Radicals of the Worst Sort: Laboring Women in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1860-1912 - Perry, Adele (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
The article reviews the book "Radicals of the Worst Sort: Laboring Women in Lawrence, Massachusetts, 1860-1912," by Ardis Cameron.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CAMERON; Ardis; Nonfiction; RADICALS; RADICALS of the Worst Sort: Laboring Women in Lawrence; Massachusetts 1860-1912 (Book)

La judiciarisation de l'arbitrage de grief - Plante, Gilles (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
The article reviews the book, "La judiciarisation de l'arbitrage de grief," by Rodrigue Blouin.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Public Sector Collective Bargaining in Canada: Beginning of the End or End of the Beginning - Ponak, Allen (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
The article reviews the book, "100 Public Sector Collective Bargaining in Canada: Beginning of the End or End of the Beginning," by Gene Swimmer and Mark Thompson.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Civil service; Collective bargaining; Labor Unions; Public sector; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Human Resource Management: A Critical Text - Poole, Michael (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
The article reviews the book, "Human Resource Management: A Critical Text," edited by John Storey.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Human resource management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

By the Sweat of the Brow: Literature and Labor in Antebellum America - Rodgers, Daniel T. (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
The article reviews the book "By the Sweat of the Brow: Literature and Labor in Antebellum America," by Nicholas K. Bromell.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; BROMELL; Nicholas K.; BY the Sweat of the Brow: Literature & Labor in Antebellum America (Book); Labor; Nonfiction

Organized Labor in the Asia Pacific Region: A Comparative Study of Trade Unionism in Nine Countries - Rodgers, Ronald A. (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
The article reviews the book "Organized Labor in the Asia Pacific Region: A Comparative Study of Trade Unionism in Nine Countries," edited by Stephen Frenkel.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; FRENKEL; Stephen; Labor; Nonfiction; ORGANIZED Labor in the Asia Pacific Region: A Comparative Study of Trade Unionism in Nine Countries (Book)

Union-Management Relations in Canada, 3rd edition - Rose, Joseph B. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
The article reviews the book, "Union-Management Relations in Canada," 3rd edition, by Morley Gunderson and Allen Ponak.
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

Settlement Rates and Settlement Stages in Compulsory Interest Arbitration - Rose, Joseph B.; Piczak, Michael (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
One of the prevailing concerns about compulsory interest arbitration is its possible effect on genuine collective bargaining. Numerous studies report overall settlement rates (i.e., the proportion of settlements achieve prior to the final impasse procedure) are lower in arbitration systems than in strike-based systems. A study attempts to provide a broader assessment of the effect of compulsory arbitration by calculating settlements rates for different settlement stages. Based on over 28,000 collective agreements negotiated in Ontario between 1982 and 1990, the results show that settlement rates were generally lower under arbitration. At the same time, settlement behavior varied considerably across arbitration systems. These differences are associated with specific institutional and organizational aspects in bargaining.
Keywords: Agreements; Arbitration; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Collective bargaining; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Rates; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Learning History America: Schools, Cultures, and Politics - Rosenzweig, Roy (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
The article reviews the book "Learning History America: Schools, Cultures, and Politics," edited by Lloyd Kramer, Donald Reid and William L. Barney.
Keywords: BARNEY; William L.; BOOKS – Reviews; History; KRAMER; Lloyd; LEARNING History America: Schools; Cultures & Politics (Book); Nonfiction; REID; Donald; United States

Qu'en est-il de la singularité québécoise en matière de syndicalisation ? - Rouillard, Jacques (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
Les médias font régulièrement référence au taux très élevé de syndicalisation au Québec qui ferait de la province un château fort du syndicalisme en Amérique du Nord. Cette opinion est fondée sur les estimations de la densité syndicale fournie par le ministère du Travail du Québec dans sa publication annuelle Les relations du travail. Une analyse critique des sources et de la méthodologie utilisée par cet organisme montre que ses évaluations depuis le début des années 1980 ont tendance à surestimer fortement la syndicalisation. Les estimés fournis par Statistique Canada (CALURA et enquêtes) permettent une meilleure approximation du taux de syndicalisation qui se situerait à environ 41 % en 1992. Parmi les provinces canadiennes, le Québec est dans le peloton de tête avec la Colombie-Britannique, mais derrière Terre-Neuve. Ce taux relativement élevé le place au dixième rang parmi les pays industrialisés en 1989.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Maynard Keynes, An Economist's Biography - Seccareccia, Mario (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
The article reviews the book, "Maynard Keynes: An Economist's Biography," by D. E. Moggridge.
Keywords: Biographies; Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Economists; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Common Labour: Workers and the Digging of North American Canals 1780-1860 - See, Scott W. (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
The article reviews the book "Common Labour: Workers and the Digging of North American Canals 1780-1860," Peter Way.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; COMMON Labour: Workers & the Digging of North American Canals 1780-1860 (Book); Nonfiction; Skilled labor; WAY; Peter

Flexibility and Alternative Corporate Strategies - Sefertzi, Elena (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
This article discusses various and alternative forms of corporate strategy developed with respect to current industrial restructuring and transition towards flexible production. Corporate strategies are distinguished according the size of firms and their organizational structure. The point is not to establish an exhaustive typology of strategies but to elaborate the concept of variety in flexible organization of production and markets. For each type of corporate strategy four major options are analysed: interfirm networks, internal organization of production, labour market, and innovation. The article concludes that the strategic choices made by firms are influenced more by local socioeconomic factors than by global models which apply to all firms ' sites and operations.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Les apprentissages du changement dans l'entreprise - Séror, Ann C. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
The article reviews the book, "Les apprentissages du changement dans l'entreprise," by Nicole Fazzini-Feneyrol.
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; Technological change

Nouveaux modèles de négociation, de résolution de conflits et de solutions conjointes de problèmes : rapport général - Sexton, Jean (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
English title: New models of negotiations, dispute resolution and joint problem solving. Abstract: Conflicts, tension and disputes are at the heart of industrial relations. At the end of the day, understanding, preventing and finding solutions to them constitute the essential subject matter of industrial relations. This is nothing new, but what is new are the efforts of imagination and experimentation being made just about everywhere in the world to find new, effective means to achieve the very purpose of industrial relations, that is, the resolution of disputes. An evaluation of the results of these new methods is presented.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

On Strong Foundations: The BWIU and Industrial Relations in the Australian Construction Industry, 1942-1992 - Sexton, Jean (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
The article reviews the book, "On strong foundations: the BWIU and industrial relations in the Australian construction industry, 1942-1992," by Glenn Mitchell.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Construction industry; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Against the Market: Political Economy, Market Socialism and the Marxist Critique - Shenton, Bob (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
The article reviews the book "Against the Market: Political Economy, Market Socialism and the Marxist Critique," by David McNally.
Keywords: AGAINST the Market: Political Economy; Market Socialism & the Marxist Critique (Book); BOOKS – Reviews; MCNALLY; David; Nonfiction; Socialism

Quest of the Folk: Antimodernism and Cultural Selection in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia - Shore, Marlene (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
The article reviews the book "Separate Spheres: Women's Worlds in the 19th-Century Maritimes," by Ian McKay.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; MCKAY; Ian; Maritime Provinces; Nonfiction; SEPARATE Spheres: Women's Worlds in the 19th Century Maritimes (Book)

Different Places, Different Voices. Gender and Development in Africa, Asia and Latin America. (English) - Simard, Paule (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)

A History of the French Working Class. Vol. I/ The Age of Artisan Revolution 1815-1871, vol. II/Workers and the Bourgeois Republic 1871-1839 - Simoni, Pierre (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
The article reviews the books "A History of the French Working Class: The Age of Artisan Revolution 1815-1871," and "A History of the French Working Class: Workers and the Bourgeois Republic 1871-1839," by Roger Magraw.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; HISTORY of the French Working Class: The Age of Artisan Revolution 1815-1871; A (Book); HISTORY of the French Working Class: Workers & the Bourgeois Republic 1871-1939; A (Book); MAGRAW; Roger; Nonfiction

Industrialization and Labor Relations: Contemporary Research in Seven Countries - Slomp, Hans (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
The article reviews the book, "Industrialization and Labor Relations: Contemporary Research in Seven Countries," by Stephen Frenkel and Jeffrey Harrod.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Industrial development; International; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Manycountries; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

A World Remembered 1925-1950 - Smith, Allan (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
The article reviews the book "A World Remembered 1925-1950," by Bernard Smith.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Nonfiction; RIGHT & left (Political science); SMITH; Bernard; 1907-1999; WORLD Remembered 1925-1950; A (Book)

Workplace Industrial Relations and the Global Challenge - Thompson, Mark (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
The article reviews thee book, "Workplace Industrial Relations and the Global Challenge," edited by Jacques Bélanger, P.K. Edwards and Larry Haiven.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Collective bargaining; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Forging Responsible Unions: Metal Workers and the Rise of the Labour Injunction in Canada - Tucker, Eric; Fudge, Judy (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
At the turn of the century, the legislative, administrative, and judicial branches of the Canadian state responded to the labour conflicts associated with the second industrial revolution by simultaneously expanding both their coercive and their facilitative roles. This paper examines one aspect of this development, the rise of the labour injunction, through a study of a series of strikes conducted chiefly by metal workers in south central Ontario between 1900 and 1914. In addition to retrieving the largely forgotten genealogy of a body of law that continues to play an important role in regulating and containing trade union activity, the study contributes insights into debates raging among labour historians regarding the role and significance of state institutions and public discourse in determining the trajectory and fate of organized labour.
Keywords: Canada; Labor; Labor Unions; Labor disputes; Ontario; STRIKES & lockouts

Free to Hate: The Rise of the Right in Post-Communist Eastern Europe - Varga, Ivan (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
The article reviews the book "Free to Hate: The Rise of the Right in Post-Communist Eastern Europe," by Paul Hockenos.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Communism; EUROPE; Eastern; FREE to Hate: The Rise of the Right in Post-Communist Eastern Europe (Book); HOCKENOS; Paul; Nonfiction

La problématique du sida en milieu de travail : pour l'employé, l'employeur et les tiers - Veilleux, Diane (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
The article reviews the book, "La problématique du sida en milieu de travail : pour l'employé, l'employeur et les tiers," by Sylvie Grégoire.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Perspectives occidentales du droit international des droits économiques de la personne - Verge, Pierre (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
The article reviews the book, "Perspectives occidentales du droit international des droits économiques de la personne," by Lucie Lamarche.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

The Jobless Future: Sci-Tech and the Dogma of Work - Wager, W. Warren (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
The article reviews the book, "The Jobless Future: Sci-Tech and the Dogma of Work," by Stanley Aronowitz and William DiFazio.
Keywords: ARONOWITZ; Stanley; 1933-; BOOKS – Reviews; DIFAZIO; William; JOBLESS Future: Sci-Tech & the Dogma of Work; The (Book); Nonfiction; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations

The Politics of Difference and Inclusiveness within the Canadian Labour Movement - Warskelt, Rosemary (Economic and Industrial Democracy, 1996)
Times have changed for Canadian unions in a number of important ways. Economic restructuring has wrought fundamental transformations in workplaces, labour processes and hence in unions themselves. The union movement is now largely made up of Canadian unions rather than American/international unions. The feminization of the labour market over the last 20 years has also changed the membership of unions and their organizations. Yet there are important ways in which the union movement as a whole has not responded to these challenges. The problems derive in part from the fragmented structure of the Canadian labour movement. Yet the strategies adopted by liberal and union feminists, with their emphasis on legislative solutions, have also contributed to the marginalization of women from the unions' main business, collective bargaining.

The Puzzle of Strikes: Class and State Strategies in Postwar Italy - Wright, Martin (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
The article reviews the book, "The Puzzle of Strikes: Class and State Strategies in Postwar Italy," by Roberto Franzosi.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; History; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Postwar reconstruction; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Social classes; Strikes

Abstracts / Résumés [35, Spring 1995] (Labour/Le Travail, 1995)
English/French abstracts of articles published in the issue.

Abstracts / Résumés [36, Fall 1995] (Labour/Le Travail, 1995)
English/French abstracts of articles published in the issue.

CCLH publications (Labour/Le Travail, 1995)
List of recent publications by the Committee.

Index, Volume 35 (Spring/Printemps 1995) (Labour/Le Travail, 1995)

Pandora's Box: Corporate Power, Free Trade, and Canadian Education - Axelrod, Paul (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Pandora's Box: Corporate Power, Free Trade, and Canadian Education," by John Calvert.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CALVERT; John; Free trade; Nonfiction; PANDORA'S Box: Corporate Power; Free Trade & Canadian Education (Book)

Spying on the Young in Depression and War: Students, Youth Groups and the RCMP, 1935-1942 - Axelrod, Paul (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
Focusing on the experiences of the Canadian Student Assembly and the Canadian Youth Congress, this article examines the ways in which the RCMP assembled information, conducted surveillance, and interpreted the activities of student and youth "radicals" from the early 1930s to the beginning of World War II. Sources for this study include surveillance and security reports filed by RCMP informants and authorities. As well as exploring new terrain in the history of youth and higher education in Canada, this study adds to the literature on the means by which liberal democratic practices were fettered by government authorities in the depression and war years.
Keywords: CANADIAN Youth Congress; Canada; Espionage; POLICE patrol – Surveillance operations; RADICALS; Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP); STUDENT activism; YOUTH – Political activity

Winning Women for Socialism: The Ontario CCF and Women, 1947-1961 - Azoulay, Dan (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
This article examines the role of women in the Ontario Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in the period 1947 to 1961. Taking a revisionist approach, it argues that the main concern of Ontario CCF women, as expressed through the Provincial Women's Committee, was with expanding the party's membership and support by attracting other women to the party, and not with advancing the equality of women, as the existing literature contends. it is further argued that women were not significantly under-represented in positions of power within the CCF, that the party's sexual division of labour was due largely to the timidity of its female members, and that the methods used to "win women for socialism" were practical and sensible under the circumstances.
Keywords: Equality; LABOUR/LE Travail (Book); Ontario; SEX discrimination in employment; Sexual division of labor; WOMEN & socialism; WOMEN in politics

Where the Boys Are: Cuba, Cold War America and the Making of a New Left - Babbitt, Susan (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Where the Boys Are: Cuba, Cold War America and the Making of a New Left," by Van Gosse.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; GOSSE; Van; Nonfiction; WAR & society; WHERE the Boys Are: Cuba; Cold War America & the Making of a New Left (Book)

Making the Match: Domestic Placement Agencies and the Racialization of Women's Household Work - Bakan, Abigail B.; Stasiulis, Daiva K. (Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 1995)
Over recent years, there has been a notable shift in feminist scholarship regarding the study of women's labor in the home. While in the 1960s and 1970s, research focused on the significance for women's oppression of unpaid domestic labor, since the 1980s more attention has been devoted to the role of paid domestic service in oppressing racial and ethnic minority, and working class women. The growing interest in paid domestic labor reflects a reflection among some feminists feminists that the employment of domestic households is a crucial means through which asymmetrical race and class relations among women are structured. ...In this article, we argue that in advanced states women's work iin the home cannot be fully understood without addressing statuses of members of household units and female migrant domestic workers.... Using the Canadian Live-in Caregiver Program as a case study, the article will demonstrate the pivotal role of private domestic placement agents in negotiating citizenship rights for migrant domestic workers and their employers. Rather than approaching domestic labor as an abstract and universal category, we instead draw attention to the variations among women positioned differently in terms of their class, race, and citizenship regarding labor performed in the home. Our analysis is based largely on intensive qualitative interviews with ten of the leading domestic placement agencies in Toronto, Ontario. Additionally, we observed several national and international meetings and conferences organized by placement agencies and consulted a wide variety of policy documents and secondary sources. –From introduction

Comparing Union and Nonunion Establishments in Britain - Beaumont, Phillip B.; Harris, Richard I. D. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
Existing survey research in Britain has shown that there are notable differences between the characteristics of union and nonunion establishments. But at the same time case study research has indicated that the characteristics and employment practices of nonunion organizations vary quite widely. An analysis is presented of some data contained in the 1990 national Workplace Industrial Relations survey. The findings reveal that a sizable minority of nonunion establishments have similar characteristics to unionized establishments which, in turn make them particularly vulnerable to union organizing efforts and help account for the fact that it is these nonunion establishments which are most strongly opposed to a possible union presence.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Comparative studies; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Nonunion; Regression analysis; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Unionization; Variables

Occupational subcultures in the workplace - Bélanger, Laurent (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Occupational subcultures in the workplace," by Harrison M. Trice.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Corporate culture; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Vieillissement, emploi, préretraite : les facteurs socio-économiques influant sur la gestion de la main-d'oeuvre vieillissante - Bellemare, Diane; Simon, Lise Poulin; Tremblay, Diane-Gabrielle (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
Cet article présente les résultats d'une étude portant sur l'analyse des pratiques de gestion d'emploi des travailleuses et des travailleurs vieillissants en regard de la situation économique à laquelle sont confrontées les entreprises depuis quelques années. H traite des pratiques dominantes axées sur l'exclusion de la main-d'oeuvre vieillissante et met en lumière quatre facteurs permettant de mieux comprendre la stratégie d'éviction encore largement utilisée. Il présente en outre quelques pratiques novatrices mises de l'avant par les entreprises à l'égard de leur main-d'oeuvre vieillissante.
Keywords: Age and employment; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Les apports de l'ergonomie participative dans le cadre de projets industriels ou architecturaux - Bellemare, Marie; Garrigou, Alain; Ledoux, Élise; Richard, Jean-Guy (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
Une approche ergonomique est ici présentée comme un moyen d'améliorer les conditions d'exécution du travail en intervenant lors de projets d'investissement. Cette approche s'appuie sur l'analyse de l'activité en situation réelle et s'articule aux structures mises en place pour la réalisation du projet en accordant une place importante aux travailleurs visés. Sur la base de trois interventions, l'article tente d'illustrer l'intérêt de recourir à cette approche pour optimiser les projets en intégrant une prise en compte de l'activité humaine.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Ergonomics; Job design; Labor Unions; Labor unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929 - Bergquist, Charles (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929," by Dana Frank.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; FRANK; Dana; Nonfiction; PURCHASING Power: Consumer Organizing Gender & the Seattle Labor Movement 1919-1929 (Book); PURCHASING power

Immigrant Female Workers and Australian Trade Unions - Bertone, Santina; Griffin, Gerard (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
The relationship between Australian trade unions and their non-English-speaking-background female members is analyzed. In particular, the level of services provided by unions to these members and the extent of participation of these unionists in their union and the industrial priorities that they hold for their union are examined. Drawing on a questionnaire survey of unions, of union members and detailed case studies of 6 unions with large immigrant memberships, it is argued that very limited targeted services are provided to non-English-speaking-background female unionists have similar levels of participation in most rank-and-file activities, but that the former group remains underrepresented among full-time officials; and that the industrial priorities of female unionists are similar irrespective of their backgrounds.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Females; Immigrant women; Immigration; Labor Unions; Polls & surveys; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Statistical data; Union membership

Le syndicalisme : état des lieux et enjeux - Bilodeau, Michèle (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Le syndicalisme : état des lieux et enjeux," by Mona-Josée Gagnon.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Le droit du travail du Québec: théories et pratiques - Blouin, Rodrigue (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
The article reviews the book, Le droit du travail du Québec: théories et pratiques, by Robert Gagnon.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

La modernisation sociale des entreprises - Boivin, Jean (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
The article reviews the book, " La modernisation sociale des entreprises," edited by Paul R. Bélanger, Michel Grant and Benoît Lévesque.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

L'influence des institutions sur l'action syndicale durant la crise de la construction navale en France et au Québec - Bourque, Reynald (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
Cet article traite de l'influence des systèmes nationaux de relations industrielles sur l'action syndicale dans la construction navale en France et au Québec durant la période de crise des années 1970 et 1980. Nos analyses révèlent que malgré la convergence des revendications présentées par les syndicats en France et au Québec pour atténuer les effets de cette crise sur l'emploi, les actions mises en oeuvre par les organisations syndicales dominantes dans les chantiers navals français et québécois sont de nature et de portée substantiellement différente.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Labor unions; Shipbuilding; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

L'histoire des femmes au Québec depuis quatre siècles - Bradbury, Bettina (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "L'histoire des femmes au Québec depuis quatre siècles," by Le Collectif Cleo.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Feminism; Nonfiction; QUEBEC Women: A History (Book)

Loafers Are Not Going to Subsist Upon Public Credulence: Vagrancy and the Law in Calgary, 1900-1914 - Bright, David (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
Between 1900 and 1904, rapid growth in population and industrial production transformed Calgary. It was also a period in which those arrested and charged with vagrancy appeared before the local police court in increasing numbers. Previous studies have suggested that the prosecution of vagrants amounted to a form of social control. Reflecting the values of the dominant middle class, local authorities sought to suppress or reform anyone who rejected those same values, especially those connected to the importance of work. This article argues that, in Calgary at least, the criminal justice system lacked the intent or means to reform vagrants. Instead, it punished them as an example to the wider working class of the penalty for rejecting the work ethic.
Keywords: Alberta; CALGARY (Alta.); CRIMINAL justice administration; LABOUR/LE Travail (Book); PROSECUTION; SLACKERS; VAGRANCY; VICTIMLESS crimes

Work Activity and Subjectivity: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Work of Linemen - Brun, Jean-Pierre (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
Using a study of linemen, it is shown how analyzing the subjective experience of linemen can enrich the understanding of work activities. The demonstration is based essentially on the phenomenon of defensive strategies, which allow human beings to maintain their psychic equilibrium despite the harmful effects of work organization. Finally, it is proposed that ergonomics should pay closer attention to the more personal phenomena that inevitably influence work activities. The challenge for ergonomists is to accept that work dynamics cannot be explained using only a production rationality that speaks of loads, capacities and physiological and cognitive limits.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Ergonomics; Job design; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Occupational safety; Organizational behavior; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Stress, Satisfaction and Militancy Among Canadian Physicians - Burke, Ronald J. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
A recent study utilized a stressor-strain framework to understand physician militancy in Canada. Data were collected from 2,584 physicians in 1986 using questionnaires. Four militant attitudes or activities were considered: 1. approval of binding arbitration in the event of deadlocks in fee negotiations with governments, 2. approval of withdrawal of services in the event of inadequate income settlements, 3. approval of the reconstitution of medical associations as labor unions, and 4. whether they had participated in an organized job action involving withdrawal of services.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Demographics; Job satisfaction; Labor Unions; Physicians; Psychology; Regression analysis; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Stress; Studies

Professional Gentlemen: The Professions in Nineteenth-Century Ontario - Burley, David G. (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Professional Gentlemen: The Professions in Nineteenth-Century Ontario," by R. D. Gidney and W. P. J. Millar.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; GIDNEY; R. D.; MILLAR; W. P. J.; Nonfiction; PROFESSIONAL Gentlemen: The Professions in 19th Ontario (Book); Professions

Art and Work: A Social History of Labour in the Canadian Graphic Arts Industry to the 1940s - Burr, Christina (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Art and Work: A Social History of Labour in the Canadian Graphic Arts Industry to the 1940s," by Angela E. Davis.
Keywords: ART & Work: A Social History of Labour in the Canadian Graphic Arts Industry to the 1940s (Book); BOOKS – Reviews; DAVIS; Angela E.; Graphic arts; Nonfiction

The Feminist Challenge to the Canadian Left 1900-1918 - Campbell, J. Peter (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "The Feminist Challenge to the Canadian Left 1900-1918," by Janice Newton.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; FEMINIST Challenge to the Canadian Left 1900-1918; The (Book); FEMINISTS; NEWTON; Janice; Nonfiction

Old Unions and New Social Movements - Carroll, William K.; Ratner, R.s. (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
Based on extensive study of union organizations and activists in Greater Vancouver, this article offers a two-fold critique of the thesis that "new social movements" have supplanted the labour movement as the key collective agents of change in late-modem societies. In the first section we briefly review the claims of new social movement theory and point to some of the analytic difficulties in positing a sharp distinction between "old" unions and "new" social movements. We then present comparative case studies of two pan-union labour organizations active in the Lower Mainland, followed by findings from in-depth interviews with activists in these groups, and comparisons between the political orientations of labour activists and those of activists in new social movements. We find evidence of a labour movement increasingly open to popular struggles outside its own immediate orbit, sensitive to the needs of diverse and marginalized constituencies, tactically prepared if not psychologically predisposed to yield a leading role in any such coalitions, and capable of grasping the connections between social movement activism and everyday life activities. The future of the labour movement very much depends on putting these political sensibilities into practice through a deepening of solidarity with other progressive movements - whose own futures are themselves implicated in labour's prospects.
Keywords: British Columbia; Coalitions; GROUP formation; Labor Unions; Labor movement; Social movements; VANCOUVER (B.C.)

Women, Work and Coping: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Workplace Stress - Chamberland, Érick (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Women, work and coping: a multidisciplinary approach to workplace stress," edited by Bonita C. Long and Sharon E. Kahn.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employment; Labor Unions; Psychology; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Stress; Women

La participation des travailleuses à la formation en entreprise et l'accès à l'égalité - Chicha, Marie-Therese (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
Alors que la médiation la plus souvent utilisée survient dans le cadre de la négociation d'une première convention collective ou d'un renouvellement de convention, des programmes de médiation préventive tels celui des relations par objectifs (RPO) se situent en dehors du contexte de la négociation collective. Après avoir séparer les sujets d'ordre distributif des sujets de relations, les seules différences demeurant entre les parties sont celles des questions de fond. Cet article évalue 24 programmes de RPO menés par la Education Relations Commission d'Ontario entre 1981 et 1991. Nous avons utilisé une méthodologie combinée, quantitative et qualitative, pour mesurer l'impact général des RPO sur les conflits en milieu de travail et pour fournir quelques raisons de leurs échecs. L'approche générale des RPO est de réunir des représentants clefs de l'employeur et du syndicat dans un séminaire de deux ou trois jours dirigé par des animateurs qualifiés, en dehors des heures de travail et pendant une année de non-négociation. Les parties tentent alors d'identifier les problèmes qui affectent leurs relations, développant des plans spécifiques d'action, désignant des responsabilités pour leur implantation. Les parties établissent en outre un processus et un échéancier pour mesurer les progrès réalisés dans l'implantation des différents engagements contenus au plan d'action....
Keywords: Affirmative action; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employment; Labor Unions; Labor unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Women

La possession ouvrière. Du taudis à la propriété. - Choko, Marc H. (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "La possession ouvirère. Du taudis à la propriété," by Guy Groux and Catherine Levy.

Shifting Time: Policy and the Future of Work - Clark, Susan M. (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book,"Shifting Time: Policy and the Future of Work," by Armine Yalnizyan, T. Ran Ide and Arthur J. Cordell.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CORDELL; Arthur J.; IDE; T. Ran; Labor; Nonfiction; SHIFTING Time: Policy & the Future of Work (Book); YALNIZYAN; Armine

Alternatives to Lean Production: Work Organization in the Swedish Auto Industry - Clement, Wallace (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Alternatives to Lean Production: Work Organization in the Swedish Auto Industry," by Christian Berggren.
Keywords: ALTERNATIVES to Lean Production: Work Organization in the Swedish Auto Industry (Book); BERGGREN; Christian; BOOKS – Reviews; LEAN manufacturing; Nonfiction

Le droit de cuis-sage. France, 1860-1930 - Cohen, Yolande (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Le droit de cuis-sage. France, 1860-1930," by Marie-Victoire Louis.

Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State; Britain and France, 1914-1945 - Comacchio, Cynthia (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Family, Dependence, and the Origins of the Welfare State; Britain and France, 1914-1945," by Susan Pedersen.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; FAMILY; Dependence & the Origins of the Welfare State: Britain & France 1914-1945 (Book); Nonfiction; PEDERSEN; Susan; WELFARE state

Strikes: Causes, Conduct and Consequences - Dabscheck, Braham (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
Strikes: Causes, Conduct and Consequences by Douglas Blackmur 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; Strikes

Le Québec en jeu : comprendre les grands défis - Daigle, Gérard; Rocher, Guy (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Le Québec en jeu : comprendre les grands défis," by Gérard Daigle, edited by and with the collaboration of Guy Rocher.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Âge et rapport au travail parmi le personnel enseignant des commissions scolaires du Québec - David, Hélène; Payeur, Christian (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
Une enquête auprès du personnel enseignant des commissions scolaires du Québec sur les rapports entre l'âge, le travail et le cheminement professionnel révèle que des effets de cohorte font varier sa situation et son cheminement professionnel ; ces changements reflètent les transformations profondes du travail et de l'emploi dans le milieu de l'enseignement au cours des dernières décennies. Par contre, le rapport individuel au travail ne varie pas selon l'âge ni selon le genre sexuel. La façon de le vivre différencie cependant très nettement quatre catégories d'importance à peu près égales parmi le personnel enseignant : les passionnés, les tiraillés, les contentés et tes désabusés. Ces positions existentielles face au travail sont fortement associées aux diverses composantes du rapport individuel au travail. Il apparaît que ce sont les rapports pédagogiques, la gestion de la classe, les facteurs organisationnels et relationnels, et non l'âge du personnel enseignant, qui sont en cause.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z; Teachers

Memories of Chicano History: The Life and Narrative of Bert Corona - Delgado, Hector L. (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Memories of Chicano History: The Life and Narrative of Bert Corona," by Mario T. Garcia.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CORONA; Bert; GARCIA; Mario T.; 1944-; MEMORIES of Chicano History: The Life & Narrative of Bert Corona (Book); Nonfiction

A Muted Fury: Populists, Progressives, and Labor Unions Confront the Courts, 1890-1939 - Dubofsky, Melvyn (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "A Muted Fury: Populists, Progressives, and Labor Unions Confront the Courts, 1890-1939," by William G. Ross.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; JUDICIAL review; MUTED Fury: Populists; Progressives & Labor Unions Confront the Courts 1890-1937; A (Book); Nonfiction; ROSS; William G.

Tell the Driver: A Biography of Elinor F.E. Black, M.D - Duffin, Jacalyn (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Tell the Driver: A Biography of Elinor F.E Black, M.D.," by Julie Vandervoort.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Biographies; Nonfiction; TELL the Driver: A Biography of Elinor F.E. Black; MD (Book); VANDERVOORT; Julie

The Mill: A Worker's Memoir of the 1930s and 1940s - Edwards, Alfred; Manley, John (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
A literary criticism of the book, "The Mill: A Worker's Memoir of the 1930s and 1940s," by Alfred Edwards. It outlines the characters and the insights provided into the mentality of a section of working class. It examines the author's way of getting the story to its real starting-point in a deft manner. An overview of the story is also given.
Keywords: Criticism; EDWARDS; Alfred; MEMOIRS; MILL: A Worker's Memoir of the 1930s & 1940s; The (Book); Working class

From Industrial Relations to the Employment Relationship: The Development of Research in Britain - Edwards, P. K. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
In contrast to gloomy diagnoses of the state of industrial relations in the US, the situation in Britain is comparatively healthy. Reasons include the way in which the human resource management (HRM) challenge was met and the intellectual development of the subject from old industrial relations towards a deeper analysis of the employment relationship. These reasons are closely connected to the continuation of a case study tradition of research. Examples of such work illustrating this analysis, particularly those exploring management and the nature of HRM, are discussed. A future research agenda comparing national regimes of labor regulation is sketched.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; History; Human resource management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

On Different Planes: an Organizational Analysis of Cooperation and Conflict among Airline Unions - Edwards, Paul (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "On Different Planes: An Organizational Analysis of Cooperation and Conflict Among Airline Unions," by David J. Walsh.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Labor Unions; Nonfiction; ON Different Planes: An Organizational Analysis of Cooperation & Conflict Among Airline Unions (Book); WALSH; David J.

Marxist Intellectuals and the Working-Class Mentality in Germany, 1887-1912 - Eley, Geoff (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Marxist Intellectuals and the Working-Class Mentality in Germany, 1887-1912," by Stanley Pierson.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; MARXIST Intellectuals & the Working-Class Mentality in Germany 1887-1912 (Book); Nonfiction; PIERSON; Stanley; Social conflict

La société libérale duplessiste - Emery, George (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "La société libérale duplessiste," by Gilles Bourque, Jules Duchastel and Jacques Beauchemin.
Keywords: BEAUCHEMIN; Jacques; BOOKS – Reviews; BOURQUE; Gilles; DUCHASTEL; Jules; LA societe liberale duplessiste (Book); Liberalism; Nonfiction

C.L.R. James and Revolutionary Marxism: Selected Writings of C.L.R. James 1939-1949 - Faber, Seymour (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "C.L.R. James and Revolutionary Marxism: Selected Writings of C.L.R. James 1939-1949," edited by Scott McLemee and Paul Le Blanc.
Keywords: BANC; Paul; BOOKS – Reviews; Communism; JAMES & Revolutionary Marxism (Book); MCLEMEE; Scott; Nonfiction

Analyse de l'activité et coopération des acteurs de la conception - Filippi, Geneviève; Haradji, Yvon; Villame, Thérèse (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
Le processus de conception d'une situation de travail résulte de la coopération de plusieurs acteurs (opérateurs, concepteurs, ergonomes). À travers trois études, nous illustrons le fait que les résultats de l'analyse de l'activité sont essentiels pour orienter le processus de conception, mais aussi pour favoriser la coopération des acteurs. La première étude met l'accent sur l'intérêt d'une analyse de l'activité collective en vue de la définition des nouvelles salles de régulation du trafic urbain. La deuxième étude souligne l'intérêt pour les concepteurs de réaliser l'évaluation d'un système d'assistance en situation réaliste d'utilisation. La troisième étude montre le rôle moteur que joue l'analyse de l'activité aux différentes phases d'un processus de conception informatique.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Ergonomics; Job design; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Women Strike for Peace: Traditional Motherhood and Radical Politics in the 1960s - Fine, Lisa M. (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Women Strike for Peace: Traditional Motherhood and Radical Politics in the 1960s," by Amy Swerdlow.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Nonfiction; SWERDLOW; Amy; WOMEN Strike for Peace: Traditional Motherhood & Radical Politics in the 1960s (Book); WOMEN in politics

Even the Little Children Cooperated: Family Strategies, Childcare Discourse, and Social Welfare Debates 1945-1975 - Finkel, Alvin (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The debate about public funding and regulation of childcare has always had as its central focus: should mothers be encouraged or discouraged from seeking paid work outside the home? While some scholars argue that labour needs – the "reserve army" thesis –best explain resulting public policies regarding childcare, this article argues that campaigns by women's organizations, sometimes aided by mixed-sex progressive social organizations, have been more important in public policy-making. Discourse on paid work for women with children has shifted from 1945 to 1990 from extremely negative to ambivalent. But the Right has limited the impact of women's mobilization for shared state responsibility for childcare by insisting on childcare arrangements as a working mother's responsibility.
Keywords: CHILD care – Law & legislation; Government policy; LABOUR/LE Travail (Book); PUBLIC welfare; SOCIAL clubs; WOMEN – Societies & clubs

Consuming Canada: Readings in Environmental History - Forkey, Neil S. (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Consuming Canada: Readings in Environmental History," edited by Chad Gaffield and Pam Gaffield.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CONSUMING Canada: Readings in Environmental History (Book); GAFFIELD; Chad; 1951-; GAFFIELD; Pam; History; Human ecology; Nonfiction

Lost Comrades: Socialists of the Front Generation, 1918-1945 - Gabbert, Mark A. (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Lost Comrades: Socialists of the Front Generation, 1918-1945," by Dan S. White.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; LOST Comrades: Socialists of the Front Generation 1918-1945 (Book); Nonfiction; SOCIALISTS; WHITE; Dan S.

Union Assimilation of the Ergonomic Approach and the Transformation of Social Relations - Gadbois, Charles; Villatte, Robert; Bourne, Jean-Paul; Visier, Laurent (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
A large-scale project to introduce a participatory ergonomics approach into 100 health care establishments in France was conducted by a hospital sector union. The project took the form of ergonomics training provided to union delegates to committees responsible for health, safety, and working conditions. Data on the project's progress and results show that when unions had assimilated an ergonomic approach, the view that hospital actors had of one another was modified, as were the relations concerning working condition issues. The conditions for the success, extension and durability of this approach are discussed.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employees; Ergonomics; Hospitals; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Objectives; Problems; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

La résolution des griefs dans l'entreprise - Gascon, Hélène (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "La résolution des griefs dans l'entreprise," by Jean-Claude Bernatchez.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Âge des opérateurs et travail répétitif : une approche démographique et ergonomique - Gaudart, Corinne; Laville, Antoine; Volkoff, Serge; Molinié, Anne-Françoise (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
Les relations entre le vieillissement des salariés et les conditions de travail se situent à deux niveaux: l'un individuel qui est propre au vieillissement de chacun, l'autre collectif qui est marqué par les phénomènes de génération et d'époque. Ces relations ont été étudiées dans l'industrie automobile française en se centrant sur le travail répétitif sous cadence imposée et en associant des approches en démographie du travail et des approches ergonomiques. Les résultats permettent de définir des actions anticipatrices pour éviter les effets négatifs d'une double évolution : celle du vieillissement de la population des opérateurs et celle de l'organisation du travail.
Keywords: Age and employment; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Ergonomics; Labor unions; Repetitive motion disorders; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Changements dans la législation du travail au Canada [v. 50, no. 1, 1995] = Changes in Canada labour law - Gauvin, Michel; Brennan, Geoffrey (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Changements dans la législation du travail au Canada [v. 50, no. 2, 1995], 1 octobre à 31 décembre 1994 = Changes in Canada labour law, October 1 to December 31, 1994 - Gauvin, Michel; Brennan, Geoffrey (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Changements dans la législation du travail au Canada [v. 50, no. 3, 1995], 1 janvier au 31 mars 1995 = Changes in Canada labour law, January 1 to March 31, 1995 - Gauvin, Michel; Brennan, Geoffrey (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Changements dans la législation du travail au Canada [v. 50, no. 4, 1995], 1 avril au 30 juin 1995 = Changes in Canadian labour laws, April 1 to June 30, 1995 - Gauvin, Michel; Brennan, Geoffrey (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
Changements dans la législation du travail au Canada.

The U.S./Canada Convergence Thesis: Contrary Evidence from Nova Scotia - Gilson, Clive H. J.; Wagar, Terry H. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
Certification data were used from the province of Nova Scotia to provide further evidence that convergence of industrial relations systems between the US and Canada is far from unavoidable. Contrary to arguments advanced by Troy (1991), private sector organizing in Canada, even when operating under a US-style legal environment, remains remarkably robust, posting a win rate of 68% over a 10-year period with no evidence of longitudinal decline. Furthermore, there is compelling evidence that international unions are unable to match the organizing performance of their Canadian counterparts.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Collective bargaining; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Membership drives; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Statistical analysis; Studies; Unionization; Variables

Slaves and Proletarians: The Debate Continues - Glaberman, Martin (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
A chapter of the book "Labour/Le Travail" is presented. It explores the discussion on whether slaves in the U.S. were proletarians. It highlights the reasons behind why criticism of W. E. B. Du Bois' use of neo-Marxist terminology has been restricted in the country. It notes the move of Noel Ignatiev to rely on Du Bios to refute Eric Foner, who reviewed the book "Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1963-1877."
Keywords: DU Bois; W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt); 1868-1963; FONER; Eric; 1943-; IGNATIEV; Noel; LABOUR/LE Travail (Book); PROLETARIAT; SLAVES – United States; United States; Working class

Houses for All: The Struggle for Social Housing in Vancouver, 1919-50 - Goheen, Peter G. (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Houses for All: The Struggle for Social Housing in Vancouver, 1919-1950," by Jill Wade.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; HOUSES for All: The Struggle for Social Housing in Vancouver 1919-1950 (Book); Nonfiction; Public housing; WADE; Jill

Histoire de l'Outaouais - Gossage, Peter (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Histoire de l'Outaouais," by Chad Gaffield, André Cellard, Gérald Pelletier, Odette Vincent-Domey, Caroline Andrew, André Beaucage, Normand Fortier, Jean Harvey, and Jean-Marc Soucy.
Keywords: ANDREW; Caroline; BEAUCAGE; Andre; BOOKS – Reviews; CELLARD; Andre; FORTIER; Normand; GAFFIELD; Chad; 1951-; HARVEY; Jean; HISTOIRE de l'Outaouais (Book); Nonfiction; PELLETIER; Gerald; PHYSICAL geography; SOUCY; Jean-Marc; VINCENT-Domey; Odette

The Irish in Quebec: An Introduction to the Historiography - Gossage, Peter (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "The Irish in Quebec: An Introduction to the Historiography," by Robert J. Grace.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; GRACE; Robert J.; Historiography; IRISH in Quebec: An Introduction to the Historiography; The (Book); Nonfiction

La fonction ressources humaines en contexte québécois : perceptions et évolution - Gosselin, Louis (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
Dans un monde en changement, l'organisation s 'ajuste aux besoins de son environnement. Dans le contexte des annees 1980, la tangente prise par les entreprises privilégie la fonction ressources humaines en lui conférant un rôle prépondérant dons l'atteinte des objectifs organisationnels. Au cours de la dernière décennie, les chercheurs ont développé de nouvelles approches de gestion des ressources humaines et les praticiens ont vanté les mérites d'une préoccupation accrue de cette ressource dans l'organisation. Cependant, qu'en est-il réellement? Cette étude tente de retracer l'évolution de la fonction ressources humaines entre 1978 et 1989 au Québec et de vérifier si !es pérceptions qu 'en ont les directeurs généraux et les directeurs des ressources humaines dans des entreprises du secteur sécondaire privé ont sensiblement changé au cours de cette même période.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Human resource management; Labor Unions; Labor unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Macmillan - Grant, Mariel (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Macmillan," by John Turner.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Biographies; MACMILLAN (Book); Nonfiction; TURNER; John

From Dreams of the Worker State to Fighting Hitler: The German-Canadian Left from the Depression to the End of World War II - Grenke, A. (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
German-Canadian labour first organized itself at the national level soon after the outbreak of the Depression, in 1929. Once organized, the movement was integrated into the international communist labour movement, under the direction of the Comintern. After the rise to power of Adolf Hitler in Germany, German-Canadian labour changed its focus from radically altering society to fighting Naziism. The change in focus helped many German-Canadian pro-communists escape internment when war broke out. The war, however, brought an end to their organized activities. These recommenced soon after Nazi Germany's attack on the Soviet Union. Established in 1942. the German Canadian Federation became essentially an advocate of Soviet Russian views and interests. This greatly weakened its appeal in the German Canadian community and contributed to the demise of the German Canadian labour movement soon after the end of World War II.
Keywords: COMMUNIST International; CONCENTRATION camps; Canada; GERMANY; Labor movement; WORLD War; 1939-1945; War

Between Memory and Reality: Family and Community in Rural Wisconsin, 1870-1970 - Gulig, Anthony G. (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Between Memory and Reality: Family and Community in Rural Wisconsin, 1870-1970," by Jane Marie Pederson.
Keywords: BETWEEN Memory & Reality: Family & Community in Rural Wisconsin (Book); BOOKS – Reviews; COMMUNITY development; Nonfiction; PEDERSON; Jane Marie

Reasonable Accommodation Requirements Under Workers' Compensation in Ontario - Gunderson, Morley; Hyatt, Douglas; Law, David (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
A relatively new and potentially important administrative forum for interpreting the concept of reasonable accommodation has been created by the Ontario Workers' Compensation Act as amended in 1989. The revised act contained provisions requiring employers to reemploy, and where necessary make reasonable accommodations for, workers following an injury. Though representing an important reformation for the workers' compensation system, accommodation requirements are present in other labor market policy initiatives. The accommodation requirements in other legislation and jurisprudence in Canada are discussed, the recent reforms to the Ontario Workers' Compensation Act are described in which accommodation represents an integral component, and the new and emerging jurisprudence under the revised act are outlined.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; HUMAN rights; Handicapped assistance devices; Labor Unions; Laws & regulations; Legislation; Reforms; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Workers compensation

Persistent Inequalities - Haddow, Rodney (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Persistent Inequalities," by Howard Botwinick.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; BOTWINICK; Howard; Nonfiction; PERSISTENT Inequalities (Book); WAGE differentials

The Construction Workers' Strike on the Canadian Pacific Railway, 1879 - Hall, David J. (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
In May 1879 construction workers struck on contract 15 of the CPR to demand back pay, restoration of wage structures, and improved board and medical attendance. The working conditiona, causea. and outcome of the strike were typical of the situation for unskilled labourers on large construction projects in the 19th century. The workers gained their back pay, but little else. At the same time, the strike contributed to the loss of the contract by the contractor, Joseph Whitehead, and perhaps also contributed to the end of the small contract system of building the transcontinental railway.
Keywords: CONSTRUCTION industry – Employees; CONSTRUCTION projects; CONSTRUCTION workers; CONTRACT system (Labor); LABOUR/LE Travail (Book); Labor contracts; STRIKES & lockouts

Travail et emploi: le temps des métamorphoses - Harrisson, Denis (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
The article reviews the book, Travail et emploi: le temps des métamorphoses, edited by Michel Lallement.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

The Battle for Berlin, Ontario: An Historical Drama - Hayes, Geoffrey (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "The Battle for Berlin Ontario: An Historical Drama," by W. R. Chadwick.
Keywords: BATTLE for Berlin Ontarion: An Historical Drama; The (Book); BOOKS – Reviews; CHADWICK; W. R.; HISTORICAL drama; Nonfiction

Mending Fences, Building Bridges: The Effect of Relationship by Objectives on Conflict - Hebdon, Robert; Mazerolle, Maurice (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
Some 24 Relationships by Objectives (RBO) programs conducted by the Education Relations Commission in Ontario were evaluated. An RBO is a form of preventive mediation and applies problem-solving techniques to attempt to reduce such unnecessary conflict as language disputes over grievances, strikes, and the time in negotiations. Mean conflict scores of the RBO boards are compared, before and after RBO, with those of the education sector and a control group of boards. Some evidence is found of a half-life effect for RBO programs since long-run conflict scores returned to pre-RBO levels. However, RBO appears to be effective in reducing conflict as measured by time to reach a settlement and number of grievance arbitrations over language issues.
Keywords: Alternative dispute resolution; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Collective bargaining; Grievances; Labor Unions; Labor disputes; Mediation; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Statistical analysis; Studies

La Legislation sur les relations du travail au Canada et le CP 1003 - Hebert, Gerard (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
Au cours du vingtième siècle, les syndicats ont joué un rôle majeur dans le système australien des relations industrielles. Ce rôle a été confié au mouvement syndical par la Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act de 1904. Cette loi, la base du système d'arbitrage australien, encourageait fortement l'adhésion syndicale et consacrait effectivement les syndicats comme unique voix des travailleurs. Les immigrants en Australie y trouvent alors un mouvement syndical fort et bien organisé pouvant les accueillir. Plusieurs immigrants n'ont eu d'autre choix que de devenir syndiqués. Un bon nombre d'ateliers fermés de facto existaient, plus particulièrement pour les travailleurs manuels dans les secteurs manufacturiers, du transport et de la construction, tous employeurs importants de main-d'œuvre immigrante en provenance de milieux non anglophones (IMNA). En conséquence, les taux de densité syndicale pour les IMNA ont toujours été plus élevés que ceux des australiens d'origine et des immigrants anglophones. Cet article s'intéresse à la façon dont les syndicats ont relevé les défis posés par un groupe d'immigrants membres, les femmes IMNA. Nous examinons le niveau de service offerts à celles-ci par les syndicats, l'étendue de la participation de ces syndicalistes dans leurs syndicats et les priorités qu'elles représentent pour ceux-ci. La documentation existante sur ce sujet souligne le manque de services spéciaux pour satisfaire aux besoins des IMNA syndiqués féminins. On y indique également que ces membres ont un bas niveau de participation dans les activités syndicales telles les votes et la présence aux assemblées, qu'elles sont grandement sous-représentées dans les postes d'officiers et que les syndicats ne s'attardent pas aux préoccupations importantes pour les immigrantes. On conclut en outre que ces facteurs amènent les IMNA femmes syndiquées à être aliénées envers les syndicats et à percevoir ceux-ci de façon négative. Ces prétentions sont cependant sujettes à débat sur au moins deux volets. D'abord, ces études ont été menées durant les années 1970 ou au début des années 1980 et leurs conclusions peuvent ne pas tenir pour les années 1990. Ensuite, ces prétentions pourraient aussi bien s'appliquer aux membres féminins de langue anglaise. Notre recherche vise alors à vérifier si les conclusions tirées dans le passé valent encore et à déterminer s'il y a des différences entre les membres féminins anglophones et les IMNA vis-à-vis leurs syndicats. Cette étude s'appuie sur des données provenant de trois sources : une enquête par questionnaire auprès de tous les syndicats de l'État de Victoria avec un taux de réponse de 55% (N=128), des études de cas de six syndicats en procédant à des entrevues et à des analyses des dossiers, ainsi qu'une enquête par questionnaire auprès d'un échantillon des membres de ces syndicats. Ce dernier questionnaire a été traduit dans dix langues et a connu un taux de réponse de 56% (N=1730). Notre étude démontre que même si une variété de services aux IMNA ont connu une expansion dans les années 1980 et au début des années 1990, un seul service, un cours de formation, visait spécifiquement les IMNA féminins syndiqués et tel service n'était offert que par cinq syndicats. Nous expliquons ce manque de service par trois facteurs interreliés : les ressources syndicales limitées, le statut minoritaire des IMNA féminins dans la plupart des syndicats et les attitudes des dirigeants syndicaux à plein temps. Comparé à leur proportion du nombre total de membres, les IMNA féminins, en dépit d'améliorations durant les années 1980, demeurent sous-représentées de façon significative parmi les dirigeants syndicaux à plein temps, plus particulièrement au niveau supérieur. Cependant, nous avons observé des taux de participation similaires des IMNA et des membres féminins anglophones dans la plupart des activités syndicales visant les membres. Finalement, les priorités industrielles majeures de ces deux groupes de membres sont similaires. Les deux groupes veulent voir leurs syndicats se concentrer sur les préoccupations traditionnelles, telles la sécurité d'emploi et les conditions de travail. Cependant, les IMNA syndiqués féminins accordent beaucoup plus d'importance aux sujets reliés aux immigrants que leurs collègues anglophones.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Laws & regulations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

La négociation. De la théorie à la pratique - Hébert, Gérard (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "La négociation. De la théorie à la pratique," by Jacjues Rojot.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Power and Resistance in an African Society: The Ciskei Xhosa and the Making of South Africa - Higgs, Catherine (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Power and Resistance in an African Society: The Ciskei Xhosa and the Making of South Africa," by Les Switzer.
Keywords: AFRICA – Politics & government; BOOKS – Reviews; Nonfiction; POWER & Resistance in an African Society: The Ciskei Xhosa & the Making of South Africa (Book); SWITZER; Les

Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain - Hurtubise, Rolland (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain," by Antonio R. Damasio.
Keywords: Book reviews; Brain; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Emotions; Labor Unions; Logic; Reason; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness - Hurtubise, Rolland (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness," by Roger Penrose.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Computerization; Labor Unions; Physics; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Social aspects; Thinking skills

Between the Fields and the City: Women, Work, and the Family in Russia, 1861-1914; Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936 - Hyer, Janet (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews two books: "Between the Fields and the City: Women, Work, and the Family in Russia, 1861-1914," by Barbara Alpern Engel, and "Women, the State and Revolution: Soviet Family Policy and Social Life, 1917-1936," by Wendy Z. Goldman.
Keywords: BETWEEN the Fields & the City: Women; Work & the Family in Russia 1861-1914 (Book); BOOKS – Reviews; ENGEL; Barbara Alpern; GOLDMAN; Wendy Z.; Nonfiction; WOMEN; the State & Revolution: Soviet Family Policy & Social Life 1917-1936 (Book)

Manly Militants, Cohesive Communities, and Defiant Domestics: Writing about Immigrants in Canadian Historical Scholarship - Iacovetta, Franca (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
A chapter of the book "Labour/Le Travail" is presented. It explores the historical works on immigrants in Canada that offer significant contributions to immigrant history in the country. It highlights the emergence of new approaches that promote new ways of writing about immigrants. It highlights the belief of scholars that race-ethnicity is a significant category of analysis as well as issues on the popularity of the class-gender-race/ethnicity analytical framework.
Keywords: Canada; Ethnicity; IMMIGRANTS – History; LABOUR/LE Travail (Book); SCHOLARS

Reply to Martin Glaberman - Ignatiev, Noel (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
A chapter of the book "Labour/Le Travail" is presented. It highlights the objective why people deny the proletarian character of slaves. It examines the relationship between history and politics. It mentions the attempt of the governments to establish universal suffrage and universal arming of the people.
Keywords: History; LABOUR/LE Travail (Book); PRACTICAL politics; PROLETARIAT; SLAVES; Working class

Max Shachtman and his Left: A Socialist's Odyssey Through the "American Century" - Johanningsmeier, Edward (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Max Shachtman and his Left: A Socialist's Odyssey Through the American Century," by Peter Drucker.
Keywords: ACTIVISTS; BOOKS – Reviews; DRUCKER; Peter F. (Peter Ferdinand); 1909-2005; MAX Shachtman & His Left: A Socialist's Odyssey Through the American Century (Book); Nonfiction

Les almanacks républicains: Traditions révolutionnaires et culture politique des masses populaires de Paris (1840-1851) - Johnson, Christopher H. (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Les almanachs républicains: Traditions révolutionnaires et culture politique des masses populaires de Paris," by Ronald Gosselin.
Keywords: Almanacs; BOOKS – Reviews; GOSSELIN; Ronald; LES almanachs republicains: Traditions revolutionnaires et culture politique des masses populaires de Paris (Book); Nonfiction

Editor's Note = Note du directeur [35, Spring 1995] - Kealey, Gregory S. (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The editor apologizes for the deletion of figures as well as an error on page 126 of the article, "Strikes and Class Consciousness," published in the Fall 1994 issue.
Keywords: ERRATA; STRIKES & lockouts

Editor's Note = Note du directeur [36, Fall 1995] - Kealey, Gregory S. (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
Announces the launch of the Canadian Committee on Labour History's website and Michael Lonardo's Canadian labour history bibliography (English only), with the latter on the website of Memorial University. Sean Cadigan has joined the editorial team as assistant editor and Andrew Parnaby is doing an internship as did his predecessor Michael Butt. Donations were also received to establish the Eugene Forsey Prize for student essays on labour and working-class history and to continue the work on labour education.
Keywords: CADIGAN; Sean; Canada; PERIODICAL editors; PERIODICALS; WEBSITES; WORLD Wide Web

"Character Weaknesses" and "Fruit Machines": Towards an Analysis of The Anti-Homosexual Security Campaign in the Canadian Civil Service - Kinsman, Gary (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
This investigation interrogates State documents that were part of organizing the anti-homosexual security campaign in the late 1950s and 19605 in the Canadian civil service that led to hundreds of men and women being dismissed and transferred from their jobs. This critical analysis provides an entry point into the textually-mediated social organization of this security campaign. Crucial to this were ideological conceptualizations of `national security' and 'character weakness' that were used to mandate practices of surveillance, dismissal, and transfer. This security campaign led to the identification of thousands of suspected gay men and lesbians that moved far beyond the civil service; to state-funded research on identifying homosexuals called the 'fruit machine'; to debates within the security regime over how broad-ranging this campaign should be; and to non-cooperation from lesbians and gay men.
Keywords: Canada; Civil service; LGBT people; National security; POLITICAL campaigns; PUBLIC service employment; SLOT machines

"Hands-off Labour Forum": The Making and Unmaking of National Working-Class Radio Broadcasting in Canada, 1935-1944 - Klee, Marcus (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
This article examines the Worker Educational Association's National Labour Forum radio series as it developed into a popular, and politically contentious, program with a weekly national audience of 100,000. The series quickly evoked the condemnation of CD. Howe. head of the powerful Department of Munitions and Supply, and embroiled the program and the WEA in the sectarian struggles of the labour movement. Eventually the WEA was expelled from its central role in the production of Labour Forum and control was transferred to the state's Wartime Information Board and its Committee of Industrial Morale. The Trades and Labour Congress and Canadian Congress of Labour bureaucrats slowly responded to a persistent chorus of protest from workers and union locals, withdrawing their support one year prior to its cancellation in 1944.
Keywords: Canada; GOVERNMENT publicity; Labor movement; RADIO panel discussions; Radio broadcasting; WORKER'S Educational Association; WORKING class – Congresses

Workers' Culture in Imperial Germany: Leisure and Recreation in the Rhineland and Westphalia - Koshar, Rudy (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Workers' Culture in Imperial Germany: Leisure and Recreation in the Rhineland and Westphalia," by Lynn Abrams.
Keywords: ABRAMS; Lynn; BOOKS – Reviews; Employees; Nonfiction; WORKERS' Culture in Imperial Germany: Leisure & Recreation in the Rhineland & Westphalia (Book)

La qualité totale: nouvelle panacée du secteur public ? - Laflamme, Marcel (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "La qualité totale: nouvelle panacée du secteur public ?," by Gérard Éthier.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Le travail humain, l'ergonomie et les relations industrielles - Lamonde, Fernande; Montreuil, Sylvie (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
Avec ce numéro thématique, la revue Relations industrielles/Industrial Relations publie pour la première fois des articles en ergonomie. De ce fait, le présent article vise deux objectifs: définir l'objet d'étude, l'objectif et la méthodologie d'intervention propres à l'ergonomie et mettre en lumière les points de rencontre et les perspectives de collaboration entre relations industrielles et ergonomie. L'intérêt porté à la question de la collaboration entre ces deux disciplines est expliqué, entre autres, par une «coïncidence historique ». Du cóté de l'ergonomie, la popularité des volets « organisation du travail » et « gestion sociale de l'intervention ergonomique » succéderait à une période où les énergies ont été concentrées sur le développement de modalités concrètes de travail en commun avec les disciplines techniques comme l'ingénierie, l'informatique et l'architecture. Parallèlement à cela, du cóté des relations industrielles s'est développé un intérêt de plus en plus marqué pour les problèmes pratiques de gestion posés par les micromécanismes organisationnels que représente, dans l'entreprise, l'activité réelle et informelle des opérateurs. Trois formes concrètes de collaboration à faire naître entre ergonomes et spécialistes en relations industrielles sont proposées.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Ergonomics; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Work, Ergonomics and Industrial Relations - Lamonde, Fernande; Montreuil, Sylvie (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
Two objectives are pursued: to define the object of study, the objectives and the methodology that are characteristic of ergonomics, and to highlight the common points and possibilities of collaboration between industrial relations and ergonomics. The interest inherent in a collaboration between these 2 disciplines is explained, among other things by a historical coincidence. On the ergonomics side, a period that concentrated on developing concrete ways of collaborating with technical disciplines like engineering, computing and architecture has given way to a focus on work organization and the social management aspect of ergonomics intervention. At the same time, industrial relations has developed a more pronounced interest in the practical management problems that are posed by micro-organizational processes within firms, namely, the informal work activities of operators.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Ergonomics; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Objectives; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

L'Europe des communistes - Langlois, Suzanne (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "L'Europe des communistes," by José Gotovitch, Pascal Delwit, and Jean-Michel DeWaele.

The Demise of Exceptionalism? Comparative Labour History in Light of Anglo-American Comparison - Laslett, John H. M. (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the books by Neville Kirk including "Labour and Society in Britain and the USA: Capitalism, Custom and Protest, 1780-1850" and "Labour and Society in Britain and the USA: Challenge and Accommodation, 1850-1939."
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; KIRK; Neville; LABOUR & Society in Britain & the USA: Capitalism; Custom & Protest 1780-1850 (Book); LABOUR & Society in Britain & the USA: Challenge & Accommodation 1850-1939 (Book); Nonfiction

The Prophet's Children: Travels on the American Left - Le Blanc, Paul (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "The Prophet's Children: Travels on the American Left," by Tim Wohlforth
Keywords: AUTOBIOGRAPHY; BOOKS – Reviews; Nonfiction; PROPHET'S Children: Travels on the American Left; The (Book); WOHLFORTH; Tim

Notebook [35, Spring 1995] - Leier, Mark (James Mark) (Labour/Le Travail, 1995)
The Ontario Ministry of Culture, Tourism, and Recreation has provided funds for research, documentation, and publication of Ontario workplace heritage. In 1994, grants were disbursed for four projects, including a video production on the thirtieth anniversary of the postal workers' strike, a video and booklet focused on preserving workers' heritage in Ottawa, a video tour guide (entitled Mapping the Workers' City) on Hamilton, and a audio documentary on the history of the Northern Ontario labour movement. Takes note of a forthcoming labour conference at the University of Oregon.

Notebook [36, Fall 1995] - Leier, Mark (James Mark) (Labour/Le Travail, 1995)
Announces that records of the Laurentian University Faculty Association's 1989 strike have been deposited at the university's archives. Also announces a 60-page bibliography of British Columbia's labour history is available that was compiled by graduate students at Simon Fraser University. Briefly reported are recent conferences of the Pacific Northwest Labor History Association on labour and the environment (University of Oregon) and at the University of Northern British Columbia on new directions in BC history.

Breaking from Taylorism: Changing Forms of Work in the Automobile Industry - Lewchuk, Wayne (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Breaking from Taylorism: Changing Forms of Work in the Automobile Industry," by Ulrich Jurgens, Thomas Malsch and Knuth Dohse.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; BREAKING From Taylorism: Changing Forms of Work in the Automobile Industry (Book); DOHSE; Knuth; JURGENS; Ulrich; MALSCH; Thomas; Nonfiction; TAYLORISM (Management)

Trade Unions and Community: The German Working Class in New York City, 1870-1900 - Lipin, Lawrence M. (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Trade Unions and Community: The German Working Class in New York City, 1870-1900," by Dorothee Schneider.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Nonfiction; SCHNEIDER; Dorothee; TRADE Unions & Community: The German Working Class in New York City 1870-1900 (Book); Working class

Contested Countryside: Rural Workers and Modern Society in Atlantic Canada, 1800-1950 - Little, J.i. (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Contested Countryside: Rural Workers and Modern Society in Atlantic Canada, 1800-1950," edited by Daniel Samson.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CONTESTED Countryside: Rural Workers & Modern Society in Atlantic Canada 1800-1950 (Book); Nonfiction; SAMSON; Daniel; SOCIAL development

Jews Inventing Ethnicity?: A Review Essay - Loewen, Royden (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews and comments on the books, "Sweatshop Strife: Class, Ethnicity and Gender in the Jewish Labour Movement of Toronto, 1900-1939," by Ruth A. Frager and "Taking Root: The Origins of the Canadian Jewish Community," by Gerald Tulchinsky.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; FRAGER; Ruth A.; Nonfiction; SWEATSHOP Strife: Class; Ethnicity & Gender in the Jewish Labour Movement of Toronto 1900-1939 (Book); TAKING Root: The Origins of the Canadian Jewish Community (Book); TULCHINSKY; Gerald

Under a Watchful Eye: A Case Study of Police Surveillance During the 1930s - Lonardo, Michael (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
During the 1930s the Communist Party of Canada organized and promoted the working-class struggle against conditions resulting from the Depression. And while some have argued that the state's intelligence community paid little attention to the efforts of the communists between the wars, the evidence reveals a major operation on the part of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to watch and suppress Communist Party activities. By tracing the involvement of World War I veteran and Communist Party activist, Stewart O'Neil, in four radical movements - the Workers Ex-Servicemen's League, the On-to-Ottawa trek, the workers' theatre movement, and the Spanish Civil War- this paper demonstrates the extent of, and the tactics used by, the RCMP in its surveillance and suppression of these radical movements.
Keywords: CRIMINAL investigation; Canada; Communist Party of Canada; Intelligence service; POLICE patrol – Surveillance operations; Prevention; Public administration; Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP); Social conflict; Subversive activities

Recent Publications in Canadian Labour History = Travaux récents en histoire des classes populaires canadiennes - Lonardo, Michael; Sweeney, Robert C. H. (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
Compilation of recent English/French publications on Canadian labour history that emphasize the period 1800-1975. Materials pertaining to the post-1975 period may also be included, although more selectively. [See the database, Canadian Labour History, 1976-2009, published at Memorial University.]

Stressful Working Conditions and Union Dissatisfaction - Lowe, Graham S.; Northcott, Herbert C. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
A study examines the relationship between stressful working conditions, social support at work, employee distress, and union members' (dis)satisfaction with their union. It might be assumed that under stressful working conditions, unionized workers would turn to their union to seek better working conditions and would have a positive orientation toward their union. However, it is also possible that stressful working conditions and distressed, alienated employees will become dissatisfied not only with their job but also with their union. The data for the study come from a survey of unionized postal workers employed by Canada Post Corporation in Edmonton in 1983.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Case studies; Employee attitude; Job satisfaction; Labor Unions; Memberships; Postal & delivery services; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Stress; Work environment; Working conditions

Advocate and Activist: Memoirs of an American Communist Lawyer - MacDowell, Laurel Sefton (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Advocate and Activist: Memoirs of an American Communist Lawyer," by John J. Abt.
Keywords: ABT; John J.; ADVOCATE & Activist: Memoirs of an American Communist Lawyer (Book); BOOKS – Reviews; MEMOIRS; Nonfiction

A Comparative Analysis of the Determinants of Executive Compensation Between Canadian and U.s. Firms - Magnan, Michel L.; St-Onge, Sylvie; Thorne, Linda (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
A study attempts to identify determinants of executive compensation in Canada while comparing how they differ between Canada and the US. Results suggest that firm size, firm performance, and firm ownership structure all determine executive compensation in Canada. However, several differences between the determinants of executive compensation in Canada and the US are identified.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Comparative studies; Executive compensation; Executives; Hypotheses; Labor Unions; Organizational structure; Performance evaluation; Regression analysis; Salaries pensions etc; Size of enterprise; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Statistical analysis

Relations professionnelles, emploi et formation au Québec - Maroy, Christian (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Relations professionnelles, emploi et formation au Québec," published by Critique Régionale, nos. 23-24, 1994, Université Libre de Bruxelles.
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_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Reimagining Canada: Language, Culture, Community and the Canadian Constitution - Martin, Ged (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Reimagining Canada: Language, Culture, Community and the Canadian Constitution," by Jeremy Webber.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Canada; History; Nonfiction; REIMAGINING Canada: Language; Culture; Community & the Canadian Constitution (Book); WEBBER; Jeremy

Creating Economic Opportunities: The Role of Labour Standards in Industrial Restructuring - Mazerolle, Maurice (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
Creating Economic Opportunities: The Role of Labour Standards in Industrial Restructuring, edited by Werner Sengenberger and Duncan Campbell, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; International; Labor Unions; Labor economics; Labor relations; Labor standards; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

The Centralia Tragedy of 1919: Elmer Smith and the Wobblies - McCallum, Todd (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "The Centralia Tragedy of 1919: Elmer Smith and the Wobblies," by Tom Copeland.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CENTRALIA Tragedy of 1919: Elmer Smith & the Wobblies; The (Book); COPELAND; Tom; Lawyers; Nonfiction

Copper Crucible: How the Arizona Miner's Strike Recast Labor-Management Relations in America - McCollester, Charles (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Copper Crucible: How the Arizona Miner's Strike Recast Labor-Management Relations in America," by Jonathan D. Rosenblum.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Mining industry; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Strikes

In Subordination: Professional Women, 1870-1970 - Millar, W. P. J. (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "In Subordination: Professional Women, 1870-1970," by Mary Kinnear.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; IN Subordination: Professional Women 1870-1970 (Book); KINNEAR; Mary; Nonfiction; WOMEN in the professions

Le droit disciplinaire des corporations professionnelles - Morin, Fernand (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Le droit disciplinaire des corporations professionnelles," by Mario Goulet.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Government Worker Unions: A Review Article - Morton, Desmond (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews and comments on the books "Don't Call Me Servant: Government Work and Unions in Ontario, 1911-1984," by Wayne Roberts, and "Lives in the Public Service: A History of the Manitoba Government Employees' Union," by Doug Smith, Jock Bates and Esyllt Jones.
Keywords: BATES; Jock; BOOKS – Reviews; DON'T Call Me Servant: Government Work & Unions in Ontario 1911-1984 (Book); JONES; Esyllt; LIVES in the Public Service: A History of the Manitoba Government Employees' Union (Book); Nonfiction; ROBERTS; Wayne; SMITH; Doug

La Prostitution féminine à Montréal, 1945-1970 - Myers, Tamara (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "La Prostitution féminine à Montréal, 1945-1970," by Danielle Lacasse.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; LA Prostitution Feminine a Montreal 1945-1970 (Book); LACASSE; Danielle; Nonfiction; Prostitution

Bringing Which State Back In? - Naylor, James (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews several books including "Labor Visions and State Power: The Origins of Business Unionism in the United States," by Victoria C. Hattam, "The Experience of Workers in the United States With Democracy and the Free Market During the Nineteenth Century," by David Montgomery and "The State and Labor in Modern America," by Melvyn Dubofsky.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; DUBOFSKY; Melvyn; EXPERIENCE of Workers in the United States With Democracy & the Free Market During the 19th Century; The (Book); HATTAM; Victoria C.; LABOR Visions & State Power: The Origins of Business Unionism in the United States (Book); MONTGOMERY; David; Nonfiction; STATE & Labor in Modern America; The (Book)

My Past is Now: Further Memoirs of a Labour Lawyer - Newell, Dianne (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "My Past Is Now: Further Memoirs of a Labour Lawyer," by John Stanton.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; MEMOIRS; MY Past Is Now: Further Memoirs for a Labour Lawyer (Book); Nonfiction; STANTON; John

Hoffa - Norwood, Stephen H. (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Hoffa," by Arthur A. Sloane.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Biographies; HOFFA (Book); Nonfiction; SLOANE; Arthur A.

La dimension humaine des organisations - Ouimet, Gérard (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
The article reviews the book, ÈLa dimension humaine des organisations, by Nicole Côté, Laurent Bélanger and Jocelyn Jacques.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Alex in Wonderland - Owram, Doug (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Alex in Wonderland," by Alex Macdonald.
Keywords: ALEX in Wonderland (Book); BOOKS – Reviews; MACDONALD; Alex; Nonfiction; POLITICAL participation

Book Notes [35, Spring 1995] - Palmer, Bryan D. (Labour/Le Travail, 1995)
The article briefly reviews "Canada and the United States," edited by John Herd Thompson and Stephen J. Randall," "O'Callaghan: The Making and Unmaking of a Rebel," by Jack Verney, "'We're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up': Essays in African Canadian Women's History," by Peggy Bristow et al., "Crime and Criminal Justice: Essays in the History of Canadian Law," edited by Jim Phillips, Tina Loo, and Susan Lewthwaite, "Matters of the Mind: The University in Ontario, 1791-1951," by A.B. McKillop, "R.C.M.P. Security Bulletins: The Early Years, 1919-1929," edited by Gregory S. Kealey and Reginald Whitaker, "Ethnic Cultures in the 1920s in North America," by Wolfgang Binder, "The 'Lower Sort': Philadelphia's Laboring People, 1750-1800," by Billy G. Smith, "Transforming Rural Life: Dairying Families and Agricultural Change, 1820-1885," by Sally McMurry, "Labor's Struggles, 1945-1950," by Irving Richter, "Participant Observer: An Autobiography," by William Foote Whyte, "Newcomers in the Workplace: Immigrants and the Restructuring of the U.S. Economy," edited by Louise Lampbere, Alex Stepick, and Guillermo Grenier, "Restoring the Promise of American Labor Law," edited by Sheldon Friedman, et al., "The Life and Literary Pursuits of Allen Davenport with a further selection of the author's work," edited by Malcolm Chase, "UK Labour Market: Comparative aspects and institutional Developments," edited by Ray Barrell, "Social Structures of Accumulation: The Political Economy of Growth and Crisis," edited by David M. Kotz, Terrence McDonough, and Michael Reich, "Women, Work, and Place," edited by Audrey Kobayashi, "Color, Class and Country: Experiences of Gender," edited by Gay Young and Bette J. Dickerson, "Making Labour Law in Australia: Industrial Relations, Politics, and Law," by Laura Bennett, and "Making Workers Soviet: Power, Class and Identity," edited by Lewis H. Siegelbaum and Ronald Gregor Suny.

Book Notes [36, Fall 1995] - Palmer, Bryan D. (Labour/Le Travail, 1995)
The article briefly reviews "Law, Society, and the State: Essays in Modem Legal History," edited by Louis A. Knafla and Susan W.S. Binnie, "Public Sector Bargaining in Canada: Beginning of the End or End of the Beginning!," edited by Gene Swimmer and Mark Thompson, "Ships and Memories: Merchant Seafarers in Canada's Age of Steam ," by Eric Sager, "Canadian Women's Issues," 2 volumes. Volume I — "Strong Voices," by Roach Pierson, Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Paula Bourne, and Philinda Masters; Volume II — "Bold Visions," by Ruth Roach Pierson and Marjorie Griffin Cohen, "Strategies for the Year 2000: A Woman's Handbook," by Deborah Stienstra and Barbara Roberts, and Jean Barman, "Children, Teachers and Schools in the History of British Columbia," edited by Neil Sutherland and J. Donald Wilson, "Four Quarters of the Night: The Life Journey of an Emigrant Sikh," by Tara Singh Bains and Hugh Johnston, "Under the Northern Lights: My Memories of Life in the Finnish Community of Northern Ontario," by Edward W. Laine, edited by Nelma Sillanpaa, "Sojourners and Settlers: The Macedonian Community in Toronto to 1940," by Lillian Petroff, "The Dynamics of Industrial Competition: A North American Perspective," by John R. Baldwin, "Regional Integration and Industrial Relations in North America," edited by Maria Lorena Cook and Harry C. Katz, "From Chattel Slaves to Wage Slaves: The Dynamics of Labour Bargaining in the Americas," edited by Mary Turner, "Conflicting Paths: Growing Up in America," by Harvey J. Graff, "Industrializing America: The Nineteenth Century," by Walter Licht, "Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America," by Paul Avrich, "The Populist Persuasion: An American History," by Michael Kazin, "American Labor in the Era of World War II," edited by Sally M. Miller and Daniel A. Cornford, "Aspects of Political Censorship, 1914-1918," by Tania Rose, "The Imagined Slum: Newspaper Representation in Three Cities, 1870-1914," by Alan Mayne, "Gender and the Politics of Social Reform in France, 1870-1914," edited by Elinor A. Accampo, Rachel G. Fuchs, and Mary Lynn Stewart, "A New International History of the Spanish Civil War," by Michael Alpert, "The Wartime System of Labor Service in Hungary: Varieties of Experience," edited by Randolph L. Braham, "Trade Union Growth and Decline: An International Study," by Walter Galenson, "Workplace Industrial Relations and the Global Challenge," edited by Jacques Bélanger, P.K. Edwards, and Larry Haiven, "Industrialization and Labor Relations: Contemporary Research in Seven Countries," edited by Stephen Frenkel and Jeffrey Harood, "Contemporary Collective Bargaining in the Private Sector," edited by Paula B. Voos, "Women in the Latin American Development Process," edited by Christine E. Bose and Edna Acosta Belen, and "Imagining Home: Class, Culture and Nationalism in the African Diaspora," by Sidney Lemelle and Robin D.G. Kelley,

Strikes: Causes, Conduct and Consequences - Patmore, Greg (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Strikes: Causes, Conduct and Consequences," by Douglas Blackmur.
Keywords: BLACKMUR; Douglas; BOOKS – Reviews; Nonfiction; STRIKES & lockouts; STRIKES: Causes; Conduct & Consequences (Book)

A Crate of Records is like a History Book - Perkins, William Eric (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews and comments on the book, "It's Not About a Salary...Rap, Race and Resistance in Los Angeles," edited by Brian Cross.

On Different Planes: An Organizational Analysis of Cooperation and Conflict Among Airline Unions - Perline, Martin M. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
On Different Planes: An Organizational Analysis of Cooperation and Conflict Among Airline Unions by David J. Walsh is reviewed.
Keywords: Airline industry; Airlines; 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

The Mutual Gains Enterprise: Forging a Winning Partnership among Labor, Management, and Government - Perline, Martin M. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "The Mutual Gains Enterprise: Forging a Winning Partnership among Labor, Management, and Government," by Thomas A. Kochnan and Paul Osterman.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Human resource management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Working conditions

Strategic Negotiations: A Theory of Change in Labor-Management Relations - Peterson, Richard B. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Strategic Negotiations: A Theory of Change in Labor-Management Relations," by Richard E. Walton, Joel E. Cutcher-Gershenfeld, and Robert B. McKersie.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Collective bargaining; Labor Unions; Labor negotiations; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

In Search of Participation: A Study of Some Successful Companies - Portis, Bernard (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "In Search of Participation: A Study of Some Successful Companies," by J.S. Sodi, Rama J. Joshi, H.V.V. Chellappa, S. Masilamani, Sarita A. Kalia, and Harinda Sanhu.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employee involvement; Employees; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Participatory management; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Strikes, Worker Protest, and Union Growth in Canada and Australia, 1815-1900: A Comparative Analysis - Quinlan, Michael; Gardner, Margaret (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
A chapter of the book "Labour/Le Travail" is presented. It examines the structure of the worker protest and union formation in Canada and Australia during the 19th century. It explores the works of Bryan Palmer, Douglas Cruikshank and Gregory S. Kealey. It mentions the impacts of the differences in strikes, worker protest and union growth between two countries on labor organization.
Keywords: AUSTRALIA; CRUIKSHANK; Douglas; Canada; KEALEY; Gregory S.; LABOUR/LE Travail (Book); Labor Unions; Labor disputes; PALMER; Bryan

The Centre Does Not Hold: A Review Essay of Canadian History: A Reader's Guide - Rasporich, A. W. (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the books "Canadian History: A Reader's Guide: Beginnings to Confederation," vol. 1, by M. Brook Taylor and "Canadian History: A Reader's Guide: Confederation to the Present," vol. 2, by Doug Owram.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CANADIAN History: A Reader's Guide: Beginnings to Confederation (Book); CANADIAN History: A Reader's Guide: Confederation to the Present (Book); Nonfiction; OWRAM; Doug; TAYLOR; M. Brook

When Strikes Make Sense and Why: Lessons from Third Republic French Coal Miners - Rojot, Jacques (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "When Strikes Make Sense and Why: Lessons from Third Republic French Coal Miners," by Samuel Cohn.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Coal industry; History; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Strikes

Droit de l'arbitrage de grief - Ross, Claudette (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Droit de l'arbritrage du grief," by Rodrigue Blouin, Rodrigue and Fernand Morin
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Grievance procedures; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

L'influence des objectifs et des comportements des parties sur l'efficacité de la conciliation : le mythe de la boîte noire revu et corrigé - Ross, Claudette; Brossard, Michel (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
Cet article identifie quels sont, parmi 21 objectifs et 23 comportements des parties durant la conciliation, ceux qui sont reliés à l'efficacité du processus. Les données ont été recueillies par questionnaire auprès de 732 porte-parole patronaux et syndicaux ayant oeuvré en conciliation volontaire au Québec en 1987-88. Le résultat le plus frappant est que les objectifs poursuivis par chacune des parties n'agissent à peu près pas sur l'issue du processus.
Keywords: Arbitration; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Histoire de la FTQ, 1965-1992: La plus grande centrale syndicale au Québec - Rouillard, Jacques (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Histoire de la FTQ, 1965-1992: La plus grande centrale syndicale au Québec," by Louis Fournier.

The Splendid Vision: Centennial History of the National Council of Women of Canada, 1893-1994 - Roy, Patricia E. (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "The Splendid Vision: Centennial History of the National Council of Women of Canada, 1893-1994," by Naomi E.S Griffiths.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; GRIFFITHS; Naomi E. S.; NATIONAL Council of Women of Canada; Nonfiction; SPLENDID Vision: Centennial History of the National Council of Women of Canada 1893-1994 (Book)

Le mythe français de la modernisation - Rozenblatt, Patrick (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
En France, comme dans la plupart des pays européens depuis les années quatre-vingts, se développe l'idée que face à un taux de chômage à deux chiffres une issue à l'état d'anomie dans lequel s'installe la société peut venir d'une flexibilité massive de la force de travail. L'article étudie comment émergent, dans les actions engagées autour des licenciements et des reconversions d'emploi, les éléments essentiels constitutifs d'un mythe des temps modernes énonçant la capacité des élites à produire une modernisation régulée de nos sociétés industrielles. L'auteur approche cette question en l'insérant dans le cadre plus large d'une sociologie du temps social.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Economic conditions; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Labor unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Cohésion sociale et emploi - Saglio, Jean (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Cohésion sociale et emploi," edited by B. Eme and J.L. Laville.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Beyond Dichotomies: Re-Assessing Gender History and Women's History in Canada - Sangster, Joan (Left History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Historical Inquiry and Debate, 1995)
Canadian women's history, though relatively new in the history of the profession, is now considered by some to be passé, past its prime, out of touch with the realities of the postmodern world of the 1990s. In fact, there is also a new interpretation of the historical evolution of Canadian women's history emerging, which situates women's history in the one dimensional past, gender history in the three dimensional future. ...[W]e need to re-examine the Canadian women's history which was actually written over the last twenty years as well as the current direction of gender history, then assess the theoretical and political underpinnings of both. We may actually find more overlapping continuities, similarities and problems. –Introduction than stark contrasts and oppositions.

Women Workers, Employment Policy and the State: The Establishment of the Ontario Women's Bureau, 1963-1970 - Sangster, Joan (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
In 1963, the Ontario Government established a Women's Bureau within the Department of Labour to do research, public relations work, and policy development relating to working women in the province. This article examines the early evolution of the Women's Bureau from 1963 to 1970 assessing the reasons for its establishment and the successes and failures of its early programs designed to aid working women. The Bureau urged the government to consider anti-discrimination legislation, and in 1970 it helped to develop new legislation designed to enhance women's equality by legalizing maternity leave, banning discrimination based on marital status, and abolishing job posting by sex. Drawing on recent debates about the state and employment policy, particularly those looking at the relationship between feminist and labour activists and the state, this article asks whose interests the Bureau represented, and whether or not this state-initiated legislation designed to enhance gender equality was effective, either in the short or long term.
Keywords: DISCRIMINATION – Law & legislation; Equality; LABOUR/LE Travail (Book); ONTARIO – Politics & government; Ontario; Public Relations; Women employees

Managers' and Workers' Attitudes Toward Unions in the U.s. and Canada - Saporta, Ishak; Lincoln, Bryan (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
Current arguments about the causes of differing union density rates in the US and Canada range from public opinion hypothesis and differences in labor law, to increased US managerial hostility. Survey data on managers' and workers' attitudes in the 2 countries are used to examine the competing arguments. Using questions that probe opinions toward various aspects of union-firm relations, it is found that managers' attitudes in the 2 countries do not differ. This finding suggests that increased US managerial hostility is not the cause of the divergent unionization rates. US workers are the most militant of the 4 groups, with Canadian workers in the middle, between managers and US workers.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employee attitude; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Memberships; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Statistical analysis; Studies

Fourmies et les premier mai - Saul, Samir (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Fourmies et les premier mai," edited by Madeleine Rebérioux.

Family, Church, and Market: A Mennonite Community in the Old and New Worlds, 1850-1930 - Schlabach, Theron F. (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Family, Church, and Market: A Mennonite Community in the Old and New Worlds, 1850-1930," by Royden K. Loewen.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; FAMILY; Church & Market: A Mennonite Community in the Old & the New Worlds 1850-1930 (Book); LOEWEN; Royden K.; Mennonites; Nonfiction

The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919: An Illustrated History - Seager, Allen (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919: An Illustrated History," by J. M. Bumsted.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; BUMSTED; J. M.; GENERAL strikes; Nonfiction; WINNIPEG General Strike of 1919: An Illustrated History (Book)

Industrial Conflict in Developed and Developing Countries: Extending a Western Strike Model - Segalla, Michael (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
A study tests a macroeconomic strike model widely used to study the incidence of labor conflict in developed countries on data from the world-at-large. Previous investigations of the influence of labor demand and worker wage expectations on strike frequency have produced contradictory results. Perhaps one reason for this is that these studies have left out all but the most developed countries and have rarely been comparative. The study uses a data set that includes data for 41 countries (approximately half of which are considered developing) from 1953-1985.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Comparative studies; Economic models; Effects; LABOR supply; LDCs; Labor Unions; Manycountries; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Strikes; Wages & salaries

Projecting Capitalism: A History of the Internationalization of the Construction Industry - Sexton, Jean (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Projecting capitalism: a history of the internationalization of the construction industry," by Marc Linder.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Construction industry; History; International; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

L'adaptation des superviseurs à la gestion participative de la prévention des accidents - Simard, Marcel; Marchand, Alain (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
Cet article porte sur les approches utilisées dans les organisations pour amener les superviseurs à adopter un mode de gestion plus participatif de la sécurité au travail avec leurs employés. Les données présentées sont basées sur cinq études de cas réalisées selon un devis commun et analysées de façon comparative. Utilisant l'approche systémique du changement organisationnel, les auteurs développent le concept de stratégie de changement pour analyser les approches organisationnelles observées, en faisant l'hypothèse que ce sont les stratégies plus systématiques qui auront comme effets d'accroître l'utilisation de la gestion participative de la prévention par les superviseurs, et de réduire le taux de fréquence des accidents. Les résultats confirment largement les hypothèses, mais l'analyse montre aussi que les stratégies non efficaces, au plan des effets escomptés, ont néanmoins une fonction d'utilité qui est discutée.
Keywords: Accident prevention; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employees; Labor Unions; Labor unions; Management; Occupational health & safety; Participatory management; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Employment Security and the Labor Market: Interdisciplinary Approaches and International Evidence - Smith, Douglas A. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
Employment Security and the Labor Market: Interdisclipinary Approaches and International Evidence, edited by C.F. Buechtemann, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employment; Employment security; International; LABOR market; LABOR supply; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Working for the Union: British Trade Union Officers - Solomon, Norman A. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Working for the Union: British Trade Union Officers," by John Kelly and Edmund Heery.
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; Union leadership

Working-Class Cultures in Britain, 1890-1960: Gender, Class, Ethnicity - Strange, Carolyn (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Working-Class Cultures in Britain, 1890-1960: Gender, Class, Ethnicity," by Joanna Bourke.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; BOURKE; Joanna; Nonfiction; WORKING-Class Cultures in Britain 1890-1960: Gender; Class; Ethnicity (Book); Working class

On Her Their Lives Depend: Munitions Workers in the Great War - Street, Kori (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "On Her Their Lives Depend: Munitions Workers in the Great War," by Angela Woollacott.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Nonfiction; ON Her Their Lives Depend: Munitions Workers in the Great War (Book); WOOLLACOTT; Angela; Women employees

Immigrés et créations d'entreprises : Montréal 1990 - Su, Zhan (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Immigrés et créations d'entreprises : Montréal 1990," by Denise Helly and Alberte Ledoyen.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Solidarity and Survival: An Oral History of Iowa Labor in the Twentieth Century - Sunseri, Alvin R. (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Solidarity and Survival: An Oral History of Iowa Labor in the Twentieth Century," by Shelton Stromquist.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Labor movement; Nonfiction; SOLIDARITY & Survival: An Oral History of Iowa Labor in the 20th Century (Book); STROMQUIST; Shelton

Labour's Apprentices: Working-Class Lads in late Victorian and Edwardian England - Sutherland, Neil (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Labour's Apprentices: Working-Class Lads in Late Victorian and Edwardian England," by Michael J. Childs.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CHILDS; Michael J.; LABOUR'S Apprentices: Working-Class Lads in Late Victorian & Edwardian England (Book); Nonfiction; YOUTH workers (Social services)

Power and Pauperism: The Workhouse System 1834-1884 - Taylor, Antony (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Power and Pauperism: The Workhouse System 1834-1884," by Felix Driver.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; DRIVER; Felix; Nonfiction; POWER & Pauperism: The Workhouse System 1834-1884 (Book); SOCIAL problems

Thoughts and Suggestions on The Social Problem and Things in General (1888-1889) - Thompson, Phillips; Berton, Pierre (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
Introduced by Pierre Berton, the article presents socialist journalist Phillips Thompson's eclectic musings on labour and land reform, banking, the money system, and capitalism. Written in 1888-89, Thompson's journal reflects his visit to the UK during this period, where met with Peter Kropotkin and heard a speech by William Morris. Henry George appears in the entries, and there are quotations from a variety of sources including William Lloyd Garrison and Harriet Martineau. The journal manuscript is kept at Library Archives Canada with the Thomas Phillips Thompson papers.
Keywords: Equality; FORCES of production; HUMAN rights violations; INDUSTRIAL management; Income distribution; LABOR process; Labor mobility; SOCIAL problems; Social movements

The Changing Workplace: Reshaping Canada's Industrial Relations System - Thornicroft, Kenneth Wm. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
The Changing Workplace: Reshaping Canada's Industrial Relations System by Daniel Drache and Harry Glasbeek is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor law; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

The Course of Industrial Decline: The Boott Cotton Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1935-1955 - Tone, Andrea Kluge (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "The Course of Industrial Decline: The Boott Cotton Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1935-1955," by Lawrence Gross.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; BUSINESS failures; COURSE of Industrial Decline: The Boott Cotton Mills of Lowell; Massachusetts 1835-1955; The (Book); GROSS; Lawrence; Nonfiction

Demon Rum or Easy Money: Government Control of Liquor in British Columbia from Prohibition to Privatization; Drink in Canada: Historical Essays - Trainor, Brian Paul (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the books, "Demon Rum or Easy Money: Government Control of Liquor in British Columbia From Prohibition to Privatization," by Robert A. Campbell and "Drink in Canada: Historical Essays," by Cheryl Krasnick.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CAMPBELL; Robert A.; DEMON Rum or Easy Money: Government Control of Liquor in British Columbia From Prohibition to Privatization (Book); DRINK in Canada: Historical Essays (Book); KRASNICK; Cheryl; Nonfiction

Le monopole nord-américain de représentation syndicale à la croisée des chemins - Trudeau, Gilles; Veilleux, Diane (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
Plusieurs spécialistes notent l'affaiblissement de la recherche en relations industrielles en Amérique du Nord. Un aspect important fut le déplacement de l'intérêt envers les institutions et les processus vers l'étude des individus. Des disciplines telles le comportement organisationnel et l'économique du travail ont progressé. Un autre développement fut la croissance de la gestion des ressources humaines (GRH) qui a défié l'approche traditionnelle, axée sur l'étude du syndicalisme et de la négociation collective. Cet article présente une situation différente en Grande-Bretagne. Il s'agit d'un essai interprétatif et sélectif basé sur le développement de la recherche. Il ne s'agit pas ici d'examiner des questions théoriques plus larges. Une vue théorique est cependant implicite : la recherche a avancé par un programme progressif d'analyse et cela a produit de nouvelles connaissances. On peut de loin être plus optimiste quant à l'état de la discipline que ne le suggèrent certaines évaluations récentes de la théorie. La force de la recherche britannique reflète plusieurs développements. D'abord, les chercheurs institutionnalistes et pluralistes britanniques ont été plus flexibles dans la définition de leur sujet que ne l'ont été leurs collègues américains. Cela leur a permis d'aborder les sujets associés à la nature de la relation d'emploi, plus particulièrement la négociation continue des dispositions du contrat de travail. Ensuite, l'absence d'obligation légale d'appliquer les conventions a laissé beaucoup de sujets à être réglés au niveau de l'atelier. Cela signifie que les relations de négociation sont demeurées centrales. Finalement, le résultat fut que la tradition d'études de cas est demeurée plus significative qu'en Amérique du Nord. Cette orientation de la recherche a permis aux relations industrielles de contrer le double défi de la croissance de la GRH et du changement dans les politiques publiques, lesquels mettaient en cause les conceptions traditionnelles quant à la valeur de la négociation collective. La conception même de notre champ de recherche a évolué vers la relation d'emploi plutôt que le fonctionnement de la négociation collective. De là, les chercheurs étaient bien placés pour examiner ce que la GRH signifiait en pratique et comment on expérimentait de nouvelles initiatives sur les lieux de travail. Cette approche est illustrée en considérant l'évolution de la méthode d'études de cas et l'éclairage particulier que la recherche en relations industrielles a jeté sur la nature du management. Les études de cas ont de plus en plus fait le lien entre le détail du site à l'étude et des questions plus larges sur la gestion des entreprises et les généralisations pouvant en être tirées. La méthode s'est aussi développée par l'étude comparative et par une plus grande utilisation de techniques d'entrevues structurées. Sur le management, l'emphase que mettent les chercheurs en relations industrielles sur la négociation et le conflit favorise une analyse différente des politiques de gestion. Cela inclut la conceptualisation du processus de gestion et des études empiriques sur les pratiques des gestionnaires. Ces travaux empiriques ont appuyé une analyse critique de la GRH reliant celle-ci a ses contextes et explorant son rôle symbolique. Les chercheurs britanniques se penchent de plus en plus sur des sujets européens et comparatifs. Les bénéfices de la tradition d'études de cas sont ici substantiels puisqu'elle permet d'explorer la dynamique de différents systèmes de régulation du travail. Cependant, la recherche doit rencontrer de nouveaux défis. Peut-on solutionner les difficultés théoriques et pratiques associées aux études transnationales ? De façon plus générale, à mesure que les relations industrielles ouvrent leur champ d'intérêt au management et aux questions internationales, de nouvelles questions de recherche seront soulevées. Évoluer dans cette voie, tout en conservant les forces traditionnelles de la discipline, représente un défi significatif.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employees; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Labor unions; Participatory management; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

The Westray Mine Disaster and Its Aftermath: The Politics of Causation - Tucker, Eric (Canadian Journal of Law and Society/La Revue Canadienne Droit et Société, 1995)
Causation analysis is densely political in at least three ways. First, because causation is crucial to our system of attributing moral, legal, and political responsibility, causation arguments are advanced for purely instrumental purposes. They do political work. Second, because any particular occurrence is the outcome of an almost infinite number of antecedent events, “but for” causation analysis produces trivial results. A judgment about causal significance is required and will depend, in part, on the goals of the analysis. The choice of goals is political, but unstated goals and hidden assumptions often exclude consideration of some possible causes as significant. Theses politics of causation need to be made explicit. Third, the institutional setting in which official determinations of causation are made influence the outcome. Hence, it is necessary to explore these as well. Each of these three dimensions of the politics of causation is explored through an analysis of the 1992 Westray Mine disaster which killed 29 miners in Nova Scotia, and the official responses to it. It is argued that if the goal is to protect workers and nothing else, the political-economic context that promotes the creation of hazardous conditions must be considered a significant cause of harmful occurrences. It is unlikely, however that any of the official responses to the disaster will take this approach.
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Strangers at Our Gates: Canadian Immigration and Immigration Policy, 1540-1990 - Tulchinsky, Gerald (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Strangers at Our Gates: Canadian Immigration and Immigration Policy, 1540-1990," by Valerie Knowles.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; EMIGRATION & immigration law; KNOWLES; Valerie; Nonfiction; STRANGERS at Our Gates: Canadian Immigration & Immigration Policy 1540-1990 (Book)

The Impact of Layoff Announcements on Shareholders - Ursel, Nancy; Armstrong-Stassen, Marjorie (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
A study explores the reaction of shareholders to layoff announcements. Shareholders' reactions to 137 layoff announcements by 57 Canadian firms over the period January 1989 to August 1992 were examined. Shareholders are found to react negatively to announcements of a layoff in their company. Shareholders have a greater negative reaction to a company's first layoff than to subsequent layoff announcements. Moreover, shareholders respond more negatively to large-scale layoffs than to those involving small percentages of the workforce. The implications of these findings for human resource management are discussed.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Layoffs; Mathematical models; Regression analysis; Shareholder relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Stockholders; Studies

La nature juridique de l'ancienneté en droit du travail : une comparaison des droits québécois et français - Vallée, Guylaine (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
L'ancienneté du salarié est une notion présente dans plusieurs systèmes de relations du travail. Cette commune importance de l'ancienneté conduit à étudier sa nature juridique en débordant les cadres d'un système particulier. Après avoir examiné les thèses dominantes quant à la nature juridique de l'ancienneté du salarié en France et au Québec et avoir décrit les diverses manifestations de l'ancienneté dans ces deux systèmes, l'auteur conclut que l'ancienneté du salarié est une notion individualiste fondée sur l'appartenance à l'entreprise ou sur l'existence d'un lien contractuel avec l'employeur.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor law; Labor unions; Seniority; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Deconstructive Marxism - Valverde, Mariana (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book "Spectres of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New International," by Jacques Derrida.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Communism; DERRIDA; Jacques; 1930-2004; Nonfiction; SPECTRES of Marx: The State of the Debt; the Work of Mourning & the New International (Book)

Critique du droit du travail - Verge, Pierre (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Critique du droit du travail," by Alain Supiot.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Le droit des salariés à la négociation collective : principe général du droit - Verge, Pierre (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Le droit des salariés à la négociation collective : principe général du droit," by Marie-Laure Morin.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Collective bargaining; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Analyse du travail répétitif dans le secteur agro-alimentaire : apport de la démarche ergonomique - Vézina, Nicole; Courville, Julie; Geoffrion, Lucie; Chatigny, Céline (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
L'analyse du travail répétitif dans le secteur agro-alimentaire se fait dans le contexte de l'augmentation des problèmes musculo- squelettiques. L'approche de l'ergonome est abordée au travers d'études dans ce secteur, en particulier dans une usine de transformation de la volaille. L'intervention ergonomique axée sur l'amélioration des situations de travail nécessite l'implication et la participation des différents partenaires dans l'entreprise. L'analyse de l'activité de travail et l'implication des travailleurs dans l'interprétation des résultats fait ressortir la complexité du travail répétitif. La mise en valeur du savoir des travailleurs et la recherche d'une compréhension élargie du travail au-delà des aspects physiques apparaissent essentielles à la formulation de recommandations et à la revalorisation du métier.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employees; Ergonomics; Food processing industry; Labor Unions; Labor unions; Repetitive motion disorders; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Ménagères au temps de la Crise - Vincent, Odette (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Ménagères au temps de la Crise," by Denyse Baillargeon.

The New American Workplace: Transforming Work Systems in the United States - Voos, Paula B. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "The New American Workplace: Transforming Work Systems in the United States," by Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor; Labor Unions; Management science; Organizational change; Public policy; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; work

Occupational Subcultures in the Workplace - Walsh, David J. (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
The article reviews the book, "Occupational Subcultures in the Workplace," by Harrison M. Trice.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Nonfiction; OCCUPATIONAL Subcultures in the Workplace (Book); SUBCULTURES; TRICE; Harrison M.

To Be Free Full-Time: The Challenge of Work - Wayman, Tom (Labour / Le Travail, 1995)
Argues that there is a taboo surrounding the human experience of work and the work place, with a corresponding silence in poetry and fiction. Asserts that this is not because work is boring, but because people are in a state of unfreedom at work, which also impacts on their effective participation as citizens. Discusses the problems with work place democracy, while arguing that freedom should nevertheless be considered a full-time, not a part-time matter. The paper, which was originally given at the 1994 Sitka Symposium on the spirit of human work, is punctuated with quotations from the author's writings.
Keywords: EMPLOYEES – Attitudes; JOB stress; Job satisfaction; LIBERTY; ORGANIZATIONAL commitment; QUALITY of work life; TABOO; WORK – Sociological aspects; WORK-life balance