de cette régulation dans les milieux de travail fortement intégrés à l'économie mondiale diffèrent de celles qui caractérisent les milieux de travail moins orientés vers les marchés internationaux. Nous concluons que le syndicat plus exposé à l'économie internationale doit faire preuve d'une plus forte capacité d'action pour assurer sa présence dans le processus de régulation.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Corporations; Globalization; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Reorganization; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Dying for Gold: The True Story of the Giant Mine Murders - Nicol, Janet Mary (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Dying for Gold: The True Story of the Giant Mine Murders," by Lee Selleck and Francis Thompson.

The Work of Reconstruction: From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina, 1860-1870 - O'Brien, John T. (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "The Work of Reconstruction: From Slave to Wage Laborer in South Carolina, 1860-1870," by Julie Saville.

Manhood and the Militia Myth: Masculinity, Class and Militarism in Ontario, 1902-1914 - O'Brien, Mike (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The period between 1902 and 1914 witnessed a flourishing of interest in military matters in Ontario. Military activity in the province centred primarily on the Canadian Militia, a part-time citizen army in which thousands of young men participated. Contemporary advocates of military service saw the Militia as a "school of manliness" which would instill a variety of civic virtues in its members. This paper examines the question of working-class participation in the Militia, looking in particular at how the concept of "masculinity" interacted with issues of class in an industrial-capitalist society. It identifies a number of attractions which Militia service held for working-class recruits; it also points to important contradictions between gendered social ideals and class-based reality. In particular, the difficult relationship between the Militia and organized labour, and the incompatability of the "rough culture" of the working classes with middle-class ideals of "manliness," are discussed in depth. On a theoretical level, it suggests that while "masculinity" provides a vital basis for understanding the history of the Militia in Ontario, it cannot be seen in isolation from other factors, most notably class relations.

The structure of white-collar compensation and organizational performance - O'Shaughnessy, K. C. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
Using a unique data set, this paper analyzes how the relationship between managerial compensation and firm performance changes as one moves down the organizational hierarchy. It is found that predictions of efficiency wage, agency, and tournament models of compensation differ for different hierarchical levels in organizations. The results add support to the notion that a variety of models may be necessary to explain organizational compensation strategies.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Compensation plans; Correlation analysis; Executive compensation; Executives; Hypotheses; Labor Unions; Performance; Salaries pensions etc; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; White collar workers

"We Indians Were Sure Hard Workers:" A History of Coast Salish Wool Working. - Olsen, Sylvia Valerie (University of Victoria, 1998)
In the study of the economic and labour history of the West Coast Native people of British Columbia most research has centered on activities such as fishing, farming and forestry. This thesis turns the attention from what was primarily men's work in the dominant society to the Coast Salish wool working industry where women worked with the help of their children and husbands. I examine the significant economic and cultural contribution Coast Salish woolworkers had on West Coast society, the meeting place woolworkers' sweaters provided between the Coast Salish and the newcomers and the changes which took place in the industry during the last century. This story includes many voices most of which are recorded in newspapers, correspondence and journals, and in the memories of those that lived and worked in the industry.

Book Notes [42, Fall 1998] - Palmer, Bryan D. (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article briefly reviews "Socialist Realist Painting," by Matthew Cullerne Bown, "The Cold War and the University: Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years," edited by André Schiffrin, "On History," by Eric Hobsbawm, "Writing on the Line: 20th Century Working Class Women Writers," by Sarah Richardson, Mcrylyn Cherry, Sammy Palfrey, and Gail Chester, "Historical Dictionary of Organized Labor," by James C. Docherty, "Protest, Power, and Change: An Encyclopedia of Nonviolent Action from ACT-UP to Women's Suffrage," edited by Roger S. Powers and William B. Vogele, "Organizing Dissent: Contemporary Social Movements in Theory and Practice," edited by William K. Carroll, "Communism in America: A History in Documents," edited by Albert Fried, "Artisans into Workers: Labor in Nineteenth-Century America," by Bruce Laurie, "Hollywood as Historian: American Film in Cultural Context," revised edition, edited by Peter C. Rollins, "The History of Canadian Business, 1867-1914," by R.T. Naylor, and "The Communist Manifesto," [150th anniversary edition, published by Monthly Review Press] by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

Young Sidney Hook: Marxist and Pragmatist - Palmer, Bryan D. (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Young Sidney Hook: Marxist and Pragmatist," by Christopher Phelps.

Workers in a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy - Parnaby, Andrew (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Workers in a Lean World: Unions in the International Economy," by Kim Moody.

Barristas of the World, Unite! - Parnaby, Andrew; Rennie, Richard Charles (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
In July 1997, the CAW-backed workers at nine Vancouver Starbucks outlets became the first "barristas" in North America to secure a collective agreement with the trendy, Seattle-based international coffee giant. On the first anniversary of that historical union drive, Labour/Le Travail spoke with 25-year-old-Laurie Banong, Starbucks employee and union activist, about organizing young service sector workers, working with the CAW, and what trade unionism means to her. –Editors' introduction

Striking Flint: Genora (Johnson) Dollinger Remembers the 1936-37 General Motors Sit-Down Strike - Phelps, Christopher (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Striking Flint: Genora (Johnson) Dollinger Remembers the 1936-37 General Motors Sit-Down Strike," by Genora Johnson Dollinger and Susan Rosenthal.

Homo Economics: Capitalism, Community, and Lesbian and Gay Life - Pilon, Dennis (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Homo Economics: Capitalism, Community, and Lesbian and Gay Life," edited by Amy Gluckman and Betsy Reed.

Du combat au partenariat : interventions critiques sur le syndicalisme québécois - Piotte, Jean-Marc (Éditions Nota bene, 1998)
Acteur majeur de la Révolution tranquille durant les années 1960, partisan d'une transformation révolutionnaire de la société durant la décennie suivante, le mouvement syndical est-il toujours animé par une volonté de changement social ? En prônant et en pratiquant un syndicalisme de concertation et de partenariat avec l'État et le patronat, demeure-t-il fidèle aux idéaux qui l'habitent depuis sa naissance ? C'est à ces questions que tente de répondre cet ouvrage de Jean-Marc Piotte en reconstituant la trajectoire du mouvement au cours des vingt-cinq dernières années. Militant politique et syndical au cours de cette période, principal théoricien du syndicalisme de combat, l'auteur nous livre un bilan critique du syndicalisme québécois au moment où celui-ci est durement confronté aux nouveaux défis posés par la mondialisation et la domination absolue du marché sur l'ensemble de la vie sociale dans nos sociétés contemporaines. –Présentation (quatrième de couverture)
https://classiques.uqam.ca/contemporains/piotte_jean_marc/du_combat_au_partenariat_livre/du_combat.html
Keywords: Labor movement – Quebec (Province) – History – 20th century

Utopianism and Radicalism in a Reforming America 1888-1918 - Pittenger, Mark (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Utopianism and Radicalism in a Reforming America, 1888-1918," Francis Robert Shor.

Changing Lives: Women in Northern Ontario - Porsild, Charlene (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Changing Lives: Women in Northern Ontario," edited by Margaret Kechnie and Marge Reitsma-Street.

Organizing the Unemployed: Community and Union Activists in the Industrial Heartland - Rachleff, Peter (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Organizing the Unemployed: Community and Union Activists in the Industrial Heartland," by James J. Lorence.

Power at Odds: The 1922 National Railroad Shopmen's Strike - Reilly, Nolan (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Power at Odds: The 1922 National Railroad Shopmen's Strike, by Colin J. Davis.

Unions, Wages and Total Compensation in Canada: An Empirical Study - Renaud, Stéphane (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
This study presents the first empirical evidence of the impact of unions on benefits and total compensation in Canada. It also provides new evidence on the union wage impact and union wage differentials for a wide range of selected groups in the labor market. Using micro data from the Canadian General Social Survey of 1989, the results show that the union impact is to increase total compensation by 12.4%, compared to an impact of 10.4% on wages. Even though the union impact on total compensation is 2% greater than the impact on wages, given that benefits comprise only about 6% of total compensation in this sample, the percentage impact of unions on benefits is estimated to be 45.5%. This latter estimate implies a very substantial impact on unions on benefits in Canada, as large or larger than those reported in the US.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Compensation plans; Employee benefits; Impact analysis; Labor Unions; Memberships; Regression analysis; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Wages & salaries

Labour Organization and Unions - Rennie, Rick; Botting, Ingrid Marie; Inglis, Gordon (Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage, 1998)
Until well into the 20th century, Newfoundland and Labrador's primary economic activity was in the fisheries. Most of the workforce was in the inshore cod fishery, a small-boat operation in which family enterprises caught, split, salted and dried the fish to produce a finished product that was traded to a merchant. Fishers were not wage workers but commodity producers, like farmers. Even in the Labrador and Grand Banks fisheries and the annual seal hunt, the workers were treated as independent contractors, paying for their own gear and supplies and receiving shares rather than wages. –Introduction

Recast Dreams: Class and Gender Consciousness in Steeltown - Rinehart, James (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Recast Dreams: Class and Gender Consciousness in Steeltown," edited by D.W. Livingstone and J. Marshall Mangan.

The Anthology of American Folk Music and Working-Class Music - Rosenberg, Neil V. (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews and comments extensively on the iconic recording, "The Anthology of American Folk Music and Working-Class Music," reissued with additional notes by Smithsonian Folkways in 1997. The original recordings were made by Harry Smith between 1927 and 1932; the anthology was first assembled and issued in 1952 by Ralph Rinzler. The author concludes that while the collection is an amazing and insightful document of its time, it is also representative of a particular American cultural and political mythology. The conclusion also briefly discusses why there is no comparable Canadian anthology.

A Thousand Blunders: The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and Northern British Columbia - Roy, Patricia E. (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "A Thousand Blunders: The Grand Trunk Pacific Railway and Northern British Columbia," by Frank Leonard.

Misères du présent, richesse du possible - Sarfati, Hedva (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Misères du présent, richesse du possible," by André Gorz.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; work

Whittaker Chambers: A Biography - Schrecker, Ellen (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Whittaker Chambers: A Biography," by Sam Tanenhaus.

Workers Against Lenin: Labour Protest and the Bolshevik Dictatorship - Shatz, Marshall S. (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Workers Against Lenin: Labour Protest and the Bolshevik Dictatorship," by Jonathan Aves.

From the Knights of Labor to the New World Order: Essays on Labor and Culture - Shor, Francis (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "From the Knights of Labor to the New World Order: Essays on Labor and Culture," by Paul Buhle.

Are Seniority-Based Layoffs Discriminatory? The Adverse Impact of Layoffs on Designated Groups - Singh, Gangaram; Reid, Frank (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
The objectives of this paper are: 1. to determine whether layoffs disproportionately affect members of employment equity designated groups, and 2. to assess the importance of seniority in any adverse impacts. The hypothesis is that seniority is an important criterion for layoffs and that designated group members tend to have less seniority and would therefore be disproportionately affected by layoffs. If this is correct, then layoffs may constitute systemic discrimination since there is a reasonable alternative policy in the form of reduced hours through worksharing, which would affect all groups similarly. Tests confirmed that the probability of a layoff was higher for designated group members. The role of the seniority system in this relationship, however, was contrary to the hypothesis since the relationship between the probability of a layoff and designated group status was weaker at unionized workplaces than at nonuion workplaces. It is concluded that the case for worksharing is strengthened by its potential to reduce the systemic discrimination against designated groups which results from the use of layoffs.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Discrimination; Employment discrimination; Hypotheses; Labor Unions; Layoffs; Personnel policies; Seniority; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Work sharing

The Business of Power: Hydroelectricity in Southeastern B.C. 1897-1997 - Sloan, W. A. (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "The Business of Power: Hydroelectricity in Southeastern British Columbia 1897-1997," by Jeremy Mouat.

Labour deployment in plants in Canada and Sweden - Smucker, Joseph; Van Den Berg, Axel; Smith, Michael R.; Masi, Anthony C. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
In the debates about the relationship between labor flexibility and employment security, the actual strategies managers employ under different policy regimes tends to be overlooked. The nature of deployment strategies that managers employ for their retained labor force in production plants in Canada and Sweden in 3 industrial sectors - steel, pulp and paper and telecommunications - is examined. While Canadian managers have greater access to external markets and make greater use of layoff-recall strategies and overtime than their Swedish counterparts, deployment strategies within plants tend to require more formal negotiations, especially within unionized plants. Swedish managers can carry out changes in labor deployment in a more informal manner, particularly with respect to job responsibilities and new skills training. Swedish managers face more difficulties than their Canadian counterparts in altering quantities of labor.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Cross cultural studies; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Manyindustries; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Strategic management; Workforce planning

Canada's New Deal in the Needle Trades - Steedman, Mercedes (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
The drafting of Canada's industrial standards legislation and its consequences in the clothing industry are examined. In particular, it is argued that the legislation formalized the subordination of specific sectors of workers in the clothing shops. Although the traditional unions made some efforts to organize women, the presence of women in the union bureaucracy was limited. Because of this, the move away from shop-floor unionism towards industry-wide collective bargaining ensured that women had, at best, a peripheral position in union decision making. When the men in the industry sat down to negotiate the legal framework for their trade, most of the political maneuvering went on in a domain exclusive of women. In the negotiations for the legislation in Ontario and Quebec's clothing industry, men reaffirmed the gendered nature of the work in the trade through legal language enshrined in the industrial standards schedules set for the industry.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Clothing industry; Female employees; History; Industrial policy; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Laws & regulations; Legislation; Sex discrimination; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Ready-to-Wear, Ready-to-Work: A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York - Steedman, Mercedes (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Ready-to-Wear and Ready-to-Work: A Century of Industry and Immigrants in Paris and New York," by Nancy L. Green.

The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism 1945-1968 - Stepan-Norris, Judith (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1945-1968," by Kevin Boyle.

Martin Butler, Masculinity, and the North American Sole Leather Tanning Industry: 1871-1889 - Stiles, Deborah (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
This article explores mid-19th century masculinity, through examination of the writings and lived experience of New Brunswick tannery worker Martin Butler. What being a man meant, in this historical context, was rooted in the contingencies and determinants of the North American sole leather tanning industry, and can be located as well in the discourses Martin Butler constructed about his and other men's experiences. Rural, working-class men, it is argued, were, in part, the shapers of their own class-specific and rurally-contingent male identifies, although the processes by which these identities were formulated and negotiated are neither easily catalogued nor tidily analyzed.

The Conundrum of Class: Public Discourse on the Social Order in America - Stoddard, R. P. (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "The Conundrum of Class: Public Discourse on the Social Order in America," by Martin J. Burke.

Organizing the Meatpacking Industry in the United States - Storch, Randi (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews and comments on Rick Halpern's "Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago's Packinghouses, 1904-54" (1997) and "Unionizing the Jungles: Labor and Community in the Twentieth-Century Meatpacking Industry" (1997) edited by Shelton Stromquist and Marvin Bergman.

Speech: Just Unionize It! - Sukaesih, Cicih (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
Provides an excerpt from a talk given by Cicih Sukaesih to the Alberta Federation of Labour. A former employee and union activist at the Nike shoe factory in Jakarta, Sukaesih describes her experiences as an organizer and what the "swoosh" Niki trademark signifies to employees at the factory

Understanding Work Historically: A reflection prompted by two recent studies of the fur trade - Sweeny, Robert C. H. (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
the article reviews and comments on two books: Edith L. Burley's "Servants of the Honourable Company: Work, Discipline and Conflict in the Hudson's Bay Company, 1770-1879" and Richard Somerset Mackie's "Trading Beyond the Mountains: The British Fur Trade on the Pacific, 1793-1843."

Culture et gestion en Algérie - Tahon, Marie-Blanche (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Culture et gestion en Algérie," by Daniel Mercure, Baya Harricane, Smaïl Seghir et André Steenhaut.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Femmes, Santé et Professions: Histoire des diététistes et des physiothérapeutes au Québec et en Ontario, 1930-1980: L'affirmation d'un statut professionnel - Tancred, Peta (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Femmes, Santé et Professions: Histoire des diététistes et des physiothérapeutes au Québec et en Ontario, 1930-1980: L'affirmation d'un statut professionnel," by Nadia Fahmy-Eid et al.

Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism Since the New Deal - Taras, Daphne Gottlieb (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism Since the New Deal," by Sanford M. Jacoby.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employment practices; History; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Welfare

Penalty Standards for Sexual Harassment Offences in Unionized Workplaces - Taylor, K. Wayne (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
To identify penalty standards in use for sexual harassment in unionized workforces, 54 arbitrations of grievances against penalties assigned for sexual harassment in Canada between 1985-1995 were examined. The standard penalty for sexual harassment involving sexual assault or language and touching is termination. The standard penalty for sexual harassment involving touching (without language) and language (without touching) is suspension. Standard penalties are varied under a number of conditions. Management can use these standards as guidelines for assigning penalties. Unions will find the standards useful for judging the fairness of the penalty assigned.
Keywords: Arbitration; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Discipline; Labor Unions; Sexual harassment; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Development and Social Change, A Global Perspective - Teeple, Gary (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Development and Social Change, A Global Perspective," by Philip McMichael.

Managerial Opposition to Union Certification in Quebec and Ontario - Thomason, Terry; Pozzebon, Silvana (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
Using data collected from a survey of union organizers, employer behavior during certification campaigns in Canada is examined. The extent and impact of opposition practices used by Quebec and Ontario employers during the late 1980s and early 1990s is investigated. It is found that prevalence of opposition tactics is not pronounced in either Quebec or Ontario. Nevertheless, these tactics are effective in reducing the level of union support in certification campaigns, if not the probability of certification. Most tactics examined appear to decrease the proportion of employees supporting the union, while captive audience speeches have a consistent negative and significant effect on certification probability.
Keywords: Attitudes; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Certification; Comparative analysis; Labor Unions; Managers; Membership drives; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Statistical analysis; Studies; Unionization

African Unions Under Structural Adjustment Programs - Tidjani, Bassirou (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
In most African countries, structural adjustment programs constituted the context of industrial relations conflicts during the 1980s because they had a negative effect on social and working conditions. A study discusses African labor's responses to its deteriorating conditions, and to states' attempts to limit labor's demands. It concludes that structural adjustment programs were implemented in all African countries despite labor's resistance. The degree of implementation depended on governments' repressive capabilities, workers' traditions of striving for independent organizations, and on unions' perceptions of the issue and their responsibilities under prolonged economic crises.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Impact analysis; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Structural adjustment; Studies

Travail, espaces et professions - Tremblay, Dianne-Gabrielle (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
The article reviews "Travail, espaces et professions," published in Cahiers du GEDISST, no. 19.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; work

Le droit du travail face à la mondialisation de l'économie - Trudeau, Gilles; Moreau, Marie-Ange (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
La mondialisation de l'économie pose une menace nouvelle sur le droit du travail. Cette menace se manifeste tant à l'endroit des mécanismes juridiques dont l'effectivité est conditionnée par les limites territoriales nationales qu'à l'égard de l'équilibre des pouvoirs qui est recherché entre les acteurs sociaux dans l'élaboration des règles juridiques. Analysant l'évolution des institutions canadiennes et québécoises de droit du travail et puisant dans l'expérience européenne et française, cet article démontre que le droit du travail n'est pas sans moyen pour réagir et s'adapter à un environnement plus mondialisé. Cette adaptation, tant sur le plan juridique, national, qu'international, est toutefois tributaire d'une volonté politique de la favoriser et de la capacité de l'acteur syndical de l'induire et de la soutenir. C'est là que la mondialisation de l'économie risque de produire ses effets les plus pervers.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Globalization; International; Labor Unions; Labor law; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Safety First: Technology, Labor, and Business in the Building of American Work Safety, 1870-1939 - Tucker, Eric (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Safety First: Technology, Labor, and Business in the Building of American Work Safety, 1870-1939," by Mark Aldrich.

The Road from Westray: A Predictable Path to Disaster? - Tucker, Eric (Acadiensis, 1998)
Discusses "The Westray Story" (Report of the Westray Mine Public Inquiry, Justice K. Peter Richard, Commissioner, 1997) that made scathing findings regarding the operation of the short-lived mine and the government's failure to regulate it properly.

Community Unionism in Canada and Labor's (Re) Organization of Space - Tufts, Steven (Antipode, 1998)

The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit: Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor - Turrini, Joseph M. (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit: Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor," by Nelson Lichtenstein.

Renewing Our Days: Montreal Jews in the Twentieth Century - van Nus, Walter (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Renewing Our Days: Montreal Jews in the Twentieth Century," edited by Ira Robinson and Mervin Butofsky.

Domesticity All Dressed-up: Gender in Antebellum Politics and Culture - van Riemsdijk, Tatiana (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article review and comments on Elizabeth Varon's "We Mean to be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia" (1998) and Lora Romero's "Home Fronts: Domesticity and its Critics in the Antebellum United States" (1997).

Droits en synergie sur le travail : éléments de droits international et comparé du travail - Verge, Pierre (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Droits en synergie sur le travail : éléments de droits international et comparé du travail," by Jean-Michel Servais.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; International; Labor Unions; Labor law; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

No Jobs, Lots of Work: The Gendered Rise of the Temporary Employment Relationship in Canada, 1897-1997 - Vosko, Leah F. (York University, 1998)
This dissertation examines the history and evolution of the employment relationship associated with the contemporary temporary help industry in Canada from the late nineteenth to the late twentieth century. Using gender as a central lens of analysis, it explores how, and to what extent, this employment relationship is becoming a nom for a more diverse group of workers in the Canadian labour market. In so doing, the dissertation develops the following argument: with the shift away from the standard employment relationship since the early 1970s and the coincident nse of the temporary employment relationship – two developments indicative of the ferninization of employment – workers situated at the expanding margins of the labour market are increasingly treated like commodities. A growing body of scholarship argues that the nature of employment is changing, citing the spread of non-standard forms of employment and women's rising and/or consistently high labour force participation rates as evidence of this claim. This dissertation confirms that important changes are indeed taking place in the labour market but it argues that the tenor and direction of these changes oniy corne into Full view when they are examined in light of continuity as well as change. To this end, it probes the shape of dualism in the Canadian labour market historically, paying particularly attention to its gendered and racialized character, through a case study of the temporary employment relationship. The dissertation begins by providing a conceptual map for understanding and interpreting contemporary employment trends that engages in three broader theoretical inquiries: the investigation of labour power's peculiar commodity statu under capitalism; the exploration of the rise and decline of the standard employment relationship as a normative mode1 of employment; and the examination of the gendered character of prevailing employment trends. Following this overview, the body of the dissertation traces the history of the temporary employment relationship in Canada, examining how its three core actors – the temporary heip agency, the customer and the worker – have adapted to shifting employment trends and gendered employment noms and negotiated developments at the regdatory level over the course of the twentieth century. In probing the evolution of the temporary employment relationship, it devotes special emphasis to examining the role and fùnction of early precursors to the modem temporary help agency (e-g., private employment agents such as general labour agents and so-called padrones), its immediate forerunners (Le., the 'classic' temporary help agency of the 1950s) and its most recent manifestation (Le., the employment and staffing service). AIthough the dissertation focuses on the Canadian context, it also traces developments at the international and supra-national level throughout the twentieth century, developrnents that have often mirrored, frequently affected, and occasionally even prefigured trends in Canada. Interdisciplinary in its focus, the dissertation approaches the evolution of the temporary employment relationship from a range of angles, building on scholarship fiom the fields of Law, History, Political Econorny, Sociology and Industriai Relations. The research methodoIogies used include: archivaVhistorica1 research; field observation; interviews with temporary help workers, agency managers and customers as well as government officials, representatives from organized labour and industry leaders; and analysis of industry, government and legal documentation at the municipal, provincial, national and supra-national levels.
OCLC: 1306069848
Keywords: Academic Dissertation; Academic theses; Thèses et écrits académiques; dissertations

Regulating Precariousness? The Temporary Employment Relationship Under the NAFTA and the EC Treaty - Vosko, Leah F. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
Regulatory responses to the spread of non-standard forms of employment in North America and Europe are examined, particularly those measures directed at the temporary employment relationship associated with the temporary help services industry. Through an analysis of international labor conventions, country-specific regulations and supranational initiatives, it is demonstrated that countries party to the NAFTA and the European Community both endorse strategies aimed at numerical flexibility yet they take divergent regulatory approaches in response to the growth of temporary employment. While North American countries opt for non-regulation, the European Community is attempting to establish basic protections for workers engaged in temporary employment.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employment practices; International; Labor Unions; Labor law; Labor standards; Regulation; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Temporary employment; Trade agreements

Telecommunications: Restructuring Work and Employment Relations World-Wide - Wagar, Terry H. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Telecommunications: Restructuring Work and Employment Relations Worldwide," edited by Harry C. Katz.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Organizational change; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Telecommunications industry

The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century - Wald, Alan (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "The Cultural Front: The Laboring of American Culture in the Twentieth Century," by Michael Denning.

Ale, Beer and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600 - Wallis, Faith (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Ale, Beer and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600," by Judith M. Bennett.

Learning to Be 'Uncivil': Class Formation and Feminisation in the Public Service Alliance of Canada, 1966-1996 - Warskett, Rosemary Elizabeth (Carleton University, 1998)
What kinds of associations did Canadian 'civil servants' form in the postwar period? Why and how did they learn to become 'uncivil', transforming themselves into militant unionists during the 1980s and 1990s? These questions are addressed theoretically and empirically through a case study of the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC). In 1966, PSAC leaders adopted a consultative, harmonious approach to staff relations, organizing the newly formed union to reflect the federal civil service's structure and practice. Class and gender divisions were submerged, hidden beneath the historical and ideological construction of the civil service as a distinctive, politically neutral category. Cracking apart of the unity of federal 'civil servants' began to occur in the 1960s. Class and gender divisions started to come to the fore with the expansion of the Canadian federal state, the increase of women in administrative support roles, and the enactment of collective bargaining rights. During the 1970s and 1980s, working class formation and capacity developed within the Canadian labour movement in concert with feminism, even though the legal structuring of labour relations continued to limit this class and gender formation. In this respect the Public Service Staff Relations Act and the Public Service Employment Act continued to reproduce the practices of the social category of civil servants. Nevertheless, within the PSAC, collective bargaining, the right to strike and the pay equity provisions of the Canadian Human Rights Act produced openings for learning and strategizing around subordinate class and gender issues and demands. Predominately female clerical workers, successfully challenged the structure and practices of the traditional 'civil service' associations. They learned to strategize and to incorporate a working class, feminist discourse into the union's practices. In the process the demand for pay equity was redefined and transformed into a demand of wage equity for all members, thus becoming a source of solidarity during the PSAC's 1991 general strike. PSAC activists learned to use openings in state structures to transform union agency, despite the existence of a legal regime that continues to constrain the development of working class and feminist capacities.
Keywords: Social sciences

WCFL: Chicago's Voice of Labor, 1926-78 - Webb, Jeff A. (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "[Chicago Radio Station] WCFL: Chicago's Voice of Labor, 1926-78," by Nathan Godfried.

The Philosophy of Railways: The Transcontinental Railway Idea in British North America - White, Richard (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "The Philosophy of Railways: The Transcontinental Railway Idea in British North America," by A.A. den Otter.

Bedside Matters: The Transformation of Canadian Nursing, 1900-1990 - Wishart, James M. (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Bedside Matters: The Transformation of Canadian Nursing, 1900-1990," by Kathryn McPherson.

Young Men and Technology: Government Attempts to Create a "Modern" Fisheries Workforce in Newfoundland, 1949-1970 - Wright, Miriam (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
In the years following World War II, the Newfoundland fishing economy was transformed from a predominantly inshore, household-based, saltfish-producing enterprise into an industrialized economy dominated by vertically-integrated frozen fish companies. The state played a critical role in fostering this transformation, and one aspect of its involvement was the creation of a "modern" fisheries workforce. Although women's labour had historically been an integral part of the inshore fishery, state planners assumed that women would withdraw from direct involvement in economic activities. Indeed, the male bread-winner model, the dominant gender ideology of western culture (but not of Newfoundland outport culture at the time), was embedded in state economic policies for the Newfoundland fishery in the post-World War II period. Training men to become more efficient, technologically-trained harvesters and offshore trawler workers became central concerns. Although the attempts to recruit young men as trawler crews were not entirely successful, this and the other examples of the government's mediating role helps illustrate the complexity of economy, state and gender ideology, all involved in the construction of a new fisheries workforce.

Farewell to the Factory: Auto Workers in the Late Twentieth Century - Yanarella, Ernest J. (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Farewell to the Factory: Auto Workers in the Late Twentieth Century," by Ruth Milkman.

Love in the Time of Victoria: Sexuality and Desire Among Working-Class Men and Women in Nineteenth-Century London - Young, Beverly (Labour / Le Travail, 1998)
The article reviews the book, "Love in the Time of Victoria: Sexuality and Desire Among Working-Class Men and Women in Nineteenth-Century London," by Francoise Barrel-Ducrocq.

Production without Empowerment: Work reorganization from the perspective of motor vehicle workers - Lewchuk, Wayne; Robertson, David (Capital & Class, 1997)
This paper examines the relationship between new forms of work organization and worker empowerment from the perspective of workers. The data is drawn from a survey of 5,635 Canadian automobile workers. Workers were asked questions about their work-load, health and safety conditions, empowerment, and relations with management. It examines what it is like to work in plants organized according to the principles of lean production and compares empowerment in lean plants and traditionally organized plants.

We must never forget: remembering the 1931 Estevan strike - Anderson, Don (Briarpatch, 1997)
There was an electric feeling in the air as hundreds of people gathered to honour the strikers and pay tribute to the three miners killed in [Estevan] on Black Tuesday. A Highland Pipe band played while the crowd visited, ate hot dogs and were entertained by a Miners' Choir formed especially for the occasion. The crowd was receptive to all speakers, but saved its loudest applause for [Pete Gemby].
Keywords: Coal mines; Coal mining; History; Memorials & monuments; Political Science

The Estevan Strike and Riot of 1931: Remembering One of the Most Important Strikes in Canadian History - Makahonuk, Glen (Briarpatch, 1997)
The MWUC was an affiliate of the revolutionary Workers Unity League (WUL) which promoted the class struggle. On August 25, 1931 James Sloan, president of the MWUC, arrived in [Estevan] and organized a meeting. Practically every miner in the field showed up. After a rousing speech on the miners' plight and the objectives of the MWUC [Mine Workers' Union of Canada], more than 600 miners signed up. Government officials and the coal owners saw the danger in these demands and attempted to reduce the threat by bringing more RCMP into the area. When negotiations commenced on October 19, L. Maurice, MWUC vice - president, who had travelled from Calgary to act as an advisor to the miners, was expelled from the meeting. Although the coal owners refused to recognize the MWUC, they did agree to recognize the pit committees and granted a number of other demands for better working conditions and wages. The Saskatchewan Federation of Labour is commemorating the 1931 strike and riot in order to honour these miners and educate the public about our labour history. The public event will take place at the miners' coal car by the Court House in downtown Estevan on May 10, 1997.
Keywords: 1914 1938; Canadian history; Coal mines; Coal mining; History; Labor unions; Political Science; Strikes

Abstracts / Résumés [40, Fall 1997] (Labour/Le Travail, 1997)
English/French abstracts of articles published in the issue.

Abstracts / Résumés [v.39, Spring 1997] (Labour/Le Travail, 1997)
English/French abstracts of articles published in the issue.

Index, Volume 39 (Spring/Printemps 1997) (Labour/Le Travail, 1997)

Publications: Committee on Canadian Labour History (Labour/Le Travail, 1997)
List of recent publications by the Committee.

Resúmenes = Abstracts [v. 52, no. 3, Summer 1997] (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
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Resúmenes [v, 52, no. 1, Winter 1997] (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
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Resúmenes [v. 52, no. 2, Spring 1997] (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
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Resúmenes [v. 52, no. 4, Fall 1997] (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
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The Transformation of Italian Communism - Amyot, Grant (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "The Transformation of Italian Communism," by Leonard Weinberg.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Communism; ITALY; Nonfiction; TRANSFORMATION of Italian Communism; The (Book); WEINBERG; Leonard

Cold War Canada: The Making of a National Insecurity State, 1945-1957 - Avery, Donald Howard (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Cold War Canada: The Making of a National Insecurity State, 1945-1957," by Reg Whitaker and Gary Marcuse.
Keywords: 1945-; BOOKS – Reviews; COLD War Canada: The Making of a National Insecurity State 1945-1957 (Book); Canada; History; MARCUSE; Gary; Nonfiction; WHITAKER; Reg

Not One of the Family: Foreign Domestic Workers in Canada - Bakan, Abigail B.; Stasiulis, Daiva K. (University of Toronto Press, 1997)
In [this book], experts on foreign domestic workers and workers-turned-activists document how the Canadian system has institutionalized unequal treatment of citizen and non-citizen workers. Since the 1940s, rights of citizenship for immigrant domestic workers in Canada have declined while the number of women recruited from Third World countries to work in Canadian homes has dramatically increased. The analysis...is both theoretical and practical, framing ideologies of privacy, maternalism, familialism, and rights, as well as examining government policy, labour organizing, and strategies to resist exploitation. –Publisher's description. Contents: Introduction / Abigail B. Bakan and Daiva Stasiulis – Foreign domestic worker policy in Canada and the social boundaries of modern citizenship / Abigail B. Bakan and Daiva Stasiulis – From mothers of the nation to migrant workers / Sedef Arat-Koc – An affair between nations: international relations and the movement of household service workers / Patricia M. Daenzer – Little victories and big defeats : the rise and fall of collective bargaining rights for domestic workers in Ontario / Judy Fudge – The work at home is not recognized: organizing domestic workers in Montreal / Miriam Elvir – We can still fight back: organizing domestic workers in Toronto / Pura M. Velasco.
Book available at Internet Archive to people with print disabilities: https://archive.org/details/notoneoffamilyfo0000unse

Prince of the People: The Life and Times of a Brazilian Free Man of Colour - Barman, Roderick J. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Prince of the People: The Life and Times of a Brazilian Free Man of Colour," by Eduardo Silva.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; ETHNIC groups; Nonfiction; PRINCE of the People: The Life & Times of a Brazilian Free Man of Colour (Book); SILVA; Eduardo

A Dreamer's Paradise Lost: Louis C. Fraina/Lewis Corey (1892-1953) and the Decline of Radicalism in the United States - Barrett, Jim (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "A Dreamer's Paradise Lost: Louis C. Fraina/Lewis Corey (1892-1953) and the Decline of Radicalism in the United States," by Paul M. Buhle.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; BUHLE; Paul M.; DREAMER'S Paradise Lost: Louis C. Fraina/Lewis Corey 1892-1953 & the Decline of Radicalism in the United States; A (Book); Nonfiction; Radicalism

D'un atelier de moulage à un autre: les migrations des mouleurs originaires des Forges du Saint-Maurice et la segmentation du marché du travail nord-américain, 1851-1884 - Bischoff, Peter C. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
Les migrations des mouleurs originaires des Forges du Saint-Maurice doivent être situées dans un marché du travail continental segmenté par les développements sectoriel et géographique de l'industrie, et par l'évolution du syndicalisme. Le déclin du secteur des haut fourneaux et l'essor concomitant des fonderies urbaines, amènent ces ouvriers à Montréal et dans d'autres villes du Québec. Attirés par des conditions de travail suprérieures, les mouleurs se rapprochent aussi graduellement du centre géographique de l'industrie: c'est-à-dire les villes du sud de l'Ontario et du nord-est des États-Unis. La filière migratoire communautaire constitue un instrument important pour leurs déplacements. Mais plusieurs mouleurs adhèrent également à l'Union internationale des mouleurs, et utilisent la filière migratoire syndicale, afin de pénétrer la portion du marché du travail contrôlée par cette organisation. Ces types demouvements témoignent des contraintes, mais aussi de l'ingéniosité des ouvriers dans un contexte de transformations socioéconomiques importantes. // The migrations of the moulders coming from the St. Maurice Forges must be situated in a context of labour market segmentation under the dual pressure of the industry's growth and geographical expansion, and the development of unionism. Because of the blast furnaces decline and the concomitant blossoming of urban foundries, these workers went to Montréal and other Québec cities. They also gradually moved to the industry's geographical center, attracted by better working conditions: the cities of south Ontario and the north-east of the United States. The community migratory network was an important tool for their travels. But many moulders also joined the Iron Moulders International Union, and used the union's migratory network, to get into the section of the labour market under the organization's control. These types of movements reveal the constraints, but also the ingenuity of workers, in a context of important socio-economical transformations.
Keywords: EMIGRATION & immigration; LABOR market; MARKET segmentation; Ontario; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNIONISM (Irish politics)

The Clothes Off Our Back: A History of ACTWU 459 - Black, Errol (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book,"The Clothes Off Our Back: A History of ACTWU 459," by Debra Lindsay.
Keywords: AMALGAMATED Clothing & Textile Workers Union; BOOKS – Reviews; CLOTHES off Our Back: A History of ACTWU 459; The (Book); LINDSAY; Debra; Nonfiction

Producing Power: Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in a Caribbean Workplace - Bolland, O. Nigel (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Producing Power: Ethnicity, Gender and Class in a Caribbean Workplace," by Kevin A. Yelvington.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Ethnicity; Nonfiction; PRODUCING Power: Ethnicity; Gender & Class in a Caribbean Workplace (Book); YELVINGTON; Kevin A.

Les gestionnaires et la négociation - Bourque, Reynald (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Les gestionnaires et la négociation," by David A. Lax and James K. Sebenius, édition française by Gilles Gauthier and Marie Thibault
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Negotiations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z