Boom, Bust and Crisis: Labour Corporate Power and Politics in Canada - Rosenfeld, Herman (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Boom, Bust and Crisis: Labour Corporate Power and Politics in Canada," edited by John Peters.
Keywords: BOOM; Bust & Crisis: Labour; Corporate Power & Politics in Canada (Book); CANADA – Economic conditions; Nonfiction; PETERS; John

Social Unionism and Union Power in Public Sector Unions - Ross, Stephanie (Public Sector Unions in the Age of Austerity, 2013)
Analyzes the tendency of public sector unions towards social unionist strategies, including in collective bargaining and mobilizing broader public support for services.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320736023_Social_Unionism_and_Union_Power_in_Public_Sector_Unions
Keywords: Labor Unions; Political activity

Public Sector Unions in the Age of Austerity - Ross, Stephanie; Savage, Larry (Fernwood, 2013)
For decades, public sector unions in Canada have been plagued by austerity, privatization, taxpayer backlash and restrictions on union rights. In recent years, the intensity of state-led attacks against public sector workers has reached a fevered pitch, raising the question of the role of public sector unions in protecting their members and the broader public interest. Public Sector Unions in the Age of Austerity examines the unique characteristics of public sector unionism in a Canadian context. Contributors to this multi-disciplinary collection explore both the strategic possibilities and challenges facing public sector unions that are intent on resisting austerity, enhancing their power and connecting their interests as workers with those of citizens who desire a more just and equitable public sphere. –Publisher's description
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282648749_Public_Sector_Unions_in_the_Age_of_Austerity

"Just Business": 1970s Management Paternalism and Failed Service Sector Unionization - Russell, Jason (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
[The article shows] how management in the post-war period – in this case [Hobbs Hardware in] the mid-1970s – orchestrated effective campaigns to keep low-wage workers out of unions. This is especially true for those workers who toiled in seemingly inconsequential workplaces that were part of the growing service sector, and where unionization was largely prevented. The fact that unionization did not expand into the service sector would have lasting consequences for workers in service industries, for class relations across sectors, and for the Canadian labour movement. [The] analysis utilizes archival documents, but also relies on the memories of three former Hobbs workers.... –From author's introduction
Keywords: ASHTON; Steve; HOBBS Hardware (Company); LABOR organizing; Management; Neoliberalism; PERKINS; Doug; PERKINS; Ed; Paternalism; SERVICE sector

Uneasy Allies: Working for Labor Reform in Nineteenth Century Boston - Ryan, Francis (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Uneasy Allies: Working for Labor Reform in Nineteenth Century Boston," by David A. Zonderman.
Keywords: 19th century; BOSTON (Mass.); History; LABOR law reform; Nonfiction; UNEASY Allies: Working for Labor Reform in 19th-Century Boston (Book); ZONDERMAN; David A.

Oral History and Working Class History: A Rewarding Alliance - Sangster, Joan (Oral History Forum d'histoire orale, 2013)
Since the 1960s, if not before, oral history and working-class history have been a dynamic duo, complimenting and overlapping, but also challenging and questioning each other. Both lay and professional historians have been in the forefront of efforts to recuperate, interpret, and preserve the oral histories of working-class individuals and communities across the globe. They created written histories, archival collections, museum exhibits, and community projects that gave workers, their families, and their communities – those who were less likely to leave archival and written sources for posterity – a new voice, and a new place in history. Working-class oral history has also encompassed far more than recovery and preservation. Labour historians have enriched the field of oral history by addressing questions about method, theory, and approach, by offering critical reflections on our assumptions and expectations about oral history practice. Oral history has similarly enriched the field of working-class history, posing new questions, challenging existing interpretations, and encouraging the diversification of the themes and subjects we study. In recognition of this dynamic relationship, and the ongoing, mutually beneficial conversation between oral and working-class history, Oral History Forum commissioned this special issue. –Introduction

Public Sector Unions and Electoral Politics in Canada - Savage, Larry; Smith, Charles W. (Public Sector Unions in the Age of Austerity, 2013)
Explores the variable relationship of unions with the federal and provincial NDP (or the Parti Québécois), especially when it was the governing party. Concludes that while electoral participation may still be significant, broader mobilization is necessary for change to be achieved.
Keywords: Labor Unions; Political activity

The Paradox of Professionalism: Unions and Professionals in the Public Sector - Savage, Larry; Webber, Michelle (Public Sector Unions in the Age of Austerity, 2013)
Analyzes the conservative character of professional unions, which in recent decades have become more militant as a result of cutbacks and the erosion of their role.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331662985_The_Paradox_of_Professionalism_Unions_of_Professionals_in_the_Public_Sector
Keywords: Labor Unions; Political activity

Working Professionalism: Nursing in Western Canada, 1958-1977 - Scaia, Margaret Rose (University of Victoria, 2013)
Changes in women’s relationship to caring labour, and changes in societal attitudes towards women as nurses during the period when they became union members and aspiring professionals, are revealed in thirty-seven oral history interviews with women who became nurses between 1958, a pivotal time in the development of the publicly funded health care system, and 1977, when the last residential school of nursing closed in Calgary. This study challenges the historiography that suggests that nursing programs of nursing in the 1960s and early 1970s were sites of unusual social regulation, and that nursing was a career choice that women made because of a lack of other more challenging or rewarding alternatives. This study also challenges assumptions that women in nursing were unaffected by the feminist movements of the 1960s and 1970s and instead passively accepted a position of gendered subservience at home and in the workplace. Instead, I argue that nurses skilfully balanced work and other social responsibilities, primarily domestic caregiving, and also were active in unionization and professionalization in advance of other Canadian women workers. The ability of nurses to maintain a prominent position in health care, to advocate for the conditions needed to provide the best nursing care possible, while also fighting for improved working conditions and higher professional status is an impressive story of how women in these decades used gender, and class, as tools to enact social change. These efforts are all the more impressive when considered within the context of social opposition faced by nurses as they both resisted and conformed to expectations that their primary role was as wives and mothers. Nurses negotiated this challenging political terrain by framing their work in terms of its practical necessity and gendered suitability as women’s paid employment. In making these claims, I position nursing and nursing education as a form of women’s labour that exemplifies employed women’s struggles to promote fairer wages, better working conditions, and access to the full benefits of economic and social citizenship for all women. This challenge to the prevailing assessment of nursing during this period establishes the main thesis of this dissertation.
Keywords: Labour history; Nursing history

Ours to Master and to Own: Workers' Control from the Commune to the Present - Schmidt, Ingo (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Ours to Master and to Own: Workers' Control from the Commune to the Present," edited by Dario Azzellini and Immanuel Ness.
Keywords: AZZELLINI; Dario; NESS; Immanuel; Nonfiction; OURS to Master & to Own: Workers' Control From the Commune to the Present (Book); WORKING class – History

Social Integration and Workplace Industrial Relations: Migrant and Native Employees in German Industry - Schmidt, Werner; Müller, Andrea (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
This article examines the social integration of migrant and native employees in German industrial workplaces and the impact of workplace industrial relations on it. Drawing on data from interviews with management, works councils and employees, employee surveys and company statistics from three manufacturing companies, it analyzes the positioning of employees of different origin within the companies' social structure, explores their social interaction and asks what role works councils play in fostering social integration of a heterogeneous workforce. Findings show that workplaces are not free from discrimination but, rather, "pragmatic cooperation" and collegiality prevail. It is argued that the legal framework of German co-determination and workplace actors' orientation towards universalistic rule application ("internal universalism") encourages individuals to constitute themselves as employees with common interests and foster social integration.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Impact analysis; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Manufacturers; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Social integration; Social interaction; Studies; Workforce

Knowledge, Organization and the Division of Labour: Evaluating the Knowledge Class in Canada - Scholtz, Antonie Edward (University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 2013)
This dissertation explores the claim that, in advanced capitalist countries like Canada, a powerful knowledge class is assuming increasing dominance within the social relations of production. Attached to such theories are claims of trends toward post-bureaucratic organizations, rising job complexity and autonomy, and increased power within operational and strategic decision-making processes. In my study I focus on Canadian “specialist” employees (professionals and semi-professionals) and managers. I present aggregated and disaggregated data from two Canadian surveys conducted in 1983 and 2004 and complement this with original interviews with information technology (IT) workers and engineers. I find a seeming paradox within the labour process of specialists and managers, with task-level autonomy declining even as job complexity and involvement in organizational decisions are rising. I provide evidence that imperatives for profit/cost effectiveness are leading to efforts to make specialist and managerial labour and knowledge more transparent, integrated, and manageable, but this is not the same as degradation or proletarianization. In contrast to my expectation, I find boundaries in the division of labour are durable despite this “socialization” of many labour processes. I argue that a specialist-and-managerial class (SMC) exists in Canada, and will continue to exist, though it is subordinate to and exploited by the capitalist elite even as it excludes and exploits the working class through occupational closure and credential barriers. The SMC is thus contradictory, internally heterogeneous and fraying at its borders, but simultaneously resilient. The resiliency comes via possession of specific strategic knowledge and consequent ability to secure rents and/or control specific organization assets via delegated authority. Resiliency is also structural, with management in many organizations retaining an interest in separating planning and design (“conception”), on the one hand, from process and completion (“execution”), on the other, in order to maximize efficiency and productivity through more centralized control.
Accepted: 2013-08-13T14:02:24Z

Canada and the Second World War: Essays in Honour of Terry Copp - Sendzikas, Aldona (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Canada and the Second World War: Essays in Honour of Terry Copp," edited by Geoffrey Hayes, Mike Bechtold, and Matt Symes.
Keywords: BECHTHOLD; Mike; CANADA & the Second World War: Essays in Honour of Terry Copp (Book); Canada; HAYES; Geoffrey; Nonfiction; SYMES; Matt; WORLD War; 1939-1945

In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London 1917-1939 - Seniors, Paula Marie (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism From Harlem to London 1917-1939," by Minkah Makalani.
Keywords: BLACKS – Political activity; IN the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism From Harlem to London 1917-1939 (Book); MAKALANI; Minkah; Nonfiction

Choice, Interrupted: Travel and Inequality of Access to Abortion Services since the 1960s - Sethna, Christabelle; Palmer, Beth; Ackerman, Katrina; Janovicek, Nancy (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
Travel is one of many extra-legal barriers that restrict access to abortion services. Paradoxically, women travel at the international, domestic, and local levels to circumvent legal and/or extra-legal barriers to access. Through an examination of four specific Canadian responses to inequality of access to abortion services relative to shifts in the legal terrain from the 1960s onwards, the authors demonstrate that travel signifies an interruption to reproductive choice. Women went to Britain and the United States for an abortion when these countries relaxed their abortion legislation. Within Canada, women sought out the services offered by the Morgentaler Clinic in Montreal in order to avoid the abortion bureaucracy that limited their right to choose. In New Brunswick, the pro-life movement successfully lobbied hospitals to restrict abortion services, and the provincial government to deny funding for abortions performed in freestanding clinics, forcing women to travel to access abortion services. Pro-choice activists in southeastern British Columbia launched a successful campaign to protect hospital abortions, ensuring that rural women had access to abortion services within their home communities. Today, 25 years after the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the abortion law, abortion services are uneven at best and unattainable at worst in different regions of the country.
Keywords: Abortion; Canada; Hospitals; MEDICAL laws & legislation; MEDICAL tourism; PRO-choice movement; PRO-life movement; RURAL women; TRAVEL – Health aspects; WOMEN'S health services; Women's rights

Gender Risk and Employment Pension Plans in Canada - Shilton, Elizabeth (Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal, 2013)
Current policy debates about Canada's retirement income system have failed to consider "gender risk" - i.e. the risk that Canadian women will bear a disproportionate share of welfare loss in old age. This paper argues that the continuing gender disparity in retirement income reflects Canada's heavy reli- ance on private pension instruments generated and shaped by labour markets. The author begins by looking at the relationship between gender and Canada's three-pillar retirement income system, noting that while public pensions distrib- ute benefits based on explicit policy goals, private pensions distribute them based on the "hidden hand" of market principles. She then considers the differential impact of employment-based pension plans on men and women as a function of the distinct patterns of male and female engagement in the labour market. Noting the close relationship between pension design choices and gender outcomes, she goes on to discuss the pension reforms introduced by Canadian governments in the 1960s and 1980s, in which those governments saw gender inequality as an issue to be addressed primarily by mandatory public plans rather than by voluntary private plans. Ultimately, the author contends, the gendered impact of Canada's pension system flows from the complex interaction between women's paid employment and their reproductive and caregiving work. A gender-equal pension system would recognize the unequal burden borne by women in labour markets and in families, and would pool and share the welfare risks which that inequality entails. Voluntary employment-based pension plans shaped by market imperatives at the enterprise level will not address these issues, in the author's view, nor will the type of individualized pension contemplated by the federal government's recent PRPP legislation providing for pooled savings vehicles to which employers do not contribute. What is needed, she argues, is a broad- based collective risk-sharing vehicle such as the CPP/QPP.

Vancouver Longshoremen, Resilient Solidarity and the 1935 Interruption: Company Unionism 1923-1945. - Smith, Roy Alfred (Simon Fraser University, 2013)
This thesis challenges the historiography that asserts the waterfront strike in Vancouver in 1935 was a failed militant surge by a new radical leadership in an otherwise twenty-year period of dormancy among the city's longshoremen. Using union documents, employer records, and interviews with workers, the thesis presents the entire company era, between 1923 and 1944, as a period of developing solidarity and resistance. In this context the 1935 strike and the union's leadership were a product of, not a radical departure from that continuity. The thesis shows that despite two lost strikes in 1923 and again in 1935, the administrative structures the employers established produced a resilient culture of solidarity that was in place before Partiament acted in 1944 to provide longshorement with the legal framework for union representation.

Last Nightshift in Savar: The Story of the Spectrum Sweater Factory Collapse - Spencer, Bruce (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Last Nightshift in Savar: The Story of the Spectrum Sweater Factory Collapse," by Doug Miller.
Keywords: Book reviews; Building failures; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Factories; Fatalities; Labor Unions; Labor standards; Multinational corporations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Moving Beyond Borders: A History of British Canadian and Caribbean Women in the Diaspora - Springfield, Consuelo Lopez (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Moving Beyond Borders: A History of British Canadian and Caribbean Women in the Diaspora," by Karen Flynn.
Keywords: Diaspora; FLYNN; Karen; MOVING Beyond Borders: A History of Black Canadian & Caribbean Women in the Diaspora (Book); Nonfiction

Remembering and Forgetting Winnipeg: Making History on the Strike of 1919 - Stace, Trevor (Constellations, 2013)
This article examines the approaches that historians, beginning in the mid 20th century and into the early 21st century, used to write about the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919. It focuses on five major works: "The Winnipeg General Strike" by D.C. Masters; "Confrontation at Winnipeg" by David J. Bercuson; "The Workers' Revolt in Canada, 1917-1925" edited by Craig Heron; and "When the State Trembled: How A.J. Andrews and the Citizens' Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike" by Tom Mitchell and Reinhold Kramer. It identifies where the monographs depart from one another in interpretation; as well as where they remain the same. Given the layers of complexity, the interpretation of the event becomes especially salient in the 21st century as its 100th anniversary steadfastly approaches and the question of how should it be publicly presented in 2019 requires an answer soon (which the paper also addresses).
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Employee Rights and Employer Wrongs: How to Identify Employee Abuse and How to Stand Up for Yourself - Stacey, Kent (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
Employee Rights and Employer Wrongs: How to Identify Employee Abuse and How to Stand Up for Yourself, by Suzanne Kleinberg and Michael Kreimeh, is reviewed.
Keywords: Absenteeism; Antisocial personality disorder; Book reviews; Bullying; 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

Participation financière et climat social : une analyse des perceptions comparées dirigeants/salariés - Stévenot, Anne; Guery, Loris (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
L’article s’interroge, dans la perspective de l’institutionnalisme économique de Commons, sur la relation unissant les dispositifs de participation financière au climat social, appréhendé par le biais de la perception qu’en ont les dirigeants et les salariés, d’une part, et par des indicateurs de dysfonctionnements sociaux, tels que l’absentéisme et les conflits sociaux, d’autre part. La question des caractéristiques de ces pratiques (modalités de négociation présidant à leur mise en oeuvre, types de dispositifs, mode de calcul) est également posée. L’étude empirique est fondée sur l’exploitation de l’enquête REPONSE qui représente un échantillon de 3 000 établissements français et de 8 000 salariés. Au-delà des différences de perception entre dirigeants et salariés, les résultats, obtenus à l’aide de modèles de régressions logistiques, mettent tout d’abord en évidence que plus que le montant versé, c’est l’existence même d’un dispositif de participation financière qui influence le climat social. Par ailleurs plus les dispositifs apparaissent comme désintéressés de la part de l’entreprise et meilleur est le climat social du point de vue des salariés. Les modalités de conclusion de l’accord de participation financière, notamment l’intervention des syndicats, ont également une influence sur le climat social. Compte tenu des différences de résultats pouvant exister selon que l’on s’intéresse à la perception des dirigeants, à celle des salariés ou aux indicateurs de dysfonctionnements sociaux, l’article met également en lumière l’importance pour les recherches sur le climat social de prendre en compte à la fois les dimensions objectives du climat social et la perception qu’en ont les acteurs.
Keywords: ahorro salarial; clima de trabajo; climat de travail; employee savings; intéressement; participación en los beneficios; profit-sharing; remuneración; remuneration; rémunération; work atmosphere; épargne salariale

Rethinking Workplace Regulation: Beyond the Standard Contract of Employment - Stone, Katherine Van Wezel; Arthur, Harry W. (Russell Sage Foundation, 2013)
During the middle third of the 20th century, workers in most industrialized countries secured a substantial measure of job security, whether through legislation, contract or social practice. This "standard employment contract," as it was known, became the foundation of an impressive array of rights and entitlements, including social insurance and pensions, protection against unsociable working conditions, and the right to bargain collectively. Recent changes in technology and the global economy, however, have dramatically eroded this traditional form of employment. Employers now value flexibility over stability, and increasingly hire employees for short-term or temporary work. Many countries have also repealed labor laws, relaxed employee protections, and reduced state-provided benefits. As the old system of worker protection declines, how can labor regulation be improved to protect workers? In Rethinking Workplace Regulation, nineteen leading scholars from ten countries and half a dozen disciplines present a sweeping tour of the latest policy experiments across the world that attempt to balance worker security and the new flexible employment paradigm. Edited by noted socio-legal scholars Katherine V.W. Stone and Harry Arthurs, Rethinking Workplace Regulation presents case studies on new forms of dispute resolution, job training programs, social insurance and collective representation that could serve as policy models in the contemporary industrialized world. The volume leads with an intriguing set of essays on legal attempts to update the employment contract. For example, Bruno Caruso reports on efforts in the European Union to "constitutionalize" employment and other contracts to better preserve protective principles for workers and to extend their legal impact. The volume then turns to the field of labor relations, where promising regulatory strategies have emerged. Sociologist Jelle Visser offers a fresh assessment of the Dutch version of the 'flexicurity' model, which attempts to balance the rise in nonstandard employment with improved social protection by indexing the minimum wage and strengthening rights of access to health insurance, pensions, and training. Sociologist Ida Regalia provides an engaging account of experimental local and regional "pacts" in Italy and France that allow several employers to share temporary workers, thereby providing workers job security within the group rather than with an individual firm. The volume also illustrates the power of governments to influence labor market institutions. Legal scholars John Howe and Michael Rawling discuss Australiaʹs innovative legislation on supply chains that holds companies at the top of the supply chain responsible for employment law violations of their subcontractors. Contributors also analyze ways in which more general social policy is being renegotiated in light of the changing nature of work. Kendra Strauss, a geographer, offers a wide-ranging comparative analysis of pension systems and calls for a new model that offers "flexible pensions for flexible workers. With its ambitious scope and broad inquiry, Rethinking Workplace Regulation illustrates the diverse innovations countries have developed to confront the policy challenges created by the changing nature of work. The experiments evaluated in this volume will provide inspiration and instruction for policymakers and advocates seeking to improve worker's lives in this latest era of global capitalism. –Publisherʹs description
OCLC: 819641619
Keywords: Arbetsavtal; Arbetsmarknad; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Labor; Contrat de travail; Labor contract; Osgoodiana

The Wages of Relief: Cities and the Unemployed in Prairie Canada, 1929-39 - Strikwerda, Eric (AU Press, 2013)
In the early part of the Dirty Thirties, the Canadian prairie city was a relatively safe haven. Having faced recession before the Great War and then again in the early 1920s, municipalities already had relief apparatuses in place to deal with poverty and unemployment. Until 1933, responsibilty for the care of the urban poor remained with local governments, but when the farms failed that year, and the Depression deepened, western Canadian cities suffered tremendously. Recognizing the severity of the crisis, the national government intervened. Evolving federal programs and policies took over responsibility for the delivery of relief to the single unemployed, while the government simultaneously withdrew financing for all public works projects. Setting municipal relief administrations of the 1930s within a wider literature on welfare and urban poor relief, Strikwerda highlights the legacy on which relief policymakers relied in determining policy directions, as well as the experiences of the individuals and families who depended on relief for their survival. Focusing on three prairie cities—Edmonton, Saskatoon, and Winnipeg—Strikwerda argues that municipal officials used their power to set policy to address what they perceived to be the most serious threats to the social order stemming from the economic crisis. By analyzing the differing ways in which local relief programs treated married and single men, he also explores important gendered dynamics at work in the response of city administrators to the social and economic upheaval of the Depression. Probing the mindset of local elites struggling in extraordinary circumstances, The Wages of Relief describes the enduring impact of the policy changes made in the 1930s in the direction of a broad, national approach to unemployment—an approach that ushered in Canada’s modern welfare system. –Publisher's description
Book available at Internet Archive to readers with print disabilities: https://archive.org/details/wagesofreliefcit0000stri http://aupress.ca/index.php/books/120216
Keywords: 1905-1945; 20th century; Cities and towns; Economic conditions; Government policy History; History; MUNICIPAL government; Prairie Provinces; Public welfare administration; Social aspects History; Social conditions; Unemployed; Urban economics

The Labour Geographies of Education: The Centralization of Governance and Collective Bargaining in Ontario, Canada - Sweeney, Brendan (Geoforum, 2013)
Labour geography has yet to pay full attention to the experiences of public sector workers and their employer (the state). This article addresses this lacuna and provides some insight into the labour geographies of public sector workers through an empirical analysis of the centralization of governance, employment relations, and collective bargaining in Ontario, Canada’s publicly-funded elementary and secondary schools. This case demonstrates how one particular group of public sector workers – teachers – and their unions located and exercised agency in the arenas of politics and collective bargaining through a rescaling of their activities from the local to the provincial level. The paper also argues that the rescaling of politics and collective bargaining is problematic. Questions remain regarding whether or not Ontario’s teachers were able to increase their aggregate bargaining power through centralization or merely transferred agency and authority from one scale to another. Moreover, the paper engages with the fast-developing geographies of education literature, and is consistent with an outward-looking approach that links education to wider political and economic processes. In so doing, it extends the scope of the geographies of education to the employees of publicly-funded schools and their administrative bodies, and suggests value a theoretically- and empirically-informed dialogue between geographers interested in education and those interested in labour.
Keywords: Canada; Collective bargaining; Education; Labour; Rescaling; Teachers

The Relative Role of Safety and Productivity in Canadian Ergonomists' Professional Practices - Theberge, Nancy; Neumann, W. Patrick (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
This article examines the professional practices of a sample of 21 Canadian ergonomists from across Canada, focusing on the manner in which they report negotiating the intersection of safety and productivity in their work. Results indicate that ergonomic practice is directed primarily to safety concerns. A minority of study participants addressed productivity concerns, either as secondary or primary outcomes of ergonomic applications. In either instance, efforts to highlight the contribution of ergonomics to production did not significantly disrupt the dominant safety oriented perception of the field. Financial considerations were major determinants of whether recommendations were implemented. An irony of the dominant understanding of ergonomics as oriented to safety, with little reference to performance aspects, is that this provides the main basis for its growing presence in workplaces but also limits its applications.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Ergonomics; Labor Unions; Occupational hazards; Occupational safety; Productivity; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Manufacturing Mennonites: Work and Religion in Post-War Manitoba - Thiessen, Janis Lee (University of Toronto Press, 2013)
Manufacturing Mennonites examines the efforts of Mennonite intellectuals and business leaders to redefine the group's ethno-religious identity in response to changing economic and social conditions after 1945. As the industrial workplace was one of the most significant venues in which competing identity claims were contested during this period, Janis Thiessen explores how Mennonite workers responded to such redefinitions and how they affected class relations. Through unprecedented access to extensive private company records, Thiessen provides an innovative comparison of three businesses founded, owned, and originally staffed by Mennonites: the printing firm Friesens Corporation, the window manufacturer Loewen, and the furniture manufacturer Palliser. Complemented with interviews with workers, managers, and business owners, Manufacturing Mennonites pioneers two important new trajectories for scholarship - how religion can affect business history, and how class relations have influenced religious history. –Publisher's description
OCLC: 1004883615

La précarisation du travail : des parcours professionnels à géométrie variable - Thirot, Myriam (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
Le développement des emplois « atypiques » au Québec donne lieu à la mise en évidence de nouveaux enjeux sociaux et politiques dans un contexte de flexibilité de la main-d’oeuvre. La segmentation du marché du travail qui en découle se caractérise par une précarisation du salariat, définie comme un processus structurel de détérioration des conditions de travail et d’emploi. La sociologie s’intéresse particulièrement aux conséquences de ces mutations sur les conditions de vie à travers l’analyse des perceptions subjectives des acteurs concernés. Ainsi, le rapport au travail incluant les conditions matérielles, l’accomplissement des tâches et la socialisation comporte une dichotomie articulée autour de la satisfaction du salarié, source de valorisation ou de la non-satisfaction, entraînant un mal-être. Les transformations récentes du monde du travail construisent des parcours professionnels morcelés et incertains et nécessitent une réévaluation de leurs impacts sur ce rapport, encore peu documentée. Que signifie occuper un emploi atypique pour ces travailleurs ? La valeur associée au travail est-elle remise en cause ? Les indices contenus dans leurs parcours professionnels constituent-ils une réalité nouvelle ? Basé sur les résultats d’une recherche qualitative menée en 2009 auprès de résidents d’un quartier défavorisé du centre-ville de Montréal, ayant occupé des emplois « atypiques », cet article permet d’entrer au coeur des dynamiques relationnelles des milieux de travail québécois, de comprendre en quoi elles participent à la construction de parcours professionnels spécifiques et d’identifier leurs conséquences sur le rapport au travail et à l’emploi de ces travailleurs. Les différentes expériences étudiées apportent un éclairage sur le phénomène de la précarisation du travail et suggèrent des perspectives tant scientifiques que politiques.
Keywords: desigualdades sociales; inégalités sociales; life course; parcours de vie; precarización del trabajo; précarisation du travail; social inequality; sociologie compréhensive; sociology; sociología comprensiva; trayectorias de vida; work precariousness

Making it Like a Man: Canadian Masculinities in Practice - Thorn, Brian (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Making It Like a Man: Canadian Masculinities in Practice," edited by Christine Ramsay.
Keywords: MAKING It Like a Man: Canadian Masculinities in Practice (Book); Masculinity; Nonfiction; RAMSAY; Christine

Intensified Work, Intensified Struggle: Solidarity Unionism and The Edmonton Postal Workers' Fight Against Forced Overtime - Thorn, Scott M. (McMaster University, 2013)
In February 2011, a wave of creative direct action swept across postal depots in the city of Edmonton which saw rank-and-file workers organizing outside of the channels of formal-legal unionism. Fighting against management’s imposition of compulsory overtime as a staffing measure, Letter Carriers and other “outside” postal workers relied on solidarity and resistance at the point of production in a successful campaign to put an end to this practice. The relevance of this particular struggle to the Canadian labour movement is twofold. First, the intensified workloads of Edmonton postal workers reflect a wider shift in the nature of employment relationships away from the existence of employer support as part of the rise of neoliberal capitalism. Second, the choice of workers to organize at a distance from the historically militant Canadian Union of Postal Workers reveals both the predicament facing labour of a highly restrictive formal labour relations system as well as an alternative path of resistance. For Edmonton postal workers, this path was forged in large part as a result of the influence of IWW dual-carder organizers and, more specifically, their introduction of a mode of union praxis known as solidarity unionism.

The Assessment of Reasonable Notice by Canadian Appellate Courts from 2000 to 2011 - Thornicroft, Kenneth Wm. (Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal, 2013)
Canadian employers have a common law obligation to give reasonable notice when terminating an employment relationship without cause. In deter- mining the appropriate length of the notice period, trial judges hearing wrongful dismissal claims must consider a range of factors, including what are known as the Bardal factors. In this paper, the author presents and analyzes the results of his empirical study of appeal court decisions reviewing trial court awards of reasonable notice across Canada from 2000 to 2011, and examines the impact of the Bardal factors (as well as several others) on outcomes at the appellate level. The study finds that appeal courts have not treated all of the Bardal factors equally, but appear to have given the most weight to the employee's age and length of tenure. Other factors found to have significant predictive value on the length of reasonable notice awards were the employee's gender and whether a successful claim for Wallace damages was made. The data also indicate that employee appeals have succeeded relatively more often than employer appeals, and that the length of notice ordered by appellate courts seems to have plateaued over time. In light of his conclusion that only a narrow range of considerations significantly affect notice awards, the author argues that the current system of judicial assessment of reasonable notice could well be replaced by a less expen- sive and time-consuming statutory scheme that would incorporate a formula for applying the relevant factors and would be administered by employment standards tribunals rather than by the courts.

Race on Trial: Black Defendants in Ontario's Criminal Courts, 1858-1958 - Toney, Jared G. (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Race on Trial: Black Defendants in Ontario's Criminal Courts, 1858-1958," by Barrington Walker.
Keywords: BLACKS – Legal status; laws; etc.; DEFENDANTS; Nonfiction; RACE on Trial: Black Defendants in Ontario's Criminal Courts 1858-1958 (Book); WALKER; Barrington

Les temporalités dans les sciences sociales - Tremblay, Diane-Gabrielle (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Les temporalités dans les sciences sociales," edited by Claude Dubar and Jens Thoemmes.
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

Retour sur les origines du mouvement ouvrier québécois: profil et aspirations des militants syndicaux et démocrates durant les années 1830 - Tremblay, Robert (Labour/Le Travail, 2013)
Cet article, qui se veut à la croisée des chemins entre une démarche prosopographique et une approche d’histoire sociale, entend examiner des logiques jusqu’à maintenant inexplorées au sein du monde ouvrier bas-canadien des années 1830. C’est ainsi qu’à partir d’un portrait d’ensemble de quelque quatre-vingts militants ouvriers de la première heure, nous tenterons de poser certains éléments nouveaux de réflexion sur cette période tourmentée de notre histoire. Quelle lecture pouvons-nous faire des divers fragments de vie d’ouvriers québécois engagés dans des actions syndicales et revendicatives durant les années 1830? En quoi leur expérience est-elle révélatrice d’un milieu social à cheval entre la tradition et la modernité? D’ores et déjà, nous pouvons dire que ces premiers militants sont issus généralement de métiers (typographes, cordonniers, tailleurs d’habits, charpentiers-menuisiers, etc.), dont le cadre normatif d’ascension professionnelle était particulièrement menacé par l’avènement du marché capitaliste du travail et par les premières tentatives de rationalisation du travail en manufacture. Outre le fait d’avoir rendu possible la personnification des gestes et de la parole ouvrière, cette recherche a révélé la diversité et la polyvalence des engagements ouvriers (syndicats, coopératives, sociétés de secours mutuel, associations civiques antimonopole, etc.) durant la période, de même que le rôle primordial joué par les bourses ouvrières du travail, en vue de contrôler l’offre en main-d’oeuvre dans les villes, et l’importance de l’idéologie du républicanisme ouvrier auprès des classes populaires. Grâce à ce riche matériel biographique, nous avons été également en mesure de découvrir l’étonnante ambivalence du monde ouvrier face au mouvement patriote et réformiste des années 1830.
Keywords: 19th century; CAPITALISM – History; Canada; Capitalism; Commerce; Equality; History; INDUSTRIALIZATION – History; LABOR activists; LABOR movement – History; Politics & government; QUEBEC (Province); Radicalism; WORKING class – Political activity

A Life in Balance? Reopening the Family-Work Debate - Troup, Carolyn (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
A Life in Balance? Reopening the Family-Work Debate, edited by Catherine Krull and Justyna Sempruch, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Stereotypes; Women; Work life balance

The Great Industrial War: Framing Class Conflict in the Media, 1865-1950 - Trutor, Clayton (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "The Great Industrial War: Framing Class Conflict in the Media, 1865-1950," by Tony Rondinone.
Keywords: GREAT Industrial War: Framing Class Conflict in the Media 1865-1950; The (Book); History; Industrial relations; Nonfiction; RONDINONE; Tony; United States; Working class

Tourism, Climate Change and the Missing Worker: Uneven Impacts, Institutions and Response - Tufts, Steven (Climate@Work, 2013)
Analyzes the impact of climate change and climate policy on employment in the tourism industry. –Editor's introduction
Keywords: Canada. Climatic changes; Climatic changes; Economic aspects; Economic aspects. Climatic changes; Government policy

Joe Salsberg: A Life of Commitment - Tulchinsky, Gerald J. J. (University of Toronto Press, 2013)
This book follows the life and intellectual journey of Joseph Baruch Salsberg, a Polish-Jewish immigrant who became a major figure of the Ontario Left, a leading voice for human rights in the Ontario legislature, and an important journalist in the Jewish community. His life trajectory mirrored many of the most significant transformations in Canadian political and social life in the twentieth century. Award-winning historian Gerald Tulchinsky traces Salsberg’s personal and professional journey – from his entrance into Toronto’s oppressive garment industry at age 14, which led to his becoming active in emerging trade unions, to his rise through the ranks of the Communist Party of Canada and the Workers’ Unity League. Detailing Salsberg’s time as an influential Toronto alderman and member of the Ontario legislature, the book also examines his dramatic break with communism and his embrace of a new career in journalism. Tulchinsky employs historical sources not used before to explain how Salsberg’s family life and surrounding religious and social milieu influenced his evolution as a Zionist, an important labour union leader, a member of the Communist Party of Canada, and a prominent member of Toronto’s Jewish community. –Publisher's description
Book available at Internet Archive to people with print disabilities: https://archive.org/details/joesalsberglifeo0000tulc_a6y7
Keywords: Communists; Jews; Labor union members; Politicians; Politics and government; Salsberg; J. B. (Joseph B.); ca. 1903-1998; Social conditions

Rebuilding Professional Lives: Immigrant Professionals Working in the Ontario Settlement Service Sector - Türegün, Adnan (Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2013)
Based on an online survey and in-depth interviews conducted from 2009 to 2010, this study looks at the reality of a particular group of foreign-born and foreign-trained professionals in Ontario. These are the professionals who did not get to practise their respective professions after immigration but acquired a new profession in the form of settlement work. The study identifies their pre-immigration education and work history, the reasons they left their countries of origin (or of permanent residence) for Canada, the expectations they had, the choices they made about pursuing professional practice, the efforts they put towards that or some alternative goal, and their eventual professional reconstitution as settlement workers. Following the Canadian trajectory of these dual professionals has three contributions to research into immigrant access to professions. First, their individual experiences reveal the social processes of inclusion in, and exclusion from, professional practice. Second, unlike those immigrants who are de-professionalized in the post-immigration period, our target population reinvent themselves as practitioners of a new profession and thus provide a more nuanced immigrant experience. Third, their common practice as settlement workers gives us insight into the dynamics of an emerging profession that is settlement work.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12134-012-0258-0
Keywords: Demography; Immigrant access to professions and trades; Migration; Population Economics; Professionalization of settlement work; Recognition of foreign credentials; Settlement workers; Sociology; general

"Lest You Undermine Our Struggle": Sympathetic Action and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms - Vallance, Keir (University of Saskatchewan, 2013)
In this thesis I address the question of sympathetic action - action by one group of workers designed to aid another group of workers in their struggle with an employer, manifested most obviously through refusals by workers to cross a picket line - through the lens of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. As the law currently stands in Canada, undertaking sympathetic action collectively is invariably illegal as it is considered an illegal "strike" under Canadian labour legislation. Further, workers who undertake sympathetic action - whether collectively or individually - can be subject to discipline or discharge by their employer. I argue that workers who undertake sympathetic action can have numerous motivations, ranging from economic self-interest to deeply-held political or moral beliefs (the latter manifested through the concept of "solidarity"), and that when those motivations include expressive or conscientious interests, sympathetic action should be entitled to protection by the fundamental freedoms of conscience, expression, and association found in section 2 of the Charter. I further argue that a each of these freedoms represents a different aspect of the inherent dignity and worth of an individual, and that a right to sympathetic action promotes both those freedoms and Charter values. Finally, I argue that a constitutional right to sympathetic action is a free-standing right that can exist even in the absence of a constitutional right to strike. This thesis reviews the current and historical state of Canadian law (in both the statutory labour relations regimes and in common law) regarding sympathetic action, the potential application of the Charter freedoms of conscience, expression, and association to sympathetic action, and finally options for reform that reduce or eliminate restrictions on sympathetic action and therefore make our labour relations system more in keeping with Charter values.

Selling Sex: Experience, Advocacy, and Research on Sex Work in Canada - Van der Meulen, Emily; Durisin, Elya M.; Love, Victoria (UBC Press, 2013)
Despite being dubbed "the world's oldest profession," prostitution has rarely been viewed as a legitimate form of labour. Instead, it has been criminalized, sensationalized, and polemicized across the socio-political spectrum by everyone from politicians to journalists to women's groups. Interest in and concern over sex work is not grounded in the lived realities of those who work in the industry, but rather in inflammatory ideas about who is participating, how they wound up in this line of work, and what form it takes. In Selling Sex, Emily van der Meulen, Elya M. Durisin, and Victoria Love present a more nuanced, balanced, and realistic view of the sex industry. They bring together a vast collection of voices - including researchers, feminists, academics, and advocates, as well as sex workers of differing ages, genders, and sectors - to engage in a dialogue that challenges the dominant narratives surrounding the sex industry and advances the idea that sex work is in fact work. Presenting a variety of opinions and perspectives on such diverse topics as the social stigma of sex work, police violence, labour organizing, anti-prostitution feminism, human trafficking, and harm reduction, Selling Sex is an eye-opening, challenging, and necessary book. –Publisher's description
Book available at Internet Archive to readers with print disabilities: https://archive.org/details/sellingsexexperi0000unse
Keywords: Government policy; Labor Unions; Law and legislation; Organizing; Prostitutes; Prostitution; Sex-oriented businesses

The Smelter Poets: The Inspiring Role of Worker Poetry in a BC Labour Newspaper during the" Age of the CIO [Congress of Industrial Organizations]" - Verzuh, Ron (BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly, 2013)
When celebrated Wobbly troubadour Joe Hill purportedly visited the Rossland Miners’ Hall in the early 1900s to lend his support to the first Canadian local of the rugged Western Federation of Miners (WFM), he no doubt shared some of his inspired verses with the mine workers who are said to have protected him. Claims of his visit are unsubstantiated, but if he did get to Rossland, British Columbia, he likely would have sung them some of his most popular tunes about struggle, resistance, and the dream of a workers’ paradise, and in so doing he would have been performing the same service that poets and songwriters had rendered working people since the earliest days of the trade union movement. This paper explores examples of that historical literary tradition through a study of smelter worker poetry found in the pages of The Commentator, a trade union newspaper published in Trail by Local 480 of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (Mine Mill) in the late 1930s and early 1940s as labour activists were striving to rekindle the union spirit at the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada (CM&S Company), then the world’s largest lead and zinc smelter and a key munitions manufacturer during the First and Second World Wars.
Keywords: Trail

Du pain ou du sang : les travailleurs irlandais et le canal de Beauharnois - Viau, Roland (Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2013)
Le 12 juin 1843 restera dans la mémoire comme le « Lundi rouge » : un jour funeste, où plusieurs ouvriers irlandais affectés au creusement du canal Beauharnois trouvent la mort pour avoir réclamé de meilleures conditions de travail. Plus de deux mille « canaliers » en grève illégale subissent la charge des troupes de la garnison qui les dispersent avec une violence démesurée devant l’hôtel où logent leurs patrons – feux, sabres et chevaux contre pelles, pioches et gourdins. Cet événement tragique marque à ce jour le conflit de travail le plus sanglant de l’histoire du Canada. L’indignation générale contraint le gouvernement à instituer une des premières enquêtes publiques du pays. Une enquête biaisée, comme le démontre brillamment Roland Viau qui examine de nouvelles pièces au dossier en faisant revivre le quotidien des familles irlandaises installées le long du canal. Il aboutit à des constats troublants, révélant l’arbitraire des tribunaux envers ces travailleurs migrants honteusement exploités et méprisés, et met à jour l’existence d’une société secrète qui préfigure le mouvement syndical. –Publisher's description
OCLC: 854937059
Keywords: 1800-1899; Beauharnois Canal (Québec) History 19th century; Beauharnois Canal Strike; Québec; 1843; Canal de Beauharnois (Québec) Histoire 19e siècle; Canals Design and construction; Canals Québec (Province) Beauharnois Design and construction History; Canaux Québec (Canada; province) Beauharnois (Canada) Conception et construction; Canaux Québec (Province) Beauharnois Conception et construction Histoire; Condition sociale; Condition économique; Foreign workers; Irish Québec (Province) Economic conditions 19th century; Foreign workers; Irish Québec (Province) Social conditions 19th century; Grève des ouvriers du canal de Beauharnois (Québec; 1843); Grève des ouvriers du canal de Beauharnois; Québec; 1843; History; Irlandais; Québec; Québec Beauharnois; Québec Beauharnois Canal; Travailleur étranger; Travailleurs étrangers irlandais Québec (Canada; province) Conditions rurales 19e siècle; Travailleurs étrangers irlandais Québec (Canada; province) Conditions rurales Conditions économiques 19e siècle; Travailleurs étrangers irlandais Québec (Province) Conditions sociales 19e siècle; Travailleurs étrangers irlandais Québec (Province) Conditions économiques 19e siècle

Poverty in Common: The Politics of Community Action During the American Century - Vibert, Elizabeth (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Poverty in Common: The Politics of Community Action During the American Century," by Alyosha Goldstein.
Keywords: GOLDSTEIN; Alyosha; Nonfiction; POLITICAL participation; POVERTY in Common: The Politics of Community Action During the American Century (Book)

“Rights without Remedies”: Enforcing Employment Standards in Ontario by Maximizing Voice among Workers in Precarious Jobs - Vosko, Leah (Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 2013)
Workers in Ontario, Canada are on the edge of a crisis in the enforcement of their minimum employment standards (ES). This crisis is shaped not only by well-documented deficiencies in the scope of labour protection but by the fact that the administration of the ES system has not kept pace with the increasing number of workers and workplaces requiring protection under the province’s employment standards act. Coupled with an outmoded complaint-based system, the dearth of support for ES enforcement is cultivating a situation in which an unprecedented number of workers are bearers of rights without genuine opportunities for redress. Responding to this situation, this article explores how measures augmenting the voices of workers and their advocates could contribute to improving ES enforcement in Ontario. It does so through a review of innovative practices in other common law contexts characterized by similar enforcement regimes where labour market conditions have likewise deteriorated.

Labour Management Relations in Canada: A Survey of Union Officials - Wagar, Terry H. (Queen's University, 2013)
Although several recent articles have underscored the importance of human resource management, employee involvement, and labour-management cooperation, there has been very little research addressing these topics from the perspective of organized labour. This study is aimed at providing some practical information about labour-management relations across the country.

Physician Coping Styles and Emotional Exhaustion - Wallace, Jean E.; Lemaire, Jane (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
This paper explores how coping styles relate to physicians' feelings of emotional exhaustion, a key dimension of burnout. We also explore whether four coping styles are more or less effective depending on certain dispositional and/or situational factors. We analyze survey data from 1,110 physicians in Western Canada. Denial is significantly related to physicians' emotional exhaustion, but it increases rather than decreases it. Physicians use denial when they experience work overload and difficult patient interactions. Furthermore, it is used by those with high negative affectivity. A highly positive outlook, however, appears to neutralize the harmful relationship between denial and emotional exhaustion. The harmful experiences related to stressful patient interactions are weakened for doctors who disengage or take a time out from the situation. We conclude that certain coping strategies are more effective depending on personality type and the type of stress encountered.
Keywords: Burnout; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Fatigue; Labor Unions; Occupational stress; Organizational behavior; Personality traits; Physicians; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

The Man Who Never Died: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon - Wallace, Len (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "The Man Who Never Died: The Life, Times, and Legacy of Joe Hill, American Labor Icon," by William M. Adler.
Keywords: ADLER; William M.; HILL; Joe; 1879-1915; MAN Who Never Died: The Life; Times & Legacy of Joe Hill; American Labor Icon; The (Book); Nonfiction

Regulating the British Economy, 1660-1850 - Wallis, Patrick (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Regulating the British Economy, 1660-1850," edited by Perry Gauci.
Keywords: Economic policy; GAUCI; Perry; GREAT Britain; History; Nonfiction; REGULATING the British Economy 1660-1850 (Book)

The Decline of Unionization in the United States: Some Lessons from Canada - Warner, Kris (Labor Studies Journal, 2013)
This article examines the decline in unionization that has occurred in the United States over the past half century, focusing on the role that employer opposition to unions has played, together with relatively weak labor law. It compares the U.S. experience and labor law regime to those of Canada. It finds that, compared to their Canadian counterparts, U.S. workers have much more difficulty in exercising their right to freely join and form unions and participate in collective bargaining, in large part due to ill-restrained employer opposition.
Keywords: Canada; Unionization; United States; card-check certification; first contract arbitration

Federal Public Sector Unions in Times of Austerity: Linking Structure and Strategic Choice - Warskett, Rosemary (Public Sector Unions in the Age of Austerity, 2013)
Contrasts the administrative structure of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, which has undermined its effectiveness, with that of Union of Postal Workers, which in the mid-1960s transformed into a democratic, militant bargaining agent for its workers. Concludes that both unions are in a weakened state, and that only through a broader coalition of forces can the neoliberal agenda of the federal government be fought.
Keywords: Labor Unions; Political activity

Love the Questions: University Education and Enlightenment - Whiteley, Robert (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Love the Questions: University Education and Enlightenment," by Ian Angus.
Keywords: ANGUS; Ian; LOVE the Questions: University Education & Enlightenment (Book); Nonfiction; UNIVERSITIES & colleges

The Bonds of Debt: Borrowing Against the Common Good - Williams, Brett (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "The Bonds of Debt: Borrowing Against the Common Good," by Richard Dienst.
Keywords: BONDS of Debt: Borrowing Against the Common Good; The (Book); DEBT; DIENST; Richard; Nonfiction; Social aspects

Evaluating the Prevalence and Distribution of Quasi-formal Employment in Europe - Williams, Colin C.; Padmore, Jo (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
To show how formal and informal jobs are not always discrete, this paper uncovers how many formal employees in the European Union are paid two wages by their formal employers, an official declared salary and an additional undeclared wage, thus allowing employers to evade their full social insurance and tax liabilities. Analyzing a 2007 Eurobarometer survey involving 26,659 face-to-face interviews in the 27 member states of the European Union (EU-27), one in 18 formal employees are found to engage in such quasi-formal employment, receiving on average one-quarter of their gross salary on an undeclared basis. Multi-level logistic regression analysis reveals that quasi-formal employment is significantly more prevalent in East-Central Europe, in smaller businesses and the construction sector, and amongst men, younger persons and the lower paid. The paper then briefly reviews what might be done to tackle this illegitimate wage practice.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employment; Labor Unions; Regression analysis; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Tax evasion; Wages & salaries

Serving the Fast Food Nation: Analyzing and Understanding Food Choice, BMI and Self-Perceived Weight in the Food Service Worker Population - Woodhall-Melnik, Julia R. (University of Waterloo, 2013)
Policymakers, politicians, and media outlets have declared an obesity epidemic. In doing so, they have named a variety of villains, including fast food. Despite the framing of fast food as being a leading contributor to weight gain and obesity, we have yet to understand the impact that fast food has on those who work with it every day. The purpose of this dissertation is to understand the food choices, BMIs, and self perceived weights of the food service worker population. Using Pierre Bourdieu‘s concepts of habitus and field, I investigate the role of the workplace and external cultural influences, such as the family, in navigating an obseogenic workplace environment that is centered on selling highly caloric food to the Canadian public in a quick and cost effective manner. The first stage of this research addresses the question: Are food service workers more likely to be overweight or obese and perceive themselves as being overweight compared to the general population? In order to do this, I analyzed secondary survey data from the Canadian Community Health Survey cycle 5.1 (2009-2010). I used logistic regression techniques to construct models that analyze the likelihood of having high BMIs and high self perceived weights in both the food service worker and general Canadian populations. In addition to this, I sought to understand the food choices that contribute to weight gain in fast food workers. To do this, I conducted forty semi-structured qualitative interviews with workers from a variety of fast food chains. The results of my research disprove my original hypothesis that food service workers are more likely to be overweight or obese because of their frequent exposure to fast food. Instead, I found that they are less likely to be overweight or obese than the general Canadian population. Additionally, they are also less likely to perceive themselves as being overweight or obese. Through the qualitative interviews, I found that these individuals participate in a process of regulation where they monitor their food intake at work. Additionally, I found that their consumption patterns stemmed from habitus generated through cultural exposures in other areas of their lives. Pierre Bourdieu (1984) argues that we develop habitus through meaningful cultural exposure. We use our habitus, or engrained dispositions, to navigate hierarchical spaces or fields. Through this research, I found that workers viewed their jobs as being temporary and their cultural consumption patterns did not seem to change from their exposures to their workplaces. The majority were part time students, working in this industry to pay for living expenses and tuition. For the most part, they were raised in middle class homes where their mothers prepared food for their families from scratch on a daily basis. Fast food was viewed as a special treat and not an item to consume on a regular basis. I conclude that the meaningful exposures we have to food and cultural norms throughout life are more important in determining our food choices than our exposure to fast food restaurants.
Keywords: BMI; Fast food work; Food choices; Habitus; Self-perceived weight

Working Natures: An Ethnography of Love, Labour, and Accumulation on the British Columbian Coast - Yard, Jaime Dianne (York University, 2013)
The primary question for investigation throughout this research is how the environmental knowledges of settler-colonists and their descendants have been formed through processes of work and dwelling in place. This dissertation results from over a year of fieldwork in an aging community where retired loggers, semi-retired fishermen, and retired exurban migrants are actively renegotiating the meanings of local places and natures as the local economy shifts from a base in logging and fishing to one in recreational and retirement real estate development. Through archival research, life history interviews and participant-observation with loggers, fishermen, exurban retirees and other long-term residents I explored the complications and contradictions inherent in learning to value nature through processes of transforming and intervening in ecological processes for economic ends. Writing against hard social constructivism I examine the ways in which the life cycles of fish and fish populations, the contingencies of weather, topography and currents, and, the physical form of the land are active elements in the formation of labour and settlement patterns in coastal British Columbia. As a contribution to the underdeveloped field of first world political ecology this work maps environmental knowledges and values developed in tense complicity with regimes of natural resource management and accumulation by dispossession. Central to this process is how people become agents of the commodification of nature and place in their everyday lives and work, and, how private property has become naturalized as a prerequisite to "protecting" self, nature, and community from precarity in the era of late capitalism. This dissertation tracks the various ways, both historically and in the present, that settlers and their descendants on the BC Coast have attempted to simultaneously make a living and make a home of an occupied place-the imperialist nostalgia and (neo)liberal white guilt endemic to the process.
Keywords: British Columbia; Commodification of nature; Environmental knowledge; Labor; Settler-colonists; Social sciences

PWR: work&labour news&research - Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources Library (University of Toronto) (2012)
The latest information in Industrial Relations and Human Resources, from the CIRHR Library at the University of Toronto. Stories from the tumblr are collected weekly in PWR: work&labour news&research, which is published from September to June. –Publisher's description.
https://cirhr.library.utoronto.ca/

Labour Arbitration of Co-Worker Sexual Harassment Cases in Canada - Hart, Susan M. (Canadian Journal of Administrative Sciences / Revue Canadienne des Sciences de l'Administration, 2012)
Women have the right to a workplace free from sexual harassment under Canadian provincial and federal human rights legislation. Canadian labour laws incorporate the right to a grievance procedure including binding arbitration where arbitrators must interpret and apply human rights legislation. This paper analyzes co-worker sexual harassment cases in order to assess how well arbitrations protect the right of unionized women to a harassment free workplace. Results indicate that women complainants were often subjected to aggressive gendered cross-examinations and the application of gendered jurisprudence that largely ignored the impact of gendered power relations in the workplace. The conclusion is that women's experiences in arbitrations are likely a deterrent to filing formal complaints, effectively undermining rather than protecting their rights.
Keywords: arbitrage des conflits du travail; co-worker sexual harassment; droits de la personne; droits des femmes; harcèlement sexuel; harcèlement sexuel de la part des collègues; human rights; labour arbitrations; sexual harassment; women's rights

Forced to Concede: Permanent Restructuring and Labour's Place in the North American Auto Industry - Siemiatycki, Elliot (Antipode, 2012)
The stunning decline of Ford, General Motors and Chrysler over the past decade has rendered the once 'Big Three' US automakers a vulnerable 'Detroit Three'. In their attempts to return to profitability, the Detroit Three have undertaken a series of 'turnarounds' aimed at renewing their competitive edge. Through this corporate restructuring agenda, 250,000 assembly jobs in North America have been lost, upwards of 50 auto plants have been closed, wages and benefits for new hires have been cut substantially and once strong, independent auto unions have been thoroughly overwhelmed. Permanent restructuring, then, represents a crisis strategy on the part of the corporate elite to continually intensify the demands placed on labour in the hopes of creating new conditions for capital accumulation. Working within labour geography, this paper documents the 'regional race to the bottom' in the North American auto industry while reminding labour geographers that capitalist restructuring is a powerful constraint on labour agency.
Keywords: AUTOMOBILE industry; BUSINESS enterprises – United States; CHRYSLER Corp.; CORPORATE reorganizations; EMPLOYEES – Dismissal of; FORD Motor Co. Ltd.; GENERAL Motors Corp.; United States

Abstracts = Résumés (60, Spring 2012) (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
English/French abstracts of articles in the Spring 2012 issue.
Keywords: Canada; EVACUATION & relocation; 1942-1945; Fisheries; JAPANESE; Labor; Legal status; laws; etc.; NEWFOUNDLAND & Labrador; SEX workers; SNOW crab fisheries

Abstracts, Volume 70 (Fall/Automne 2012) (Labour/Le Travail, 2012)
English/French abstracts of articles in the Fall 2012 issue.

Index — Volume 67 — 2012 (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Liste des appréciateurs – 2012 – List of Referees (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Labour and Employment Law: Cases, Materials and Commentary, 8th ed. - Adams, Roy J. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
Labour and Employment Law: Cases, Materials and Commentary, 8th edition, compiled by the Labour Law Casebook Group, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employment; Labor Unions; Labor law; Reference books; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

The CAW - CEP Merger: A Political Reflection - Allen, Bruce (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
The author reflects upon the upcoming merger between the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union and the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers (CEP) union as of the Fall 2012. Particular focus is given to the consolidated union's relationship with Canadian politics, including with the Liberal Party's Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty.
Keywords: CANADA – Politics & government – 21st century; CANADIAN Auto Workers Union (Organization); COMMUNICATIONS Energy & Paperworkers Union (Canada) (Organization); Canada; LABOR unions – Mergers; LABOR unions – Political activity; LIBERAL Party of Canada; MCGUINTY; Dalton; 1955-

The Ordinary People of Essex: Environment, Culture, and Economy on the Frontier of Upper Canada - Anderson, Joe L. (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
The article reviews the book, "The Ordinary People of Essex: Environment, Culture, and Economy on the Frontier of Upper Canada," by John Clarke.
Keywords: 19th century; BOOKS – Reviews; CLARKE; John; ESSEX County (Ont.); History; Nonfiction; ORDINARY People of Essex: Environment; Culture & Economy on the Frontier of Upper Canada; The (Book)

Mutations de la société, mutations des entreprises - Arcand, Sébastien (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
The article reviews the book, "Mutations de la société, mutations des entreprises," by Michelle Bergadaà.
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

Steel City Meltdown: Hamilton and the Changing Canadian Steel Industry - Arnold, Stephen R. (Boom, Bust and Crisis: Labour, Corporate Power and Politics in Canada, 2012)
Details the decline of the steel industry in Hamilton, Ontario, over the past 30 years, including various labour disputes, cuts to the workforce, and changes in ownership. Concludes that a national strategy is required to resuscitate the industry.
Keywords: Business and politics; Economic conditions; Employee rights; Industrial relations; Labor policy

Managing the Margins: Gender, Citizenship, and the International Regulation of Precarious Employment - Artemova, Olga (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
The article reviews the book, "Managing the Margins: Gender, Citizenship, and the International Regulation of Precarious Employment," by Leah F. Vosko.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employment practices; LABOR market; Labor Unions; Regulation; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Reforming Urban Labor: Routes to the City, Roots in the Country - August, Andrew (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
The article reviews the book, "Reforming Urban Labor: Routes to the City, Roots in the Country," by Janet L. Polasky.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Nonfiction; POLASKY; Janet L.; REFORMING Urban Labor: Routes to the City; Roots in the Country (Book); WORKING class – Housing

Debating Dissent: Canada and the 1960s - Azzi, Stephen; Boudreau, Michael; Campbell, Lara; Carstairs, Catherine; Dyck, Erika; Gidney, Catherine; Hayday, Matthew; Hewitt, Steve; Igartua, José E.; Lexier, Roberta; Martel, Marcel; McInnis, Peter S. (Peter Stuart); et al. (University of Toronto Press, 2012)
Although the 1960s are overwhelmingly associated with student radicalism and the New Left, most Canadians witnessed the decade's political, economic, and cultural turmoil from a different perspective. Debating Dissent dispels the myths and stereotypes associated with the 1960s by examining what this era's transformations meant to diverse groups of Canadians - and not only protestors, youth, or the white middle-class.With critical contributions from new and senior scholars, Debating Dissent integrates traditional conceptions of the 1960s as a 'time apart' within the broader framework of the 'long-sixties' and post-1945 Canada, and places Canada within a local, national, an international context. Cutting-edge essays in social, intellectual, and political history reflect a range of historical interpretation and explore such diverse topics as narcotics, the environment, education, workers, Aboriginal and Black activism, nationalism, Quebec, women, and bilingualism. Touching on the decade's biggest issues, from changing cultural norms to the role of the state, Debating Dissent critically examines ideas of generational change and the sixties. –Publisher's description

No Right to be Safe: Justifying the Exclusion of Alberta Farm Workers from Health and Safety Legislations - Barnetson, Bob (Socialist Studies/Études Socialistes, 2012)
Alberta remains the only Canadian province to exclude agricultural workers from the ambit of its occupational health and safety laws. Consequently, farm workers have no right to know about workplace safety hazards and no right to refuse unsafe work, thereby increasing their risk of a workplace injury. This study uses qualitative content analysis to identify three narratives used by government members of the legislative assembly between 2000 and 2010 to justify the continued exclusion of agricultural workers from basic health and safety rights. These narratives are: (1) education is better than regulation, (2) farms cannot be regulated, and (3) farmers don’t want and can’t afford regulation. Analysis of these narratives reveals them to be largely invalid, raising the question of why government members rely upon these narratives. The electoral rewards associated with maintaining this exclusion may comprise part of the explanation.
Keywords: Canada

The Validity of Alberta Safety Statistics - Barnetson, Bob (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2012)
This study examines the validity of injury statistics used to monitor workplace safety in the Canadian province of Alberta. These indicators were found to significantly under–report the rate of injury and to be vulnerable to gaming by both employers and the workers´compensation board. These threats to the validity of the measures should limit the inferences drawn from the measures. Injury–based statistics were also found to be inadequate proxies for the broader construct of workplace safety. The political feasibility of alternative measures is also discussed.

L'impact des positionnements des négociateurs sur le contenu d'un accord-cadre international - Barreau, Jocelyne; Ngaha, Angélique (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
La conclusion d’accords-cadres internationaux (ACI) est en pleine expansion depuis le début des années 2000. Mais comment s’explique l’hétérogénéité des contenus de ces accords ? En l’absence de tout cadre juridique, certains accords définissent succinctement des principes généraux dont l’application devra être négociée dans chacune des filiales, d’autres détaillent précisément des normes substantives applicables dans toutes les entités du groupe. Dans cet article, nous focalisons notre analyse sur les dispositions portant sur la fonction « ressources humaines », c’est-à-dire sur les règles de GRH définies par la direction générale des ressources humaines (DGRH), notamment en matière de rémunération, de conditions de travail et de formation ainsi que sur les missions qui lui sont imparties. En nous inscrivant dans la lignée des travaux d’Anselm Strauss, nous étudions le lien entre le contenu de l’accord, les objectifs poursuivis par les signataires et négociateurs des ACI (les fédérations syndicales internationales - FSI, et les directions des groupes signataires) et les autres éléments du contexte de la négociation. Nous faisons l’hypothèse que le contenu de l’accord dépend des « positionnements » des négociateurs (logique quantitative ou qualitative pour les FSI; politique d’image ou politique sociale pour les directions) et du contexte de la négociation. Nous justifions cette hypothèse avant de la tester en comparant les dispositions « ressources humaines » d’ACI conclus dans des firmes multinationales françaises. Nous appuyons cette démonstration sur l’exemple de quatre groupes français (Accor, France Télécom, Danone et EDF) ayant fait l’objet d’une étude de cas longitudinale approfondie, dans le cadre d’un vaste programme de recherche financé par l’Agence nationale pour la recherche.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Human resource management; Impact analysis; International agreements; Labor Unions; Multinational corporations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Remembering David Montgomery (1926-2011) and His Impact on Working-Class History - Barrett, James R. (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
A eulogy is presented for the labour historian of the U.S. working class David Montgomery.
Keywords: EULOGIES; HISTORIANS – United States; MONTGOMERY; David

Unions and Temporary Help Agency Employment - Bartkiw, Timothy J. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
Temporary help agency employment is a peculiar and often precarious employment form that has become increasingly salient in Canada in recent decades. This article examines the effects of the expansion of this employment form upon labour unions, as well as union responses to this phenomenon. Using a qualitative exploratory method, various effects upon union organizing and representation activities are outlined, as are a range of union responses to the phenomenon.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employment agencies; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Making Up the State: Women in 20th Century Atlantic Canada - Beaton, Meaghan (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
The article reviews the book, "Making Up the State: Women in 20th Century Atlantic Canada," edited by Janet Guildford and Suzanne Morton.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Canada; GUILDFORD; Janet; History; MAKING up the State: Women in 20th-Century Atlantic Canada (Book); MORTON; Suzanne; Nonfiction; Women

Girls of the Factory: A Year with the Garment Workers of Morocco - Beinin, Joel (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
The article reviews the book, "Girls of the Factory: A Year with the Garment Workers of Morocco," by M. Laetitia Cairoli.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CAIROLI; M. Laetitia; GIRLS of the Factory: A Year With the Garment Workers of Morocco (Book); Nonfiction; WOMEN clothing workers

Indigenous Workers, Casino Development and Union Organizing - Belanger, Yale D. (Boom, Bust and Crisis: Labour, Corporate Power and Politics in Canada, 2012)
Chronicles the development of gaming casinos on First Nations from 1996-2010, and various drives and court decisions pertaining to certification of casino workers. Analyzes the resistance of First Nation leaders to unionization. Concludes that while workers remain unorganized, the prospect of unionization has improved their compensation and benefits.
Keywords: Business and politics; Economic conditions; Employee rights; Industrial relations; Labor policy

La location de personnel temporaire au Québec : un état de situation - Bernier, Jean (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
The temporary work industry has undergone considerable expansion in Canada and in Quebec in the last decade. Becoming an important mechanism in the functioning of the labour market, it provides not only increased numerical and functional flexibility for companies, but is also a favoured means of access to the labour market for many workers, including young workers. Personnel leasing falls within the framework of tripartite labour relations between the employee, the agency and the client company. This type of relationship is not without its particular difficulties, the solution for which is often hard to find since the personnel leasing activity, as such, is not regulated in Quebec. The question is to determine, considering the precise nature of the tripartite relationship, whether the employees' recognized rights can be exercised, in practice, in such a way as to achieve their specific purpose.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employment agencies; LABOR market; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Younger workers

Formation et employabilité. Regard critique sur l'évolution des politiques de formation de la main-d'oeuvre au Québec - Bérubé, Michel (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
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

Salaire d'embauche, négociation du contrat de travail et intermédiaires du recrutement - Bessy, Christian (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
In France, the relative decline of sectoral collective bargaining, as well as changes in the law relating to the employment contract during the late 1980s, have restored some flexibility to the employer and employee in determining contract terms, thus contributing to a process of individualization of the employment relationship. Companies are thereby better able to take account of the constraints imposed by the labour market and, in particular, can attract the most qualified candidates. To do this, they are often dependent on recruitment intermediaries who have a better knowledge of the state of the market. The objective of this paper is to analyze how these various recruitment channels affect the determination of starting salaries, examining in particular to what extent they bring employers and employees to negotiate the terms of their contracts of employment.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Collective bargaining; Employment contracts; Labor Unions; Recruitment; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Wages & salaries

« Un chaînon incontournable au Québec » : les Chevaliers du travail, 1882-1902 - Bischoff, Peter C. (Labour/Le Travail, 2012)
Généralement traité par la bande ou scruté à l’aide d’un nombre de documents assez restreint, l’Ordre des Chevaliers du travail au Québec échappe encore et toujours à la compréhension des spécialistes. L’image que les historiens, sociologues et experts en relations industrielles ont pu en livrer a entraîné des appréciations très négatives : l’aile québécoise de la centrale syndicale américaine étant montrée comme un mouvement utopiste, trop éloigné des besoins immédiats des travailleurs et de la réalité du monde industriel. À renfort de nouvelles sources, nous présentons un portrait tout autre de son cheminement organisationnel. Non seulement l’expérience des chevaliers québécois est-elle tout à fait remarquable, mais elle façonnera une génération de travailleurs et probablement davantage. Dans le paysage le plus laborieux et capricieux du Canada, Montréal, ils ont entamé une collaboration intense entre francophones et anglophones. Cherchant à construire un rapport de force sur le terrain, ils ont privilégié le syndicalisme de métier, tout en expérimentant avec le syndicalisme industriel à une échelle insoupçonnée par l’historiographie. Ouverts aussi aux immigrants de l’Europe du Sud et de l’Est, de même qu’aux femmes, les chevaliers dérangèrent donc l’ordre existant. C’est pourquoi, plus que tout autre mouvement syndical québécois avant lui, l’Ordre affronta l’hostilité du clergé catholique. Toutefois, le catholicisme joua également dans le sens contraire lorsque, suite à la diffusion de Rerum Novarum, les ouvriers s’inspirèrent de la légitimité offerte à l’organisation du travail pour relancer le mouvement dans les années 1890.
Keywords: 19th century; 20th century; Canada; History; KNIGHTS of Labor; LABOR unions – Religious aspects – Christianity; Labor Unions; Labor movement; QUEBEC (Province); Social movements

Community Unionism and the Canadian Labour Movement - Black, Simon (Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada, 2012)
Explores the diversity of Canadian community unionism, including labour-community coalitions and community-based workers' organization. Concludes that the unions must take community unionism more seriously as a means of renewal, that unions are "swords of justice" rather than "vested interests."
Keywords: Canada; History; Labor Unions; Labor movement; Political activity; Political aspects

Family and Community Life in Northeastern Ontario: The Interwar Years - Blanchard, David Alphonse (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
The article reviews the book, "Family and Community Life in Northeastern Ontario: The Interwar Years," by Françoise Noël.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; FAMILY & Community Life in Northeastern Ontario: The Interwar Years (Book); NOEL; Francoise; Nonfiction; ONTARIO; Northern – Social conditions – 20th century

Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada - Blyth, Molly (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
The article reviews the book, "Unsettling the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools, Truth Telling, and Reconciliation in Canada," by Paulette Regan.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Nonfiction; REGAN; Paulette; TRUTH & Reconciliation Canada; UNSETTLING the Settler Within: Indian Residential Schools; Truth Telling & Reconciliation in Canada (Book)

Canadian Mining and Labour Struggles in Mexico: The Challenges of Union Organizing and the Weaknesses of Corporate Social Responsibility - Bocking, Paul G. (McMaster University, 2012)
Focusing on a case study of a union organizing effort at the La Platosa mine in northern Mexico from 2009-2012, this paper studies the challenges facing labour activism at Canadian mining companies in Mexico within the context of the North American Free Trade Agreement. The positions of the Mexican and the Canadian governments in relation to contemporary workers’ struggles in Mexico’s mining sector are considered, particularly the latter’s adoption of a ‘corporate social responsibility’ approach to addressing the activities of Canadian extractive firms abroad. By studying the outcome of the request for mediation filed by La Platosa miners with the Canadian government’s Extractive Sector CSR office in 2011 and evaluating the evolution of this government’s policy approach to extractive companies abroad since 2009, we find that CSR as practiced by the Canadian government has been ineffective at mitigating abusive practices by Canadian mining companies in Mexico and that an alternate outcome is not to be expected under existing policy structures. The relative strengths and weaknesses exhibited during labour organizing at the La Platosa mine are evaluated to find both locally specific and more broadly applicable strategies which could be applied to union renewal, both by workers employed under NAFTA’s transnational sector, and by the general labour movement.

Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South, 1865-1960 - Bradshaw, Laura Hepp (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
The article reviews the book, "Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South, 1865-1960," by Rebecca Sharpless.
Keywords: AFRICAN American women cooks; BOOKS – Reviews; COOKING in Other Women's Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South 1865-1960 (Book); History; Nonfiction; SHARPLESS; Rebecca

Beyond the Average and the Aggregate: Researching Strikes in Canada - Briskin, Linda (Striking Numbers: New Approaches to Strike Research, 2012)
Detailed examination from a labour militancy perspective of work stoppages in Canada from 1960 to 2004. Statistical data is enhanced with qualitative measures (newspaper accounts) of two strikes: the 8-month Miki Skools strike in the 1980s, and the 3-month Puretex strike of women garment workers in the 1970s.

Resistance, Mobilization and Militancy: Nurses on Strike - Briskin, Linda (Nursing Inquiry, 2012)
Drawing on nurses’ strikes in many countries, this paper explores nurse militancy with reference to professionalism and the commitment to service; patriarchal practices and gendered subordination; and proletarianization and the confrontation with healthcare restructuring. These deeply entangled trajectories have had a significant impact on the work, consciousness and militancy of nurses and have shaped occupation-specific forms of resistance. They have produced a pattern of overlapping solidarities – occupational solidarity, gendered alliances and coalitions around healthcare restructuring – which have supported, indeed promoted, militancy among nurses, despite the multiple forces arrayed against them. The professional commitments of nurses to the provision of care have confronted healthcare restructuring, nursing shortages, intensification of work, precarious employment and gendered hierarchies with a militant discourse around the public interest, and a reconstitution and reclamation of ‘caring’, what I call the politicisation of caring. In fact, nurses’ dedication to caring work in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries may encourage rather than dissuade them from going on strike. This paper uses a trans-disciplinary methodology, qualitative material in the form of strike narratives constructed from newspaper archives, and references to the popular and scholarly literature on nursing militancy.
Keywords: Trade unions; caring; militancy; nurses’ strikes

La dispersion au travail - Bruère, Sébastien (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
The article reviews the book, "La dispersion au travail," by Caroline Datchary.
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

Aboriginal History: A Reader - Burnett, Kristin; Reid, Geoff (Oxford University Press, 2012)
Combining contemporary articles with historical documents, this engaging reader examines the rich history of Canada's Aboriginal peoples. The 30 articles - half of which are original to this volume - explore a diverse range of topics, including spirituality, colonialism, self-identity, federal policy, residential schools, labour, and women's rights. With in-depth coverage of events and processes from the earliest times through to the modern day, [the reader] offers students a new appreciation for the long and complex history of Canada's First Nations, Métis, and Inuit peoples. –Publisher's description
Keywords: Indians of North America – Canada – Historiography

Concilier vie familiale et vie professionnelle en France : les disparités d'horaires de travail - Bustreel, Anne; Cornuau, Frédérique; Pernod-Lemattre, Martine (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
La France se caractérise aujourd’hui par une forte proportion de salariés ayant des contraintes familiales et par un nombre élevé d’entreprises qui flexibilisent la durée et les horaires de travail : comment la diffusion de ces nouvelles contraintes temporelles affectent-elles les femmes, et plus particulièrement les mères ? Une typologie des conditions temporelles d’emploi des salariés français intégrant la durée du travail, la souplesse horaire dont bénéficie le salarié et la « localisation » de son temps de travail, construite à partir de l’enquête « Familles et employeurs » (Ined-Insee, 2004-2005), fait apparaître une surreprésentation des femmes dans les emplois les plus souples, mais aussi les plus contraignants temporellement, alors que l’effet de la présence d’enfant semble assez mineur.Trois hypothèses sont testées pour expliquer les conditions temporelles d’emploi : la préférence des salariés pour des horaires de travail commodes, les caractéristiques productives des emplois et le rapport de force salarié-employeur. Les résultats montrent que le fait d’avoir de jeunes enfants n’est pas corrélé aux conditions temporelles d’emploi. Être une femme accroît la probabilité d’avoir des horaires hyper-souples (plutôt que standards contraints) et diminue la probabilité d’avoir des horaires longs souples et non standards contraints. L’hypothèse d’une sélection en fonction des préférences n’est pas confirmée par l’analyse alors que les exigences productives des emplois et des employeurs ainsi que le pouvoir de négociation des salariés exercent des effets significatifs et expliquent la surreprésentation des femmes dans les horaires fragmentés contraints.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Flexible hours; LABOR market; Labor Unions; Reforms; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Work life balance

Boom, Bust and Bluster: Newfoundland and Labrador's "Oil Boom" and Its Impacts on Labour - Cadigan, Sean T. (Boom, Bust and Crisis: Labour, Corporate Power and Politics in Canada, 2012)
Analyzes the effects of the off-shore oil boom of the late 1990s in Newfoundland and Labrador, that has exacerbated the urban-rural divide. Concludes that despite the rhetoric of transformation, the provincial economy has not basically changed.
Keywords: Business and politics; Economic conditions; Employee rights; Industrial relations; Labor policy

The Courts Have Turned Women into Slaves for the Men of this World: Irene Murdoch's Quest for Justice - Cameron, Angela; Gruben, Vanessa; Chaisson, Angela; Osgoode Society for Legal History (Property on Trial: Canadian Cases in Context, 2012)
In 1973 the Supreme Court of Canada issued a ruling in Murdoch v Murdoch, denying Irene “Ginger” Murdoch an interest in the cattle ranch that she and her husband, James Alexander “Alex” Murdoch, had built together over many years. Irene performed extensive manual labour on the farm, including driving, branding, vaccinating and de-horning cattle, haying, raking, and mowing. She often did this work alone due to long, off-ranch, work-related absences by Alex. When their marriage began to break down, Irene sought to receive her ownership interest in the ranch property. However, the certificate of title to the property showed that the land belonged solely to Alex Murdoch. For Irene to receive an interest in the property it would be necessary for a court to declare that a portion of the title to the ranch was held by Alex Murdoch in trust for his wife. The principal basis for finding such a trust, her lawyer argued, was her contribution through labour to the ranch operations. That argument was rejected at trial and ultimately also by the Supreme Court of Canada, which held that under existing Canadian law no property claim was available to Irene Murdoch in the circumstances of her case. –Introduction

Strike! The Radical Insurrections of Ellen Dawson - Campbell, J. Peter (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
The article reviews the book, "Strike! The Radical Insurrections of Ellen Dawson," by David Lee McMullen.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; DAWSON; Ellen; MCMULLEN; David Lee; Nonfiction; STRIKE! The Radical Insurrections of Ellen Dawson (Book)

The Politics of Austerity and the Conservative Offensive against US Public Sector Unions, 2008-2012 - Cantin, Étienne (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
Since the onset of the Great Recession, anti-union conservatives have been hammering out an arguably bogus yet politically potent argument: collective bargaining with government workers is unaffordable as their wages, health benefits, and pensions are driving states into deficits. What is going on in Wisconsin and other states ought to be seen for what it is: an attempt to exploit the economic crisis to win an eminently political victory over organized labour and allied Democrats. Even in their weakened state, US unions can mobilize opposition to the anti-government, anti-labour agenda of a Tea Party-shaped Republican Party. It is this capability that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and other conservative Republicans are determined to undermine by taking away public-sector workers' rights to organize and bargain collectively.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Collective bargaining; Economic crisis; Government employees; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; states

Heterogeneity, Work, and Mobilisation: Recent Works in Latin American Labour Studies - Casey, Matthew (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
The article reviews and comments on several books including "Solidarity Transformed: Labor Responses to Globalization and Crisis in Latin America," by Mark S. Anner, "The Struggle for Maize: Campesinos, Workers, and Transgenic Corn in the Mexican Country," by Elizabeth Fitting, and "Global Maya: Work and Ideology in Rural Guatemala," by Liliana R. Goldín.
Keywords: ANNER; Mark S.; BOOKS – Reviews; FITTING; Elizabeth; GLOBAL Maya: Work & Ideology in Rural Guatemala (Book); GOLDIN; Liliana R.; Nonfiction; SOLIDARITY Transformed: Labor Responses to Globalization & Crisis in Latin America (Book); STRUGGLE for Maize: Campesinos; Workers & Transgenic Corn in the Mexican Countryside; The (Book)

The Fraser Case: A Wrong Turn in a Fog of Judicial Deference - Cavalluzzo, Paul J.J. (Constitutional Labour Rights in Canada: Farm Workers and the Fraser Case, 2012)
The author, who was the farm workers' legal representative before the Supreme Court in the Fraser case, provides historical background and analyzes the court's decision, including its reliance on judicial deference to the legislature. Concludes that the court was preoccupied with the larger political battle rather than the constitutional merits of the case.
Keywords: Agricultural laborers; Canada. Arbeitsrecht. Verfassungsrecht; Canada. Collective bargaining; Canada. Employee rights; Canada. Freedom of association; Canada. Liberté d'association; Canada. Migrant agricultural laborers; Canada. Négociations collectives; Canada. Personnel; Canada. Travailleurs agricoles; Canada. Travailleurs agricoles migrants; Droit; Droits; Law and legislation; Legal status; laws; etc.

Aboriginal Labour Market Performance in Canada: 2007-2011 - Centre for the Study of Living Standards (Ottawa) (Centre for the Study of Living Standards, 2012)
The objective of this report is to examine Aboriginal labour market performance in Canada from 2007 to 2011 using data from the Labour Force Survey, which excludes people living on-reserve or in the territories. This is performed by first providing an overview of how the recession affected the Canadian labour market, followed by a Canada-wide portrait of the Aboriginal labour market in 2011. The Aboriginal labour market performance from 2007 to 2011 is then compared to the rest of the labour force on a national level, before being broken down by province and main heritage group. Using this information, the report then discusses the implications of future labour market developments for Aboriginal Canadians and for the labour market policies and programs that support their labour market performance. [Prepared for the Métis National Council by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards.]
Keywords: Labor market; Native peoples

Are Immigrants' Pay and Benefits Satisfaction Different than Canadian-born? - Chowhan, James; Zeytinoglu, Isik U.; Cooke, Gordon B. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
The purpose of this paper is to examine whether there are differences in satisfaction with pay and benefits between Canadian-born and immigrant workers, and if differences exist, to examine the factors associated with immigrants' pay and benefits satisfaction. Using Statistics Canada's 2005 Workplace and Employee Survey (WES), immigrants are examined both as a single group, and in four cohorts based on the year of arrival. Results show significantly lower pay and benefits satisfaction for immigrant cohorts, with the exception of the pre-1965 cohort, compared to Canadian-born workers. Our findings also suggest that existing theories and conceptual models on pay and benefits satisfaction may not be appropriate when examining them as they relate to immigrants.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Differences; Employee benefits; Job satisfaction; Labor Unions; Migrant workers; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Saving for Retirement: Intention, Context, and Behavior - Clark, Gordon L.; Strauss, Kendra; Knox, Janelle Kallie (Oxford University Press, 2012)
Understanding the ways in which people save for their retirement is an urgent issue. So much has changed in the last 10 to 15 years, especially in the area of the provision of pensions and retirement income. Around the world, greater and greater responsibility is being allocated to individuals while governments discount their contributions to social security and employers retreat from the provision of supplementary retirement income. This book explores the behavioral revolution and its implications for understanding financial decision-making and saving for the future. Recognizing the profound implications of this research program, it goes beyond issues of risk aversion, framing, and decision-making to consider how social identity and the resources due to people by virtue of their place in society figure in savings behavior. It gives considerable attention to the context of the environment in which people make financial decisions, arguing that this allows a better understanding of the coexistence of sophistication and naivety apparent in patterns of retirement saving. Utilizing databases from the UK, the book provides an empirical foundation to its theoretical arguments, demonstrating how an integrated approach to individual financial decision-making is necessary if we are to address the apparent shortfall in many people's planning for the future. The book concludes by setting the agenda for the design, governance, and regulation of pension savings schemes consistent with delivering cost-effective solutions to pension adequacy. In these ways, it sets forth a strategy for rethinking individual behavior as well as the design of retirement income systems. –Publisher's description
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227468242_Saving_for_Retirement_Intention_Context_and_Behavior https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saving_for_Retirement:_Intention,_Context,_and_Behavior OCLC: 774632247
Keywords: Altersversorgung; Finance; Personal Decision making; Pensions; Rentenversicherung; Retirement income Planning Psychological aspects; Revenu de retraite Planification Aspect psychologique; Soziale Sicherheit; Sparen; pensions (compensation)

Knowledge Transmission in Light of Recent Transformations in the Workplace - Cloutier, Esther; Ledoux, Élise; Fournier, Pierre-Sébastien (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
In a context of changing demographics and workplace transformations, a number of authors are concerned about the issues related to knowledge transmission in organizations. The vast experiential knowledge and diverse skills developed by workers to cope with the numerous situations encountered in the course of their work constitute part of the intangible assets vital to the sustainability of expertise, if not to the survival of the organization itself. Based on three case studies, this article describes the impact of precarious employment, flexible management practices and work intensification on knowledge transmission in real work situations. Possible avenues for research are proposed with a view to ensuring better support for the transmission of experiential knowledge in organizations.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employment practices; Flexibility; Knowledge management; Labor Unions; Organizational change; Skill development; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Collective Bargaining and Perceived Fairness: Validating the Conceptual Structure - Cloutier, Julie; Denis, Pascale L.; Bilodeau, Henriette (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
The aim of this study is to conceptualize and empirically validate the "perceived fairness in the context of collective bargaining", which refers to employees' justice perceptions formed during the collective bargaining process. Using confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) and hierarchical regressions, we find support for discriminant, convergent, and predictive validity. Overall, the results show that this concept includes eight distinct dimensions, combining the two sources of (in)justice (employer and union) and the four types of justice perceptions: procedural, distributive, relational (interpersonal) and informational justice. Employees clearly distinguish eight justice dimensions, which have a differential effect on their attitudes: trust in the employer and satisfaction with the union. Adding to the structural model (Leventhal, 1980) and the process control model (Thibaut and Walker, 1975), this study highlights new bases of justice: usefulness and profitability (cost-benefits ratio).
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Collective bargaining; Discriminant analysis; Employers; Labor Unions; Perceptions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Through Feminist Eyes: Essays on Canadian Women's History - Cobble, Dorothy Sue (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
The article reviews the book, "Through Feminist Eyes: Essays on Canadian Women's History," by Joan Sangster.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Canada; Nonfiction; SANGSTER; Joan; THROUGH Feminist Eyes: Essays on Canadian Women's History (Book); Women

Labor Power: Can Workers Shape Economic Geographies? - Coe, Neil M.; Kelly, Philip F.; Yeung, Henry Wai-Chung (Economic Geography: A Contemporary Introduction, 2012)
Discusses whether capital's mobility always gives it bargaining power over labour, how labour markets are socially regulated and embedded in specific places, how workers can sometimes shape the economic system, the consequences of migration for labour, and possibilities of alternative or noncapitalist labour geographies. Under "Defending Place: Worker Actions in Situ" (pp. 172-174), the authors describe the role of the Canadian Auto Workers in shaping economic development and production in southern Ontario in the 1990s-2000s.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/David-Jordhus-Lier/publication/281579171_Re-embedding_the_agency_of_labour/links/5715fe6b08ae6177286cc8a9/Re-embedding-the-agency-of-labour.pdf
Keywords: Canada; Canadian Auto Workers (CAW); Economic development; Economic geography; Labor unions; Workforce

Le rôle des réseaux patronaux dans la diffusion de la gestion des compétences en France - Colin, Thierry; Grasser, Benoît (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
Written from a neo-institutionalist standpoint, this paper focuses on the influence of employers' networks on the dissemination of managerial practices through the example of skill management in French companies. Previous studies suggest that employers' organizations can be perceived as social networks that affect Human Resources policies. Studying the development of skill management confirms the idea that this type of management becomes institutionalized under the influence of such networks. We evaluate this influence through the use of a quantitative methodology that shows the correlation between the dissemination of skill management techniques and the number of chief executives belonging to employers' networks in a given company. We use data that were collected from 3,000 companies by the French Ministry of Labour for the Reponse survey. Our approach led us to formulate a brief–but new–account of employers' networks in France. But mostly, it allowed us to measure the impact that belonging to these networks has on the implementation of skill management. Though almost three quarters of all 3,000 companies belong or are related to employers' networks, the reality behind this fact is complex and concerns a limited number of the companies considered. We then show that a connection with an employers' network – especially with clubs of heads of human resources or with entrepreneurs' organizations – is one of the reasons why a skill management-oriented human resources policy is adopted. The most influential employers' networks are therefore those that rely on voluntary subscription, the research of legitimacy and the exchange of tools and ideas.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Entrepreneurs; Human resource management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Social networks; Studies

Indigenous Screen Cultures in Canada - Cordova, Amalia (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
The article reviews the book, "Indigenous Screen Cultures in Canada," edited by Sigurjón Baldur Hafsteinsson and Marian Bredin.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; BREDIN; Marian; Canada; HAFSTEINSSON; Sigurjon Baldur; INDIGENOUS Screen Cultures in Canada (Book); Mass media; Nonfiction

A Living Wage as a Human Right - Cornish, Mary (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Ontario Office, 2012)
In Canada, many workers do not earn a living wage because of discrimination. Women workers and those who are racialized, immigrant, Aboriginal, living with disabilities or similarly disadvantaged are all segregated into low wage job ghettoes—their work systemically devalued. Governments and employers need to deliver more equitable compensation incomes for vulnerable workers. This paper explores how we can close discriminatory pay gaps, so that this basic human right — the right to work and to earn pay free of discrimination — is realized for Canada’s low-paid workers. –Website description

Quitter, rester ou progresser ? Les profils d'intentions des agents en centre d'appels - Cossette, Michel; Gosselin, Alain (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
La théorie de l’action raisonnée et les modèles du roulement volontaire ont toujours considéré l’intention de quitter son emploi pour un autre employeur comme le meilleur prédicteur du roulement de personnel. Cependant, dans les faits, les employés disposent de deux autres options, à savoir progresser vers un autre emploi au sein de leur entreprise (roulement interne) ou encore rester dans leur emploi actuel pour une certaine période. Dans une perspective de prévention du roulement, la recherche aurait avantage à identifier des profils d’intentions en fonction de ces trois options. La présente étude vise à vérifier si les employés présentent des profils d’intentions différents et si leur satisfaction au travail, leurs comportements de recherche d’emploi et les taux de roulement volontaire et interne diffèrent selon ces profils.L’analyse des résultats recueillis auprès de 434 agents issus de trois centres d’appels suggère l’existence de quatre profils d’intentions à peu près équivalents en nombre : (1) rester dans l’emploi actuel (forte intention de rester dans l’emploi actuel, faible intention de progresser à l’interne et faible intention de quitter à l’externe); (2) rester en attendant de progresser (forte intention de rester dans l’emploi actuel, mais forte intention de progresser à l’interne et faible intention de quitter à l’externe); (3) priorité à la progression (faible intention de rester dans l’emploi actuel, forte intention de progresser à l’interne et faible intention de quitter à l’externe); (4) priorité à la mobilité (faible intention de rester dans l’emploi actuel, forte intention de progresser à l’interne et de quitter à l’externe).Les résultats de l’étude montrent que ces quatre profils d’intentions présentent des niveaux de satisfaction au travail et des comportements de recherche d’emploi différents. De même, les taux de roulement volontaire du personnel et le taux de roulement interne, mesurés un an plus tard, diffèrent selon les profils d’intention// The theory of reasoned action and voluntary turnover models have always regarded the intention to terminate employment in order to go to another employer as the best predictor of turnover. However, in practice, employees have two other options: to move to another job within the same company (internal turnover) or stay in their current job for an indefinite period. From the perspective of turnover prevention, it would be advantageous if research would identify intention profiles according to these three options. This study aims to explore the different intention profiles of employees and whether job satisfaction, job-search behaviour and rates of voluntary and internal turnover differ according to these profiles. The analysis of results collected from 434 agents from three call centres suggests the existence of four intention profiles, which are about equal in number: (1) Stay in present job (strong intention to remain in current job, low intention to progress internally and low intention to leave for a job externally); (2) Stay whilst waiting to progress (strong intention to remain in current job, but strong intention to progress to a job internally and low intention to leave for a job externally); (3) Priority is to progress (low intention to stay in current job, strong intention to progress internally and low intention to leave for an external job); (4) Priority is to move on (low intention to stay in current job, strong intention to progress internally and leave for a job externally). The results of the study show that these four intention profiles reveal different levels of job satisfaction and job-search behaviour. Similarly, the rates of voluntary staff turnover and internal turnover vary according to the intention profile.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Call centers; Employee turnover; Job satisfaction; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

A Loyalist Plantation in Nova Scotia, 1784-1800 - Cottreau-Robins, Catherine M. A. (Dalhousie University, 2012)
At the close of the American Revolution thousands of American Loyalists were forced into exile and made their way to British colonies beyond the United States. Most of the Loyalists landed in British North America, particularly the Maritimes. Along with the trauma and losses of the conflict, the Loyalists brought with them a way of doing things, an intense political history, and ideas concerning the imperial structure that framed their everyday lives. This dissertation is a study of the Loyalists. Specifically, it explores a prominent Loyalist and his journey from Massachusetts to Nova Scotia along with family members, servants, and labourers, including enslaved persons. A central objective of the dissertation is to illuminate the story of the enslaved and magnify their place in Nova Scotia’s eighteenth century colonial history narrative. The objective is addressed by adapting a holistic perspective that considers a single geography – the plantation. The holistic perspective, developed through an interdisciplinary methodology, explores the people, places and culture that formed the Loyalist plantation and were informed by it. The picture that emerges is one that puts into place the structure and organization of a Loyalist plantation in the late eighteenth century. This dissertation argues that an interdisciplinary approach is fundamental when exploring the subject of the plantation and its inhabitants in Nova Scotia. Through study of the slaveholder and the comparison of his plantation spaces, the dissertation argues for Loyalist continuity. Such continuity confirmed a slaveholding culture during the mass migration. Finally, this dissertation argues that the Loyalist period can be described as Nova Scotia’s Age of Slavery. The Loyalist migration represents an unprecedented arrival of enslaved persons to the province. Furthermore, the Loyalist migration represents the unprecedented arrival of a political and ideological framework that carried within it perceptions of race and seeds of discrimination that took root.
Accepted: 2012-09-05T17:57:01Z

Anti-Poverty Work: Unions, Poor Workers and Collective Action in Canada - Coulter, Kendra (Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada, 2012)
[T]his chapter identifies different forms of anti-poverty work being pursued in Canada today and examines the relations among poor people, poverty and labour unions. ...[The author] concentrates on examples of three main intersections of labour union and anti-poverty relations: union organizing of low-wage workers, poor workers' organizations, and multi-organization campaigns and coalitions. –Editors' introduction
Keywords: History; Labor Unions; Labor movement; Political activity; Political aspects

Casino Women: Courage in Unexpected Places - Coulter, Kendra (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
The article reviews the book, "Casino Women: Courage in Unexpected Places," by Susan Chandler and Jill B. Jones.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CASINO Women: Courage in Unexpected Places (Book); CASINOS – Officials & employees; CHANDLER; Susan; JONES; Jill B.; Nonfiction

Gendering Government: Political Labor and the Production of Policy and Political Culture - Coulter, Kendra (Governing Cultures: Anthropological Perspectives on Political Labor, Power, and Government, 2012)
When I entered Queen’s Park, the provincial legislature in Ontario, Canada, I sought to uncover, contextualize, and analyze what political workers do and why, in order to better understand the production of government. Not long after I started fieldwork, during an informal discussion but one that took place in the mythically sacrosanct space of the legislative chamber, a young male Conservative staffer encouraged a Liberal counterpart to decorate his new motorcycle helmet with a sticker proclaiming “Show me your tits, bitch!” This sort of misogyny, in combination with more subtle daily examples of andro-centrism, made it clear that gender and, in particular, variants of hegemonic masculinity were central to the production of government and what political workers do and why. I learned very quickly that I would need to grapple with the relationships between patriarchy and political labor in order to thoroughly understand government.
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1057/9781137009227 OCLC: 781432429
Keywords: Anthropologie politique; Government policy; Legislative power; Political anthropology; Pouvoir législatif

Governing Cultures: Anthropological Perspectives on Political Labor, Power, and Government - Coulter, Kendra; Schumann, William R. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)
Governments are formal political institutions, places of work for thousands of women and men, and powerful social, cultural, and economic sites that shape the lives of all people. This collection demonstrates how anthropologists enrich our understandings of government by exploring the labor of those who govern, and how the dynamics of culture are at the heart of government actions that justify, modify, and reproduce political action. By assembling original, ethnographically-grounded research in legislatures, executives, and bureaucracies, this volume illuminates and unpacks the structures, practices, and values of government actors in local, regional, and national contexts. It will be of interest to scholars and students in anthropology, as well as sociology, political science, policy studies, and labor studies. –Publisher's description
OCLC: 781432429
Keywords: Anthropologie politique; Government policy; Legislative power; Political anthropology; Pouvoir législatif

Neoliberalising Immigration in Canada: The Pilot Project for Occupations Requiring Lower-Levels of Formal Training and the Expansion of Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program - Cragg, C. Andrew (Trent University, 2012)
There has been a significant expansion in Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) over the past ten years. The Pilot Project for Occupations Requiring Lower Levels of Formal Training (PPORLLFT), a sub program of the TFWP, has been leading this expansion. Drawing upon testimony given to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration, this thesis examines the development and expansion of the program, since its inception in 2002, and shows that it is connected to the ongoing process of neoliberalisation in Canada. One significant example of this connection is the program's support for increases in two-step immigration streams that involve employer sponsorship for successful transition to permanent residency; this increase represents a privatisation of citizenship decisions. More than this, the neoliberal aspects of the PPORLLFT have increased inequality and the ability of employers to have a more disciplined workforce. This has decreased the ability of working people to have influence in their workplace and over economic policy more generally.
Keywords: Immigration; Neoliberalism; Temporary Foreign Workers

Labour Goes to War: The CIO and the Construction of a New Social Order, 1939-45 - Cuthbertson, Wendy (UBC Press, 2012)
During the Second World War, the Congress of Industrial Organizations in Canada grew from a handful of members to more than a quarter-million and from political insignificance to a position of influence in the emergence of the welfare state. What was it about the "good war" that brought about this phenomenal growth? And how did this coming of age during the war affect the emerging CIO? Labour Goes to War analyzes the organizing strategies of the CIO during the war to show that both economic and cultural forces were behind its explosive growth. Labour shortages gave workers greater power in the workplace and increased their militancy. But workers’ patriotism, their ties to those on active service, memories of the First World War, and allegiance to the "people’s war" also contributed to the CIO’s growth - and to what it claimed for workers. At the same time, union organizers and workers influenced one another as the war changed lives, opinions, expectations - and notions of women’s rights. Drawing on an impressive array of archival material, Wendy Cuthbertson illuminates this complex wartime context. Her analysis shows how the war changed lives, opinions, and expectations. She also shows how the complex, often contradictory, motives of workers during this period left the Canadian labour movement with an ambivalent progressive/conservative legacy. –Publisher's description
Book available at Internet Archive to readers with print disabilities: https://archive.org/details/labourgoestowarc0000cuth
Keywords: 20th century. Labor unions; 20th century. Syndicalisation; Canada; Histoire; History; Labor Unions; Ontario; Organizing; Organizing. Labor unions; Political activity; Political activity. Social conditions

In a Pinch: Snow Crab and the Politics of Crisis in Newfoundland - Davis, Reade; Korneski, Kurt (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
Drawing on historical sources and interviews, this paper discusses several key forces that have shaped the development of the snow crab (Chionoecetes opilio) fishery in Newfoundland. Once commonly discarded as a pest, snow crab has emerged as the economic foundation of many rural coastal communities since the cod moratorium of the early 1990s. While this fishery has brought unprecedented prosperity to some commercial fishers, it has also been prone to significant price fluctuations and the benefits accruing from it have not been widely shared. Accordingly, it has also been marked by frequent and often bitter conflicts between different crab fishing fleet sectors and between crab fishers, processing companies, and processing plant workers. These tensions reflect fundamentally different visions of how to sustain the fishery into the future and which priorities should decide who benefits most from the crab resource.
Keywords: Economic conditions; FISHERS; FISHERY processing plants; Fisheries; History; NEWFOUNDLAND & Labrador; SNOW crab fisheries

Labour and Literature in the 'West Beyond the West' - Diotte, Mark Vincent (University of British Columbia, 2012)
The literature of British Columbia and the study of labour therein have been largely ignored in academic criticism. I address this deficiency by foregrounding labour in the prose literature of British Columbia as well as the significance of British Columbia literature itself. My introductory literature review demarcates the field, situates the authors and texts I take up, and points to the general importance of such a study. Chapter two begins by analyzing the male-dominant labour narrative in Bertrand Sinclair’s The Inverted Pyramid and Roderick Haig-Brown’s On the Highest Hill and Timber—each focused on the theme of logging. Rather than an overarching argument, the section on Sinclair addresses many concepts, including Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of fields, a connection between environmental conservationism and loggers, and a cooperative economic model that opposes capitalism. Likewise, in Haig-Brown I focus on his treatment of danger in the logging industry, the oft-forgotten history of Canada’s national parks, the way that language connects people to nature, and the presence of homosocial and homosexual relationships in logging. My project shifts in chapter three from logging to orcharding and from novels to three works of creative non-fiction by Harold Rhenisch:Out of the Interior: The Lost Country, Tom Thomson’s Shack, and The Wolves at Evelyn: Journeys through a Dark Century. Operating out of a site of tension and contradiction,Rhenisch resists what he sees as the dominant discourses in the Interior of British Columbia. In my fourth chapter I return to novels but move from a study of manual labour to white collar labour. Here the phrase “white collar” becomes an analytical lens to view labour stratification, exploitation, authorship, sexism, and agency in Douglas Coupland’s JPod, Robert Harlow’s Scann, and Jen Sookfong Lee’s the end of east. In chapter five, I conclude by using Daphne Marlatt’s novel Ana Historic as a way to reflect on the positions of chapters two through four. Marlatt’s criticism of male dominant conceptions of history and patriarchal systems of power illuminates the texts I have taken up and reveals possibilities for further analysis, debate, and discussion.

Canada - Docherty, J. C. (James C.) (Historical Dictionary of Organized Labor, 2012)
Keywords: Labor movement – History – Encyclopedias

Pay Structure, Female Representation and the Gender Pay Gap among University Professors - Doucet, Christine; Smith, Michael R.; Durand, Claire (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
This research uses data from a large Canadian research university to explore the sources of the gender pay gap. It is the first analysis of the joint impact on the pay gap of two recent factors: the increased use by universities of market supplements and the implementation of the Canada Research Chairs program. In addition, it considers both individual and structural determinants of the remuneration gap, something few other studies have done. We examine the contributions to the gap of the following: base pay, promotion to full professor, access to market supplements, and amounts of market supplements. We show that the effects of these factors vary with the proportions of female faculty members within units and that the magnitude of gender differences may vary with the degree of formalization in remuneration practices.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Compensation; Labor Unions; Pay structure; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; University professors; Wage differential; Womens studies

Visages de l'intérim en France et dans le monde - Dumaine, Jean-Nickolas (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
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

L'économie de la fonctionnalité : une voie nouvelle vers un développement durable ? - Dumas, P. Martin (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
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

Gender, Health, and Popular Culture: Historical Perspectives - Dyck, Erika (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
The article reviews the book, "Gender, Health, and Popular Culture: Historical Perspectives," edited by Cheryl Krasnick Warsh.
Keywords: 1970-; BOOKS – Reviews; GENDER; Health & Popular Culture: Historical Perspectives (Book); Nonfiction; Social history; WARSH; Cheryl Lynn Krasnick; 1957-

The Class Idea: Politics, Ideology, and Class Formation in the United States and Canada in the Twentieth Century - Eidlin, Barry (University of California, Berkeley, 2012)
Why are class politics more prevalent in Canada than in the U.S., even though the two countries share similar cultures, societies, and economies? Many view this crossborder distinction as a byproduct of longstanding differences in political cultures and institutions, but I find that it is actually a relatively recent divergence resulting from how the working class was politically incorporated in both countries before, during, and after World War II. My central argument is that in Canada, this incorporation process embedded "the class idea"–the idea of class as a salient, legitimate political category–more deeply in policies, institutions, and practices than in the U.S.Out of the social and political struggles of that period emerged two working class movements that, although bearing a surface resemblance, were organized along different logics. In Canada, the working class was incorporated as a class representative, whereas in the U.S. It was incorporated as an interest group. That difference in political incorporation enabled or constrained labor's legitimacy and organizational capacity in different ways in both countries. Canadian labor's role as a class representative legitimized it and expanded its organizational capacity, while U.S. labor's role as an interest group delegitimized it and undermined its organizational capacity.I show this through a detailed analysis of trajectories of labor movement strength in both countries over the course of the twentieth century, as measured by unionization rates, or union density. Starting from the observation that union density was very similar in both countries until the mid-1960s, then diverged, I first examine competing explanations for this divergence. Having illustrated their strengths and limitations, I then develop an argument showing how the divergence in working class organizational strength was the outcome of struggles for political incorporation.I identify two key moments that shaped these different processes of political incorporation. The first was the restructuring of party-class alliances in both countries in the 1930s and 40s, where U.S. labor decisively abandoned the project of building an independent working class party in favor of an alliance with the Democratic Party, at the same moment that Canadian labor forged an independent class alliance with progressive agrarian forces under the banner of the CCF. The second was differences in the effects of postwar Red scares on the relationship between labor and the left in both countries. While anti-Communism took its toll on working class movements in both countries, the labor-left alliance was severed in the U.S., but only strained in Canada. The outcome of these processes was a U.S. labor movement that conceived of itself more as an interest group representing a specific constituency within the Democratic Party, and a Canadian labor movement that conceived of itself more as a class representative with closer ties to a broader social movement.Differences in labor's political incorporation also shaped the formation and development of the regimes governing labor-management relations in both countries. The Canadian labor regime was created as a result of working class upsurge from below, whereas the U.S. labor regime was created as part of an elite reform project from above. This original difference influenced the organizing logics of each regime. Whereas the Canadian labor regime was organized around recognizing the existence of class conflict and seeking to mitigate it, the U.S. regime was organized around protecting workers' individual rights. Although this created a more interventionist Canadian system that restricted labor's scope of action in important ways, it also reinforced a collective, oppositional class identity vis-à-vis both employers and the state. Meanwhile, the U.S. system's focus on rights led to a stronger focus on legalistic proceduralism and imposing a formal equality between labor and management that obscured the power imbalance inherent in the employment relationship. Additionally, labor drew different lessons from these different processes of regime formation. Whereas Canadian labor learned the value of winning gains through disruptive mass mobilization, U.S. labor learned the value of winning gains through sympathetic politicians and favorable legal precedents.The combination of a more protective and institutionally stable labor regime and a labor movement more accustomed to winning gains through mass mobilization, Canadian labor was better positioned to defend itself than its U.S. counterpart when employers began a counter-offensive beginning in the late 1960s. While U.S. labor spiraled into decline, Canadian labor proved more resilient, leading to the divergence in union density rates.

Long-Term Consequences of Natural Resource Booms for Human Capital Accumulation - Emery, J.C. Herbert; Ferrer, Ana; Green, David (Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2012)
Tight labor markets driven by resource booms could increase the opportunity cost of schooling and crowd out human capital formation. For oil-producing economies such as the Province of Alberta, the OPEC oil shocks during the period from 1973 to 1981 may have had an adverse long-term effect on the productivity of the labor force if the oil boom resulted in workers reducing their ultimate investment in human capital rather than merely altering the timing of schooling. The authors analyze the effect of this decade-long oil boom on the long-term human capital investments and productivity for Alberta birth cohorts that were of normal schooling ages before, during, and after the oil boom. Their findings suggest that resource booms may change the timing of schooling but they do not reduce the total accumulation of human capital.

Raising the Workers' Flag: The Workers' Unity League of Canada, 1930-1936 - Endicott, Stephen Lyon (University of Toronto Press, 2012)
During the Great Depression, the conflicting interests of capital and labour became clearer than ever before. Radical Canadian workers, encouraged by the Red International of Labour Unions, responded by building the Workers' Unity League – an organization that greatly advanced the cause of unions in Canada, and boasted 40,000 members at its height. In Raising the Workers' Flag, the first full-length study of this robust group, Stephen L. Endicott brings its passionate efforts to light in memorable detail. Raising the Workers' Flag is based on newly available or previously untapped sources, including documents from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's Security Service and the Communist Party's archives. Using these impressive finds, Endicott gives an intimate sense of the raging debates of the labour movement of the 1930s. A gripping account of the League's dreams and daring, Raising the Workers' Flag enlivens some of the most dramatic struggles of Canadian labour history. – Publisher's description
Keywords: Economic conditions; History; Labor Unions; Politics and government; Social conditions; Working class

Sounds of Ethnicity: Listening to German North America, 1850-1914 - Epp, Marlene (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
The article reviews the book, "Sounds of Ethnicity: Listening to German North America, 1850-1914," by Barbara Lorenzkowski.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; GERMANS; History; LORENZKOWSKI; Barbara; Nonfiction; SOUNDS of Ethnicity: Listening to German North America 1850-1914 (Book)

Champagne and Meatballs: Adventures of a Canadian Communist - Epp, Stefan (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
The article reviews the book, "Champagne and Meatballs: Adventures of a Canadian Communist," by Bert Whyte, edited by Larry Hannant.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CHAMPAGNE & Meatballs: Adventures of a Canadian Communist (Book); Canada; Communism; HANNANT; Larry; Nonfiction; WHYTE; Bert

The New Democratic Party in the Era of Neoliberalism - Evans, Bryan (Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada, 2012)
Provides a critical assessment of labour's longstanding relationship with the NDP and makes the case that organized labour's own "culture of defensiveness" has helped to maintain its enduring links with the NDP, despite the party's diminishing interest in projects historically associated with social democracy. –Editor's introduction
Keywords: History; Labor Unions; Labor movement; Political activity; Political aspects

Envisioning Equality: Analogous Grounds and Farm Workers' Experience of Discrimination - Faraday, Fay (Constitutional Labour Rights in Canada: Farm Workers and the Fraser Case, 2012)
Compares the case law on Fraser and Dunsmore and critiques the Supreme Court's failure in Fraser to address the functional nature of the discrimination against farm workers as an issue of equality rights under Section 15 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms,
Keywords: Agricultural laborers; Canada. Collective bargaining; Canada. Employee rights; Canada. Freedom of association; Canada. Liberté d'association; Canada. Migrant agricultural laborers; Canada. Négociations collectives; Canada. Personnel; Canada. Travailleurs agricoles; Canada. Travailleurs agricoles migrants; Droit; Droits; Law and legislation; Legal status; laws; etc.

Made in Canada - Faraday, Fay (Metcalf Foundation, 2012)
In the past decade, Canada’s labour market has undergone a significant shift to rely increasingly on migrant workers who come to Canada from around the globe on time-limited work permits to provide labour in an expanding range of industries. Since 2000, the number of migrant workers employed in Canada has more than tripled. Expanding in response to employer demand, with little public debate, the greatest proportionate growth in migrant labour has been among low-skill, low-wage workers in sectors such as caregiving, agriculture, hospitality, food services, construction and tourism. This report provides a critical analysis of the federal and provincial laws that regulate and constrain the rights of low-wage migrant workers, proposes a rights-based framework to assess their treatment, identifies the ways in which the law constructs migrant workers’ insecurity through each stage of the labour migration cycle, and examines options for systemic change to increase workers’ security.... Executive summary

In the Mood for Munsingwear: Minnesota's Claim to Underwear Fame - Fields, Jill (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
The article reviews the book, "In the Mood for Munsingwear: Minnesota's Claim to Underwear Fame," by Susan Marks.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; IN the Mood for Munsingwear: Minnesota's Claim to Underwear Fame (Book); MARKS; Susan; MUNSINGWEAR Inc. – History; Nonfiction

Welfare - Finkel, Alvin (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
The article reviews the book, "Welfare," by Mary Daly.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; DALY; Mary; Nonfiction; PUBLIC welfare; WELFARE (Book : Daly)

Opportunity Denied: Limiting Black Women to Devalued Work - Flynn, Karen (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
The article reviews the book, "Opportunity Denied: Limiting Black Women to Devalued Work," by Enobong Hannah Branch.
Keywords: BLACK women; BOOKS – Reviews; BRANCH; Enobong Hannah; Employment; Nonfiction; OPPORTUNITY Denied: Limiting Black Women to Devalued Work (Book)

Michel Chartrand : les dires d'un homme de parole - Foisy, Fernand (Lanctôt, 2012)
"Michel Chartrand/Les dires d'un homme de parole" est composé d'extraits de discours et d'entrevues qui s'échelonnent sur près de trente ans de vie syndicale active. Ces textes, ces réflexions, ces discours témoignent d'une même volonté, parfois provocatrice, de dénoncer la bêtise et l'injustice où qu'elles soient. Michel Chartrand est un des plus anciens leaders syndicaux du Québec. Depuis qu'il milite en faveur des plus démunis de la société, les gouvernements se sont succédé, les uns ont été remplacés par d'autres, parfois plus progressistes, et ses propos demeurent toujours d'actualité. Ce qu'il dénonçait durant les années soixante l'appauvrissement des classes populaires, le gaspillage et la dilapidation honteuse de nos richesses, l'insécurité des travailleurs, le manque de prévoyance des grands patrons d'industrie doit toujours l'être aujourd'hui. Et ce qu'il pronait hier la justice sociale, la solidarité entre les humains, la liberté d'expression fait encore partie des grandes priorités de l'heure. –Résumé de l'éditeur
https://classiques.uqam.ca/contemporains/foisy_fernand/michel_chartrand_dires/chartrand_dires.html OCLC: 1097826793
Keywords: Biographies; Chartrand; Michel; 1916- Citations; Chartrand; Michel; 1916- Entretiens; Chartrand; Michel; 1916- Pensée politique et sociale; Dirigeants syndicaux Québec (Province) Biographies; Labor leaders; Labor leaders Québec (Province) Biography; Québec; Syndicalism; Syndicalism Québec (Province); Syndicalisme Québec (Province)

May Day: A Graphic History of Protest - Folvik, Robin; Graphic History Collective (Group) (Between the Lines, 2012)
[This booklet] traces the development of International Workers’ Day, May 1st, against the ever-changing economic and political backdrop in Canada. Recognizing the importance of work and the historical struggles of workers to improve their lives, with a particular focus on the struggles of May 1st, the comic includes the reader as part of this history, and the story concludes that “We are all part of this historical struggle; it’s our history and our future." –Publisher's description
OCLC: 1127998058

Making Temporary Permanent: The Silent Transformation of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program - Foster, Jason (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2012)
During the mid–2000s the number of temporary foreign workers (TFWs) present in Canada increased dramatically, more than tripling in eight years. The bulk of the increase was due to an expansion of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) to include lower–skilled occupations. The stated reason for the expansion was to address short–term labour shortages. Contrary to expectations, upon the onset of the economic downturn in 2008, the number of TFWs did not decrease significantly, and appears to be increasing again in 2010 and 2011. This paper tracks the evolution of the TFWP from a stable program designed to address short–term labour needs in high–skilled occupations into a broader labour market tool. The paper examines the most recent available statistical data for the TFWP and other documentary evidence to argue the role of the TFWP in Canada´s labour market has quietly shifted, becoming a permanent, large–scale labour pool for many industries, reminiscent of European migrant worker programs. The paper also examines the potential labour market implications of an expanded, entrenched TFWP.

Interactions between Dispatchers and Truck Drivers in a High Turnover Context - Fournier, Pierre-Sébastien; Lamontagne, Sophie; Gagnon, Julie (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
This article focuses on interactions between dispatchers and drivers in addressing issues related to high turnover in the trucking industry. The study uses a qualitative approach, based on 17 individual interviews and three group discussions with dispatchers, truck drivers and labour and management representatives from 11 different Quebec-based organizations. The results reveal four key characteristics influencing the day-to-day dynamics of trucking operations: 1) the importance of dispatcher-driver interactions in efficient and quality work operations; 2) the precedence of customer satisfaction in these interactions; 3) the interdependent nature of the dispatcher-driver relationship; and 4) the role of listening and mutual respect. These findings provide new insight into understanding this relationship that is critical to driver retention.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Customer satisfaction; Employee turnover; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Truck drivers

Does Fighting Back Still Matter? The Canadian Autoworkers, Capitalist Crisis and Confrontation - Fowler, Tim (Capital & Class, 2012)
This article examines the round of collective bargaining that took place between the Canadian Autoworkers (CAW), Canada’s largest private-sector union, and the ‘Big Three’ auto manufacturers (Ford, Chrysler, and General Motors) during the most recent crisis of capitalism (sometimes popularly referred to as the ‘Great Recession’). During this round of bargaining, the union made concessions in order to secure production; the article argues what while this may have represented a short-term success, in the long run the union has implicitly bought into the logics of neoliberalism, which will have disastrous consequences for both the union and the larger labour movement.
Keywords: Autoworkers; Neoliberalism; capitalist crisis; union renewal

Le péril rouge: la première guerre canadienne contre le terrorisme, 1918-1919 - Francis, Daniel (Lux, 2012)
À la fin de la Première Guerre mondiale, le Canada menace de basculer dans une révolution sociale. Rassemblements et mobilisations des milieux ouvriers se succèdent durant l’hiver 1918-1919 et culminent avec la grève générale de Winnipeg en mai-juin 1919. Le mouvement est finalement écrasé par l’armée sur l’ordre de Robert Borden, premier ministre de l’époque. Cette suite d’événements, qui correspond dans les faits à un conflit de travail généralisé, est immédiatement associée par les autorités à la menace d’une révolution bolchevique. Le gouvernement et les médias lancent une grande campagne de diabolisation à l’endroit des chefs syndicaux et autres leaders politiques. Le but, bien évidemment, est d’user de la peur que suscitent partout les rouges pour étouffer le conflit social, et d’obtenir le soutien de l’opinion publique pour l’éradication de toute activité politique jugée radicale. Fondé sur des documents officiels et des témoignages de première main, cet ouvrage raconte un épisode méconnu mais déterminant de l’histoire canadienne. La campagne contre « le péril rouge » a joué un rôle fondamental dans la répression des conflits de travail de l’entre-deux-guerres. Depuis, la même recette a été utilisée pour les mêmes raisons. En outre, les parallèles avec la guerre actuelle contre le terrorisme se font sans effort. Aujourd’hui comme hier, les libertés d’expression et de contestation de l’ordre établi sont contraintes au nom d’une sécurité nationale aux frontières desquelles semblent s’arrêter les droits civils. –Résumé de l'éditeur
Keywords: Anticommunisme; Grève générale; Winnipeg; Man.; 1919; Histoire; Influence

Labour Rights: A Democratic Counterweight to Growing Income Inequality in Canada - Fudge, Derek (Constitutional Labour Rights in Canada: Farm Workers and the Fraser Case, 2012)
Examines the Supreme Court's decision on Fraser in the context of the broader political battle on labour rights. The author links the decline in union density to increasing inequality in income and taxation. Canada's failure to ratify or comply with international conventions of labour rights is also analyzed.
Keywords: Agricultural laborers; Canada. Arbeitsrecht. Verfassungsrecht; Canada. Collective bargaining; Canada. Employee rights; Canada. Freedom of association; Canada. Liberté d'association; Canada. Migrant agricultural laborers; Canada. Négociations collectives; Canada. Personnel; Canada. Travailleurs agricoles; Canada. Travailleurs agricoles migrants; Droit; Droits; Law and legislation; Legal status; laws; etc.

Constitutional Rights, Collective Bargaining and the Supreme Court of Canada: Retreat and Reversal in the Fraser Case - Fudge, Judy (Industrial Law Journal, 2012)
The scope of labour rights that are protected by constitutional protections of freedom of association is highly contested and, increasingly, is being litigated before courts. In Canada, the Supreme Court began in 2001 to chip away at jurisprudence that provided a narrow interpretation of freedom of association, and, in 2007, it over-ruled precedent to hold that freedom of association includes collective bargaining. However, this incremental expansion of the freedom of association to include core labour rights came to a halt in the Supreme Court's April 2011 decision Attorney General of Ontario v Fraser. Although a majority of the Court agreed that freedom of association includes collective bargaining, Fraser is remarkable for the extent of disagreement amongst members of the Court over the scope of collective bargaining and how this disagreement has influenced the tone and cogency of the Court's reasoning. This article begins by providing a history of the successive rounds of litigation leading to the Supreme Court's decision in Fraser. This legal context is important because it is barely visible in the majority and concurring judgments, which read as if collective bargaining rights for agricultural workers were a subsidiary concern, and not the issue in dispute. The article then examines the four judgments that make up the Supreme Court of Canada's decision in Fraser, focusing exclusively on the freedom of association arguments. The implications of the Fraser decision for the immediate future of constitutional litigation and labour rights in Canada are discussed in the final section.

Introduction: Farm Workers, Collective Bargaining Rights, and the Meaning of Constitutional Protection - Fudge, Judy (Constitutional Labour Rights in Canada: Farm Workers and the Fraser Case, 2012)
Explains in detail the purpose of the book (see publisher's description) and provides a synopsis of the essays contained therein.
Keywords: Agricultural laborers; Canada. Collective bargaining; Canada. Employee rights; Canada. Freedom of association; Canada. Liberté d'association; Canada. Migrant agricultural laborers; Canada. Négociations collectives; Canada. Personnel; Canada. Travailleurs agricoles; Canada. Travailleurs agricoles migrants; Droit; Droits; Law and legislation; Legal status; laws; etc.

Constitutional Labour Rights in Canada: Farm Workers and the Fraser Case - Fudge, Judy; Tucker, Eric; Faraday, Fay (Irwin Law, 2012)
On 29 April 2011, the Supreme Court of Canada released its much-anticipated decision in Attorney General of Ontario v Fraser, which dealt with the scope of constitutional protection of collective bargaining. The case involved a constitutional challenge to an Ontario statute on the grounds that it violated agricultural workers’ freedom of association and right to equality by excluding them from the statutory protection that is available to virtually all other private sector workers and by failing to provide them with alternative legislative support for meaningful and effective collective bargaining rights. Although the Court upheld the constitutionality of the legislation by an eight to one majority, it provided four different, and incommensurable, sets of reasons. For the union that instigated the litigation, Fraser is a defeat. For the labour movement and their advocates, Fraser is ambiguous. What is clear, however, is that the Supreme Court of Canada was badly divided over the scope of protection that freedom of association provides to the right to bargain collectively. This collection of original essays untangles the two stories that are intertwined in the Fraser decision—the story of the farm workers and their union’s attempt to obtain rights at work available to other working people in Ontario, and the tale of judicial discord over the meaning of freedom of association in the context of work. The contributors include trade unionists, lawyers, and academics (several of whom were involved in Fraser as witnesses, parties, lawyers, and interveners). The collection provides the social context out of which the decision emerged, including a photo essay on migrant workers, while at the same time illuminating Fraser’s broader jurisprudential and institutional implications. –Publisher's description
Keywords: Agricultural laborers; Canada. Arbeitsrecht. Verfassungsrecht; Canada. Collective bargaining; Canada. Employee rights; Canada. Freedom of association; Canada. Liberté d'association; Canada. Migrant agricultural laborers; Canada. Négociations collectives; Canada. Personnel; Canada. Travailleurs agricoles; Canada. Travailleurs agricoles migrants; Droit; Droits; Law and legislation; Legal status; laws; etc.

Japanese-Canadian Internally Displaced Persons: Labour Relations and Ethno-Religious Identity in Southern Alberta, 1942-1953 - Fujiwara, Aya (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
This article examines the resettlement of Japanese-Canadian internally displaced persons (IDPS), who were relocated from the West Coast of British Columbia to sugar beet communities in southern Alberta between 1942 and 1953. It argues that the IDPS, assisted both by pre-World War II Japanese residents in southern Alberta and by the federal government, contributed to the rising awareness of ethnic rights. For this purpose, my study adds two new angles to the study of human rights and Japanese Canadians. First, while ethnic activism for human rights has often been examined in an urban context, it was the negotiations in the local sphere between the Alberta Sugar Beet Growers' Association and Japanese IDPS that played a significant role in promoting human rights. Second, this study applies both local and transnational contexts to the question of Japanese-Canadian IDPS, which has hitherto been studied only in terms of state violence against, an ethnic minority. The Japanese IDPS retained Pure Land Buddhism as a symbol of their loyalty to Japan, and the religion strengthened its influence in southern Alberta as a focal point of their identity.
Keywords: Agricultural laborers; Alberta; BUDDHISM; Canada; EVACUATION & relocation; 1942-1945; Ethnicity; HUMAN rights; History; IDENTIFICATION (Religion); INTERNALLY displaced persons; Industrial relations; JAPANESE; SUGAR beet industry – History

La place du care dans la transmission des savoirs professionnels entre anciens et nouveaux à l'hôpital - Gaudart, Corinne; Thébault, Jeanne (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
This article presents results from research carried out in France on the transmission of professional knowledge between more experienced nurses and healthcare assistants and the new recruits. Based on an ergonomic analysis of three transmission situations, this article analyzes the place of care when passing on knowledge, looking at organizational, individual and collective aspects. It is suggested that transmission should be considered as a nodal activity. It is certainly an activity that ensures that links can be established within the profession and that there can be discussion between staff with different levels of experience and different career paths; however, it is also an area of tension between the demands of the organization and those of the profession, especially in relation to the cure and care of patients. One of the key points in relation to transmission is that it ensures that existing and new staff remain healthy and are able to provide the quality of work to which they aspire.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Knowledge management; Labor Unions; Nurses; Organizational behavior; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Global Knowledge Work: Diversity and Relational Perspectives - Gauthier, Carol-Anne (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
Global Knowledge Work: Diversity and Relational Perspectives, edited by Katerina Nicolopoulou, Mine Karatas-Ozkan, Ahu Tatli and John Taylor, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Career development planning; Labor Unions; Skills; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Workplace diversity

Brokering Belonging: Chinese in Canada's Exclusion Era, 1885-1945 - Geiger, Andrea (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
The article reviews the book, "Brokering Belonging: Chinese in Canada's Exclusion Era, 1885-1945," by Lisa Rose Mar.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; BROKERING Belonging: Chinese in Canada's Exclusion Era 1885-1945 (Book); Chinese Canadians; History; MAR; Lisa Rose; Nonfiction

Negotiating Risk, Seeking Security, Eroding Solidarity: Life and Work on the Border - Gibbs, Holly; Yates, Charlotte A. B. (Charlotte Alyce Bronwen); Leach, Belinda (Fernwood Publishing, 2012)
Through a series of interviews with workers in the automotive parts industry, Negotiating Risk argues that the restructuring of labour markets and welfare states, paired with firm-level work and management reorganization, has exposed working-class families to greater levels of job risk and insecurity. Focusing on workers in Canada and Mexico and using a gender and race analysis, this book paints a bleak portrait of the lives of working people, where workers and their families continually renegotiate the effects of neo-liberal economic and social change. These changes see individuals working harder, longer and travelling further from home to keep their jobs, while straining familial and community relations and eroding the basis for worker solidarity and collective action. –Publisher's description. Contents: Negotiating risk, seeking security, eroding solidarity – Labour markets, the state and work through the lens of the automotive parts industry – Communities and their labour markets – Experiencing risk and seeking security – Gendered practices of coping with risk and insecurity – Sustaining livelihoods through mobility – Whither solidarity?
https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/negotiating-risk-seeking-security-eroding-solidarity
Keywords: Canada. Automobile supplies industry; Canada. Automobiles; Canada. Labor market; Canada. Labor mobility; Canada. Working class families; Labor market; Mexico. Automobile supplies industry; Mexico. Labor mobility; Mexico. Working class families; Mexique. Automobiles

The Spoils of the Tar Sands: Profits, Work and Labour in Alberta - Gibson, Diana; Boychuk, Regan (Boom, Bust and Crisis: Labour, Corporate Power and Politics in Canada, 2012)
Examines the effect of the Tar Sands oil boom on the Alberta economy and society, and the business-friendly policies of the provincial government of Ralph Klein (in office, 1992-2006).
Keywords: Business and politics; Economic conditions; Employee rights; Industrial relations; Labor policy

The Canadian Association of University Teachers and the Rise of Faculty Power, 1951–1970 - Gidney, Catherine (Debating Dissent: Canada and the Sixties, 2012)
[The author] reminds us that faculty power, and not only student power, helped to change the structure and governance of the modern university. –From editors' introduction
Book available at Internet Archive to people with print disabilities: https://archive.org/details/debatingdissentc0000unse

L'émergence de la modernité urbaine au Québec. Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, 1880-1930 - Gilbert, Dale (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
The article reviews the book, "L'émergence de la modernité urbaine au Québec. Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, 1880-1930," by Jean Gaudette.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; GAUDETTE; Jean; History; L'EMERGENCE de la modernite urbaine au Quebec: Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu 1880-1930 (Book); Nonfiction; SAINT-Jean-sur-Richelieu (Quebec)

Permanent Worker, Temporary Resident: Media Representations of Canada's Live-in Caregiver Program - Gilliland, Julia Sarah Jane (University of Victoria, 2012)
The Live-in Caregiver Program is a temporary foreign worker program that allows workers to come to Canada in order to labour as private caregivers for children, the elderly, and disabled individuals. This program allows caregivers to apply for permanent residency after the successful completion of 24 months of full time work. There are a number of scholars, advocacy groups, former caregivers, and other parties that have raised concerns about certain regulations of this program. For example, caregivers under this program have an employer-specific work permit, must live in the homes of the employers, and have no external monitoring of their work environments. Subsequently, the Live-in Caregiver Program has been seen as problematic because of the high number of abusive labour situations. This thesis is dedicated to an analysis of how the Canadian news print media represents the Live-in Caregiver Program. Although there has been much research done on migrant care work within Canada, and around the world, there are few studies on how the news media construct arguments that describe these transnational labour flows. The main topics that guided the research questions for this thesis were: temporary foreign worker programs; citizenship status; globalized, gendered, and racial stereotypes; the live-in regulation; employer specific work permits, and power relations in the labour relationship. This research was not geared to proving or disproving the main findings of key migrant domestic worker literature, rather it was focused on how these conclusions are interpreted, transferred and argued within a publically accessible format, Canadian news print media. This analysis revealed how journalists within Canadian news media construct important cultural narratives to persuade audiences to either reject the LCP as exploitative and problematic, or embrace it as economically beneficial.
Keywords: Social sciences

Le professionnalisme et l'éthique au travail - Girard, Diane (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
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

Harvesting Power and Subjugation: Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program in Historical Context - Glassco, Clare (Trent University, 2012)
This thesis explores the Canadian state's rationale for the creation and perpetuation of the Seasonal Agricultural Worker's Program (SAWP). Informed by and building on the writing of Canadian political economists, this thesis provides a composite history of the program from its creation in 1966 to its current-day incarnation. While many scholars have looked to neo-liberalism to analyze the program, SAWP existed long before the term entered the political lexicon and instead fits into a much longer history of racialized immigration and labour policies in Canada. Therefore, though we need to understand the changes wrought by neo-liberalism, we must also acknowledge the historical continuities inherent in SAWP: no matter who was in office, and what political ideology they subscribed to, migrant labour schemes have consistently been relied onto support the state's project of aiding the accumulation of wealth and filling the labour vacuum left behind by Canadians who gained safer, more secure, and more lucrative employment elsewhere.
Keywords: Social sciences

Breccia: Haiku and Related Forms - Golas, Irene; Fay, Ignatius (Irene Golas, Ignatius Fay, Lulu.com, 2012)
We chose Breccia as our title to reflect the nature of the [poetry] collection and our geographical location in Sudbury, Ontario. ...One section of this book, "Sudbury Breccia," grew out of a few poems about that northern mining town. We were attracted to the idea of examining life in such a town from World War II into the new millennium as seen through the eyes of a haiku poet. The diverse cultural mix of the miners themselves further enhances the breccia theme. The earliest miners were, primarily, a mélange of European immigrants who relocated to find a better life. This potpourri was enriched by large numbers of immigrants and displaced persons fleeing a war-ravaged Europe. The result was a northern Ontario mining culture with a distinctly varied foundation. –From authors' introduction. Six haiku by Ignatius Fay: headlamps off / inky black and the sounds / of shifting rock – dad's St. Christopher / black with sweat / and mine dust – two p.m. / the school shudders / with the mine's daily blast – moving day / his father's job lost / to a Scooptram – retired from mining / the school janitor's limp / worse in autumn – played-out mine site - / the green of young thistles / in rust-stained soil. Tanka by Ignatius Fay: Levack North Mine / sixteen-hundred-foot level / the weight / of three billion years / over my head.

The Thought of Work - Gomez, Rafael (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
The Thought of Work, by John W. Budd, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employee management relations; Employment; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

International and Comparative Employment Relations: Globalisation and change, 5th ed. - Gould, Anthony (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
The article reviews "International and Comparative Employment Relations: Globalisation and Change," 5th edition, edited by Greg J. Bamber, Russell D. Lansbury and Nick Wailes.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Changes; Globalization; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Industrial Relations, the Economy and Society, 4th ed. - Gould, Anthony M. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
Industrial Relations, the Economy and Society, 4th edition, by John Godard, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Québec Labour: Days of Glory or the Same Old Story? - Graefe, Peter (Rethinking the Politics of Labour in Canada, 2012)
Provides an analysis of labour politics in Québec, arguing that the distinct trajectory of Québec unions caused the movement to adopt political strategies which diverged from those of the Canadian labour movement as a whole. –Editor's introduction
Keywords: History; Labor Unions; Labor movement; Political activity; Political aspects

Whither the Quebec Model? Boom, Bust and Quebec Labour - Graefe, Peter (Boom, Bust and Crisis: Labour, Corporate Power and Politics in Canada, 2012)
Analyzes the Quebec economy from the mid 1990s to the financial crisis of 2008-09, including stagnant wages and the trend toward precarious work. Emphasis is placed on the ambivalent state of the labour movement. The conclusion calls for the movement to become more inclusive, and to defend the distinctive Quebec model of programs, such as daycare.
Keywords: Business and politics; Economic conditions; Employee rights; Industrial relations; Labor policy

Sociologie de la négociation, nouvelle édition - Grenier, Jean-Noël (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
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

Introduction - Grenier, Jean-Noël; Jalette, Patrice (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
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

« Le jour du Seigneur vendu à l'encan » : regard sur la Commission d'enquête sur l'observance du dimanche dans les industries de pâtes et papiers du Québec (1964-1966) - Guillette, Bruno-Pierre (Université du Québec à Montréal, 2012)
Le Lord's Day Act interdit le travail le dimanche en 1906, mais autorise les travaux jugés nécessaires. Les compagnies papetières québécoises peuvent effectuer les travaux d'entretien et de nettoyage, mais ne peuvent pas produire le dimanche. L' industrie papetière exige la production continue et menace de freiner ses investissements au Québec si le gouvernement ne permet pas le fonctionnement des machines le dimanche. Le gouvernement Lesage instaure donc la Commission d'enquête sur l'observance du dimanche dans les usines de pâtes et papiers en 1964. Le jour du Seigneur fut essentiellement traité comme une question religieuse par les historiens, mais l'attachement pour la conservation du repos dominical déborde les questionnements sur le sécularisme ou la piété populaire. Cette commission instaurée pour régler un problème technique cache un profond conflit de valeurs entre les différents acteurs sociaux. Différentes façons de concevoir le bien commun et le progrès social y sont avancées. Aux séances de la commission, plusieurs groupes et individus font valoir leurs points de vue. Les représentants des compagnies papetières exigent unanimement la production le dimanche pour accroître la production. Pour les groupes religieux, la sanctification du dimanche est une manifestation collective vitale pour la cohésion de la famille, de la paroisse et de la société. Quant à eux, les travailleurs et leurs syndicats défendent l' idée d' un repos commun hebdomadaire et dénoncent le travail par rotation d'équipes. Les débats lors de la Commission Alleyn permettent de mettre en relief une confrontation culturelle à l' intérieur d'un rapport économique de production, tout en offrant un éclairage sur le bouleversement des nouveaux rapports sociaux en plein coeur de la Révolution tranquille.
https://cha-shc.ca/prize-winner/bruno-pierre-guillette/
Keywords: Alleyn; Commission d'enquête; Culture populaire; Dimanche; Temps de travail; Industrie papetière; Église; Religion; Repos dominical; Syndicat; Québec; Histoire.

Épreuves d'évaluation et chômage - Hanin, Frédéric (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
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 Roots of Organizing Agriculture Workers in Canada - Hanley, Wayne (Constitutional Labour Rights in Canada: Farm Workers and the Fraser Case, 2012)
Describes the efforts of agricultural workers to obtain legal protection with particular reference to legislation and proceedings in Ontario. Concludes that despite legal setbacks, the struggle continues through the Agriculture Worker Alliance of the United Food and Commercial Workers.
Keywords: Agricultural laborers; Canada. Arbeitsrecht. Verfassungsrecht; Canada. Collective bargaining; Canada. Employee rights; Canada. Freedom of association; Canada. Liberté d'association; Canada. Migrant agricultural laborers; Canada. Négociations collectives; Canada. Personnel; Canada. Travailleurs agricoles; Canada. Travailleurs agricoles migrants; Droit; Droits; Law and legislation; Legal status; laws; etc.

Collaboration Between Unions in a Multi-Union, Non-Exclusive Bargaining Regime: What Can Canada Learn from New Zealand? - Harcourt, Mark; Lam, Helen (International Journal of Employment Studies, 2012)
The Canadian union certification system guarantees workers rights to organise, bargain collectively, and strike only when a majority of co-workers favours unionisation. This contravenes International Labour Organisation standards, in which the freedom to associate is unqualified by majority support. In recent years, the Supreme Court of Canada has drawn on ILO principles to interpret constitutional rights as covering organising and collective bargaining activities related to freedom of association under section 2(d) of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. However, it has not as yet ordered Canadian governments to enact labour relations laws consistent with these new constitutional rights. Neither has there been a general call for such legislative change. Instead, many fear that statutory support for non-majority unionism would lead to multi-union representation and intensified inter-union competition, but fail to consider that sharing the workplace might actually promote inter-union cooperation against a common adversary in management. This study addresses this shortcoming by looking at the extent and nature of inter-union collaboration in New Zealand, where non-majority, non-exclusive representation exists already. Collaboration was found to be common, not only over bargaining and lobbying, but also in organising. Implications for Canada are explored.

La confiance en gestion : un regard pluridisciplinaire - Harrisson, Denis (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
The article reviews the book, "La confiance en gestion : un regard pluridisciplinaire," by Anne Gratacap and Alice Le Flanchec.
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

Giving Life to the ILO: Two Cheers for the SCC - Hendy, John; Ewing, Keith D. (Constitutional Labour Rights in Canada: Farm Workers and the Fraser Case, 2012)
Considers the intersection of relevant conventions of the International Labour Organization, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and labour case law of the Supreme Court of Canada. Asserts that the Canadian government is bound by ILO membership to promote collective bargaining, and that the Supreme Court's reliance on ILO principles was fully justified in Dunmore and BC Health Services. Concludes that, although the court's decision on Fraser fails to implement these principles, the right to strike in Canada will eventually be constitutionally recognized.
Keywords: Agricultural laborers; CANADA. Supreme Court (SCC); Canada. Collective bargaining; Canada. Employee rights; Canada. Freedom of association; Canada. Liberté d'association; Canada. Migrant agricultural laborers; Canada. Négociations collectives; Canada. Personnel; Canada. Travailleurs agricoles; Canada. Travailleurs agricoles migrants; Droit; Droits; Law and legislation; Legal status; laws; etc.

Permanently Temporary? Agricultural Migrant Workers and Their Integration in Canada - Hennabry, Jenna (Institute for Research on Public Policy, 2012)
Every year, 30,000 agricultural migrant workers arrive in Canada as part of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP), the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program and the Low Skill Pilot Project. Although the TFWP is intended to address short-term labour demands, most of these workers return to the same communities year after year, sometimes for more than 25 years. As a result, growing numbers of migrant farm workers are permanently temporary. The increased presence of temporary workers will most certainly have an impact on Canadian communities and workplaces for years to come. Is there a way to conceptualize integration in the context of these migration patterns? How does the TFWP fit into Canada’s multicultural landscape and its goals of integration and social cohesion? In this study, Jenna Hennebry draws on experience with agricultural workers to address some of these questions. The author uses empirical data, interviews and research on the situation in Ontario, the province with the largest number of agricultural migrants, to examine the degree of integration of migrant farm workers. She finds that their inclusion in the communities where they live and work is poor, despite laudable efforts by nongovernmental organizations, community groups and unions – notably the United Food and Commercial Workers Canada union, which has sponsored some unique transnational initiatives.

A Model for Managed Migration? Re-Examining Best Practices in Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program - Hennebry, Jenna L.; Preibisch, Kerry (International Migration, 2012)
This paper situates Canada’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP) within the policy and scholarly debates on “best practices” for the management of temporary migration, and examines what makes this programme successful from the perspective of states and employers. Drawing on extensive qualitative and quantitative study of temporary migration in Canada, this article critically examines this seminal temporary migration programme as a “best practice model” from internationally recognized rights-based approaches to labour migration, and provides some additional best practices for the management of temporary labour migration programmes. This paper examines how the reality of the Canadian SAWP measures up, when the model is evaluated according to internationally recognized best practices and migrant rights regimes. Despite all of the attention to building “best practices” for the management of temporary or managed migration, it appears that Canada has taken steps further away from these and other international frameworks. The analysis reveals that while the Canadian programme involves a number of successful practices, such as the cooperation between origin and destination countries, transparency in the admissions criteria for selection, and access to health care for temporary migrants; the programme does not adhere to the majority of best practices emerging in international forums, such as the recognition of migrants’ qualifications, providing opportunities for skills transfer, avoiding imposing forced savings schemes, and providing paths to permanent residency. This paper argues that as Canada takes significant steps toward the expansion of temporary migration, Canada’s model programme still falls considerably short of being an inspirational model, and instead provides us with little more than an idealized myth.
http://www.ids.ac.uk/files/dmfile/AModelforManagedMigration.pdf

The Canadian Labour Movement: A Short History - Heron, Craig (Lorimer, 2012)
[H]istorian Craig Heron tells the story of Canada's workers from the mid-nineteenth century through to today, painting a vivid picture of key developments such as the birth of craft unionism, the breakthroughs of the fifties and sixties, and the setbacks of the early twenty-first century. This new edition has been completely updated, including a substantial new chapter that covers the period from 1995 to 2011. In this chapter, Heron describes the rise of globalization and the restructuring of the private sector that began in the nineties and continues today. The results have been catastrophic for Canadian working people as plants closed and union activities were curtailed. As the political right succeeded in dominating public debate during this period, workers suffered ever greater losses: fewer and more precarious jobs, rising unemployment, stagnating wages, and increases in poverty. Only with the crash of 2008 and the Occupy Wall Street movement has space for the political left and labour begun to open up once again. [This] is the definitive book for anyone who is interested in understanding the origins, achievements, and challenges of labour and social justice movements in Canada.–Publisher's description
Keywords: Histoire; History; Labor Unions; Syndicats

Perceived Gender Discrimination and Women's Subjective Career Success: The Moderating Role of Career Anchors - Herrbach, Olivier; Mignonac, Karim (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
Subjective career success has beneficial consequences on several individual and organizational outcomes. It is closely related to what people value as important at work, but maybe more difficult to achieve when they experience workplace discrimination. Using a sample of 300 women employees working in a large French company, we thus investigated the relationship between perceived gender discrimination, subjective career success and career anchors. We found that perceived gender discrimination was negatively related to subjective career success overall. However, the relationship between the two variables was moderated by career anchors. Some anchors (i.e. managerial, technical and lifestyle) enhanced the impact of perceived gender discrimination, while other anchors (i.e. security and autonomy) lessened it. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of these findings.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employment discrimination; Gender differences; Labor Unions; Sex discrimination; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Success; Women

End-users, Public Services, and Industrial Relations: The Restructuring of Social Services in Ontario - Hickey, Robert (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
The global financial crisis beginning in 2008 resulted in a ballooning public debt and government efforts to constrain public expenditures. Responses to the financial crisis and its impact on human services in Ontario demonstrate the complex interactions across key actors – employers, government, unions, and family advocates. The case explores the role of end-users, including families and people with developmental disabilities, as actors in the industrial relations system. At the strategic level, end-users have precipitated significant public policy changes, including the closure of large, state-run institutions. End-users have displaced agency managers as employers at the organizational level. Finally, the case shows how end-users have changed the nature of the work process itself, shifting direct support from custodial care to a model of individual and community development.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Deficit financing; Economic crisis; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Social services; Studies

Canadian Immigration: Economic Evidence for a Dynamic Policy Environment - Hiebert, Daniel (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
The article reviews the book, "Canadian Immigration: Economic Evidence for a Dynamic Policy Environment," edited by Ted McDonald, Elizabeth Ruddick, Arthur Sweetman, and Christopher Worswick.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CANADIAN Immigration: Economic Evidence for a Dynamic Policy Environment (Book); Canada; Economic conditions; Immigrants; MCDONALD; Ted; Nonfiction; RUDDICK; Elizabeth; SWEETMAN; Arthur; WORSWICK; Christopher

The Future of Workplace Health and Safety as a Fundamental Human Right - Hilgert, Jeffrey (Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal, 2012)
The future of worker health and safety as a fundamental human right is dependent upon revitalizing labor rights in the working environment. A new global direction is needed to move the international norms and in turn national labor policy models away from market voluntarism and towards models that protect human rights in the working environment as first principles. What is needed is a foundational dialog on the boundaries of labor rights as they relate to the working environment because the current international labor and human rights jurisprudence is lacking. –From author's conclusion

Building a Human Rights Framework for Workers' Compensation in the United States: Opening the Debate on First Principles - Hilgert, Jeffrey A. (American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 2012)
Background: This article introduces the idea of human rights to the topic of workers' compensation in the United States. It discusses what constitutes a human rights approach and explains how this approach conflicts with those policy ideas that have provided the foundation historically for workers' compensation in the United States. Methods: Using legal and historical research, key international labor and human rights standards on employment injury benefits and influential writings in the development of the U.S. workers' compensation system are cited. Results Workers' injury and illness compensation in the United States does not conform to basic international human rights norms. Conclusions: A comprehensive review of the U.S. workers' compensation system under international human rights standards is needed. Examples of policy changes are highlighted that would begin the process of moving workers' compensation into conformity with human rights standards.
_eprint: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ajim.22023
Keywords: human rights; injured workers' rights; labor economics; social policy; workers' compensation

Sylvia Van Kirk: A Feminist Appreciation of Front-line Work in the Academy - Iacovetta, Franca (Finding a Way to the Heart: Feminist Writings on Aboriginal and Women's History in Canada, 2012)
“The 18 women and two men attending a course called History of Women in Canada” at the University of Toronto, wrote a Globe and Mail reporter in spring 1976,“could hardly wait to comment on their own experiences when instructor Sylvia Van Kirk introduced the subject of women’s rights in Canada.” The journalist, Constance Mungall, went on to describe the course—a new third-year seminar being offered by the (now defunct) interdisciplinary studies department at the University of Toronto—and the class (“After the vote: Did it make any difference?”) she had just observed. Sylvia had promoted discussion in the seminar by noting that “in the 1930s suffragette Nellie McClung had said the place of women in dating is ‘to wait… wait… wait’” and then asking if they thought it was still true today. Various students jumped in with their opinion and “the consensus was that it’s still the same and it’s hypocritical.” Mungall had attended the class as the course was nearing its end. By then, the seminar had covered a series of topics that would become standard fare for survey courses in Canadian women’s history, including Native women in the fur trade (a topic that, of course, Sylvia’s own research had helped make possible), white settler pioneers, and women in education, medicine, waged work, and moral and political reform movements. But these were also early days for women’s history and Sylvia was drawing on limited resources—still convincing people of the value of the field—and introducing little known historical female. –Introduction
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9780887554216-005/html

Is Leisure Working? The State and the Gendered Regulation of Working Time and Leisure in Canada, 1950-2006 - Ignagni, Sandra (York University, 2012)
This dissertation examines the intersection of gender, employment law and public health policies through an analysis of the federal government's efforts to regulate the work/leisure relationship. The study asks how and why, despite over 50 years of state interventions to regulate leisure and healthy lifestyle, concerns about 'work-life balance' have surfaced in labour policy arenas in recent years. The study builds a feminist political economy framework for understanding changes in policy developments over time. I use the concepts of social reproduction and time- and work-discipline as lenses with which to probe the relationship between the changing temporal dimensions of paid and unpaid work and efforts to manage the new realities of the labour market through the institutions of the state. The dissertation considers how the changes in the gendered organization of social reproduction, the nature and regulation of employment, and the power of organized labour to advocate on behalf of workers have influenced the types of policies used to manage the work/life interface. The empirical dimension of this study traces the emergence of a framework for regulating social reproduction through state-led management of the work/life relationship. Following the evolution of such frameworks through federal policy debates, policy papers and program materials, I trace the continuities and changes in dominant leisure discourses and policy mechanisms through four phases of federal policy development: early fitness policies (pre-1960); ParticipACTION (1960 to early 1970s); employee fitness experiments (mid-1970s to 1990); and the Work/Life Balance Strategy (1990s to mid-2000s). The central argument put forward in this dissertation is that the gender- neutral and individualized framework for regulating the healthy reproduction of workers, developed in Canadian law and policy since the 1950s, has produced highly gendered outcomes through its failure to address the changing dynamics of work and family life. By continuing to uphold the notion of a worker 'unencumbered' by familial and household responsibilities, 'new' work-life balance policies exacerbate the tensions between paid and unpaid work and contribute to the ongoing marginalization of women in the labour market.
Keywords: Employment law; Gender; Leisure; Public health policies; Social sciences; Working

When the State Trembled: How A. J. Andrews and the Citizens' Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike - Isitt, Benjamin (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
The article reviews the book, "When the State Trembled: How A.J. Andrews and the Citizens' Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike," by Reinhold Kramer and Tom Mitchell.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; General Strike; Winnipeg; Man.; 1919; KRAMER; Reinhold; MITCHELL; Tom; Nonfiction; WHEN the State Trembled: How A.J. Andrews & the Citizens' Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike (Book)

Restructuration de la fonction publique québécoise : configurations et conséquences disparates - Jalette, Patrice; Grenier, Jean-Noël; Hains-Pouliot, Jérémie (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
La théorie de l’action raisonnée et les modèles du roulement volontaire ont toujours considéré l’intention de quitter son emploi pour un autre employeur comme le meilleur prédicteur du roulement de personnel. Cependant, dans les faits, les employés disposent de deux autres options, à savoir progresser vers un autre emploi au sein de leur entreprise (roulement interne) ou encore rester dans leur emploi actuel pour une certaine période. Dans une perspective de prévention du roulement, la recherche aurait avantage à identifier des profils d’intentions en fonction de ces trois options. La présente étude vise à vérifier si les employés présentent des profils d’intentions différents et si leur satisfaction au travail, leurs comportements de recherche d’emploi et les taux de roulement volontaire et interne diffèrent selon ces profils.L’analyse des résultats recueillis auprès de 434 agents issus de trois centres d’appels suggère l’existence de quatre profils d’intentions à peu près équivalents en nombre : (1) rester dans l’emploi actuel (forte intention de rester dans l’emploi actuel, faible intention de progresser à l’interne et faible intention de quitter à l’externe); (2) rester en attendant de progresser (forte intention de rester dans l’emploi actuel, mais forte intention de progresser à l’interne et faible intention de quitter à l’externe); (3) priorité à la progression (faible intention de rester dans l’emploi actuel, forte intention de progresser à l’interne et faible intention de quitter à l’externe); (4) priorité à la mobilité (faible intention de rester dans l’emploi actuel, forte intention de progresser à l’interne et de quitter à l’externe).Les résultats de l’étude montrent que ces quatre profils d’intentions présentent des niveaux de satisfaction au travail et des comportements de recherche d’emploi différents. De même, les taux de roulement volontaire du personnel et le taux de roulement interne, mesurés un an plus tard, diffèrent selon les profils d’intentions. // Studies of public administration question more and more the idea of convergence toward a single model of reform and many challenge the existence of a coherent set of policies and practices subsumed under the label New Public Management. There does exist, however, a growing consensus that reform has generally meant a degradation of working conditions for public sector employees. The study contributes to this body of knowledge by demonstrating the variability of restructuring practices within a single public administration and the variability of outcomes for employees within the same reform framework. Observations and analysis are drawn from a study of the implementation of a Modernization Plan set in motion in 2004 by the provincial liberal government. First, the results allow the researchers to identify six configurations ranging from a quasi status quo. Second, their research shows also that these diverse configurations led to differentiated results for public sector workers.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Convergence; Labor Unions; Public administration; Reforms; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Histoire des relations du travail dans la construction au Québec - Jobin, Carol (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
The article reviews the book, "Histoire des relations du travail dans la construction au Québec," by Louis Delagrave.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Construction industry; DELAGRAVE; Louis; HISTOIRE des relations du travail dans la construction au Quebec (Book); Nonfiction; QUEBEC (Province)

Pathways to Successful Economic Integration: The Dynamics of Low Income and Low Wages Among New Immigrants to Canada - Kaida, Risa Lisa (University of Toronto, 2012)
Contemporary research on immigrant economic integration identifies growing economic disadvantages faced by immigrants and probes sources of the disadvantages by focusing on immigrants' pre-migration and ascriptive characteristics. However, little empirical evaluation exists on how immigrants overcome their initial economic disadvantages over time. This dissertation departs from previous research by studying the roles of two post-migration factors - schooling (formal education and language training) and the employment of female spouses - in the exits from low wages and low family income (poverty) among recent immigrants. The analysis of the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC) - a three-wave survey of immigrants who arrived in Canada in 2000-2001 - produces three main findings. First, investing in host country formal education is beneficial for the economic advancement of new immigrants - especially highly educated ones. This finding confirms the role of skill upgrading programs for adult immigrants as an effective immigrant settlement policy, given that the majority of recent immigrants have postsecondary education but that their initial economic hardships are growing. Second, the benefits of English/French language lessons are real. This finding counters a common criticism that language lessons for adult new immigrants, which are often funded by the governments, are not helpful. Indeed, standard logistic regression analysis of the LSIC data shows that immigrants who enrolled in language lessons have no advantage in exiting poverty or low wages. However, the bivariate probit model demonstrates that this is because unmeasured characteristics of the language lesson participants confound the true benefit of language lessons. Third, this dissertation research highlights the role immigrant women play in lifting their families out of poverty when they work. This finding has an implication particularly for women of Arab and Middle Eastern origins as their notably lower labour force participation rates explain much of their high poverty rates.
Keywords: Demography; Economic integration; Ethnic and racial studies; Formal education; General; Immigrants; Language training; Low-income; Social sciences; Sociology; Spousal employment; Wages

What Does the New Economy Mean to Malaysian Tellers? - Khoo, Suet Leng (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2012)
The rise of the New Economy has restructured work, necessitated changing skills requirements, as well as spurred new training needs amongst employees. Such new skills and training needs are prerequisites to survive and thrive in the New Economy. Importantly, these skills and training are also prerequisites for upward mobility in a system of inequality. This paper illustrates the case of Malaysian tellers as the Malaysian banking industry operates in the New Economy. Although the New Economy and the emergence of the sales culture requires Malaysian tellers to be more knowledgeable, this paper argues that due to their unionised status and given their positions at the bottom rung of the occupational hierarchy, tellers in Malaysia are disadvantaged and often excluded in the process of training and knowledge acquisition.

The New Mole: Paths of the Latin American Left - Kingstone, Peter (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
The article reviews the book, "The New Mole: Paths of the Latin American Left," by Emir Sader.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; LATIN America – Politics & government – 1980-; NEW Mole: Paths of the Latin American Left; The (Book); Nonfiction; SADER; Emir

Derelict Paradise: Homelessness and Urban Development in Cleveland, Ohio - Klodawsky, Fran (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
The article reviews the book, "Derelict Paradise: Homelessness and Urban Development in Cleveland, Ohio," by Daniel R. Kerr.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CLEVELAND (Ohio) – Social conditions – 20th century; DERELICT Paradise: Homelessness & Urban Development in Cleveland; Ohio (Book); KERR; Daniel R.; Nonfiction

The Way of the Bachelor: Early Chinese Settlement in Manitoba - Krista Li (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
The article reviews the book, "The Way of the Bachelor: Early Chinese Settlement in Manitoba," by Alison Marshall.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Chinese Canadians; History; MARSHALL; Alison; Nonfiction; WAY of the Bachelor: Early Chinese Settlement in Manitoba; The (Book)

L'Arsenal canadien: Les politiques canadiennes et la fabrication de munitions au Canada durant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale - Labbé, Pierrick (Université d'Ottawa, 2012)
Cette thèse propose une analyse de la production de munitions au Canada durant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale dans le but d'exposer les politiques mises de l'avant par le gouvernement canadien pour répondre aux exigences matérielles de la guerre. Afin de combler les besoins du ministère de la Défense et de ses alliés, le ministère des Munitions et Approvisionnements réussit un tour de force en transformant une industrie munitionnaire insignifiante en un vaste programme qui employait plus de 103 000 personnes à son apogée. L'analyse des politiques à l'origine de cette production montre que le gouvernement fédéral géra autant que possible sa contribution matérielle de manière à fournir une aide considérable à ses alliés tout en poursuivant ses objectifs de relance économique à long terme. Le Comité de guerre du Cabinet tenta également de limiter l'impact négatif de ses décisions sur la vie des Canadiens. La participation matérielle du Canada prit forme graduellement, restreinte par la volonté de limiter les dépenses militaires. Les projectiles ne figuraient pas parmi les priorités avant la chute de la France. À partir de l'automne 1940, les principaux ministères se montrèrent plus ouverts à la mise en place et au financement d'un vaste programme. Ils consolidèrent leur collaboration avec les gouvernements britannique et américain afin d'obtenir le soutien technique et financier nécessaire pour surpasser les faiblesses industrielles du pays, de manière à permettre une collaboration qui ne nuirait pas à long terme aux finances publiques. Ensuite, l'interventionnisme sans précédent pour stimuler ce secteur non traditionnel s'effectua, malgré l'ampleur des investissements, dans un esprit d'économie et mené par une volonté de ne pas disloquer inutilement les structures de l'économie civile. Le gouvernement misa sur une collaboration avec les entreprises compétentes qui dominaient déjà le marché. Les entrepreneurs jouèrent un rôle clé dans la stratégie fédérale de gestion des ressources humaines. L'élaboration d'une solution à la pénurie de travailleurs s'effectua autant que possible sans l'imposition de mesures coercitives, de manière à ne pas nuire à la relance de l'économie dans l'après-guerre et à ne pas saper le moral des citoyens. Le ministère des Munitions et Approvisionnements opta plutôt pour la mise en place d'un État-providence de guerre et d'un paternalisme industriel. Le secteur privé, appuyé par diverses initiatives du gouvernement fédéral, se devait d'imposer un encadrement strict du milieu de travail afin de maximiser la productivité, de diminuer l'absentéisme et de lutter contre les interruptions de production.
Keywords: Histoire de la Deuxieme Guerre mondiale; Histoire politique canadienne; Munitions; Social sciences; World War II

Supervision of Apprentices in Semiskilled Trades: Program Stipulations and Workplace Realities - Laberge, Marie; Vézina, Nicole; Calvet, Bénédicte; Lévesque, Sophie; Vézina-Nadon, Livann (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
The article focuses on discrepancies between institutional stipulations for apprenticeship placement conditions in the Quebec Training for a Semiskilled Trade (TST) program in contrast to socio-environmental realities encountered by students in the workplace. An intervention research study was held in order to integrate Occupational Health and Safety concerns into the training program. The methodological frame used data triangulation, including document analysis, teacher and student interviews and workplace observation. Contrary to program stipulations, most students were guided by several coworkers during apprenticeships. Insufficient access to resources, however, has led to young workers encountering difficulties in getting assistance when needed. The traditional supervisor-apprentice partnership would be best revised to maximize the use of all valuable on-site resources and ensure students develop skills to stay healthy at work.
Keywords: Apprenticeship; 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; Studies; Supervision; Training; occupational health

Les nouvelles dimensions du politique : relations professionnelles et régulations sociales - Laberge, Yves (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
The article reviews the book, "Les nouvelles dimensions du politique : relations professionnelles et régulations sociales," edited by Laurent Duclos, Guy Groux and Olivier Mériaux.
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

Topics in Canadian Aboriginal Earnings, Employment and Education: An Empirical Analysis - Lamb, Danielle Kathryn (University of Toronto, 2012)
This dissertation is divided into three main components that each relate to the socioeconomic wellbeing of Aboriginal peoples in the Canadian labour market. Specifically, using data from the master file of the Canadian census for the years 1996, 2001 and 2006, the first section examines the wage differential for various Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal groups, including a comparison of those living on-and-off-reserves. The study finds that, while a sizeable wage gap between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal persons still exists, this disparity has narrowed over the three census periods for those living off-reserve. The Aboriginal-non-Aboriginal wage differential is largest among the on-reserve population and this gap has remained relatively constant over the three census periods considered in the study. The second study in the dissertation uses data from the master file of the Canadian Labour Force Survey for 2008 and 2009 to estimate the probability that an individual is a labour force participant, and, conditional on labour force participation, the probability that a respondent is unemployed, comparing several Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal groups. The results reveal that Aboriginal men and women have lower rates of labour force participation and higher rates or unemployment in both periods as compared to their non-Aboriginal counterparts. Aboriginal peoples were also disproportionately burdened by a slowdown in economic activity as measured by a change in the probability of unemployment moving from 2008 to 2009, as compared to non-Aboriginal people, who experienced a smaller increase in the probability of unemployment moving from a period of positive to negative economic growth. Finally, the third study examines the probability of high school dropout comparing Aboriginal peoples living on-and-off-reserve using data from the master file of the Aboriginal Peoples Survey for 2001. The findings reveal dramatically higher rates of dropout among Aboriginal people living on-reserve as compared to those living off-reserve. Limitations of all three studies as well as some possible directions of future research related to similar issues concerning Canada's Aboriginal population are discussed in the concluding chapter of the dissertation.
Keywords: Aboriginal peoples; Earnings; Education; Employment; Labor force activity; Social sciences; Unemployment

Éva Circé-Côté. Les femmes et les médias au Québec au début du XXe siècle - Laplanche, Laurie (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
The article reviews two books written by Andrée Lévesque including "Éva Circé-Côté. Libre-penseuse, 1871-1949" and "Chroniques d'Éva Circé-Côté. Lumière sur la société québécoise, 1900-1942."
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CHRONIQUES d'Eva Circe-Cote: Lumiere sur la societe quebecoise 1900-1942 (Book); CIRCE-Cote; Eva; EVA Circe-Cote: Libre-penseuse 1871-1949 (Book); LEVESQUE; Andree; Nonfiction

Éditorial/Editorial/Editorial - Lapointe, Paul-André (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
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

Being Again of One Mind: Oneida Women and the Struggle for Decolonization - Lawrence, Bonita (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
The article reviews the book, "Being Again of One Mind: Oneida Women and the Struggle for Decolonization," by Lina Sunseri.
Keywords: BEING Again of One Mind: Oneida Women & the Struggle for Decolonization (Book); BOOKS – Reviews; Nonfiction; ONEIDA women; Political activity; SUNSERI; Lina

Perspectives internationales sur le travail des jeunes - Le Capitaine, Catherine (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
The article reviews the book, "Perspectives internationales sur le travail des jeunes," edited by Mircea Vultur and Daniel Mercure.
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

Article introductif - Ledoux, Élise; Cloutier, Esther (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
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 River Returns: An Environmental History of the Bow - Leeming, Mark (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
The article reviews the book, "The River Returns: An Environmental History of the Bow," by Christopher Armstrong, Matthew Evenden, and H.V. Nelles.
Keywords: ARMSTRONG; Christopher; BOOKS – Reviews; BOW River (Alta.); EVENDEN; Matthew; History; NELLES; H. V.; Nonfiction; RIVER Returns: An Environmental History of the Bow; The (Book)

Legislated Inequality: Temporary Labour Migration in Canada - Lenard, Patti Tamara; Straehle, Christine (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2012)
Historically, Canada has adopted immigration policies focused on admitting migrants who were expected to become citizens. A dramatic shift has occurred in recent years as the number of temporary labourers admitted to Canada has increased substantially. Legislated Inequality critically evaluates this radical development in Canadian immigration, arguing that it threatens to undermine Canada's success as an immigrant nation. Assessing each of the four major temporary labour migration programs in Canada, contributors from a range of disciplines - including comparative political science, philosophy, and sociology - show how temporary migrants are posed to occupy a permanent yet marginal status in society and argue that Canada's temporary labour policy must undergo fundamental changes in order to support Canada's long held immigration goals. The difficult working conditions faced by migrant workers, as well as the economic and social dangers of relying on temporary migration to relieve labour shortages, are described in detail. Legislated Inequality provides an essential critical analysis of the failings of temporary labour migration programs in Canada and proposes tangible ways to improve the lives of labourers. –Publisher's description
http://www.mqup.ca/legislated-inequality-products-9780773540422.php?page_id=46&

A Life of Struggles - Lévesque, Andrée (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
Pays homage to the feminist, union organizer, and Indigenous rights' activist Madeleine Parent, who was zealous in her lifetime pursuit of social justice.
Keywords: EULOGIES; HUMAN rights workers; PARENT; Madeleine; 1918-2012