Race, Gender, Class, and Colonial Nationalism: Railway Development in Newfoundland,1881-1898 - Korneski, Kurt (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
Historians have long noted that policies of "progress" were integral to men and women throughout northern North America in the 19th century. A range of scholars have commented on the centrality of railway technology to these policies. Indeed, they have suggested that, in the 19th century, bourgeois nationalists were swept up in a kind of "railway fever," and that even though there were detractors, the tenacity of pro-railway elites, and the considerable patronage that huge construction loans and contracts provided them, ensured that these projects triumphed over other possibilities. The Newfoundland case suggests that there is a need for both a slightly revised assessment of elites and their views and goals, and a more nuanced reading of the role of ordinary men and women in the policy-making process. While elites in the colony did view the railway as a means of becoming a "progressive" or "modern nation," and while they viewed economic prosperity and "enlightenment" as central to modernity and progressiveness, commercial dynamism was only one important component of a more encompassing program. Tlites supported the railway because it provided them with a way of living according to standards of Britishness that became important to Newfoundlanders and others in "white" settler dominions, especially after the mid-19th century. Central to "Britishness" as policy makers understood the term, was the idea that "British societies" were those in which men lived according to their "god given manly independence." A careful analysis of the daily press suggests that many working people took these ideals seriously, and that they saw railway work, and the future employment and other economic opportunities its promoters promised, as a means of living according to them. When opponents of railway development did maneuver themselves into power, they found efforts to change course were met with popular upheaval. Ultimately, it was a broadly based solidarity founded on notions of male entitlement that determined which policies were "feasible."
Keywords: Fisheries; NEWFOUNDLAND & Labrador; Railroads; SAVING & investment; Social structure

Perilous Passage: Mankind and the Global Ascendancy of Capital - Kulchyski, Peter (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
The article reviews the book, "Perilous Passage: Mankind and the Global Ascendancy of Capital," by Amiya Kumar Bagchi.
Keywords: BAGCHI; Amiya Kumar; BOOKS – Reviews; Capitalism; Nonfiction; PERILOUS Passage: Mankind & the Global Ascendancy of Capital (Book)

The State and Civility in Sudbury - Kuyek, Don (Mining Town Crisis: Globalization, Labour and Resistance in Sudbury, 2008)
Analyzes from a legal and political perspective important events in Sudbury, including the punitive treatment of the poor (the Kimberly Rogers case) and the resort to strikebreakers and injunctions in the 2001-2002 Falconbridge Strike. Concludes that such events are the outcome of the neo-conservative policies of the provincial government of Mike Harris.
https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/mining-town-crisis

Les conditions de la confiance entre gestionnaires et représentants syndicaux dans un contexte d’innovations - Laplante, Normand; Harrisson, Denis (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2008)
Cet article analyse les conditions associées au développement de la relation de confiance entre les gestionnaires et les représentants syndicaux au sein d’entreprises qui ont adopté des innovations de différentes formes. Nous nous intéressons à la confiance entre des agents qui interviennent au nom de commettants. Notre étude démontre que si le développement de la confiance bénéficie d’un climat de travail moins conflictuel, d’autres conditions sont également requises, particulièrement le partage des informations entre les parties. Par ailleurs, un contexte de transformation peut améliorer la relation de confiance, particulièrement lorsqu’un processus participatif confiant un rôle au syndicat est adopté pour introduire les innovations. Celles-ci peuvent ainsi favoriser le développement de la confiance cognitive entre les parties, tout en respectant des intérêts spécifiques à chacune., This article examines the development of relationships of trust between managers and union representatives in a context of social innovations. Trust acts as a social lubricant and thus plays an important role in social relations within organizations undergoing change and which depend more on cooperation. However, trust is a multidimensional concept that appears in various forms that can be dichotomized between cognitive trust, which is based more on knowledge and reason, and identity-based trust, which is more emotional and may even involve holding common values. Within organizations, studies of trust have most often examined relations between workers and managers, or even members’ trust in their organization. Few studies have examined the relationship of trust between employers and unions. However, the interactions between institutional agents at work tend to encourage the development of the cognitive dimension of trust rather than its identity-based dimension. While encouraging cooperation between these agents and leading them to develop new relationships outside the traditional institutional framework, innovation nevertheless conceals two essential conditions for the development of trust: the interdependence of actors, and risk in the face of the future and unknown behaviour of their counterpart. Trust is not a given, but is rather a social construction that develops through the interactions of the actors at work according to the diverse conditions that we will examine. The data come from a study on new work relations between employers and unions. The sample includes union representatives and managers in goods and services firms that adopted different kinds of innovations. One thousand firms, each with more than 50 workers, were included in the study. A total of 242 union representatives and 221 managers returned their questionnaires. The sample was generally characterized by medium- or large-sized firms with a high proportion of male workers occupying permanent positions and with several years of seniority. However, there are differences between manufacturing sector firms and services sector firms. The latter employ more women who are less likely to have permanent positions and who have fewer years of seniority. Trust was measured using the average of four dimensions of the Butler scale: integrity, discretion, promise of results, and overall trust. The alpha coefficient of this trust indicator is 0.93 for both union representatives and managers. A second dependent variable measures the improvement in the trust relationship following the adoption of the innovation that the respondent considers to be the most significant. The two dependent variables (trust relationship and improvement of this relationship) have been analyzed using multiple regression and according to a model that includes several dimensions: socio-demographic characteristics, socio-economic context, labour relations climate, access to information, types of innovations, implementation process for innovations and their impacts. The union representatives indicated a lower level of trust (3.15 vs. 3.81/5) and fewer of them believe that trust increased following the adoption of the most significant innovation (27% vs. 44%). The differences between the union representatives and managers remain significant, after adjustment for different dimensions of the analytical model. This shows that the relationship is asymmetrical: the union representatives have less control over the situation and feel more vulnerable to potential opportunistic behaviours on the part of their management counterpart. Nevertheless, both the trust relationship and its improvement following the adoption of the most significant innovation are influenced by different dimensions of the analytical model. First of all, both the managers and the union representatives in the manufacturing sector are less likely than those in the services sector to feel trust. Trust is not highly related to the socio-economic context, although managers have more trust when the work force is declining; the trust of union representatives is lower when subcontracting increases. Trust is influenced by the labour relations climate. Thus trust is lower when there are more grievances or when grievances are increasing. However, trust is stronger when grievances tend to be resolved internally. Trust is also higher when respondents have access to the information requested from their counterpart. Innovations also influence trust, which is lower following the adoption of monetary innovations, but higher when other types of innovations are adopted: labour relations, work organization, training. The process of adopting innovations is important for improving the trust relationship, both when they are adopted to respond to human factors rather than factors linked to productivity, as well as when they are established through a negotiation process and a joint monitoring mechanism. Finally, negative impacts decrease trust while positive impacts do not influence the relationship of trust between union representatives and managers. The study revealed the factors that can favour the development of a relationship of trust between union representatives and managers following the adoption of social innovations. The process of adopting these innovations rather than the type of innovations seems to have a more important impact on the improvement of the trust relationship. However, this development should not be seen as an automatic transposition of the trust relationship to other members of the organization. Another question to be addressed is to what extent trust can be built without the parties losing their own identity. Our results support those of other studies that seem to show that although the cognitive dimension of trust can be developed readily between the agents at work, this is not true of identity-based trust., Este artículo analiza las condiciones asociadas al desarrollo de la relación de confianza entre directivos y representantes sindicales al interior de empresas que han adoptado diferentes formas de innovaciones. Nos interesamos a la confianza entre agentes que intervienen en nombre de comitentes. Nuestro estudio demuestra que si el desarrollo de la confianza beneficia de un clima de trabajo menos conflictivo, otras condiciones son igualmente requeridas, particularmente el hecho de compartir las informaciones entre las partes. De otro lado, un contexto de transformación puede mejorar la relación de confianza, particularmente cuando se adopta un proceso participativo para introducir las innovaciones, confiando así un rol al sindicato. De esta manera, estas innovaciones pueden favorecer el desarrollo de la confianza cognitiva entre las partes sin dejar de respetar los intereses específicos de cada uno.

Relations au travail, relations de travail - Le Capitaine, Catherine (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2008)
The article reviews the book, "Relations au travail, relations de travail," edited by François Aballéa and Michel Lallement.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

A Clash of Histories: Encounters of Migrant and Non-Migrant Laborers in the Canadian Automobile Parts Industry - Leach, Belinda (Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology, 2008)
This article considers the confrontations between immigrant and non-immigrant workers in the workplace and the implications of these confrontations for workplace unity and class formation. Contributing to scholarship at the intersection of history, class, and migration, the article argues that workers bring to work histories that are constructed as oppositional. The roots of these oppositions lie in shared but different histories of dispossession and migration, masked by dominant cultural and class narratives, which privilege non-immigrant histories that are class-based, masculinist, and nationalist, and subordinate those of immigrants. In the process, neo-liberal agendas are bolstered. Questions of how such processes take place are important for understanding class formation within societies with large immigrant populations.
https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/focaal/2008/51/focaal510105.xml
Keywords: class; gender; history; migration

Introduction: Sudbury's Crisis of Development and Democracy - Leadbeater, David (Mining Town Crisis: Globalization, Labour, and Resistance in Sudbury, 2008)
Analyzes Sudbury as a hinterland of resource extraction, including the response of unions. Provides new policy strategies for labour and an assessment of the community's future prospects.
https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/mining-town-crisis

Mining Town Crisis: Globalization, Labour, and Resistance in Sudbury - Leadbeater, David (Fernwood, 2008)
Sudbury is the largest hardrock mining centre in North America and among the largest in the world. Given the enormous mineral wealth that exists in the Sudbury Basin, one might think that prosperity would abound and that cultural, educational, health and social-welfare institutions would be of the highest order, existing within a well-maintained and attractive physical infrastructure. But this is not the Sudbury that people know. This book explores key aspects of Sudbury’s economic, health and social conditions. It analyzes how globalization and corporate power in a hinterland mining town have impacted on working people, how and why resistance has emerged and why alternative directions are needed. While Sudbury is the focus of this book, the Sudbury experience offers important lessons for other mining and resource communities. –Publisher's description.
https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/mining-town-crisis
Keywords: History / Canada / General; Political Science / Globalization; Political Science / Labor & Industrial Relations

Theoretical Issues with New Actors and Emergent Modes of Labour Regulation - Legault, Marie-Josée; Bellemare, Guy (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2008)
As the global economy undergoes a major transformation, the inadequacy of labour relations theories dating back to Fordism, especially the systemic analysis model (Dunlop, 1958) and the strategic model (Kochan, Katz and McKersie, 1986), in which only three actors–union, employer and State–share the stage is becoming increasingly obvious. A good example is provided by companies offering information technology services to businesses, where new means of regulation emerge and illustrate the need to incorporate new actors and new issues if we are to account for its contemporary complexity. A survey of 88 professionals has revealed regulation practices that call into question the traditional boundaries of the industrial relations system from two points of view: that of the three main actors, by bringing the customer and work teams onto the stage, and that of the distinction between the contexts and the system itself.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Regulation; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Theory

The New Left: Legacy and Continuity - Lexier, Roberta (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
The article reviews the book, "The New Left: Legacy and Continuity," edited by Dimitrios Roussopoulos.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; NEW Left: Legacy & Continuity; The (Book); New Left; Nonfiction; ROUSSOPOULOS; Dimitrios

Chinese Immigrants on the Canadian Prairie, 1910-47 - Li, Peter S. (Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie, 2008)
This paper examines the job histories of a group of first-generation Chinese immigrants who have been living in Canada from 50 to 70 years. The study focuses on the working experience of the Chinese prior to and during the exclusion era between 1923 and 1947, when they were barred from immigrating to Canada. The purpose of the analysis is to draw some general conclusions about the economic survival of an ethnic minority which has historically encountered severe discrimination and other structural barriers. The use of case histories in this study provides detailed insights into the organization of the working world of an immigrant group, and its incorporation into the Canadian economy.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1755618x/1982/19/4

Workers' Power and Intentional Learning among Non-managerial Workers: A 2004 Benchmark Survey - Livingstone, David W.; Raykov, Milosh (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2008)
This paper explores relations of workers' power, in terms of unionization and delegated workplace authority, with incidence of participation in adult education and job-related informal learning activities. Empirical analysis is based primarily on the first Canadian survey to document both aspects of workers' power and both formal and informal learning. Prior inconsistent research on unionization and adult education is critically reviewed. The current study focuses on non-managerial employees between 25 and 64. The findings of this 2004 survey, as well as secondary analysis of other relevant surveys, confirm that union membership is consistently positively related to both participation in adult education and some informal learning topics. Delegated workplace authority also has positive effects on both adult education and some informal learning topics. While delegated workplace authority is not related to unionization, their positive effects on workers' intentional learning are additive. Implications of these findings for further research and optimizing workplace learning are discussed.
Keywords: Adult education; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Decision making; Delegation of authority; Labor Unions; Organizational learning; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Union membership; Unionization

Women and the Making of Built Space in England, 1870-1950 - Loeb, Lori (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
The article reviews the book, "Women and the Making of Built Space in England, 1870-1950," by Elizabeth Darling and Lesley Whitworth.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; DARLING; Elizabeth; England; Nonfiction; WHITWORTH; Lesley; WOMEN & the Making of Built Space in England 1870-1950 (Book)

Bibliography: Recent Publications in Canadian Labour History - Lonardo, Michael; Sweeny, Robert C. H. (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
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.]
Keywords: BIBLIOGRAPHY (Documentation); History; Labor

The Oxford Handbook of Human Resource Management - Long, Richard J. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2008)
The Oxford Handbook of Human Resource Management, edited by Peter Boxall, John Purcell, and Patrick Wright, is reviewed.
Keywords: Best practice; Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Corporate culture; Human resource management; Integration; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Makúk: A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations - Lutz, John S. (UBC Press, 2008)
The history of Aboriginal-settler interactions in Canada continues to haunt the national imagination. Despite billions of dollars spent on the "Indian problem," Aboriginal people remain the poorest in the country. Because the stereotype of the "lazy Indian" is never far from the surface, many Canadians wonder if the problem lay with "Indians" themselves. John Lutz traces Aboriginal people's involvement in the new economy, and their displacement from it, from the first arrival of Europeans to the 1970s. Drawing upon oral histories, manuscripts, newspaper accounts, biographies, and statistical analysis, Lutz shows that Aboriginal people flocked to the workforce and prospered in the late 19th century. The roots of today's wide-spread unemployment and "welfare dependency" date only from the 1950s, when deliberate and inadvertent policy choices–what Lutz terms the "white problem"–drove Aboriginal people out of the capitalist, wage, and subsistence economies, offering them welfare as "compensation." – Publisher's description. Contents: Introduction: Molasses stick legs – Pomo Wawa: the other jargon – Making the lazy Indian – The Lekwungen – The Tsilhqot'in – Outside history: labourers of the aboriginal province – The white problem – Prestige to welfare: remaking the moditional economy – Conclusion: the outer edge of probability, 1970-2007 – Postscript: subordination without subjugation.
https://www.ubcpress.ca/makuk
Keywords: British Columbia; Commerce; Commerce. Indians of North America; Economic conditions. Indians of North America; Employment; Employment. Indians of North America; Government relations. Indians of North America; Government relations. Whites; History. Indians of North America; Whites

'The Comforts of Married Life': Metis Family Life, Labour, and the Hudson's Bay Company - Macdougall, Brenda (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
Since the 1980s, scholars have sought to understand how the Canadian fur trade shaped the Metis. Less attention has been paid to the impact of Metis concepts of family and community on the nature of their relationship with their employer, the Hudson's Bay Company (hbc). This article focuses on how Metis family structures in the English River District molded the contours of the community's relationship with the hbc in the 19th century. More specifically, only certain families established a relationship with the Company, wherein male servants and their extended families laboured for the hbc in return for wages and/or access to Company resources. The Company's willingness to participate in these types of exchanges with its employees' families cultivated an intergenerational loyalty amongst those Metis, as successive generations were employed by the Company and, in turn, drew upon it as part of their economic resource network. Still, Company officials faced a dilemma. They recognized that these extended families were loyal contributors to the Company's trading successes, but likewise regarded them as burdensome and a drain on precious resources. Throughout the 19th century, the ambivalence of the Company grew, negatively impacting its relationship with once loyal hbc servants and their families. The loyalty of families to the Company was only as strong as its loyalty to them. By the end of the century, as the Company's focus turned to reducing its obligations to families, Metis loyalties also shifted to competing economic ventures, thereby threatening the hbc monopoly in the region.
Keywords: Canada; Employers; HUDSON'S Bay Co.; METIS; NATIVE Americans – Mixed descent

Protest Song and Verse in Cape Breton Island - MacKinnon, Richard (Ethnologies, 2008)
In regional enclaves throughout North America where labour and capital have fought battles over the years, there are many songs and verses about labour and protest. ...This article explores some previously unexamined protest songs and verses of Cape Breton Island. I will show how these vernacular materials were used for solidarity during times of upheaval and change in the mid 1920s. I will examine a body of songs culled largely from the Maritime Labour Herald, a newspaper of the 1920s that included both locally and internationally composed works. ...My intent is to show that a well-developed protest song tradition was alive and well and played an important role in the labour struggles of the 1920s. –From introduction

Industrial Relations in the New Europe: Enlargement, Integration and Reform - Mangan, David (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2008)
Industrial Relations in the New Europe: Enlargement, Integration and Reform, edited by Peter Leisink, Bram Steijn and Ulke Veersma, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; EU membership; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Reforms; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Perceptions de justice et implication : Les salariés contingents et permanents seraient-ils différents les uns des autres ? - Manville, Caroline (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2008)
Cette recherche vise à aider à la compréhension de l’implication organisationnelle des salariés contingents grâce au cadre de la justice organisationnelle. Elle repose sur une étude empirique par questionnaire réalisée auprès de 183 salariés permanents et 71 contingents, embauchés pour une durée déterminée. Nos résultats démontrent le pouvoir explicatif des perceptions de justice sur l’implication. Ils soulignent la sensibilité des salariés contingents à la façon dont ils sont traités dans l’organisation et montrent que les entreprises n’ont pas intérêt à considérer les salariés contingents comme une main-d’oeuvre périphérique, peu encline à s’engager dans l’organisation. Sur la base des analyses effectuées, l’article propose une réflexion sur les effets du statut d’emploi et en tire des implications managériales., The traditional work relationship performed on a full-time basis with a single employer is tending to lose its hegemony. Polivka and Nardone (1989) defined these new work arrangements as contingent in opposition to permanent work positions. According to these researchers, contingent work includes “any job in which an individual does not have an explicit or implicit contract for long-term employment and one in which the minimum hours can vary in a non-systematic way” (1989: 11). Traditionally, contingent work includes part-time work, temporary work, “in-house” temporary arrangements and independent work. Today, these forms of employment represent a significant and growing proportion of the workforce in western countries. This research is dedicated to “in-house” temporary workers in the French context. Indeed, little research has dealt with this subject (Connely and Gallagher, 2004). The behaviours of this type of workers are quite unknown. Moreover, Conway and Briner (2002) point out that research which focuses on contingent work does not often use an explicit theoretical framework which may be helpful in understanding the organizational behaviours of contingent workers. In line with their recommendations, this study aims to identify the role of organizational justice on contingent workers’ organizational commitment and to show if established relationships are similar according to employment status (i.e., contingent or permanent). On the one hand, organizational justice perceptions have significant effects on several attitudes and behaviours (Colquitt, 2001) but this effect has rarely been tested on contingent workers. On the other hand, the employment status is likely to have an influence upon the relationships between organizational justice and organizational attitudes and behaviours. Moreover, according to the fairness heuristic theory (Lind, 2001) which describes the shaping of justice judgments and their use, it seems that a fixed-term relationship with the organization may lead contingent workers to focus primarily on the interactional aspects of their organizational treatment. This research is based on an empirical study carried out with a sample of 181 permanent employees and 71 contingent employees in French private clinics. The moderator effect of work status was tested with hierarchical regression analysis. The results partially support the predictions. However, they show the significant effects of justice perceptions on commitment, in the case of permanent workers, as had been already demonstrated in previous research, but also in the case of contingent workers, which has been less shown, especially for “in-house” temporary workers and in the French context. Nevertheless, the results show a moderator effect for work status on the relationship between informational justice and commitment. Several observations are drawn from these results. First of all, the results demonstrate that contingent workers are sensitive to the treatment they experience within their organization and that it influences their commitment as well as is the case for permanent workers. Therefore, organizational commitment of the permanent and contingent workers is significantly and positively influenced by their distributive, procedural and interactional justice perceptions. Secondly, the effects of informational justice are different according to job status. Indeed, the effect of informational justice is weaker in the case of contingent workers than in the case of permanent workers. These results present theoretical and practical interest. Firstly, they support and extend the predictive power of organizational justice upon commitment, mainly established in the context of traditional work. Thus, the organizational justice framework seems to be useful for the analysis of a non standard employment relationship. Moreover, this kind of employment arrangement may not be seen as an economic one as long as contingent workers seem to value the social aspects of their relationships with their organization. Secondly, our results show that according to the type of employment relation, the effects of justice perceptions may be different, even if this difference is marginal. For this reason, organizations could have an interest in implementing differentiated management of their workforce according to work status. We believe that the nature of the detected moderator effect does not decrease the importance of informational justice perceptions. It rather underlines the inappropriateness of the information given to contingent workers. Trombetta and Rogers (1998) have put the emphasis on this information and its appropriateness upon the organizational commitment of nurses and nursing auxiliaries. Thus, it seems of great importance to make sure that the explanations and information delivered to contingent workers are accurate and relevant. We also believe that our results reinforce the role of the direct supervisor. Because the direct supervisor is in charge of the integration of contingent workers within the service or the team, these supervisors have a key role. It could be necessary to make them aware of this. Therefore, the organizations which use contingent work arrangements should implement a specific human resource management approach in order to reap the benefits of quantitative work flexibility., Esta investigación pretende ayudar a la comprensión de la implicación organizacional de los asalariados eventuales gracias al enfoque de la justicia organizacional. Se basa en un estudio empírico por cuestionario realizado con 183 asalariados permanentes y 71 eventuales, contratados por un tiempo determinado. Nuestros resultados demuestran el poder explicativo de las percepciones de justicia sobre la implicación. Sobresale la sensibilidad de los asalariados eventuales respecto a la manera como son tratados en la organización y se muestra que las empresas no tienen interés en considerar los asalariados eventuales como mano de obra periférica, no muy favorable a comprometerse con la organización. Sobre la base de los análisis efectuados, el artículo propone una reflexión sobre los efectos del estatuto de empleo y deduce las implicaciones para la gestión.

When Red Meets Green: Perceptions of Environmental Change in the B.C. Communist Left, 1937-1978 - Martin, Eryk (University of Victoria, 2008)
From the 1940s to the 1970s the communist left in British Columbia used debates and perceptions of environmental change as a means to engage in a critique of capitalist society. In engaging in these debates, communists articulated a Marxist understanding of the connections between capitalism and environmental change. However, these articulations were heavily connected to broader occurrences that situated the communist left alongside a diverse group of social actors. Beginning in the 1940s the communist left situated their critique of provincial forest policy into a wider social debate over the management of forest resources. During the 1950s and 1960s, concerns over environmental change were transformed into debates over the effects of nuclear weapons and industrial pollution. From the late 1960s through to late 1970s elements of the communist left once again engaged with the environmental changes taking place in the forest sector, as renewed concerns developed over the status of the forest economy and the preservation of wilderness areas. To investigate the communist left’s perceptions and politicization of these issues this thesis focuses on the activities of communist controlled unions such as the International Woodworkers of America as well as the B.C. section of the Communist Party of Canada/Labour Progressive Party. In addition to these organizations, this thesis also follows the experiences of Erni Knott. As a woodworker, a founding member of the IWA, a member of the Communist Party, and an active environmentalist, Knott’s experiences highlight the complex way in which communist politics merged and conflicted with perceptions of environmental change.

The World Bank: A Critical Primer - Masterson, Thomas (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
The article reviews the book, "The World Bank: A Critical Primer," by Eric Toussaint.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; INTERNATIONAL banking industry; Nonfiction; TOUSSAINT; Eric; WORLD Bank: A Critical Primer; The (Book)

Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia - Mathieu, Sarah-Jane (Saje) (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
The article reviews the book, "Wobblies on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia," by Peter Cole.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; COLE; Peter; Labor Unions; Nonfiction; WOBBLIES on the Waterfront: Interracial Unionism in Progressive-Era Philadelphia (Book)

Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party - Mayer, Heather (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
The article reviews the book, "Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party," by Paul Frymer.
Keywords: BLACK & Blue: African Americans; the Labor Movement & the Decline of the Democratic Party (Book); BOOKS – Reviews; FRYMER; Paul; Labor movement; Nonfiction

Gay Men and the Left in Post-War Britain: How the Personal Got Political - Maynard, Steven (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
The article reviews the book, "Gay Men and the Left in Post-War Britain: How the Personal Got Political," by Lucy Robinson.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; GAY Men & the Left in Post-War Britain: How the Personal Got Political (Book); GAY people; Nonfiction; ROBINSON; Lucy

Reasoning Otherwise: Leftists and the People's Enlightenment in Canada, 1890-1920 - McKay, Ian (Between the Lines, 2008)
In Reasoning Otherwise, author Ian McKay returns to the concepts and methods of 'reconnaissance' first outlined in Rebels, Reds, Radicals to examine the people and events that led to the rise of the left in Canada from 1890 to 1920. Reasoning Otherwise highlights how a new way of looking at the world based on theories of evolution transformed struggles around class, religion, gender, and race, and culminates in a new interpretation of the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919. As McKay demonstrated in Rebels, Reds, Radicals, the Canadian left is alive and flourishing, and has shaped the Canadian experience in subtle and powerful ways. Reasoning Otherwise continues this tradition of offering important new insight into the deep roots of leftism in Canada. –Publisher's description
https://btlbooks.com/book/reasoning-otherwise
Keywords: History; Politics and government; Right and left (Political science); Socialism

Rise and Decline of Local 6500 United Steel Workers of America, The - McKeigan, Bruce (Mining Town Crisis: Globalization, Labour and Resistance in Sudbury, 2008)
Chronicles the contested election of Dave Patterson as president of Local 6500, the 1978 Inco strike, and the intra-union turmoil that followed that resulted in a more conservative leadership.
https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/mining-town-crisis

Working Girls in the West: Representations of Wage-Earning Women - McMaster, Lindsey (UBC Press, 2008)
As the twentieth century got underway in Canada, young women who entered the paid workforce became the focus of intense public debate. Young wage-earning women - "working girls"–Embodied all that was unnerving and unnatural about modern times: the disintegration of the family, the independence of women, and the unwholesomeness of city life. These anxieties were amplified in the West. Long after eastern Canada was considered settled and urbanized, the West continued to be represented as a frontier where the idea of the region as a society in the making added resonance to the idea of the working girl as social pioneer." "Using an interpretive approach that centres on literary representation, Lindsey McMaster takes a fresh look at the working heroine of western Canadian literature alongside social documents and newspaper accounts of her real-life counterparts. Working Girls in the West heightens our understanding of a figure that fired the imagination of writers and observers at the turn of the last century." –Publisher's description. Contents: Working women in the west at the turn of the century –The urban working girl in turn-of-the-century Canadian literature – White slaves, prostitutes, and delinquents – Girls on strike – White working girls and the mixed-race workplace – Conclusion: Just girls.

Writing Chinese Labour History: Changes and Continuities in Labour Historiography - McQuaide, Shiling (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
[In this bibliographic essay which focuses on historical studies of Chinese labour,] ... I summarize Western interpretations of pre-1949 Chinese labour and identify broad differences separating Western interpretations of Chinese labour movement trends from those conceived by Chinese scholars. Next, I present a discussion of major debates in labour historiography to shed some light on the different perspectives adopted by Chinese labour scholars relative to other social historians. Finally, I examine a number of factors that contribute to Chinese labour historians’ reticence to embrace and adapt newer models, and conclude by noting that beneath the apparent consistency of message characterizing pre-1949 Chinese labour studies in general, political and social changes are having a subtle impact on the ways in which Chinese labour historians depict the working-class. –Author's introduction
Keywords: CHINA; Historians; History; Labor; POLITICAL change; Social change

The Cinema of Globalization: A Guide to Films About the New Economic Order - Melnyk, George (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
The article reviews the book, "The Cinema of Globalization: A Guide to Films About the New Economic Order," by Tom Zaniello.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CINEMA of Globalization: A Guide to Films About the New Economic Order; The (Book); Globalization; Nonfiction; ZANIELLO; Tom

The Indigenous Foundation of the Resource Economy of BC's North Coast - Menzies, Charles R.; Butler, Caroline F. (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
The article focuses on the Indigenous Foundation of the Resource Economy of British Columbia's north coast. It discusses the emergence of capitalist resource extraction, and the canneries and village-based labour in the region. It also highlights the combined forestry, fisheries work, and harvesting of traditional food resources by Ts'msyen people until the middle of the 20th century.
Keywords: BRITISH Columbia – Economic conditions; British Columbia; CANNERIES; Capitalism; FORESTS & forestry; Fisheries; Labor

Unwrapping the European Social Model - Morel, Sylvie (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2008)
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

New Technologies and the Gender Wage Gap: Evidence from France - Moreno-Galbis, Eva; Wolff, François-Charles (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2008)
This paper focuses on the impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) on the gender pay gap along the wage distribution. Our empirical analysis relies on two complementary French surveys conducted in 1998 and 2005 on a large sample of employees. We estimate quantile regressions and use a difference-in-difference strategy to assess the effect of new technologies. Both in 1998 and 2005, we find that the gender gap estimated for the group of ICT-users is not really different from the gap for non-users. Among ICT-users, wage differentials between men and women are mostly explained by a divergence in the rewards to identical characteristics.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Gender identity; Impact analysis; Labor Unions; Qualitative research; Regression analysis; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Wage differential; information technology

Psychological Socialism. The Labour Party and Qualities of Mind and Character, 1931 to the Present - Morgan, Kevin (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
The article reviews the book, "Psychological Socialism: The Labour Party and Qualities of Mind and Character 1931 to the Present," by Jeremy Nuttall.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; LABOUR Party (Great Britain); NUTTALL; Jeremy; Nonfiction; PSYCHOLOGICAL Socialism: The Labour Party & Qualities of Mind & Character 1931 to the Present (Book)

Trade Unions and Worker Movements in the North American Communications Industries - Mosco, Vincent (Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, 2008)
This paper reports on a project that examines trends in North American labour movements, and specifically in the workforce, in the converging communications, culture, and information technology sectors. Drawing on documentary evidence and interviews, the paper concentrates on two important developments: efforts to unify workers across the knowledge and communication industries, and the rise of worker movements that operate in conjunction with, but outside, the formal trade union structure. The paper begins by situating these developments within debates about labour in a 'post-industrial', 'information', or 'network' society. It describes the challenges facing workers in the knowledge sector, especially rapid technological change, massive corporate consolidation, the rise of the neo-liberal state and divisions between cultural and technical workers in the knowledge sector. The paper proceeds to describe how North American workers are responding within the traditional trade union system, primarily through forms of consolidation or trade union convergence (such as the Communication Workers of America), and also through worker movements operating outside the traditional trade union system in the information technology and cultural sectors (for example WashTech and the National Writers Union). The paper concludes by addressing the significance of these developments. Do they portend a rebirth of North American labour activism or do they represent its last gasps?

My View from the Blackened Rocks - Mulroy, Cathy (Mining Town Crisis: Mining Town Crisis: Globalization, Labour, and Resistance in Sudbury, 2008)
One of the first women to be hired as a miner by Inco in Sudbury, Ontario, in 1974, Mulroy recounts her experiences of the company, the work place, and the union.
https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/mining-town-crisis

The Impossibilists: A Brief Profile of the Socialist Party of Canada - Newell, Peter E. (Athena, 2008)
Formed in January 1905, the Socialist Party of Canada's anti- reformist, anti-statist revolutionary platform led to ideological disputes with rival socialist groups and even arguments within the Party itself over what it stood for. Peter E Newell's absorbing and thorough account of the life and times of the Socialist Party of Canada charts the Party's pre-history in the 1890s, when the availability of translations of the works of Marx and Engels fuelled the radicalism of such figures as Daniel De Leon. It also covers the early years of the twentieth century when, with the merger of like-minded Provincial socialist parties, the SPC was founded. In the present day the party remains a beacon for socialists worldwide for its refusal to compromise its passions and beliefs. –Publisher's description
Keywords: Socialist Party of Canada

What's Right is Right: The Supreme Court Gets It - Norman, Ken (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2008)
Examines the Supreme Court's B.C. Health Services decision (2007) as a crucial change in the discourse of labour rights in Canada.

Solidarity First: Canadian Workers and Social Cohesion - O'Brien, Robert (UBC Press, 2008)
As working people’s lives become increasingly fragmented, competitive, and unequal, debates about social cohesion capture the unease of contemporary society over growing economic restructuring. Solidarity First examines the concept and practice of social cohesion in terms of its impact on, and significance for, workers in Canada. Contributors examine how social cohesion functions on multiple levels. They challenge standard approaches by highlighting the experiences of women and non-Canadians. They investigate attempts by Toyota and Magna to construct corporate forms of cohesion and efforts by a local community to forge cohesion via the new cultural economy. And they explore the relationship between cohesion in Canada and the international environment. Critically examining the issue from the ground up, Solidarity First concludes that reinvigorated worker solidarity is a prerequisite to a more worker-friendly form of social cohesion. It will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of public policy, political science, sociology, and labour studies. –Publisher's description
Book available at Internet Archive to people with print disabilities: https://archive.org/details/solidarityfirstc0000unse
Keywords: Economic conditions; Employees; Social conditions; Social integration; Social participation; Social values; Solidarity; Working class

Wal-Mart: The Face of 21st Century Capitalism - O'Gorman, Melanie (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
The article reviews the book, "Wal-Mart: The Face of 21st Century Capitalism," edited by Nelson Lichtenstein.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; LICHTENSTEIN; Nelson; Nonfiction; WAL-Mart Stores Inc.; WAL-Mart: The Face of 21st-Century Capitalism (Book)

Red Chicago: American Communism At Its Grassroots, 1928-1935 - Palmer, Bryan D. (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
The article reviews the book, "Red Chicago: American Communism at Its Grassroots, 1928-1935," by Randi Storch.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Communism; Nonfiction; RED Chicago: American Communism at Its Grassroots 1928-1935 (Book); STORCH; Randi

Labouring Canada: Class, Gender, and Race in Canadian Working-Class History - Palmer, Bryan D.; Sangster, Joan (Oxford University Press, 2008)
This text is a collection of classic and contemporary articles exploring the nature of work in Canadian history from the late eighteenth century to the current day. Class relations and labour form the core of the volume, but attention will also be paid to the state and its relations with workers both formal and informal. The volume is designed as a core text for classes in Canadian labour/working-class history, taught out of history and labour studies departments. –Publisher's description
OCLC: 178990995
Keywords: Canada; History; Labor movement; Social history; Working class

Citizen Docker: Making a New Deal on the Vancouver Waterfront, 1919-1939 - Parnaby, Andrew (University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division, 2008)
After the First World War, many Canadians were concerned with the possibility of national regeneration. Progressive-minded politicians, academics, church leaders, and social reformers turned increasingly to the state for solutions. Yet, as significant as the state was in articulating and instituting a new morality, outside actors such as employers were active in pursuing reform agendas as well, taking aim at the welfare of the family, citizen, and nation. Citizen Docker considers this trend, focusing on the Vancouver waterfront as a case in point.After the war, waterfront employers embarked on an ambitious program - welfare capitalism - to ease industrial relations, increase the efficiency of the port, and, ultimately, recondition longshoremen themselves. Andrew Parnaby considers these reforms as a microcosm of the process of accommodation between labour and capital that affected Canadian society as a whole in the 1920s and 1930s. By creating a new sense of entitlement among waterfront workers, one that could not be satisfied by employers during the Great Depression, welfare capitalism played an important role in the cultural transformation that took place after the Second World War.Encompassing labour and gender history, aboriginal studies, and the study of state formation, Citizen Docker examines the deep shift in the aspirations of working people, and the implications that shift had on Canadian society in the interwar years and beyond. –Publisher's description. Contents: Introduction: "A good citizen policy" – Welfare capitalism on the waterfront – Securing a square deal – "The best men that ever worked the lumber" – Heavy lifting – "From the fury of democracy, good Lord, deliver us!" – Conclusion: from square deal to new deal. Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-234) and index.
Book available at Internet Archive to people with print disabilities: https://archive.org/details/citizendockermak0000parn

The Cultural Economy of Survival: The Mi'kmaq of Cape Breton in the Mid-19th Century - Parnaby, Andrew (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
By the mid-19th century, the Mi'kmaq of Cape Breton Island, much like the Mi'kmaq on the Nova Scotia mainland, were nearly destitute. The outcome of over two centuries of political, economic, and cultural interaction with Europeans, this condition was exacerbated by the massive influx of Scottish settlers to the island after the end of the Napoleonic Wars – nearly 30,000 between 1815 and 1838. With their lands occupied and access to customary hunting and fishing grounds severely limited, the island's Mi'kmaw population – estimated to be about 500 in 1847 – adopted numerous economic initiatives to stay alive: they pursued agriculture and wage labour, mobilized older skills toward different occupational niches, and maintained, at least to some extent, customary rounds of seasonal resource procurement. This essay examines this evolving pattern of occupational pluralism, and highlights how customary norms, codes, and behaviours provided part of the logic through which the island's Mi'kmaw people made decisions about what to do, economically, to survive. Mid-19th century Cape Breton was a contested place as the forces of immigration and settlement exerted new pressures on Mi'kmaw life. This paper is about that changing context and how the island's indigenous people sought to understand it, negotiate its pressures and possibilities, and blunt its negative effects.
Keywords: CAPE Breton Island (N.S.); CULTURAL pluralism; Economics; MI'KMAQ (North American people); Nova Scotia

The Many Motivations of Jack Tar - Parnaby, Andrew (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
The article reviews several books including "Slave Ship Sailors and Their Captive Cargoes, 1730-1807," by Emma Christopher, "Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution," by Paul A. Glije, and "Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age," by Marcus Rediker.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CHRISTOPHER; Emma; GLIJE; Paul A.; LIBERTY on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution (Book); Nonfiction; REDIKER; Marcus; SLAVE Ship Sailors & Their Captive Cargoes 1730-1807 (Book); VILLAINS of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age (Book)

From Peasants to Labourers: Ukrainian and Belarusan Immigration from the Russian Empire to Canada - Petryshyn, Jaroslav (Jerry) (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
The article reviews the book, "From Peasants to Labourers: Ukrainian and Belarusan Immigration From the Russian Empire to Canada," by Vadim Kukushkin.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; FROM Peasants to Labourers: Ukrainian & Belarusan Immigration From the Russian Empire to Canada (Book); Immigrants; KUKUSHKIN; Vadim; Nonfiction

Union Discourse and Perceived Violation of Contract: A Social Contract-Based Approach - Peyrat-Guillard, Dominique (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2008)
This article proposes a study of the violation of contract process through a case study. The study is based on a discourse of the union, SUD Michelin, which is contrasted both with those of another union, the CFE-CGC Michelin and of the senior management of the corporation. The results highlight the possibility of applying Morrison and Robinson's (1997) Psychological Contract Violation model at the social contract level. The emotional reactions appearing in the literature, which are associated with contract violations, can be seen in the union discourse of the SUD. The other union does not perceive any breach of contract. These differences may be attributed to the very nature of social contracts-relational in the first case, and more balanced in the second.
Keywords: Breach of contract; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Models; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Tire industry

Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants - Phillips, Lisa (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
The article reviews the book, "Femininity in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants," by Kathleen M. Barry.
Keywords: BARRY; Kathleen M.; BOOKS – Reviews; FEMININITY in Flight: A History of Flight Attendants (Book); Femininity; Nonfiction

L’emploi durable, une relation de type don/contre-don : De la validation aux enseignements d’un paradigme - Pihel, Laetitia (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2008)
Cet article s’intéresse à la question des relations d’emploi durables et se propose de démontrer la pertinence du paradigme du don/contre-don de Mauss (2003) pour lire et comprendre les réglages de ces relations et l’engagement des individus inscrits à l’intérieur. Il étudie, à partir d’une recherche de type ethnographique et inductive menée au sein de l’entreprise France Télécom, les moteurs et les ressorts de l’engagement durable des acteurs dans un contexte où les conditions initiales d’entrée dans la relation ont été modifiées par les restructurations de l’entreprise. En s’appuyant sur les résultats de l’enquête, il témoigne de la force explicative des thèses de Mauss et de leur intérêt pour la GRH, en montrant comment celles-ci complètent les approches managériales traditionnelles et redéfinissent les conditions d’efficacité des politiques d’accompagnement proposées par l’entreprise., There is much research into occupations, and a growing marked interest in what are called “new careers.” These new careers, which are defined in relation to traditional occupations, are typified by lower loyalty and less attachment to the employer on the part of the employee. There are various factors that account for this. From a sociological viewpoint, modern workers tend to need to give a sense to their professional life and so, depending on the moment and their desires, they change organization and accumulate diverse experiences over the course of their career. Economically, with the ubiquity of corporate restructuring and organizational change, employees aim to protect themselves from the risk of redundancy having come to the realization that jobs for life no longer exist. These changes correspond to a new, more contractual and more rational, psychological relationship between the individual and the organization. This means that in the new areas of exchange, loyalty and reciprocity are maintained through the synchronous realization of expectations. As a result, attachment to the organization and emotional investment are weaker than was the case in the past. While being both justified and pertinent, the above mentioned research engenders a particular viewpoint. Through a certain prioritization, this research has lead to an almost total neglect of research into single-employer careers and into long-term employment relationships which were historically the basis of an employee’s relation with the organization. Although single-employer careers have not disappeared, it must be admitted that nowadays they have taken on a new form. Internal reorganization and permanent changes have contributed to a redefinition of the conditions of long-term employment relationships. They also contribute to the modification of the rules of involvement and the transformation of the relationship between contribution and remuneration. This leads to the question of the longevity of the commitment of those who choose to stay with one organization. It is to this rarely investigated question that this article is addressed. This article analyses the sustainable employment relationship in order to understand the motives for the commitment of the actors engaged in such a relationship. The study is based on an ethnographic survey which was conducted over fifteen months within the firm France Telecom. Over the last fifteen years, this firm has undergone major restructurings which has had as a result that the firm’s employees work in a professional and social framework that is different from the one in place when they joined the company. The legal status, the meaning given to their work, the values as well as the job itself have all been redefined to match the new obligations of the organization. Classic management approaches consider that undergone changes in conditions induce hitches or even a rupture of the psychological contract. They also show that these hitches in the exchanges between employer and employee go along with negative consequences on the employees’ commitment, their loyalty, their social behaviour, and their performance (Delobbe et al., 2005). Studies on the psychological contract have mainly highlighted the fact that, under such circumstances, most employees resign. Our research seeks to understand what causes employees to maintain their involvement even when their employment conditions have been radically redefined. To do this, we start with the paradoxes seen in our study. At France Telecom, even when those involved have undergone professional reorientation, moving them away from their previous experiences, none of them wish to leave the company. The behaviour of the individuals and the performance of the company show a strong commitment to the company and to the work on the part of the employees. The inductive survey reveals that the reasons for a lasting/long-term commitment are grounded in and protected by the history of the relationship that links the employees to the firm (primary socialization, protection of traditional values, behaviour standards, social dependence) and also by a great number of mixed features that are specific to lasting/long-term employment relationships (strong identity roots, affection for the firm, etc.). The paradigm of gift/counter-gift (don/contre-don) and of the social phenomenon initiated by Marcel Mauss (1923–1924) is used here to analyze this type of relationship. This paradigm allows us to take into account the complexity of the relationship, the dynamics of the different features considered and, most importantly, the role of the lasting/long-term interaction between the employee and the particular context of the relationship. Moreover, it allows us to better understand the issues raised by reorganization for those involved. Using the results of the survey, the article confirms that Mauss’ gift/counter-gift paradigm is relevant to the analysis and understanding of lasting/long-term employment relationships. It also proves that Mauss’ theories are particularly illuminating and of a great interest for human resource management, showing that they complement the traditional management approaches as they define new conditions for the support programmes implemented by the firm in order to be efficient. In this article, we put forward the concept of a “chain giving.” This concept emphasizes the overall and historic dimensions of the relation with the enterprise. It encourages the measurement of all the implications involved in long-term employment relationships (professional, personal and social implications) and their incorporation into managerial decision making. This concept can bring us a clearer reading of the expectations of the individual, comprehension of the paradoxes observed at the workface and a deepening of our understanding of reactions to changes put in place by organizations., Este artículo se interesa a la cuestión de las relaciones de empleo durables y se propone demostrar la pertinencia del paradigma del don/ contra – don de Mauss (2003) para leer y comprender los reglajes de esas relaciones y la implicación de los individuos inscritos al interior. A partir de una investigación de tipo etnográfica e inductiva llevada a cabo en la empresa France Telecom, se estudia los motores y los resortes de la implicación durable de los actores en un contexto donde las condiciones iniciales de entrada en la relación han sido modificadas por las restructuraciones de la empresa. Apoyándose en los resultados de la encuesta, el estudio testimonia de la fuerza explicativa de las tesis de Mauss y de su interés para la GRH, mostrando cómo ellas se completan los enfoques de gestión tradicionales y redefinen las condiciones de eficacidad de las políticas de acompañamiento propuestas por la empresa.

Strategy and Human Resource Management - Plumb, Barry (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2008)
Strategy and Human Resource Management, Second Edition, by Peter Boxall and John Purcell, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Human resource management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Strategic management

Broken English, Broken Bones? Mechanisms Linking Language Proficiency and Occupational Health in a Montreal Garment Factory - Premji, Stéphanie; Messing, Karen; Lippel, Katherine (International Journal of Health Services, 2008)
Language barriers are often cited as a factor contributing to ethnic inequalities in occupational health; however, little information is available about the mechanisms at play. The authors describe the multiple ways in which language influences occupational health in a large garment factory employing many immigrants in Montreal. Between 2004 and 2006, individual, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 15 women and 10 men from 14 countries of birth. Interviews were conducted in French and English, Canada's official languages, as well as in non-official languages with the help of colleague-interpreters. Observation within the workplace was also carried out at various times during the project. The authors describe how proficiency in the official languages influences occupational health by affecting workers' ability to understand and communicate information, and supporting relationships that can affect work-related health. They also describe workers' strategies to address communication barriers and discuss the implications of these strategies from an occupational health standpoint. Along with the longer-term objectives of integrating immigrants into the linguistic majority and addressing structural conditions that can affect health, policies and practices need to be put in place to protect the health and well-being of those who face language barriers in the short term.

Dreams of Peace and Freedom: Utopian Moments in the 20th Century - Purdy, Sean (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
The article reviews the book, "Dreams of Peace and Freedom: Utopian Moments in the 20th Century," by Jay Winter.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; DREAMS of Peace & Freedom: Utopian Moments in the 20th Century (Book); Nonfiction; UTOPIAN socialism; WINTER; Jay

Domestic Reforms: Political Visions and Family Regulation in British Columbia, 1862-1940 - Purvey, Diane (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
The article reviews the book "Domestic Reforms: Political Visions and Family Regulation in British Columbia, 1862-1940," by Chris Clarkson.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CLARKSON; Chris; DOMESTIC Reforms: Political Visions & Family Regulation in British Columbia 1862-1940 (Book); LAW reform; Nonfiction

Quand mobiliser et proximité riment : le rôle déterminant du supérieur immédiat - Quenneville, Nadine; Simard, Gilles; Bentein, Kathleen (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2008)
Cet article examine l’influence de la perception de certaines pratiques de gestion des ressources humaines sur les comportements de mobilisation des employés, au travers de deux processus d’échange sociaux distincts, employé-organisation et employé-supérieur. Les comportements de mobilisation étaient évalués par les supérieurs et toutes les autres variables par les employés. Les analyses ont été réalisées sur un échantillon de 222 employés et 38 supérieurs de commerces au détail d’une chaîne canadienne. Nous avons établi les relations à l’aide de la méthode d’équations structurelles avec LISREL. Les résultats mettent en relief le rôle fondamental de la relation d’échange social entre les employés et leur supérieur, à travers la perception de support et de l’engagement affectif orientés vers ce dernier., This article presents the results of a study highlighting the role of perceived support and affective commitment in the relationship between the perception of three human resource management practices and two types of employee mobilization behaviours, as assessed by their supervisor. This study sought to explore the relationship between skills development practices, non-monetary recognition and information sharing, on the one hand, and mobilization behaviours in two categories or “areas” of performance, that is, behaviours related to work contract compliance and those related to high job performance, on the other. The concept of mobilization behaviours and its background will be presented in detail. This concept is part of a broader model, that of mobilizing human resources, which will also be presented. In light of research advances in this field, we measured two agents of support and commitment, that is, the supervisor and the organization .We chose management practices which are used in a discretionary manner by the organization but especially by supervisors. Indeed, deliberate intervention on the part of the supervisor increases the influence of these practices on the level of support perceived by employees. The social exchange and norm of reciprocity theories were used to explain the relationships between the different variables in our model. The social exchange theory helps to explain an employee’s decision as to whether or not to contribute to the well-being of the organization in response to the exchange relationships that he or she has experienced at work. Based on the postulate of reciprocity, it is understood that employees tend to show affective commitment to the organization and the supervisor, insofar as they also perceive that the latter are committed to them. More specifically, through positive initiatives such as the implementation of human resource management practices, the organization and the supervisor foster perceived support by getting across the symbolic message to employees that they are valued and taken into consideration. In response to this perceived support, employees develop affective commitment, that is, an emotional attachment to the organization and the supervisor. It is therefore postulated that employees who perceive support from the organization and the supervisor, through the implementation of discretionary human resource practices, will feel a moral obligation to repay these benefits, by demonstrating affective commitment and adopting mobilization behaviours. In this regard, it is recognized that mobilization is above all fostered by significant reciprocity relationships which are maintained through moral and social debts. We thus studied two social exchange relationships, that between the employee and the organization, and that between the employee and the supervisor. We also hypothesize that an employee’s commitment to the supervisor will lead him or her to display a greater number of mobilization behaviours related to work contract compliance, as these behaviours are likely to be particularly beneficial to the supervisor on a day-to-day basis. In order to eliminate common variance problems, we measured the employees’ mobilization behaviours (related to work contract compliance and high job performance) through a supervisor questionnaire, and the explanatory variables through an employee questionnaire. Analyses were carried out on a sample of 222 employees and 38 supervisors in a Canadian retail chain. Relationships were determined using structural equation modelling with LISREL. We also established the discriminant validity of the constructs by comparing various measurement models using LISREL. Lastly, alternative models were developed in order to assess the mediating effects of support from and commitment to the organization and the supervisor. Our results show that a favourable perception of skills development, non-monetary recognition and information sharing was positively linked to the perception of organizational support. Of these three practices, only information sharing was not associated with the perception of organizational support through the perception of support from the supervisor. Skills development and non-monetary recognition, on the other hand, positively influenced the perception of support from the supervisor which, in turn, reinforced the perception of organizational support. The relationships between the perception of organizational support, affective organizational commitment and high job performance behaviours, as assessed, were significant, as were the relationships between the perception of support from the supervisor, affective commitment to the supervisor and behaviours related to work contract compliance and high job performance, as assessed. Lastly, the link between affective commitment to the supervisor and behaviours related to work contract compliance, as assessed, was stronger than that between affective organizational commitment and these same behaviours, as assessed. Comparing alternative models to the structural model proposed made it possible to gather evidence regarding the mediating role of affective organizational commitment and affective commitment to the supervisor in the relationship between the perception of organizational support, the perception of support from the supervisor and mobilization behaviours. We set out to assess the explanatory power of perceived support and affective commitment involved in the relationship between employees, their supervisor and the organization. Our conclusions indicate that the relationship between employees and their supervisor in the retail trade industry is significant and should be taken into consideration by organizations that wish to foster the mobilization of employees through various human resource practices. Thus, we discovered that in response to the quality of their relationship with their supervisor, employees adopt a wide range of mobilization behaviours., Este artículo examina la influencia de la percepción de ciertas prácticas de gestión de recursos humanos sobre los comportamientos de movilización de los empleados, a través de dos distintos procesos sociales de intercambio, empleado – organización y empleado – superior. Los comportamientos de movilización fueron evaluados por los superiores y todas las otras variables fueron evaluados por los empleados. Los análisis se efectuaron sobre una muestra de 222 empleados y 38 superiores de comercios de detalle de una compañía canadiense. Las relaciones se establecieron con la ayuda del método de ecuaciones estructurales con LISREL. Los resultados resaltan el rol fundamental de la relación de intercambio social entre empleados y sus respetivos superiores, mediante la percepción de apoyo y de compromiso afectivo.

Théories des organisations : approches classiques, contemporaines et de l'avant-garde - Racine, Michel (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2008)
The article reviews the book, "Théories des organisations : approches classiques, contemporaines et de l’avant-garde," by Linda Rouleau.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

The Dirt: Industrial Disease and Conflict at St. Lawrence, Newfoundland - Rennie, Rick (Fernwood, 2008)
In the cemeteries of St. Lawrence and several neighbouring towns on the south coast of Newfoundland lie the remains of some 200 workers, killed by the dust and radiation that permeated the area’s fluorspar mines. The Dirt chronicles the many forces that created this disaster and shaped the response to it, including the classic ‘jobs or health’ dilemma, the contentious process of determining the nature and extent of industrial disease and the desire of employers to ‘externalize’ the costs of production onto workers and communities. Central to the account is the persistent effort by workers, women in the community and other activists to gain recognition of health hazards in the mines, their effects on workers and to obtain adequate compensation for victims and their families. –Publisher's description. Contents: Origins of a disaster: working conditions and labour relations in the 1930s – Protest and retreat: the war years – Industry revival, increasing hazards and the recognition of sislicosis, 1946-1956 – More deadly perils: radiation and cancer – "The truly ghastly total" and the lack of compensation coverage – Mounting protest, industry closure, and the legacy of the past.
https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/the-dirt
Keywords: Aspect sanitaire; Diseases; Employees; Employees Diseases; Employees Health and hygiene; Fluorspar industry; Health and hygiene; Health and hygiene. Mining; Health aspects; Industrie; Maladies; Mineral dusts; Miners; Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland and Labrador St. Lawrence; Newfoundland and Labrador. Calcium Fluoride; Newfoundland and Labrador. Occupational Diseases; Newfoundland and Labrador. Silicosis; Personnel; St. Lawrence. Fluorite; St. Lawrence. Fluorspar industry; St. Lawrence. Mineral dusts; St. Lawrence. Miners; St. Lawrence. Mineurs; Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; Toxicologie; Toxicology; Toxicology. Miners

Forestry Workers and their Communities - Robbins, William G. (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
The article reviews and comments on several books, including "Capital and Labour in the British Columbia Forest Industry 1934-1974," by Gordon Hak, "The Tribes of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South," by William P. Jones, and the "Up-Coast: Forests and Industry on British Columbia's North Coast 1870-2005," by Richard A. Rajala.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CAPITAL & Labour in the British Columbia Forest Industry 1934-1974 (Book); HAK; Gordon; JONES; William P.; Nonfiction; RAJALA; Richard A.; TRIBES of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South; The (Book); UP-Coast: Forests & Industry on British Columbia's North Coast 1870-2005 (Book)

Fading Corporatism: Israel's Labor Law and Industrial Relations in Transition - Rosenhek, Zeev (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
The article reviews the book, "Fading Corporatism: Israel's Labor Law and Industrial Relations in Transition," by Guy Mundlak.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; FADING Corporatism: Israel's Labor Law & Industrial Relations in Transition (Book); Industrial relations; MUNDLAK; Guy; Nonfiction

Labour Left Out: Canada’s Failure to Protect and Promote Collective Bargaining as a Human Right - Ross, Stephanie (Socialist Studies/Études socialistes, 2008)
The article reviews the book, "Labour Left Out: Canada’s Failure to Protect and Promote Collective Bargaining as a Human Right ," by Roy J. Adams.

Blue-Collar Aristocrats? General Motors Autoworkers and Oppositional Class Consciousness - Roth, Reuben N. (Humanity & Society, 2008)
Postwar social theorists (Goldthorpe, Lipset, Giddens, Hout, Brooks and Manza) have typically portrayed members of the Western industrial working-class as accommodative and suggest that an affluent proletariat has seen its oppositional working-class consciousness subverted and transformed by the ‘cash nexus’ into various forms of social integration. With reference to Mann's (1973) measures of class-consciousness I explore expressions of proletarian consciousness among organized workers at one of Canada's largest industrial union locals, the Canadian Auto Workers Local 222 of General Motors, Oshawa, Canada. Here I tested for the existence and degree of working-class imagery, proletarian identity and oppositional working-class consciousness using a survey questionnaire (N=102), in-depth interviews and participant observation. I found a shared view of class relations as primarily characterized by conflict, a clear working-class self-identification and measurable forms of oppositional working-class consciousness among this group. My findings confirm the hypothesis that Oshawa autoworkers' relative material advantage is insufficient to completely transform their proletarian consciousness. In this context I discuss the 1996 Oshawa plant occupation as an example of elevated oppositional class consciousness among Oshawa autoworkers.
Publisher: SAGE Publications Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA

The Ongoing Challenge: American Workers and Unions - Russell, Jason (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
The article reviews several books on American workers and unions including "Hard Work: Remaking the American Labor Movement," by Rick Fantasia and Kim Voss, "Demanding Work: The Paradox of Job Quality in the Affluent Economy," by Francis Green, and "Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace," by Nancy MacLean.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; DEMANDING Work: The Paradox of Job Quality in the Affluent Economy (Book); FANTASIA; Rick; FREEDOM Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace (Book); GREEN; Francis; HARD Work: Remaking the American Labor Movement (Book); MACLEAN; Nancy; Nonfiction; VOSS; Kim

The State of Working America, 2006/2007 - Russell, Jason (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
The article reviews the book, "The State of Working America 2006/2007," by Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein and Sylvia Allegretto.
Keywords: ALLEGRETTO; Sylvia; BERNSTEIN; Jared; BOOKS – Reviews; Labor; MISHEL; Lawrence; Nonfiction; STATE of Working America 2006-2007; The (Book)

“Queen of the Picket Line”: Beauty Contests in the Post–World War II Canadian Labor Movement, 1945–1970 - Sangster, Joan (Labor, 2008)
This article examines the proliferation of beauty contests sponsored by the union movement after World War II, as a means of exploring the contradictions of the Fordist accord for women workers, and also feminist scholarship on beauty and the body. Beauty contests were articulations of labor pride and identity; they reflected the popular culture of the post-war period, labor's search for respectability, and labor's attempts to entice women into the movement by appealing to women's culture. A few contests even offered more subversive meanings of beauty by celebrating the `queen of the picket line.' However, most labor beauty contests promoted competitive individualism, consumption, and images of passive femininity that kept women marginalized on the sidelines of the labor movements. Le Bal des Midinettes, sponsored by the ILGWU, was an excellent example of these contradictions, espousing both faith in the Cinderella myth and a sense of French Canadian working-class pride. While theories stressing identity, agency, and subjectivity offer some insights into beauty contests, feminist-materialist analyses of commodification, exploitation, and ideology remain essential to our understanding of their meaning for, and impact on women workers in this period.

Ageing Labour Forces - Promises and Prospects - Sarfati, Hedva (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2008)
Ageing Labour Forces – Promises and Prospects, edited by Philip Taylor, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Cultural change; International; Labor Unions; Labor force; Older workers; Public policy; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Competing Claims in Work and Family Life - Sarfati, Hedva (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2008)
Competing Claims in Work and Family Life, edited by Tanja van der Lippe and Pascale Peters, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; QUALITY of life; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Work life balance

Labour Rights as Human Rights? A Response to Roy Adams - Savage, Larry (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2008)

Organized Labour and Local Politics: Ontario's 2006 Municipal Elections - Savage, Larry (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
The article provides information on the municipal elections which were held in Ontario in November 2006. The elections represented a strategic shift in the political priorities of organized labour. The Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) held a series of strategy sessions, candidate schools, public speaking and media courses, and political organizer training sessions. The campaign was rolled out in four phases including visioning, training and endorsement, and accountability.
Keywords: CANADIAN Labour Congress; LOCAL elections; Labor Unions; Ontario; POLITICAL campaigns; POLITICAL endorsements

Fighting for Justice and Dignity: The Homer Seguin Story: An Autobiography - Seguin, Homer (Journal Printing, 2008)
Self-published memoir of the Sudbury union activist, Homer Seguin (1934-2013), who championed workplace health and safety to reduce injuries and occupational diseases at mines and other industrial sites. Describes his experiences as a negotiator, president of Local 6500 of the United Steelworkers, and as a USW representative at Elliot Lake, Ontario. Also chronicles the rise of the labour movement in Sudbury and the bitter inter-union battle in the early 1960s between Mine Mill Local 598 and the Steelworkers over the right to represent 20,000 Inco workers.
Keywords: 20th century; Elliot Lake; History. Industrial relations; History. Trade-unions; International Union of Mine; Mill and Smelter Workers. Local 598; Miners; Northeastern Ontario; Occupational health and safety; Seguin; Homer; Sudbury; United Steelworkers of America. Local 6500

Working Construction: Why White Working-Class Men Put Themselves - and the Labor Movement - in Harm's Way? - Sexton, Jean (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2008)
The article reviews the book, "Working Construction: Why White Working-Class Men Put Themselves - and the Labor Movement - in Harm’s Way?," by Kris Paap.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Power and Contestation: India Since 1989 - Shrivastava, Meenal (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
The article reviews the book, "Power and Contestation: India Since 1989," by Nivedita Menon and Aditya Nigam.
Keywords: 20th century; BOOKS – Reviews; History; INDIA; MENON; Nivedita; NIGAM; Aditya; Nonfiction; POWER & Contestation: India Since 1989 (Book)

Rural Businesses on Vancouver Island: Challenges and Opportunities - Siemens, Lynne Marie (University of Hertfordshire, 2008)
Many rural areas are undergoing structural changes as jobs in forestry, fishing, mining, agricultural and other natural resource-based industries decline. These communities, often based around these industries, are generally small and located some distance from urban areas. They are faced with decreasing population as residents and their families leave for jobs elsewhere. As a result, the communities and residents are looking for alternative ways to create employment and sustain themselves. Given the nature of these rural locations, many small businesses based there face challenges that are not generally experienced by enterprises in urban areas. Some communities are not accessible by paved road while others are not accessible by road at all, relying instead on water and air transportation. The business people in these areas often operate without standard business infrastructure, which can include telephone lines, broadband Internet, banking services and other items, and can have difficulty accessing supplies, customers, employees and other required materials. However, there has been relatively little research on the challenges facing rural businesses and the specific methods by which these owners mitigate these challenges. Understanding and addressing the challenges faced by these businesses becomes important in order to support and encourage economic growth and development in these rural communities. Building on this context, this research looks to answer the following questions: • Why do people start businesses in rural locations? • What type of businesses do they start? • What challenges do these rural businesses face? • How do owners respond to these challenges? Vancouver Island and the surrounding smaller islands in British Columbia, Canada serve as the research site. Given the exploratory nature of this research, an inductive approach has been selected with the use of case studies, interviews and grounded theory analysis. Purposeful sampling is used with the sample businesses meeting specific criteria, based on location, business size and definition of success. These businesses are interviewed at their locations to allow the researcher to experience the challenges associated with accessing the particular rural community. The interview topics are focused on the above research questions. There are several common characteristics among the sample owners and their businesses. The owners tend to be in-migrants who moved to the rural area for lifestyle reasons. They have started their business to provide an income, take advantage of a business opportunity, or both. Family members, particularly spouses, are actively involved in the business. In many cases, participants supplement their business income with other income sources to ensure business viability. Success is measured generally by personal and lifestyle goals, rather than financial criteria. The businesses face common challenges in terms of a limited local population base which impacts on market size and labour pool, rural location and access to urban centres, gaps in business and social services infrastructure and heavy time demands. The owners respond to these challenges in a variety of ways which includes the involvement of family, core business diversification, alternative income sources, long hours invested in the business and involvement with the community. To meet these challenges and devise their responses, the owners draw upon four key resources – their own skills and attitudes, their family, business and community. The resulting conceptual framework draws together these key resources and suggests that all four must be present to ensure success within a rural context. Each resource is comprised of several components which contribute to business success. The framework also integrates several resource-based theories, which consider the key resources either separately or in pairs, to create a holistic model. The conclusions focus on several key areas. This research contributes to the knowledge base on rural small businesses by creating a framework that draws directly from the experience of these owners and their objectives and motivations for their businesses. It reflects their internal focus and a concentration of the four resources that they access easily from within their domain. This research also suggests some possible roles for government which focus on its role in shaping the larger environment, particularly at the infrastructure level and human capital development. Finally, future research directions are recommended. This study considers a relatively unexplored topic and suggests ways for rural small businesses to address the challenges which they face. With this knowledge, individuals, businesses, communities and other interested organizations can work to achieve their economic development goals.

Les travailleurs miniers de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue : la main-d'oeuvre de la mine Lamaque, 1948-1985 - Simard, David (Université de Montréal, 2008)
Ce mémoire porte sur les travailleurs de la mine Lamaque entre 1948 et 1985. À partir d’une étude approfondie des fichiers d’employés de l’entreprise, qui est l’une des plus riches mines d’or de l’histoire du Québec, nous analysons l’évolution de la main- d’œuvre sous les volets de la composition ethnique, de l’expérience dans le secteur minier ainsi que de la mobilité. Notre enquête révèle l’existence de deux périodes-clés autour desquelles on assiste à une transformation rapide de la main-d’œuvre: la période 1948-1960 est le théâtre d’un important processus d’homogénéisation des effectifs alors que les années 1967-1977 sont la scène d’un double processus de sédentarisation et de qualification de la main-d’œuvre. D’un groupe de travailleurs cosmopolites, peu expérimentés et très mobiles, il en ressort, au sortir de ces années, une main-d’œuvre nettement plus expérimentée, plus sédentaire et composée presque exclusivement de travailleurs canadien-français et, de surcroît, témiscabitibiens. Au-delà de ces transformations, notre mémoire comporte un bref aperçu de l’histoire de l’industrie aurifère québécoise et de la mine Lamaque, du « boom minier » des années 1930 à la grande relance de l’industrie au début des années 1980. De plus, nous portons une attention particulière aux travailleurs d’origine européenne qui forment, jusqu’à la fin des années 1960, une proportion appréciable de la main-d’œuvre. En plus de lever le voile sur la composition de ce groupe de travailleurs, notre étude révèle des similitudes insoupçonnées entre le contingent européen et canadien-français.
https://doi.org/1866/7681

The Economics of Happiness: Building Genuine Wealth - Slee, Tom; Lévesque, Andrée (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
The article reviews the book, "The Economics of Happiness: Building Genuine Wealth," by Mark Anielski.
Keywords: ANIELSKI; Mark; BOOKS – Reviews; ECONOMICS of Happiness: Building Genuine Wealth; The (Book); Nonfiction; Wealth

Captive Audience Meetings and Forced Listening: Lessons for Canada from the American Experience - Slinn, Sara (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2008)
Widespread adoption of mandatory representation votes and express protection of employer speech invite employer anti-union campaigns during union organizing, including employer-held captive audience meetings. Therefore, the problem of whether and how to restrict employers' captive audience communications during union organizing is of renewed relevance in Canada. Captive meetings are a long-standing feature of American labour relations. This article considers how treatment of captive meetings evolved in the U.S., including the notion of employee choice; the "marketplace of ideas" view of expression dominating the American debate; and the central role of the contest between constitutional and statutory rights. It also considers the concept of "forced listening" and the associated Captive Audience doctrine in U.S. constitutional law and considers its possible application to captive audience meetings and the Charter definition of free expression. Finally, it offers suggestions about how Canadian labour law can benefit from lessons learned from the American experience.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor law; MEETINGS; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Unionization

The Politics of the Ontario Labour Relations Act: Business, Labour, and Government in the Consolidation of Post-War Industrial Relations, 1949-1961 - Smith, Charles W. (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
The Ontario Labour Relations Act (OLRA) has long dictated the legal relationship between trade unions and employers in the province. Although subject to years of delay, when the provincial government introduced the OLRA in 1950, its official stance on labour relations was a "hands off" program that was designed to leave collective bargaining to the participants. Often defined as industrial pluralism, this new legal regime was supposed to have been crafted in the name of "fairness and balance" in which trade unions abandoned previous militancy for state-sponsored freedoms. Upon closer examination, however, the provincial government's approach to industrial pluralism was much less hands off than has previously been assumed. Rather, the entrenchment of collective bargaining in Ontario was closely aligned with the class interests of Ontario businesses. Through an examination of the politics surrounding OLRA, this article argues that Teslie Frost's Conservative government structured the Act in order to appease employer demands surrounding increased legal regulation of collective bargaining and union organizing, which limited the extension of unionization throughout the province. In making this observation, the article maintains that the Conservative regime of industrial pluralism was both the by-product and the purveyor of ongoing class antagonism throughout the 1950s.
Keywords: Canada; LABOR laws & legislation; Labor Unions; Labor disputes; Legislation; Ontario

What Workers Say: Employee Voice in the Anglo-American Workplace - Spencer, Bruce (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
The article reviews the book, "What Workers Say: Employee Voice in the Anglo-American Workplace," edited by Richard B. Freeman, Peter Boxall and Peter Haynes.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; BOXALL; Peter; Employees; FREEMAN; Richard B.; HAYNES; Peter; Nonfiction; WHAT Workers Say: Employee Voice in the Anglo-American Workplace (Book)

Strikebreaking and the Corporate Agenda at the Sudbury Star - St. Pierre, Denis (Mining Town Crisis: Globalization, Labour, and Resistance in Sudbury, 2008)
Chronicles the conflicted labour relations, strikes, and ownership changes at the daily newspaper, The Sudbury Star, during the period 1996-2006.
https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/mining-town-crisis

Kin: A Collective Biography of a New Zealand Working-Class Family - Stephen, Jennifer A. (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
The article reviews the book, "Kin: A Collective Biography of a New Zealand Working-Class Family," by Melanie Nolan.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; KIN: A Collective Biography of a New Zealand Working-Class Family (Book); NOLAN; Melanie; Nonfiction; Working class

The Logic of Contingent Work and Overwork - Stormer, Flora (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2008)
In this article, I draw on institutional theory to propose that a macro-societal market logic is shaping our understanding of the workplace trends of contingent work and overwork. This logic, in combination with specific societal changes, affects how workers experience such trends. Yet paradoxically, the market logic can be used to both support and oppose the trends, resulting in a conceptual stalemate. Research implications are discussed.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Logic; Organization theory; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Socioeconomic factors; Studies; Working hours

A Special Kind of Downsizing: An Assessment of Union Member Reaction to Bumping - Stringer, Krista G.; Brown, Travor C. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2008)
The present study investigated the impact of bumping on union member (N = 100) perceptions of job security, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, union commitment and organizational justice. Analysis revealed a negative correlation between bumping experience and organizational commitment and job satisfaction (at the .05 level). There was a similar negative relationship between bumping and both union commitment and organizational justice at the .10 level. MANCOVA found that organizational commitment and job satisfaction levels were higher for union members without bumping experience versus those with either direct or indirect bumping experience. No significant differences were found on any variable between union members who were directly involved in bumping and those who were indirectly involved.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Commitments; Employment security; Impact analysis; Job satisfaction; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Little Caughnawaga: To Brooklyn and Back - Tarbell, Reaghan (National Film Board of Canada, 2008)
Mohawk high steel workers have a special place in North American history. The iconic New York skyline - with its great monuments to modernity - is the fruit of their labour. While the men were scraping the skies, the women had their feet firmly on the ground - sustaining a vibrant Mohawk community in the heart of Brooklyn. Little Caughnawaga evokes the neighbourhood's heyday - from the 1920s through to the 60s - and salutes the spirited women who kept the culture alive. The Brooklyn Mohawks were mostly from Kahnawake, a community long associated with the dangerous world of high steel. In 1907 the small town lost 33 men in the Quebec Bridge disaster, an event that still looms large in collective memory. Moving back and forth between Brooklyn and Kahnawake, director Reaghan Tarbell crafts an affectionate portrait of Little Caughnawaga ad a heartfelt tribute to the cultural resilience of her people.

The HR Management Perspective on the Elimination of Mandatory Retirement in Ontario - Templer, Andrew J.; Armstrong-Stassen, Marjorie (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2008)
Effective as of December, 2006, an end to mandatory retirement was legislated in Ontario. Prior to this move, some employers and labour organizations were opposed to eliminating mandatory retirement and expressed concern about the negative impact such a move would have on business and on individual workers. This exploratory descriptive study examines HR managers' (N = 415) perceptions of the impact of the elimination of mandatory retirement in Ontario. Compared with HR managers in organizations not practicing mandatory retirement, HR managers in organizations with a mandatory retirement policy reported their organization had significantly fewer HR practices in place tailored to older employees and would be significantly more likely to respond to the elimination of mandatory retirement by implementing new HR practices or by modifying existing HR practices.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Federal legislation; Human resource management; Impact analysis; Labor Unions; Managers; Mandatory retirement; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Disciplining Statistics: Demography and Vital Statistics in France and England, 1830 - 1885 - Tfaily, Rania (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
The article reviews the book, "Disciplining Statistics: Demography and Vital Statistics in France and England 1830-1885," by Libby Schweber.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; DISCIPLINING Statistics: Demography & Vital Statistics in France & England 1830-1885 (Book); Nonfiction; POPULATION statistics; SCHWEBER; Libby

Collective Bargaining on Working Time: Recent European Experiences - Thomas, Mark (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2008)
Collective Bargaining on Working Time: Recent European Experiences, edited by Maarten Keune, and Bela Galgoczi, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Collective bargaining; Flexible hours; Labor Unions; Labor law; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Working hours

Unexpected Power: Conflict and Change among Transnational Activists - Thomas, Mark (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
The article reviews the book, "Unexpected Power: Conflict and Change Among Transnational Activists," by Shareen Hertel.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Employee rights; HERTEL; Shareen; Nonfiction; UNEXPECTED Power: Conflict & Change Among Transnational Activists (Book)

Caught in the Machinery: Workplace Accidents and Injured Workers in Nineteenth-Century Britain - Tucker, Eric (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
The article reviews the book, "Caught in the Machinery: Workplace Accidents and Injured Workers in Nineteenth-Century Britain," by Jamie L. Bronstein.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; BRONSTEIN; Jamie L.; CAUGHT in the Machinery: Workplace Accidents & Injured Workers in 19th-Century Britain (Book); Nonfiction; WORK-related injuries

The Constitutional Right to Bargain Collectively: The Ironies of Labour History in the Supreme Court of Canada - Tucker, Eric (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
The article focuses on the constitutional right to bargain collectively in Canada. Employers in Canada have adopted labour management policies that including resistance to and avoidance of collective bargaining, shifting from secure employment forms and increasing demand on the workforce. It mentions the Hospital Employees' Union (HEU) which had successfully fought a long battle to achieve pay equity for its largely female membership.
Keywords: Canada; Collective bargaining; Collective labor agreements; Employers; HOSPITAL personnel – Salaries; etc.; Labor Unions

The No-Nonsense Guide to Tourism - Tufts, Steven (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
The article reviews the book, "No-Nonsense Guide to Tourism," by Pamela Nowicka.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; NO-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism; The (Book); NOWICKA; Pamela; Nonfiction; Tourism

Canada's Jews: A People's Journey - Tulchinsky, Gerald J. J (University of Toronto Press, 2008)
The history of the Jewish community in Canada says as much about the development of the nation as it does about the Jewish people. Spurred on by upheavals in Eastern Europe in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, many Jews immigrated to the Dominion of Canada, which was then considered little more than a British satellite state. Over the ensuing decades, as the Canadian Jewish identity was forged, Canada underwent the transformative experience of separating from Britain and distinguishing itself from the United States. In this light, the Canadian Jewish identity was formulated within the parameters of the emerging Canadian national personality." "Canada's Jews is an account of this remarkable story as told by one of the leading authors and historians on the Jewish legacy in Canada. Drawing on his previous work on the subject, Gerald Tulchinsky describes the struggle against antisemitism and the search for a livelihood among the Jewish community. He demonstrates that, far from being a fragment of the Old World, Canadian Jewry grew from a tiny group of transplanted Europeans to a fully articulated, diversified, and dynamic national group that defined itself as Canadian while expressing itself in the varied political and social contexts of the Dominion. –Publisher's description
OCLC: 175282730

Labour Migration and Development: Towards a North-South Vision for Change - Valiani, Salimah (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2008)
This article is adapted from a presentation made at a meeting of policy experts of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, and the Trade Union Advisory Council. The presentation provided the "trade union expert perspective" at the seminar held in Paris, October 17, 2007, entitled "Fair Labour Migration" from vision to reality." Tracing an alternative approach to understanding "global labour supply", the article makes links between jobless growth, trade and investment liberalization, and the increased use of temporary migrant workers around the world. The article concludes with proposals for a broad framework of change leading to decent work and sustainable development - in both the global North and the global South.

An Analysis of the Relation between Personality and the Attractiveness of Total Rewards Components - Vandenberghe, Christian; St-Onge, Sylvie; Robineau, Évelyne (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2008)
This study examines the links between personality and the relative attraction of various total rewards components. A survey approach is adopted, with 967 individuals completing a questionnaire. These individuals are currently employed. Results show that, after controlling for the effects of several demographic variables, "Big-Five" personality traits do affect individuals' attraction to the following total rewards components: quality of work and of social relationships, development and career opportunities, variable pay, indirect pay, flexibility of working conditions, and prestige. Among Big-Five personality traits, openness to experience best predicts the relative importance employees give to the various total rewards components.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Demographics; Labor Unions; Personality traits; Polls & surveys; Rewards; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

International and European Protection of the Right to Strike : A Comparative Study of Standards Set by the International Labour Organization, the Council of Europe and the European Union - Verge, Pierre (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2008)
The article reviews the book, "International and European Protection of the Right to Strike : A Comparative Study of Standards Set by the International Labour Organization, the Council of Europe and the European Union," by Tonia Novitz.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

La relative originalité de l'Accord Canada-Peru de coopération dans le domaine du travail - Verge, Pierre (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2008)
Analyzes the distinctive features of the Canada-Peru trade agreement in the context of accords with other nations.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution - Way, Peter (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
The article reviews the book, "Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution," by Paul A. Gilje.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; GILJE; Paul A.; 1951-; LIBERTY on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution (Book); Nonfiction; Sailors

The Cypress Hills: An Island by Itself - Wetherell, Donald G. (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
The article reviews the book, "The Cypress Hills: An Island by Itself," by Walter Hildebrandt and Brian Hubner.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CYPRESS Hills (Alta. & Sask.); CYPRESS Hills: An Island by Itself; The (Book); HILDEBRANDT; Walter; HUBNER; Brian; Nonfiction

The Organizational Impact of University Labor Unions - Wickens, Christine M. (Higher Education, 2008)
The current review presents both postulated and empirically tested consequences of university unionization and labor strikes on the North American institution’s administration, faculty, and students. The review explores the impact of collective bargaining on employee working conditions including job security, academic freedom, university governance, and due process. More importantly, this review examines the much neglected issue of organizational work relationships in a unionized academic environment. The relationships discussed include those between faculty members, between the faculty and administration, between the faculty and the university as an institution, and between the faculty and their union. The threat of unionization and labor strikes to the professor–student or mentor–mentee relationship has been a central concern of those opposed to graduate student unions, and this issue is also addressed here. The text concludes with the identification of potential areas for future research.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10734-008-9110-z
Keywords: Coping; Industrial relations; Labor strikes; Labor unions; Organizational behavior; Public administration; Stress

Co-Opting Precariousness: Can Worker Cooperatives Be Alternatives to Precarious Employment for Marginalized Populations? A Case Study of Immigrant and Refugee Worker Cooperatives in Canada - Wilson, Amanda (McMaster University, 2008)
This thesis is an exploration into the potential for worker cooperatives to be conceptualized and experienced as an alternative to precarious employment for immigrants and refugees. It argues that current analysis and responses to precarious employment fail to fully address the root causes of precarious employment and fail to suggest what forms of alternative employment relations we should be striving to build. It is argued that by tracing the roots of precarious employment to the organization of work, the worker cooperative model can be seen as a potential solution to these root problems. This hypothesis is explored through two case studies of immigrant worker cooperatives, analyzing the employment experiences of several of its members. It concludes that workers cooperatives appear to provide alternatives in the areas of control, security and social capital and empowerment. However, more work is needed to support and facilitate the development and sustainability of cooperatives in order to improve in the areas of wages and formal benefits. Despite the challenges of worker cooperatives, the author argues that they remain an important tool, invoking a politics of the act that seeks to build alternative spaces of employment without relying on government or employers.

A Glowing Dream: A Memoir - Wiseman, Nelson (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
The article reviews the book, "A Glowing Dream: A Memoir," by Roland Penner.
Keywords: AUTOBIOGRAPHY; BOOKS – Reviews; GLOWING Dream: A Memoir; A (Book); Nonfiction; PENNER; Roland

Workability of Intergovernmental Administrative Relations: A Comparison of Labour Market Policy in Post-Devolution Canada and the United Kingdom - Wood, Donna (University of Edinburgh, 2008)
This is a comparative study of intergovernmental relations in labour market policy in Canada and the United Kingdom (UK) between 1996 and 2006, the first phase of devolution in each country. The study focuses primarily on relations between the central government and a single sub-state in each country (Alberta in Canada and Scotland in the UK) and addresses three research questions: 1) to what extent were there differences in intergovernmental relations between the countries?2) what accounted for these differences? 3) what impact did these differences have on the character and workability of the intergovernmental relations system in each country? Workability was assessed based upon the degree to which trust ties developed between senior officials. The analysis concludes that the structure of the state, the structure of the policy domain, and the presence of two important accommodation mechanisms in the UK not found in Canada (the party system and the civil service) made intergovernmental relations in labour market policy in the two countries fundamentally different. In Canada, intergovernmental relations were multilateral, interprovincial and bilateral, whereas in the United Kingdom they were only bilateral. Despite devolution, the UK Government retained control of most policy levers, whereas in Canada devolution has limited federal control and influence and any notion of a national labour market system. Trust ties were enhanced by consistency between the key players, routinized engagement, reliability, honesty, respect, capacity and willingness to engage, and transparency. Although shared objectives made engagement easier, they were not a prerequisite for a positive relationship. Bilateral relationships that took place within the geographic boundaries of Alberta and Scotland were considered as positive and highly workable. Difficulties arose when relationships became multilateral or bilateral relations were managed at a distance. Despite devolution, multilateral relations in the historically conflicted labour market policy domain in Canada remained competitive, with a low degree of workability. Relationships with respect to disability and immigration issues were more positive. In the UK relationships in the welfare to work policy area were cooperative and highly workable. Relationships in skills and immigration did not fare as positively.

Diversity and Transformation within Varieties of Capitalism, Work, and Employment: The Sustainability of Alternatives to Neo-Liberalism - Wood, Geoffrey (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
The article reviews and comments on several books including "Changing Governance of Local Economies," edited by Colin Crouch, Patrick Le Galès, Carlo Trigilia, and Helmut Voelzkow, "Convergence and Persistence in Corporate Governance," by Jeffrey N. Gordon and Mark J. Roe, and "The Global and the Local: Understanding the Dialectics of Business Systems," by Arndt Sorge.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CHANGING Governance of Local Economies (Book); CONVERGENCE & Persistence in Corporate Governance (Book); CROUCH; Colin; GLOBAL & the Local: Understanding the Dialectics of Business Systems; The (Book); GORDON; Jeffrey N.; LE Gales; Patrick; Nonfiction; ROE; Mark J.; SORGE; Arndt; TRIGILIA; Carlo; VOELZKOW; Helmut

The Challenges Facing the South African Labour Movement: Mobilization of Diverse Constituencies in a Changing Context - Wood, Geoffrey; Dibben, Pauline (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2008)
There is a growing body of literature on the role and impact of unions in the developing world, and on their ability to mobilize members against a background of neo-liberal reforms. The South African trade union movement represents a source of inspiration to organized labour worldwide, but has faced many challenges over the years. This article engages with debates on union solidarity and worker democracy, and draws on the findings of a nationwide survey of members of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) to explore the extent of fragmentation according to gender, age, skill level and ethnicity. The survey reveals regular participation in union affairs, democratic accountability, participation in collective action, and a strong commitment to the labour movement, but variation in levels of engagement between categories of union members indicates significant implications for union policy and practice.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Commitments; Impact analysis; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Union membership

Skilled Trades' Work and Apprentice Training in the Manufacturing Industry with a Primary Focus on the Millwright Trade: An Inter-Generational Study - Wren, John Charles (University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 2008)
Technology has enabled management to utilize automation in the methods of production, and as such promoted a reduction in the use of traditional skills for traditional skilled trades' workers while narrower task specific apprenticeship training programmes promote the loss of trade knowledge traditionally passed from a trades' person to an apprentice in the manufacturing industry. The purpose of this intergenerational study is to trace the changing skill requirements affected by developing technologies in the manufacturing process focusing on the traditional skills of millwright trade, and associated skilled trades. To place in context the origins of the skilled trades' I have included brief histories of five skilled trades, to represent a selection of skilled trades' often closely connected through their work in the manufacturing industry; the millwright, electrician, welder, toolmaker and machinist. In an effort to also report the possible effects of technology on skilled trade labour from a tradesperson's perspective I have utilised my own experiences and incorporated anecdotal evidence from interviews with certified millwrights and apprentices that are either presently working in the trade, or have retired from the trade in Canada. Interviews with three generations of millwrights assisted in making comparisons of training and expectations of millwright work, together with changes in the control millwrights' exercise over the jobs they perform. The focus of the thesis is the possible effects of technological progress on the required skill sets of three generations skilled trades' with a primary focus on millwright skilled trades'. Restructuring and the utilization of new technologies has facilitated a reduction in the overall number of skilled trades' workers that were previously required when traditional skilled trades' personnel were utilised. Therefore, utilization of technology to lower production costs by modern industry is affecting social structure, in that, traditional opportunities for members of the working class, without the benefit of a university education, are restricted in their ability to obtain well paid jobs as skilled trades' personnel in the manufacturing industry. Thesis: Technology has enabled automation to be utilized by management in the methods of production, and as such promoted a reduction in discretion and control in the use of traditional skills for traditional skilled trades' workers while narrower task specific apprenticeship training programmes promote the loss of trade knowledge traditionally passed from a trades' person to an apprentice in the manufacturing industry.
Keywords: Apprentice training; Education; Manufacturing; Millwright; Skilled trades

Challenging States of Illegality: From "Managed Migration" to a Politics of No Borders - Wright, Cynthia (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
The article reviews several books about labour including "Labor Movement: How Migration Regulates Labor Markets," by Harald Bauder, "Managing Labor Migration in the Twenty-first Century," by Philip Martin and Manolo Abella, and "International Migration: Globalization's Last Frontier," by Jonathon W. Moses.
Keywords: ABELLA; Manolo; BAUDER; Harald; BOOKS – Reviews; INTERNATIONAL Migration: Globalization's Last Frontier (Book); LABOR Movement: How Migration Regulates Labor Markets (Book); MANAGING Labor Migration in the 21st Century (Book); MARTIN; Philip; MOSES; Jonathon W.; Nonfiction

Building the Great Lucrative Fishing Industry': Aboriginal Gillnet Fishers and Protests over Salmon Fishery Regulations for the Nass and Skeena Rivers, 1950s-1960s - Wright, Miriam (Labour / Le Travail, 2008)
In the 1950s and 1960s, Aboriginal gillnet fishers protested new state salmon regulations restricting access to the industrial fishery of the Nass and Skeena Rivers in northern British Columbia. Using cannery records, as well as letters, petitions, and statements native people made to the Department of Fisheries, this article examines both the protests and the impact of the regulations that the state introduced in a time of massive structural, economic, technological, and ecological change in the northern fishery. The native fishers' letters suggest that both their Aboriginal heritage and work-centered, class-based identities were shaping their opposition to the state. Those leading the protests were active in other areas of native politics, but also strongly identified as gillnetters, small-boat fishers in an increasingly stratified and competitive fishery. Moreover, native fishers in British Columbia had had a long history of labour activism and organization. This article suggests that understanding the ways these Aboriginal groups navigated between both the colonial and capitalist legacies can provide insights into native politics and experiences in this period.
Keywords: British Columbia; FISHERS; FISHERY law & legislation; Fisheries; Indigenous Peoples; SALMON

Riding the Boom: Labour Market Experiences of New Generation Youth from Visible Minority Immigrant Families - Yan, Miu Chung; Lauer, Sean; Jhangiani, Surita (Canadian Ethnic Studies, 2008)
With changes in the source of origin of immigrants, a new cohort of new generation youth from visible minority immigrant families has begun to be established and become the key replacement of the aging Canadian labour force. Based on existing research, being young, being visible, and coming from an immigrant family are possible disadvantages in the labour market. Research on this new generation youth, however, is limited. This paper reports findings of two qualitative studies examining how this new generation youth, with or without a university degree, found work and what kinds of resources they used in their job search. The economic boom in British Columbia has offered easy access to the labour market. Coming from an immigrant family, however, visible minority youth benefit very little from their social ties and those of their family.

Low-Paid Workers and On-the-Job Training in Canada - Zeytinoglu, Isik U.; Cooke, Gordon B.; Harry, Karlene; Chowhan, James (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2008)
This paper provides evidence of on-the-job training for low-paid workers in Canada and examines workplace and individual factors associated with their on-the-job training. The study uses Statistics Canada's Workplace and Employee Survey (WES) 2001 data. Results show that less than a quarter of low-paid workers received on-the-job training in 2001 as compared to one third of higher-paid workers. A decomposition of regression models indicated that this substantive gap is statistically significant. With the shrinking labour force, ongoing skills development is needed to enable workers to earn a decent living, fulfill their work-related goals, and contribute to the current and future productivity of their workplaces and the economy. We recommend governments provide support for low-paid workers' on-the-job training.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employment training programs; Labor Unions; Low income groups; Organization theory; Regression analysis; Skill development; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

La perception de la fête internationale des travailleurs dans les journaux canadiens entre 1906 et 1945 - Zombecki, François (Université du Québec à Montréal, 2008)
Le 1er mai 1906, les membres d'un éphémère parti socialiste canadien organisent à Montréal la première célébration de la fête internationale des travailleurs. Des centaines de personnes y défilent sous le drapeau rouge. L'événement se répète ensuite presque chaque année, et s'étend à la plupart des grandes villes du pays. L'histoire du mouvement socialiste / communiste au Canada et au Québec a certes été écrite, mais l'historiographie délaisse le sujet de sa fête annuelle. Pourtant, les journaux canadiens ont couvert l'événement, année après année, léguant aux générations suivantes une riche couverture. Celle-ci représente un outil utile, bien qu'imparfait, pour mieux saisir l'opinion de la population de l'époque à l'endroit des communistes. La présente recherche analyse plus de 400 articles de grands quotidiens pour sonder la perception des Canadiens, durant la première moitié du XXe siècle, quant au phénomène de la fête du 1er mai et au mouvement socialiste / communiste qui l'anime. Dans un premier temps, nos recherches présentent la couverture des journaux de plusieurs grandes villes canadiennes. Nous constatons alors d'importantes différences entre la perception des Canadiens français et celle des Canadiens anglais au Québec. Nous découvrons également une affinité particulière à Winnipeg -et même à Vancouver, dans une moindre mesure -pour le mouvement et sa fête. Le facteur ethnique explique en bonne partie tant les affinités de certaines communautés pour le mouvement, que la répulsion des Canadiens français. Dans un deuxième temps, à travers une approche chronologique plutôt que régionale, des facteurs conjoncturels et internationaux expliquent les fluctuations dans le ton des journaux entre 1906 et 1945. Ce travail de recherche jette la lumière sur une fête particulière, exclue du calendrier officiel nord américain et pourtant observée à travers la majeure partie du monde occidental. L'analyse de la couverture journalistique de l'événement permet de tirer d'intéressantes conclusions quant à la façon dont a été perçu le mouvement communiste canadien, au moment de son apogée.

Divergent Decline: Trade Unions, Labour Regimes and Globalisation in Australia and Canada - Lipsig-Mummé, Carla; McBride, Stephen (Just Policy: A Journal of Australian Social Policy, 2007)
In the past two decades, the complex of forces known as neo-liberal globalisation has transformed the environment for work, labour regulation and trade unionism in both Australia and Canada. The development of labour regimes in Australia and Canada is discussed. The influence of free trade agreements with the United States in which both countries participate is also discussed.

Winnipeg's Red Scare - Dupuis, Michael (The Beaver, 2007)
As the thousands of strikers took to the streets in 1919, the press waged its own propaganda war against the workers. Wasn't the Winnipeg General Strike really a Bolshevik plot? Almost all Canadian newspapers said so - except one. –Introduction

Local Produce, Foreign Labor: Labor Mobility Programs and Global Trade Competitiveness in Canada* - Preibisch, Kerry L. (Rural Sociology, 2007)
Abstract Temporary visa workers are increasingly taking on a heightened profile in Canada, entering the workforce each year in greater numbers than immigrant workers with labor mobility rights (Sharma 2006). This paper examines the incorporation of foreign workers in Canadian horticulture under the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP). I argue that foreign labor supplied under the SAWP secures a flexible workforce for employers and thus improves Canada's trade competitiveness in the global agrifood market. Using multiple research strategies, I track the evolution of Canadian horticulture in the global market and the transformation of labor in this industry. I outline the steady growth in the employment of temporary visa workers in the horticultural industry and show how they have become the preferred and, in some cases, core workforce for horticulture operations. The benefits of SAWP workers to employers include the provision of a workforce with limited rights relative to domestic workers and considerable administrative support in selecting, dispatching, and disciplining workers provided at no cost by labor supply countries. I conclude that the SAWP is a noteworthy example of the role of immigration policy in regulating the labor markets of high-income economies and thus ensuring the position of labor-receiving states within the global political economy.

Making a Fur Coat: Women, the Labouring Body, and Working-Class History - Sangster, Joan (International Review of Social History, 2007)
This article historicizes the making of a fur coat in post-1940 Canada, exploring the social relationships and forms of labour that made the fur coat possible: skinning, sewing, and selling. Focusing especially on women's labour, the author examines the significance of Aboriginal women's work, often unwaged, and seldom recognized in many fur-trade sources, as well as the way in which racial constructions of Aboriginal women intersected with the appropriation of their labour. The wage labour of women in a manufacturing sector dominated by eastern European Jewish immigrants, and by a masculine hierarchy of skill, as well as working women's protests and unionization, are also examined, as is retail selling labour in large and small stores. An exploration of these forms of labour, with a focus on gender, provides insights into discussions about the body and working-class history. While many feminist works have emphasized the cultural and discursive in their explorations of fur, the author argues for a theoretical perspective that fuses a feminist critique of race and gender hierarchies with a materialist understanding of labour, class, and alienation. While embracing a feminist scepticism about the existence of a “natural” body, she argues for the need to avoid the dematerialized body of much postmodern theory in explorations of the body and working-class history.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/231967036_Making_a_Fur_Coat_Women_the_Labouring_Body_and_Working-Class_History

An Index to Labour/Le Travail Volumes 57 and 58, 2006 (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
A subject index for the May 2007 issue of "Labour/Le Travail" is presented.
Keywords: INDEXES; Labor

Employment Equity and Affirmative Action: An International Comparison - Agócs, Carol (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Employment Equity and Affirmative Action: An International Comparison," by Harish C. Jain, Peter J. Sloane and Frank M. Horwitz.
Keywords: Affirmative action; Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Equality; International; International comparisons; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Activity System Model, Perceived Self-Efficacy, and Newcomer Integration Behaviour - Almudever, Brigitte; Croity-Belz, Sandrine; Hajjar, Violette (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
The research presented here contributes to the current debate on the effects of perceived self-efficacy (PSE). The study, undertaken with 157 schoolteachers who had just started their first teaching position, examined the moderating role of PSE on the effects of mismatches between expectations and actual work conditions on newcomer integration behaviour. Based on the theoretical model of multiple socialization, the results suggest that: 1) the degree of exchanges that subjects establish between different areas of their life influences PSE efficiency; 2) PSE effects can be positive or negative depending on the nature of the disturbances to which PSE is applied.
Keywords: Behavioral decision theory; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Efficiency; Hypothesis testing; Integration; Labor Unions; New employees; Qualitative research; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Teachers

The Dominion of Youth: Adolescence and the Making of Modern Canada, 1920 to 1950 - Ambrose, Linda M. (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "The Dominion of Youth: Adolescence and the Making of Modern Canada 1920 to 1950," by Cynthia Comacchio.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; COMACCHIO; Cynthia; Canada; DOMINION of Youth: Adolescence & the Making of Modern Canada 1920 to 1950; The (Book); Nonfiction; Youth

Affirmative Action and Employment Equity: Policy, Ideology, and Backlash in Canadian Context - Bakan, Abigail B.; Audrey, Kobayashi (Studies in Political Economy, 2007)
Employment equity became a significant public policy issue in Canada following the 1984 publication of Equality in Employment: A Royal Commission Report² under the direction of Commissioner Rosalie Abella. Abella consulted widely with individual advocates and representatives of social movements to capture the growing concern for equality and equity issues that had crystallized with the adoption of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The result was a unique, Canadian approach to equity and it guided the development of a public policy agenda in very significant ways. However, the significance was not only in the establishment of a political culture friendly to an ideology of inclusiveness in the country’s workplaces; it also laid the ground for an acceptance of, and concessions to, certain aspects of political backlash. –Introduction

Capital and Collusion: The Political Logic of Global Economic Development - Baragar, Fletcher (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Capital and Collusion: The Political Logic of Global Economic Development," by Hilton L. Root.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CAPITAL & Collusion: The Political Logic of Global Economic Development (Book); Nonfiction; ROOT; Hilton L.; economic development

Psychological Contract and Quality of Organizational Life: An Empirical Study on Workers at a Rest Home - Battisti, Martina; Fraccaroli, Franco; Fasol, Rino; Depolo, Marco (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
This study assesses psychological contract using a feature-oriented approach which measures perceptions about employer and employee obligations along the dimensions of duration, tangibility, scope, stability/flexibility, contract level and exchange symmetry. Questionnaires were administered to 170 workers (23 males, 147 females) employed at a rest home in Northern Italy. The results confirm the hypothesized relation between the employee's perceptions of employer obligations and the organizational role component of organizational life (in terms of low role ambiguity and high development expectations). Similarly, the hypothesized relation between the employee's perceived obligations to the employer and the affective and motivational area is supported (in terms of affective commitment and perceived organizational justice). The results also show the importance of assessing the employee's perceptions both of employer obligations and of her/his own obligations to the employer, considering the differentiated influence that each of them has on organizational life.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; CONTRACTS; Employees; Labor Unions; Organizational behavior; Perceptions; Qualitative research; Quality of work; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Moving Up in the New Economy: Career Ladders for U.S. Workers - Beaudry, Catherine (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Moving Up in the New Economy: Career Ladders for U.S. Workers," by Joan Fitzgerald.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

A Proletarian Prometheus: Socialism, Ethnicity, and Revolution at the Lakehead, 1900-1935 - Beaulieu, Michel S. (Queen's University, 2007)
[Analyzes] various socialist organizations operating at the Canadian Lakehead (comprised of the twin cities of Port Arthur and Fort William, Ontario, now the present-day City of Thunder Bay, and their vicinity) during the first 35 years of the twentieth century. It contends that the circumstances and actions of Lakehead labour, especially those related to ideology, ethnicity, and personality, worked simultaneously to empower and to fetter workers in their struggles against the shackles of capitalism. The twentieth-century Lakehead never lacked for a population of enthusiastic, energetic and talented left-wingers. Yet, throughout this period the movement never truly solidified and took hold. Socialist organizations, organizers and organs came and went, leaving behind them an enduring legacy, yet paradoxically the sum of their efforts was cumulatively less than the immense sacrifices and energies they had poured into them. Between 1900 and 1935, the region's working-class politics was shaped by the interaction of ideas drawn from the much larger North Atlantic socialist world with the particularities of Lakehead society and culture. International frameworks of analysis and activism were of necessity reshaped and revised in a local context in which ethnic divisions complicated and even undermined the class identities upon which so many radical dreams and ambitions rested.
https://qspace.library.queensu.ca/bitstream/1974/1715/1/Beaulieu_Michel_S_200712_PhD.pdf
Keywords: 1900-1935; Canada; Communist Party of Canada; Ethnicity; Finns in Canada; Fort William; Ontario; Industrial Workers of the World; Labour history; Lakehead; Northwestern Ontario; One Big Union; Port Arthur; Ontario; Radicalism; Revolution; Social Democratic Party of Canada; Socialism; Socialist Party of Canada; Winnipeg general strike

Les professions face aux enjeux de la féminisation - Beaumont, Marie-Pierre (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Les professions face aux enjeux de la féminisation," by Nathalie Lapeyre.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

La gestion à « haute performance » dans la fonction publique québécoise: Pratiques mobilisatrices et cohérence - Beaupré, Daniel; Cloutier, Julie (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
Cette recherche qualitative fait ressortir l’existence de modèles de gestion à « haute performance » dans la fonction publique québécoise. Les résultats suggèrent l’existence de deux catégories de pratiques de gestion des ressources humaines (RH) mobilisatrices qui agissent sur l’engagement des salariés à travers des mécanismes distincts : 1) les pratiques liées au partage d’information et à la participation des salariés à la gestion et 2) les autres pratiques de RH (les nouvelles formes d’organisation du travail, la gestion axée sur les résultats et la formation liée à l’emploi) qui influencent les perceptions de justice organisationnelle et de support organisationnel. Les résultats suggèrent également un lien entre les performances économiques et sociales et la « double cohérence » des pratiques RH, à savoir la cohérence interne et la cohérence symbolique.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions

Le cadre réglementaire en matière d'emploi: L'industrie manufacturière québécoise en contexte d'intégration économique - Bélanger, Jacques; Trudeau, Gilles (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
Dans un contexte d’intégration économique, quel est l’impact d’un cadre réglementaire distinctif en matière d’emploi sur le développement économique ? L’article montre dans un premier temps le caractère fondamentalement distinct du cadre réglementaire québécois relativement au cadre américain. De là, il analyse cette question à partir d’entrevues réalisées auprès de dirigeants d’entreprises ayant des lieux de production dans ces deux espaces économiques. Cette démarche permet d’amorcer une réflexion théorique sur le particularisme institutionnel au sein d’un ensemble économique régional intégré. L’étude conclut qu’il est possible de préserver les spécificités du cadre réglementaire québécois dans la mesure où celui-ci s’inscrit dans une stratégie de développement de l’industrie manufacturière dans les secteurs à haute valeur ajoutée, lesquels exigent une main-d’oeuvre qualifiée. Il importe donc de soutenir la croissance des secteurs susceptibles de tirer avantage d’un tel contexte, notamment par l’appui à la recherche et au développement.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Beyond Cannery Row: Sicilian Women, Immigration, and Community in Monterey, California, 1915-99 - Bencivenni, Marcella (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Beyond Cannery Row: Sicilian Women, Immigration and Community in Monterey, California 1915-1999," by Carol Lynn McKibben.
Keywords: BEYOND Cannery Row: Sicilian Women; Immigration & Community in Monterey; California 1915-1999 (Book); BOOKS – Reviews; Immigrants; MCKIBBEN; Carol Lynn; Nonfiction

Labour and the Environment at the Canadian Labour Congress: The Story of Convergence - Bennett, David (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2007)

Precarious Work, Women, and the New Economy: The Challenge to Legal Norms - Bernier, Jean (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Precarious Work, Women, and the New Economy: The Challenge to Legal Norms," edited by Judy Fudge and Rosemary Owens.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

La domesticité dans la colonie laurentienne au XVIIe siècle et au début du XVIIIe siècle (1640-1710) - Bessière, Arnaud (Université du Québec à Montréal et Université Paris IV - Sorbonne, 2007)
Cette thèse porte sur les domestiques au Canada entre 1640 et 1710. Recrutée en France ou dans la colonie, cette main-d'oeuvre, principalement masculine, est au service des paysans propriétaires et des communautés religieuses. Ses fonctions sont donc surtout liées à l'agriculture : défrichements, culture des terres, soin du bétail. Mais cela n'exclut pas des tâches comme le soin des malades et l'entretien ménager pour les communautés religieuses et les employeurs urbains plus fortunés. Au fil des ans, la composition du groupe se modifie : les domestiques sont de plus en plus d'origine canadienne et de plus en plus jeunes. Cette évolution est certes à rapprocher de la baisse du mouvement migratoire vers la colonie qui était en grande partie formé de domestiques. En plus d'analyser les modalités d'embauché, la thèse aborde la question des relations entre les maîtres et les domestiques et tente de cerner le devenir social du groupe dans la colonie.
https://cha-shc.ca/prize-winner/arnaud-bessiere/
Keywords: Canada; Domesticité; Domestique; Employeur; Engagé; Immigration; Main-d'œuvre; Maître; Nouvelle-France; Salaire; Servante; Serviteur; XVIIe siècle.

L'adhésion au syndicalisme autonome en France: Récits de pratique de militants Sud - Biétry, Franck (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
Cet article présente les résultats d’une recherche sur l’autonomie d’équipes de travail d’opérateurs cuvistes de deux alumineries utilisant une technologie similaire, dont l’une est syndiquée et l’autre non syndiquée. L’hypothèse voulant que la présence syndicale favorise l’autonomie des équipes de travail est infirmée par les résultats de notre étude. La discussion des résultats met en évidence les facteurs qui ont contribué à une plus grande autonomie des équipes de travail dans l’établissement non syndiqué et conduit à une réévaluation de l’effet de la présence syndicale sur le travail en équipe.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Détérioration des salaires des nouveaux immigrants au Québec par rapport à l'Ontario et à la Colombie-Britannique - Boudarbat, Brahim; Boulet, Maude (Institut de recherche en politiques publiques, 2007)
Notre étude a un double objectif. Elle vise d’abord à comparer l’évolution des salaires d’entrée des immigrants au Québec par rapport à l’Ontario et à la Colombie-Britannique. Ensemble, ces trois provinces ont accueilli 89,5 % des immigrants arrivés au Canada au cours des années 1990 (Statistique Canada 2003). Ensuite, notre analyse s’emploie à expliquer les changements observés à cet égard dans chacune des trois provinces en considérant notamment le rôle des trois facteurs relevés dans la littérature, à savoir la région d’origine et les compétences linguistiques, le rendement de l’expérience acquise à l’étranger et le cycle économique. – Introduction
Keywords: British Columbia; British Columbia. Immigrants; Economic conditions. Immigrants; Economic conditions. Wages; Foreign workers; Ontario; Ontario. Wages; Wages

Présence syndicale et autonomie des équipes d'opérateurs cuvistes dans l'industrie de l'aluminium - Bourque, Reynald; Riffaud, Sébastien (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
Cet article présente les résultats d’une recherche sur l’autonomie d’équipes de travail d’opérateurs cuvistes de deux alumineries utilisant une technologie similaire, dont l’une est syndiquée et l’autre non syndiquée. L’hypothèse voulant que la présence syndicale favorise l’autonomie des équipes de travail est infirmée par les résultats de notre étude. La discussion des résultats met en évidence les facteurs qui ont contribué à une plus grande autonomie des équipes de travail dans l’établissement non syndiqué et conduit à une réévaluation de l’effet de la présence syndicale sur le travail en équipe.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

CUPE on Strike, 1963-2004 - Briskin, Linda (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2007)
CCUPE On Strike offers a profile of the 1502 CUPE strikes since the union's inception in 1963 until 2004. In addition to breakdowns by province and industry, it considers strike incidence over time, duration, size of strikes, contract status, results, and the pattern of lockouts and rotating strikes. Like the overall Canadian strike profile, a majority of strikes are in small workplaces and are settled relatively quickly. Not surprisingly, CUPE strikes are clustered in Public Administration, and Health Care and Social Assistance. This demographic might help to explain the fact that CUPE has been involved in fewer wildcats, lockouts and strikes for first contracts than other unions. Although the overall trend for Canada since the 1990s has been a decrease in strikes, a modest shift in the last five years is evident in the data. For CUPE, this means more workers on strike, longer strikes, and more lockouts, all of which suggest an escalation in employer aggression. The Canadian data which highlight increasing public sector militancy and the feminization of that militancy suggest that CUPE will be a key player in the map of labour militancy in the future. This profile of the strike activities of CUPE, the largest union in Canada, makes visible the experience of strikes from the point of view of workers and their unions. Not only does it contribute to a labour militancy perspective on the quantitative data on work stoppages from Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC), it also demonstrates the potential of the data to enrich our understanding of worker militancies.

From Person-Days Lost to Labour Militancy: A New Look at the Canadian Work Stoppage Data - Briskin, Linda (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
Using the micro-data from Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC) on the 23,944 stoppages in Canada between 1960 and 2004, this article introduces a labour militancy perspective on work stoppages, that is, from the point of view of workers. It explores patterns of militancy with a focus on strike duration, strike size and strikes for first contracts, and supports re-interpretations which help make visible the significance of such stoppages for workers, unions and communities. A labour militancy frame presents an alternative to the employer perspective on time lost, the government concern to measure the economic impact of stoppages, and the scholarly emphasis on strike determinants. As part of re-examining the HRSDC work stoppage data from a labour militancy perspective, the paper considers the source of these data. It juxtaposes the statistical data with interviews with the provincial correspondents who collect the information for HRSDC. Examining the data in this light underscores the political nature of data collection (what is seen to be germane and not), data presentation (what is made visible and what is not), and data sources (whose voices are heard).
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Data collection; Impact analysis; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Strikes; Studies

The Transformation of British Life, 1950-2000 - Brooke, Stephen (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "The Transformation of British Life, 1950-2000," by Andrew Rosen.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Nonfiction; QUALITY of life; ROSEN; Andrew; TRANSFORMATION of British Life 1950-2000; The (Book)

Beyond Social Unionism: Farm Workers in Ontario and Some Lessons from Labour History - Butovsky, Jonah; Smith, Murray E.G. (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article focuses on farm labor in Ontario. It is said that migrant farm workers are widely employed in Niagara because they return better profit. However, it is claimed that the use of workers from Mexico and the Caribbean serves to depress wages and complicates union formation. It is also noted that these workers are denied with the rights enjoyed by workers with landed-immigrant status.
Keywords: Discrimination in employment; Labor Unions; MIGRANT agricultural workers; MIGRANT labor; Ontario

Capitalism Rebooted: Work, Welfare and the New Economy - Calvert, John (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2007)
Book review of: "Capitalism Rebooted: Work, Welfare and the New Economy" by Dave Broad & Wayne Antony (eds.)

Continentalizing Canada: The Politics and Legacy of the Macdonald Royal Commission - Calvert, John (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Continentalizing Canada: The Politics and Legacy of the Macdonald Royal Commission," by Gregory J. Inwood.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CONTINENTALIZING Canada: The Politics & Legacy of the Macdonald Royal Commission (Book); GOVERNMENTAL investigations; INWOOD; Gregory J.; Nonfiction

CUPE's Sympathy Strikes in British Columbia, October 2005: Raising the Bar for Solidarity - Camfield, David (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2007)
From October 7-23, 2005, the strike by the 38,000-strong British Columbia Teachers' Federation (bCTF) was the "main event" in BC labour relations. Teachers demonstrated enormous solidarity and determination to achieve a fair negotiated settlement that they could put to a vote. The focus of this paper is not the BCTF strike itself but the remarkable sympathy strike action organized in support of BCTF, primarily by the BC division of CUPE. Such worker action is highly unusual. Since the 1940s sympathy strike action has been illegal and extremely rare. This paper sets CUPE-BC's strikes in support of BCTF in the context of the legal framework established over half a century ago and the decline of sympathy strikes that followed. It then summarizes the events of October 2005 and examines the effects and significance of the strikes and what made them possible. It concludes with a reflection on the implications of these events for the labour movement. The analysis here is shaped by the perspective that public sector unions are best able to resist hostile governments when they adopt a militant and highly democratic approach that aims to build a broad social movement, sometimes referred to as social movement unionism.

Renewal in Canadian Public Sector Unions: Neoliberalism and Union Praxis - Camfield, David (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
Challenges from employers and governments and the limited success of public sector union responses suggest the need for renewal in Canadian public sector unions. This article engages with discussions of union renewal by way of theoretically conceptualizing the modes of union praxis relevant to Canadian unions. It then examines the nature of neoliberal public sector reform and assesses the experiences of Canadian public sector unions under neoliberalism. In this difficult context, unions that are able to make progress in the interconnected development of greater democracy and power will be more capable of channelling workers’ concerns into union activity. This, along with international and Canadian evidence, highlights the significance of the praxis of social movement unionism to union renewal in the public sector.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Determinants of Stress in Medical Practice: Evidence from Ontario Physicians - Campolieti, Michele; Hyatt, Douglas; Kralj, Boris (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
We use data from a unique survey of Ontario physicians to examine the determinants of work and personal stress in physicians with six stress indexes we constructed. We have a number of findings of particular interest. First, we find that males experience significantly less stress than women in a number of our regressions. Second, some of our estimates suggest that physicians who practice in health service organizations, which are paid primarily by capitation rather than fee-for-service, experience less stress. This estimate suggests that alternative payment systems, which are becoming more prevalent, may help to alleviate the stress experienced by physicians. Third, increases in the percentage of billings required to cover overhead expenses are associated with higher levels of stress. Finally, our most consistent empirical finding relates to the number of hours a week the physician works, which had a significant effect on all six of our stress indexes.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Data analysis; Labor Unions; Physicians; Professional practice; Regression analysis; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Stress; Studies

"If the Workers Took a Notion": The Right to Strike and American Political Development - Cantin, Étienne (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "If the Workers Took a Notion: The Right to Strike and American Political Development," by Josiah B. Lambert.
Keywords: American history; Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Strikes

Schools of Democracy: A Political History of the American Labor Movement - Cantin, Étienne (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Schools of Democracy: A Political History of the American Labor Movement," by Clayton Sinyai.
Keywords: American history; Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Politics; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

The Embedded Corporation: Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States - Carroll, William K. (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "The Embedded Corporation: Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States," by Sanford M. Jacoby.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Corporate governance; EMBEDDED Corporation: Corporate Governance & Employment Relations in Japan & the United States; The (Book); JACOBY; Sanford M.; 1953-; Nonfiction

Mavericks: An Incorrigible History of Alberta - Chapman, Terry L. (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Mavericks: An Incorrigible History of Alberta," by Aritha van Herk.
Keywords: Alberta; BOOKS – Reviews; History; MAVERICKS: An Incorrigible History of Alberta (Book); Nonfiction; VAN Herk; Aritha; 1954-

Étude de l’évolution des déterminants de l’engagement affectif : Le rôle de l’habilitation, du plafonnement de carrière et de la justice organisationnelle - Chênevert, Denis; Charest, Ariane; Simard, Gilles (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
La recherche étudie l’impact des changements apportés dans trois systèmes de GRH sur la variation de l’engagement affectif des employés d’un établissement de santé au Québec entre 1999 et 2002. La problématique de la recherche se base sur la théorie du contrat psychologique de Rousseau (1995), selon laquelle les changements organisationnels modifient les paramètres de la relation d’emploi, lesquels permettent d’améliorer les conditions de travail et le contrat psychologique de l’employé. À l’aide de deux échantillons comparables de 80 répondants, les résultats révèlent que les employés sont plus autonomes et peuvent davantage participer aux processus décisionnels, que les procédures sont plus impartiales et que la perception de plafonnement de carrière est moins élevée dans l’échantillon de 2002 comparativement à celui de 1999. Ces améliorations dans la gestion des ressources humaines sont accompagnées d’une faible augmentation du niveau d’engagement affectif en 2002.

‘This Just Isn't Sustainable’: Precarious Employment, Stress and Workers' Health - Clarke, Marlea; Lewchuk, Wayne; de Wolff, Alice; King, Andy (International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 2007)
This paper explores the impact of precarious employment relationships on health outcomes. It uses a novel framework, “Employment Strain” to describe the characteristics of different employment relationships and how they impact health outcomes. It uses interview data and comments provided on a survey to explore these issues. The paper begins by exploring if the health effects reported by mid-career individuals in precarious employment are different from those of younger and older workers. Finding limited evidence to support this hypothesis, the paper goes on to explore in detail the conditions under which precarious employment does increase stress and tension and impact health outcomes. It concludes that a combination of an individual's desire for more permanent employment, the expectation that permanent employment will be found, and the support individuals receive from various sources are critical to understanding the health effects of precarious employment.
Keywords: Age; Employment strain; Gender; Health; Precarious employment; Stress; Support

Dirty Politics?: New Labour, British Democracy and the Invasion of Iraq - Coates, David (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Dirty Politics? New Labour, British Democracy and the Invasion of Iraq," by Steven Kettell.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; DIRTY Politics? New Labour; British Democracy & the Invasion of Iraq (Book); KETTELL; Steven; Nonfiction; Political Science

The International Labour Movement in the Americas: A Research Agenda - Collombat, Thomas (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2007)

Jailed for Possession: Illegal Drug Use, Regulation, and Power in Canada, 1920-1961 - Cook, Sharon Anne (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Jailed for Possession: Illegal Drug Use, Regulation and Power in Canada 1920-1961," by Catherine Carstairs.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CARSTAIRS; Catherine; JAILED for Possession: Illegal Drug Use; Regulation & Power in Canada 1920-1961 (Book); NARCOTIC laws; Nonfiction

British Juvenile Immigrants in Canada 1868 to 1939: A Study of the Relationship Between Societal Changes and the Treatment of Home Children - Coombes, Brianna Leigh (Ryerson University, 2007)
This paper examines the history of the British juvenile immigrants, a group of over 100,000 children who arrived in Canada between 1868 and 1939 to work on farms or as domestic workers. There was both a pressing need within Canada for farm workers, and overcrowding in British cities, therefore conditions were right for a mutually beneficial labour exchange between the two nations. British philanthropists encouraged this movement and ensured its continued success over a seventy year period. The societal changes that occurred in Canada during the same period as a result of the reform movement are also traced within this historical examination. The increase in child welfare policies, and the subsequent attitudinal changes in the Canadian public also impacted how the home children were treated and viewed. Through this research, this neglected group of immigrants will be given a more prominent position in Canadian social and immigration history.

La pendaison d'Angélique : l'histoire de l'esclavage au Canada et de l'incendie de Montréal - Cooper, Afua (Éditions de l'Homme, 2007)
Dans la soirée du samedi 10 avril 1734, Montréal brûle. L'esclave Marie-Joseph- Angélique est traduite devant la justice et accusée d'avoir mis le feu. Soumise à la question extraordinaire, forme de torture atroce pendant laquelle on brise les os des jambes, elle craque et avoue avoir commis cet incendie criminel. Puis, elle est pendue. Angélique entre dans l'histoire canadienne en tant que criminelle. Cependant, son procès nous offre une occasion unique de raconter sa vie d'esclave, une vie dont on n'aurait pas entendu parler autrement. Afua Cooper fait revivre brillamment un chapitre méconnu de l'histoire du Canada, celui d'une Noire rebelle d'origine portugaise qui a cherché à briser ses chaînes. En nous présentant le vécu de cette jeune femme, elle met en lumière ce qui l'a sans doute poussée à commettre pareil crime. Par le fait même, elle détruit le mythe d'un Canada considéré comme un paradis pour les Noirs ayant échappé à l'esclavagisme des États-Unis. L'histoire d'Angélique est le plus ancien récit à propos de l'esclavage dans le Nouveau Monde. En lui consacrant cet ouvrage, Afua Cooper apporte une importante contribution à l'historiographie canadienne et met en perspective l'esclavage accepté légalement et culturellement au Canada. –Publisher's description
Keywords: Marie-Joseph-Angélique

Responsabilité sociale et environnementale de l'entreprise - Corriveau, Sarah Tremblay (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Responsabilité sociale et environnementale de l’entreprise," edited by Marie-France B. Turcotte and Anne Salmon.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Chameleons, Chimeras and Shape-Shifters: The Production of Neoliberal Government in Ontario - Coulter, Kendra (University of Toronto, 2007)
Drawing on data from a sixteen-month ethnography of Queen’s Park, the provincial legislature of Ontario, this study analyses and critiques the evolving production of neoliberal government. The work of real social actors, primarily political workers and politicians, and their active ideological and material creation of government, is central to my focus on the neoliberal project of the Liberal government in Ontario. After charting the historical trajectory of neoliberalism internationally and in Canada, with a particular emphasis on the Third Way approach, Icentre on thedevelopment of neoliberal political culture and restructuring in Ontario. Then I provide an in-depth analysis of the production of the Liberal government, focusing on social and fiscal policies and policy-making, hegemonic gender and class politics, and political communications and spin. I conclude that, at one level, the Liberal chimera fused certain progressive practices and language with neoliberal policies and rhetoric. At the same time, significant and dangerous initiatives that interlocked the public and for-profit sector conceptually and materially were pursued. Thus, a more camouflaged form of deep neoliberal integration was produced.
OCLC: 664421107
Keywords: Academic Dissertation; Academic theses; Thèses et écrits académiques

L'essentiel sur les salaires minimums dans le monde - Cousineau, Jean-Michel (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "L’essentiel sur les salaires minimums dans le monde," by François Eyraud and Catherine Saget.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Struggling with 'Security': National Security and Labour in the Ports - Cowen, Deborah (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2007)
Systems of social protection are being quickly and quietly recast by developments in a surprising policy area. The rapidly expanding infrastructure of national security policy in Canada compromises labour rights and social forms of security. Security clearance programs, under development for port workers, compromise employment security by making workers and their families subject to invasive screenings that violate privacy, allow for job suspension based on 'reasonable suspicion' of terrorist affiliation, and offer no meaningful independent appeals process. New security regulations threaten to institutionalize racial profiling and undermine collective bargaining. Moreover, there are plans to generalize these programs across the transport sector - a large part of the labour force that includes trucking, mass transit, airport, and rail workers. In this paper I look at ongoing struggles over port security in Canada. I suggest that national security policy as backdoor labour policy works to institutionalize 'anti-social' forms of security.

A German Employee Network and Union Renewal: The Siemenskonflikt - Croucher, Richard; Martens, Helmut; Singe, Ingo (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
The paper shows how redundancies were resisted by Hi-Tech workers in a large German company. It details an employee network's emergence to provide support to individuals and to pursue legal cases against the company, and analyzes the network's norms and operation. The network operated in complementary ways to the union and works council, to achieve a favourable outcome. The case is used to test theoretical propositions derived from literature on Hi-Tech workers, union renewal and mobilization theory and it is suggested that mobilization theory requires further extension in several directions.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Electronics industry; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Organization theory; Redundancy; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Labour Goes to War: The CIO, the People's War, and the Construction of a "New Social Order," Toronto, 1939-1945 - Cuthbertson, Wendy Elizabeth (University of Toronto, 2007)
The CIO related this narrative to working-class Canadians through new, union channels of communication and through a myriad of union-minded social interactions. Together - the CIO's narrative of victory and its subaltern public sphere that communicated this narrative - helped the CIO overcome formidable obstacles to organizing. The Canadian CIO's 1930s momentum had stalled by 1939, but by 1944 it was the country's largest labour organization and was influencing Canadian politics. Using union newspapers, organizing literature, minutes, correspondence, oral interviews, government and corporate records, and the daily press, this dissertation describes and analyzes how the CIO organized thousands of wartime workers into unions in spite of significant obstacles. This study then examines the institutions the CIO developed to create a union "mini-public sphere," where workers debated and developed union positions on issues facing them as workers, family members, citizens and military veterans. The CIO was successful in turning private, workplace issues such as union recognition and bargaining rights into public issues that government was forced to deal with, and its organizing successes and its entry into politics witnessed burgeoning support for the social democratic CCF, a phenomenon that encouraged mainstream political parties to adopt more progressive platforms. The CIO's breakthrough was based not just on worker-empowering wartime labour shortages. Its skill in using modern communications was also a factor in its wartime success, as well as its use of the war as a central character in these communications efforts. CIO communications used a narrative that elided workers with warriors as partners in a "people's war" to defeat the nation's enemies and build a new social order. The CIO told workers that if they organized into unions, they would have the power to shape a peace that, unlike after the Great War, would benefit this worker-warrior partnership. Victory was thus defined not merely as defeating the Axis but creating a modern, new Canada, where workers would have citizenship rights in the workplace and where citizenship entailed a fairer, more egalitarian society. The CIO's talk about rights extended to women workers, and its arguments for equal pay and women's seniority were increasingly based on women's human rights.

Work in Tumultuous Times: Critical Perspectives - Dabscheck, Braham (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Work in Tumultuous Times: Critical Perspectives," edited by Vivian Shalla and Wallace Clement.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employment; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Riot Nights on Sunset Strip - Davis, Mike (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article focuses on several riots that occurred on Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, California. It says that the Battle of the Strip which is considered the most celebrated event in the struggle of teenagers to create their own realm of freedom happened between 1966 to 1968. Plans of expanding the base of protests to incorporate the grievances of gay people and minorities were made.
Keywords: CALIFORNIA; DEMONSTRATIONS (Collective behavior); LGBT people; LOS Angeles (Calif.); Minorities; Riots; TEENAGERS

The Split in the AFL-CIO: Implications for the Canadian Labour Movement - Declerck, Sarah (McMaster University, 2007)
In July 2005, six unions withdrew from the central labour federation in the United States, the AFL-CIO. In September 2005, joined by a seventh union, the disaffiliated unions formed a rival labour federation called Change to Win (CTW). On the surface according to Stem, leader of the CTW coalition, what divides the two sides of the split is a disagreement over whether or not to place greater emphasis on organizing new members or altering the political climate in the US in order to facilitate orgamzmg. This thesis explores some of the earlier debates within the union renewal literature in the US and in Canada and exposes many ofthe similarities between the 1995 "New Voices" leadership ofthe AFL-CIO and the CTW leadership. Through a description and analysis of the events that led to the split in the AFL-CIO, the limitations ofthe debates that led to the split are revealed and the strategies for union renewal advanced by the proponents of CTW are critiqued. Drawing on interviews with elected leaders and staff from some of the Canadian sections of the CTW unions, one of the largest Canadian unions, the Ontario Federation of Labour and the Canadian Labour Congress, this thesis examines some of the implications of the split in the AFL-CIO on the Canadian labour movement. As trade unionists in Canada consider different approaches to union renewal, one option is to embrace an approach similar to the CTW approach: greater cooperation with employers and a more "efficient" business unionism. Another approach is union renewal with a socialist character; developing working-class capacities to construct socialist alternatives and renew the labour movement as an instrument of working-class struggle.

Modelos de producción en la maquila de exportación. La crisis del toyotismo precario - Déom, Esther (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Modelos de producción en la maquila de exportación. La crisis del toyotismo precario," edited by Enrique de la Garza Toledo.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Negotiating Citizenship: Migrant Women in Canada and the Global System - Dhamoon, Rita (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Negotiating Citizenship: Migrant Women in Canada and the Global System," by Daiva K. Stasiulis and Abigail B. Bakan.
Keywords: BAKAN; Abigail B.; BOOKS – Reviews; NEGOTIATING Citizenship: Migrant Women in Canada & the Global System (Book); Nonfiction; STASIULIS; Daiva K.; WOMEN immigrants

A Great Restlessness: The Life and Politics of Dorise Nielsen - Dickin, Janice (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "A Great Restlessness: The Life and Politics of Dorise Nielsen," by Faith Johnston.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; GREAT Restlessness: The Life & Politics of Dorise Nielsen; A (Book); JOHNSTON; Faith; NIELSEN; Dorise; Nonfiction

Les accidents mortels en milieux de travail dans le district judiciaire de Montréal de 1890 à 1930 : recension et analyse à partir des rapports d'enquête des coroners - Dionne, Jean-Claude (Université de Montréal, 2007)
L’objet de ce mémoire est la recension et l’analyse des accidents mortels survenus dans les milieux de travail du district judiciaire de Montréal durant la période de 1893 à 1930. À partir des témoignages contenus dans les rapports d’enquête des coroners, nous analyserons les opinions des travailleurs, des contremaîtres, des coroners et des inspecteurs afin de connaître leur point de vue sur les accidents et de vérifier dans quelle mesure ils partagent les valeurs libérales de cette époque. Pour constituer notre corpus d’information, nous avons dépouillé chacun des 1527 dossiers des rapports d’enquête des coroners effectuée entre le premier janvier 1893 et le 31 décembre 1930. Ils constituent notre principale source à partir de laquelle nous établirons l’ampleur des accidents mortels et également analyserons les témoignages recueillis par les coroners, Pour fin d’analyse, nous avons réparti ces données sous les quatre décennies couvertes par notre étude et élaboré des tableaux statistiques établissant la distribution annuelle et décennale de ces accidents de même que l’âge et le sexe des victimes. Nous avons également distribué ces accidents par secteurs d’activités économiques et par catégories d’accidents. Si les employeurs, les contremaîtres et les inspecteurs des manufactures adhèrent aux principes de l’idéologie libérale de l’époque en attribuant aux travailleurs la responsabilité première des accidents de travail, les coroners et les travailleurs considèrent, par contre, dans une forte proportion (72 %) que les causes de ces accidents sont associés à des défaillances des divers éléments des lieux de travail et aux processus de production. Ils sont donc plus enclins à attribuer la responsabilité aux employeurs.
https://doi.org/1866/17912

Managing Global Legal Systems - Drouin, Renée-Claude (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Managing Global Legal Systems," by Gary W. Florkowski.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Construction de nouveaux rapports à l’organisation du travail dans les transitions professionnelles / Constructing New Relationships with the Work Organization in Occupational Transitions - Dupuy, Raymond (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
Introduction du numéro thématique : sous la direction de Geneviève Fournier et Alexis le Blanc/Introduction to the Thematic Issue, edited by Geneviève Fournier and Alexis le Blanc.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Mothers of the Nation: Women, Families, and Nationalism in Twentieth-Century Europe - Epp, Marlene (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Mothers of the Nation: Women, Families, and Nationalism in Twentieth-Century Europe," by Patrizia Albanese.
Keywords: ALBANESE; Patrizia; BOOKS – Reviews; MOTHERS of the Nation: Women; Families & Nationalism in 20th-Century Europe (Book); Nationalism; Nonfiction

Subcontracting by Stealth' in London's Hotels: Impacts and Implications for Labour Organising - Evans, Yara; Wills, Jane; Datta, Kavita; Herbert, Jo; McIlwaine, Cathy; May, Jon (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2007)
This paper examines the dynamics of change in employment relations in London's hotels. The industry has traditionally used employment agencies to meet short-term labour shortages, but more recently it has turned to agency workers on a 'permanent' basis to cut costs. Drawing on survey data and in-depth interviews with hotel workers in London, we examine the effects of this on labour, documenting changes in pay, and terms and conditions of employment. Our research confirms a trend towards the casualisation of employment in hotels, and highlights the emergence of 'subcontracting by stealth', whereby increasing numbers of staff are employed by agencies with lower wages and poorer working conditions than in-house staff. Given low union-density in the sector, we argue that the Living Wage Campaign, which has been successfully implemented in other sectors of the London economy, might prove an effective means to counter the negative impacts of subcontracting on hotel workers.

Learning on the Line: Voices of Garment Workers at Great Western Garment - Fenwick, Tara (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article discusses a study involving employees of Great Western Garment about their worklife, the nature of the work community and the plant closing in Canada. At part of the study, the instructors of the English language classes held onsite at the plant were also interviewed. A dramatic script was developed to present the study findings to the Canadian Association for the Study of Adult Education at Congress 2005 in London, Ontario.
Keywords: CLOTHING factories; Canada; ENGLISH language – Study & teaching; Employees; SCRIPTS

[e]motions, Moments, and Transnational Connections: The Lived Experiences of Two Labour Migrants in Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Workers' Program - Ferguson, Nelson (Concordia University, 2007)
Labour migrants have been routinely categorised within social scientific thought as either abstracted economic entities or as victims of global processes beyond their understanding. A striking majority of attempts to understand processes of migration, especially in regards to "unskilled" Mexican migrant workers, have been informed primarily by macro-level economic approaches, while the social and individual factors at play have been largely pushed to the side. As such, the social lives and individual diversities of these migrants have received meagre academic attention. In acknowledgment of this gap, this current thesis focuses on the lived experiences of Hector-Alberto and Durango, two individuals engaged in a cycle of migration as participants in Canada's managed migration program, the Seasonal Agricultural Workers' Program. Through an ethnographic description of the everyday experiences of Hector and Durango, three relevant themes are explored: their individual relations to their work, their family, and their co-workers. As such, the present work aims to explore the varied experiences of migration and frame labour migrants as significant social actors rather than abstracted units or victims of social forces. The author encourages an engagement in a broader investigation of the "migrant experience"; to look beyond the idea of transnational migration as simply physical movements across national boundaries, but rather as groupings of processes with profound and diverse meanings to those involved. Perhaps such a perspective would play a role in revealing the complex myriad of interacting processes which combine under the umbrella term of "migration".
Keywords: Social sciences

Book Notes [59, Spring 2007] - Finkel, Alvin (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews several books including the "Risky Business: Nuclear Power and Public Protest in Canada," by Michael D. Mehta," "Saskatchewan: The Roots of Discontent and Protest," by John W. Warnock, and "City of Clerks: Office and Sales Workers in Philadelphia 1870-1920," by Jerome P. Bjelopara.
Keywords: BJELOPARA; Jerome P.; BOOKS – Reviews; CITY of Clerks: Office & Sales Workers in Philadelphia 1870-1920 (Book); MEHTA; Michael D.; Nonfiction; RISKY Business: Nuclear Power & Public Protest in Canada (Book); SASKATCHEWAN: The Roots of Discontent & Protest (Book); WARNOCK; John W.

Book Notes [60, Fall 2007] - Finkel, Alvin (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article briefly reviews "Undelivered Letters to Hudson’s Bay Company Men on the Northwest Coast of America, 1830-1857," by Judith Hudson Beattie and Helen M. Buss, "Wartime Images, Peacetime Wounds: The Media and the Gustafsen Lake Standoff," by Sandra Lambertus, “'We, Too, Are Americans': African American Women in Detroit and Richmond, 1940-1954," by Megan Taylor Shockley, "Promise Unfulfilled: Unions, Immigration, and the Farm Workers," by Philip L. Martin, "From Charity to Social Work: Mary E. Richmond and the Creation of an American Profession," by Elizabeth N. Agnew, "Forging America: Adventurers, Ironworkers, and America’s Industrial Revolution," by John Bezis-Selfa, "Working Women in Mexico City: Public Discourses and Material Conditions, 1879-1931," by Susie E. Porter, "The Social Bases of Nazism 1919-1933," by Detlef Mühlberger, "Women and the Labour Market in Japan’s Industrialising Economy: The Textile Industry Before the Pacific War," by Janet Hunter, "Drugs, Labor, and Colonial Expansion," edited by William Jankowiak and Daniel Bradburd, "The Making of a Cybertariat: Virtual Work in a Real World," by Ursula Huws, "Drugs, Labor, and Colonial Expansion," edited by William Jankowiak and Daniel Bradburd, "Parecon: Life After Capitalism," by Michael Albert, "Thinking Past Terror: Islamism and Critical Theory on the Left," by Susan Buck-Morss, "Memoirs of a Media Maverick," by Boyce Richardson, "Canada and the Cold War," by Reg Whitaker and Steve Hewitt, and "Sticking to the Union: An Oral History of the Life and Times of Julia Ruuttila," by Sandy Polishuk.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CANADA & the Cold War (Book); HEWITT; Steve; MEMOIRS of a Media Maverick (Book); Nonfiction; POLISHUK; Sandy; RICHARDSON; Boyce; STICKING to the Union: An Oral History of the Life & Times of Julia Ruuttila (Book); WHITAKER; Reg

Ordinary Poverty: A Little Food and Cold Storage - Finkel, Alvin (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Ordinary Poverty: A Little Food and Cold Storage," by William DiFazio.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; DIFAZIO; William; Nonfiction; ORDINARY Poverty: A Little Food & Cold Storage (Book); POVERTY

Can Strikes Pay for Management? Pro Sports' Major Turnarounds - Fisher, Edward George (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
Collective bargaining and antitrust law emancipated players. The advent of free agency and related contractual provisions created a battle line over splitting revenues. Work stoppages can foster players' resisting or employers' enforcing "salary restraint mechanisms." Each major sport had a major showdown and corresponding turnaround in "survival bargaining." My framework adds "litigious and other maneuvers" as backups to the traditional strategic choices of "reconfiguring" versus "forcing" or resisting change." It expands on Walton and McKersie's "sanction as an investment device," "intra-organizational bargaining," and "attitudinal structuring" (1965). In each major turnaround management eventually achieved a stable contractual formula consistent with a three-pronged formula: (1) demonstrate a performance gap, (2) play on worst fears via sanctions or their threat, and (3) provide incentives to settle or change.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Collective bargaining; Labor Unions; Professional sports; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Strategic management; Strikes; Studies

Women and Work Culture: Britain c.1850-1950 - Frank, Christopher J. (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Women and Work Culture: Britain c.1850-1950," edited by Krista Cowman and Louise A. Jackson.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; COWMAN; Krista; JACKSON; Louise A.; Labor; Nonfiction; WOMEN & Work Culture: Britain c.1850-1950 (Book)

Collective Bargaining in Canada: Human Right or Canadian Illusion? - Fudge, Derek (Fernwood, 2007)
Recounting the cuts to freedom of association and the collective bargaining process across Canada since the 1980s, this study challenges the notion that Canada is an international champion of human rights. With documentation on the assaults to the rights of Canadian workers, this text considers the ways governments intervene to stop the collective bargaining process and evaluates topics such as the history of collective bargaining in Canada, the role of the International Labor Office, and the future hope of restoring rights and fairness to labor laws. –Publisher's description
https://archives.nupge.ca/sites/default/files/documents/Collective%20Bargaining%20in%20Canada%202nd%20Edition.pdf
Keywords: Collective bargaining; Labor laws and legislation

The Harsh Welcome of an Industrial City: Immigrant Women in Montreal, 1880–1900 - Gavreau, Danielle; Olson, Sherry; Thornton, Patricia (Social History / Histoire sociale, 2007)
Over the span 1880 to 1900, Montreal was a city of newcomers, a majority of them women, and most of them arrived before age 30 from Britain, Europe, the United States, or rural counties of Quebec and Ontario. Young people aged 15 to 29 accounted for a third of the population and half of the recorded labour force. The authors’ analyses of 1881 census data and a 5 per cent sample for 1901 uncover a wide range of factors affecting life transitions. A substantial increase in participation of young unmarried women in the waged labour force was made possible by shifts in the timing of life transitions: the ages at which girls left school, left home, entered the work force, and married. The schedule was affected by migration, and it differed among the three principal cultural communities — French-speaking Catholic, English-speaking Catholic, and Anglo-Protestant. All three groups of women increased their rates of participation in the labour force, but the distinctions based on cultural affiliation persisted in both the scheduling of life transitions and the kinds of work in which they engaged.

Staying Afloat on Social Assistance: Parents’ Strategies of Balancing Employability Expectations and Caregiving Demands - Gazso, Amber (Socialist Studies/Études socialistes, 2007)
Using a feminist political economy lens, this paper explores the balancing of work and family by parents on social assistance in British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan. In all three provinces, restructuring of policy has made parents’ entitlement to assistance increasingly contingent on their employability efforts (e.g. mandatory job searches, participation in welfare-to-work programs). This entitlement relationship is implicated by simultaneous and contradictory processes embedded in neo-liberal restructuring – gendering and familization – that problematically affect parents’ ability to balance their actual or potential employability expectations with family caregiving demands. Drawing on qualitative data from 46 interviews, this paper reveals the strategies that parents then utilize to manage these competing demands so that they can maintain their family’s survival– or “stay afloat” – while living on social assistance. In terms of thematic areas, these intricately inter-related coping strategies include: learn the system; play the system; social support; pawning. The significance of these findings for feminist challenges of neo-liberalism and for meeting social justice goals (i.e. economic security; equality) is discussed.

Working Disasters: The Politics of Recognition and Response - Gereluk, Winston (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Working Disasters: The Politics of Recognition and Response," edited by Eric Tucker.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Nonfiction; TUCKER; Eric; WORK-related injuries; WORKING Disasters: The Politics of Recognition & Response (Book)

Canada's Workers Movement: Uneven Developments - Goldfield, Michael; Palmer, Bryan D. (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article presents a comparison of the working classes in Canada and the U.S. It states that a smaller low-wage manufacturing sector exists in Canada where workers are permanently trapped in poverty. The similarity of the levels and nature of unionization and attitudes toward social provisioning between the two countries are also mentioned.
Keywords: LABOR organizing; Manufacturing industries; NORTH America; POVERTY; Working class

Organizing the Transnational: Labour, Politics, and Social Change - Goldring, Luin; Krishnamurti, Sailaja (UBC Press, 2007)
Growing recognition of transnational practices and identities is changing the way scholars and activists ask questions about migration. Organizing the Transnational articulates a multi-level cultural politics of transnationalism to frame contemporary analyses of immigration and diasporas. With chapters by academics and activists working from diverse perspectives, the volume moves beyond the conventional focus on states and migrants to consider a wide array of institutions, actors, and forms of mobilization that shape transnational engagements and communities. Its unique approach will inform the work of researchers, practitioners, and activists interested in the dynamics of transnational social spaces. –Publisher's description
Available at Internet Archive for readers with print disabilities: https://archive.org/details/organizingtransn0000unse/page/n9/mode/2up OCLC: 162506932
Keywords: Asians; Asians Canada; Asiatiques Canada; Asien; Canada; Changement social Canada; Community organization; Community organization Canada; Einwanderung; Ethnicity; Ethnicity Canada; Ethnicité Canada; Etnicitet Kanada; Hispanos; Immigrants; Immigrants Canada; Immigration Kanada; Kanada; Latin Americans; Latin Americans Canada; Latino-Américains Canada; Organisation communautaire Canada; Social change; Social change Canada; Social förändring Kanada; Sozialer Wandel; Transnationale Politik; Transnationalism; Transnationalisme

Inside the Workplace: Findings from the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey - Gould, Anthony M. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Inside the Workplace: Findings from the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey," by Barbara Kersley, Carmen Alpin, John Forth, Alex Bryson, Helen Bewley, Gill Dix and Sarah Oxenbridge.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Polls & surveys; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Work environment

Mobsters, Unions and Feds: The Mafia and the American Labor Movement - Gould, Anthony M. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Mobsters, Unions and Feds: The Mafia and the American Labor Movement," by James B. Jacobs.
Keywords: American history; Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Organized crime; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

American Vanguard: The United Auto Workers During the Reuther Years - Goutor, David (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "American Vanguard: The United Auto Workers During the Reuther Years," by John Barnard.
Keywords: AMERICAN Vanguard: The United Auto Workers During the Reuther Years (Book); BARNARD; John; BOOKS – Reviews; INTERNATIONAL Union; United Automobile; Aerospace & Agricultural Implement Workers of America; Nonfiction

Constructing the 'Great Menace': Canadian Labour's Opposition to Asian Immigration, 1880–1914 - Goutor, David (Canadian Historical Review, 2007)
Canadian labour's agitation against Asian immigration in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has received a considerable amount of scholarly attention. Many historians have highlighted labour's concerns about Asian competition in the labour market, while others have explored the pervasiveness of anti-Asian racism in most segments of Canadian, and especially British Columbian, society. But these factors – while important – do not sufficiently explain labour's antipathy to Asians. They particularly fail to account for the unity against Asian immigration between unionists in different regions, the influence of campaigns for exclusion in other countries, and the class content of labour's anti-Asian rhetoric. Another under-explored issue is whether unionists approached Asians in the same way as other immigrants, minorities, and oppressed groups. Drawing on the growing literature on racialization, and focusing primarily on the 1880s, when labour's views on Asian immigration became well established, this article shows how Asians were set apart from any groups with whom labour might have sympathy or common cause. Asians were associated with oppressive forces, particularly of the emerging industrial capitalist system. This association can be seen in many of labour's stereotypes of Asians as industrial slaves, ruthless competitors in the economy, and threats to white women. These stereotypes also set Asians up as polar opposites to the basic class, race, and gender identity that labour leaders sought to foster.
Keywords: Capitalism; Immigrants; Industry; Labour; Minorities; Race; Unions; Working class

Guarding the Gates: The Canadian Labour Movement and Immigration, 1872-1934 - Goutor, David (UBC Press, 2007)
From the 1870s until the Great Depression, immigration was often the question of the hour in Canada. Politicians, the media, and an array of interest groups viewed it as essential to nation building, developing the economy, and shaping Canada’s social and cultural character. One of the groups most determined to influence public debate and government policy on the issue was organized labour, and unionists were often relentless critics of immigrant recruitment. Guarding the Gates is the first detailed study of Canadian labour leaders’ approach to immigration, a key battleground in struggles between different political factions within the labour movement. –Publisher's description
Book available at Internet Archive to readers with print disabilities: https://archive.org/details/guardinggatescan0000gout
Keywords: Emigration and immigration; Employment; Government policy; History; Immigrants; Labor Unions; Race discrimination

"Standing by Our Principles": The Trades and Labor Congress of Canada and Immigration, 1933-1939 - Goutor, David (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2007)
This paper explores the approach of Canada's largest labour central, the Trades and Labor Congress (TLC), to immigration from 1933 to 1939. This was a unique period in Canada's immigration history, as in 1930 the government responded to the onset of the Great Depression by closing the gates to almost all immigration for the first time since Confederation, and by 1933 there was no doubt that the gates would remain closed for some time. Despite this dramatic change, Canadian labour leaders stood by their longstanding views on immigration through to the end of the 1930s. Although the level of concern about immigration predictably declined, TLC leaders generally gained confidence that their established views had widespread support. This confidence encouraged unionists to pose as protectors of immigrants against hardship in Canada. It also assured them that they did not have to devote as much energy as in earlier periods to agitating for the deportation of some immigrants, or to their longtime favourite cause, restricting immigration from Asia and southern and eastern Europe. Altogether, changes in the economy and immigration rates did not necessarily entail changes in labour's attitudes. A number of other factors, including ideological trends within the movement, prevailing attitudes towards race and gender, and the efforts of groups advocating immigration served to entrench labour's views even more deeply in the 1930s.

Revolution in Winnipeg - Grant, Hugh; Mackintosh, W. A. (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article focuses on the underlying conditions contributing to the Winnipeg General Strike in Manitoba in 1919. It serves as a significant expression of the liberal view of the necessary reforms to handle industrial conflict and to provide for a more just economy. It states that the legitimate demands of labor could be accommodated within the existing constitutional framework with the developing economic maturity of Canada in the early 20th century and efficient state management of the economy.
Keywords: CONFLICT (Psychology); General Strike; Winnipeg; Man.; 1919; Labor; MANITOBA; Reforms; WINNIPEG (Man.)

The Working Class After the Vanguard: Process and Plurality in the Theory and Practice of Working Class Organization - Green, Brian Stephen (University of British Columbia, 2007)
This thesis examines what the two sides of class– capital and working class –have meant in left parlance, what these meanings imply about class struggle, and how they were put into political practice through Communist Parties and trade unions. Ideas about class and strategies for class struggle continue to be central to the left, as the various ways these are conceptualized give rise to very different answers to some common and persistent questions: Who is legitimately a worker and when? Why, how and with what result are certain struggles delayed or subsumed within others? At what point does self-criticism cross over to counter-revolutionary dissent? And what might continuing schisms over these questions tell us about traditional left organizations? The thesis traces the development of 'the left' from its key conceptual subject, the working class, through its two most widely-adopted organizational strategies in order to examine the poverty of the left's analytical and political traditions, particularly as regards (1) the notion of socialism as an alternative management plan and (2) ideas about capital and working class that stressed the embodiments of power relations rather than those relations themselves, and which were lifted directly from capital's own definitions of productivity. Finally, the thesis argues that insights from long-neglected Marxisms, certain critical post-structuralisms and the political strategies of some emergent anti-capitalist networks together offer the opportunity to produce a more fluid, and more liberatory left, imbued with: (1) an understanding of class as a relationship that does not inhere to individuals or organizations, and (2) a notion of the working class as a permanent resistance that has nothing whatever to do with a particular ideology or strategy; with (3) an analysis which emphasizes situational relationships of power that are at once racialized, gendered, sexualized, and classed; and (4) a political approach which draws means and ends together in an emphasis on resistance as the troubling of order, and revolution as a process of refusal.

The Politics of Working Life - Grenier, Jean-Noël (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "The Politics of Working Life," by Paul Edwards and Judy Wajcman.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Organizing the Electronic Sweatshop: Rank-and-File Participation in Canada's Steel Union - Guard, Julie; Steedman, Mercedes; Garcia-Orgales, Jorge (Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 2007)
Detailed study, including interviews with the participants, of the United Steelworkers' campaign to organize the workers at a call centre in Sudbury, Ontario, in 1999.

Backlash Against Welfare Mothers: Past and Present - Guildford, Janet (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Backlash Against Welfare Mothers: Past and Present," by Ellen Reese.
Keywords: BACKLASH Against Welfare Mothers: Past & Present (Book); BOOKS – Reviews; Nonfiction; REESE; Ellen; Social movements

Navigating the Seamless Environment in the Global Supply Chain: Implications for Canadian Regions and Workers - Gurstein, Penny (Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, 2007)
When work is 'boundless' and 'seamless' where and how do workers' lives intersect with the space-time continuum of place-based communities? Who and what are they accountable to? Telemediation is fragmenting work across increasingly complex, transnational networks. Workers in these networks must negotiate through a multitude of temporal, contractual and trans-cultural milieus. This paper traces the trajectory of the work experience using case studies of telemediated work relationships in various points in the global supply chain and analyses the implications of telemediated spaces for the quality of workers' lives. Drawing on an analysis of case studies conducted by the EMERGENCE Canada project, this paper argues that telemediated work represents a shift in the scale at which many aspects of daily life unfold, and that some of the assumptions upon which workers' lives are governed must be reconsidered.

Capital and Labour in the British Columbia Forest Industry, 1934-74 - Hak, Gordon H. (Gordon Hugh) (UBC Press, 2007)
The history of British Columbia’s economy in the twentieth century is inextricably bound to the development of the forest industry. In this comprehensive study, Gordon Hak approaches the forest industry from the perspectives of workers and employers, examining the two main sets of institutions that structured the relationship during the Fordist era: the companies and the unions. Drawing on theories of the labour process, Fordism, and discursive subjectivity, Hak relates daily routines of production and profit-making to broader forces of unionism, business ideology, ecological protest, technological change, and corporate concentration. The struggle of the small-business sector to survive in the face of corporate growth, the history of the industry on the Coast and in the Interior, the transformations in capital-labour relations during the period, government forest policy, and the forest industry’s encounter with the emerging environmental movement are all considered in this eloquent analysis. With its critical historical perspective, Capital and Labour in the British Columbia Forest Industry will be essential reading for anyone interested in the business, natural resource, political, social, and labour history of the province. –Publisher's description
Book available at Internet Archive to people with print disabilities: http://archive.org/details/capitallabourinb0000hakg
Keywords: Forests and forestry – British Columbia – History

Securing Borders: Detention and Deportation in Canada - Hannant, Larry (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Securing Borders: Detention and Deportation in Canada," by Anna Pratt.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; EMIGRATION & immigration law; Nonfiction; PRATT; Anna; SECURING Borders: Detention & Deportation in Canada (Book)

"The Both of Us Have Battled": The Practices and Politics of Female Partners in the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program - Hanson, Christina (Simon Fraser University, 2007)
Through an analysis of qualitative, ethnographic data, I locate the narratives of nine Mexican women married to migrants within the context of capitalist globalization, state policies, and local gender ideologies. In doing so, advocate for a theoretical approach to migration which combines elements of structural theories of migration and network theoretical approaches. These women's narratives position them at the juncture of capitalism and other social relations, and show them to be active agents in migration. Not only is their labour critical to the maintenance of migration patterns and the capitalist relations into which migrants and non-migrants are incorporated, but women's labour is also imbued with social meanings.
Keywords: Canada – Mexico – Migration; Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program; Gender and migration; Mexico – Emigration and Immigration – Social Aspects – Case studies; Non-migrating women and globalization; Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (Canada); Social aspects of migration; Temporary foreign worker programs; Women – Mexico – Social Conditions

Outsourcing and Employer Responsibility: A Case Study of Occupational Health and Safety in the Danish Public Transport Sector - Hasle, Peter (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
The widespread use of outsourcing in the service industry has major consequences for the employment relationship. In particular, outsourcing diminishes absolute employer control of firm operations. This article focuses on this new relationship through a study of the occupational health and safety requirements established in connection with the outsourcing of public bus transport in Denmark.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Occupational safety; Outsourcing; Public transportation; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; occupational health

Saints, Sinners, and Soldiers: Canada's Second World War - Hayes, Geoffrey (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Saints, Sinners and Soldiers: Canada's Second World War," by Jeffrey A. Keshen.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Canada; History; KESHEN; Jeffrey A.; Nonfiction; SAINTS; Sinners & Soldiers: Canada's Second World War (Book)

Fragile Alliances: Labor and Politics in Evansville, Indiana, 1919-1955 - Hazelton, Andrew J. (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Fragile Alliances: Labor and Politics in Evansville, Indiana 1919-1955," by Samuel W. White.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; FRAGILE Alliances: Labor & Politics in Evansville; Indiana 1919-1955 (Book); Labor movement; Nonfiction; WHITE; Samuel W.

Raised in the Spirit of the Class Struggle: Children, Youth, and the Interwar Ukrainian Left in Canada - Hinther, Rhonda L. (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
This paper focuses on the experiences of children and youth who were born into the Ukrainian Labour Farmer Temple Association (ULFTA) during the 1920s and 1930s. It examines the priorities of the movement's parents and male leaders and their efforts to implement activities that would serve to politicize and impart a strong sense of Ukrainianness in youngsters. It also considers the ways in which young people themselves contributed to the shape of the movement. Children and youth, because of their particular positions at specific intersections of class, ethnicity, age, and gender, experienced the ULFTA in ways that were distinct from their parents. Because of the ULFTA's emphasis on Ukrainian culture, their childhoods were also significantly different from other socialist children. The movement's emphasis on Marxist-Leninism and the class struggle also divided these children from their non-socialist Ukrainian and non-Ukrainian peers. By applying an intersectional perspective to the interwar Ukrainian left, this paper also seeks to broaden our understanding of the movement's connection with the Communist Party of Canada (CPC). The ULFTA and the CPC enjoyed a consistently difficult relationship through much of this period, particularly where Ukrainian cultural expression was concerned. An examination of youngsters' activities illustrates some of the many ways in which the ULFTA leaders and rank-and-file members (including the young people themselves) resisted the CPC's attempts to control the ULFTA and its resources.
Keywords: CHILDREN; Canada; Labor movement; Social conflict; UKRAINE; Youth

Noah London's "Notes on the USSR." - Holmes, John; London, Noah (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article focuses on the activism of Jewish leader Noah London against Stalinism in Soviet Union. While working as the labor editor of the Communist Party of the United States' (CPUSA) Yiddish daily newspaper called "Freiheit," London had participated in the socialist-communist civil war within the garment industry which profoundly affect the labor movement in the U.S. He was the founding national secretary of the CPUSA Jewish Workers Federation.
Keywords: CIVIL war; Clothing industry; LONDON; Noah; Labor Unions; Labor movement; SOVIET Union; STALINISM; United States