Embedded with Organized Labor: Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Home/The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor: Birth of a New Workers' Movement or Death Throes of the Old? - Stevens, Andrew (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
Embedded with Organized Labor: Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Home and The Civil Wars in US Labor: Birth of a New Workers' Movement or Death Throes of the Old?, both by Steve Early, are reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Industrial democracy; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Social change

Storied Landscapes: Ethno-Religious Identity and the Canadian Prairies - Stoesz, Susie Fisher (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
The article reviews the book, "Storied Landscapes: Ethno-Religious Identity and the Canadian Prairies," by Frances Swyripa.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Canada; Ethnicity; Nonfiction; STORIED Landscapes: Ethno-Religious Identity & the Canadian Prairies (Book); SWYRIPA; Frances

The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada - Storey, Robert (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
The article reviews the book, "The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada," by Bob Barnetson.
Keywords: BARNETSON; Bob; BOOKS – Reviews; Nonfiction; POLITICAL Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada; The (Book); WORK-related injuries

Sailor's Hope: The Life and Times of William Cooper, Agrarian Radical in an Age of Revolutions - Sweeny, Robert C. H. (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
The article reviews the book "Sailor's Hope: The Life and Times of William Cooper, Agrarian Radical in an Age of Revolutions," by Rusty Bittermann.
Keywords: BITTERMAN; Rusty; BOOKS – Reviews; COOPER; William; Nonfiction; SAILOR'S Hope: The Life & Times of William Cooper; Agrarian Radical in an Age of Revolutions (Book)

Fired Over Facebook: The Consequences of Discussing Work Online - Teitel, Jared (Western Journal of Legal Studies, 2012)
Examines the Canadian and American legal approaches to assessing employee’s claims of unfair discipline over allegedly egregious comments on social media, and argues that the Canadian approach is more flexible and better suited to handle these claims in the social media context. Both countries apply traditional labour law frameworks to manage employee conduct online, despite the fact that Facebook, et al, represent a novel form of communication. However, the two systems are quite different. While American triers of fact examine whether an employee’s social media communications constitute protected concerted activity, Canadian triers of fact apply the doctrine of just cause dismissal. The American framework is problematic, as it cannot always distinguish between employees who use Facebook to advance their workplace interests from those who use it for other purposes. Consequently, American employers may be forced to tolerate an employee’s social media posts, regardless of how malicious they might be.

Public Sector Industrial Relations in Canada: Does It Threaten or Sustain Democracy? - Thompson, Mark; Slinn, Sara (Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal, 2012)
Examines labour relations between the state (provincial and federal governments) and public sector workers since the 1960s, including interventions into collective bargaining through wage control legislation, wage control policies, back-to-work legislation, and emergency no-strike legislation. Concludes that, although Canadian governments have generally accepted the industrial relations system, they have not accepted bargaining outcomes. Also concludes that there is little evidence to support the thesis of Wellington and Winters (1969) that public sector labour unions use their power to threaten democracy by settling agreements contrary to the mandate and best interests of the electorate.

The Labor Question in America: Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age - Tomchuk, Travis (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
The article reviews the book, "The Labor Question in America: Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age," by Rosanne Currarino.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CURRARINO; Rosanne; Citizenship; History; LABOR Question in America: Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age; The (Book); Nonfiction; United States

Ces entreprises qui font la Chine - Tremblay, Diane-Gabrielle (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Les politiques sociales - Tremblay, Diane-Gabrielle (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Le rôle des conditions de travail dans la satisfaction et la loyauté des infirmières d'agence au Québec - Tremblay, Michel; Chênevert, Denis; Hébert, Audrey (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
In recent years, the attractiveness of temporary placement agencies for nurses has grown significantly. In a labour scarcity context, it is worth exploring the motivations that encourage nurses to choose temporary work and remain loyal to their agency. Building on the classification of Tan and Tan (2002), four sources of motivation were explored: individual or family incentives, economic incentives, professional motivations and personal preferences. Regarding family motivations, this study was mainly interested in the role of flexible working conditions offered by placement agencies. Concerning economic motivations, we examined the influence of pay conditions. Our investigation of professional motivations centered on agency nurses' opportunities for skills development. Finally, the role of personal preferences was explored via workload. The results of our study, conducted on two samples, one of 500 nurses working in nursing agencies in Quebec and the other of 99 nurses from two agencies, showed that family and professional development motivations had a positive influence on agency nurses' satisfaction. In contrast, their loyalty is more closely related to the need for flexible hours, training and skills development, job security and the possibility of choosing one's assignments. Good salary conditions are not sufficient. Nurses who choose temporary work are motivated by more than a quest for better economic conditions. They also want greater freedom of choice and self-determination, and more opportunities for professional development.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employment agencies; Flexible hours; Labor Unions; Nurses; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Temporary employment

(Still) Up to No Good: Reconfiguring Worker Resistance and Misbehaviour in an Increasingly Unorganized World - van den Broek, Diane; Dundon, Tony (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
The way industrial conflict and worker resistance have been analyzed has undergone significant transformation over the past few decades. While researchers have observed the quantitative decline of traditional forms of employee resistance, others have highlighted the diversity and range of more informal employee behaviours. Following Peetz (2002), we show six distinct forms of worker resistance in response to three overlapping decollectivizing employer strategies. We locate the trajectory and significance of these employer strategies and subsequent forms of worker resistance in a neglected consideration of institutional and industrial context. The implications for the way worker resistance and misbehaviour is analyzed and theorized in an increasingly non-union world are discussed. The paper indicates the need to consider the importance of institutional factors in reassessing potential delineations between what are considered formal (and often collective) indicators of conflict, and those more informal instances of workplace misbehaviour.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Conflicts; Employee attitude; Employee management relations; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

When Sex is Work: Organizing for Labour Rights and Protections - van der Meulen, Emily (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
Research on sex work has documented the harmful effects of criminalization on sex workers' safety. Despite this body of research, the effects of criminalization on the organization of labour within the sex industry and sex workers' suggestions for labour improvements have been largely ignored. In part, this is .due to the mostly hypothetical nature of sex work labour organizing, as many common work-related activities are illegal. When one cannot work from a fixed location, have a manager or employer, or communicate about the terms and conditions of services, focusing on labour improvements can become secondary to protecting oneself from criminal charges. However, the 2010 Ontario Superior Court ruling to decriminalize aspects of prostitution opens the door for a mole nuanced analysis of sex work as a form of labour and for the development of diverse labour organizing strategies. This article presents narratives from a qualitative study with ten current and former sex workers and two allies. It begins by highlighting interviewees' arguments in favour of a "sex is work" paradigm before presenting their suggestions for workplace improvements and ideas about effective labour organizing efforts.
Keywords: Canada; DECRIMINALIZATION; LABOR laws & legislation; LABOR organizing; Legal status; laws; etc.; Ontario; PROSTITUTION – Law & legislation; SEX workers; Toronto (Ont.)

"À faire un peu de poussière:" Environmental Health and the Asbestos Strike of 1949 - van Horssen, Jessica (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
In mid-February 1949, workers at the Jeffrey Mine in Asbestos, Québec, voted to strike against the American-owned Johns-Manville Company. This work stoppage precipitated a provincial industry-wide strike that lasted for almost five months. The 1949 Asbestos strike has been incorporated into Québec's broader political historiography, and is generally regarded as a critical turning point in the history of labour and social relations in French-speaking Canada. Yet the environmental health aspects of the conflict in Asbestos remain largely unexamined. Showing how environmental health issues were a trigger for the strike and a sustained goal of the Asbestos workers seeking improvements in their conditions of work, this article demonstrates how central dust and disease were in the negotiations and arbitration hearings involving unionized workers and the company, both in 1949 and in the years that followed. It also accents the extent to which these environmental issues became health concerns that spread throughout the community. In looking at the Asbestos strike of 1949 through the lens of environmental concerns, fresh insight is gained about the nature of one of Canada's major labour conflicts, expanding our understanding of how health issues emerging in the workplace but extending well past it can affect the nature of everyday life and well being in a resource community.
Keywords: 20th century; ASBESTOS Strike; Quebec; 1949; Canada; ENVIRONMENTAL health; HISTORY & politics; History; Industrial relations; JOHNS Manville Corp.; LUNG diseases; QUEBEC (Province); STRIKES & lockouts; Work environment

La coexistence de la liberté d'entreprise et de la liberté syndicale - Verge, Pierre (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Mine-Mill’s Peace Arch Concerts: How a ‘Red’ union and a famous singer-activist fought for peace and social justice during the Cold War - Verzuh, Ron (BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly, 2012)
When Harvey Murphy, the pugnacious western regional director of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, learned that his friend and fellow leftist, American opera star Paul Robeson, was not going to be allowed to cross the Canada-United States border to sing at the Vancouver Mine-Mill convention on February 1, 1952, he didn’t mourn, he organized. First, he organized an impromptu concert where Robeson sang through long-distance phone lines to the delight of convention delegates. Then he promised a much bigger concert that May at the Peace Arch near the Canada-United States border at Blaine, Washington. If the American authorities wouldn’t let Robeson come to the convention, Murphy reasoned, they would take the convention to Robeson. Those authorities had quietly pulled Robeson’s passport in 1950. Had they needed to defend the suspension of the singer’s constitutional right to free passage, they might have said it was a matter of national security; they were protecting the nation from a threat of Communist infiltration. But they needed no such defence. After all, it was the McCarthy era and Communist sympathizers like Robeson were fair game.
Keywords: Paul Robeson

Concevoir des environnements capacitants en atelier de travail protégé - Vidal-Gomel, Christine; Rachedi, Youcef; Bonnemain, Antoine; Gébaï, Déborah (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
Dans cet article, nous analysons l’activité de travail d’opérateurs en situation de handicap, en prenant en compte leur santé, leur sécurité, leurs compétences professionnelles et les activités de médiation des moniteurs d’atelier qui les encadrent, avec l’objectif de préciser des caractéristiques de ce que pourraient être des situations capacitantes pour ces opérateurs. Nous présentons deux études ergonomiques réalisées dans des ateliers de travail protégé en France, au sein d’un établissement et service d’aide par le travail (ESAT). La notion « d’environnement capacitant » nous sert de fil directeur pour aborder les conditions de travail des personnes en situation de handicap mais aussi les situations d’apprentissage qui leur sont proposées. Nous avons ainsi identifié des postes de travail et du matériel qui conduisent à des postures inadaptées et dangereuses ; des stratégies de travail qui permettent aux opérateurs de se préserver mais qui sont aussi limitées et insuffisantes, et des difficultés qui leur font courir des risques. Nous soulignons également des difficultés d’apprentissage en situation. Les moniteurs d’atelier ont un rôle central. Leurs activités de médiation sont un déterminant du développement possible des opérateurs handicapés : d’une part, parce que leur rôle pédagogique est important et, d’autre part, parce qu’ils prennent en charge une partie de la gestion des risques des opérateurs. Ils ont donc une véritable activité de prévention des risques d’atteinte à la santé de ces opérateurs. Toutefois, leurs propres conditions de travail, leur manque de connaissances sur les handicaps et leur faible accès à des formations limitent leurs apports à la fois sur le plan pédagogique et sur le plan de la prévention des risques. Concevoir des situations capacitantes pour des opérateurs en atelier protégé passe par l’amélioration des conditions de travail des opérateurs handicapés, mais aussi par l’amélioration des conditions de travail et d’accès à des formations des moniteurs.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Disabled workers; Ergonomics; Labor Unions; Mediation; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Working conditions; Workshops

I'm Neither Here nor There: Mexicans' Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty - Villegas, Paloma E. (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
The article reviews the book, "I'm Neither Here nor There: Mexicans' Quotidian Struggles With Migration and Poverty," by Patricia Zavella.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CALIFORNIA; I'M Neither Here nor There: Mexicans' Quotidian Struggles With Migration & Poverty (Book); MEXICANS; Nonfiction; ZAVELLA; Patricia

Bohemian Bolsheviks After World War II: A Minority within a Minority - Wald, Alan (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
Institutionalized forgetting about the scope of the Trotskyist experience in the United States was on display in every venue following the deaths of Peter Rafael Bloch (1921-2008), an authority on Puerto Rican artistic culture, and George Perle (born George Perlman, 1915-2009), a Pulitzer Prize-winning music theorist and composer once married to the sculptress and painter Laura Slobe (1909-58). Nothing written even hinted that the two iconoclasts were in the past highly educated and committed Marxists, or that revolutionary ideas oxygenated their cultural thinking at crucial moments. Alarm over memory loss of this type is the motive for this present essay, which appraises the lives of Bloch, Perle, and Slobe along with other "Bohemians" who sought a vexed amalgam of unconstrained cultural creativity, personal freedom, and disciplined "Bolshevik" politics in the Socialist Workers Party (swp) during the late 1940s and 1950s. What can be recovered of the political and personal passions of many "outlaw" lives on the Left, of cultural revolutionaries and sexual non-conformists, especially from those who infused anti-capitalism with anti-Stalinism, are only fragmentary narratives to be steered warily into coherency. For the postwar decade, one must write a kind of ghostly history, the reconstruction of the presence of an absence in a time of persecution.
Keywords: BLOCH; Peter Rafael; BOHEMIANISM – United States; BOLSHEVISM; COMMUNISTS – United States; PERLE; George; Social aspects; TROTSKYISM; United States

Woody Guthrie, American Radical - Wallace, Len (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
The article reviews the book, "Woody Guthrie, American Radical," by William Kaufman.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; GUTHRIE; Woody; 1912-1967; KAUFMAN; William; Nonfiction; WOODY Guthrie; American Radical (Book)

Is the Union Employment Suppression Effect Diminishing? Further Evidence from Canada - Walsworth, Scott; Long, Richard J. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
This paper examines the impact of unions on employment growth in a longitudinal sample of Canadian workplaces collected during the period 2001-2006. To facilitate comparability with earlier Canadian results, we segment our analysis by industrial sector and establishment size, and find that unions suppress employment growth only in larger manufacturing establishments, and actually seem to promote employment growth among smaller service sector establishments. These results differ substantially from results found twenty-one years previously. We extend previous analysis by examining whether a declining union wage premium may have played a role in these results, and find suggestive evidence for such a contention.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employment; Impact analysis; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Negotiating in Silence: Experiences with Parental Leave in Academia - Weststar, Johanna (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2012)
This paper presents a case study of pregnancy/parental leave arrangements among faculty members at a mid-sized Canadian University from 2000-2010. The data show that leave arrangements were very inconsistent across faculties, across and within departments, and even for individual faculty members who had taken more than one leave. The majority of problematic cases were instances where a faculty member began or ended a leave in the middle of an academic term. Without specific language in their collective agreement, these faculty members often negotiated circumstances that carried individual penalties for duties that were unassigned in light of the leave. This research has implications for unions who must be particularly vigilant and active in professional environments where individual negotiation takes place and union consciousness is lower. It also emphasizes the burden placed on parents when the bearing and rearing of children is framed as an individual right rather than an issue of social reproduction. The paper uses data from a sample of collective agreements across Canadian universities to make recommendations to clarify the procedures for pregnancy and parental leave.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Colleges & universities; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Maternity & paternity leaves; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; University faculty

The Archaeology of American Capitalism: The American Experience in an Archaeological Perspective - Zorzin, Nicolas (Labour / Le Travail, 2012)
The article reviews the book, "The Archaeology of American Capitalism: The American Experience in an Archaeological Perspective," by Christopher N. Matthews.
Keywords: ARCHAEOLOGY & history; ARCHAEOLOGY of American Capitalism: The American Experience in an Archaeological Perspective; The (Book); BOOKS – Reviews; MATTHEWS; Christopher N.; Nonfiction; United States

‘Modernising’ Employment Standards? Administrative Efficiency and the Production of the Illegitimate Claimant in Ontario, Canada - Gellatly, Mary; Grundy, John; Mirchandani, Kiran; Perry, J. Adam; Thomas, Mark P.; Vosko, Leah F. (The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 2011)
In October 2010, the provincial government of Ontario, Canada enacted the Open for Business Act (OBA). A central component of the OBA is its provisions aiming to streamline the enforcement of Ontario’s Employment Standards Act (ESA). The OBA’s changes to the ESA are an attempt to manage a crisis of employment standards (ES) enforcement, arising from decades of ineffective regulation, by entrenching an individualised enforcement model. The Act aims to streamline enforcement by screening people assumed to be lacking definitive proof of violations out of the complaints process. The OBA therefore produces a new category of ‘illegitimate claimants’ and attributes administrative backlogs to these people. Instead of improving the protection of workers, the OBA embeds new racialised and gendered modes of exclusion in the ES enforcement process.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-economic-and-labour-relations-review/article/abs/modernising-employment-standards-administrative-efficiency-and-the-production-of-the-illegitimate-claimant-in-ontario-canada/7C1F4D1950CEAADDE43AD8C23700AB55
Keywords: Employment standards; J710; J780; J880; Ontario; enforcement; labour market regulation; neoliberal racism; precarious work

From Cape Breton to Vancouver Island: Studying the Scots in Canada - Vance, Michael E. (Immigrants & Minorities, 2011)
This historiographical essay surveys scholarship on Scottish settlement in Canada which it classifies into three broad categories: first, works that focus on the contribution of notable Scots; second, scholarship that examines the ‘Scottish’ character of Nova Scotia; and third, investigations of Highland enclave settlements – especially in eastern Canada. The study argues that the relatively neglected experience of Scots in British Columbia offers the most fruitful comparison with the circumstances of Scottish settlers in New Zealand. In both contexts, Scottish migration contributed to the dispossession of large numbers of indigenous peoples even as some Scots contributed significantly to trade unionism and international socialist movements that sought to bring social justice to all peoples regardless of ethnicity.
Keywords: Canada; Emigration & immigration; Historiography; Indigenous Peoples; Labor Unions; Labour relations; Scots; Settlement; Socialism

Organized Labor, Nuclear Power, and Environmental Justice: A Comparative Analysis of the Canadian and U.S. Labor Movements - Savage, Larry; Soron, Dennis (Labor Studies Journal, 2011)
This article engages in a comparative analysis of the U.S. and Canadian labor movements’ attitudes toward nuclear power, in both historical and contemporary periods, with a view to explaining the divergent policy positions on nuclear power adopted by the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) and the AFL-CIO, respectively. The contrasting views of the AFL-CIO and CLC, it is argued, arise not simply from differing levels of commitment to the principles of social unionism, but from a more complex mesh of ideological, pragmatic, and institutional factors related to union-party relationships and other important differences pertaining to the culture, membership composition, organizational maintenance requirements, and decision-making power bases in both labor organizations.
Keywords: Canada; Labor movement; United States; business unionism; nuclear power; social unionism

Abstracts = Résumés (68, Fall 2011) (Labour/Le Travail, 2011)
English/French abstracts of articles in the Fall 2011 issue.
Keywords: ABSTRACTS; Canada; History; Labor Unions

Abstracts / Résumés [v. 67, Spring 2011] (Labour/Le Travail, 2011)
English/French abstracts of articles in the Spring 2011 issue.
Keywords: ABSTRACTS; Black Canadians; DIVERSITY in the workplace; Employees; Indigenous women

Index, Volume 67 (Spring/Printemps 2011) (Labour/Le Travail, 2011)

Working for Justice: The L.A. Model of Organizing and Advocacy - Adams, Roy (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
Working for Justice: The L.A. Model of Organizing and Advocacy, edited by Ruth Milkman, Joshua Bloom and Victor Narro, is reviewed.
Keywords: Advocacy; Aliens; 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

Making a Living: African Canadian Workers in London, Ontario, 1861-1901 - Adams, Tracey (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
There is a growing body of research on African Canadians in the 19th century that touches on their experiences in the workforce. Nonetheless, the literature has been largely silent on how labour market opportunities for African Canadians altered over time and, in particular, how members of this community fared with the slow, but nonetheless dramatic, rise of an industrial-capitalist economy. This study uses census data to explore the occupational experiences of African Canadians living in London, Ontario, between 1861 and 1901. Findings suggest that labour market opportunities were better for men of African origins around mid-century but declined noticeably in the succeeding years. African Canadians of both genders were largely excluded from growth areas in the economy, and their labour was highly concentrated in a narrow range of low-skill jobs. Although there is limited evidence of upward occupational mobility over time for some, and a slight broadening of occupational opportunities by 1901, African Canadian men and women were disadvantaged compared to their white counterparts.
Keywords: BLACKS – Employment; Black Canadians; CANADA – Economic conditions – 19th century; CENSUS; Canada; History; LABOR market; LONDON (Ont.); Ontario; RESETTLEMENT of blacks; Race relations; Work environment

The Business of Women: Marriage, Family, and Entrepreneurship in British Columbia, 1901-51 - Adams, Tracey (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "The Business of Women: Marriage, Family, and Entrepreneurship in British Columbia, 1901–51," by Melanie Buddle.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; BUDDLE; Melanie; BUSINESS of Women: Marriage; Family & Entrepreneurship in British Columbia 1901-1951; The (Book); BUSINESSWOMEN; Canada; Nonfiction

The Nurture of Nature: Childhood, Antimodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920-55 - Anuik, Jonathan (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "The Nurture of Nature: Childhood, Antimodernism, and Ontario Summer Camps, 1920–55," by Sharon Wall.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CAMPS; History; NURTURE of Nature: Childhood; Antimodernism & Ontario Summer Camps 1920-1955; The (Book); Nonfiction; Ontario; WALL; Sharon

Power in Coalition: Strategies for Strong Unions and Social Change - Bailey, Janis (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
Power in Coalition: Strategies for Strong Unions and Social Change, by Amanda Tattersall, 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; Social activism

Resistance as Emotional Work: The Australian and Canadian Non-Profit Social Services - Baines, Donna (Industrial Relations Journal, 2011)
Drawing on data collected as part of a larger qualitative study of the experience of restructuring in the non‐profit social services in Canada and Australia, this article argues that resistance, including social unionism, is often a complex form of emotional labour and a source of deep satisfaction for care workers in the non‐profit social services.

Privatizing Pensions: The Transnational Campaign for Social Security Reform - Baldwin, Bob (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Privatizing Pensions: The Transnational Campaign for Social Security Reform," by Mitchell A. Orenstein.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Government policy; Nonfiction; ORENSTEIN; Mitchell A.; PRIVATIZING Pensions: The Transnational Campaign for Social Security Reform (Book); Social security

Employment Policy in the European Union: Origins, Themes and Prospects - Barbier, Jean-Claude (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
Employment Policy in the European Union: Origins, Themes and Prospects, edited by Michael Gold, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employment policies; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Making Capitalism Safe: Work Safety and Health Regulation in America, 1880-1940 - Barnetson, Bob (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Making Capitalism Safe: Work Safety and Health Regulation in America, 1880-1940," by Donald Rogers.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; INDUSTRIES – Safety measures; MAKING Capitalism Safe: Work Safety & Health Regulation in America 1880-1940 (Book); Nonfiction; ROGERS; Donald

La signification du travail : nouveau modèle productif et ethos du travail au Québec - Barré, Philippe (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "La signification du travail : nouveau modèle productif et ethos du travail au Québec," by Daniel Mercure and Mircea Vultur.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Seeking Spatial Justice - Barsky, Robert F. (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Seeking Spatial Justice," by Edward W. Soja.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Nonfiction; SEEKING Spatial Justice (Book); SOJA; Edward W.; Social justice

Embedded With Organized Labor: Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Home - Bates, Matthew C. (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Embedded With Organized Labor: Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Home," by Steve Early.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; EARLY; Steve; EMBEDDED With Organized Labor: Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Home (Book); Labor movement; Nonfiction; United States

The Lakehead & Canada’s First Social Democratic Party: - Beaulieu, Michel S (Thunder Bay Historical Museum Society Papers and Records, 2011)
During the last two days of December in 1911 the Finnish Labour Temple in Port Arthur, Ontario, was the scene of one of the most significant events in both Canadian and regional political history before the First World War. Chosen for its geographic position, the temple hosted a pan-national gathering of socialists who, in an attempt to unite the Canadian left, established Canada’s first social democratic party, the Social Democratic Party of Canada (SDPC). The goal of the SDPC was to educate the workers of Canada to consciousness of their class position in society, their economic servitude to the owners of capital, and to organize them into a political party to seize the reins of government and transform all capitalist property into the collective property of the working class. Its activity during the next decade would have a profound influence on both the various manifestations of socialism regionally and nationally over the next century and on mainstream Canadian social politics. However, the hundredth anniversary of its establishment has gone unnoticed by political and labour historians. Part of the reason rests with the simply fact that, although many works mention and even briefly discuss the SDPC, no full-length study has yet been written. In an attempt to rectify this situation, this paper provides an overview of its actions and activities at the Lakehead,between 1911 and 1918. –Introduction

Êtes-vous qualifié pour servir ? - Bernier, Colette (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Êtes-vous qualifi é pour servir?," by Sylvie Monchatre.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Puissance et pouvoir en négociation collective - Bilodeau, Pier-Luc (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
La puissance et le pouvoir sont des notions fondamentales pour l'étude de la négociation collective. Bien qu'ayant été au coeur des travaux fondateurs des relations industrielles de part et d'autre de l'Atlantique, leur traitement demeure pourtant insatisfaisant. Il convient donc de proposer une conceptualisation spécifi que et nuancée de celles-ci, permettant le cumul des acquis de connaissance afi n, notamment, de mieux comprendre les aff rontements entre employeurs et syndicats ainsi que l'équilibre au sein des régimes de rapports collectifs du travail. Pour ce faire, l'auteur propose une synthèse des travaux antérieurs intégrant certaines contributions majeures du champ de la sociologie politique. La puissance et le pouvoir, notions correspondant à une capacité et son actualisation, y sont envisagés du point de vue de la dépendance qu'entretiennent les parties à la négociation collective ainsi que des ressources et de la capacité stratégique de ces dernières.
Keywords: Relaciones colectivas de trabajo; biais institutionnels; dependence; dependencia; dépendance; empleador; employer; employeur; institutional bias; labour-management relations; rapports collectifs du travail; recursos; resources; ressources; sesgo institucional; sindicato; syndicat; union

Seated by the Sea: The Maritime History of Portland, Maine, and Its Irish Longshoremen - Bischoff, Peter C. (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Seated by the Sea: The Maritime History of Portland, Maine, and Its Irish Longshoremen," by Michael C. Connolly.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CONNOLLY; Michael C.; History; Nonfiction; PORTLAND (Me.); SEATED by the Sea: The Maritime History of Portland; Maine & Its Irish Longshoremen (Book)

Live Wire: Women and Brotherhood in the Electrical Industry - Bix, Amy (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Live Wire: Women and Brotherhood in the Electrical Industry," by Francine A. Moccio.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; ELECTRICIANS; LIVE Wire: Women & Brotherhood in the Electrical Industry (Book); MOCCIO; Francine A.; Nonfiction

Les systèmes de représentation au travail : à la mesure des réalités contemporaines ? / Employee Representation in the New World of Work: The Dynamics of Rights, Voice, Performance and Power - Brunelle, Christian; Hayden, Annette; Murray, Gregor (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
Editorial introduction to the themes examined in the issue.

The ‘Great Recession,’ the Employers’ Offensive and Canadian Public Sector Unions - Camfield, David (Socialist Studies / Études socialistes, 2011)
The global economic crisis and its effects have changed the context for public sector unions in Canada. There is evidence that an intensified offensive against public sector unions is beginning. Few public sector unions are prepared to respond adequately to such an offensive, as the important 2009 strike by Toronto municipal workers illustrates. In this more difficult context, change within public sector unions is increasingly urgent. The most promising direction for union renewal lies in the praxis of social movement unionism. However, there are very few signs of moves to promote this approach within Canadian public sector unions.

What Accounts for the Representation Gap? Decomposing Canada-US Differences in the Desire for Collective Voice - Campolieti, Michele; Gomez, Rafael; Gunderson, Morley (Journal of Industrial Relations, 2011)
We utilize two representative cross-national data sets to shed light on what has been a vexing problem in the industrial relations literature; namely, the existence and persistence of the representation gap documented more than a decade ago by Freeman and Rogers (1999). Specifically, we estimate the determinants of employee desire for a range of collective voice mechanisms, including unionization. We do this separately for the US and Canada and then, using an application of the Oaxaca decomposition technique, we decompose the differences in those desires between the two countries into a component due to differences in the characteristics of respondents and another due to differences in preferences for collective voice mechanisms. Our results indicate that: (1) roughly half of workers in both countries expressed a desire for a range of collective voice mechanisms to deal with workplace issues; (2) that desire for collective voice was stronger in the US than in Canada; and (3) that virtually all of the stronger desire for collective workplace voice in the US, as compared to Canada, was due to stronger employee preferences for collective solutions as opposed to differences in the characteristics of workers. We offer plausible explanations for our findings and discuss the implications for labour law reform.
Keywords: Canada; United States; comparative industrial relations; employee voice; institutional embeddedness

The Chinese Medical Doctor Association: A New Industrial Relations Actor in China's Health Services? - Cao, Xuebing (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
This paper draws on research on the emergence of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association (CMDA) in recent years, by examining interview and documentary evidence from this organization and two case study hospitals in China. With reference to mobilization theory, the research investigates whether the CMDA has developed sufficient power to effectively represent and defend members' interests. The paper reviews the increasing presence of the CMDA in doctors' professional training and education, self-discipline and ethical issues. The findings show that at present the CMDA has not become an independent Dunlop-type union organization or a new industrial relations actor. Nevertheless, the CMDA may be able to help doctors to develop their social capital and group identity, and in the future the CMDA may become more powerful in representing Chinese doctors.
Keywords: Associations; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Physicians; Professional ethics; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Social identity; Studies

When the Other is Me: Native Resistance Discourse, 1850-1990 - Carleton, Sean (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "When the Other Is Me: Native Resistance Discourse, 1850-1990," by Emma LaRocque.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Canada; Indigenous Peoples; LAROCQUE; Emma; Nonfiction; WHEN the Other Is Me: Native Resistance Discourse 1850-1990 (Book)

L’effet de l’habilitation sur la performance adaptative des employés - Charbonnier-Voirin, Audrey; Akremi, Assâad (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
Les résultats d’une étude menée auprès de 390 employés, obtenus à l’aide de la méthode des équations structurelles, mettent en lumière une influence positive de l’habilitation du supérieur sur la performance adaptative des subordonnés. Les résultats montrent également que la perception d’un soutien de la direction favorise la réussite de l’habilitation du supérieur, en agissant comme une ressource émotionnelle valorisée par les employés dans leur stratégie d’adaptation.Si les recherches antérieures ont généralement focalisé leur attention sur les antécédents individuels de la performance adaptative, l’étude de l’influence des pratiques managériales sur ce type de performance est en revanche délaissée. Dans cette perspective, l’objectif de cet article est d’explorer l’effet de l’habilitation du supérieur (managerial empowerment) sur la performance adaptative au travail, processus visant à accroître l’étendue du pouvoir des individus et leurs capacités à contrôler leur travail. Les cas d’échec des pratiques d’habilitation nous conduisent également à étudier les conditions sous lesquelles ces pratiques peuvent faciliter le développement de la performance adaptative.Face à la complexification des situations de travail, la capacité des employés à apprendre de nouvelles compétences, à interagir avec divers acteurs et à s’adapter à de nouveaux contextes est devenue essentielle pour la compétitivité des entreprises. Ces comportements au travail, regroupés sous le nom de performance adaptative, sont désormais considérés comme un facteur crucial pour permettre aux organisations d’atteindre leurs objectifs dans un environnement marqué par le changement continu, la complexité et l’incertitude. Ce construit est encore peu étudié.
Keywords: None; adaptation strategy; apoyo del manáger; cambio organizacional; changement organisationnel; estrategia de adaptación; organizational change; promoción de la autonomía; soutien managérial; stratégie d’adaptation; supervisor support

Migrants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World - Choudry, Aziz (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Migrants for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World," by Robyn Magalit Rodriguez.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; FILIPINO foreign workers; MIGRANTS for Export: How the Philippine State Brokers Labor to the World (Book); Nonfiction; RODRIGUEZ; Robyn Magalit

Militant Women of a Fragile Nation - Choudry, Aziz (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Militant Women of a Fragile Nation," by Malek Abisaab.
Keywords: ABISAAB; Malek; BOOKS – Reviews; MILITANT Women of a Fragile Nation (Book); Nonfiction; Social conditions; Women employees

Activité professionnelle et responsabilités familiales: les mères sont-elles encore perdantes dans leur qualité d'emploi? - Cloutier, Luc; Bernard, Paul; Tremblay, Diane-Gabrielle (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
Que ce soit au Québec, au Canada ou ailleurs dans d'autres pays de l'OCDE, les femmes sont désormais très présentes sur le marché du travail même lorsqu'elles ont des enfants en bas âge. Toutefois, les données révèlent qu'il existe encore des différences notables entre les genres en ce qui a trait aux conditions d'emploi et de travail. Afin de jeter un nouveau regard sur les inégalités professionnelles entre les sexes, une analyse quantitative de l'évolution de qualité de l'emploi au Québec a été réalisée en fonction de deux paramètres importants de différenciation de genres relevés dans les recherches: le degré de scolarité et la situation familiale. Le concept de qualité de l'emploi utilisé ici tient compte de quatre dimensions fondamentales, soit la rémunération, les heures de travail, la qualifi cation et la stabilité. Dans cet article, une nouvelle typologie de la qualité de l'emploi en 12 groupes est utilisée afin de faire ressortir adéquatement les différentes formes d'intégration au marché du travail. L'analyse des résultats, qui portent sur la période 1997-2007, montre qu'il y a eu une amélioration de la qualité de l'emploi des femmes, peu importe leur scolarité et leur situation familiale, et que cela s'est traduit par une réduction de l'écart avec les hommes. Toutefois, ces réductions ont été très prononcées dans le cas des personnes n'ayant pas de responsabilités familiales (baisses se situant entre 33 % et 44 %) mais sont demeurées beaucoup plus limitées pour les personnes ayant des enfants en bas âge (baisses se situant entre 14 % et 15 %). Plus particulièrement, les femmes disposant d'un fort capital humain (formation universitaire) et n'ayant pas de charge familiale ont nettement amélioré leur situation par rapport à leurs homologues masculins, contrairement à celles ayant d'importantes responsabilités familiales et détenant le même niveau de scolarité.
Keywords: Quebec; Québec; condiciones de trabajo; conditions de travail; desigualdades; empleo; emplois; femmes; inequality; inégalités; jobs; mujeres; terms of employment; women

La représentation collective des travailleurs précaires : évolution et défis contemporains - Coiquaud, Urwana (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
En 2001, 2007 et 2011, les juges de la Cour suprême du Canada ont reconnu par une série d’arrêts le droit à la négociation collective comme un droit dérivé de la liberté d’association, liberté constitutionnelle prévue à la Charte canadienne des droits et libertés. Ces arrêts sont venus souffler un vent d’espoir pour les travailleurs précaires souvent tenus à l’écart des mécanismes de représentation et de négociation collective de leurs conditions de travail par un syndicat.Cet article analyse comment la législation et même l’action collective, jadis pilier du développement de la représentation collective, ont pu constituer des obstacles au développement de la représentation collective des travailleurs précaires. Ensuite, il examine comment aujourd’hui la Cour suprême favorise l’accès à la représentation collective de certains travailleurs « précaires » en reconnaissant la spécificité du travailleur, du travailleur précaire et en accordant une plus vaste portée à la garantie constitutionnelle de la liberté d’association. Puis, l’article analyse les retombées de ces développements sur la scène judiciaire québécoise à l’égard des responsables d’un service de garde et des travailleurs migrants agricoles, avant de discuter de la place du pouvoir judiciaire dans cette évolution. Nos travaux démontrent qu’aujourd’hui les tribunaux semblent avoir pris le relais du législateur et fournissent un terreau fertile pour l’épanouissement de la représentation collective des précaires.
Keywords: collective representation; freedom of association; home care workers; libertad de asociación; liberté d’association; migrant agricultural workers; precarious work; representación colectiva; représentation collective; responsables de servicios de guardería; responsables d’un service de garde; trabajadores emigrantes agrícolas; trabajo precario; travail précaire; travailleurs migrants agricoles

Introduction - Cooke, Fang Lee; Wood, Geoffrey (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
Editorial introduction to: Symposium sur les relations d’emploi et les nouveaux acteurs dans les économies émergentes / Symposium on Employment Relations and New Actors in Emerging Economies.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Unionizing Retail: Lessons From Young Women's Grassroots Organizing in the Greater Toronto Area in the 1990s - Coulter, Kendra (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article chronicles the development of two retail workers' unionization efforts that took place in the Toronto, Ontario area in the 1990s. It examines the role that women labour leaders Wynne Hartviksen and Debora De Angelis played in organizing the drives and describes how their personal experiences working in low-wage and non-benefited retail jobs contributed to their beliefs as workers' rights activists. It also presents comments from both Hartviksen and De Angelis on topics such as fear exhibited by employees regarding being punished by employers for joining unions and their efforts to contact and recruit potential union members through mailings, phone calls, and personal interviews.
Keywords: Canada; DE Angelis; Debora; HARTVIKSEN; Wynne; Labor Unions; Labor union members; Ontario; RETAIL industry – Employees; Toronto (Ont.); WAGES – Retail trade employees

Insidious Workplace Behavior - Courcy, François (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
Review of: Insidious Workplace Behavior ed. by Jerald Greenberg.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Studies of Labor Market Intermediation - Cousineau, Jean-Michel (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Sex Slaves and Discourse Masters: The Construction of Trafficking - Crago, Anna-Louise (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Sex Slaves and Discourse Masters: The Construction of Trafficking," by Jo Doezema.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; DOEZEMA; Jo; Human trafficking; Nonfiction; SEX Slaves & Discourse Masters: The Construction of Trafficking (Book)

Good, Reliable, White Men: Railroad Brotherhoods, 1877-1917 - Craven, Paul (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Good, Reliable, White Men: Railroad Brotherhoods, 1877-1917," by Paul Michael Taillon.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; GOOD; Reliable; White Men: Railroad Brotherhoods 1877-1917 (Book); Nonfiction; RAILROADS – Employees – Labor unions; TAILLON; Paul Michael

Les identités au travail : analyses et controverses - D'Amours, Martine (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Les identités au travail: analyses et controverses," edited by Jean-Yves Causer, Jean-Pierre Durand and William Gasparini.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Fernand Daoust. Un militant social-démocrate convaincu - Dansereau, Bernard (Bulletin d'histoire politique, 2011)

Participación sindical de los trabajadores en Argentina: principales determinantes y tendencias - Delfini, Marcelo; Erbes, Analía; Roitter, Sonia (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
La crisis de representación sindical es uno de los hechos vinculados al mundo del trabajo más relevantes de los últimos treinta años. Los estudios sobre representación sindical han tomado habitualmente como medida de su nivel a la tasa de afiliación. No obstante, se puede profundizar el análisis, incorporando otros elementos que permitan explicar la participación de los trabajadores en el marco de los sindicatos, como medida del nivel de representación. En este contexto, el objetivo del presente artículo es doble. Por un lado, profundizar sobre los aspectos vinculados con la participación sindical de los trabajadores, más allá de la afiliación, incorporando otros elementos que permitan caracterizarla a partir de niveles de participación. Vinculado a ello, por otro lado, se pretende establecer la influencia que tienen los factores asociados a las características del trabajador, de la empresa y sociolaborales en la participación sindical de los trabajadores argentinos. Para identificar los distintos niveles de participación se realizó un análisis factorial de correspondencias múltiples y de cluster que posibilitó determinar la existencia de tres grupos: los trabajadores ‘desvinculados’ del sindicato, los ‘periféricos’ y los ‘integrados’ al sindicato. Por su parte, la importancia de distintos factores relacionados con características de los trabajadores, de la empresa y sociolaborales en la definición de estos grupos se evaluó a través de un modelo de regresión logística multinomial. El resultado del análisis llevado adelante muestra que los factores vinculados a la empresa no inciden en la posición en que se encuentra el trabajador con respecto al sindicato. A su vez, la probabilidad de pasar de una situación periférica a una desvinculada se encuentra fuertemente relacionada con las características del trabajador, mientras que el cambio hacia un nivel de integración mayor se halla condicionado por los rasgos sociolaborales, tales como la presencia sindical y la antigüedad. // The crisis in union representation is one of the most relevant labour-related issues of the last thirty years. Studies about union representation usually consider unionization to be central to the evaluation of this crisis. However, this analysis can be deepened by incorporating other elements that explain workers' union participation as a measure of representation levels. In this context, this paper has two objectives. First, to analyze the factors that influence worker participation in unions considering, besides membership, other elements that characterize labor participation. Second, but in connection with the first objective, it aims to establish how this participation is influenced by factors related to worker, firm, and socio-occupational characteristics. To identify different levels of employee involvement we carry out a multiple correspondence analysis and a cluster analysis, both of which enable us to build three groups of employees along a continuum from the least to the most committed to the union. A multinomial logistic regression model is applied to establish the relative importance of different factors associated with worker, firm, and socio-occupational characteristics on the definition of these groups. The results show that firm-related factors do not affect worker participation in unions. In turn, the probability of moving to a non-participative situation is strongly related to worker characteristics, while the shift to a higher level of commitment is conditioned by socio-occupational characteristics, such as the presence of unions and seniority.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Participation; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Trends; Union membership

Let America Be America Then: Imagining a More United Front in the Early Civil Rights Era - Dennis, Michael (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews and comments on the books "The Problem of the Future World: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Race Concept at Midcentury" by Eric Porter and "Wrestling With the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man," by Barbara Foley.
Keywords: DU Bois; W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt); 1868-1963; ELLISON; Ralph; 1914-1994; FOLEY; Barbara; INVISIBLE Man (Book : Ellison); PORTER; Eric; PROBLEM of the Future World: W.E.B. Du Bois & the Race Concept at Midcentury; The (Book); WRESTLING With the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man (Book)

Editorial/Éditorial/Editorial - Déom, Esther; Ponak, Allen (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
Editorial introduction to the issue.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Community Unionism in Africa: The Case of Mozambique - Dibben, Pauline; Nadin, Sara (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
Against the background of liberalization, privatization and financial crisis, unions face a declining number of core members. In emerging economies, the informal economy represents a large and growing proportion of the workforce. In many countries, unions have sought to engage these workers through "community unionism." This article draws on in-depth research to investigate how community unionism has been employed in Mozambique, an emerging economy in Africa. In doing so, it asks whether trade union engagement with community organizations is characterized by a strategic or piecemeal approach, the degree to which there are mutual benefits, and whether the relationship is sustainable in the longer term. Analysis of findings suggests that community unionism is vibrant within Mozambique, but that questions arise regarding its longer-term viability.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employment; Informal economy; Labor Unions; POVERTY; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Working conditions

L’évolution de la négociation collective et de ses acteurs dans six pays européens - Dufour, Christian; Hege, Adelheid (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
Comment évoluent depuis la fin 1970 les statut et pratiques de négociation collective ? Quelles transformations sont repérables dans le comportement des acteurs ? Les six pays retenus dans cet article – Allemagne, Espagne, France, Grande-Bretagne, Italie, Suède – disposent de systèmes de relations professionnelles originaux. Les bouleversements économiques et sociaux poussent à des transformations, parallèlement à l’enjeu de l’Europe en construction. Les difficultés nées de la longue crise économique ne déstructurent pas ces systèmes, ni ne nivellent leur diversité. Les acteurs se montrent adaptables et jouent sur une acceptation sociale historiquement acquise pour maintenir leur influence. Ils investissent de nouveaux thèmes (emploi) et de nouveaux espaces d’échange (comités d’entreprise européens, pactes sociaux). Réponse apparemment rationnelle et efficace dans la crise, la négociation collective voit plutôt renforcée son statut, son cahier des charges densifié – dans les pays du continent européen. La Grande-Bretagne fait exception ; la mise en cause frontale du système de négociation collective et du pouvoir syndical souligne par contraste la tendance commune aux autres pays.Progressivement la négociation collective est perçue comme le pivot des systèmes de relations professionnelles ; les acteurs collectifs tendent à s’identifier à leur fonction de négociateurs. La dissolution des anciennes alliances entre syndicats et partis inaugure un mouvement peu commenté de dépolitisation du projet syndical, avec recentrage sur l’espace des relations professionnelles. Avec le 21e siècle, des contradictions apparaissent. Les acteurs, patronaux et syndicaux, perdent en représentativité et en capacité d’intégration de bases hétérogènes. Les systèmes de négociation perdent en rendement ; les États les contournent ainsi que leurs acteurs pour piloter des transformations sociales. Plus qu’à une crise des systèmes, on a affaire à une crise des acteurs. Pour les syndicats, elle soulève la question de la revitalisation de leurs liens avec leurs mandants, comme celle des nouvelles alliances à construire.
Keywords: Europa; Europe; collective bargaining; estrategia sindical; negociación colectiva; négociations collectives; pactes sociaux; pactos sociales; sindicatos; social pacts; stratégie syndicale; syndicats; union strategy; unions

Employee and Organizational Impacts of Flexitime Work Arrangements - Eldridge, Derek; Nisar, Tahir M. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
The paper investigates the impact of flexitime programs in Britain using a linked dataset of employers and employees. Organizations adopt this practice for a variety of reasons, ranging from the concern for widening the scope for employee choice to the need to comply with public regulations. Recent public regulations are based on the premise that a rigid working hours culture exists in society that results in low levels of job satisfaction and ill and stressed employees. The results from the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey data show a weak relationship between flexitime and measures of job control used and, more importantly, the relationship is negative between flexitime and job security. There is also no evidence of the establishments with flexitime arrangements having less stressed employees.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Compliance; Flexible hours; Impact analysis; Job satisfaction; Labor Unions; Regulation; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Work life balance

The Politics of Public Sector Wages: Ontario’s Social Dialogue for Austerity - Evans, Bryan (Socialist Studies / Études socialistes, 2011)
The economic crisis has revealed the extent to which sustaining the key tenets of the ‘Common Sense Revolution’, implemented by the Conservative government of Premier Mike Harris, have eroded the fiscal capacity of Ontario. The proposal to freeze public sector wages and the ensuing consultation with public sector unions and employers in the spring/summer of 2010 signal Ontario is about to return to the rollback neoliberalism that dominated the 1990s. The difference between now and then is the more defensive posture of organized labour and the limited capacities that exist to resist such an assault.

The Axe and the Oath: Ordinary Life in the Middle Ages - Farr, James R. (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "The Axe and the Oath: Ordinary Life in the Middle Ages," by Robert Fossier, translated by Lydia G. Cochrane.
Keywords: AXE & the Oath: Ordinary Life in the Middle Ages; The (Book); BOOKS – Reviews; FOSSIER; Robert; FRANCE; History; MEDIEVAL period; 987-1515; Nonfiction

Economics for Everyone: A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism - Fast, Travis (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
Economics for Everyone: A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism, by Jim Stanford, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Capitalism; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Textbooks

Regulating Flexibility: The Political Economy of Employment Standards - Fast, Travis William (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
Regulating Flexibility: The Political Economy of Employment Standards, by Mark P. Thomas, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Flexibility; LABOR market; Labor Unions; Labor standards; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

The Earnings Gap between Black and White Workers in Canada: Evidence from the 2006 Census - Fearon, Gervan; Wald, Steven (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
We analyze the Black-White earnings gap among Canadian workers using 2006 census data. The earnings gap is estimated using conventional earnings regressions, Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions and an empirical technique developed by Brown, Moon and Zoloth that allows an occupation attainment model to be incorporated into a standard earnings decomposition specification. Results from this latter method suggest that wage discrimination and occupational segregation account for the majority of the earnings gap, while endowment differences account for a fairly small portion. In light of the estimated impacts of wage discrimination and occupational segregation on full-time, full-year Black workers, we suggest various policy initiatives and further research aimed at reducing these earnings discrepancies.
Keywords: Black Canadians; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employment discrimination; Labor Unions; Segregation; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Wage differential; Whites

New Forms to Settle Old Scores: Updating the Worker Centre Story in the United States - Fine, Janice R. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
Worker centres have emerged to address issues that low wage, largely immigrant workers, face at the workplace. They are attempting to fill a void left by the decline of labour unions, local political parties and other groups. Centres have had some significant organizing and public policy successes and have placed labour standards enforcement on the public policy agenda at the state and national levels. During their formative years, these organizations displayed important strengths but also exhibited weaknesses that appeared to limit their ability to get to scale. Over the last five years, they have moved into a new phase of development. Centres have shown institutional resilience. There is also a growing trend both toward federation and formation of institutional partnerships with unions and government. Finally, centres and their national networks are playing strategic roles in broader movement building around immigrant rights, global justice and the right to organize.
Keywords: Aliens; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Foreign labor; Labor Unions; Low income groups; Nongovernmental organizations–NGOs; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Workers

Creating a Broader Context for Research on Coal Miners - Fishback, Price V. (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews and comments on the books "Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War," by Thomas G. Andrews, "The Politics of Identity and Civil Society in Britain and Germany: Miners in the Ruhr and South Wales, 1890-1926," by Leighton S. James, and "Welsh Americans: A History of Assimilation in the Coalfields," by Ronald L. Lewis.
Keywords: ANDREWS; Thomas G.; COAL industry – History; JAMES; Leighton S.; KILLING for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War (Book); LEWIS; Ronald L.; POLITICS of Identity & Civil Society in Britain & Germany: Miners in the Ruhr & South Wales 1890-1926; The (Book); WELSH Americans: A History of Assimilation in the Coalfields (Book)

The Crisis of the Twelfth Century: Power, Lordship, and the Origins of European Government - Fleming, Peter (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "The Crisis of the Twelfth Century: Power, Lordship, and the Origins of European Government," by Thomas N. Bisson.
Keywords: 476-1492; BISSON; Thomas N.; BOOKS – Reviews; CRISIS of the 12th Century: Power; Lordship & the Origins of European Government; The (Book); EUROPE; History; Nonfiction

Power in Coalition: Strategies for Strong Unions and Social Change - Foley, Janice (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Power in Coalition: Strategies for Strong Unions and Social Change," by Amanda Tattersall.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Labor Unions; Nonfiction; POWER in Coalition: Strategies for Strong Unions & Social Change (Book); TATTERSALL; Amanda

The Impact of Good Faith Obligations on Collective Bargaining Practices and Outcomes in Australia, Canada and the United States - Forsyth, Anthony (Canadian Labour & Employment Law Journal, 2011)

Supportive Legislation, Unsupportive Employers and Collective Bargaining in New Zealand - Foster, Barry; Rasmussen, Erling; Murrie, John; Laird, Ian (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
This paper reports on research into the attitudes of mainstream New Zealand employers to collective bargaining, and its union agents, in New Zealand. Despite a legislative environment supportive of collective bargaining the process has been in substantial decline in New Zealand for 20 years, notably in the private sector. A series of national surveys found that employers indicated a strong preference for individual and workplace based bargaining consistent with a shift toward more Unitarist perspectives established post-1990. Furthermore, employers consistently argued that collective bargaining and its union agents, offered little real benefit to workplaces or employment relationships. This was the case even where those employers were actively engaged in, and had a long history of, collective bargaining with unions. Overall, these results suggest that improvements in private sector collective bargaining density are unlikely.
Keywords: Advantages; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Collective bargaining; Employee management relations; Labor Unions; Private sector; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Justice for Janitors in Alberta: The Impact of Temporary Foreign Workers on an Organizing Campaign - Foster, Jason; Barnetson, Bob (Journal of Workplace Rights, 2011)
This case study explores a union organizing drive that revolved in large part around a group of temporary foreign workers. The impact of this group of workers on the union’s organizing strategy and the implications of the workers’ limited residence and labour rights are examined. This article also considers the factors that appeared to make the Justice for Janitors organizing model effective in this case as well as the potential risks associated with this approach.

Organized Labour and the Making of Public Policy in Twentieth-Century New Brunswick - Frank, David (Journal of New Brunswick Studies, 2011)
The long view of New Brunswick history over the past century shows us glimpses of a vigorous tradition of social reform, much of it driven by the activism of organized labour. The New Brunswick Federation of Labour, established in 1913, was a major force in this history. The Federation played a leading part in the achievement of labour standards such as workmen’s compensation (1918) and subsequently in the enactment of laws to protect the right to union membership and collective bargaining. In pursuing these and other objectives, the province’s labour organizations have contributed to traditions of social democracy that are too easily overlooked in contemporary debates in New Brunswick. This essay sheds light on that important history, and why organized labour still matters in the province.

Globalization, Labor, and the Transformation of Work: Readings for Seeking a Competitive Advantage in an Increasingly Global Economy - Gauthier, Carol-Anne (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
Globalization, Labor, and the Transformation of Work: Readings for Seeking a Competitive Advantage in an Increasingly Global Economy, edited by Jonathan H. Westover, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Competitive advantage; Employment; Globalization; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Working Bodies: Interactive Service Employment and Workplace Identities - Gauthier, Carol-Anne (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
Working Bodies: Interactive Service Employment and Workplace Identities, by Linda McDowell, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employment policies; Femininity; Gender identity; Labor Unions; Masculinity; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

La précarité au Québec : un concept parmi d’autres pour parler des jeunes - Gauthier, Madeleine (SociologieS, 2011)
Ce texte met en contexte l’usage du concept de précarité au Québec. Celui-ci a surtout été utilisé parmi beaucoup d’autres pour décrire la situation des jeunes au moment de la crise de l’emploi des décennies 1970 et 1980. Il a parfois contribué, par son attribution à l’ensemble des jeunes, à laisser les plus vulnérables dans l’ombre et à amplifier l’effet du travail atypique sur l’avenir de toute une génération. Un usage plus modéré du concept s’est imposé progressivement en présence de faits plus justement vérifiés. Sa force de persuasion a pu susciter des stratégies tant individuelles que collectives en faveur des jeunes. Ce retour dans le temps a permis de montrer que les jeunes sont sensibles à la conjoncture mais n’en restent pas pour autant les victimes. Est-ce à cause du type d’État (de Gøsta Esping-Anderson, évoqué par Mircea Vultur) que le concept n’a eu qu’une importance relative au Québec ? La question se pose-t-elle dans une approche pragmatique du changement ?
Keywords: changement social; emploi; jeunesse; précarité

The State of Working America 2008/2009 - Gould, Anthony M. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
The State of Working America 2008/2009, by Jared Bernstein, Lawrence Mishel and Heidi Shierholz, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Economic conditions; Family income; LABOR market; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

A Different Perspective on the “Labor Rights as Human Rights” Debate Organized Labor and Human Rights Activism in Canada, 1939-1952 - Goutor, David (Labor Studies Journal, 2011)
This article brings further historical and international perspective to the “labor rights as human rights” debate. It particularly contends that these perspectives need to be explored further in order to appreciate the extent to which the definitions and political implications of key ideologies behind labor and human rights activism are flexible and dependent on their context. It explores Canada in the 1940s and early 1950s, when there was major activity on the labor and human rights fronts. Although many Canadian organizations, legal systems, and campaigns were modeled on—or formally affiliated with—American ones in these years, the progress of labor and human rights activism followed a distinct path, and particularly unfolded at a distinct pace. This distinct pace, the relatively small size of ethnic and racialized minority populations, the basic political and legal structure, and rise of a leftist third party in the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation all helped labor and human rights activism fit together comfortably to a notable extent in Canada. This article will particularly show why the relationship between human rights and labor was significantly less fraught with potential downsides for Canadian labor leaders. It also highlights another important impact of context: the particular combination of conditions and forces in Canada produced a number of unexpected results.
Keywords: Canada; Cooperative Commonwealth Federation; HUMAN rights; World War II and postwar; historical perspective; immigration and race; labor rights as human rights; left politics; organized labor

In the Province of History: The Making of the Public Past in 20th-Century Nova Scotia - Guildford, Janet (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "In the Province of History: The Making of the Public Past in 20th-Century Nova Scotia," by Ian McKay and Robin Bates.
Keywords: 1867-; BATES; Robin; BOOKS – Reviews; History; IN the Province of History: The Making of the Public Past in 20th-Century Nova Scotia (Book); MCKAY; Ian; Nonfiction; Nova Scotia

Global Cities at Work: New Migrant Divisions of Labour - Gupta, Tania Das (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book "Global Cities at Work: New Migrant Divisions of Labour," by Jane Will, Kavita Datta, Yarra Evans, Joanna Herbert, Jon May, and Cathy McIlwaine.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; DATTA; Kavita; EVANS; Yarra; Foreign workers; GLOBAL Cities at Work: New Migrant Divisions of Labour (Book); GREAT Britain; HERBERT; Joanna; MAY; Jon; MCILWAINE; Cathy; Nonfiction; WILL; Jane

Those Who Work, Those Who Don't: Poverty, Morality and Family in Rural America - Hall, Alan (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Those Who Work, Those Who Don't: Poverty, Morality and Family in Rural America," by Jennifer Sherman.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Economic conditions; Nonfiction; RURAL families; SHERMAN; Jennifer; THOSE Who Work; Those Who Don't: Poverty; Morality & Family in Rural America (Book)

The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela - Hammond, John L. (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela," by Miguel Tinker Salas.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; ENDURING Legacy: Oil; Culture & Society in Venezuela; The (Book); Nonfiction; Petroleum industry; SALAS; Miguel Tinker; VENEZUELA

Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Postwar Canada - Hannam, June (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Transforming Labour: Women and Work in Postwar Canada," by Joan Sangster.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; History; Nonfiction; SANGSTER; Joan; TRANSFORMING Labour: Women & Work in Postwar Canada (Book); Women employees

Accommodating Minority Unionism: Does the New Zealand Experience Provide Options for Canadian Law Reform - Harcourt, Mark; Haynes, Peter (Canadian Labour & Employment Law Journal, 2011)
Relying heavily on ILO standards, the Supreme Court of Canada in B.C. Health held for the first time that the Charter guarantee of freedom of association protects not only the right of unions to organize but also their right to bargain collectively. In the authors' view, the decision in B.C. Health calls into question the established legal framework of labour relations in Canada, according to which only those unions with majority support in the bargaining unit can exercise such rights, and implies that the state is under a duty to protect the associational rights of minority and non-statutory unions as well. This paper explores how the New Zealand experience with minority and pluralist unionism, as it has developed under that country's Employment Relations Act 2000, may provide guidance to Canada on what an alternative model might entail and on the consequences of adopting such a model. Emphasizing key points of comparison and contrast between New Zealand and Canada, the authors contend that a legal framework which supports majoritarian exclusivity can also allow and support minority unionism, in a way that is consistent with international standards on freedom of association.

Mondialisation et recomposition des relations professionnelles - Hennebert, Marc-Antonin (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Mondialisation et recomposition des relations professionnelles," edited by François Aballéa and Arnaud Mias.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

I Have a Story to Tell You - Homel, Gene (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "I Have a Story to Tell You," edited by Seemah C. Berson.
Keywords: BERSON; Seemah C.; BOOKS – Reviews; Canada; History; I Have a Story to Tell You (Book); Jews; Nonfiction

Mine Towns: Buildings for Workers in Michigan's Copper Country - Hovis, Logan (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Mine Towns: Buildings for Workers in Michigan’s Copper Country," by Alison K. Hoagland.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; HOAGLAND; Alison K.; History; INDUSTRIAL housing; MINE Towns: Buildings for Workers in Michigan's Copper Country (Book); Nonfiction

Canadian Autoworkers, the Climate Crisis, and the Contradictions of Social Unionism - Hrynyshyn, Derek; Ross, Stephanie (Labor Studies Journal, 2011)
This article explores the contradictions in the Canadian Auto Workers Union’s (CAW) approach to environmental issues, particularly climate change. Despite being one of the Canadian labor movement’s leading proponents of social unionism— understood as a union ethos committed to working-class interests beyond the workplace, and a strategic repertoire that involves community-union alliances— the CAW’s environmental activism demonstrates the contradictory way that social unionism can be understood and practiced by unions. Through a critical discourse analysis of CAW policy documents and leadership statements, we show the union has not reframed its bargaining demands to emphasize both economically and environmentally sustainable production. Instead, the CAW’s relatively uncritical defense of the North American auto industry and the jobs it provides, despite the clearly negative role such production plays in the climate crisis, its acceptance of the structures of automobility, and its emphasis on environmental issues that have little to do with the nature of their industry, indicates the way that social unionism can be an add-on rather than a fundamental reorientation of a union’s role and purpose. We argue that, for social unionist environmental activism to be effective, the CAW must incorporate social unionist goals and analyses into their bargaining priorities, and confront the contradictions between their members’ interests as autoworkers, on the one hand, and as workers and global citizens who require economically and environmentally sustainable livelihoods, on the other.
Keywords: CAW; Canada; Climate change; Unions; automobility; social unionism

Decent Work and Poverty Reduction Strategies - Hughes, Steve; Haworth, Nigel (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
Using strategies first developed in the inter-war years, the ILO has repositioned itself to play a leading role in our understanding of the relationship between employment policies and growth, particularly in relation to poverty reduction strategies. To do this, the ILO has forged increasingly strong relationships with key international financial institutions (IFIs), in which the inclusion of ILO-driven strategies for Decent Work and core labour standards has been important. Whilst this repositioning has been questioned by some who fear that an original purpose of the 110 may be lost, and the technical implementation of the ILO agenda in conjunction with the IFIs is not without difficulties, the ILO's status as a major international agency for the advancement of human development has been reinforced.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Economic crisis; Employment policies; International; LABOR market; Labor Unions; POVERTY; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Burlesque West: Showgirls, Sex and Sin in Postwar Vancouver - Hunt, Gerald (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Burlesque West: Showgirls, Sex and Sin in Postwar Vancouver," by Becki Ross.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; BURLESQUE West: Showgirls; Sex & Sin in Postwar Vancouver (Book); Nonfiction; PROSTITUTION – History; ROSS; Becki

Unions, Equity, and the Path to Renewal - Hunt, Gerald (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
Unions, Equity, and the Path to Renewal, edited by Janice Foley and Patricia Baker, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Equity; Feminism; International; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Ethical Socialism and the Trade Unions: Allan Flanders and British Industrial Relations Reform - Hyman, Richard (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
Ethical Socialism and the Trade Unions: Allan Flanders and British Industrial Relations Reform, by John Kelly, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Ethics; Labor Unions; Reforms; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Socialism

Codes of Misconduct: The Regulation of Prostitution in Colonial Bombay - Jeffrey, Leslie Ann (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Codes of Misconduct: The Regulation of Prostitution in Colonial Bombay," by Ashwini Tambe.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CODES of Misconduct: The Regulation of Prostitution in Colonial Bombay (Book); INDIA; Nonfiction; Prostitution; TAMBE; Ashwini

How Justice Rand Devised His Famous Formula and Forever Changed the Landscape of Canadian Labour Law - Kaplan, William (University of New Brunswick Law Journal, 2011)
Discusses the history of the "Rand Formula," which established the compulsory union dues checkoff for collective work places. A cornerstone of Canadian labour law, the Formula originated in 1946 from an arbitration ruling by Supreme Court Justice Ivan C. Rand following a strike at the Ford motor plant in Windsor, Ontario, in 1945. The political and legal aspects of Rand's ruling are analyzed.

Attitudes towards Faculty Unions and Collective Bargaining in American and Canadian Universities - Katchanovski, Ivan; Rothman, Stanley; Nevitte, Neil (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
The authors use the 1999 North American Academic Study Survey to examine attitudes of American and Canadian faculty and administrators towards faculty unions and collective bargaining. Comparative and statistical analyses of the survey data show the effect of cultural, institutional, political, positional, socio-economic, and academic factors on support for collective bargaining and faculty unionism in American and Canadian universities. Analysis of the survey data shows that US-Canada differences generally outweigh positional differences among professors and administrators. Such factors as political ideology, experience with faculty bargaining, administrators' opposition, institutional quality, income, gender, and academic discipline, are found to be significant determinants of the attitudes towards faculty unions and collective bargaining.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Collective bargaining; Comparative studies; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Teacher attitudes; University faculty

Workers Versus Austerity: The Origins of Ontario’s 1995-1998 ‘Days of Action’ - Kellogg, Paul (Socialist Studies / Études socialistes, 2011)
The Great Recession has left in its wake an expected “age of austerity” where deficits accumulated to stave off economic collapse, are being addressed through steep cuts to government spending, with profound implications for social services and public sector employment. In an earlier era of austerity, eleven mass strikes and enormous demonstrations swept through the major cities of Ontario. This Days of Action movement – which has real relevance for the current period – began in the fall of 1995, continued through all of 1996 and 1997, and came to an end in 1998. This article, part of a larger research project, focuses on the movement’s origins. Two themes shape the overall project: the relation between social movements “outside” the workplace and union struggles themselves; and the relationship between the energetic inexperience of newly‐active union members, and the pessimistic institutional experience embodied in a quite developed layer of full‐time union officials. It is the former – the dialectic between social movements and trade unions in the Days of Action, that will be the focus of this article.

Losing Control: Canada's Social Conservatives in the Age of Rights - Kinsman, Gary (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Losing Control: Canada’s Social Conservatives in the Age of Rights," by Tom Warner.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Canada; Conservatism; LOSING Control: Canada's Social Conservatives in the Age of Rights (Book); Nonfiction; WARNER; Tom

Zapatistas: Rebellion from the Grassroots - Kirkpatrick, Michael D. (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Zapatistas: Rebellion From the Grassroots," by Alex Khasnabish, part of the "Rebel" book series.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; EJERCITO Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional (Mexico); KHASNABISH; Alex; Nonfiction; ZAPATISTAS: Rebellion From the Grassroots to the Global (Book)

Respectable Citizens: Gender, Family, and Unemployment in Ontario's Great Depression - Korneski, Kurt (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Respectable Citizens: Gender, Family, and Unemployment in Ontario's Great Depression," by Lara Campbell.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CAMPBELL; Lara; DEPRESSIONS – 1929; Nonfiction; RESPECTABLE Citizens: Gender; Family & Unemployment in Ontario's Great Depression (Book)

Indigenous Economies, Theories of Subsistence, and Women: Exploring the Social Economy Model for Indigenous Governance - Kuokkanen, Rauna (American Indian Quarterly, 2011)
This article considers the significance of indigenous economic systems in contemporary society. It argues that indigenous economic systems have to be taken into account much more systematically than thus far in considerations of indigenous governance. The article contends that indigenous economic systems need to play a more central role in envisioning and shaping meaningful, comprehensive, and sustainable systems of contemporary indigenous self-governance. If indigenous economies are not taken into account, there is a serious danger of losing the very identities that constitute indigenous peoples. ...The article consists of three sections. The first section discusses definitions and contemporary significance of subsistence and indigenous economies. It questions the prevailing narrow, economistic analyses and interpretations of subsistence. Although economic development projects such as resource extraction may improve fiscal independence and strengthen the economic base of indigenous communities, they also present serious threats to indigenous economies.The second section examines the relationship between subsistence and wage labor, particularly from the perspective of women. It also considers the “war on subsistence” waged by the development and modernization theories, which continue to contribute to views of subsistence as “primitive” and “pre-modern.” The third section takes a closer look at the often glossed over roles of indigenous women in subsistence activities. It questions the conventional binary economic roles of man-the-hunter versus woman-the-gatherer and argues for a broader lens when assessing economic roles and divisions of labor along gendered lines. The article concludes with an examination of indigenous economic systems and the concept of the social economy as a foundation for contemporary indigenous governance. –From Introduction

Healing Together : The Labor-Management Partnership at Kaiser Permanente - Lapointe, Paul-André (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
Healing Together : The Labor-Management Partnership at Kaiser Permanente, by Thomas A. Kochan, Adrienne E. Eaton, Robert B. McKersie, and Paul S. Adler, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Corporate culture; Health care industry; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Nouvelles identités professionnelles des femmes et syndicalisme : une possible compatibilité ? - Le Capitaine, Catherine (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
Cette étude examine le cas du Mouvement Desjardins dans le secteur financier au Québec. À partir d’un sondage téléphonique auprès de 576 employées syndiquées du Mouvement Desjardins, les principaux résultats de cette recherche quantitative font valoir une plus grande remise en question du syndicalisme par les professionnelles, les personnes développant de faibles sociabilités au travail et celles qui sont insatisfaites de leur salaire. En contrepartie, les conditions de travail défavorables et les actions syndicales proactives et démocratiques renforcent l’adhésion syndicale des femmes.Le cadre de la recherche sollicite quatre approches théoriques afin de dégager les principaux éléments du rapport d’emploi pouvant affecter l’adhésion syndicale. Tout en considérant les approches matérialiste et instrumentale, le principal apport théorique de cet article prescrit une jonction entre les nouvelles identités professionnelles des femmes, sources d’effritement du syndicalisme, et les actions syndicales, sources de renforcement du syndicalisme.En s’insérant dans les débats actuels sur l’avenir du syndicalisme, cet article se penche sur le rapport identitaire des femmes syndiquées à l’égard du syndicalisme. En abordant la crise du syndicalisme par la difficulté de représenter la main-d’oeuvre professionnelle dans le secteur des services, cette étude vise à saisir l’arrimage entre les nouvelles identités professionnelles des femmes et l’adhésion syndicale.
Keywords: adhesión sindical; adhésion syndicale; democracia sindical; démocratie syndicale; rapport au travail; relación al trabajo; secteur des services; sector de servicios; service sector; transformaciones del medio laboral; transformations dans les milieux de travail; union democracy; union membership; work relations; workplace transformation

Travail et citoyenneté : quel avenir ? - Legault, Marie-Josée (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Travail et citoyenneté : quel avenir ?," edited by Michel Coutu and Gregor Murray.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Représentation collective et citoyenneté au travail en contexte de projet - Legault, Marie-Josée; D’Amours, Martine (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
Cet article contribue au renouvellement de la réflexion sur la citoyenneté au travail en s’appuyant sur la théorie de la citoyenneté sociale de Linda Bosniak pour étudier deux groupes de travailleurs (concepteurs de jeux vidéo et artistes interprètes) incombant à une même figure emblématique du travail contemporain, soit le travail du savoir très qualifié, mobile et organisé sous la forme de projets. À l’heure où le travail du savoir prend de plus en plus d’importance dans les économies développées, il importe de prendre acte de ce qu’il occupe une position très différente de la dépendance économique du citoyen industriel dont la compétence est substituable. À la différence de la division industrielle entre la conception et l’exécution, le travail y mobilise la personne entière du travailleur plutôt que sa seule force de travail, dans un processus créatif d’innovation sur un marché très compétitif où l’apport créateur du travailleur est un atout déterminant. Les auteures y étudient l’état contemporain de la représentation des intérêts chez des travailleurs du savoir et de leur participation à la régulation de leur travail, à la fois localement et à l’échelle sociale, à l’aide de deux études de cas où des travailleurs très qualifiés transitent constamment entre des projets à courte durée déterminée plutôt que de jouir d’une relation d’emploi stable à long terme. Confrontés à des problèmes et à des enjeux collectifs, ces travailleurs déploient des moyens originaux de participer à la régulation de leur travail, hors du syndicalisme. La discussion met finalement en évidence l’émergence non seulement de nouveaux modes de représentation mais d’un nouveau citoyen au travail, à la recherche de droits et d’avantages différents du citoyen industriel de l’ère fordiste et ceci, dans un espace plus large que celui de l’entreprise.
Keywords: artistas intérpretes; artistes interprètes; citizenship at work; citoyenneté au travail; ciudadanía en el trabajo; collective representation; déficit de representación; déficit de représentation; gestion par projets; gestión por proyectos; performance artists; project management; representación colectiva; representation gap; représentation collective; trabajadores de juegos video; travailleurs de jeux vidéo; videogame developers

The Dirt: Industrial Disease and Conflict at St. Lawrence, Newfoundland - Lewchuk, Wayne (Scientia Canadensis: Canadian Journal of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine / Scientia Canadensis : revue canadienne d'histoire des sciences, des techniques et de la médecine, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "The Dirt: Industrial Disease and Conflict at St. Lawrence, Newfoundland," by Rick Rennie.

The Empire Within: Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties Montreal - Lexier, Roberta (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "The Empire Within: Postcolonial Thought and Political Activism in Sixties Montreal," by Sean Mills.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; EMPIRE Within: Postcolonial Thought & Political Activism in 60s Montreal; The (Book); History; MILLS; Sean; MONTREAL (Quebec); Nonfiction

Labour, Liberalism, and the Democratic Party: A Vexed Alliance - Lichtenstein, Nelson (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
The American trade union movement constitutes a social democratic bloc within U.S. politics. Often successful in expanding the welfare state, American unions have almost always failed to win legislation advancing their institutional strength and political legitimacy. This has been particularly true during the prosperous postwar era (1947-1979) when a depoliticalized form of collective bargaining stood at the centre of the U.S. system of industrial accommodation and conflict. But today that system is ineffectual, forcing the trade unions to return to a system of state-centred, corporatist bargaining reminiscent of that which sustained the unions during the era of the late New Deal and World War II. But this 21~ century system is a weak and tenuous version of corporatism, largely and dangerously confined to local government and those industries dependent on the state for revenue and regulation.
Keywords: Alliances; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Collective bargaining; Labor Unions; Liberalism; Political parties; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Managing the Canadian Mosaic in Wartime: Shaping Citizenship Policy, 1939-1945 - Loewen, Royden (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Managing the Canadian Mosaic in Wartime: Shaping Citizenship Policy, 1939-1945," by Ivana Caccia.
Keywords: 1914-1945; BOOKS – Reviews; CACCIA; Ivana; Canada; History; MANAGING the Canadian Mosaic in Wartime: Shaping Citizenship Policy 1939-1945 (Book); Nonfiction

A Woman of Valour: The Biography of Marie-Louise Bouchard Labelle - Lord, Kathleen (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "A Woman of Valour: The Biography of Marie-Louise Bouchard Labelle," by Claire Trépanier, with translation by Louise Matha.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; LABELLE; Marie-Louise Bouchard; Nonfiction; TREPANIER; Claire; WOMAN of Valour: The Biography of Marie-Louise Bouchard Labelle; A (Book)

The Technological Imperative in Canada: An Intellectual History - Macdougall, Robert (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "The Technological Imperative in Canada: An Intellectual History," by R. Douglas Francis.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; FRANCIS; R. Douglas; INTELLECTUAL life – History; Nonfiction; TECHNOLOGICAL Imperative in Canada: An Intellectual History; The (Book)

Human Resource Management: A Critical Approach - Malo, François Bernard (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Workplace Child Care and Elder Care Programs and Employee Retention: Research Note - Mann, Sara L.; Cooke, Gordon B.; Zeytinoglu, Isik U. (Journal of Industrial Relations, 2011)
Using Statistics Canada’s Workplace and Employee Survey (WES) data for 2003 and 2004, this research note addresses an important component of labour market retention by investigating whether the presence of workplace child care and elder care programs influences employees’ decision to quit. The key findings are as follows: (a) workplace elder care support is almost non-existent in Canada; (b) employees are more likely to remain with an organization that offers workplace child care support programs; and (c) those employees who actually use the workplace child care support are even more likely to stay with the organization. We suggest that future research should assess whether the particular support programs themselves ‘cause’ employees to stay, or whether there are other factors (within organizations offering these support programs) that account for the retention.
Keywords: Canada; child care; elder care programs; employee retention

Changes in Japanese Employment Practices: Beyond the Japanese Model - Mantale, Peter (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
Changes in Japanese Employment Practices: Beyond the Japanese Model, by Arjan Keizer, is reviewed
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Changes; Employment practices; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Smiling Down the Line: Info-Service Work in the Global Economy - Marcoux, Gilles (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Assessing the Regulation of Temporary Foreign Workers in Canada - Marsden, Sarah (Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 2011)
There has been an increase in the number of incoming temporary migrant workers to Canada over the past decade. In this article, I critically assess recent changes in the law governing temporary migration to Canada by using theoretical tools from the fields of sociology, geography, and legal geography. A multidisciplinary framework to understand Canada's labour migration policies is provided. Within the socio-historical context of migrant labour regulation in Canada, I argue that political and regulatory developments function to further entrench segregation and exclusion of foreign workers by maintaining a subclass of flexible labour. Specifically, I show that Canada's current temporary migration regime retains the country's historical role as an ethnocratic settler state in which the regulation of migrant workers creates inherent boundaries. These boundaries demarcate racially identified space(s) on the basis of the economic and political logic underlying temporary migration.
Keywords: Foreign workers; Government policy; Legal status; laws; etc.

Les jeunesses au travail : regards croisés France-Québec - Masdonati, Jonas (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
Review of: "Les jeunesses au travail : regards croisés France-Québec," edited by Christian Papinot and Mircea Vultur.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Working for Justice: The L.A. Model of Organizing and Advocacy - McCartin, Joseph A. (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book ,"Working for Justice: The L.A. Model of Organizing and Advocacy," edited by Ruth Milkman, Joshua Bloom, and Victor Narro.
Keywords: BLOOM; Joshua; BOOKS – Reviews; Labor movement; MILKMAN; Ruth; NARRO; Victor; Nonfiction; United States; WORKING for Justice: The LA Model of Organizing & Advocacy (Book)

The West and Beyond: New Perspectives on an Imagined Region - McCoy, Ted (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "The West and Beyond: New Perspectives on an Imagined Region," edited by Alvin Finkel, Sarah Carter, and Peter Fortna.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CANADA; Western; CARTER; Sarah; FINKEL; Alvin; FORTNA; Peter; History; Nonfiction; WEST & Beyond: New Perspectives on an Imagined Region; The (Book)

Representation and Rebellion: The Rockefeller Plan at the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, 1914-1942 - McInnis, Peter S. (Peter Stuart) (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Representation and Rebellion: The Rockefeller Plan at the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, 1914-1942," by Jonathan H. Rees.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; COLORADO Fuel & Iron Co.; Nonfiction; REES; Jonathan H.; REPRESENTATION & Rebellion: The Rockefeller Plan at the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company 1914-1942 (Book)

Trail of Story, Traveler's Path: Reflections on Ethnoecology and Landscape - McKay, Kathryn (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Trail of Story, Traveler’s Path: Reflections on Ethnoecology and Landscape," by Leslie Main Johnson.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; JOHNSON; Leslie Main; Nonfiction; PLACE (Philosophy); TRAIL of Story; Traveller's Path: Reflections on Ethnoecology & Landscape (Book)

Re-Imagining Ukrainian Canadians: History, Politics, and Identity - Melnyk, George (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Re-Imagining Ukrainian Canadians: History, Politics, and Identity," edited by Rhonda L. Hinther and Jim Mochoruk, part of the Canadian Social History Series.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; HINTHER; Rhonda L.; MOCHORUK; Jim; Nonfiction; RE-Imagining Ukrainian Canadians: History; Politics & Identity (Book); UKRAINIANS – Canada – History

Organizational Analysis of Canadian Supported Employment Programs for People with Psychiatric Disabilities - Menear, Matthew; Reinharz, Daniel; Marc Corbière; Houle, Nathalie; Lanctôt, Nathalie; Goering, Paula; Goldner, Elliot M.; Kirsh, Bonnie; Lecomte, Tania (Social Science & Medicine, 2011)
Supported employment (SE) is widely considered to be the most effective intervention for helping people with psychiatric disabilities integrate into the competitive workforce. While fidelity to principles and standards of evidence-based SE, i.e. the Individual Placement and Support model, is positively associated with vocational outcomes, studies have revealed significant heterogeneity in SE programs implemented in Canada. This qualitative study thus aimed to shed light on organizational and contextual factors influencing SE implementation in three Canadian provinces (British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec). The study adopted several key concepts from the field of organizational studies (e.g. coalitions, archetypes, isomorphism) to guide data collection and analysis. Overall, 20 SE programs provided by 15 different agencies were examined. Findings revealed that agencies’ exposure to different institutional pressures, their interactions and relationships with other groups and organizations, as well as their values, beliefs and ideologies played determining roles in shaping the evolution of SE services in each province.
Keywords: Canada; Coalitions; Evidence-based practice; Implementation; Individual placement and Support (IPS); Mental health; Supported employment

Living the Revolution: Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1940 - Merithew, Caroline Waldron (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Living the Revolution: Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945," by Jennifer Guglielmo.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; GUGLIELMO; Jennifer; ITALIAN American women; LIVING the Revolution: Italian Women's Resistance & Radicalism in New York City 1880-1945 (Book); Nonfiction

Stronger Together: The Story of SEIU [Service Employees International Union] - Milloy, Jeremy (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Stronger Together: The Story of SEIU," by Don Stillman.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Nonfiction; SERVICE Employees International Union; STILLMAN; Don; STRONGER Together: The Story of SEIU (Book)

The Difficulty with Diversity: White and Aboriginal Women Workers' Representations of Diversity Management in Forest Processing Mills - Mills, Suzanne (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
This paper critically examines diversity management in a multinational forest company in Saskatchewan, Canada. Drawing on insights from intersectionality theory, it highlights how white and Aboriginal women's experiences inform our understanding of workplace practices to include marginalized groups. Scholars in organization studies have critiqued diversity management for how its underlying individualism translates into a narrow understanding of difference. This critique is complicated by demonstrating how women's experiences and representations of diversity management were uneven. Women's portrayals of diversity management were structured by their gender, class, and by whether they were white or Aboriginal. Women's experiences and representations extend critiques of diversity management by uncovering some of the ways that corporate liberal ideology works through local constructions of difference. Since diversity management did not challenge white women's beliefs of meritocracy, it helped to re-inscribe racism towards Aboriginal peoples.
Keywords: CANADA – Economic conditions – 1991-; Canada; DIVERSITY in the workplace; Employment; Forest products industry; History; Indigenous women; Meritocracy; SASKATCHEWAN; WHITE women; Work environment

Beyond the Blue and Green: The Need to Consider Aboriginal Peoples’ Relationships to Resource Development in Labor-Environment Campaigns - Mills, Suzanne E. (Labor Studies Journal, 2011)
In this article, I argue that labor researchers in North America need to engage more thoroughly with Indigenous studies if they hope to advance social and environmental justice. First, I suggest that researchers approach Aboriginal peoples’ relationships to the environment by supporting Aboriginal rights to lands and resources. Second, and related to this point, I raise the issue of the need for Aboriginal-controlled development in northern Aboriginal communities. Finally, I draw on a case study on Inuit and union participation in the creation of the Vale Inco, Voisey’s Bay nickel mine in Labrador to discuss how the increasing prevalence of corporate-Aboriginal alliances is creating important challenges to union engagement that need to be addressed.

Winnipeg's Great War: A City Comes of Age - Mochoruk, Jim (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Winnipeg’s Great War: A City Comes of Age," by Jim Blanchard.
Keywords: BLANCHARD; Jim; BOOKS – Reviews; History; Nonfiction; WINNIPEG (Man.); WINNIPEG'S Great War: A City Comes of Age (Book)

The New Economy of the Modern South - Mohl, Raymond A. (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "The New Economy of the Modern South," by Michael Dennis.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; DENNIS; Michael; NEW Economy of the Modern South; The (Book); Nonfiction; SOUTHERN States – Economic conditions – 1945-

Ce que sait la main : la culture de l'artisanat - Morin, Fernand (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Ce que sait la main: la culture de l'artisanat," by Richard Sennett (translation of: The Craftsman by Pierre-Emmanuel Dauzat).
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Le droit de l'emploi au Québec, 4e édition - Nadeau, Denis (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Le droit de l’emploi au Québec," 4e édition, by Fernand Morin, Jean-Yves Brière, Dominic Roux and Jean-Pierre Villaggi.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Che's Travels: The Making of a Revolutionary in 1950s Latin America - Nállim, Jorge (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Che’s Travels: The Making of a Revolutionary in 1950s Latin America," edited by Paulo Drinot.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CHE'S Travels: The Making of a Revolutionary in 1950s Latin America (Book); DRINOT; Paulo; GUEVARA; Ernesto; 1928-1967; Nonfiction

AFL-CIO's Secret War against Developing Country Workers: Solidarity or Sabotage? - Nastovski, Katherine (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "AFL-CIO's Secret War Against Developing Country Workers: Solidarity or Sabotage?," by Kim Scipes.
Keywords: AFL-CIO; AFL-CIO's Secret War Against Developing Country Workers: Solidarity or Sabotage? (Book); BOOKS – Reviews; Nonfiction; SCIPES; Kim

Solidarity Stories: An Oral History of the ILWU [International Longshore and Warehouse Union] - Nelson, Bruce (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Solidarity Stories: An Oral History of the ILWU," by Harvey Schwartz.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; INTERNATIONAL Longshore & Warehouse Union – History; Nonfiction; SCHWARTZ; Harvey; SOLIDARITY Stories: An Oral History of the ILWU (Book)

Employment-Related Mobility and the Health of Workers, Families, and Communities: The Canadian Context - Newhook, Julia Temple; Neis, Barbara; Jackson, Lois; Roseman, Sharon R.; Romanow, Paula; Vincent, Chrissy (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article discusses employment-related mobility in Canada and examines ways in which it impacts the well-being and health of communities, families, and workers. It explores various reasons individuals would need to partake in labor mobility including seasonal employment, commuting from rural to urban areas, and being employed in the trucking, seafaring, or airline industries. It also discusses Canadian census information regarding migrant and foreign workers, describes various risks that employment-related mobility poses to the social, emotional, and physical health of workers, and analyzes how labor mobility can impact the social formation of communities.
Keywords: COMMUNITIES – Social aspects; COMMUTERS; Canada; INTERNAL migration; Industrial hygiene; LABOR supply; Labor mobility; MIGRANT labor; Seasonal employment; TRUCKING

First Nations Women Rising - Nicol, Janet (Women & Environments International Magazine, 2011)
The article discusses the involvement of Aboriginal women in trade unions in Canada. Holly Page of the British Columbia Government and Service Employees Union (BCGEU) explains that unions are a jump-start for social justice and care about the Aboriginal community. Particular focus is given to the challenges facing Aboriginal women including poverty. Information on the "Unionism on Turtle Island" developed by Darla Leard's Saskatchewan Federation of Labour Aboriginal Committee is presented.
Keywords: Canada; Indigenous women; Labor Unions; Leard; Darla; Page; Holly; Poverty

Travail atypique au Québec : les femmes au cœur de la dynamique de centrifugation de l'emploi, 1976-2007 - Noiseux, Yanick (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article examines the impact of labor market reorganizations on women in the Quebec province of Canada. An overview of an employment model (modèle de la centrifugation de l’emploi vers les marchés périphériques (coeur-périphérie) proposed by sociologist Jean-Pierre Durant is presented. Based on results from the Institut de la statistique de Québec (ISQ), the authors claim that dynamic centrifuge employment leads to the hierarchical reorganization of labor markets based on gender. It is suggested that women are more confined to atypical work conditions such as part-time work with lower wages and restrained employment benefits. Also examined is the relationship between atypical work development and the precarious work conditions of women.
Keywords: DURANT; Jean-Pierre; Economic aspects; GENDER inequality; LABOR market; LABOR market segmentation; Labor economics; PART-time employment; QUEBEC (Province); Research; WAGES – Women; WOMEN – Employment; Women employees

Commitment or Even Compliance? An Australian University's Approach to Equal Employment Opportunity - North-Samardzic, Andrea; Gregson, Sarah (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
Women have always been under-represented in the professoriate, despite purported regulation of Australian universities under both state and federal sex discrimination and equal opportunity regulatory frameworks. Research from Australia and around the world has highlighted longstanding problems for the career trajectories of women in academia, such as ingrained sex segregation both within and across disciplines, and the masculine culture of universities evident in the undervaluing of teaching activities for the purposes of promotion, an area where women have historically dominated. This paper discusses the relationship between such issues and the policies designed to address them, in order to illustrate how and why these regulatory frameworks are not achieving their aims.
Keywords: Affirmative action; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Colleges & universities; Labor Unions; Sex discrimination; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Women

Hobos, Hustlers and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco - O'Grady, Bill (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Hobos, Hustlers and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco," by Teresa Gowan.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; GOWAN; Teresa; HOBOS; Hustlers & Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco (Book); HOMELESS men; Nonfiction

Profits of Doom: Spectres of Capitalist Crisis - Palmer, Bryan D. (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the books "Global Capitalism in Crisis: Karl Marx and the Decay of the Profit System" by Murray E.G. Smith, "In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives" by Greg Albo, Sam Gindin, and Leo Panitch, and "The Socialist Alternative: Real Human Development" by Michael A. Lebowitz.
Keywords: ALBO; Greg; BOOKS – Reviews; GINDIN; Sam; GLOBAL Capitalism in Crisis: Karl Marx & the Decay of the Profit System (Book); IN & out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown & Left Alternatives (Book); LEBOWITZ; Michael A.; Nonfiction; PANITCH; Leo; SMITH; Murray E. G.; SOCIALIST Alternative: Real Human Development; The (Book)

Workplace Flexibility: Realigning 20th-Century Jobs for a 21st Century Workforce - Pereira, Richard (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Workplace Flexibility: Realigning 20th-Century Jobs for a 21st-Century Workforce," edited by Kathleen Christensen and Barbara Schneider.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CHRISTENSEN; Kathleen; Nonfiction; SCHNEIDER; Barbara; WORK environment – Social aspects; WORKPLACE Flexibility: Realigning 20th-Century Jobs for a 21st-Century Workforce (Book)

Solidarity Revisited: Organized Labour and the New Democratic Party - Pilon, Dennis; Ross, Stephanie; Savage, Larry (Canadian Political Science Review, 2011)
This article seeks to engage Jansen and Young’s recent research on the impact of changing federal campaign finance laws on the relationship between organized labour and the New Democratic Party. Jansen and Young use models from mainstream comparative politics to argue that unions and the NDP retain links due to a “shared ideological commitment” to social democracy, rather than an expectation of mutual rewards and despite changes in the global economy. We critically assess the evidence, method of comparison, and theoretical assumptions informing their claims and find many aspects unconvincing. Instead, we propose that better explanations of this enduring yet strained relationship can be formulated by drawing insights from Canadian political economy, labour history and working class politics, and comparative social democracy.

Rethinking Unionism in a Changing World of Work, Family and Community Life - Pocock, Barbara (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
This article considers the state of unionism today and argues that in strategizing for more workers' power and effective worker representation, unions have – unsurprisingly – focussed upon the primary domain that workers occupy: the labour market and workplaces, applying a particular repertoire of tools. While social conditions beyond the terrain of work have always mattered and sometimes been recognized by activists and theorists, these are often under-attended in analysis and strategy. Significant changes in the three interacting domains of work, household and community life since the mid-1970s in many industrialized countries have changed the circumstances in which workers' create collective power, and this is empirically illustrated by the Australian case. Understanding the three domains of work, home and community and the ways they interact and are changing is important to efforts to improve workers' lives. The article ends with consideration of implications for unions' industrial objectives, the tools applied and the way they build power.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Changes; Community; Female employees; Households; Labor Unions; Occupations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Interrogating the New Economy: Restructuring Work in the 21st Century - Polanco, Geraldina (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
"Interrogating the New Economy: Restructuring Work in the 21st Century," edited by Norene Pupo and Mark Thomas.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CANADA – Economic conditions – 1991-; INTERROGATING the New Economy: Restructuring Work in the 21st Century (Book); Nonfiction; PUPO; Norene; THOMAS; Mark

City of Love and Revolution: Vancouver in the Sixties - Powell, Christopher (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "City of Love and Revolution: Vancouver in the Sixties," by Lawrence Aronsen.
Keywords: ARONSEN; Lawrence; BOOKS – Reviews; CITY of Love & Revolution: Vancouver in the Sixties (Book); History; Nonfiction; VANCOUVER (B.C.)

Freedom's Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s - Powell, Christopher (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Freedom’s Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s," by Robert Cohen.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; COHEN; Robert; FREEDOM'S Orator: Mario Savio & the Radical Legacy of the 1960s (Book); Nonfiction; SAVIO; Mario

Commonwealth - Ramsay, Ellen L. (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Commonwealth," by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; COMMONWEALTH (Book); HARDT; Michael; 1960-; MARXIST philosophy; NEGRI; Antonio; 1933-; Nonfiction

The International Labour Organization And Freedom Of Association: Does Freedom Of Association Include The Right To Strike - Regenbogen, Sonia (Canadian Labour & Employment Law Journal, 2011)
In its landmark decision in B.C. Health extending protection to collective bargaining under section 2(d) of the Charter, the Supreme Court of Canada relied heavily on international labour law and principles, especially as defined by the International Labour Organization. In particular, the Court treated as a "cornerstone" of the international law in this area the opinions of the ILO’s Committee of Experts and Committee on Freedom of Association (CFA), and cited those opinions in support of its finding that freedom of association under ILO conventions includes a right to bargain collectively. This paper argues that in B.C. Health and other cases involving constitutional labour rights, the Supreme Court has misunderstood and oversimplified the ILO supervisory process....

The Guy in the Green Truck: A Biography of John St. Amand - Reilly, Nolan (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "The Guy in the Green Truck: A Biography of John St. Amand," by James N. McCrorie.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; GUY in the Green Truck: A Biography of John St. Amand; The (Book); MCCRORIE; James N.; Nonfiction; ST. Amand; John

Morbid Symptoms: Health Under Capitalism [Socialist Register, 2010] - Richert, Lucas (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews "Morbid Symptoms: Health Under Capitalism," edited by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys, the 46th volume (2010 edition) of the annual Socialist Register.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; LEYS; Colin; MEDICAL economics; MORBID Symptoms: Health Under Capitalism (Book); Nonfiction; PANITCH; Leo

Reflections on Resistance to Neoliberalism: Looking Back on Solidarity in 1983 British Columbia - Richmond, Ted; Shields, John (Socialist Studies / Études socialistes, 2011)
This article critically examines the 1983 British Columbia (BC) Solidarity experience, a period that marked the first comprehensive neoliberal policy revolution in Canada. It also marked the launch of an extensive movement of extra‐parliamentary resistance to neoliberal attempts to undo social and economic gains achieved during the period of Keynesian consensus. The character of this progressive movement of trade unions, social groups and civil society was however limited to “defensive defiance”. A number of questions are posed such as: What was the nature of the resistance to neoliberalism in BC in 1983, and to what extent did it succeed? Leftist analysts hotly debated these questions at the time, and a review in hindsight of their views is instructive. And to what degree have the neoliberal agenda and strategy and tactics changed in the ensuing years? Our review in this article suggests both a remarkable continuity and some fundamental changes. Analysis of these events therefore remains historically relevant to those concerned with pan‐Canadian political trends.

NAFTA and Labor in North America - Robinson, Ian (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "NAFTA and Labor in North America," by Norman Caulfield.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CAULFIELD; Norman; NAFTA & Labor in North America (Book); NORTH American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA); Nonfiction

Social Unionism in Hard Times: Union-Community Coalition Politics in the CAW Windsor's Manufacturing Matters Campaign - Ross, Stephanie (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
As many of the traditionally unionized sectors of the economy experience crisis, unions are turning to social unionist strategies of coalition-building and community mobilization as a means of defending jobs through external solidarity. This paper explores the politics and dynamics of the Canadian Auto Workers' (caw) organization of a union-community coalition and rally in Windsor, Ontario as a means of defending the manufacturing base. The paper contends that while Windsor's May 2007 Manufacturing Matters rally was quite successful in its short-term aims, due to the caw's strong mobilizing structures and longstanding relationships between local unions and community organizations, internal coalition dynamics and framing processes led to decisions which limited the longer-term capacities of the campaign. The coalition opted to emphasize place over class as the unifying element, to produce non-adversarial discourses and tactics so as to avoid appearing anti-business, and to marginalize more militant talk and tactics. These outcomes raise questions about both the sustainability for ongoing solidarity and mobilization amongst the Windsor working class, and the capacity of the local labour movement to articulate counter-hegemonic interpretations of economic problems and promote policy options not dominated by the needs and interests of economic and political elites.
Keywords: AUTOMOBILE industry; AUTOMOBILE industry workers – Labor unions; Canada; Coalitions; GROUP identity; Labor movement; Ontario; SOLIDARITY; WINDSOR (Ont.); Working class

Union Revitalisation in Advanced Economies: Assessing the Contribution of Union Organising - Ross, Stephanie (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Union Revitalisation in Advanced Economies: Assessing the Contribution of Union Organising," edited by Gregor Gall.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Industrialized nations; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Unionization

Genèse et mutation de la Loi sur les décrets de convention collective au Québec (1934-2010) - Rouillard, Jacques (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
La Loi relative à l'extension juridique des conventions collectives de travail est adoptée par le gouvernement du Québec en 1934 pour protéger les travailleurs frappés par la crise économique et favoriser leur syndicalisation. Fruit de revendications des syndicats catholiques, elle porte un modèle particulier de relations de travail qui ne s'imposera pas ailleurs en Amérique du Nord. La loi, qui mise sur la collaboration patronale-syndicale, permet au gouvernement d'étendre par décret à toutes les entreprises d'un secteur industriel, dans un territoire déterminé, les termes d''une convention collective conclue par un syndicat. Sa philosophie est issue de la doctrine sociale de l'Église catholique avec comme but ultime la formation de corporation professionnelle, cellule de base de la société corporatiste. La loi est adoptée une année avant le Wagner Act, la «Magna Carta» du mouvement syndical aux États-Unis, qui inspire l'adoption de lois similaires Canada et au Québec pendant la Deuxième Guerre. Cette loi apporte une dure concurrence à la loi des décrets qui demeure présente cependant dans les industries où la concurrence est vive et où la main d'œuvre représente une forte proportion des coûts de production. Dans les années 1970, la loi connaît un regain d'intérêt du coté des syndicats et des spécialistes de relations indus- trielles afin de faciliter l'accréditation sectorielle ou multi patronale. On juge que le cadre de négociation très décentralisé selon le Code du travail ne répond plus aux transformations du marché du travail. Depuis les années 1980, le régime des décrets est touché par la libéralisation des relations de travail dans le sillage du courant de pensée néolibéral. Dans cet esprit, le gouvernement abolit en 1999 les décrets de l'industrie du vêtement, ce qui affecte 23 000 sala- riés. Au Québec comme ailleurs, c'est tout le système de relations de travail né des années 1930 qui s'érode à mesure que le gouvernement se laisse gagner par la déréglementation des rapports collectifs de travail.
Keywords: CATHOLIC labor unions; Collective labor agreements; DUPLESSIS; Maurice LeNoblet; 1890-1959; Deregulation; History; Industrial relations; Labor Unions; Politics & government; QUEBEC (Province); TEXTILE workers – Labor unions; UNITED States. National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933; UNITED States. National Labor Relations Act; United States

Working Life: Renewing Labour Process Analysis - Russell, Bob (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
Working Life: Renewing Labour Process Analysis, edited by Paul Thompson and Chris Smith, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Economic activity; Human capital; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Les représentations des travailleurs migrants : L'exemple des Chinois à Québec dans la presse quotidienne (1891-1926) - Samson, Christian (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
Examines the representation of migrant workers in Canada, in particular the social representation of Chinese migrant workers in Québec City's daily newspapers from 1891 to 1926. The Chinese workers who established themselves in Québec City during this time period consisted mostly of men with a peasant background. Lacking education, they performed jobs such as catering and laundering. The daily newspapers mentioned include "L'Action Catholique," "Le Soleil," and "Quebec-Chronicle."
Keywords: CHINESE; COLLECTIVE representation; Canada; EMIGRATION & immigration – Economic aspects; EMIGRATION & immigration – Social aspects; Foreign workers; History; JOURNALISM & public opinion; MINORITIES – Press coverage; QUEBEC (Province); QUEBEC (Quebec)

Breadwinners: Working Women and Economic Independence, 1865-1920 - Sangster, Joan (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Breadwinners: Working Women and Economic Independence, 1865-1920," by Lara Vapnek.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; BREADWINNERS: Working Women & Economic Independence 1865-1920 (Book); Economic conditions; Nonfiction; VAPNEK; Lara; Women employees

Questions sociales : analyses anglo-saxonnes - Socialement incorrect ? - Sarfati, Hedva (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Questions sociales : analyses anglo-saxonnes – Socialement incorrect ?," by Julien Damon.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Organized Labor and the Politics of Nuclear Energy: The Case of the Canadian Nuclear Workers Council - Savage, Larry; Soron, Dennis (Capitalism Nature Socialism, 2011)
Nuclear energy is one of the predominant false solutions being offered up by contemporary capitalism's power elite in a futile effort to reconcile the goal of environmental sustainability with limitless growth, profit, and accumulation. Incorporating environmental needs into the economy ultimately means not only developing new eco-friendly products and technologies, but changing everything about how people produce and consume and how they travel and live. To this end, the contemporary labor movement needs to increasingly put its own independent and proactive vision of progress and ecological transformation on the table instead of simply allying with employers and perpetuating its dependence upon existing structures of production and consumption. The Canadian Nuclear Workers Council's (CNWC) alliance with the nuclear industry reflects not only the organization's stake in protecting jobs, but also its inability and unwillingness to challenge the deceptive employment versus environment discourse and the dominant mode of economic growth.

The ABCs of Economic Crisis: What Working People Need to Know - Schmidt, Ingo (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "The ABCs of Economic Crisis: What Working People Need to Know," by Fred Magdoff and Michael D. Yates.
Keywords: ABCS of Economic Crisis: What Working People Need to Know; The (Book); BOOKS – Reviews; GLOBAL Financial Crisis; 2008-2009; MAGDOFF; Fred; Nonfiction; YATES; Michael D.; 1946-

Work in a Modern Society - The German Historical Experience in Comparative Perspective - Schmidt, Ingo (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Work in a Modern Society: The German Historical Experience in Contemporary Perspective," edited by Jürgen Kocka.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; GERMANS; KOCKA; Jurgen; Nonfiction; WORK in a Modern Society: The German Historical Experience in Comparative Perspective (Book)

Exploring the Career Pipeline: Gender Differences in Pre-Career Expectations - Schweitzer, Linda; Ng, Eddy; Lyons, Sean; Kuron, Lisa (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
The pipeline theory suggests that increasing the number of women in male-dominated fields should lead to more equality in the labour market. This presumes that women and men in the pipeline expect comparable career outcomes. This study explores differences in academic preparation, career expectations, and career priorities among 23,413 Canadian post-secondary students. Our results indicate that women have lower salary expectations and expect longer times to promotion than men, and this gap is greater in male-dominated fields. Furthermore, women pursue career priorities that are associated with lower salaries. Gender explained the greatest amount of variance in expectations, regardless of field of study, academic achievement, or career goals. Our findings suggest that inequities in the labour market originate as gendered expectations within the pipeline. We offer recommendations to increase gender equality.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Career preparation; Expectations; Gender differences; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Education and Jobs: Exploring the Gaps - Shields, John (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Education and Jobs: Exploring the Gaps," edited by D. W. Livingstone.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; EDUCATION & Jobs: Exploring the Gaps (Book); EMPLOYMENT & education; LIVINGSTONE; D. W.; Nonfiction

Structuring Reality So That the Law Will Follow: British Columbia Teachers' Quest for Collective Bargaining Rights - Slinn, Sara (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The British Columbia Teachers' Federation (bctf), representing all public elementary and secondary school teachers in the province, is one of the largest and most powerful unions in British Columbia. bctf has always sought formal rights to full-scope collective bargaining, and unrestricted access to striking at the school board level. It has employed a sustained, sophisticated series of strategies to achieve these objectives, quickly adapting to changing political and legal environments. The bctf has had significant success in advancing its labour relations agenda, establishing a different trajectory for teachers than for most public sector workers in Canada. This article maps bctf's labour relations strategies and agenda against the backdrop of the political and legal environments, from bctf's inception to present-day. It argues that, as a result of these factors, BC teachers have experienced a different labour relations history than most public sector workers. Drawing on and adapting Rose's (2004) eras of public sector labour relations, this article identifies the following eras of BC teacher labour relations: an era of exclusion (to 1982); resistance and revitalization (1982-86); expansion (1987-93); reform (1994); reprieve (1994-2001); restraint and consolidation (2002-2007); and reaching an era of realignment beginning in 2007.
Keywords: BRITISH Columbia – Politics & government; BRITISH Columbia Teachers' Federation (Organization); British Columbia; COLLECTIVE bargaining – Teachers; Canada; Education; Industrial relations; Public sector; TEACHERS' unions

From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada's Siberian Expedition, 1917-19 - Smele, Jonathan D. (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada's Siberian Expedition, 1917-1919," by Benjamin Isitt.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CANADA. Canadian Army. Canadian Expeditionary Force; FROM Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada's Siberian Expedition 1917-1919 (Book); ISITT; Benjamin; Nonfiction

From Primitive Rebels to How to Change the World: Reflections on Two Periods in Anthropology and History - Smith, Gavin (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
Following an introduction by Michael Lambek, the article presents the text of anthropologist Gavin Smith's speech on the occasion of his retirement from the University of Toronto in 2010.
Keywords: ANTHROPOLOGISTS; HOBSBAWM; E. J. (Eric J.); 1917-2012; PRIMITIVE Rebels: Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movements in the 19th & 20th Centuries (Book); SMITH; Gavin; WOLF; Eric Robert; 1923-1999

From Servants to Workers: South African Domestic Workers and the Democratic State - Sparks, Andrew (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
From Servants to Workers: South African Domestic Workers and the Democratic State, by Ally Shireen, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Domestic service; Female employees; Labor Unions; Labor law; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Work environment

The Economics Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker's Guide to Micro-Economics - Stanford, Jim (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "The Economics Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker’s Guide to Micro-Economics," by Rod Hill and Tony Myatt.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; ECONOMICS Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker's Guide to Microeconomics; The (Book); HILL; Rod; MYATT; Tony; Microeconomics; Nonfiction

A Tribute to Gilbert Levine: His Pioneering Role in Labour Research - Stinson, Jane (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article pays homage to the life and work of Gilbert Levine (1924-2009), the first research director of the Canadian Union of Public Employees.
Keywords: Canadian Union of Public Employees; LEVINE; Gilbert; Labor leaders; Social workers; WORKING class – Statistics

Newfoundland and Labrador: A History - Sutherland, Duff (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Newfoundland and Labrador: A History," by Sean T. Cadigan.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CADIGAN; Sean T.; History; NEWFOUNDLAND & Labrador; NEWFOUNDLAND & Labrador: A History (Book); Nonfiction

Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, Vol. 17 - Thompson, Mark (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
Advances in Industrial and Labor Relations, Vol 17, edited by David Lewin, Bruce Kaufman, and Paul J. Gollan, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

How Precarious Employment Affects Health and Safety at Work: The Case of Temporary Agency Workers - Underhill, Elsa; Quinlan, Michael (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
International studies indicate temporary agency workers are more likely to be injured at work than other types of employees. However explanations for this have been less forthcoming. This paper seeks to begin filling this gap. A study was undertaken in Victoria, Australia, of occupational health and safety (OHS) amongst temporary agency workers drawing upon workers' compensation claim files for injured agency and directly hired workers from 1995-2001, and focus groups of temporary agency workers conducted in 2003. In analyzing the results, use was made of risk factors identified in a model that has been developed to explain how precarious employment affects OHS – the pressure, disorganization and regulatory failure (PDR) model (Quinlan and Bohle, 2004, 2009). Drawing principally on qualitative data, the paper finds that whilst agency workers share common risk factors with other forms of precarious workers, unique characteristics associated with the triangular nature of agency employment heighten their vulnerability further.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Impact analysis; Labor Unions; Occupational safety; Risk factors; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Temporary employment; occupational health

Droit fédéral du travail - Verge, Pierre (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
The book, "Droit fédéral du travail," by Michel Coutu, Julie Bourgault, and Annick Desjardins, with the collaboration of Guy Dufort and Annie Pelletier, is reviewed.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

The Employment Relationship : A Comparative Overview - Verge, Pierre (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "The Employment Relationship : A Comparative Overview," edited by Guiseppe Casale.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Union Democracy and Labour Rights: A Cautionary Tale - Walchuk, Brad (Global Labour Journal, 2011)
In recent years, trade unions in Canada have become increasingly reliant on constructing workers’ rights as part of the broader rubric of human rights. While the topic of labour rights has become popular in recent academic literature, it remains under-explored. An important element of constructing labour rights as human rights is its impact on union democracy and rank-and-file mobilization, though this has yet to be fully explored. Utilizing the case study of the Hospital Employees’ Union (HEU) struggle against Bill 29, this paper suggests that a reliance on the construction of labour rights as human rights and the corresponding judicial strategy prevents the development of a more radical, grassroots social movement unionism and instead facilitates the proliferation of hierarchical, elite dominated forms trade unionism. It concludes by suggesting that unions must be cautious of the potential downfalls of quelling militant grassroots activism in lieu of a rights-based challenge.
Keywords: Bill 29; Hospital Employees Union (HEU); Ontario; labour rights; social movement unionism; union democracy

Is the International Labour Organization Useful to Unions? An Analysis of the Canadian Labour Movement's International Judicial Strategy - Walchuk, Bradley (Journal of Workplace Rights, 2011)
With increasing vigor, unions are championing the claim that "labor rights are human rights." This is especially true in Canada and is aided by a Supreme Court of Canada ruling in 2007 that affords constitutional protection to the right to bargain collectively. Constructing labor rights as human rights relies on a judicial-based strategy at both the national and the international level, including the use of the International Labour Organization (ILO). This article seeks to determine how useful the ILO is to the Canadian labour movement. It finds that the ILO is of little use to Canadian unions in and of itself, but that it is more useful when Canadian courts apply the provisions of international law to domestic legislation. As a recent case history shows, however, there is no guarantee that the Supreme Court will elect to adopt the provisions of international law.

Technology and Nationalism - Wall, Karen (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Technology and Nationalism," by Marco Adria.
Keywords: ADRIA; Marco; BOOKS – Reviews; NATIONALISM & technology; Nonfiction; TECHNOLOGY & Nationalism (Book)

Occupational Similarity and Spousal Support: A Study of the Importance of Gender and Spouse's Occupation - Wallace, Jean E.; Jovanovic, Alyssa (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
This paper examines how gender and the occupation of one's spouse may explain differences in the amounts and types of spousal support individuals receive when coping with the stress of their job. We analyze survey data from a sample of married lawyers, some of whom are married to other lawyers and some of whom have spouses who are not lawyers. The results show that men receive more emotional support from their spouse than women, regardless of their spouse's occupation. In contrast, lawyers receive more informational support from their spouse if they are also a lawyer, regardless of their gender. Future research might explore not only the importance of shared statuses, such as occupation, but also the meaning of shared experiences in order to better understand spouses' support of one another.
Keywords: Attorneys; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Gender differences; Labor Unions; Occupational stress; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Work life balance

Creative Community Organizing: A Guide for Rabble Rousers, Activists & Quiet Lovers of Justice - Wallace, Len (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Creative Community Organizing: A Guide for Rabble Rousers, Activists & Quiet Lovers of Justice," by Si Kahn.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CREATIVE Community Organizing: A Guide for Rabble-Rousers; Activists & Quiet Lovers of Justice (Book); KAHN; Si; MOBILIZATION (Social action); Nonfiction

New Actors in Employment Relations in the Periphery: Closing the Representation Gap amongst Micro and Small Enterprises - Webster, Edward; Bischoff, Christine (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
The study aimed to identify ways of strengthening trade union organization amongst peripheral workers in micro and small enterprises (MSEs) through a mapping exercise in nine countries drawn predominantly from the Global South, the periphery of the global economy. The paper identifies four main responses by trade unions to non-standard employees; indifference, attempts at extending existing forms of representation, resistance to non-standard employment and most significantly, the creation of specific kinds of representation and protection for the new forms of employment. We conclude that mapping on its own is a limited tool in recruiting new union members amongst peripheral workers. However, new institutional actors are filling the vacuum created by the failure of traditional industrial relations actors to respond to the representation gap.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Flexible hours; International; Labor Unions; Small & medium sized enterprises-SME; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Clean Clothes: A Global Movement to End Sweatshops - Wells, Don (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Clean Clothes: A Global Movement to End Sweatshops," by Liesbeth Sluiter.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CLEAN Clothes Campaign (Organization); CLEAN Clothes: A Global Movement to End Sweatshops (Book); Nonfiction; SLUITER; Liesbeth

Reproducing the French Race: Immigrants, Intimacy, and Embodiment in the Early Twentieth Century - Whitney, Susan B. (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "Reproducing the French Race: Immigration, Intimacy, and Embodiment in the Early Twentieth Century," by Elisa Camiscioli.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CAMISCIOLI; Elisa; FRENCH; Nonfiction; REPRODUCING the French Race: Immigration; Intimacy & Embodiment in the Early 20th Century (Book)

Intergenerational and Intercultural Differences in Work Values in Quebec and the United Arab Emirates - Wils, Thierry; Saba, Tania; Waxin, Marie-France; Labelle, Christiane (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
The purpose of this research is to examine whether differences exist in the work values of several generations among 186 respondents in Quebec and 252 Arab respondents in the United Arab Emirates. We used an abridged version of Wils, Luncasu and Waxin (2007) work value inventory, including 28 work values arranged on four poles: self-enhancement, self-transcendence, openness-to-change and conservation. In the Quebec sample, there were no significant differences between generations in their scores on the four work value poles. In the Arab sample, the younger generation attached less importance to self-enhancement, but more importance to self-transcendence than the older generation with a small effect size. Our results also demonstrate that cultural origin had no significant impact on the average score on the work value poles. The diversity in work values among generations and cultures that we found in our samples does not support the idea that human resource management practices should be adjusted for different generations.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Comparative studies; Generations; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Work ethic

Firms and Workers: History, Economy and Society - Institutional Approaches: New Directions and Syntheses - Wood, Geoffrey (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the books "Corporations in Evolving Diversity: Cognition, Governance and Institutions" by Masahiko Aoki, "The Institutions of the Market: Organizations, Social Systems and Governance" edited by Alexander Ebner and Nikolaus Beck, and "Internationalisation and Economic Institutions" by Mark Thatcher.
Keywords: AOKI; Masahiko; 1938-; BECK; Nikolaus; BOOKS – Reviews; CORPORATIONS in Evolving Diversity: Cognition; Governance & Institutions (Book); EBNER; Alexander; INSTITUTIONS of the Market: Organizations; Social Systems & Governance; The (Book); INTERNATIONALISATION & Economic Institutions: Comparing European Experience (Book); Nonfiction; THATCHER; Mark

Union Contributions to Labor Welfare Policy and Practice - Wood, Geoffrey (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
Union Contributions to Labor Welfare Policy and Practice, edited by Paul A. Kurzman and R. Paul Maiden, is reviewed
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Employment practices; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Welfare

Organizing Women in the Spaces between Home, Work and Community - Yates, Charlotte A. B. (Charlotte Alyce Bronwen) (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2011)
When unions recruit women they tend to recruit them in gender blind ways. appealing to them as workers around job and workplace focused interests. This approach to collective representation ignores women's gender-specific experiences and understanding of their relationship to work as a blurring of the boundaries between work, home and community. By shifting their organizing strategy from the workplace and work to the community and relations of caring, this blurring of the boundaries opens up new strategies in which unions might organize and represent women workers. Using a case study of the organization of child care providers by a British Columbia union, the article explores how organizing in the interstices of work, home and community around relations of caring allowed this union to build a coalition of workers with divergent interests and employment relations.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Community; Female employees; Households; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Unionization; Work life balance; child care

The Revival of Labor Liberalism - Zieger, Robert H. (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "The Revival of Labor Liberalism," by Andrew Battista.
Keywords: BATTISTA; Andrew; BOOKS – Reviews; LABOR unions – Political activity; Nonfiction; REVIVAL of Labor Liberalism; The (Book)

Sars Unmasked: Risk Communication of Pandemics and Influenza in Canada - Zuberi, Dan (Labour / Le Travail, 2011)
The article reviews the book, "SARS Unmasked: Risk Communication of Pandemics and Influenza in Canada," by Michael G. Tyshenko and Cathy Paterson.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Nonfiction; PATERSON; Cathy; SARS (Disease); SARS Unmasked: Risk Communication of Pandemics & Influenza in Canada (Book); TYSHENKO; Michael G.

The Deleterious Consequences of Privatization and Outsourcing for Hospital Support Work: The Experiences of Contracted-Out Hospital Cleaners and Dietary Aids in Vancouver, Canada - Zuberi, Daniyal M.; Ptashnick, Melita B. (Social Science & Medicine (1982), 2011)
This article is based on the findings of the Hospital Support Workers Study, which includes in-depth interviews with 70 hospital housekeepers and dietary aids in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. As a result of provincial government legislation in 2003, all hospital-based support work in the Vancouver region was privatized and contracted out to three multinational corporations. The outsourcing of hospital support services is part of a larger global trend toward neoliberal policy reform in health care. This article presents the perceptions of hospital support workers about the consequences of contracting out on their work conditions, training, turnover rates and other issues that directly affect their quality of work and have important implications for patient health and well-being. The findings suggest serious negative consequences for the health care system as a result of the privatization and contracting out of hospital support services.
Keywords: British Columbia; Food Service; Hospital; Housekeeping; Hospital; Humans; Interviews as Topic; Outsourced Services; Personnel; Hospital; Privatization; Quality of Health Care; Workforce

Conformité des conditions de travail des travailleurs agricoles migrants au Québec avec l'article 46 de la Charte des droits et libertés de la personne interprété à la lumière du droit, La - Gayet, Anne-Claire (Revue québécoise de droit international, 2010)
Depuis les années 1990, le Canada reçoit un nombre croissant de travailleurs migrants temporaires, parmi lesquels des travailleurs agricoles. Au Québec, ces derniers sont surtout recrutés à travers deux programmes : le Programme des travailleurs agricoles saisonniers (principalement mexicains) et le Programme des travailleurs peu qualifiés (surtout guatémaltèques jusqu’en 2010). Ces deux programmes, qui imposent aux travailleurs un lien fixe avec leur employeur, sont gérés et mis en oeuvre par la Fondation des entreprises en recrutement de main-d’oeuvre étrangère (FERME). Cet article vise à analyser la conformité des conditions de travail des travailleurs agricoles migrants, telles que supervisées par FERME et garanties par les employeurs québécois, avec l’article 46 de la Charte québécoise, qui garantit le droit à des conditions de travail justes et raisonnables. Cette analyse met en lumière une forte dépendance des travailleurs envers leur employeur aux niveaux légal, financier et psychologique. Cette dépendance est à l’origine d’abus de la part de certains employeurs, desquels découlent des violations de l’article 46 de la Charte québécoise. L’interprétation de cet article à la lumière du droit international des droits de la personne vient enrichir le contexte interprétatif de cette disposition et conférer une importance plus grande à ce droit économique et social. Alors que le lien fixe avec l’employeur a été établi afin de retenir la main-d’oeuvre dans le secteur agricole, il devient un vecteur de vulnérabilisation accrue de ces travailleurs. Dans ce contexte, l’article se veut un jalon dans la prise de conscience de la non conformité du traitement de certains travailleurs agricoles migrants aux instruments des droits de la personne, en particulier, mais pas uniquement, au Québec.

Equity, Diversity, and Canadian Labour - Savage, Larry (Labor Studies Journal, 2010)
The article reviews the book, "Equity, Diversity, and Canadian Labour," edited by Gerald Hunt and David Rayside.