Career Satisfaction: A Look behind the Races - Yap, Margaret; Cukier, Wendy; Holmes, Mark Robert; Hannan, Charity-Ann (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2010)
Using recent survey data, this paper examines the career satisfaction of white/Caucasian and visible minority managerial, professional and executive employees in the information and communications technology and financial services sectors in corporate Canada. Black, South Asian and Chinese employees were less satisfied with their careers than white/Caucasian employees, but to varying magnitudes–with Black employees being the least satisfied. About 58% to 82% of the differences in career satisfaction scores, depending on the particular ethnic group, can be accounted for by factors included in this paper. Of the unexplained portion, most of the differences in career satisfaction between white/Caucasian and minority groups are attributable to higher returns to white/Caucasian employees' human capital and demographic characteristics.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Job satisfaction; Labor Unions; Minority & ethnic groups; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Whites; Work environment

Gender Differences in Precarious Work Settings - Young, Marisa C. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2010)
This study uses human capital and gender stratification theory to answer three research questions concerning the gendered patterns of precarious employment the effects of human capital investments and family obligations on precarious employment, and the extent that these investments and obligations affect precarious employment differently for men and women. Lucrative jobs that offer benefits, union protection, with full-time work status were considered indicators of high quality and therefore non-precarious employment. Using data from U.S. respondents, findings suggest: a) a "gender" to precarious employment in that women are more likely to work in low quality job settings; b) gender discrepancies in benefits and union protection are explained by differences in men's and women's human capital, family investments, and other work-related situations; and, c) gender differences in wages and part- time work status result from workplace discrimination towards women. The implications of these findings are discussed along with recommendations for future research.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employment; Gender differences; Human capital; Labor Unions; Sex discrimination; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Theory; Workplace diversity

Racialization and Marginalization of Immigrants: A New Wave of Xenophobia in Canada - Zaman, Habiba (Labour / Le Travail, 2010)
The article reviews four books: "Racialized Migrant Women in Canada: Essays on Health, Violence, and Equity," edited by Vijay Agnew; "Fight Back: Workplace Justice for Immigrants" by Aziz Choudry, Jill Hanley, Steve Jordan, Eric Shragge, and Martha Stiegman; "Real Nurses and Others: Racism in Nursing" by Tania Das Gupta; and one other.
Keywords: AGNEW; Vijay; BOOKS – Reviews; CHOUDRY; Aziz; DAS Gupta; Tania; 1957-; FIGHT Back: Workplace Justice for Immigrants (Book); HANLEY; Jill; JORDAN; Steve; Nonfiction; RACIALIZED Migrant Women in Canada: Essays on Health; Violence & Equity (Book); REAL Nurses & Others: Racism in Nursing (Book); SHRAGGE; Eric; STIEGMAN; Martha

Labour Pains: Thunder Bay's Working Class in Canada's Wheat Boom Era - Zembezycki, Stacey (Labour / Le Travail, 2010)
The article reviews the book, "Labour Pains: Thunder Bay's Working Class in Canada's Wheat Boom Era," by Jean Morrison.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; History; LABOUR Pains: Thunder Bay's Working Class in Canada's Wheat Boom Era (Book); MORRISON; Jean; Nonfiction; THUNDER Bay (Ont.)

Employer Offered Family Support Programs, Gender and Voluntary and Involuntary Part-Time Work - Zeytinoglu, Isik U.; Cooke, Gordon B.; Mann, Sara L. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2010)
This paper examines the availability of employer offered childcare and eldercare support in Canada. In addition, the associations between these support programs, gender and voluntary and involuntary part-time work are also examined. Using Statistics Canada's 2003 Workplace and Employee Survey, results show that employer offered childcare programs exist in a very small number of workplaces, and eldercare support programs are almost nonexistent. Moreover, women are less likely than men to be offered family support programs. Voluntary and involuntary part-time workers are less likely to be offered family support programs than full-time workers. We argue that if individuals are going to receive assistance for childcare and eldercare, that assistance is more likely going to come from the government as opposed to employers. We suggest publicly funded universal family support programs to assist workers.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Elder care; Employee benefits; Labor Unions; Multivariate analysis; Part time employment; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Work life balance; child care

Open Statement by [124] Canadian Scholars on Unionization and the Economic and Social Well-Being of Canadians - Albo, Gregory (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2009)
...Americans will decide whether the changes proposed in the Employee Free Choice Act are sensible and positive for their economy and their labour market. But we wish to express our judgment regarding the impact of unionization and collective bargaining on Canadian labour market and social outcomes. In our view, that impact has been generally positive. –From conclusion

Faulty Methodology Generates Faulty Results: Comments on the Paper entitled "An Empirical Assessment of the Employee Free Choice Act: The Economic Implications," by Anne Layne-Farrar, March 2009 - Fortin, Pierre (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2009)

The Québec Case: Is There a Secret? - Gagnon, Marie-Josée; Collombat, Thomas (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2009)
The conflict between property rights and the right of association creates the case for various policy avenues to ensure that employees have effective access to the right to associate for the purposes of collective bargaining. One such labour policy in Canada is first-contract arbitration. The experience of this policy in Quebec over the last three decades has achieved key objectives: ensuring first agreements for newly unionized workers, developing constructive bargaining relationships and overcoming what can be a major obstacle to an effective right to associate. After reviewing this experience, this article provides an overview of the unionization campaigns resulting in union certifications for the United Food and Commercial Workers Canada in six Wal-Mart facilities in Quebec province over the last six years. It then examines two recent cases of first-contract arbitration for these certifications. In one case, the company summarily closed the department concerned after the first contract was awarded. In the second case, the store remains open, with an operative collective agreement. Absent a policy of first-contract arbitration, it appears unlikely that this would be the case. The evolution of the bargaining relationship beyond the first-contract will provide a key test of the relative efficacy of Canadian policy approaches to ensure the freedom of association.

Comments on "An Empirical Assessment of the Employee Free Choice Act: The Economic Implications," by Ann Layne-Farrar - Johnson, Susan (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2009)
An Empirical Assessment of the Employee Free Choice Act: The Economic Implications by Ann Layne-Farrar provides empirical evidence concerning the impact on the U.S. unemployment rate and employment-to-population ratio should the highly controversial Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) become law. The paper has received widespread public attention and its analysis is being used in the debate surrounding the EFCA. This commentary raises three important questions about the empirical analysis: Are the predictions presented in the study, concerning the effects of the EFCA, realistic? Is the research design likely to identify the effects of the EFCA? Why do the data used in the analysis cover such a short time period? The discussion suggests the empirical results presented in Layne-Farrar (2009) should be viewed with considerable skepticism.

Labour Law and The New Inequality - Lynk, Michael (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2009)
Addresses the growing inequality, decline of unions, and stagnant labour laws in Canada.
Keywords: Inequality; Labour law

The Sky is Not Falling: Unionization, Wal-Mart and First Contract Arbitration in Canada - Murray, Gregor; Cuillerier, Joelle (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2009)
The conflict between property rights and the right of association creates the case for various policy avenues to ensure that employees have effective access to the right to associate for the purposes of collective bargaining. One such labour policy in Canada is first-contract arbitration. The experience of this policy in Quebec over the last three decades has achieved key objectives: ensuring first agreements for newly unionized workers, developing constructive bargaining relationships and overcoming what can be a major obstacle to an effective right to associate. After reviewing this experience, this article provides an overview of the unionization campaigns resulting in union certifications for the United Food and Commercial Workers Canada in six Wal-Mart facilities in Quebec province over the last six years. It then examines two recent cases of first-contract arbitration for these certifications. In one case, the company summarily closed the department concerned after the first contract was awarded. In the second case, the store remains open, with an operative collective agreement. Absent a policy of first-contract arbitration, it appears unlikely that this would be the case. The evolution of the bargaining relationship beyond the first-contract will provide a key test of the relative efficacy of Canadian policy approaches to ensure the freedom of association.

Introduction - Pupo, Norene (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2009)
Takes note of the Open Statement signed by over 120 scholars on unionization and economic and social well-being of Canadian. Introduces the theme: of the issue: the U.S. Employee Free Choice Act and its implications for Canada, including critical reviews of Anne Layne-Farrar's argument that unionization has undermined Canadian labour market performance.

Should Congress Pass the Employee Free Choice Act? Some Neighborly Advice - Slinn, Sara; Godard, John; Rose, Joseph B. (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2009)
American labour law is broken. As many as 60 percent of American workers would like to have a union, yet only 12 percent actually do. This is largely due to systematic employer interference, often in violation of existing laws. The Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), currently before Congress, contains provisions to rectify this problem. Canada's experience with similar provisions can be helpful in evaluating the arguments surrounding this act. It suggests that the reforms proposed in EFCA can be expected to safeguard rather than deny employees' free choices. They will not alter the balance of power in collective bargaining, but only help to ensure that workers can exercise their basic right to meaningful representation at work and, potentially, to win gains that could help to reduce inequality and return America to prosperity.

Fairness and Opportunity for Choice: The Employee Free Choice Act and the Canadian Model - Slinn, Sara; Hurd, Richard W. (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2009)
The authors are engaged in a multi-dimensional project that analyzes Canadian private sector experience under provincial and federal labour statutes. The broad objective of the research is to draw nuanced lessons from the Canadian experience that will inform the debate over labour law reform in the U.S. This commentary reflects the authors´ preliminary research results as they relate to the specific proposals included in the Employee Free Choice Act.

An Annotated Bibliography of Recent Research on Labour Relations Policy, Unionization, and Canada-U.S. Labour Market Performance - Sran, Garry (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2009)
[This] is an annotated list of selected recent publications on unionization and labour market performance, with relevance to Canada-U.S. labour market comparisons and the effect of collective bargaining structures on economic and social outcomes. While the broad literature on this topic is vast, the publications summarized below seem to be germane to Canadian aspects of the U.S. Employee Free Choice Act debate that are considered in this special issue of Just Labour. –Introduction

Further Tests of the Link between Unionization, Unemployment, and Employment: Findings from Canadian National and Provincial Data - Sran, Garry; Stanford, Jim (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2009)
...[O]pponents of proposed changes to U.S. labour law (and, in particular, the Employee Free Choice Act) have attempted to argue that Canada’s labour market experience “proves” that unionization and collective bargaining produce higher unemployment and lower employment. One consultant’s study (Layne-Farrar 2009) has been especially important in making this argument. ...This article conducts a detailed econometric re-examination of Layne-Farrar’s counter-intuitive and sensational findings. –From executive summary

Provincial Unionization, Unemployment and Productivity - Weir, Erin (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2009)
Critiques US economist Anne Layne-Farrar's argument that higher unionization results in higher unemployment.

Workers' Rights as Human Rights: Organized Labor and Rights Discourse in Canada - Savage, Larry (Labor Studies Journal, 2009)
In the wake of a series of prolabor Supreme Court decisions in Canada, the mantra of “workers' rights as human rights” has gained unprecedented attention in the Canadian labor movement. This article briefly reviews the Canadian labor movement's recent history with the Supreme Court before arguing that elite-driven judicial strategies, advocated by several academics and Canadian unions, threaten, over time, to depoliticize traditional class-based approaches to advancing workers' rights. The argument is premised on the notion that liberal human rights discourse does little to address the inequalities in wealth and power that polarize Canadian society along class lines.
Keywords: BC Health Services decision; Canada; Supreme Court; Unions; labor rights as human rights; workers'rights as human rights

Abstracts, volume 63 (Spring/Printemps 2009) (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
English/French abstracts of articles in the Spring 2009 issue.

Abstracts, Volume 64 (Fall/Automne 2009) (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
English/French abstracts of the articles in the Fall 2009 issue.

Index, Volumes 61 & 62, 2008 (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)

Coming to Terms with Nature: Socialist Register 2007 - Adkin, Laurie (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews "Coming to Terms With Nature: Socialist Register 2007," edited by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys. The Register is published annually.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; COMING to Terms With Nature: Socialist Register 2007 (Book); Capitalism; History–History of North And South America; LEYS; Colin; Nature; Nonfiction; PANITCH; Leo; SOCIALISTS; Socialism

L'approche systémique de la gestion des ressources humaines: le contrat psychologique des relations d'emploi dans les administrations publiques du XXIe siécle - Aguir, Mounir (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "L’approche systémique de la gestion des ressources humaines: le contrat psychologique des relations d’emploi dans les administrations publiques du xxie siècle," by Louise Lemire and Gaétan Martel.
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

Who Cares? The Impact of Neoliberal Policies and New Organizational Methods on Child and Youth Workers - Altass, Patricia D. (University of Guelph, 2009)
Child and Youth Work is an emotionally demanding profession with an extremely high burnout rate. Previous research has shown that there are a variety of factors that contribute to high rates of burnout within this profession. This thesis begins by exploring topics related to stress, burnout, emotional labour and vicarious trauma, providing a context to understand the inherent issues and challenges faced by workers in this field. The prevailing beliefs and values underlying neoliberal policies resulting in funding restrictions within the social services are then considered in relation to the impact of these policies on experienced levels of worker stress and burnout with the residential care field. Lastly, this thesis looks at the introduction of new organizational methods, specifically Total Quality Management and New Public Management, as strategies implemented by agencies to cope with funding limitations, and the resulting impact on levels of stress and burnout of front line residential child care workers. In addition to the three key areas of focus, the role and impact of unions within residential treatment settings is considered as a potential avenue for positive change within these workplaces.

Faction Figure: James P. Cannon, Early Communist History, and Radical Faith - Arnesen, Eric (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book "James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928 (Book)," by Bryan D. Palmer.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Communists; JAMES P. Cannon & the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left 1890-1928 (Book); Nonfiction; PALMER; Bryan D.

Making a Living: Work and Environment in the United States - Arnold, David (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "Making a Living: Work and Environment in the United States," by Chad Montrie.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Labor; MAKING a Living: Work & Environment in the United States (Book); MONTRIE; Chad; Nonfiction

The Proliferation and Consequences of Temporary Help Work: A Cross-Border Comparison - Arsdale, David Van; Mandarino, Michael (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2009)
In the summer of 2008, we set out to hear from Ontario´s growing population of temporary help workers, also known as, temporary service workers. Having already conducted studies of temporary help workers in the United States, we sought to compare the working conditions of temporary workers in Ontario to those of workers south of the border. We visited temporary agencies in Toronto and conducted in-depth interviews with over a dozen temporary help workers. Their circumstances are not unlike those of their U.S. counterparts — they are not adequately rewarded for their vital on-call role in contemporary capitalism and they become "stuck" in this relatively new type of work, unable to find and secure full-time employment.

Constitutionalizing the Right of Workers to Organize, Bargain and Strike: The Sight of One Shoulder Shrugging History, Meaning, and Constitutionalization of a Right to Strike - Arthurs, Harry (Canadian Labour & Employment Law Journal, 2009)
A self-professed sceptic, the author argues that the recognition of a Charter right of employees to organize, bargain and strike would not likely improve labour's lot in an era of declining union membership and influence. In his view, it is doubtful whether Charter litigation has made much of a difference in Canada's social, economic and political life, which is largely determined not by the formal, juridical constitution but by what he calls the "real constitution" - the unequal distribution of wealth and power in society. Moreover, constitutionalization of collec- tive bargaining rights would probably undermine labour law's auton- omy and its effectiveness by promoting the design of industrial relations systems by judges rather than experts, with dysfunctional results. A reconceptualization of the constitutional significance of "labour" does in fact hold the potential to bring about far-reaching consequences for our approach to labour markets, employment standards legislation, pen- sion laws, and the collective bargaining regime. Howeve, the author says, Charter litigation has little capacity to realize that potential, given itsfocus on the juridical constitution and disconnectedness from the real constitution.

The (Un) Making of the Modern Family - Baker, Maureen (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "The (Un) Making of the Modern Family," by Daniel Dagenais.
Keywords: (UN) Making of the Modern Family; The (Book); BOOKS – Reviews; DAGENAIS; Danielle; FAMILY history (Sociology); Nonfiction

Income Growth of New Immigrants in Canada: Evidence from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics - Banerjee, Rupa (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
The present study examines the income growth of newly arrived immigrants in Canada using growth curve modeling of longitudinal data. The results from this study indicate that recent immigrants, regardless of visible minority status, face initial earnings disadvantage. However, while immigrants of European origins experience a period of "catch up" early in their Canadian careers, which allows them to overcome this earnings disadvantage, visible minority immigrants do not enjoy such a catch-up. This racial difference in recent immigrants' income growth is found to be caused by the fact that visible minority immigrants receive lower returns to education, work experience and unionization. Furthermore, visible minority recent immigrants face greater penalties for speaking a non-official first language than do their white counterparts.
Keywords: Benchmarks; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Immigration; LABOR market; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Social integration; Wages & salaries

Working Disasters : The Politics of Recognition and Response - Baril, Marc (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
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

Regulation of Child and Adolescent Employment in Alberta - Barnetson, Bob (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2009)
As part of a broader assessment of how well the Government of Alberta's labour programming contributes to fair and, to a lesser degree, safe workplaces, this study examines how effectively the government enforces the Employment Standards Code provisions regulating child and adolescent employment. Enforcement strategies appear to emphasize softer forms of regulation and thereby create little disincentive for violations. Preliminary research into the employment levels of children (age 9-11) suggests over 11,000 children are employed, some perhaps illegally, and that further inquiry into their employment experiences is warranted.

Solidarity First: Canadian Workers and Social Cohesion - Barnetson, Bob (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "Solidarity First: Canadian Workers and Social Cohesion," edited by Robert O'Brien.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Nonfiction; O'BRIEN; Robert; SOCIAL cohesion; SOLIDARITY First: Canadian Workers & Social Cohesion (Book)

The Regulatory Exclusion of Agricultural Workers in Alberta - Barnetson, Bob (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2009)
The opportunity structure facing waged agricultural workers seeking basic statutory employment rights in the Canadian province of Alberta is hostile, reflecting the intertwined political and economic interests of farmers, the provincial government, and agribusiness. This article outlines the contours of the political opportunities and constraints facing labour groups and agricultural workers seeking legislative change. Analysis suggests there is little opportunity at present to alter this legislative exclusion.

Proceed with Caution, or Stop Wherever Possible - Ongoing Paradoxes in Legalized Labour Politics Commentary on Cases, Legislation and Policy - Bartkiw, Timothy J. (Canadian Labour & Employment Law Journal, 2009)
It is fair to say that the first two decades of labour's experience with Charter litigation raised a note of caution concerning its utility as a strategy for labour empowerment. The early refusal of the Supreme Court of Canada, in its widely known "labour trilogy" cases.' to find space within s. 2(d) of the Charter for protection of the right to engage in collective bargaining and the right to strike lett many within the labour movement and the academic community doubtful about labour's prospects in the realm of Charter litigation; such observers suggested that labour must, at a minimum, proceed with caution. There also remained liberal "romantics," who were convinced of the Charter's progressive potential for labour.2 Others associated the proliferation of Charter litigation with the rise of a so- called "Court Party," a complex network of social actors and activists with an increasingly privileged status in Canadian society.'

The Local is Now Global: Building a Union Coalition in the International Transport and Logistics Sector - Barton, Ruth; Fairbrother, Peter (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
Trade unions face a range of challenges in a global world. As trade, production and consumption relations change, unions have begun to consider how they organize and operate. The argument is that for trade unions to effectively challenge key aspects of these global relations, they must take steps to rebuild the way they organize and operate at local levels. The conditions for this step are a reflective and experienced leadership, opportunities for leaders to meet each other, and for activists to develop practices of solidarity, information exchange and union cooperation with each other. To explore these themes we study a proto-typical case of inter-union coalition building. Over the last four years, three remote and local transport unions, in Victoria, Australia have developed the Victorian Group of the International Transport Federation. In doing this, these unions are building on existing forms of organization and in the process, they are reforging their relations with each other so as to have the potential to challenge international employers.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Coalitions; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Transportation industry

"Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Heaven's Door": Immigrants and the Guardians of Privilege in Canada - Basok, Tanya; Bastable, Marshall (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews several books including "Guarding the Gates: The Canadian Labour Movement and Immigration, 1872-1934," by David Goutor, "Gatekeepers: Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold War Canada," by Franca Iacovetta and "Breaking the Iron Wall: Decommodification and Immigrant Women's Labor in Canada," by Habiba Zaman.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; BREAKING the Iron Wall: Decommodification & Immigrant Women's Labor in Canada (Book); GATEKEEPERS: Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold War Canada (Book); GOUTOR; David; GUARDING the Gates: The Canadian Labour Movement & Immigration 1872-1934 (Book); IACOVETTA; Franca; Nonfiction; ZAMAN; Habiba

Emploi et travail : le grand écart - Beaudry, Catherine (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "Emploi et travail : le grand écart," par Françoise Piotet.
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

Reacting to the Worker's Revolt: The Lakehead and Winnipeg General Strike - Beaulieu, Michael S. (Left History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Historical Inquiry and Debate, 2009)
...Despite the region’s importance in the turbulent histories of the One Big Union (OBU), Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and Communist Party of Canada (CPC), scholars all too often neglect the Lakehead. Between 1917 and 1925, when mentioned at all, it is usually treated as an appendage to the Winnipeg situation in 1919 or western radicalism in general, and its contribution to the larger workers’ revolt spreading across the country at the time is ignored.5 While the underlying motivation of events at the Lakehead in 1919 was symptomatic of the larger national trend, research indicates that the issue at hand for workers in the area was whether or not to support their Winnipeg comrades. Historians have long presumed that labour in Port Arthur and FortWilliam, known throughout the pre-War period as part of one of the most unsettled regions of the country, supported the Winnipeg strikers without question. Yet no sympathy strike of any kind occurred. Considering the radical ideas and labour violence that characterized the pre-war socialist experience at the Lakehead and which marked the last years of the war, this apparent non-response in itself should be viewed as remarkable. It would be wrong to believe, however, that the absence of any labour action was synonymous with a lack of support for the Winnipeg strikers, or that the Lakehead was somehow immune from workers’ unrest that existed across the country. This article tells the story of working-class politics at the Lakehead, Northwestern Ontario’s metropole and a hotbed of labour radicalism, during the unrest of 1919. –From author's introduction

The Institutional Specificity of Quebec in the Context of Globalization - Bélanger, Jacques; Trudeau, Gilles (Canadian Labour & Employment Law Journal, 2009)
This article explores te extent to which Quebec can, in the face of global- ization, create its own distinct policies on labour and employment. The authors argue that although global economic restructuring poses serious challenges to local governance, national institutions will continue to play a key role in regulat- ing the employment relationship. In the case of Quebec, such institutions embody what the authors describe as a "hybrid" regime - i.e. a legal system that blends French-based civil law and the North American model of collective labour rela- tions, and an economic system that has elements of both the liberal market and the coordinated market types. The authors disagree with the suggestion that legal systems based on the civil law are less economically efficient than those based on the common law, and they see no reason why the hybrid nature of Quebec ' regu- latoryframework should be a disadvantage in a globalizing economy. They point out, however that globalization has accentuated the disjunction between eco- nomic activity, which is now continentally and internationally inregrated, and governance institutions that date Jrom the post-war period. 1/u.is problem is par- ticularly acute in Quebec and Canada because of their integ.ration into an eco- nomic region dominated by the U.S., and because the constitutional division of powers between the federal government and the provinces makes it difficult to achieve coherence between social and economic policies.

Canada, Labor Protests - Bent, David L. (The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 to the Present, 2009)
Labor protests accompanied the rise and maturation of industrial capitalism in Canada during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and continued in new forms afterwards. As the employment relationship became more common, workers sought to improve their economic position and the condition of their workplaces through collective action and protest, which in turn led to the birth of a more formal Canadian labor movement. – Introduction
Canada, Labour Protests
Keywords: Revolutions – History – Encyclopedias

La gestion des ressources humaines en France : histoire critique - Bettache, Mustapha (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
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

From Fields of Power to Fields of Sweat: The Dual Process of Constructing Temporary Migrant Labour in Mexico and Canada - Binford, Leigh (Third World Quarterly, 2009)
This article examines the social construction of migrant labour forces through an analysis of the exterior and interior conditioning in an agricultural contract labour programme between Mexico and Canada. I argue that forms of exterior conditioning, especially employers' point-of-production control, establishes the context within which migrant workers' experience unfolds, for which reason it contributes to their 'interior conditioning'. But I argue as well that the result is shaped by workers' employment of a 'dual frame of reference' through which they gauge Canadian wages and working conditions the only way they can, which is in relationship to Mexican ones. Given that neoliberal policies have reduced the options available in Mexico, and diminished the attractiveness of those that remain, contract labour in Canada presents one of the few opportunities many poor, rural Mexicans have to acquire the income necessary for a minimally dignified life. Consequently most workers in this programme do everything possible to please their employers and continue in the programme.

« Barrer la voie au syndicalisme » : les manœuvres de l'État québécois contre la Société bienveillante des journaliers de navires à Québec et les autres sociétés de secours mutuel, 1869-1899 - Bischoff, Peter C. (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
Grand centre d’exportation de bois, le port de Québec est aussi un lieu d’expérimentation hors du commun en matière de mutualisme et de syndicalisme. Les débardeurs, des Irlandais et des Canadiens français, ouvrent la voie en s’organisant au moyen d’une société de secours mutuel incorporée, en 1862, par un acte du Parlement de la Province du Canada. En 1865, ils revendiquent un salaire standard. Deux ans plus tard, ils ajoutent dix clauses syndicales aux règles de leur association. Combinant mutualisme et syndicalisme, ils construisent rapidement l’organisation syndicale locale la plus puissante au pays. Cette voie de la « société de secours mutuel se transformant en syndicat » suscite des émules chez les bateliers, les arrimeurs, etc. Elle soulève aussi la crainte des élites commerciales, judiciaires et politiques. S’ensuit alors un combat sur plusieurs fronts visant à ramener la société des débardeurs à des fonctions purement mutualistes, et par le fait même à fermer la porte à une méthode d’organisation jugée socialement dangereuse pour l’ordre établi. Bien que les ouvriers ne désarment pas, l’État québécois réussit à réduire substantiellement la « zone de tolérance » du mutualisme sur son territoire.
Keywords: 1867-; Canada; FRENCH-Canadians; History; Irish Canadians; Labor Unions; QUEBEC (Province)

Nouvelles réflexions sur les travailleurs et la grève de Kirkland Lake, 1941-1942 - Blais, Sophie (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article examines the historiography of the Kirkland Lake strike from 1941 to 1942 in Ontario. This strike opposed management and local 240 of the union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. This article pays particular attention to one of the mines affected by the strike, the Lake Shore Gold Mines. The author points to this strike as important in Canadian history, the history of the labor movement, and the history of the Second World War. The work of historian Laurel Sefton MacDowell is examined in light of evidence that was released in 2005. This study examines job applications in addition to documents and newspaper reports that MacDowell had studied.
Keywords: 1914-1945; Canada; Gold mines & mining; History; LABOR movement – History; MACDOWELL; Laurel Sefton; MINES & mineral resources; Ontario; STRIKES & lockouts – Gold mining; WORLD War; 1939-1945

Guantánamo North: Terrorism and the Administration of Justice in Canada - Blakeley, Ruth (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "Guantánamo North: Terrorism and the Administration of Justice in Canada," by Robert Diab.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; COUNTERTERRORISM – Government policy; DIAB; Robert; GUANTANAMO North: Terrorism & the Administration of Justice in Canada (Book); Nonfiction

A Ladder Up: Ontario Firefighters´ Wages in Neoliberal Times - Braedley, Susan (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2009)
How and why have firefighters been able to maintain and even strengthen their labour position during a neoliberal period characterized by attacks on public sector wages and working conditions? This paper contributes to discussions about labour inequities by investigating the relations that have supported this masculinized labour sectors’ position. I contend that firefighters have experienced advantages due to their sectors’ ties to capital interests and the organization of the labour process. Further, the honourable white masculinity associated with firefighting has been mobilized to strengthen firefighters’ political influence. [Excerpt from Introduction{}

Cross-Constituency Organizing: A Vehicle for Union Renewal - Briskin, Linda (Unions, Equity, and the Path to Renewal, 2009)
[E]xamines how coalition building between and across equity-seeking groups within unions contribute to union revitalization by building solidarity. [The author's] main focus is on what types of organizing structures contribute to unity in diversity, for example, by protecting the particular interests of each equity-seeking group while enabling a common equity agenda to be advanced. –Editor's introduction
Book available at Internet Archive to people with print disabilities: https://archive.org/details/unionsequitypath0000unse/page/136/mode/2up
Keywords: Canada; Equality; Labor unions; Social aspects; Women in the labor movement

Equality and the British Left: A Study in Progressive Political Thought 1900-64 - Brooke, Stephen (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "Equality and the British Left: A Study in Progressive Political Thought 1900-64," by Ben Jackson.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; EQUALITY & the British Left: A Study in Progressive Political Thought 1900-1964 (Book); Equality; Government policy; JACKSON; Ben; Nonfiction

Healing the World's Children: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child Health in the Twentieth Century - Brookfield, Tarah (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "Healing the World's Children: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child Health in the Twentieth Century," edited by Cynthia Comacchio, Janet Golden and George Weisz.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; CHILD rearing; COMACCHIO; Cynthia; Childrens health; GOLDEN; Janet; HEALING the World's Children: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child Health in the 20th Century (Book); History; History–History of North And South America; Nonfiction; WEISZ; George

Resisting Call Centre Work: The Aliant Strike and Convergent Unionism in Canada - Brophy, Enda (Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, 2009)
Countering the more placid depictions of call-centre work on offer from academic literature, this paper illuminates the labour antagonisms currently being produced within this growing form of employment. It brings into sharper focus one of the ways in which call centre workers are organising to protect and their interests, by describing their participation in the emerging model of 'convergent' trade unionism of the Communications, Energy, and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP) and their 2004 strike against the Canadian telecommunications company Aliant. The five-month strike was provoked by a set of processes that characterised the transformation of the Canadian telecommunications sector in the 1990s, including the privatisation of public telephone companies, corporate convergence, and the restructuring of the labour process at the telecommunications companies that emerged. Drawing on the descriptions offered by a group of call-centre workers who are members of Local 506 of the CEP, the paper focuses on the transformation of the Aliant customer contact labour process from its 'help-desk' functions towards conditions prevailing within non-unionised outsourced call centres across New Brunswick, and recounts the 2004 strike. It concludes by assessing the significance of these events for unionised call-centre workers in the Canadian telecommunications sector and reflecting on how convergent unionism might be extended to include non-unionised workers at outsourced call centres across the region.

The Rise and Fall of New Labour? A Social Democracy for 21st Century Britain? - Bullock, Ian (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews and comments on the books, "Labours Old and New: The Parliamentary Right of the British Labour Party 1970-79 and the Roots of New Labour," by Stephen Meredith, and "Trade Unions in a Neoliberal World: British Trade Unions Under New Labour," edited Gary Daniels and John McIlroy.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; DANIELS; Gary; LABOURS Old & New: The Parliamentary Right of the Labour Party 1970-1979 & the Roots of New Labour (Book); MCILROY; John; MEREDITH; Stephen; Nonfiction; TRADE Unions in a Neoliberal World: British Trade Unions Under New Labour (Book)

Social Marketing: Influencing Behaviors for Good - Burrows, Jeanette (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
Social Marketing: Influencing Behaviors for Good, by Philip Kotler and Nancy R. Lee, is reviewed.
Keywords: Behavior; Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Social marketing

Sudbury: New Crisis or Continuity with Globalization? - Buse, Dieter K. (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the books "Mining Town Crisis: Globalization, Labour and Resistance in Sudbury," edited by David Leadbeater, "Fighting for Justice and Dignity: The Homer Seguin Story: An Autobiography," by Homer Seguin, and "As Strong as Steel," by Gilbert H. Gilchrist.
Keywords: AS Strong As Steel (Book); BOOKS – Reviews; FIGHTING for Justice & Dignity: The Homer Sequin Story: An Autobiography (Book); GILCHRIST; Gilbert H.; LEADBEATER; David; MINING Town Crisis: Globalization; Labour & Resistance in Sudbury (Book); Nonfiction; SEQUIN; Homer

Éthique professionnelle et éthique en ingénierie - Cadieux, Nathalie; Laflamme, Roch (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
Le présent article vise à présenter, d’une part, les éléments contextuels d’une réflexion en éthique professionnelle, puis en éthique de l’ingénierie et, d’autre part, les résultats d’une étude qualitative réalisée auprès d’ingénieurs conseils oeuvrant dans divers domaines de l’ingénierie. Dans l’optique où peu de recherches ont été effectuées sur ce sujet jusqu’à présent, alors que l’éthique constitue un enjeu de plus en plus important de la sphère organisationnelle, cette étude se veut le point de départ d’une réflexion à fois théorique et empirique quant aux problèmes liés à l’éthique professionnelle. Le but de cette étude est d’explorer les relations mises en évidence entre le type de dilemme éthique vécu et le sexe, l’âge et le nombre d’années d’expérience des participants.
Keywords: care; case study; critica; criticism; critique; dilema ético; dilemme éthique; engineers; estudio de caso; ethical dilemma; ingenieros; ingénieurs; justice; justicia; solicitud; sollicitude; étude de cas

The Labour Trilogy's Last Rites: B.C. Health and a Constitutional Right to Strike Freedom of Association, Charter Values, and Strikes - Cameron, Jamie (Canadian Labour & Employment Law Journal, 2009)
This paper traces the steps in the denouement of the Supreme Court of Canada's 1987 Labour Trilogy, which denied constitutional protection to collective bargaining and strikes. The first blow to those decisions came in Dunmore, where the Court adopted a collective rather than individual definition of the Charter freedom of association, while another was dealt by B.C. Health, where the Court extended s. 2(d) pro- tection to collective bargaining. The Supreme Court might still avoid finding a constitutional right to strike, but, in the author's view, the Court has probably gone too far to turn back. If and when the time comes to read the Trilogy its "last rites," the author argues against set- ting a high threshold for a breach of s. 2(d), by adopting the "substantial interference" test set out in B.C. Health. In this respect, she points to an important difference between collective bargaining and strikes: the for- mer is a positive obligation which imposes on governments a correspon- ding duty, whereas the latter is a negative entitlement to be free from government interference. While there is a risk that the constitutionaliza- tion of strike activity may involve the courts in reviewing labour policy, the solution is not to dilute the content of s. 2(d), but to create a "cus- tomized" s. I test for justifying infringements of the guarantee in the labour context - one which would explicitly defer to policy decisions by the legislature.

Understanding the Dictatorship of the Proletariat: The Canadian Left and the Moment of Socialist Possibility in 1919 - Campbell, J. Peter (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The Canadian labour revolt was about more than wages and working conditions. The year 1919 was also a moment of socialist possibility in which the Russian Revolution and the influence of Marx and Engels fuelled the revolutionary intent of a radicalizing Canadian working class. The idea of the dictatorship of the proletariat, long since lost in the shadow of Stalin’s terror, fuelled this moment of socialist possibility. The longing for a workers’ state was a nation-wide phenomenon, but it manifested itself more deeply and broadly in western Canada than in the east. West of the Great Lakes, the concept of the dictatorship of the proletariat was hotly debated in the pages of socialist papers and in the halls of the labour movement. Knowledge of the debate concerning the dictatorship of the proletariat provides a more complete understanding of the labour revolt of 1919 and its legacy for Canadian history and the international left.
Keywords: ABSTRACTS; CANADA – Politics & government – 20th century; Canada; DICTATORSHIP; DRAPER; Hal; History; Labor; PROLETARIAT; TOTALITARIANISM; WORKING class – History

Respectable Citizens: Gender, Family, and Unemployment in Ontario's Great Depression - Campbell, Lara A. (University of Toronto Press, 2009)
High unemployment rates, humiliating relief policy, and the spectre of eviction characterized the experiences of many Ontario families in the Great Depression. Respectable Citizens is an examination of the material difficulties and survival strategies of families facing poverty and unemployment, and an analysis of how collective action and protest redefined the meanings of welfare and citizenship in the 1930s.Lara Campbell draws on diverse sources including newspapers, family and juvenile court records, premiers' papers, memoirs, and oral histories to uncover the ways in which the material workings of the family and the discursive category of 'respectable' citizenship were invested with gendered obligations and Anglo-British identity. Respectable Citizens demonstrates how women and men represented themselves as entitled to make specific claims on the state, shedding new light on the cooperative and conflicting relationships between men and women, parents and children, and citizen and state in 1930s Canada. –Publisher's description
Book available at Internet Archive to readers with print disabilities: https://archive.org/details/respectablecitiz00camp OCLC: 404612900

Volunteering, Income Support Programs and Persons with Disabilities - Campolieti, Michele; Gomez, Rafael; Gunderson, Morley (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
We study the propensity of persons with disabilities to engage in volunteer activity using the Participation and Activity Limitation Survey (PALS). Our principal focus is on the effects of various income support programs on persons with disabilities participation in volunteer activities because income support programs can differ with respect to their treatment of unpaid work. For example, workers' compensation programs embody strong disincentives to volunteering while public disability insurance programs explicitly encourage unpaid work. We find that workers' compensation is associated with decreases in the probability of volunteering while public disability insurance is associated with increases in the propensity to volunteer. The relevance of these results to both theories of volunteerism and public policy is discussed.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Disability insurance; Disabled people; Incentives; Labor Unions; Public policy; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Volunteers; Workers compensation

Makúk: A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations - Carleton, Sean (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book "Makúk: A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations," by John Sutton Lutz.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Capitalism; LUTZ; John Sutton; MAKUK: A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations (Book); Nonfiction

Farm-Level Impacts in Mexico of the Participation in Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (CSWAP) - Carvajal, Lidia (University of Guelph, 2009)
In several parts of the world, the number of poor people in rural areas surpasses the capacity of agriculture to provide employment opportunities. The increasing role of off-farm income has highlighted the importance of rural migration, both within Mexico and to the United States (US) and Canada, as a vehicle for poverty reduction. A significant number of Mexican migrants are participating in guest worker programs, performing mainly agricultural activities. These programs allow Mexicans to enter the US and Canada through formal channels. Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Workers' Program (CSAWP) lets Mexican farmers enter Canada to work legally in agriculture, and participants in this Program send remittances home that are an important contribution to rural development. The main reasons to participate in guest worker programs relate to economic factors, such as the opportunity to earn a relatively high, stable income abroad and the lack of employment opportunities in Mexico, particularly in rural areas. The number of Mexican agricultural workers temporally migrating to Canada through CSAWP has increased significantly over time and now exceeds 12,000 annually. In Mexico, the program provides an estimated C$70 million in remittance income annually, mainly directed to rural and poorer regions. In these regions, this fungible income supports consumption activities and expenditures on family education. However, there are also investments in farming activities, in turn enhancing agrarian incomes. This research explores the impact of remittances on farm investments by migrant workers participating in CSAWP, which in turn impact farm income levels. The results highlight the extent to which temporary migrant labour to Canadian agriculture allows Mexican farmers to enhance their agricultural activities through increased farm investments, such as buying better seeds, fertilizer and farm equipment. The results show that, on the one hand, remittances can significantly enhance farm investments in Mexico that in turn increase farm incomes and, on the other, remittances increase non-farm incomes in Mexico, allowing farm migrants to expand their income portfolio. Hence, these results support the New Economics of Labour Migration (NELM) hypothesis that remittances relax the liquidity constraint in production/investment decisions. Furthermore, family labour availability counterbalances any temporary labour loss because of migration.
Keywords: Canada; Farm-level; Mexico; Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program; Social sciences

Benchmarking Carrots and Sticks: Developing a Model for the Evaluation of Work-Based Employment Programs - Castonguay, Julie (Hugo Sinzheimer Institute, University of Amsterdam, 2009)
Social benchmarking is an evaluation method in which the performance levels of different public social programs are compared, either relatively to each other or to an absolute value. The first part of this research discusses the use of social benchmarking for the evaluation of active labour market policies. This part also develops a social benchmark model, which can be used to assess the performance of active labour market policies in general, and work-based employment programs in specific. The second part of this research consists of the actual benchmarking of the work-based employment programs in five countries: Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

Service Class Prosperity in Ontario - Cervenan, Amy (Martin Prosperity Institute, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, 2009)
[This report] draws on Statistics Canada data and broad academic literature to present a conceptual and empirical profile of the Ontario’s service class. We define the ‘service class’ as an occupational grouping of typically low-pay service jobs. This term was developed by Richard Florida as part of his framework for understanding creativity-led economic growth; however, it is a concept developed in counterpoint to the creative class, and has been neglected in recent research and policy debates.

Servitude with a Smile: A Re-Examination of Emotional Labour - Chong, Patricia (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2009)
Examines the intersectionality of emotional labour in terms of gender, race and class processes. The study is based on the literature arising from Hochschild's "The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling" (1983).

Fight Back: Workplace Justice for Immigrants - Choudry, Aziz; Hanley, Jill; Jordan, Steve; Stiegman, Martha; Schragge, Eric (Fernwood, 2009)
[D]ocuments the struggles of immigrant workers and analyses them within the context of neoliberal globalization and the international and national labour markets. Fight Back grew out of collaboration between a group of university-affiliated researchers who are active in different social movements and community organizations in partnership with the Immigrant Workers Centre in Montreal. The book shares with us the experiences of immigrant workers in a variety of workplaces. It is based on the underlying belief that the best kind of research that tells “how it really is” comes from the lived experience of people themselves. – Publisher's description. Contents: Introduction – Context – Making immigrant workers – Access to social rights for migrants to Canada: the long divide between the law and the real world – Seasonal agricultural workers – Canada's live-in caregiver program : popular among both employers and migrants, but structured for dependency and inequality – Survival and fighting back.
http://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/fight-back
Keywords: Canada; Canada. Immigrants; Conditions économiques. Immigrants; Economic conditions. Immigrants; Employment; Immigrants; Social conditions. Immigrants; Travail

Sing It Pretty: A Memoir - Cohen, Ronald D. (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "Sing It Pretty: A Memoir," by Bess Lomax Hawes.
Keywords: AUTOBIOGRAPHY; BOOKS – Reviews; HAWES; Bess Lomax; 1921-2009; Nonfiction; SING It Pretty: A Memoir (Book)

Le difficile encadrement juridique des travailleurs autonomes en situation précaire : Le cas des chauffeurs locataires de taxi - Coiquaud, Urwana (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
On leur prête l’indépendance, la capacité à se protéger seuls et à établir un équilibre dans leurs rapports avec les donneurs d’ouvrages, mais ces attributs sont loin de refléter la réalité de certains travailleurs autonomes. En approchant l’industrie du taxi et plus précisément la situation des chauffeurs locataires de taxi, le présent article examine l’état du droit sur cette question au Québec et en France, en discute et propose élaboration d’un régime-cadre de représentation collective pour le Québec.
Keywords: derecho laboral; droit du travail; entrepreneurs indépendants; independent contractor; labour law; salaried worker; sindicalización; syndicalisation; trabajador asalariado; trabajadores autónomos; travailleur salarié; unionization

A Power Among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America - Cole, Catherine C. (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "A Power Among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman and the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America," by Karen Pastorello.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; HILLMAN; Bessie; Nonfiction; PASTORELLO; Karen; POWER Among Them: Bessie Abramowitz Hillman & the Making of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America; A (Book)

Philippe Vaillancourt : militant syndical et politique - Comby, Marc (VLB, 2009)
Philippe Vaillancourt (1913-1984) est venu à l'action syndicale par la politique et, durant toute sa carrière, il a conjugué ces deux formes d'engagement. Amorcé pendant la Grande Crise pour se terminer pendant la Révolution tranquille, le parcours militant de Philippe Vaillancourt a été particulièrement ardu, en butte entre autres à l'opposition du gouvernement de Maurice Duplessis. Suivre Philippe Vaillancourt dans cette période pionnière, c'est revivre des conflits du travail souvent violents, c'est suivre l'histoire des rivalités et des regroupements de syndicats, des tentatives de ces derniers de créer un parti ouvrier en s'alliant avec la Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), puis avec le Nouveau Parti Démocratique (NPD), de T.C. Douglas. Fermement convaincu de l'importance de l'éducation syndicale, Philippe Vaillancourt a consacré à cette priorité les dernières années de sa carrière au Congrès canadien du travail (CCT) pour le Québec, dont est membre la Fédération des travailleurs du Québec (FTQ). –Résumé de l'éditeur
Keywords: Vaillancourt; Philippe; 1913-1984

Engineering Resistance: Energy Professionals and the 2005 Strike in Neoliberal Ontario - Coulter, Kendra (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2009)
In the summer of 2005, the Society of Energy Professionals Hydro One Local engaged in unprecedented strike action that lasted 105 days. This article documents the strike, and explores how and why it occurred, and with such significant support and participation from the 1000 members of a union that had no militant history. I trace the build-up, progression and resolution of the strike, drawing from Society materials, media reports and ethnographic observation, as well as the insights of elected leaders, staff representatives, and rank and file members of the Society collected through interviews and written questionnaires. I conclude that government policy and management behaviour caused worker anger but that union education, organization and democracy were integral to moving these "professional" workers into job action.

La situation économique des immigrants au Québec - Cousineau, Jean-Michel; Boudarbat, Brahim (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
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

Les jeunes migrants québécois dans les vallées fruitières de la Colombie-Britannique : ethnographie d'une forme de mobilité - Couture, Hugo (Laval, 2009)
Le groupe des jeunes voyageurs combinant le travail dans leur expérience de voyage constitue le segment du marché touristique mondial qui enregistre la croissance la plus importante cette dernière décennie. Certaines économies régionales dépendent de cette force de travail temporaire. C'est le cas de l'industrie agricole des vallées de l'Okanagan-Similkameen et de Creston en Colombie-Britannique qui accueille annuellement des milliers de migrant fruit pickers provenant majoritairement du Québec. Ce mémoire porte sur le quotidien de ces jeunes québécois et s'attarde à comprendre le sens qu'ils accordent à leurs projets de mobilité. Sur la base d'entretiens, je dégage l'imaginaire commun, les mythes, les idéaux et les représentations qui ont incité les jeunes à partir: Les résultats indiquent que ces jeunes inscrivent leur mouvement dans une double logique de quête et de fuite et que le sens attribué à l'expérience de vacances-travail diffère entre les nouveaux arrivants et ceux qui reviennent d'année en année.

European Unions: Labor's Quest for a Transnational Democracy - Croucher, Richard (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "European Unions: Labor's Quest for a Transnational Democracy," by Roland Erne.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; LABOR market; Labor Unions; Political behavior; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Non-Standard Employment after Age 50: How Precarious Is It? - D'Amours, Martine (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
Based on a qualitative study of the trajectories of 22 workers aged 50 or older who lost or left a standard job and then undertook some form of non-standard employment, this article wants to shed light on the quality of non-standard jobs often held by seniors. Can these jobs be categorized as precarious, and if so, what are the dimensions of this precariousness? Our analysis enabled us to identify three main profiles: early retirees, "competitive" non-standard workers, and vulnerable non-standard workers. This diversity is mainly related to the characteristics of the previous occupational trajectory but also to the characteristics of the repositioning job, the type of skills the worker has, gender, age, and the fact of living or not with a spouse.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employment; LABOR market; Labor Unions; Older workers; Quality of work; Retirement; Sampling techniques; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Employment Regimes and the Quality of Work - Dabscheck, Braham (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
Employment Regimes and the Quality of Work, edited by Duncan Gallie, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Quality of work; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Training

Judicial Developments of Collective Labour Rights-Contextually - Davidov, Guy (Canadian Labour & Employment Law Journal, 2009)
The Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in B.C. Health Services, holding that collective bargaining attracts Charter protection, emphasizes the importance of context in constitutional interpretation. The author agrees with the Court in looking to context as part of a purposive approach to interpretation of laws, and he argues that such an approach can be compared to the way in which labour laws have been developed in Israel — a country which, in his view, is a useful source of comparative law for Canada. In an effort to respond to changing realities in the labour market and labour relations (most notably the weakening of trade unions), Israeli judges have in recent years created a number of collective rights in the area of freedom of association, collective bargaining, and strikes. On the basis of the experience of Israeli courts in developing new workplace protections where they are needed, the author contends that the Supreme Court of Canada should now take the next step and extend Charter protection to the right to strike.

Les relations de travail tripartites et l’application des normes minimales du travail au Québec - de Tonnancour, Véronique; Vallée, Guylaine (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
De nombreux travaux ont mis au jour l’inadéquation existant entre les lois du travail conçues pour des relations bipartites entre un salarié et un seul employeur clairement identifiable et les relations de travail tripartites qui découlent des nouveaux modes d’organisation de la production qu’adoptent les entreprises en quête de flexibilité. Le présent texte porte de manière particulière sur l’application d’une importante loi québécoise, la Loi sur les normes du travail, aux relations tripartites découlant du recours à des agences de location de personnel. Cette loi édicte des conditions de travail minimales en matière notamment de rémunération, de durée de travail, de congés ou de protection de d’emploi. Elle met aussi en place des mécanismes particuliers de mise en oeuvre de ces normes qui confèrent un rôle important à un organisme administratif spécialisé, la Commission des normes du travail. L’étude s’appuie sur l’analyse qualitative des plaintes déposées entre 2004 et 2006 par des salariés d’agences auprès de la Commission ainsi que sur des entrevues réalisées avec des membres de son personnel. Les résultats révèlent l’effectivité toute relative de la loi dans le contexte des relations de travail tripartites. Ils illustrent, d’une part, des problèmes concrets d’application qui ont été regroupés sous trois grands types : les difficultés liées à la complexité inhérente aux relations tripartites; les contournements ou les fraudes à la loi; et les défaillances structurelles de la loi. Ils témoignent, d’autre part, des difficultés dans le traitement des plaintes relatives à des relations de travail tripartites. Même si les intervenants (inspecteurs-enquêteurs et procureurs) de la Commission développent des pratiques d’application adaptées aux relations tripartites en tentant d’impliquer toutes les parties qui se partagent le pouvoir de direction du salarié dans la recherche d’une solution, il reste que, conformément au mandat de la Commission, plusieurs plaintes se concluent par des règlements, au demeurant rarement tripartites. Ces pratiques d’application n’ont pas de portée normative au-delà de la sphère d’intervention de la Commission et ne peuvent influencer le traitement judiciaire des litiges soulevant l’application du droit du travail à des relations tripartites. C’est pourquoi des réformes législatives doivent être envisagées. Celles-ci sont d’autant plus nécessaires que le recours à des salariés d’agences de location de personnel n’est pas un phénomène marginal et temporaire. À cause de son expansion et de la diversification de son offre de services, l’industrie de la location de personnel est un phénomène susceptible de transformer profondément le marché du Numerous studies have highlighted the existing mismatch between labour laws conceived for bipartite relations involving an employee and a single and clearly identifiable employer, and tripartite labour relations ensuing from the new modes of

Discrimination in Employment by Religious Organizations: Exemptions, Defences, and the Lockean Conception of Toleration - Demeyere, Gillian (Canadian Labour & Employment Law Journal, 2009)
This paper considers the relationship between equaliy rights and the right to freedom of conscience and religion, in the context of employ- ment discrimination by religious organizations. The author points out that while some human rights statutes in Canada grant religious organ- izations an exemption from the prohibition against discrimination, oth- ers provide such organizations with access to a BFOR defence. She explains the importance of the distinction between these contrasting appraches, and discusses how courts and tribunals have interpreted and applied them. The paper also includes an overview of the "special case" of denominational schools in Canada, whose rights and privileges are specificall protected by the Constitution Act, 1867. The author then turns to a consideration of which of the two approaches - the BFOR defence or the exemption - is to be preferred. In this respect, she dis- agrees with Alvin Esau, who has argued (most recentl, in a paper pub- lished in this issue of the Journal) that only the exemption approach is capable of effectivel guaranteeing the exercise offreedom of religion. Rather basing her analysis on the model of separation of church and state set out in Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration, she contends that although the two approaches will often yield the same result in a given case, the BFOR defence approach is preferable, because it better pro- tects both equality rights and freedom of religion.

Éditorial/Editorial [Summer 2009] - Déom, Esther (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
Introduction : Doctorat honorifique décerné au professeur Mark Thompson/Honorary Doctorate Awarded to Professor Mark Thompson
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions

Editorial/Éditorial [Winter 2009] - Déom, Esther (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions

Sustaining Management Commitment to Workplace Health Programs: The Case of Participatory Ergonomics - Dixon, Shane M.; Theberge, Nancy; Cole, Donald C. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
This article investigates management commitment to workplace health and safety through an analysis of the implementation of participatory ergonomic (PE) interventions in three worksites. The PE programs were established to address the burden of work-related musculoskeletal disorders. Drawing upon interview and observational data, the analysis examines the evolution of managerial support for PE programs over time and in the context of pressures internal and external to the worksites. Ergonomic Change Teams in all three sites experienced problems establishing authority to act as change agents and in accessing employee time to carry out their activities. Resolution of these problems was heavily contingent on the commitment of senior management, and the efforts of individual management personnel to intervene in support of the PE program. Our findings highlight that "management" is not a monolithic entity and managerial structures are often marked by divisions in priorities, including health and safety.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; International; Labor Unions; Musculoskeletal diseases; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Strategic management; occupational health

Union Access to Workers during Organizing Campaigns: A New Look through the Lens of B.C. Health Services - Doorey, David J. (Canadian Labour & Employment Law Journal, 2009)
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled in the recent B.C. Health Services case that the protection of "freedom of association" in s. 2(d) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms should be interpreted to provide "at least as much protection" for associational rights as is provided by Convention No. 87 of the International Labour Organization. The ILO Committee on Freedom of Association sees the convention as giving trade unions a right of access to employer property when attempting to organize employees. However Canadian statute and common law provides employers with an almost unfettered right to exclude union organizers, even when allowing them to have access would not interfrre with the employer's production interests. This paper examines whether that law will have to be rethought in the wake of the Supreme Court s decision.

Pour un syndicalisme de lutte de classe! : les groupes marxistes-léninistes et le mouvement syndical au Québec, 1972-1983 - Dubois-Campagna, Alexis (Université de Sherbrooke, 2009)
Dès la fin des années 1960, se développe une nouvelle tendance socialiste au Québec dans un contexte marqué par l'épuisement de la Révolution tranquille et par une ébullition idéologique sur la scène internationale. Dans ce climat politique, des groupuscules marxistes-léninistes (m-l) de tendance maoïste voient le jour au Québec, principalement dans la deuxième moitié des années 1970. Au même moment, sur le front syndical québécois, la lutte est intense entre travailleurs et employeurs. Les fronts communs de 1972 et 1975 et d'importantes grèves en font foi. De plus, de nombreux chefs syndicaux n'hésitent pas à s'attaquer directement au patronat et à l'État dans des discours clairement nourris par l'idéologie socialiste. Le radicalisme politique, même s'il n'est pas homogène et généralisé dans les centrales québécoises, s'impose de plus en plus dans les syndicats locaux comme dans les instances supérieures. C'est précisément les liens entre ces deux mondes, celui des groupuscules marxistes-léninistes et celui des centrales syndicales, qui nous intéressent. L'originalité de notre travail tient au fait qu'il lie les historiographies du marxisme-léninisme et du syndicalisme, ce qui représente un angle intéressant afin de renouveler la réflexion dans ces deux champs de recherche, certes très proches, mais malheureusement trop souvent étanches. À l'aide de diverses sources écrites, notamment les publications des organisations m-l et les archives des mêmes groupes, mais aussi d'entrevues menées par l'auteur avec d'anciens militants syndicaux, nous observons les relations entre les deux principaux groupuscules marxistes-léninistes, à savoir En Lutte! et la Ligue communiste (marxiste-léniniste) du Canada, et les centrales syndicales québécoises entre 1972 et 1983. Effectivement, il nous semble pertinent de mieux comprendre la nature des liens et des influences réciproques entre ces acteurs sociaux. L'objectif premier de cette recherche est de mettre en relief le militantisme des marxistes-léninistes au sein de ces institutions syndicales. En effet, la structure ouverte des syndicats, c'est-à-dire démocratique et accessible à tous les travailleurs syndiqués, a permis à un grand nombre de membres et sympathisants m-l de s'y intégrer et d'y faire valoir des positions d'extrême gauche. Et c'est justement le militantisme soutenu des m-l qui, contrastant avec celui beaucoup plus passif de l'ensemble des membres syndiqués, leur a permis d'influencer les positions et les stratégies des centrales syndicales, du moins de s'y faire entendre et de susciter des débats, particulièrement entre 1975 et 1980. Notre recherche sur cet aspect du militantisme syndical des marxistes-léninistes québécois éclaire des zones d'ombre de l'histoire politique récente de la province. De plus, cette étude amène une connaissance plus profonde de la place du radicalisme dans la culture politique québécoise et une meilleure compréhension du militantisme et de ses rouages. Afin d'atteindre nos objectifs, nous analysons d'abord le discours des marxistes-léninistes au sujet du monde syndical. Il sera notamment question des critiques sévères lancées contre les chefs syndicaux, ainsi que de la lutte idéologique qui secoue les différents groupes marxistes. Nous étudions ensuite les stratégies et les actions des m-l face aux syndicats, comme la volonté de se présenter à des postes électifs. Finalement, ce mémoire tente de mettre en lumière le militantisme m-l dans les différentes instances de la Confédération des syndicats nationaux, tout particulièrement le Conseil central de Montréal.

Les syndicalismes référentiels dans la mondialisation : une étude comparée des dynamiques locales au Canada et en France - Dufour, Christian; Hege, Adelheid; Levesque, Christian; Murray, Gregor (Revue de l'IRES, 2009)
Affectées par des changements nombreux, les équipes syndicales doivent elles-mêmes se transformer. Comment comprendre leurs cheminements divers dans ces péripéties ? Une comparaison entre des établissements canadiens et européens permet de fonder empiriquement et théoriquement une analyse de ces phénomènes. Les auteurs formulent le concept de « syndicalismes référentiels ». Il articule les principales dimensions à travers lesquelles se dessinent les transformations des acteurs : répertoires d’action, identités collectives, ressources, capacité représentative, capacité stratégique. En retenant les cas de deux établissements, canadien et français, l’article illustre la place respective et les interactions de ces dimensions. Leur hiérarchisation au sein de l’action collective permet de comprendre pourquoi des situations institutionnelles inégales peuvent donner lieu à des évolutions analogues. L’incertitude, les pertes de repère caractérisent une phase paradoxale où les acteurs collectifs ne peuvent échapper aux risques d’une redéfinition.
Place: Noisy-le-Grand

Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games - Dyer-Witheford, Nick; De Peuter, Greig (University of Minnesota Press, 2009)
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, video games are an integral part of global media culture, rivaling Hollywood in revenue and influence. No longer confined to a subculture of adolescent males, video games today are played by adults around the world. At the same time, video games have become major sites of corporate exploitation and military recruitment. In Games of Empire, Nick Dyer-Witheford and Greig de Peuter offer a radical political critique of such video games and virtual environments as Second Life, World of Warcraft, and Grand Theft Auto, analyzing them as the exemplary m
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Keywords: Capitalism Social aspects; Computerspiel; GAMES Video & Electronic; Imperialism Social aspects; Impérialisme Aspect social; Jeux vidéo Aspect social; Jeux vidéo Aspect économique; Tv-spel ekonomiska aspekter; Tv-spel sociala aspekter; Video games Economic aspects; Video games Social aspects; Wirtschaft

Confronting Racism in the Canadian Labour Movement: An Intergenerational Assessment - Edelson, Miriam (Unions, Equity, and the Path to Renewal, 2009)
[C]onsists of an interview conducted by [the author] with Beverley Johnson, a long-time union activist, and her daughter, Marie Clarke Walker, currently an executive vice-president with the Canadian Labour Congress. It documents the historic and ongoing struggle for equity waged by people of colour, and the continuing acute problem of racism in Canada and within unions. –Editor's introduction
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Keywords: Canada; Equality; Labor unions; Social aspects; Women in the labor movement

A Communist in the Council Chambers: Communist Municipal Politics, Ethnicity, and the Career of William Kolisnyk - Epp, Stefan (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The election of William Kolisnyk as alderman for Winnipeg's Ward Three in the fall of 1926 was celebrated as one of the first times that any candidate in North America running under the banner of a Communist Party was elected to public office. Although he was only an alderman for four years, a study of Kolisnyk's political life contributes to the study of communist history in several ways. His term in office was split roughly in half by the introduction of Third Period ideology. As the Communist Party's sole elected representative. at the time, Kolisnyk's political activity demonstrates the practical implications of this dramatic policy shift. While the Third Period radically changed Kolisnyk's politics, several local issues significantly influenced his politics. Ethnicity, both within the Party and in Kolisnyk's constituency, profoundly affected his career. The paper also examines the political issues pursued by communists at the municipal level and the communist community that brought Kolisnyk to office. Therefore, this examination of William Kolisnyk's aldermanic career reveals the importance of international influences as well as the political realities of Winnipeg's communist community, both of which contributed to the political activities of one of Canada's first elected communists.
Keywords: CAREER development; COMMUNIST parties; Communists; Ethnicity; NORTH America; POLITICAL participation; Political parties; Politicians; WILLIAM; Kolisnyk

Islands of Exclusivity Revisited: Religious Organizations, Employment Discrimination and Heintz v. Christian Horizons - Esau, Alvin J. (Canadian Labour & Employment Law Journal, 2009)
In Heintz v. Christian Horizons, the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal upheld an employment discrimination claim against an evan- gelical Christian organization that operated community living homes for the developmentally disabled, providing services not ony to co-religion- ists but also to the general public. The Tribunal concluded that in light of its activity in the public arena, Christian Horizons did not qualify under Ontario's Human Rights Code as a "special employer" entitled to an exception from the prohibition against discrimination and that, in any event, conformity with afaith-based moral code imposed by the organi- zation on its employees was not a BFOR. The effect of this ruling, the author notes, is that Christian Horizons was precluded from hiring or firing employees for any positions whatsoever based on prohibited grounds (in this case, sexual orientation), nor could the organization impose a moral code on any employee if the code discriminated on such grounds. The author is strongly critical of the Tribunal's decision, argu- ing that it took an unduly narrow approach to the "special employer" exception - one that denies to religious organizations "equal space" with other service providers operating in the public square. He also con- tends that, by rejecting conformity with the organization's moral code as a BFOR, even for managerial or higher ministerial positions, the Tribunal simply acted on a value choice that the right not to be discrim- inated against should trump the right to religious freedom. In the author's view, that value choice is evident in the way the Tribunal delinked the nature of the employment from the employment itself, and adopted a purely "instrumental" (as opposed to "organic ") understand- ing of the complainant's job duties. The author goes on to argue that Professor of Law, University of Manitoba. This paper was prepared on the invi- tation of the Canadian Constitutional Foundation for its Conference on "Race, Religion, Equality and Freedom," held in Toronto in October 2009. My thanks to lain Benson, Craig Jones, and Andrew Lokan for comments, although it should be noted that they do not necessarily agree with what I say in this paper.

Does Freedom of Association under the Charter Include the Right to Strike after B.C. Health - Prognosis, Problems and Concerns Freedom of Association, Charter Values, and Strikes - Etherington, Brian (Canadian Labour & Employment Law Journal, 2009)
Providing his prognosis for the future of a right to strike, in light of the Supreme Court of Canada's decision in B.C. Health, the author argues that the Court will likely recognize constitutional protection for such a right. In his view, based on the scope offreedom of association set out in that decision, as well as the adoption of a "substantial interfer- ence" test, government measures will probably be held to violate s. 2(d) of the Charter if they totally remove the right to strike, or restrict it so severely as to deny access to a meaningful process of collective bargain- ing. However, turning to a consideration of the problems and concerns that would arise from Charter protection for a right to strike, the author suggests that recognition of a broad, open-ended right may open the door to challenges to the numerous restrictions on strike activity found in Canadian labour relations statutes, and embroil the courts in ongoing review of legislative choices on policy issues. Thus, he expects that the Supreme Court will recognize only a limited right to strike - one in which the legislature would be permitted to substitute strikes with some other fair impasse resolution mechanism (such as interest arbitration), in situations where there are policy reasons for withholding the right to strike or for bringing an end to a strike that threatens the public interest.

Regulating Flexibility: The Political Economy of Employment Standards - Evans, Bryan (Socialist Studies, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "Regulating Flexibility: The Political Economy of Employment Standards," by Mark P. Thomas.
Keywords: Canada; Droit; Droit Aspect social; Emploi; Labor laws and legislation; Manpower policy; Politique gouvernementale; Social aspects; Travail

Exclusion of Unionized Workers from Employment Standards Law - Fairey, David B. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
The technique of permitting unions to derogations from core employment standards has been increasingly advocated as a means of making labour law more flexible while still protecting workers since the union is considered to bring countervailing power in support of workers' preferences. The new British Columbia Employment Standards Act contains a broad union derogation provision. Industrial relations experts have commented that employment standards that permit the opting out of statutory employee protections in this way invites corrupt arrangements between employers and employer-dominated unions. Using the new BC statute as a case study, the assumption that requiring the union's consent to derogation from core standards ensures that the derogation reflects workers' preferences is tested using two sources of empirical data: collective agreements entered into by an employer friendly union (the Christian Labour Association of Canada); and collective agreements in which the union had neither the opportunity nor the strength to prevent derogation.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Compliance; Labor Unions; Labor law; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Work environment

Psychological Harassment in the Workplace: Case-Study and Building of a New Analysis Model - Faulx, Daniel; Delvaux, Sophie; Brun, Jean-Pierre (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
From a case-study based on an analysis model, which takes into account four levels of explanation (personal, interpersonal, group and organizational), and includes the study of the interactions between these different levels, this report puts forward six observations: (1) the importance of performing the analysis on several levels, (2) the existence within harassment situations of two types of process (victimizing and conflictual), (3) the fact that these processes can co-exist at different levels of analysis, (4) the existence of interactions between processes, (5) the variability of a situation across time, and (6) the necessity of distinguishing two categories of influence involved in contextual processes. From these conclusions, the authors develop a new analysis model, which is process-based, integrative and dynamic.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Harassment; Labor Unions; Psychology; Risk factors; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Workplace violence

Book Notes [64, Fall 2009] - Finkel, Alvin (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article briefly reviews "Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle," by Laurie B. Green, "A Fair Day's Wage for a Fair Day's Work? Sweated Labour and the Origins of Minimum Wage Legislation in Britain," by Sheila Blackburn, "Between Growth and Security: Swedish Social Democracy From a Strong Society to a Third Way," by Jenny Anderson, "Development, Democracy, and Welfare States: Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe," by Stephen Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman, "Voices from the Ships: Australia’s Seafarers and their Union," by Diane Kirkby, "Class, Race, and Inequality in South Africa," by Jeremy Seekings and Nicoli Nattrass, "Feeding the World: An Economic History of Agriculture, 1800–2000," by Giovanni Federico, and "Reforming Early Retirement in Europe, Japan and the USA," by Bernhard Ebbinghaus.
Keywords: BIBLIOGRAPHY (Documentation); Economic aspects; LABOR market

Creating a Failed State: The US and Canada in Afghanistan - Finkel, Alvin (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "Creating a Failed State: The U.S. and Canada in Afghanistan," by John W. Warnock.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; CREATING a Failed State: The US & Canada in Afghanistan (Book); Foreign policy; History–History of North And South America; Imperialism; International relations; Nonfiction; WARNOCK; John W.

Allongement de la jeunesse et précarisation de l’emploi : un lien de causalité ? - Fleury, Charles (Canadian Journal of Sociology, 2009)
Cet article examine les modalités d’entrée dans l’âge adulte de deux cohortes de jeunes québécois, nés entre 1942 et 1951 (génération lyrique) et entre 1962-71 (génération X). Examinant l’effet net de la précarisation du marché du travail à partir des données rétrospectives de l’Enquête sociale générale de 2001, il tente plus spécifiquement de savoir jusqu’à quel point les mutations économiques des années 1980-90 permettent d’expliquer le phénomène d’allongement de la jeunesse et de la désynchronisation des parcours de vie. L’analyse montre qu’en définitive, la précarisation de l’emploi semble assez peu liée à ces mutations des parcours de vie, celles-ci semblant davantage s’expliquer par des transformations de nature non-économique tels que l’allongement des études et le changement de valeurs.
Keywords: mutations économiques

L'allongement de la jeunesse est-il attribuable à la précarisation de l'emploi? Examen de la question dans un contexte québécois - Fleury, Charles (The Canadian Journal of Sociology / Cahiers canadiens de sociologie, 2009)
Cet article examine les modalités d'entrée dans l'âge adulte de deux cohortes de jeunes québécois, nés entre 1942 et 1951 (génération lyrique) et entre 1962-71 (génération X). Examinant l'effet net de la précarisation du marché du travail à partir des données rétrospectives de l'Enquête sociale générale de 2001, il tente plus spécifiquement de savoir jusqu'à quel point les mutations économiques des années 1980-90 permettent d'expliquer le phénomène d'allongement de la jeunesse et de la désynchronisation des parcours de vie. L'analyse montre qu'en définitive, la précarisation de l'emploi semble assez peu liée à ces mutations des parcours de vie. Ces mutations s'expliqueraient en fait davantage par des transformations de nature non-économique telles que l'allongement des études et l'assouplissement de certaines contraintes normatives au sein de la société québécoise.

Developing a Conceptual Model of Equity Progress in Unions - Foley, Janice R. (Unions, Equity, and the Path to Renewal, 2009)
The changing nature of the membership demographics within unions, along with declining union density and myriad other challenges, have made it mandatory for unions to change their traditional ways of doing things. In particular, because the porportion of female and minority group members within unions has grown considerably since the 1970s, equitable membership representation has become an issue of significant concern. The object of this chapter is to develop a general conceptual model of how to advance equity within unions.
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Keywords: Canada; Equality; Labor unions; Social aspects; Women in the labor movement

Introduction - Foley, Janice R. (Unions, Equity, and the Path to Renewal, 2009)
Provides a synopsis of the volume, the impetus for which began with the 2005 workshop “Advancing the Equity Agenda Inside Unions and at the Bargaining Table,” sponsored by the Centre for Research on Work and Society at York University.
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Keywords: Canada; Equality; Labor unions; Social aspects; Women in the labor movement

Unions, Equity, and the Path to Renewal - Foley, Janice R.; Baker, Patricia L. (UBC Press, 2009)
Trade unions in Canada are losing their traditional support base, and membership numbers could sink to US levels unless unions recapture their power. Unions, Equity, and the Path to Renewal brings together a distinguished group of union activists and equity scholars who trace how traditional union cultures, practices, and structures have eroded solidarity and activism and created an equity deficit in Canadian unions. Informed by a feminist vision of unions as instruments of social justice, the contributors argue that equity within unions is not simply one possible path to union renewal – it is the only way to reposition organized labour as a central institution in workers’ lives. –Publisher's description
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Keywords: Canada; Equality; Labor unions; Social aspects; Women in the labor movement

Bargaining for Economic Equality: A Path to Union Renewal, Then and Now - Forrest, Anne (Unions, Equity, and the Path to Renewal, 2009)
[E]xamines what types of issues unions should pursue in an effort to mobilize what is, at present, a largely a complacent or indifferent union membership. ...[The author] argues convincingly that the future survival of the labour movement lies with improving the lot of the most disadvantaged. –Editor's introduction
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Keywords: Canada; Equality; Labor unions; Social aspects; Women in the labor movement

Precarious Employment: Understanding Labour Market Insecurity in Canada - Fournier, Geneviève (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
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

Sites for Renewal: Women's Activism in Male-Dominated Unions in Australia, Canada, and the United States - Franzway, Suzanne; Fonow, Mary Margaret (Unions, Equity, and the Path to Renewal, 2009)
[The authors] link union revitalization to the presence of separate spaces where women can identity and articulate their needs, create feminist politics, and develop the will and ability to contest existing power structures within unions. They offer three examples of how union feminists in Canada, the United States, and Australia have created such spaces in unlikely places and by so doing have secured workplace rights and economic and social justice for women. –Editor's introduction
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Keywords: Canada; Equality; Labor unions; Social aspects; Women in the labor movement

A Hard Rain Fell: SDS and Why It Failed - Friedman, Tami J. (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "A Hard Rain Fell: SDS and Why It Failed," by David Barner.
Keywords: BARNER; David; BOOKS – Reviews; HARD Rain Fell: SDS & Why It Failed; A (Book); Nonfiction; STUDENTS for a Democratic Society (U.S.)

Unruly Masses. The Other Side of Fin-de-Siècle Vienna - Frisby, David (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "Unruly Masses: The Other Side of Fin-de-Siècle Vienna," by Wolfgang Maderthaner and Lutz Musner,
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; History; MADERTHANER; Wolfgang; MUSNER; Lutz; Nonfiction; UNRULY Masses: The Other Side of Fin-de-Siecle Vienna (Book); VIENNA (Austria)

Temporary Foreign Worker Program in Canada: Low-Skilled Workers as an Extreme Form of Flexible Labor, The - Fudge, Judy; MacPhail, Fiona (Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal, 2009)
[F]ocuses on the legal regime that regulates the entry and exit of low-skilled temporary foreign workers and these workers' rights and terms and conditions of employment while in Canada. ...We are also interested in beginning to explore the impact of this program in relation to the Canadian labor market. In order to understand the distinctive features and effects of the low-skilled temporary foreign workers program, we situate the low-skilled TFWP in the context of the emergence and development of Canada's general TFWP.

The Freedom to Strike in Canada: A Brief Legal History - Fudge, Judy; Tucker, Eric (Canadian Labour & Employment Law Journal, 2009)
This paper looks at the “deep roots” of striking as a social practice in Canada, by providing an analytic framework for approaching the history of the right to strike, and then sketching the contours of that history. Focusing on the three key worker freedoms — to associate, to bargain collectively, and to strike — the authors trace the jural relations between workers, employers and the state through four successive regimes of industrial legality in Canada: master and servant; liberal voluntarism; industrial voluntarism; and industrial pluralism, the latter marked by the adoption of the Wagner Act model. On the basis of their review of those regimes, the authors argue that long before the modern scheme, workers enjoyed a virtually unlimited freedom to strike for collective bargaining purposes. Although government-imposed restrictions on the freedom have increased significantly, especially under industrial pluralism, legislatures have typically provided workers with compensating trade-offs, including rights enforceable against their employers. However, in contrast to the historical pattern, public-sector workers have with growing frequency been subjected to “exceptionalism,” i.e. the suspension or limitation of freedoms without a grant of compensatory rights. In the authors’ view, it is the imposition of such measures that will likely provide the context for consideration of whether the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms protects the right to strike.

Labour as Gift: Gift Economies in the Neoliberal University - Gaertner, Dave (ESC: English Studies in Canada, 2009)
As a result of decreased funding from the state, universities rely more and more on user fees, that is, tuition, to cover operation costs. According to Tyler Shipley, this situation has led to a “factory model of education” in which the focus of administrators is to pump as many undergraduates through the system as possible. Classes that once held fifty students now hold 150, those that once held 150 now hold 500. To accommodate this mass influx of students, universities are left scrambling to find cost-efficient means to get these students through the system, which more than often means expanding graduate programs in order to build a workforce (that is, teaching assistants and sessionals) that can teach classes, mark papers, and mediate distance education courses at a fraction of the price it would cost to pay a tenured professor.

Employment Research and State Traditions: A Comparative History of Britain, Germany and the United States - Gauthier, Carol-Anne (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
Employment Research and State Traditions: A Comparative History of Britain, Germany and the US, by Carola M. Frege, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Collective bargaining; Comparative analysis; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Social sciences

Globalizing Care Economies and Migrant Workers: Explorations in Global Care Chains - Gauthier, Carol-Anne (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
Globalizing Care Economies and Migrant Workers: Explorations in Global Care Chains, by Nicola Yeates, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Globalization; Labor Unions; Migrant workers; Nursing homes; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Les mouvements sociaux face au commerce éthique : une tentative de régulation démocratique du travail - Gendron, Corínne (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
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

Lady Landlords of Prince Edward Island - Gibson, Sarah (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "Lady Landlords of Prince Edward Island," by Rusty Bittermann and Margaret McCallum.
Keywords: BITTERMANN; Rusty; BOOKS – Reviews; LADY Landlords of Prince Edward Island (Book); LANDLADIES; MCCALLUM; Margaret; Nonfiction

New World Dawning: The Sixties at Regina Campus - Gidney, Catherine (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "New World Dawning: The Sixties at Regina Campus," by James M. Pitsula.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; NEW World Dawning: The Sixties at Regina Campus (Book); Nonfiction; PITSULA; James M.; UNIVERSITY of Saskatchewan

Criminalizing Race, Criminalizing Poverty: Welfare Fraud Enforcement in Canada - Goa, Hannah (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "Criminalizing Race, Criminalizing Poverty: Welfare Fraud Enforcement in Canada," by Kiran Mirchandani and Wendy Chan.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; CHAN; Wendy; CRIMINALIZING Race; Criminalizing Poverty: Welfare Fraud Enforcement in Canada (Book); History–History of North And South America; MIRCHANDANI; Kiran; Nonfiction; POVERTY; Race; WELFARE fraud

Corporate Governance Regimes and Employment Relations in Europe - Goergen, Marc; Brewster, Chris; Wood, Geoffrey (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
An influential strand of the finance literature focuses on the nature and extent of shareholder rights vis-a-vis employees. Most of the extant literature on the subject relies on a limited number of case studies and/or broad macroeconomic data, whereas this article draws on evidence from a large scale survey of organizations to test the predictions of the theories on the relative strength of workers and managers across the different governance regimes. This evidence highlights the complex relationship between societal institutions, legal traditions, political parties and electoral systems, on corporate governance regimes and the relative strength of unions and collective representation at workplace level, highlighting the limitations of the mainstream finance and economics rational-incentive based literature, and the value of alternative socio-economic approaches.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Corporate governance; Employee management relations; Labor Unions; Regression analysis; Shareholders rights; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

US Labor in Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform from Above, the Promise of Revival from Below - Goings, Aaron (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "U.S. Labor in Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform From Above, the Promise of Revival From Below," by Kim Moody.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Labor policy; MOODY; Kim; Nonfiction; US Labor in Trouble & Transition: The Failure of Reform From Above; the Promise of Revival From Below (Book); United States

Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens - Goldschmitt, Kariann (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "Working Girl Blues: The Life and Music of Hazel Dickens," by Hazel Dickens and Bill C. Malone.
Keywords: BLUEGRASS music; BOOKS – Reviews; DICKENS; Hazel; History & criticism; MALONE; Bill C.; Nonfiction; WORKING Girl Blues: The Life & Music of Hazel Dickens (Book)

Growing Older, Working Longer: The New Face of Retirement - Gordon, Richard R. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
Growing Older, Working Longer: The New Face of Retirement, by Monica Townson, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employment policies; Labor Unions; Older workers; Retirement plans; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

La face cachée des conditions de travail : les situations d'atteintes à la santé psychologique - Gouin, Marie-Michelle (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "La face cachée des conditions de travail : les situations d'atteintes à la santé psychologique," by Lucie France Dagenais in collaboration with Sabrina Ruta.
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

Fast Food Work: An Empirical Perspective of Ideal Employees - Gould, Anthony M. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
The McDonald's labour management strategy is widespread in the fast food industry. Literature that is critical of the approach often portrays the work as low paid, unchallenging and uninteresting. Others argue that industry jobs provide an enhanced resume, training opportunities, and the possibility of a career. Rather than being inherently disadvantageous or beneficial, it is possible that fast food employment addresses the needs and aspirations of some more than others. This article proposes such a view in relation to teenagers. It poses the question: what are the characteristics of those who are suitable for industry work? Surveys are used to develop a statistical profile of ideal workers. Findings have implications for stakeholder decision making and offer an empirical perspective of a contentious issue that attracts opinion and speculation. Results indicate that developmental change and an overt inclination to choose a fast food career are key considerations in determining employee suitability.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employee attitude; Fast food industry; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Work environment; Younger workers

New Employment Actors: Developments from Australia - Gould, Anthony M. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
New Employment Actors: Developments from Australia, edited by Grant Michelson, Suzanne Jamieson and John Burgess, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employment policies; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Up in the Air: How Airlines Can Improve Performance by Engaging their Employees - Gould, Anthony M. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
Up in the Air: How Airlines Can Improve Performance by Engaging their Employees, by Greg J. Bamber, Jody H. Gittell, Thomas A. Kochan and Andrew Von Nordenflycht, is reviewed.
Keywords: Airline industry; Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Deregulation; International; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Strategic management

Class and the Color Line: Interracial Class Coalition in the Knights of Labor and the Populist Movement - Goutor, David (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "Class and the Color Line: Interracial Class Coalition in the Knights of Labor and the Populist Movement," by Joseph Gerteis.
Keywords: American history; BOOKS – Reviews; Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; CLASS & the Color Line: Interracial Class Coalition in the Knights of Labor & the Populist Movement (Book); GERTEIS; Joseph; History–History of North And South America; Labor Unions; Labor movement; Nonfiction; Race

The Prestige Squeeze: Occupational Prestige in Canada Since 1965 - Goyder, John (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009)
How Canadians rate the prestige of their occupations, and what this says about our understanding of the knowledge economy, social mobility and inequality, and our working selves. "What do you do?" is often the first question posed when strangers meet, as occupation reveals a great deal about both social identity and social standing or "occupational prestige." Sociologists have studied occupational prestige for decades, including a landmark national survey in 1965 by Peter Pineo and John Porter. John Goyder updates Pineo and Porter's work, providing a detailed comparison of their results with a similar national scale survey conducted in 2005. The results challenge the accepted view that prestige ratings are constant over time and across societies. Goyder shows that there have been some surprising changes in these ratings: instead of the expected premium on jobs in the knowledge sector, more traditional occupations - such as the skilled trades, even if they require little education or pay a low wage - have gained the most prestige. There has been a significant decrease in consensus about occupational prestige ratings and the tendency for respondents to upgrade the prestige of their own occupation is much more pronounced in the recent data. Goyder argues that these changes are a sign of the shifting nature of values in a meritocratic society in which increasing income inequality is a growing reality. Results from prestige surveys help in the construction of socio-economic scales for occupations and inform career counselling for young people and negotiations by labour unions and associations. "The Prestige Squeeze" goes beyond this to question the very nature of how we measure social equality and mobility. –Publisher's description
Book available at Internet Archive to readers with print disabilities: https://archive.org/details/prestigesqueezeo0000goyd

La restructuration récente des politiques sociales au Canada et au Québec : éléments d'analyse - Groulx, Lionel-Henri (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
Le Canada et le Québec ont procédé, depuis le milieu des années 1990, à des changements importants de leur système de protection sociale ; les objectifs visés par ces réformes ont été de contrôler les dépenses publiques ou d’atteindre le déficit zéro, d’augmenter l’efficacité des politiques sociales, en particulier par rapport à l’incitation à l’emploi, et de garantir des conditions de vie convenables. Ceci s’est traduit par une restructuration de plusieurs dispositifs de protection sociale qui s’est réalisée par la reconfiguration des paramètres de protection et par l’activation de ces mêmes dépenses sociales. Pour comprendre cette restructuration, cet article analyse les changements introduits dans certains dispositifs de sécurité du revenu que sont le dispositif de l’assurance chômage, le régime universel des allocations familiales et le système d’assistance sociale, tant au niveau fédéral que québécois. Pour rendre compte de cette démarche, le texte a été divisé en trois parties : la première porte sur la reconfiguration de chacun des dispositifs, la deuxième sur l’activation des dépenses sociales et la troisième introduit des éléments d’analyse vis-à-vis cette restructuration récente des politiques sociales. Le texte est traversé par une question, celle de savoir si ces réformes traduisent un virage néo-libéral dans le sens d’un désengagement de l’État et d’une érosion des droits sociaux ou s’il vaut mieux plutôt y voir une réorganisation, une modification de son architecture, traduisant un changement de paradigme ou de référentiel dans le sens d’un État social actif ou d’investissement social.
Keywords: Canada; EMPLOYMENT (Economic theory); INCOME maintenance programs; PUBLIC spending; PUBLIC welfare; QUEBEC (Province); SOCIAL rights; Social policy; Unemployment insurance

La confiance organisationnelle au coeur de l’échange social : Et si bien traiter ses employés était payant ? - Guerrero, Sylvie; Herrbach, Olivier (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
Alors que la confiance organisationnelle est appréhendée comme un élément central à toute relation d’échange, elle n’a pas été étudiée dans le cadre d’une approche globale de l’échange social employeur-employé. Cet article vise à préciser le concept de confiance organisationnelle et à montrer son rôle lorsque l’organisation fait preuve de bienveillance à l’égard de ses employés. Le rôle médiateur de la confiance entre le soutien organisationnel perçu et les attitudes au travail est tout particulièrement étudié. Les résultats obtenus auprès de 249 cadres et gestionnaires confirment que la confiance en l’organisation est au coeur du processus d’échange social, et se présente comme une variable intermédiaire nécessaire pour expliquer l’engagement organisationnel et l’intention de quitter l’entreprise.
Keywords: apoyo organizacional percibido; engagement organisationnel; implicación organizacional; intención de abandonar el empleo; intention de quitter; intention to quit; organizational commitment; perceived organizational support (POS); retención del personal; retention of employees; rétention du personnel; soutien organisationnel perçu

Canadian Labour and Employment Relations - Gunderson, Morley; Taras, Daphne Gottlieb (Pearson Addison Wesley, 2009)
Contents: Canadian labour and employment relations / Daphne G. Taras and Morley Gunderson – Understanding the unionization decision / Ann C. Frost and Daphne G. Taras – Labour history and the development of modern capitalism / Richard Marsden – Unions : membership, structures, actions and challenges / Gregor Murray – The management of industrial relations / Mark Thompson – Managing the high-involvement workplace / Anil Verma and Daphne G. Taras – Social, political, and economic environments / Frank Reid and Rafael Gomez – Collective bargaining legislation in Canada / Sara Slinn – The individual employment contract and employment / Geoffrey England – Collective bargaining : structure, process, and innovation / Richard Chaykowski – The collective agreement / Anthony Giles and Akivah Starkman – Strikes and dispute resolution / Morley Gunderson, Bob Hebdon, and Douglas Hyatt – The grievance arbitration process and workplace / Kenneth Wm. Thornicroft – Union impact on compensation, productivity, and management of the organization / Morley Gunderson and Douglas Hyatt – Public-sector collective bargaining / Mark Thompson and Patrice Jalette – Union-management relations in Québec / Esther Déom and Jean-Noël Grenier with Marie-Pierre Beaumont – Trade unions and labour relations regimes: international perspectives in a globalizing world / Carla Lipsig-Mummé. Previous eds. published under title: Union-management relations in Canada; Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Industrial relations – Canada – Textbooks

Dependent Self-Employment: Workers on the Border between Employment and Self-Employment - Haiven, Larry (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
Dependent Self-Employment: Workers on the Border between Employment and Self-Employment, by Ulrike Muehlberger, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Self employment; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Pensions at Work: Socially Responsible Investment of Union-Based Pension Funds - Hanin, Frédéric (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
Pensions at Work: Socially Responsible Investment of Union-Based Pension Funds, edited by Jack Quarter, Isla Carmichael and Sherida Ryan, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Fiduciary responsibility; Investment policy; Labor Unions; Pension funds; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Renegades: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War - Hannant, Larry (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "Renegades: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War," by Michael Petrou.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CIVIL War; 1936-1939; History; Nonfiction; PETROU; Michael; RENEGADES: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War (Book); SPAIN

What's New: Memoirs of a Socialist Idealist - Hannant, Larry (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "What's New: Memoirs of a Socialist Idealist," by Ben Swankey.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Communism; Nonfiction; SWANKEY; Ben; WHAT'S New: Memoirs of a Socialist Idealist (Book)

Achieving the Right to Strike: Ontario Teachers´ Unions and Professionalist Ideology - Hanson, Andy (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2009)
This paper will review the historical development of professionalism as a contested construct in the public education project and briefly explain how it was employed to achieve the right to strike for Ontario’s public school teachers in 1973. Although all six teachers’ unions are included in the study, the more particular standpoint is from the elementary teachers’ unions, the Federation of Women Teachers’ Associations of Ontario and the Ontario Public School Men Teachers’ Federation, as it is from their archives that the research was gathered.

Fair Future: Resource Conflicts, Security and Global Justice - Hanson, Lorelei (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "Fair Future: Resource Conflicts, Security and Global Justice," by Wolfgang Sachs and Tilman Santarius.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Environmental justice; FAIR Future: Resource Conflicts; Security & Global Justice (Book); Globalization; History–History of North And South America; Nonfiction; SACHS; Wolfgang; SANTARIUS; Tilman; Social justice

Laying It on the Line: Driving a Hard Bargain in Challenging Times - Hargrove, Buzz (HarperCollins, 2009)
In late 2008, the world’s economy began to tumble at avalanche speed, and at the forefront of the manufacturing collapse were the Big Three automakers: Chrysler, General Motors and Ford. For decades, these companies had been shining stars, providing billions of dollars of new investments and thousands of well-paying jobs. Yet suddenly the heads of these and other manufacturing giants found themselves begging governments for financial packages to save their industries. What the hell happened? Buzz Hargrove, the former head of the Canadian Autoworkers (CAW), retired right before the collapse, but not before witnessing the decades of bad decisionmaking— by federal governments and CEOs—that set the stage for the sudden crisis. No one knows the ins and outs of manufacturing like Hargrove, a man who championed the cause of on-the-line workers but who also earned the immense respect of political and business leaders. In Laying It on the Line, Hargrove explains the crisis from his side of the table, what it means for Canada and how the manufacturing sector can again become this country’s foremost economic driver. Along the way, he shares the behind-the-door dealings with GM, Ford, Air Canada and others, explaining the controversial agreements he reached over his decades as Canada’s chief labour leader. Laying It on the Line is a timely call to arms for industry, governments and indeed all Canadians. –Publisher's description
Book available at Internet Archive to people with print disabilities: https://archive.org/details/layingitonlinedr0000harg/page/n5/mode/2up
Keywords: 20th century; 21st century; Automobile industry History; Automobile industry and trade; Canada; Collective labor agreements; Hargrove; Buzz; History; Industrial relations; Manufacturing industries

Canada's Rights Revolution: Social Movements and Social Change, 1937-1982 - Hayday, Matthew (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "Canada's Rights Revolution: Social Movements and Social Change, 1937-1982," by Dominique Clément.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CANADA – Politics & government – 20th century; CANADA'S Rights Revolution: Social Movements & Social Change 1937-1982 (Book); CLEMENT; Dominique; Nonfiction

Strikes and Lockouts - Hébert, Gérard; Tattrie, Jon (The Canadian Encyclopedia (TCE), 2009)
A strike is the withholding of labour by workers in order to obtain better wages or working conditions. A lockout is the opposite, being the temporary shutdown of a business by an employer to compel employees to accept certain conditions. Both have been important in establishing the working conditions of Canadians over the last two centuries....

Rig: An Oral History of the Ocean Ranger Disaster - Heffernan, Mike (Creative Publishers, 2009)
In the early hours of February 15, 1982, tragedy struck the Ocean Ranger oil rig when it capsized and sank in a severe weather storm 170 nautical miles east of St. John's, Newfoundland. All of the eighty-four crewmen perished, including fifty-six men from the province. This was Canada's greatest maritime disaster since World War II. Rig is a powerful story filled with first-person accounts and previously unpublished photographs. In an intimate journey through grief and sadness, Rig searches for reconciliation among the victims' families and those who risked their own lives to help those on the Ocean Ranger. –Publisher's description
Keywords: Ocean Ranger (Drilling rig)

A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World - Heller, Henry (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World," by Gregory Clark.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CLARK; Gregory; 1957-; Economic history; FAREWELL to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World; A (Book); Nonfiction

Cross-Border Social Dialogue and Agreements: An Emerging Global Industrial Relations Framework? - Hennebert, Marc-Antonin (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "Cross-Border Social Dialogue and Agreements: An Emerging Global Industrial Relations Framework?," edited by Konstantinos Papadakis.
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 Right to Strike in an International Context The International Perspective - Hepple, Bob (Canadian Labour & Employment Law Journal, 2009)
In the first part of this paper, the author reviews the historical development of the right to strike in international instruments. In his view, that process was shaped during the Cold War by an artificial dis- tinction between socioeconomic rights and civil and political rights, resulting in a narrow interpretation of freedom of association. The author argues that while workers' rights have more recently been con- ceived of asfundamental human rights, an emphasis on social justice is equally necessary. In this context, the right to strike is critical to main- taining an equilibrium of power between labour and capital, and thus to protecting the dignity and human rights of workers. Turning to the chal- lenges posed by globalization, the author suggests that countries can gain a "comparative institutional advantage" by pursuing a program of rights-based regulation or "regulated flexibility." On this view, employ- ment rights - including the right to strike - are beneficial to economic development. The question, then, is whether constitutionalizing the right to strike is the best way to ensure Canada's comparative advantage. In considering this question, several issues arise, including whether consti- tutionalization would lead to excessive limitations on the right to strike; whether it would undermine the majoritarian character of our collective bargaining system; and whether the application of abstract constitu- tional principles by judges is a suitable way of settling labour disputes.
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Harold, Marg, and the Boys: The Relevance of Class in Canadian History - Heron, Craig (Journal of the Canadian Historical Association / Revue de la Société historique du Canada, 2009)
Class has been a controversial category of historical analysis. Historians and social theorists have often attacked its relevance, but even those who find it a helpful way of understanding the past (and present) have had to deal with challenges from new theoretical perspectives, especially from those sensitive to gender and race. They have also had to recognize that there is no direct link between the material situation of members of a social class and their consciousness of their social situation. Diverse discourses emerge to give meaning to social experience, and are adopted, adapted, or rejected to varying degrees. This paper suggests that, after three decades of debate, we should now consider class formation as a fluid, dynamic process of social differentiation through which people’s lives are shaped by the pressures, constraints, and opportunities of their situation in relation to the means of production, the divisions of labour within patriarchy, and the racial distinctions in particular societies; but also one in which people negotiate their own understandings of the world and act on them. To illustrate this process at work, the paper discusses the lives of one working-class family in suburban Toronto from the 1940s to the 1970s and their engagement with new postwar social developments. They not only shaped distinctively working-class forms of gender, suburbanism, religion, ethnicity, citizenship, popular culture, meritocracy, and consumerism; but also wove all of those into a distinctively working-class identity.

Mapping the Boundaries of Human Rights at Work: Questioning How the ILO Defines Labor Rights and Social Justice - Hilgert, Jeff (Labor Studies Journal, 2009)
Over the past twenty years, International Labour Standards have been cited increasingly as the authoritative, worldwide body of jurisprudence on workers' rights as human rights. Continuing the debate on what constitutes labor rights, the author contrasts the definition of workers' rights under international human rights standards with U.S. labor history's notion of “pure and simple unionism,” examining the boundaries of rights defined by international standards in a comparative historical context. The standards examined include workers' right to organize; coercive employer speech; access to employer premises; nonmajority representation; the right to strike, picket, and boycott; union security clauses; the scope of bargaining; government enforcement; and the legal doctrine of employer association rights. Aligning U.S. labor relations law with international human rights standards would in part be a social advancement, but significant aspects of the standards advocate pure and simple unionism more than the original National Labor Relations Act, raising questions about how labor movements should use international standards as advocacy tools and public policy goals.

A New Frontier for Industrial Relations: Workplace Health and Safety as a Human Right - Hilgert, Jeffrey (Human rights in labor and employment relations: international and domestic perspectives, 2009)
Working conditions have been an ongoing topic of scholarship and government for more than a century, yet the understanding that workers’ health and safety are human rights has a short history and has until recently not been a significant justification for industrial and labor relations policy. In this chapter I respond to this gap, challenging industrial relations and labor economics to examine the scope and nature of the problem and articulate a framework of workers’ health and safety as human rights concerns. The field of industrial relations has historically characterized workers’ health and safety as less than fundamental human rights. This paper is an exploration of the human rights framework and a response to critics in an effort to establish a new foundation for industrial relations scholarship and in turn build the human rights foundation for labor policy. –Author's introduction
OCLC: 1051314086

Canada's Jews: A People's Journey - Homel, Gene (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "Canada's Jews: A People's Journey," by Gerald Tulchinsky.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; CANADA'S Jews: A People's Journey (Book); History; History–History of North And South America; JEWISH history; Jewish Canadians; Nonfiction; TULCHINSKY; Gerald

Union-Free America: Workers and Antiunion Culture - Howee, Joseph (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "Union-Free America: Workers and Antiunion Culture," by Lawrence Richards.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; History; LABOR unions – United States; Nonfiction; RICHARDS; Lawrence; UNION-Free America: Workers & Antiunion Culture (Book)

The Structure of Betrayal: Trade Union Bureaucracy and Public Sector Struggles in British Columbia - Hurl, Chris (Studies in Political Economy, 2009)
Serving on the executive committee of CUPE 4163 at the University of Victoria and actively participating in the Victoria Communities Solidarity Coalition, I had the opportunity to experience these [public sector] struggles first hand. While I played only a marginal role (i.e., standing on picket lines, organizing discussion forums, and attending public meetings), I hope to contribute my perspective as a participant observer. This is not intended to be a detailed history; rather, I will draw on various interpretations of the struggles in BC to make a broader theoretical intervention in conceptualizing the defeat of the labour movement in the so-called “neoliberal era.” Viewing bureaucracy as an uneven field of struggle, I argue that the [Hospital Employees' Union] strike demonstrates the importance of distinguishing between different elements of BC’s labour leadership in challenging the provincial government’s denial of collective bargaining freedoms to public sector workers. –From introduction

Exclusion is Forever: How Keeping Labour Rights Separate from Constitutional Rights Has Proven to Be a Bad Deal for American Trade Unions and Constitutional Law The Comparative Perspective - Hyde, Alan (Canadian Labour & Employment Law Journal, 2009)
Speaking from the U.S. experience, this paper argues that the exclusion of union speech, boycotts and picketing from constitutional protection has been harmful for labour and for the U.S. Constitution. The author points out that in recent decades the scope of speech that is protected under the First Amendment has expanded significantly, and now includes consumer boycotts, "symbolic speech" that combines con- duct and communication, and even threatening speech. All of these rights of expression are denied to unions, supposedly on the ground that labour rights should be, and are, regulated through a comprehensive administrative scheme. In the author's view, howeve, that scheme has become ossified, and has completely failed to keep up with developments in First Amendment law. As a result, union speech and action is uniquely disfavoured: flag-burning, cross-burning and the St. Patrick's Day parade are constitutionally protected forms of expression, but union picketing is not. Canadians, then, when considering a constitutional right to strike, should be wary, of the argument that the regulation of such a right is better assigned to administrators rather than the courts.

Uprooted: The Shipment of Poor Children to Canada, 1867-1917 - Iozzo-Duval, Alessandra (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "Uprooted: The Shipment of Poor Children to Canada, 1867-1917," by Roy Parker.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Canada; IMMIGRANT children; Nonfiction; PARKER; Roy; UPROOTED: The Shipment of Poor Children to Canada 1867-1917 (Book)

Fellow Traveller: A British Columbia Fisherman Writes Home from the Eastern Bloc, 1952 - Isitt, Benjamin (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article focuses on the letters wrote by Elgin Neish, a member of the Labor-Progressive Party (LPP), during his seven week trip from Eastern Europe to Beijing, China in 1952. It explains that the letters offered a significant perspective of a radical British Columbia trade unionist during the Cold War as well as important global subjects. It notes that Neish traveled to Beijing to participate in the Asia and Pacific Rim Peace Conference, which reflected on the communist-led peace activism during the Cold War and the relationships between the Canadian and Chinese Communists, from October 2-12.
Keywords: BEIJING (China); CHINA; COLD War; 1945-1989; CONFERENCES & conventions; EUROPE; Eastern; Labor Unions; Labor union members; Letters; NEISH; Elgin

Nels Anderson: A Profile - Iverson, Noel (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
Dr. Nels Anderson (1889–1986) was among American sociologists a pioneer whose work is only now beginning to win the recognition it deserves, especially in Europe. His ethnographic studies of wandering workmen (The Hobo), frontier sectarians (The Desert Saints), and migrant laborers (Men on the Move) are seen as models of empirical research that provide insights into the lives of groups and classes marginalized by the wider society. [He also was a visiting professor and head of the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Memorial University of Newfoundland.] –Introduction
Keywords: ANDERSON; Nels; AUTHORS; CAREER changes; CAREER development; CHICAGO (Ill.); COLLEGE teachers; ILLINOIS; OCCUPATIONAL achievement; UNIVERSITY of Chicago

Carnal Crimes: Sexual Assault Law in Canada, 1900-1975 - Janovicek, Nancy (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "Carnal Crimes: Sexual Assault Law in Canada, 1900-1975," by Constance Backhouse.
Keywords: BACKHOUSE; Constance; BOOKS – Reviews; CARNAL Crimes: Sexual Assault Law in Canada 1900-1975 (Book); Nonfiction; RAPE – Law & legislation – History

Women's Rights - Janovicek, Nancy (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "Women's Rights," by Geraldine Terry.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; History–History of North And South America; Nonfiction; POVERTY; TERRY; Geraldine; WOMEN'S Rights (Book); Women's rights; Womens rights movement

Solidarity Forever? The NDP, Organized Labour, and the Changing Face of Party Finance in Canada - Jansen, Harold J.; Young, Lisa (Canadian Journal of Political Science, 2009)
We consider the impact of changing Canadian national party finance laws that banned trade union donations on the relationship between the New Democratic party (NDP) and organized labour. Although the changed laws have required a restructuring of the relationship between the two actors, we find evidence of a continued commitment to co-operation. We conclude that accounts that stress the ideological affinity between the NDP and labour explain the preservation of the relationship better than political economy or rational exchange models.

Smiths Falls in the World: A Study of Globalization in a Rural Canadian Town - Jinha, Arif E. (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2009)
In early February 2007, Hershey´s Chocolate Company announced its global supply-chain transformation plan to cut more than 1500 jobs from its Canadian and United States plants. Smiths Falls, the Chocolate Capital of Canada, lost its Hershey factory together with the closure of the Rideau Regional Centre, an institution for people with developmental disabilities. By the end of 2008, this Eastern Ontario town of roughly 9,000 people shed roughly 1700 jobs, constituting almost 40% of its active labour force (Sutton, 2009). Globalization, despite the confusion generated by the word, must be considered a core factor in the economic and social situation. Smiths Falls confronts these lay-offs from a position of economic and social strain already. The paper examines the broader changes in the world occurring through globalization and how the local society of Smiths Falls has adjusted in tandem. Such an analysis has likely been relevant to Smiths Falls since its inception; as a meeting point of transcontinental trade and a centre of manufacturing within an ever-expanding and more complex supply chain.

Working Girls in the West: Representations of Wage-Earning Women - Jones, Esyllt W. (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "Working Girls in the West: Representations of Wage-Earning Women," by Lindsey McMaster.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; MCMASTER; Lindsey; Nonfiction; WAGES – Women; WORKING Girls in the West: Representations of Wage-Earning Women (Book)

Gendering Union Renewal: Women's Contributions to Labour Movement Revitalization - Kainer, Jan (Unions, Equity, and the Path to Renewal, 2009)
[S]ummarizes thirty years of effort by equity advocates to realize a feminist-inspired vision of a union movement that is inclusive and democratic, and that seeks to advance the interests of all working people, unionized or not. ...[The author] argues that the union renewal literature has not acknowledged the gendering of the labour movement, or the role that women's organizing has played in transofrming the labour movement and helping it to reposition itself in the face of neo-liberal globalization, thus assuring its future survival. –Editor's introduction
Book available at Internet Archive to people with print disabilities: https://archive.org/details/unionsequitypath0000unse/page/14/mode/2up
Keywords: Canada; Equality; Labor unions; Social aspects; Women in the labor movement

Precarious Work, Insecure Workers: Employment Relations in Transition - Kalleberg, Arne L. (American Sociological Review, 2009)
The growth of precarious work since the 1970s has emerged as a core contemporary concern within politics, in the media, and among researchers. Uncertain and unpredictable work contrasts with the relative security that characterized the three decades following World War II. Precarious work constitutes a global challenge that has a wide range of consequences cutting across many areas of concern to sociologists. Hence, it is increasingly important to understand the new workplace arrangements that generate precarious work and worker insecurity. A focus on employment relations forms the foundation of theories of the institutions and structures that generate precarious work and the cultural and individual factors that influence people's responses to uncertainty. Sociologists are well-positioned to explain, offer insight, and provide input into public policy about such changes and the state of contemporary employment relations.

Canadian Maverick: The Life and Times of Ivan C. Rand - Kaplan, William (Published for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History by University of Toronto Press, 2009)
Ivan Rand had a long, varied and remarkable career. He is best known for his Supreme Court of Canada judgments in a series of cases emanating from Quebec in the 1950s and dealing with civil rights, cases which established limits on the government’s ability to persecute unpopular religious minorities. To labour lawyers he is also an icon for his invention of the ‘Rand formula’, one of the defining features of Canadian labour law. Rand was also a member of the United Nations special committee on Palestine in 1947, the founding Dean of the University of Western Ontario law school, and three times a royal commissioner, looking into the problems of the Canadian coal industry, the misconduct of Mr. Justice Leo A. Landreville, and labour disputes in Ontario. In this thoroughly researched and fast-paced book, William Kaplan traces Rand’s life and career in all its richness and controversy – Rand as lawyer, politician, judge, dean, and royal commissioner – through many seminal events of the twentieth century in Canada. The Rand that emerges is variously inspiring, frustrating to understand, sometimes contradictory, always complex. –Publisher's description

Bar Codes: Women in the Legal Profession - Kay, Fiona (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "Bar Codes: Women in the Legal Profession," by Jean McKenzie Leiper.
Keywords: BAR Codes: Women in the Legal Profession (Book); BOOKS – Reviews; LEIPER; Jean McKenzie; Nonfiction; WOMEN lawyers

Crossing Boundaries: Women's Organizing in Europe and the Americas, 1880s-1940s - Kealey, Linda (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "Crossing Boundaries: Women's Organizing in Europe and the Americas, 1880s-1940s," part 80 of the Uppsala Studies in Economic History series, edited by Pernilla Jonsson, Silke Neunsinger, and Joan Sangster.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CROSSING Boundaries: Women's Organizing in Europe & the Americas 1880s-1940s (Book); History; JONSSON; Pernilla; NEUNSINGER; Silke; Nonfiction; SANGSTER; Joan; WOMEN socialists

For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865 - Kelly, Joe (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America Since 1865," by Robert M. Zieger.
Keywords: American history; BOOKS – Reviews; Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Employment; FOR Jobs & Freedom: Race & Labor in America Since 1865 (Book); History–History of North And South America; Labor; Nonfiction; Race relations; ZIEGER; Robert M.

From Labour of Love to Decent Work: Protecting the Human Rights of Migrant Caregivers in Canada - Khan, Sabaa A. (Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 2009)
This article examines Canada’s federal Live-in Caregiver Program (LCP) from the perspective of international human-rights and labour norms pertaining to the protection of migrant workers. Showing that the current legal framework of the LCP restricts migrant caregivers from effectively exercising a range of human and labour rights, the author argues for the removal of the labour (im)migration program’s unnecessary structural obstacles and proposes a reformulation of the LCP under the principles and guidelines of the International Labour Organization’s Multilateral Framework on Labour Migration, in order to transform this controversial labour policy into a decent work opportunity.

Equity, Diversity, and Canadian Labour - Korinek, Valerie J. (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "Equity, Diversity, and Canadian Labour," edited by Gerald Hunt and David Rayside.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; EQUITY; Diversity & Canadian Labour (Book); HUNT; Gerald; Labor; Nonfiction; RAYSIDE; David

Strangers in our Midst: Sexual Deviancy in Postwar Ontario - Korinek, Valerie J. (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "Strangers in Our Midst: Sexual Deviancy in Postwar Ontario," by Elise Chenier.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CHENIER; Elise; DEVIANT behavior; Nonfiction; STRANGERS in Our Midst: Sexual Deviancy in Postwar Ontario (Book)

The Targeted Wage Subsidy: How Program Design Creates Incentives for "Creaming" - Lahey, Pam; Hall, Peter V. (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2009)
Across most developed nations, including Canada, parallel systems of social welfare and employment insurance have increasingly been replaced by programs that emphasize work as a means to achieve welfare goals within the so-called re-employment framework. Various authors have drawn attention to the tension between the goal of long-term sustainable employment, and re-employment-based strategies that emphasize short-term and stand-alone interventions. In this paper, we focus on the implementation of one such program in Canada, the Targeted Wage Subsidy. This program seeks to place the most marginal qualifying participants in employment by offering employers a financial inducement. By paying close attention to the experiences of those tasked with monitoring and implementing the program in Toronto, we identify various ways in which program design elements may systematically disadvantage the intended recipients. These program delivery mechanisms are shaped both in the practices of implementing agents, as well as by the public accountability framework that enforces rigid timelines and reporting requirements, resulting in a practice commonly referred to by employment service providers as "creaming". Our observations lead us to question whether the target population is, in fact, the one benefiting from these return-to-work supports.

The View from Murney Tower: Salem Bland, the Late Victorian Controversies, and the Search for a New Christianity, Book One. Salem Bland: A Canadian Odyssey - Laing, Heather (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "The View From Murney Tower: Salem Bland, the Late Victorian Controversies, and the Search for a New Christianity: Salem Bland: A Canadian Odyssey," Book One, by Richard Allen.
Keywords: ALLEN; Richard; BOOKS – Reviews; METHODISTS; Nonfiction; VIEW From Murney Tower: Salem Bland; the Late Victorian Controversies & the Search for a New Christianity; The (Book)

The Handbook of Human Resource Management Education: Promoting an Effective and Efficient Curriculum - Lancaster, Helen (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
The Handbook of Human Resource Management Education: Promoting an Effective and Efficient Curriculum, edited by Vida Gulbinas Scarpello, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Education; Human resource management; Labor Unions; Reference books; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Training

Brazilian Trade Unions: In (In)Voluntary Confinement of the Corporatist Past - Lang, Karen; Gagnon, Mona-Josée (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
Many analysts of Brazilian industrial relations share a determinist vision of the country's trade unionism, according to which the unions maintain a paradoxical yet atavistic relationship with the heavy body of laws that provide them with advantages while limiting their freedom. We tested this vision by conducting field enquiries into the daily activities of two Brazilian unions: the ABC Metalworkers Union and the Seamstress Union for the Sao Paulo and Osasco Region. In this article, we present the results of our case studies and what they reveal about Brazilian trade unionism's relationship with the labour legislation. We also briefly discuss former trade union leader and current President Lula's recent attempts to reform the country's labour relations system.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor law; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Unionization

Reclaiming the Canadian Left - Langford, Tom (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "Reclaiming the Canadian Left," by Richard Ziegler.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Labor movement; Nonfiction; RECLAIMING the Canadian Left (Book); ZIEGLER; Richard

Is There a Constitutional Right to Strike in Canada: Introduction - Langille, Brian (Canadian Labour & Employment Law Journal, 2009)
On December 5, 2009, an international symposium took place at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, on the question, "Is there a constitutional right to strike in Canada?" In organizing that meeting, I invited leading labour and constitutional law scholars, practitioners and judges from Europe, South Africa, Israel, the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as from across Canada, to attend in order to help answer the most pressing issue facing students and practitioners of Canadian labour law today.

What is a Strike? - Langille, Brian (Canadian Labour & Employment Law Journal, 2009)
This paper looks into how a "strike" should be defined under Canadian law. Although labour boards and courts in Canada claim to apply an "objective" definition, whereby a "strike" means any con- certed cessation of work, the author argues that this approach is incap- able of providing a coherent answer to the question of which work stoppages are strikes and which are not. What is needed, rather, and what accurately reflects the understanding of "strike" embodied in labour relations statutes and cases decided at common law, is a subjec- tive definition that is based on the reason for the work stoppage. Thus, in the author's view, a strike is a timely (and hence legal) cessation of work if it is engaged in by a group of workers who are negotiating (or renego- tiating) their agreement with an employer, in an effort to induce the employer to come to terms. The author warns, however, that any attempt to constitutionalize the right to strike through the Charter freedom of association in s. 2(d), rather than through the guarantee of equality in s. 15, will inevitably draw courts into the mistaken exercise of trying to create a 'judicial labour code."

Why are Canadian Judges Drafting Labour Codes - And Constitutionalizing the Wagner Act Model Commentary on Cases, Legislation and Policy [comment] - Langille, Brian (Canadian Labour & Employment Law Journal, 2009)
Judges in Canada now adhere to the view that it is their task to draft labour codes for Canadians - a position recently and fully embraced by the Ontario Court of Appeal in Fraser v. Ontario (Attorney General).' Some commentators believe this is a sound legal development. Others are equivocal. I think it is a very serious mistake. Given the alternatives, it is a strange and undesirable turn of legal events. But the strangeness does not end with the mere fact that we now live with what I call a "judicial labour code" (JLC). There is more. Judges undertaking this exercise, enthusiastically but nonetheless disconcertingly, insist that their nascent labour code happens to contain most of the provisions inserted over the years by Canadian legis- lators in an overtly political effort to "balance" or (in Paul Weiler's term) to "reconcile" the interests of labour and capital. Those provisions relate, for example, to the duty to bargain, to unfair labour. –Introduction

Work and Industrial Relations: Towards a New Agenda - Lansbury, Russell D. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
The relevance and continuing existence of industrial relations, as a field of academic study, is facing a number of challenges, particularly in English-speaking countries, as union membership declines, collective bargaining coverage shrinks and the number of strikes wanes each year. Yet issues of employment and workplace relations remain significant to economic prosperity and social harmony, particularly with the changing nature of work and of employment contracts. Furthermore, there are a number of other means by which employee voice is heard, through the agency of non-government organizations, community groups and various consultative bodies. In order to reinforce its relevance, industrial relations needs to include new actors, cover a wider range of issues and adopt a multi-level approach which incorporates both local and global dimensions.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Collective bargaining; Employment security; International; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Union membership

La « porte ouverte d'IBM » au service de la gestion des ressources humaines - Le Flanchec, Alice; Rojot, Jacques (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
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

Global Unions: Challenging Transnational Capital through Cross-Border Campaigns - Le Queux, Stéphane (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "Global Unions: Challenging Transnational Capital through Cross-Border Campaigns," edited by Kate Bronfenbrenner.
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

Can You Derive a Right to Strike from the Right to Freedom of Association Freedom of Association, Charter Values, and Strikes - Leader, Sheldon (Canadian Labour & Employment Law Journal, 2009)
This paper examines a range of ways in which a right to strike can be derived from the right to freedom of association, focusing on a dis- tinction between a direct and indirect linkage between the two rights. The form of derivation will, in the author's view, determine the appro- priate degree of judicial deference to legislative policy decisions con- cerning the legitimate dimensions of a strike. The link between freedom of association and the right to strike also depends on the particular fea- ture of a strike that is in question. Some of those features are constant (i.e. strikes are always coordinated action, designed to bring pressure to bear), while other features are variable (i.e. whether strikes are con- trolled by a trade union, whether they are required to be part of a formal collective bargaining process, whether strikers are protected from employer retaliation, and whether the strike pursues a political objec- tive). On the basis of these distinctions, the author argues that the con- stant features of strikes - their collective quality and the pressure they exert - can legitimately claim protection as a matter of constitutional or internationally recognized right flowing directly from a qualified right to freedom of association. The variable features of strikes can be shaped by legislatures more freely than can the constant features. Here, the fundamental rights constraint is via an indirect connection to free- dom of association. However it is wrong to treat the indirect connection entirely separately from the direct one. A great deal turns on whethe, in regulating these variable features, the legislature arbitrarily excludes certain employees from an ability to engage in the constant features of all strikes: features which make it, as a directly derivable species of right to freedom of association, a right that all should enjoy. Professor, School of Law and Centre for Human Rights, University of Essex (U.K.). The author wishes to thank Brian Langille and Chris Albertyn for their insightful suggestions. This does not, of course, implicate them in the positions advanced here.

Citizens to Lords: A Social History of Western Political Thought from Antiquity to the Middle Ages - Lecce, Steven (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "Citizens to Lords: A Social History of Western Political Thought From Antiquity to the Middle Ages," by Ellen Meiksins Wood.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CITIZENS to Lords: A Social History of Western Political Thought From Antiquity to the Middle Ages (Book); Nonfiction; POLITICAL science – History; WOOD; Ellen Meiksins

Equity, Diversity and Canadian Labour - Legault, Marie-Josée (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "Equity, Diversity and Canadian Labour," edited by Gerald Hunt and David Rayside.
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

Too Bad, You Were Too Late Coming In! - Legault, Marie-Josée (Unions, Equity, and the Path to Renewal, 2009)
[E]xamines the implications for unions of the federal and provincial human rights legislation and the Canadian Charter of Rights [with respect to equity]. ...[The author] warns that unless unions find acceptable ways to deal with the increasingly diverse interests of their members, conflict could ensue that could remove unions' legal right to represent certain minority intersts, as well as destroy union solidarity. [The author] describes one such conflict currently moving through the courts, which arose from the negotiation of a two-tier wage clause that is allegedly discriminatory. This is a cautionary tale that highlights the link between union revitalization and equity. –Editor's introduction
Book available at Internet Archive to people with print disabilities: https://archive.org/details/unionsequitypath0000unse/page/38/mode/2up
Keywords: Canada; Equality; Labor unions; Social aspects; Women in the labor movement

Essex County: A Graphic Novel - Lemire, Jeff. (Top Shelf Productions, 2009)
Where does a young boy turn when his whole world suddenly disappears? What turns two brothers from an unstoppable team into a pair of bitterly estranged loners? How does the simple-hearted care of one middle-aged nurse reveal the scars of an entire community, and can anything heal the wounds caused by a century of deception? Award-winning cartoonist Jeff Lemire pays tribute to his roots with Essex County, an award-winning trilogy of graphic novels set in an imaginary version of his hometown, the eccentric farming community of Essex County, Ontario, Canada. In Essex County, Lemire crafts an intimate study of one community through the years, and a tender meditation on family, memory, grief, secrets, and reconciliation. With the lush, expressive inking of a young artist at the height of his powers, Lemire draws us in and sets us free. This new edition collects the complete, critically-acclaimed trilogy (Tales from the Farm, Ghost Stories, and The Country Nurse) in one deluxe volume! Also included are over 40-pages of previously unpublished material, including two new stories. This title has been voted by Canada Reads Top 10 title for the decade! –Publisher's description
Keywords: Blue-collar work; Farming community; Nurse; Ontario Essex; Sabotage

Social Murder and Other Shortcomings of Conservative Economics - Lewchuk, Wayne (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "Social Murder and Other Shortcomings of Conservative Economics," by Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CHERNOMAS; Robert; HUDSON; Ian; Nonfiction; SOCIAL Murder & Other Shortcomings of Conservative Economics (Book); SOCIOECONOMICS

Precarious Employment and the Internal Responsibility System: Some Canadian Experiences - Lewchuk, Wayne; Clarke, Marlea; De Wolff, Alice (Workplace Health and Safety: International Perspectives on Worker Representation, 2009)
Worker representatives were formally recognised as agents in regulating workplace health and safety in most Canadian jurisdictions in the late 1970s. This was one component of the transition to an Internal Responsibility System that included mandated Joint Health and Safety Committees, right to know regulations, and the right to refuse dangerous work. Very little has changed in this regulatory framework in the ensuing three decades. The effectiveness of these regulations in improving health and safety was contentious in the 1970s and continues to be debated. Earlier work by Lewchuk et al. (1996) argued that the labour-management environment of individual workplaces influenced the effectiveness of worker representatives and Joint Health and Safety Committees. In particular, the framework was more effective where labour was organised and where management had accepted a philosophy of co-management of the health and safety function. The Canadian economy has experienced significant reorganisation since the 1970s. Canadian companies in general face more intense competition because of trade deals entered into in the 1980s and 1990s. Exports represent a much larger share of GNP. Union density has fallen and changes in legislation make it more difficult to organise workers. Non-standard employment, self-employment and other forms of less permanent employment have all grown in relative importance. This chapter presents new evidence on how these changes are undermining the effectiveness of the Internal Responsibility System in Canada, with a particular focus on workers in precarious employment relationships. Data is drawn from a recent population survey of non-student workers in Ontario conducted by the authors. – Publisher's description. Contents: pt. 1. National arrangements for workers' representation: case studies from Europe and Australia. Worker representation on health and safety in the UK – problems with the preferred model and beyond – The Australian framework for worker participation in occupational health and safety – Health and safety committees in France: an empirical analysis – Characteristics, activities and perceptions of Spanish safety representatives – An afterword on European Union policy and practice – pt. 2. Challenges and strategies for worker representation in the modern world of work – Precarious employment and the internal responsibility system: some Canadian experiences – Employee 'voice' and working environment in the new member states: translating policy into practice in the Baltic States – Health and safety representation in small firms: a Swedish success that is threatened by political and labour market changes – Trade union strategies to support representation on health and safety in Australia and the UK: integration or isolation? – Worker representation and health and safety: reflections on the past, present and future. Includes bibliographical references and index.
OCLC: 298778101
Keywords: Employee participation. Industrial hygiene. Industrial management; Employee participation. Industrial relations. Industrial safety. Arbetsmiljrisker. Arbetsorganisation. Medbestmmande i arbetslivet; Industrial hygiene. Industrial safety. Industrial relations. Industrial management

The Crisis of Imprisonment: Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776-1941 - Lichtenstein, Alex (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "The Crisis of Imprisonment: Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776-1941," by Rebecca M. McLennan.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CONVICT labor; CRISIS of Imprisonment: Protest; Politics & the Making of the American Penal State 1776-1941; The (Book); History; MCLENNAN; Rebecca M.; Nonfiction

Do Unions Affect Pay Methods of Canadian Firms? A Longitudinal Study - Long, Richard J.; Shields, John L. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
Drawing on two waves of survey data collected from 250 Canadian firms in 2000 and 2004, this study examines union influence on the mix of compensation methods used by employers. As expected, firms with more unionization devoted a larger proportion of total compensation to indirect pay (also known as "employee benefits") than did firms with less unionization, a finding that held in both time periods. However, while more unionized firms devoted a smaller share of compensation to individual performance pay in 2000, this was not true in 2004. Also surprising, more unionized firms did not differ significantly from less unionized firms in their proportions of base pay, group performance pay, or organizational performance pay in either time period. The paper concludes that although unions may still have the power to influence some aspects of the wage bargain (i.e. the compensation mix), this power may be declining.
Keywords: Bargaining; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Compensation; Labor Unions; Performance appraisal; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Unionization; Workforce

The Factory Voice - Lynes, Jeanette (Coteau Books, 2009)
Wrapped around the stories of these four women, is a mystery. Something''s gone wrong with the Mosquitos being built for the war effort – they keep crashing in flight tests, for no apparent reason. Is the problem with their design, or are they being sabotaged? By whom? The traitorous Red Finns? The political subversives who have recently escaped from one of the nearby prison camps? Everyone''s on high alert, and "The Factory Voice" keeps abreast of the details. Or at least the rumours. –Publisher's description
OCLC: 303029307
Keywords: 1939-1945; Airplane factories; Airplane factories Fiction; Amitié féminine Romans; nouvelles; etc; Avions Usines Romans; nouvelles; etc; Canada; Female friendship; Female friendship Fiction; Fiction; Guerre mondiale; 1939-1945 Femmes Romans; nouvelles; etc; Historical fiction; Northern Ontario; Ontario; Northern Fiction; Women; World War; 1939-1945 Canada Fiction; World War; 1939-1945 Women Fiction

Neoliberalism and Ontario Teachers’ Unions: A “Not-So” Common Sense Revolution - MacLellan, Duncan (Socialist Studies/Études Socialistes, 2009)
This paper will critically analyze the degree to which the Ontario government, led by then Premier Mike Harris, embarked on a neoliberal agenda that led to a crisis in Ontario’s educational system. The period from 1995-2000 was one of the most contentious in Ontario’s educational history, and two pieces of legislation, The College of Teachers Act (Bill 31) and the Education Quality Improvement Act (Bill 160), pitted teacher unions, in particular, the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation (OSSTF) and the Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association (OECTA), against the Harris government. Bill 160 led to a ten-day protest by teachers across Ontario, which signaled a dramatic shift in teacher and state relations that marked a crisis period in Ontario’s educational sector.
Published in the volume entitled "Globalization and Neoliberalism": https://socialiststudies.com/index.php/sss/issue/view/1650
Keywords: Ontario; education; labour unrest; neoliberalism; teachers' unions

Freedom of Association in a Free Enterprise System: Wal-Mart in Jonquière - MacNeil, Michael (Canadian Labour & Employment Law Journal, 2009)
In April 2005 Wal-Mart Canada closed a store in Jonquière, Quebec, following a successful certification application by the United Food and Commercial Workers and an impasse in collective bargaining. When the union succeeded in having an arbitrator appointed (under the "first contract" provisions of the Quebec Labour Code') to decide on the terms of a collective agreement, Wal- Mart immediately announced that it would close the store. It did so less than two months later, putting 190 employees out of work. The union and the affected workers claimed that the closing violated the Quebec Labour Code because it interfered with freedom of association and discriminated against employees who had exercised rights under the Code. The matter reached the Supreme Court of Canada. On November 27, 2009, that Court decided two cases arising from the Jonquière store closing - the leading case of Plourde and the companion case of Desbiens. In Plourde, where the Court was split 6 to 3, Justice Binnie's majority judgment concluded that the laid-off workers could not obtain relief under s. 15 of the Quebec Labour Code, prohibiting discrimination against workers who exercise rights.

Recrutement et sélection du personnel - Malo, François Bernard (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "Recrutement et sélection du personnel," by Anne Bourhis.
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

Child Workers in England, 1780-1820: Parish Apprentices and the Making of the Early Industrial Labour Force - Manen, Niels Van (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "Child Workers in England, 1780-1820: Parish Apprentices and the Making of the Early Industrial Labour Force," by Katrina Honeyman.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CHILD Workers in England 1780-1820: Parish Apprentices & the Making of the Early Industrial Labour Force (Book); Child labor; GREAT Britain; HONEYMAN; Katrina; Nonfiction

Le travail : une sociologie contemporaine - Marcoux, Gilles (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
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

Judicial Review of Ontario Labour Relations Board Decisions: From CUPE to Dunsmuir, and Beyond [research note] - Marvy, Leonard; Stelmaszynski, Voy (Canadian Labour & Employment Law Journal, 2009)
In 1979, in the CUPE case, the Supreme Court of Canada held that a labour relations tribunal's interpretation of its constituent statute should be upheld on judicial review unless that interpretation was "patently unreasonable." By 2008, the Canadian courts were using three standards of review: patent unreasonableness, simple reasonableness, and correctness. In that year, however, in Dunsmuir, the Supreme Court held that the standard of patent unreasonableness was no longer to be used, but only the standards of simple reasonableness and correctness. By our count, during the 29 years between CUPE and Dunsnuir the courts decided 210 applications for judicial review of Ontario Labour Relations Board decisions. This research note sets out the results of our study examining those 210 cases and comparing them with 23 post-Dunsmuir cases in the Ontario courts involving applications for judicial review of the Board's decisions. –Introduction

The Unproductive Prisoner: Labor and Medicine in Canadian Penitentiaries, 1867-1900 - McCoy, Ted (Labor, 2009)
Labor played a central role in nineteenth-century penitentiaries. It was intended to provide guidance and discipline to prisoners whose behavior was outside of social, moral, and economic norms. This article examines the relationship between medicine and labor in Canadian federal penitentiaries between 1867 and 1900. As penitentiaries grew and expanded throughout the century, increasing numbers of prisoners were unable to participate in penitentiary labor due to illness or disability. In these cases, penitentiary medicine helped form part of an “enlightened” response to nonworking prisoners. It suggests that medical records from this period demonstrate how penitentiaries reconciled nonworking prisoners with the prevailing model of reform constructed around labor. The article looks at two such groups. The first is sick prisoners, including physical and mental ailments. Mental illness was an increasingly vexing problem for penitentiaries in this era as they struggled to form appropriate responses to mentally ill prisoners within the prevailing penitentiary model. The second group is prisoners with disability, including physical and intellectual disability. Although both groups were understood through medical categories, their status as “unproductive” prisoners sometimes played a larger role in determining their experience of confinement. The article looks at the influence of ideas about labor on the delivery of medical services in penitentiaries and the resulting experience of illness. Although prison medicine in Canada expanded and improved throughout this period, the sick and disabled often experienced marginalization and moral condemnation on the basis of their uncertain relationship to penitentiary labor.

The Guy in the Green Truck: A Biography of John St. Amand - McCrorie, James Napier (Roseway/Fernwood, 2009)
Affectionate portrait of John St. Amand (1943-2007) who, under the tutelage of the left-wing labour activist, Madeleine Parent, moved in 1981 from Ontario to Nova Scotia to become a union organizer.
Keywords: History; Labor Unions; Officials and employees; Organizing; St. Amand; John; 1943-2007

Telling the Story of Globalization, Neoliberalism and the Call Centre Industry in New Brunswick - McFarland, Joan (Socialist Studies/Études Socialistes, 2009)
In New Brunswick, in the early nineties, the Liberal government of Frank McKenna embraced both globalization and neoliberalism in the creation of a call centre industry. It seems a classic case of the adoption of a globalization and neoliberal strategy. However, further examination of the discourse of the period shows a very particular positioning vis-à-vis globalization and neoliberalism. It is one adopted by a ‘have-not’ province as a kind of desperate economic development strategy. Given recent attention in the literature to the various meanings and implications of globalization and neoliberalism, the New Brunswick case gives a particular vantage point from which to reflect on these debates.
Published in the volume entitled "Globalization and Neoliberalism:" https://socialiststudies.com/index.php/sss/issue/view/1650
Keywords: communications technology; globalization; neo-liberalism

Trouble in Our Fields: Health and Human Rights Among Mexican and Caribbean Migrant Farm Workers in Canada - McLaughlin, Janet (University of Toronto, 2009)
For many years Canada has quietly rationalized importing temporary "low-skilled" migrant labour through managed migration programs to appease industries desiring cheap and flexible labour while avoiding extending citizenship rights to the workers. In an era of international human rights and global competitive markets, the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP) is often hailed as a "model" and "win-win" solution to migration and labour dilemmas, providing employers with a healthy, just-intime labour force and workers with various protections such as local labour standards, health care, and compensation. Tracing migrant workers' lives between Jamaica, Mexico and Canada (with a focus on Ontario's Niagara Region), this thesis assesses how their structural vulnerability as non-citizens effectively excludes them from many of the rights and norms otherwise expected in Canada. It analyzes how these exclusions are rationalized as permanent "exceptions" to the normal legal, social and political order, and how these infringements affect workers' lives, rights, and health. Employing critical medical anthropology, workers' health concerns are used as a lens through which to understand and explore the deeper "pathologies of power" and moral contradictions which underlie this system. Particular areas of focus include workers' occupational, sexual and reproductive, and mental and emotional health, as well as an assessment of their access to health care and compensation in Canada, Mexico and Jamaica. Working amidst perilous and demanding conditions, in communities where they remain socially and politically excluded, migrant workers in practice remain largely unprotected and their entitlements hard to secure, an enduring indictment of their exclusion from Canada's "imagined community." Yet the dynamics of this equation may be changing in light of the recent rise in social and political movements, in which citizenship and related rights have become subject to contestation and redefinition. In analyzing the various dynamics which underlie transnational migration, limit or extend migrants' rights, and influence the health of migrants across borders, this thesis explores crucial relationships between these themes. Further work is needed to measure these ongoing changes, and to address the myriad health concerns of migrants as they live and work across national borders.
Keywords: Canada; Caribbean; Farmworkers; Health; Health and environmental sciences; Human rights; Jamaica; Medical anthropology; Mexico; Migrant farm workers; Migrant workers; Migration; Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program; Social sciences; Temporary foreign workers; occupational health

Artisans in Early Imperial China - Mcquaide, Shiling (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "Artisans in Early Imperial China," by Anthony J. Barbieri-Low.
Keywords: ARTISANS – History; ARTISANS in Early Imperial China (Book); Ancient civilizations; BARBIERI-Low; Anthony J.; BOOKS – Reviews; Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Craftsmen; History–History of North And South America; Nonfiction

New Masters, New Servants: Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China - Mcquaide, Shiling (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book, "New Masters, New Servants: Migration, Development, and Women Workers in China," by Yan Hairong.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CHINA – Social conditions – 1976-2000; NEW Masters; New Servants: Migration; Development & Women Workers in China (Book); Nonfiction; YAN Hairong

The Sixties: Passion, Politics, and Style - Mills, Sean (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article reviews the book ,"The Sixties: Passion, Politics, and Style," edited by Dimitry Anastakis.
Keywords: 60S: Passion; Politics & Style; The (Book); ANASTAKIS; Dimitry; BOOKS – Reviews; Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Gender; History–History of North And South America; Nonfiction; Politics; Social change

“We Will Go Side-by-Side with You.” Labour Union Engagement with Aboriginal Peoples in Canada - Mills, Suzanne E.; Clarke, Louise (Geoforum, 2009)
The inclusion of new groups of workers has been an important component of union renewal efforts. Sev- eral unions in Canada have begun to dedicate significant resources to better organize and represent Aboriginal workers. Drawing on interviews with union activists, organizers and representatives from two national public sector unions in Canada, we present an overview of union strategies to engage with Aboriginal peoples. Results suggest that understanding the distinct territorial context of Aboriginal peo- ples’ relationships to work and unions has been necessary to the success of these union strategies. This approach begins by drawing connections between Aboriginal peoples’ present-day relationships to work and their prior occupancy of, and dispossession from, lands and resources. Because of the geographical specificity of how the colonial experience affected Aboriginal peoples’ relationships to work and unions, unions have had to adopt non-normative approaches to their engagements with Aboriginal peoples. In workplaces where settlers were dominant, addressing racism in the workplace and gaining support for initiatives to hire and train Aboriginal workers were important. Alternatively, in Aboriginal workplaces, organizing was a priority. Here questions of union legitimacy have taken precedence and the focus of unions has been on partnership building. Most importantly, however, engagement with Aboriginal peo- ples has brought attention to the colonial practices within unions and helped to foster growing Aboriginal voice within the labour movement.

The Trouble with Revisionism: or Communist History with the History Left In - Morgan, Kevin (Labour / Le Travail, 2009)
The article focuses on issues concerning revisionism, which is described by John Manley as an international historiographical tendency. It explains that one problem about the concept of revisionism was the uncertainty of method, argument and genre. It discusses the arguments of Manley about the differences of the communist parties in Canada, Great Britain and the U.S. as well as the possibility to make and break government policy in one particular country in the interests of Socialism. It also examines the impact of failing to adopt evaluative criteria on Comintern historiography.
Keywords: COMMUNIST parties; Canada; GREAT Britain; Government policy; HISTORICAL revisionism; MANLEY; John; Political Science; Socialism; United States

Droits individuels et droits collectifs : Un difficile mais nécessaire appariement ! - Morin, Fernand (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2009)
Plan de l’article : Retour au début – Distinction entre la partie et le tout – De la mixité des sources de droit – Fonctions et réactions des parties et de l’arbitre – Face à ces différentes situations, que peut faire l’arbitre de grief ? – En guise de conclusion – Note biographique – Notes.