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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Capitalism Rebooted: Work, Welfare and the New Economy - Calvert, John (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2007)
The articles reviews the book, "Capitalism Rebooted: Work, Welfare and the New Economy," edited by Dave Broad and Wayne Antony.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Union Densities, Business Unionism, and Working-Class Struggle: Labour Movement Decline in the United States and Japan, 1930-2000 - Holt, Wythe (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article looks at the reason for the decline in union densities in Japan and the U.S. Union density is defined as the number of workers who are members of unions. According to the article, the drop in the U.S. started in 1953 while it began in Japan in 1975. The author claims that the reason for this decline is because of business unionism, which is a situation when the union leadership agrees to terms acceptable to business and has no interest in democratic participation in decision-making by the workers.
Keywords: JAPAN; Labor Unions; Labor leaders; Labor movement; United States

Artificial Ice: Hockey, Culture and Commerce - Howell, Colin (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Artificial Ice: Hockey, Culture and Commerce," edited by David Whitson and Richard Gruneau.
Keywords: ARTIFICIAL Ice: Hockey; Culture & Commerce (Book); BOOKS – Reviews; GRUNEAU; Richard; HOCKEY; Nonfiction; WHITSON; David

Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan - Hsiung, Ping-Chun (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Global Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics and Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan," by Pei-Chia Lan.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; EMIGRATION & immigration; GLOBAL Cinderellas: Migrant Domestics & Newly Rich Employers in Taiwan (Book); Nonfiction; PEI-Chia Lan

Labour Relations and Health Reform: A Comparative Study of Five Jurisdictions - Hyatt, Douglas (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
Labour Relations and Health Reform: A Comparative Study of Five Jurisdictions, by Kurt Wetzel, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Comparative analysis; Health care industry; Jurisdiction; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Searching for Workers' Solidarity: The One Big Union and the Victoria General Strike of 1919 - Isitt, Benjamin (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
On 23 June 1919, 5000 workers affiliated with Victoria's Metal Trades Council downed tools in sympathy with Winnipeg workers and as a protest against what they called 'Star Chamber' methods of repression against the working- class leadership. While much has been written on the Winnipeg General Strike and 1919 Canadian labour revolt, the Victoria General Strike is revealing as a contested expression of working-class solidarity, an illustration of the unresolved tension between craft and industrial unionism and different labour leaderships in the west-coast city. Much of British Columbia labour had embraced the One Big Union and its socialist leadership by the spring of 1919, but Victoria's organized workers wavered on the question of striking in sympathy with Winnipeg's working class. While the shipyards were a locus of militancy, influential groups of workers, AFL rather than OBU in orientation, opposed a general strike and undermined the mood of solidarity. Local conditions in different economic sectors shaped the working-class response to the Winnipeg General Strike. This tension provides fresh insight into the development of class consciousness and industrial militancy at the end World War I, breaking new ground in the historiography of Canada's postwar labour revolt.
Keywords: Labor Unions; One Big Union; SOLIDARITY; STRIKES & lockouts; VICTORIA; Working class

The Hospital Employees' Union Strike and the Privatization of Medicare in British Columbia, Canada - Isitt, Benjamin; Moroz, Melissa (International Labor and Working-Class History, 2007)
In April 2004, the Hospital Employees' Union (HEU) waged an illegal strike that mobilized sections of British Columbia's working class to the brink of a general sympathetic strike. Influenced by BC's class-polarized political culture and HEU's distinct history, the 2004 strike represents a key moment of working-class resistance to neoliberal privatization. HEU was targeted by the BC Liberal government because it represented a bastion of militant, independent unionism in a jurisdiction that appeared overripe (from the neoliberal standpoint) for a curtailment of worker rights and a retrenchment of public-sector employment. HEU also represented a direct barrier, in the language of its collective agreements and collective power of its membership, to the privatization of health services and dismantling of Medicare. The militant agency of HEU members, combined with anger generated by a constellation of social-service cutbacks, inspired rank-and-file workers and several unions to defy collective agreements and embrace sympathetic strike action. This revealed differentiation in the strategy and tactics of BC's labor leadership, and enduring sources of solidarity in labor's ranks.

The Embedded Corporation: Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States - Jalette, Patrice (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "The Embedded Corporation: Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States," by Sanford M. Jacoby.
Keywords: 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 Traffic: Prostitution, Crime and Exploitation - Jeffrey, Leslie Ann (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Sex Traffic: Prostitution, Crime and Exploitation," by Paola Monzini.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Human trafficking; MONZINI; Paola; Nonfiction; SEX Traffic: Prostitution; Crime & Exploitation (Book)

An Institutional Perspective on the Employment Position of Temporary Workers in the Netherlands - Jong, Jeroen P. de; Schalk, René; Goessling, Tobias (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
This article analyzes the complex employment position of temporary workers within organizations and on the labour market. Temporary employment is usually considered secondary to permanent employment. In recent years, the European Union and the Dutch government have attempted to change this situation by formulating several directives and labour laws. In this paper, we use institutional theory to discuss the institutional foundations and influences that shape the employment and labour-market conditions of temporary workers. The analysis shows that the core issues regarding temporary employment conditions include conflicting (legitimate) interests, socially constructed norms that favour permanent workers, and an uneven distribution of power. Our analysis further shows that institutional forces generate a structural justification for the disadvantaged position of temporary workers.
Keywords: Analysis; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; LABOR market; Labor Unions; Organizational behavior; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Temporary employment

Self-Employed Workers Organize: Law, Policy, and Unions - Jurik, Nancy C. (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Self-Employed Workers Organize: Law, Policy and Unions," by Cynthia J. Cranford, Judy Fudge, Eric Tucker and Leah F. Vosko.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CRANFORD; Cynthia J.; FUDGE; Judy; Nonfiction; SELF-Employed Workers Organize: Law; Policy & Unions (Book); SELF-employed; TUCKER; Eric; VOSKO; Leah F.

Reclaiming the Land: The Resurgence of Rural Movements in Africa, Asia and Latin America - Kenfield, Isabella (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book,"Reclaiming the Land: The Resurgence of Rural Movements in Africa, Asia and Latin America," edited by Sam Moyo and Paris Yeros.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; MOYO; Sam; Nonfiction; RECLAIMING the Land: The Resurgence of Rural Movements in Africa; Asia & Latin America (Book); Social movements; YEROS; Paris

Social Policy and Practice In Canada: A History - Korneski, Kurt (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Social Policy and Practice in Canada: A History," by Alvin Finkel.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; FINKEL; Alvin; Nonfiction; SOCIAL Policy & Practice in Canada: A History (Book); Social policy

« Nous protégeons l'infortune », les origines populaires de l'économie sociale au Québec - Labbé, Pierrick (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "'Nous protégeons l'infortune,' les origines populaires de l'économie sociale au Québec" by Martin Petitclerc.

Obstructed Labour: Race and Gender in the Re-emergence of Midwifery - Langford, Nanci (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Obstructed Labour: Race and Gender in the Re-emergence of Midwifery," by Sheryl Nestel.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; MIDWIFERY; NESTEL; Sheryl; Nonfiction; OBSTRUCTED Labour: Race & Gender in the Re-Emergence of Midwifery (Book)

Imagining Difference: Legend, Curse, and Spectacle in a Canadian Mining Town - Langford, Tom (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Imagining Difference: Legend, Curse and Spectacle in a Canadian Mining Town.," by Leslie A. Robertson.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; DIFFERENTIAL psychology; IMAGINING Difference: Legend; Curse & Spectacle in a Canadian Mining Town (Book); Nonfiction; ROBERTSON; Leslie A.

Can We Rely on the ILO? - Langille, Brian A. (Canadian Labour & Employment Law Journal, 2007)
In its ruling in B.C. Health Services, the Supreme Court of Canada relied on Canada's obligations under international law, and specifically ILO law, to hold that s. 2(d) of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms on freedom of association not only protects the right of unions to engage in collective bargaining, but also imposes on employers a duty to bargain. The author is critical of the Court's reasoning in advancing the latter proposition, particularly because Canada has not ratified the ILO convention on collective bargaining and therefore is not bound by its provisions. Moreover, he points out, the central tenet of that convention is that ratifying states are required to encourage voluntary - not compulsory - negotiations between employers and workers. The author goes on to note that Canada, in virtue of its membership in the ILO, is covered by that body's 1998 Declaration, which identifies freedom of association as a "core labour right," and also can be the subject of a complaint before the Committee on Freedom of Association (CFA). However, he explains, neither the Declaration nor the CFA procedure results in conventions being binding on non-ratifying states. Furthermore, the Declaration's purpose is merely to "promote" key principles, such as freedom of association; while the CFA is not a judicial body, and its decisions are considered neither binding nor authoritative. In the result, the Supreme Court, partly as a consequence of its misreading of Canada's international law obligations, has constitutionalized a particular model of labour relations - one that is peculiar to North America, even though that model is only one of many ways in which the international law norm of freedom of association can be instantiated and made enforceable. Ultimately, the author concludes, the problem with B.C. Health Services, as with earlier decisions, lies in the Court's refusal to apply the Charter guarantee of equality under s. 15, thus forcing s. 2(d) to do a job for which it is not suited.
Keywords: B.C. Health Services; ILO; collective bargaining; freedom of association; international convention; labour relations

Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America - Lause, Mark A. (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Death in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement & the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America," by James Green.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; DEATH in the Haymarket: A Story of Chicago; the First Labor Movement & the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America (Book); GREEN; James; HAYMARKET Square Riot; Chicago; Ill.; 1886; Nonfiction

Drawing the Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson - Lawrie, Paul (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Drawing the Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions from Bosko to Bart Simpson," by Tom Sito.
Keywords: ANIMATION (Cinematography); BOOKS – Reviews; DRAWING the Line: The Untold Story of the Animation Unions From Bosko to Bart Simpson (Book); Nonfiction; SITO; Tom

Mémoire sociale et perspectives temporelles futures de salariés à la suite d’une catastrophe industrielle - le Blanc, Alexis; Mègemont, Jean-Luc; Baubion-Broye, Alain (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
Dans le contexte d’une catastrophe industrielle qui a entraîné la fermeture d’une usine chimique, les auteurs analysent le rôle que jouent la mémoire sociale et l’expérience antérieure au sein de l’organisation dans la construction de perspectives temporelles ouvertes sur des projets de reconversion, de mobilité ou de retraite anticipée. Les résultats obtenus par une analyse lexicale informatisée (ALCESTE) des entretiens semi directifs menés auprès de 15 salariés de l’usine permettent d’identifier quatre principales catégories de discours : 1) transition vers la préretraite, 2) Plan Social et possibilités de reconversion, 3) professionnalisation du métier, 4) spécificités du secteur d’activités. Pour chacune d’elles sont examinées les relations entre les modalités d’inscription des sujets dans la mémoire sociale et la définition de leurs perspectives temporelles futures. Cette étude permet d’appréhender les processus de construction de nouveaux rapports à l’organisation de travail à l’oeuvre dans une situation de transition spécifique, marquée par son caractère traumatique et son incertitude.

Transforming Worker Representation: The Magna Model in Canada and Mexico - Lewchuk, Wayne; Wells, Don (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The emergence of internationalized production in the context of weakening state regulation of labour rights and of increasing employer dominance in industrial relations systems raises significant questions about the nature and future of worker representation. A crucial issue is the transferability of company-specific models of worker voice across national boundaries. This issue is the focus of this case study of Magna International, a leading member of a small group of transnational automotive parts manufacturing firms that are central to the contemporary restructuring of the international automotive industry. The paper compares the transformation of worker representation at Magna in Canada and Mexico. In crossing international borders, the Magna industrial relations model has taken on national and local features of the host country. However, the underlying industrial relations structure is one which has elicited a successful reconfiguration and containment of much, although by no means all, of the adversarialism inherent in labour-management relations. This reconfiguration has aligned worker representation to an essentially unitarist project oriented to management's productivity goals. More than merely suppressing independent unions, Magna has constructed a coherent, management–dominated model of worker representation in both Canada and Mexico. The paper concludes with an assessment of the implications of this model for independent unionism.
Keywords: Employee rights; INDEPENDENT unions; Industrial relations; MAGNA International Inc.; State regulation

Not This Time: Canadians, Public Policy, and the Marijuana Question, 1961-1975 - Lexier, Roberta (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Not This Time: Canadians, Public Policy and the Marijuana Question 1961-1975," by Marcel Martel.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; MARIJUANA; MARTEL; Marcel; NOT This Time: Canadians; Public Policy & the Marijuana Question 1961-1975 (Book); Nonfiction

Militant Mothers Fight Poverty: The Just Society Movement, 1968-1971 - Little, Margaret Hillyard (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article presents information on the Just Society Movement (JSM) of Canada which consists of mothers with the aim of empowering the poor. A non-hierarchical structure that encourages different people to take leadership positions within the organization was advocated by the group. Advocacy and disruptive protest were believed to be the key to JSM success.
Keywords: Canada; DEMONSTRATIONS (Collective behavior); Leadership; Mothers; Organizational behavior; POOR people; SOCIAL advocacy; SOCIETIES

Bibliography: Recent Publications in Canadian Labour History [60, Fall 2007] - Lonardo, Michael; Sweeney, Robert C. H. (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
Compilation of recent English/French publications on Canadian labour history that emphasize the period 1800-1975. Materials pertaining to the post-1975 period may also be included, although more selectively. [See the database, Canadian Labour History, 1976-2009, published at Memorial University of Newfoundland.]
Keywords: BIBLIOGRAPHY (Documentation); History; Labor

The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space - Lord, Kathleen (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book ,"The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space," by Don Mitchell.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; MITCHELL; Don; Nonfiction; RIGHT to the City: Social Justice & the Fight for Public Space; The (Book); Social justice

Bora Laskin: Bringing Law to Life - MacDowell, Laurel Sefton (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Bora Laskin: Bringing Law to Life," by Philip Girard.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; BORA Laskin: Bringing Law to Life (Book); GIRARD; Philip; Lawyers; Nonfiction

The Workforce Scorecard: Managing Human Capital to Execute Strategy - Malo, François Bernard (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "The Workforce Scorecard: Managing Human Capital to Execute Strategy," by Mark A. Huselid, Brian E. Becker and Richard W. Beatty.
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 Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America - Mann, Geoff (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America," by James N. Gregory.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; EMIGRATION & immigration; GREGORY; James N.; Nonfiction; SOUTHERN Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black & White Southerners Transformed America; The (Book)

Woman of the World: Mary McGeachy and International Cooperation - Marshall, Dominique (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Woman of the World: Mary McGeachy and International Cooperation," by Mary Kinnear.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; INTERNATIONAL cooperation; KINNEAR; Mary; Nonfiction; WOMAN of the World: Mary McGeachy & International Cooperation (Book)

Transition professionnelle et orientation de rôle dans la fonction de cadre - Martin-Canizarès, Christine; Baubion-Broye, Alain (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
L’article, centré sur les orientations de rôle de nouveaux cadres de l’Action Sociale, prolonge et complète le modèle de la proactivité appliquée aux processus de socialisation organisationnelle. Ce modèle reconnaît au sujet la capacité à agir sur son environnement de travail, à en interpréter les prescriptions; l’orientation de rôle est, dans cette perspective, dépendante des rapports des sujets aux exigences de la tâche, de l’organisation et à celles de son propre développement. Les auteurs estiment qu’elle est également placée sous l’influence de visées et d’engagements afférents aux milieux et activités de socialisation en dehors du travail. Ainsi l’étude empirique qualitative met-elle en évidence les variabilités interindividuelles des modes d’accomplissement du rôle managérial. Elle souligne aussi la nécessité d’une prise en compte de la pluralité des ancrages familiaux, personnels et sociaux des sujets pour rendre intelligibles les processus psychologiques à l’oeuvre dans l’orientation de rôle au cours de la transition professionnelle.
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

Vancouver Through the Eyes of a Hobo: Experience, Identity, and Value in the Writing of Canada's Depression-Era Tramps - McCallum, Todd (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
As a window into contemporary debates about the concept of experience, this essay examines 1934's Vancouver Through the Eyes of a Hobo, which may have the distinction of being the only extant book about hoboing in Depression-era Canada written by a self-identified transient, Victor Wadham Forster. Forster mapped for his readers a dialectic: Nature – an antimodern pastoral refuge where hoboes lived in freedom – stood against the City – a wholly modern capitalist nightmare, home to economic exploitation and its attendant moral degradations. Yet, the author also articulated his desire to destroy this way of life – and the foundation of his claims to authority as a writer – in order to effect his and every hobo's reintegration with society. Casting off his avowed allegiance to tramping, Forster divined for his readers a third social formation, a new kind of capitalism infused with a Christian ethos of brotherhood and cooperation, and propped up by an unbounded white supremacy and a rigidly patriarchal division of labour. Herein lies the tragedy of Vancouver Through the Eves of a Hobo: to save the hobo required the destruction of the hobo way of life.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; FORSTER; Victor Wadham; Nonfiction; TRAMPS; VANCOUVER Through the Eyes of a Hobo (Book)

Re-Framing US Labour's Crisis: Reconsidering Structure, Strategy, and Vision - McCartin, Joseph A. (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article focuses on labor crisis in the U.S. The author claims that the country's main labor problem is not the declining union density but the global economic transformation that have exacerbated various labor issues, including weak and poorly enforced labor laws, aggressively anti-union employers and rivalry among unions. The strategy that U.S. must take to reform its labor is discussed.
Keywords: CRISES; Economics; LABOR laws & legislation; Labor; Labor Unions; United States

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism - McFarlan, Jim (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2007)
Book review of: "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism" by Naomi Klein.

My Union, My Life: Jean-Claude Parrot and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers - McInnis, Peter S. (Peter Stuart) (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "My Union, My Life: Jean-Claude Parrot and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers," by Jean-Claude Parrot.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CANADIAN Union of Postal Workers; Labor leaders; MY Union; My Life: Jean-Claude Parrot & the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (Book); Nonfiction; PARROT; Jean-Claude

Limitations to Inclusive Unions from the Perspectives of White and Aboriginal Women Forest Workers in the Northern Prairies - Mills, Suzanne E. (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2007)
Several authors have argued that broadening the traditional understandings of union solidarity is necessary for union renewal. Concerns specific to workers from marginalized groups have been shown to challenge traditional understandings of union collectivity. This paper draws on interviews with white and Aboriginal women forest processing workers to argue that interrogating marginalized workers' negative representations of their unions can provide insights that will help to broaden traditional understandings of union solidarity. I use thematic analysis followed by critical discourse analysis to examine women workers' negative talk about unions. I present examples of how women's negative representations of their unions can be understood as different forms of collectivism when examined in the context of their lived experiences of work and unionism. Some white and Aboriginal women's representations of their unions wove individualistic anti-union statements together with their previous experiences of work highlighting the inequality between unionized and non-unionized workers in the community. The talk of other Aboriginal women critiqued the union for not representing them while demonstrating a sense of collectivity with other Aboriginal workers. By exploring linkages between women's negative representations of unions and their work experiences, unions can better understand the negative union sentiment of marginalized workers and use this to create more inclusive forms of solidarity.

Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights - Mochoruk, Jim (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights," by Jennifer Gordon.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; GORDON; Jennifer; Immigrants; Nonfiction; SUBURBAN Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights (Book)

Into the Hurricane: Attacking Socialism and the CCF - Naylor, James (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Into the Hurricane: Attacking Socialism and the CCF," by John Boyko.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; BOYKO; John; INTO the Hurricane: Attacking Socialism & the CCF (Book); Nonfiction; Socialism

Garment Production in Canada: Social and Political Implications - Ng, Roxana (Studies in Political Economy, 2007)
The garment industry is often held out as the first victim of globalization and the movement of capital and jobs from North to South. But Roxana Ng’s article “Garment Production in Canada: Social and Political Implications” reveals that, contrary to expectation, the Canadian garment industry may in fact be growing, and it is taking increasingly different forms within various Canadian cities. For Ng, the contradictory and unexpected developments within the garment industry raise questions about the forms of capital accumulation and the effects of globalization. Mapping the complex links between the restructuring of the garment industry, and Canadian immigration policy and the North American Free Trade Agreement, Ng considers how the experiences of this industry may provide a grounding for researchers, educators, and policy analysts to engage in more forward-looking and proactive response to capital accumulation. –Publisher's description
Keywords: Canada; Globalization; Production; Retail

Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Canada: American Philanthropy and the Arts and Letters in Canada - Nurse, Andrew (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Rockefeller, Carnegie and Canada: American Philanthropy and the Arts and Letters in Canada," by Jeffrey D. Brison.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; BRISON; Jeffrey D. (Jeffrey David); 1963-; CHARITIES – United States; Nonfiction; ROCKEFELLER; Carnegie & Canada: American Philanthropy & the Arts & Letters in Canada (Book)

Pratiques de gestion mobilisatrices et implantation d'un système d'information: Une évaluation qualitative - Ouadahi, Jamal; Guérin, Gilles (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
Dans cet article, nous présentons une partie des résultats d’une recherche qualitative dont l’un des objectifs était de mettre en évidence le rôle joué par certaines pratiques de gestion mobilisatrices, comme la communication, la participation, la formation, le soutien et la reconnaissance des efforts, dans l’adhésion des employés à l’implantation d’un système d’information (SI). Cependant, ces pratiques peuvent être perçues différemment par chaque employé selon leur crédibilité, adéquation, pertinence ou opportunité et prises en compte dans le processus d’évaluation qui conduit à la formation de son attitude à l’égard du SI. Pour explorer ce phénomène, nous avons réalisé deux études de cas dans deux organismes publics au Québec au cours desquelles nous avons effectué des entrevues semi-structurées en profondeur auprès de vingt employés. Ce texte présente les résultats de l’analyse du contenu de ces entrevues.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

L'ingérence socialement responsable dans les relations interorganisationnelles - Pailot, Philippe (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
L’objet de cet article est d’analyser l’influence des normes socialement responsables édictées par les firmes-pivots dans des accords-cadres internationaux et des codes de conduite sur les modes de gestion de l’emploi de leurs entreprises partenaires. En présentant une critique du concept de responsabilité sociale de l’entreprise, nous verrons que ces dispositifs remettent en cause la pertinence des catégories d’employeurs et de salariés en questionnant les frontières des entreprises. Soulignant l’importance structurante des pressions institutionnelles sur les comportements organisationnels, nous montrerons dans quelle mesure l’instrumentation socialement responsable est susceptible d’enrichir la compréhension des modalités de coordination interfirme où l’analyse comparative institutionnelle inspirée par l’économie des coûts de transaction reste dominante.
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 Other Quiet Revolution: National Identities in English Canada, 1945-1971 - Palmer, Bryan D. (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "The Other Quiet Revolution: National Identities in English Canada, 1945-1971," by José E. Igartua.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Fiction; IGARTUA; Jose E.; NATIONAL characteristics; OTHER Quiet Revolution: National Identities in English Canada 1945-1971; The (Book)

Vers une transformation des relations industrielles en Amérique du Nord - Paquet, Renaud (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Vers une transformation des relations industrielles en Amérique du Nord," by Jean-Claude Bernatchez.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

From the net to the Net: Atlantic Canada in the Global Economy - Parnaby, Andrew (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "From the Net to the Net: Atlantic Canada in the Global Economy," edited by James Sacouman and Henry Veltmeyer.
Keywords: ATLANTIC Provinces; BOOKS – Reviews; FROM the Net to the Net: Atlantic Canada in the Global Economy (Book); Nonfiction; SACOUMAN; James; VELTMEYER; Henry

Revolution: The 1913 Great Strike in New Zealand - Patmore, Greg (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Revolution: The 1913 Great Strike in New Zealand," edited by Melanie Nolan.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; NOLAN; Melanie; Nonfiction; REVOLUTION: The 1913 Great Strike in New Zealand (Book); REVOLUTIONS & socialism

Race, Employment Discrimination, and State Complicity in Wartime Canada, 1939-1945 - Patrias, Carmela (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
[This] study shows that the crisis of war reinforced pre-existing social and economic inequality based on racist views and practices. War-induced anxieties intensified suspicion of "foreigners" – a term which encompassed large numbers of Canadian-born and naturalized people of Japanese, central, eastern, and southern European descent and Jews – as unpatriotic, disloyal, radical, and incapable of becoming truly Canadian. The war also brought sharply into focus and even intensified racist assumptions that African Canadians, eastern and southern Europeans, and Native people were suitable only for menial jobs; that Jewish, Chinese, and Japanese Canadians were economically aggressive; and that Jews in particular were given to shady practices. Such racist stereotypes in turn legitimized the ongoing marginalization of these minorities in the workforce. The state colluded in racist practices. To be sure not all state officials or all Canadians were racist, but the pragmatism that informed official complicity with employment discrimination underscores the pervasiveness of racism in wartime Canada. State officials – some of whom held racist ideas – were willing to accept employers' and workers" racist preferences because they believed that to do otherwise would create social unrest and disrupt war industries. Moreover, officials found that the relegation of minority groups such as Chinese Canadians, Japanese Canadians, and Native people to menial work offered the important benefit of filling jobs that Canadians with wider options avoided.
Keywords: Canada; Discrimination in employment; Employment discrimination; MINORITIES – Employment; Minorities; Race; Racism; War

Making the Voyageur World: Travelers and Traders in the North American Fur Trade - Payne, Michael (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Making the Voyageur World: Travelers and Traders in the North American Fur Trade," by Carolyn Podruchny.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; FUR traders; MAKING the Voyageur World: Travelers & Traders in the North American Fur Trade (Book); Nonfiction; PODRUCHNY; Carolyn

Beyond Mothering Earth: Ecological Citizenship and the Politics of Care - Piper, Liza (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Beyond Mothering Earth: Ecological Citizenship and the Politics of Care," by Sherilyn MacGregor.
Keywords: BEYOND Mothering Earth: Ecological Citizenship & the Politics of Care (Book); BOOKS – Reviews; ECOFEMINISM; MACGREGOR; Sherilyn; Nonfiction

Labour Arbitration in Canada - Ponak, Allen (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
Labour Arbitration in Canada, by Morton Mitchnick and Brian Etherington, is reviewed.
Keywords: Arbitration; 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

Household Politics: Montreal Families and Postwar Reconstruction - Poulter, Gillian (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Household Politics: Montreal Families and Postwar Reconstruction," by Magda Fahrni.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; FAHRNI; Magda; HOUSEHOLD Politics: Montreal Families & Postwar Reconstruction (Book); Nonfiction; Postwar reconstruction

Behind the Screens: Telemediated Work in the Canadian Public Sector - Pupo, Norene (Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, 2007)
Among the recent measures undertaken in Canada to adapt the public sector to the 'new economy' in order to maintain or enhance economic competitiveness on an international level has been the adoption of new technologies and e-government, affecting both labour processes and service delivery. All three levels of government – municipal, provincial, and federal – have adopted 'virtual service techniques'. This paper examines telemediated processes and new work arrangements in the public sector and raises questions regarding the impact on workers and their trade unions, working conditions, service delivery, and social citizenship.

Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism - Ramsay, Ellen (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism," by Robert A. Pape.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; DYING to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism (Book); Nonfiction; PAPE; Robert A.; SUICIDE terrorism

Development NGOs and Labor Unions: Terms of Engagement - Robinson, Ian (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Development NGOs and Labor Unions: Terms of Engagement," edited by Deborah Eade and Alan Leather.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; DEVELOPMENT NGOs & Labor Unions: Terms of Engagement (Book); EADE; Deborah; LEATHER; Alan; Nonfiction; Nongovernmental organizations

Partisanship, Globalization, and Canadian Labour Market Policy: Four Provinces in Comparative Perspective - Robinson, Ian (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Partisanship, Globalization, and Canadian Labour Market Policy: Four Provinces in Comparative Perspective," by Rodney Haddow and Thomas Klassen.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Economic policy; LABOR market; Labor Unions; Policy making; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; provinces

An Outmoded Approach to Labour and Slavery - Roediger, David (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews and comments on the book "Labor, Free and Slave: Workingmen and the Anti-Slavery Movement in the United States," by Bernard Mandel, with introduction by Brian Kelly.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; KELLY; Brian; LABOR: Free & Slave; Workingmen & the Anti-Slavery Movement in the United States (Book); Labor; MANDEL; Bernard; Nonfiction

London's Marginal Histories - Rogers, Nicholas (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews and comments on several books including "Violent London: 200 Years of Riots, Rebels an Revolts," by Clive Bloom, "Down and Out in 18th-Century London," by Tim Hitchcock, and "The London Mob: Violence and Disorder in 18th-Century England," by Robert Shoemaker.
Keywords: BLOOM; Clive; BOOKS – Reviews; DOWN & out in 18th Century London (Book); HITCHCOCK; Tim; LONDON Mob: Violence & Disorder in 18th Century England; The (Book); Nonfiction; SHOEMAKER; Robert; VIOLENT London: 2000 Years of Riot; Rebels & Revolts (Book)

Differences that Matter, Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada - Rose, Ruth (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Differences that Matter, Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada," by Dan Zuberi.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; International comparisons; Labor Unions; Low income groups; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Social policy

Varieties of Social Unionism: Towards a Framework for Comparison - Ross, Stephanie (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2007)
In academic and activist debates about union renewal, the replacement of business unionism with social unionism is seen as central to the labour movement's short- and long-term survival. Social unionism, generally understood to involve both engagement with social justice struggles beyond the workplace and methods of union activity beyond the collective bargaining process, is claimed to increase the labour movement's organizing capacity, bargaining power, and social and political weight. However, despite its increased importance, social unionism's various meanings, strategies, and implications remain relatively unexamined, and very different approaches are often lumped together. Using concepts from social movement theory, this paper proposes an analytical framework for systematically comparing different concrete manifestations of social unionism. In particular, social unionist initiatives vary according to 1) the ethos or collective action frame used to rationalize union activity; 2) the repertoire or strategic means used to act on that ethos; and 3) the internal organizational practices and power relations which shape who is involved in defining and carrying out union goals and initiatives. I argue that whether social unionist projects are able to reach immediate instrumental goals as well as generate renewed working class / movement capacity is shaped by both the mix of frame, repertoire and organizational practice as well as the relationship between these three. The paper therefore asserts that the category "social unionism" must be more nuanced, and calls for a more explicitly comparative and multi-methodological approach to reveal such complexity.

"If the Workers Took a Notion": The Right to Strike and American Political Development - Russell, Jason (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book,"'If the Workers Took a Notion': The Right to Strike and American Political Development," by Josiah Bartlett Lambert.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; IF the Workers Took a Notion: The Right to Strike & American Political Development (Book); LAMBERT; Josiah Bartlett; Nonfiction; STRIKES & lockouts

Fighting from Home: The Second World War in Verdun, Quebec - Rutherdale, Robert (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Fighting From Home: The Second World War in Verdun, Quebec," by Serge Durflinger.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; DURFLINGER; Serge; FIGHTING From Home: The Second World War in Verdun; Quebec (Book); Nonfiction; WORLD War; 1939-1945

Leviathans : Multinational Corporations and the New Global History - Saba, Tania (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Leviathans : Multinational Corporations and the New Global History," edited by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. and Bruce Mazlish.
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

States of Nature: Conserving Canada's Wildlife in the Twentieth Century - Sandlos, John (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "States of Nature: Conserving Canada's Wildlife in the 20th Century," by Tina Loo.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; LOO; Tina; Nonfiction; STATES of Nature: Conserving Canada's Wildlife in the 20th Century (Book); WILDLIFE conservation

Faut-il brûler le modèle social français ? - Sarfati, Hedva (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Partisanship, Globalization, and Canadian Labour Market Policy: Four Provinces in Comparative Perspective," by Rodney Haddow and Thomas Klassen.
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 Political Future of Social Security in Aging Societies - Sarfati, Hedva (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
The Political Future of Social Security in Aging Societies, by Vincenzo Galasso, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Older people; Reforms; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Social security

From Centralization to Sovereignty-Association: The Canadian Labour Congress and the Constitutional Question - Savage, Larry (Review of Constitutional Studies, 2007)
This article surveys positions on constitutional reform of the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) from a historical perspective. In addition to analyzing how Canada’s largest labour organization has approached issues of national unity, federalism, and constitutional reform, the article underscores how Canadian constitutional struggles were reflected within the labour movement by focusing on how constitutional politics affected the relationship between the CLC and its Québec affiliate, the (Québec Federation of Labour) FTQ. Specifically, the article traces the gradual eclipse of the CLC’s preference for centralization and the emergence of sovereignty-association as a political position which the CLC has both externalized politically and internalized organizationally.

Organized Labour and Constitutional Reform Under Mulroney - Savage, Larry (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article considers the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) and the Québec Federation of Labour (FTQ) during the tenure of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. Discusses CLC and FTQ approaches to the Meech Lake Accord, as well as organized labour's response to the Charlottetown Accord. Explores how the longstanding party-union relationship deranged the trade union movement's weak constitutional perspective.
Keywords: CENTRAL labor councils; Canada; Labor Unions; Labor movement; MULRONEY; Brian; 1939-

Organized Labour and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms - Savage, Larry (The Supreme Court Law Review, second series, 2007)
This article examines the relationship of the Canadian Labour Congress with the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms from the initial stages of the Charter's development, in the 1980-81 Special Committee on the Canadian Constitution, to its present status as powerful legal instrument and national symbol.

Schools of Democracy: A Political History of the American Labor Movement - Savage, Larry (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Schools of Democracy: A Political History of the American Labor Movement," by Clayton Sinyai.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Labor movement; Nonfiction; SCHOOLS of Democracy: A Political History of the American Labor Movement (Book); SINYAI; Clayton

Smart City North: Economic and Labour Force Impacts of Call Centres in Sudbury, Ontario - Schatz, Laura; Johnson, Laura (Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation, 2007)
Geographers debate the value of telecommunications-mediated jobs (or 'eWork') for the economies of smaller, deindustrialised and rural areas. Against the backdrop of globalisation, various regions across Canada are courting knowledge-sector business development. Sudbury, a medium-sized northern Ontario city, has invested heavily in telecommunications infrastructure and touted its assets and resources to potential employers in order to help its ailing economy. Since the late 1990s, Sudbury has attracted some ten new call centres, with a combined labour force numbering about 4,000. In this article, we use Sudbury as a case study to consider the overall effects of eWork on a local labour force and a regional economy. From the combined perspectives of employers, unions, municipal planners, local economic development officials, and academic researchers, we assess the net impact of these new economy jobs.

Written in the Flesh: A History of Desire - Sethna, Christabelle (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Written in the Flesh: A History of Desire," by Edward Shorter.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; DESIRE; Nonfiction; SHORTER; Edward; WRITTEN in the Flesh: A History of Desire (Book)

Insurgency Online: Web Activism and Global Conflict - Smith, Peter J. (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Insurgency Online: Web Activism and Global Conflict," by Michael Y. Dartnell.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; DARTNELL; Michael Y.; INSURGENCY; INSURGENCY Online: Web Activism & Global Conflict (Book); Nonfiction

Legal Dimensions of International Framework Agreements in the Field of Corporate Social Responsibility - Sobczak, André (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
The aim of this article is to offer an in-depth analysis of the different legal aspects of international framework agreements (IFAs) negotiated between multinational companies and global union federations. Using examples from different agreements, the article shows the potential added value IFAs have in contributing to an effective social regulation within international groups and global supply chains that are today regulated insufficiently by national, European and international labour law standards. It also analyses the impact of the international negotiation process of the IFAs and the powers of the signatory parties on the legally binding character of these texts. To conclude, the article discusses the potential added value of an optional legal framework for IFAs.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; International law; Labor Unions; Labor law; Labor negotiations; Multinational corporations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Social responsibility

Bananera: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America - Spronk, Susan (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Bananera: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America," by Dana Frank.
Keywords: BANANERAS: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America (Book); BOOKS – Reviews; FRANK; Dana; Nonfiction; WOMEN labor union members

Determinants of Return-to-Work among Employees Absent Due to Mental Health Problems - St-Arnaud, Louise; Bourbonnais, Renée; Saint-Jean, Micheline; Rhéaume, Jacques (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
The contribution of work in the occurrence of mental health problems prompts us to question the conditions which favour a successful return to work. The goals of this study are to describe the profile of workers who have been absent due to a mental health problem and to compare those who returned to those who did not, and those for whom there was resolution or non resolution of their health problem. This study among public sector employees was cross-sectional. Data was collected using mailed questionnaires and analyses were performed for 1850 respondents. The results show a significant difference between those who were back at work and those who were not, based on the cause they reported for their absence from work. Improved working conditions accompanying return to work may be a major determinant of health recovery and successful return to work, and ensure job retention.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Comparative analysis; Decision making; Government employees; Labor Unions; Mental health; Qualitative research; Return to work programs; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

A History of Migration from Germany to Canada 1850-1939 - Stokes, Lawrence D. (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "A History of Migration From Germany to Canada 1850-1939," by Jonathan Wagner.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; EMIGRATION & immigration; HISTORY of Migration From Germany to Canada 1850-1939; A (Book); Nonfiction; WAGNER; Jonathan

The Struggle against Wage Controls: The Saint John Story, 1975-1976 - Swartz, Donald (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "The Struggle against Wage Controls: The Saint John Story, 1975-1976, by George Vair.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Canadian history; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Strikes; Wage & price controls

Punk Rockers' Revolution: A Pedagogy of Race, Class, and Gender - Tanner, Julian (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Punk Rockers' Revolution: A Pedagogy of Race, Class and Gender," by Curry Malott and Milagros Peña.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; MALOTT; Curry; Nonfiction; PENA; Milagros; PUNK Rockers' Revolution: A Pedagogy of Race; Class & Gender (Book); PUNK rock music

Toyotaism Meets the 60-Hour Work Week: Coercion, Consent, and the Regulation of Working Time - Thomas, Mark (Studies in Political Economy, 2007)
Explores the implications of the 2001 revisions to the Employment Standards Act in Ontario, which increased the weekly maximum number of work hours to 60 while loosening the requirements for overtime pay. Based on a case study involving interviews with several workers from the Ontario Toyota plant, the author argues that the changes involve a re-regulation of the labour market that enhances employer-centred flexibility via the construction of a new form of time discipline.

Introducing "New Voices In Labour Studies In Canada" - Thomas, Mark; Tufts, Steven (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2007)

Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience, and Women Workers - Thorlakson, Marilyn (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Sick Building Syndrome and the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics, Technoscience and Women Workers," by Michelle Murphy.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; MURPHY; Michelle; Nonfiction; SICK Building Syndrome & the Problem of Uncertainty: Environmental Politics; Technoscience & Women Workers (Book); SICK building syndrome

Emerging Labour Strategies in Toronto’s Hotel Sector: Toward a Spatial Circuit of Union Renewal - Tufts, Steven (Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2007)
I discuss the recent union renewal strategies adopted by UNITE-HERE Local 75, the union representing a majority of Toronto’s organized hotel workers—a fragmented and diverse labour force. Local 75’s renewal strategies are multiscalar with knowledge and resources flowing through the organization forming a spatial circuit of union renewal. Conceptualizing union renewal as a spatial circuit maps the interdependencies of different scales of labour organization and the tensions that emerge among such scales. The paper focuses on the hotel union’s strategic attempts to (re)create pattern bargaining at local and international scales and organize new hotels prior to their construction. I conclude with a brief discussion linking the recent merger of UNITE-HERE and its departure from the AFL-CIO to broader renewal processes.

Those Who Serve - Tufts, Steven (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews and comments on three books including "Paradise Laborers: Hotel Work in the Global Economy," by Patricia Adler and Peter Adler, "Class Acts: Service and Inequality in Luxury Hotels," by Rachel Sherman, and "Differences That Matter: Social Policy and the Working Poor in the United States and Canada," by Dan Zuberi.
Keywords: ADLER; Patricia; ADLER; Peter; BOOKS – Reviews; CLASS Acts: Service & Inequality in Luxury Hotels (Book); DIFFERENCES That Matter: Social Policy & the Working Poor in the United States & Canada (Book); Nonfiction; PARADISE Laborers: Hotel Work in the Global Economy (Book); SHERMAN; Rachel; ZUBERI; Dan

Globalization and the New Modes of Activism - Vahabzadeh, Peyman (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews several books including "Globalization and Social Exclusion: A Transformationalist Perspective," by Ronaldo Munck, "Global Citizens: Social Movements and the Challenge of Globalization," by Marjorie Mayo, and "Identity, Place, Knowledge: Social Movements Contesting Globalization," by Janet M. Conway.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CONWAY; Janet M.; GLOBAL Citizens: Social Movements & the Challenge of Globalization (Book); GLOBALIZATION & Social Exclusion: A Transformationalist Perspective (Book); IDENTITY; Place; Knowledge: Social Movements Contesting Globalization (Book); MAYO; Marjorie; MUNCK; Ronaldo; Nonfiction

Self-Employed Workers Organize: Law, Policy and Unions - Vallée, Guylaine (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Self-Employed Workers Organize: Law, Policy and Unions," by Cynthia J. Cranford, Judy Fudge, Eric Tucker and Leah F. Vosko.
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 - Veilleux, Diane (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Le droit de l’emploi au Québec," 3rd edition, by Fernand Morin, Jean-Yves Brière and Dominic Roux.
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

Globalization and the Future of Labour Law - Verge, Pierre (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
The article reviews the book, 'Globalization and the Future of Labour Law," edited by John D.R. Craig and S. Michael Lynk.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Authentic Indians: Episodes of Encounter from the Late-Nineteenth-Century Northwest Coast - Vibert, Elizabeth (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Authentic Indians: Episodes of Encounter From the Late-19th-Century Northwest Coast," by Paige Raibmon.
Keywords: AUTHENTIC Indians: Episodes of Encounter From the Late 19th-Century Northwest Coast (Book); BOOKS – Reviews; INDIGENOUS peoples of the Americas; Nonfiction; RAIBMON; Paige

Taxi! Cabs and Capitalism in New York City - Walby, Kevin (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Taxi! Cabs and Capitalism in New York City," by Biju Mathew.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; MATHEW; Biju; Nonfiction; TAXI! Cabs & Capitalism in New York City (Book); TAXICAB drivers

Tell the Court I Love My Wife: Race, Marriage and Law – An American History - Walker, Barrington (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Tell the Court I Love My Wife: Race, Marriage and Law: An American History," by Peter Wallenstein.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; INTERRACIAL marriage; Nonfiction; TELL the Court I Love My Wife: Race; Marriage & Law: An American History (Book); WALLENSTEIN; Peter

Discourses of Denial: Mediations of Race, Gender and Violence - Wan, LiLynn (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Discourses of Denial: Mediations of Race, Gender and Violence," by Yasmin Jiwani.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; DISCOURSES of Denial: Mediations of Race; Gender & Violence (Book); JIWANI; Yasmin; Mass media; Nonfiction

Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend - Wang, Yiman (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Anna May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend," by Graham Russell Gao Hodges.
Keywords: ANNA May Wong: From Laundryman's Daughter to Hollywood Legend (Book); BOOKS – Reviews; HODGES; Graham Russell Gao; Nonfiction; WONG; Anna May; 1905-1961

'I Need People That Are Happy, Always Smiling': Guest Interaction And Emotional Labour In A Canadian Downtown Hotel - Watt, Paul (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2007)
This paper discusses interactive service employment within the hospitality industry. Using research undertaken at a downtown hotel in a Canadian city, the paper examines front-line customer service workers engaged in guest interaction. It employs the concept of 'emotional labour', as developed by Hochschild, to illuminate not only managerial discourses, but also the work experiences of those women employed at the front desk (reception) and reservations. The women are shown to engage in intense and prolonged emotional labour, including having to routinely deal with 'irate guests'. The front office workers are shown to engage in covert resistance strategies in order to help them cope with the demands of the job including from aggressive guests. The paper also discusses the way that the work of women room attendants involved a guest interaction element, one that could involve doing emotional labour. The paper concludes by suggesting policy and further research implications, including on what the long-term effects of emotional labour might be.

A Brief History of Neoliberalism - Webber, Jeffery R. (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
This article reviews the book, "A Brief History of Neoliberalism," by David Harvey.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; BRIEF History of Neoliberalism; A (Book); HARVEY; David; Liberalism; Nonfiction

Give Me the Room to Learn: Associations between Job Control and Work-Related Learning - Weststar, Johanna (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2007)
Societal rhetoric claims that the intellectual capital of workplaces must be leveraged if Canada is to compete in the "knowledge economy". To achieve this, however, employers must create work environments that are favorable to workers and conducive to learning. This paper uses a sample of 5800 Canadian workers from the Work and Lifelong Learning Survey and twenty interviews with Information Technology workers from the Education-Job Requirement Matching Project to focus on the relationship between worker control and learning engagement. The data show that increased levels of social and technical control are associated with increased worker engagement in formal courses, informal education (mentoring) and non-taught learning. This research has implications for job design that includes real and meaningful opportunities for worker input and agency into their own tasks and broader organizational decision-making. These results provide important information for future research regarding the inclusion and conceptualization of learning and job control constructs.

Impediments to Disability Accommodation - Williams-Whitt, Kelly (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
The results of a qualitative field investigation exploring how tripartite relationships affect disability accommodations are reported. Arbitration cases, in-depth interviews and other documentation are analyzed using grounded theory techniques. Four key categories emerge as contributors to difficult accommodations. The first category suggests that managerial reluctance and bias may stem from added workload or from questions about disability credibility. It further demonstrates how trust issues spill over to affect future accommodations. The second category, employee involvement, indicates that excluding the disabled employee from accommodation planning occurs frequently and has a negative affect on communication patterns, again damaging trust. The third category, ineffective investigation, highlights the difficulty managers have balancing confidentiality requirements: over-investigating illness legitimacy and under-investigating accommodation options. The final category, union-management climate, looks at union roles in accommodation and suggests that while unions often play a unique and positive role, substantial union-management animosity taints return-to-work efforts.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Disability management; Employee attitude; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Managers; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Women's History in Global Perspective - Williams, Carol (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Women's History in Global Perspective," edited by Bonnie Smith.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Nonfiction; SMITH; Bonnie; WOMEN'S History in Global Perspective (Book); WOMEN'S history

Développement et validation d’un modèle de structuration des valeurs au travail - Wils, Thierry; Luncasu, Marian; Waxin, Marie-France (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
Bien que les valeurs au travail jouent un rôle important en gestion des ressources humaines, il n’existe actuellement aucun instrument de mesure des valeurs au travail reposant sur une structuration théorique. À partir des travaux de Schwartz, cette étude propose de valider un modèle de structuration des valeurs au travail à l’aide d’un inventaire des valeurs au travail (IVT). Pour ce faire, l’analyse multidimensionnelle est la procédure statistique privilégiée pour réaliser une telle démarche de validation conceptuelle du modèle théorique proposé. L’analyse de données provenant d’un échantillon de 174 professeurs québécois milite en faveur de ce modèle théorique qui balise un nouveau domaine de recherche en gestion des ressources humaines.

Labor of Fire: The Ontology of Labor between Economy and Culture - Wisman, Jon D. (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book, "Labor of Fire: The Ontology of Labor between Economy and Culture," by Bruno Gulli.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; GULLI; Bruno; LABOR of Fire: The Ontology of Labor Between Economy & Culture (Book); Labor; Nonfiction

The Problems and Experiences of Ethnic Minority and Migrant Workers in Hotels and Restaurants in England - Wright, Tessa (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2007)
While working conditions in hotels and restaurants are known to consist of low pay, low status, exploitation of employees and lack of unionisation, little has been written in the UK about the specific experiences of ethnic minority and migrant workers. The article is based on research into the problems and experiences of ethnic minority and migrant workers in hotels and restaurants in three regions of England, consisting of in-depth interviews with 50 ethnic minority and migrant workers, plus additional key informant interviews. It argues that issues such as low pay, long hours, bullying, racial harassment, lack of opportunities for promotion and discrimination are problems affected by, or compounded by, respondents' ethnic backgrounds or migrant status. The article concludes that three key factors serve to differentiate the experience of ethnic minority and migrant workers in the sector: immigration status; working in the informal sector; discrimination in the labour market and employment.

Canada's East Asian Transplants Reach Maturity: Rewards and Perils - Yanarella, Ernest J. (Labor Studies Journal, 2007)
Most East Asian auto transplants in North America are now a quarter-century or more old. This perspective should now allow their evolution from the original post-Fordist model and their impact on surrounding local and regional economies to be subjects for comparative analysis. This article seeks to contribute to this research task by assessing one joint venture and three auto transplants—the CAMI plant in Ingersoll, Ontario, the Toyota plant in Cambridge, Ontario, the Honda plant in Alliston, Ontario, and the Hyundai plant in Bromont. Based on fieldwork and interviews in Canada in 1991 and 2004, it seeks to evaluate the promise and fulfillment and the successes and shortfalls of these four plants as instruments of work reorganization and business management and as catalysts of local and regional economic development.
Keywords: auto industry; economic development; industrial recruitment; labor-management relations

Working on Screen: Representations of the Working Class in Canadian Cinema - Zaniello, Tom (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
The article reviews the book "Working on Screen: Representations of the Working Class in Canadian Cinema," edited by Malek Khouri and Darrell Varga.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; KHOURI; Malek; Nonfiction; VARGA; Darrell; WORKING class in motion pictures; WORKING on Screen: Representations of the Working Class in Canadian Cinema (Book)

'There Were Always Men in Our House': Gender and the Childhood Memories of Working-Class Ukrainians in Depression-Era Canada - Zembrzycki, Stacey (Labour / Le Travail, 2007)
As an exploration of the childhood memories of working-class Ukrainians who grew up in Depression-era boarding houses (or houses with a few boarders) in Sudbury, Ontario, this paper treats the oral histories as the subject, not merely the method, of analysis and highlights, in particular, the gendered differences that emerge in the narratives of the men and women interviewed for this project. Moreover, this article argues that even within a politically polarized immigrant group such as the Ukrainians, where left/right, progressive/ nationalist, and secular/religious splits were so pronounced, and thus central to shaping the histories and historiographies of both camps, it was the influence of dominant gender roles rather than politics, religion, or ideology that most directly informed the differing memories of experience that men and women had of growing up Ukrainian and working class in Sudbury. In particular, this article focuses on informants' recollections regarding three areas of activity that were part of everyday boarding house life: children's relationships with male boarders, their domestic chores, and leisure activities.
Keywords: EVERYDAY life; GENDER role; Ontario; SEX differences (Biology); SUDBURY (Ont.); UKRAINIANS; Working class

Associations between Work Intensification, Stress and Job Satisfaction: The Case of Nurses in Ontario - Zeytinoglu, Isik U.; Denton, Margaret; Davies, Sharon; Baumann, Andrea; Boos, Linda; Blythe, Jennifer (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
Health sector reform of the 1990s affected most health care workers in Ontario and in other provinces. As a result of organizational changes, many workers experienced work intensification. This paper examines the associations between work intensification, stress and job satisfaction focusing on nurses in three teaching hospitals in Ontario. Data come from our 2002 survey of 949 nurses who worked in their employing hospital since the early 1990s when the health sector reform era began. Results show that nurses feel their work has intensified since the health sector reform of the 1990s, and work intensification contributed to increased stress and decreased job satisfaction. Results provide empirical support to the literature which suggests that work intensification has an adverse effect on workers’ health and well-being, and work attitudes.
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

Analyse des conduites de salariés en transition de fin de carrière: Le cas de travailleurs et travailleuses en situation d'emploi atypique - Zimmermann, Hélène; Fournier, Geneviève; Gauthier, Christine (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2007)
Cet article propose une analyse des conduites d’investissement de travailleurs et travailleuses dans les différents domaines de leur existence. S’inspirant de l’approche du parcours de vie (life course), il s’appuie sur une enquête qualitative conduite au Québec auprès de 78 salariés âgés de 45 ans et plus, en situation d’emploi atypique depuis au moins trois ans. Les résultats mettent d’abord en évidence le large éventail des conduites observées. Ils montrent aussi la diversité des rapports à l’âge et à l’avenir professionnel des sujets. La prise en compte de ce regard subjectif porté par les travailleurs sur leur étape de vie et leur situation professionnelle s’avère éclairante pour interpréter la diversité des conduites d’investissement observées. Dans une perspective complémentaire, l’article examine dans quelle mesure ces différentes conduites sont statistiquement associées à quelques variables sociobiographiques et de situation professionnelle.
Keywords: Business And Economics–Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics–Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Organizing for Better Working Conditions and Wages: The Unite Here! Hotel Workers Rising Campaign - Zuberi, Dan (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2007)
This article examines some of the strategies and success of the UNITE HERE! union in its ongoing Hotel Workers Rising: Lifting One Another Above the Poverty Line campaign in the United States and Canada. This unique campaign has generated national attention in both the United States and Canada about issues facing hotel workers, including how changes in corporate policies aimed at pleasing the consumer - such as the shift to 'heavenly' beds - has had deleterious consequences for Room Attendants in terms of back injuries from lifting heavier mattresses. How successful has the UNITE HERE! been so far in terms of securing new contracts? What about in terms of organizing urban, suburban, and rural hotel employees? What barriers do unions face when organizing hotel workers? What does comparing union density rates in the hotel sector across cities reveal? After beginning to address some of these questions, this article concludes by providing some policy recommendations.

Indigenous Labour Organizing in Saskatchewan: Red Baiting and Red Herrings - Pitawanakwat, Brock (New Socialist, 2006)
An indigenous woman and former employee with the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations (FSIN) recently confided her frustration with the apathetic approach to collective organizing amongst her co-workers. When asking her colleagues why they did not want a union to represent them, a frequent reply was that it was “not our way.” In other words, organizing to protect workers’ rights is “un-indigenous.” That these views have taken root among employees is indicative of the seductive sway that fixed notions of tradition hold on indigenous people. Many of us fear being accused of what the Plains Cree refer to as moniyakaso; that is, “acting or behaving as a white person.” This article explores these themes in the context of the highly publicized establishment and eventual elimination of a labour union at the Northern Lights Casino in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. –Introduction

Conspiracy in Winnipeg: How the 1919 General Strike Leaders Were Railroaded into Prison and What We Must Do Now to Make Amends - Chaboyer, Jan; Black, Errol (CCPA Review - Labour Notes, 2006)
The strike started 15 May 1919 with the young women working at the telephone system leading the way. By the end of the second day, 35,000 Winnipeg workers, a majority of them unorganized, had left their jobs in an unprecedented demonstration of solidarity in support of fair treatment, dignity and justice for all working people.

‘The best men that ever worked the lumber’: Aboriginal Longshoremen on Burrard Inlet, BC, 1863-1939 - Parnaby, Andrew (Canadian Historical Review, 2006)
This essay examines Aboriginal longshoremen, most of whom belonged to the Squamish First Nation, on Burrard Inlet, British Columbia, from 1863 to 1939. Beginning with a consideration of the Squamish adaptation to wage labour in the mid-to-late nineteenth century, this essay analyses the ways in which Aboriginal workers negotiated the daily demands of waterfront work. Their encounter with the work process, labour politics, welfare capitalism, and class conflict are studied in depth. Despite intense competition from non-Aboriginal workers for limited job opportunities, Aboriginal longshoremen worked on Burrard inlet for a long period of time; in addition to the daily demands of waterfront work, this essay also explores the strategies that Squamish dockers adopted to protect their positions on the waterfront. Often mentioned in the scholarly literature, but never studied in a systematic way, the 'Indian'waterfront provides a window into the importance of waged work to Aboriginal people on Burrard Inlet and the sophisticated ways that the Squamish responded to Canadian colonialism and capitalism.

Abstracts = Résumés (57, Spring 2006) (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
English/French abstracts of articles in published in the Spring 2006 edition of the journal.
Keywords: ABSTRACTS; Canada; Labor Unions; Liberalism; Political Science

Janitors and Sweatshop Citizenship in Canada - Aguiar, Luis L M (Antipode, 2006)
Janitors in Canada increasingly suffer from what I call here “sweatshop citizenship”, which is a combination of disintegrating workplace rights and eroding social citizenship rights. This condition has been institutionalized by neoliberal state policies which have undermined the welfare state and the assumptions of citizenship which it embodied. Through an exploration of how sweatshop citizenship is being instituted in Ontario and British Columbia, I consider the difficulties which contemporary industrial practices in the cleaning industry and anti-union legislation are presenting janitors, together with the possibility for their resisting such conditions.

The Price of Poverty: Money, Work, and Culture in the Mexican American Barrio - Alamillo, José M. (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "The Price of Poverty: Money, Work and Culture in the Mexican American Barrio," by Daniel Dohan.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; DOHAN; Daniel; ETHNOLOGY – United States; Nonfiction; PRICE of Poverty: Money; Work & Culture in the Mexican American Barrio; The (Book)

Mainstreaming Informal Employment and Gender in Poverty Reduction: A Handbook for Policy-Makers and Other Stakeholders - Anderson, Nickela (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "Mainstreaming Informal Employment and Gender in Poverty Reduction: A Handbook for Policy-Makers and Other Stakeholders," by Martha Alter Chen, Joann Vanek and Marilyn Carr.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CAPITALISTS & financiers; CARR; Marilyn; CHEN; Martha Alter; MAINSTREAMING Informal Employment & Gender in Poverty Reduction: A Handbook for Policy-Makers & Other Stakeholders (Book); Nonfiction; VANEK; Joann

NHS plc: The Privatisation of Our Health Care - Annandale, Ellen (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "NHS plc: The Privatisation of Our Health Care," by Allyson Pollock, Collins Leys, David Price, David Rowland and Shamini Gnani.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; GNANI; Shamini; NHS plc: The Privatisation of Our Health Care (Book); Nonfiction; POLLOCK; Allyson; PRICE; David; Privatization; ROWLAND; David

Staying with People Who Slap Us Around: Gender, Juggling Responsibilities and Violence in Paid (and Unpaid) Care Work - Baines, Donna (Gender, Work & Organization, 2006)
Little is actually known about women's occupational health, let alone how men and women may experience similar jobs and health risks differently. Drawing on data from a larger study of social service workers, this article examines four areas where gender is pivotal to the new ways of organizing caring labour, including the expansion of unpaid work and the use of personal resources to subsidize agency resources; gender-neutral violence; gender-specific violence and the juggling of home and work responsibilities. Collective assumptions and expectations about how men and women should perform care work result in men's partial insulation from the more intense forms of exploitation, stress and violence. This article looks at health risks, not merely as compensable occupational health concerns, but as avoidable products of forms of work organization that draw on notions of the endlessly stretchable capacity of women to provide care work in any context, including a context of violence. Indeed, the logic of women's elastic caring appear crucial to the survival of some agencies and the gender order in these workplaces.
Keywords: Unpaid work; care work; occupational health; violence; work–home balance

Pension Power: Unions, Pension Funds, and Social Investment in Canada - Baldwin, Bob (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "Pension Power: Unions, Pension Funds, and Social Investment in Canada," by Isla Carmichael.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CARMICHAEL; Isla; Nonfiction; PENSION Power: Unions; Pension Funds & Social Investment in Canada (Book); PENSION trusts

Sustainability and the Civil Commons: Rural Communities in the Era of Globalization - Bantjes, Rod (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "Sustainability and the Civil Commons: Rural Communities in the Era of Globalization," by Jennifer Sumner.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; Globalization; Nonfiction; SUMNER; Jennifer; SUSTAINABILITY & the Civil Commons: Rural Communities in the Era of Globalization (Book)

Interventions externes en santé et en sécurité du travail: Influence du contexte de l'établissement sur l'implantation de mesures préventives - Baril-Gingras, Geneviève; Bellemare, Marie; Brun, Jean-Pierre (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2006)
Un modèle d’analyse a été construit pour rendre compte de l’influence du contexte de l’établissement sur l’issue d’interventions de prévention en santé et en sécurité du travail. Il a été constitué à partir d’une étude de cas en profondeur de sept interventions réalisées par des conseillers externes. L’étude examine l’influence du degré de développement des activités en prévention avant l’intervention, qui apparaît lui-même fortement lié aux caractéristiques structurelles des établissements. Une typologie des modes de régulation sociale de la santé et de la sécurité observés au sein des milieux de travail est présentée ; ces régulations jouent également un rôle dans la mise en oeuvre des mesures préventives. L’étude met en évidence l’apport des interventions externes à la prévention en santé et en sécurité du travail, et de leur collaboration soutenue avec les milieux de travail, au cours d’interventions successives.
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

Humanitarianism, Identity, and Nation: Migration Laws of Australia and Canada - Bauder, Harald (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "Humanitarianism, Identity, and Nation: Migration Laws of Australia and Canada," by Catherine Dauvergne.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; DAUVERGNE; Catherine; HUMANITARIANISM; HUMANITARIANISM; Identity & Nation: Migration Laws in Canada & Australia (Book); Nonfiction

Une analyse longitudinale de la pérennité des expériences des travailleuses et des travailleurs autonomes canadiens - Beaucage, André; Najem, Elmustapha (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2006)
Les auteurs de cet article proposent une évaluation empirique de facteurs qui favoriseraient la longévité des expériences des travailleuses et des travailleurs autonomes canadiens et concourraient ainsi à l’explication de la forte croissance de ce statut d’emploi ces dernières décennies. S’appuyant sur un cadre théorique original et utilisant le modèle de régression à risques proportionnels de Cox, ils estiment les prédicteurs de la probabilité de sortie des expériences de travail autonome suivies sur une période de 72 mois avec les données longitudinales de l’Enquête sur la dynamique du travail et du revenu. Leur étude révèle des différences notables entre les prédicteurs de la pérennité des expériences des hommes et des femmes, mais souligne aussi l’importance des conditions économiques des expériences de ces deux groupes pour en comprendre le succès.

A Labour Force for the Consumer Century: Commodification in Canada's Largest Department Stores, 1890 to 1940 - Belisle, Donica (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
Between 1890 and 1940 Canada's three largest department stores – Eaton's Simpson's, and the Hudson's Bay Company – developed a multifacted system of employee commodification. Not only did they encourage their employees to become avid consumers, so did they market their employees' activities, interests, and bodies. They undertook these commodiyfing gestures in an attempt to extract value from their workforces. Investigating the rise and operation of commodification at these major retailers, this paper offers new insights into corporate management systems, demonstrates that commodification had negative consequences for employees, and provides fresh perspectives on 20th-century consumer capitalism.
Keywords: CHAIN stores; COMMERCIAL buildings; Canada; DISCOUNT houses (Retail trade); FRANCHISES (Retail trade); RETAIL industry; RETAIL stores – Management; SALES management; SHOPPING centers; TRADING posts

Suburbanization and Mass Culture in North America - Belisle, Donica (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews and comments on several books including "Creeping Conformity: How Canada Became Suburban, 1900-1960," by Richard Harris, "Manufacturing Suburbs: Building Work and Home on the Metropolitan Fringe," by Robert Lewis and "A Great Duty: Canadian Responses to Modern Life and Mass Culture, 1939-1967," by Len Kuffert.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; CREEPING Conformity: How Canada Became Suburban 1900-1960 (Book); GREAT Duty: Canadian Responses to Modern Life & Mass Culture 1939-1967; A (Book); HARRIS; Richard; KUFFERT; Len; LEWIS; Robert; MANUFACTURING Suburbs: Building Work & Home on the Metropolitan Fringe (Book); Nonfiction

New Working-Class Studies - Bender, Daniel E. (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "New Working-Class Studies," edited by John Russo and Sherry Lee Linkon.
Keywords: BOOKS – Reviews; LINKON; Sherry Lee; NEW Working-Class Studies (Book); Nonfiction; RUSSO; John; Working class