Red Light Neon: A History of Vancouver's Sex Trade - Francis, Daniel (Subway, 2006)
"This book is a history of hypocrisy." So begins Daniel Francis, BC's leading popular historian, as he explores the colourful and ultimately tragic story of prostitution in Vancouver. He writes: "The city's political and social leaders consistently have treated prostitutes as pariahs whose presence was tolerated, sometimes exploited, but never approved. All the while, the authorities collected millions of dollars in fines and licence fees from businesses that everyone knew were, and are, fronts for the sex trade." Working in long overlooked archives and drawing on personal interviews, Francis shows how in some ways commercial sex has been both a reflection and a result of Vancouver's essential character, with its tolerant social mores, ethnic diversity--and political opportunism. It's a tale that takes in mayors and masseuses, police chiefs and pimps, judges and johns. Francis explains: "Sex workers have never lacked for customers. What they have lacked is a secure place to conduct their business. A vast off-street sex trade flourished while police, at the urging of politicians vowing to purify the city, concentrated their attention on the comparatively small number of street prostitutes who worked out in the open. Because they were considered a nuisance, these sex workers were hounded from street to street and neighbourhood to neighbourhood [... These efforts salved the conscience of the morally righteous, but each attempt to discourage prostitution simply forced women to work in increasingly dangerous circumstances." The end result, ultimately, was the tragedy of the Missing Women--murdered sex workers from the Downtown Eastside--and the sensational criminal case that followed. --Publisher's description
Keywords: Prostitution -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- History

Equity Bargaining in the New Economy - Fudge, Judy (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2006)

Syndicats : lendemains de crise ? - Gagnon, Mona-Josée (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "Syndicats : lendemains de crise ?," by Jean-Marie Pernot.
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 International Activities Of Trade Unions: A Sociohistorical Analysis Based On The Case Of Quebec - Gagnon, Mona-Josée; Avignon, Pierre; Collombat, Thomas (Studies in Political Economy, 2006)
The countersummit of the Americas, held in Quebec City in April 2001 under the auspices of the Hemispheric Social Alliance (HSA) and in opposition to the creation of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), promised to be a prelude to a new phase in how trade unions handle the issue of globalization. There was hope that trade unions would truly take charge of this issue. In terms of political organization, logistics, and the number ofactive participants, Quebec trade union organizations dominated the event....This article addresses two central questions. First, does the mobilization of Quebec trade unions against neoliberal globalization represent a break, both quantitative and qualitative, in their approach to international trade union relations? Second, what does the Quebec example tell us about the sociohistorical dynamics of international trade union relations in the Americas, and even beyond? We have attempted to investigate thoroughly how relations between trade unions have been conducted internationally before and after April 2001. For the most part, this study was undertaken at the end of 2002 and the beginning of 2003, with some updates made in 2004. --From introduction

La méthode des cas. Recueil de cas en gestion des ressources humaines et en relations du travail - Gagnon, Yves-C. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "La méthode des cas. Recueil de cas en gestion des ressources humaines et en relations du travail," by Roch Laflamme.
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

Modernisation de l’État et gestion des ressources humaines - Galambaud, Bernard; Léon, Emmanuelle (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "Modernisation de l’État et gestion des ressources humaines," edited by Louise Lemire, Denis Proulx and Luc Cooremans.

Building Capacity for Global Action: Steelworkers' Humanity Fund - Garcia-Orgales, Jorge; Marshall, Judith (Paths to Union Renewal: Canadian Experiences, 2006)
The focus of the USW case study is the [Humanity] Fund, an initiative to build international exchanges and solidarity and alliances in response to growing power of multinationals through capital mobility. ...[The paper] describes the working of the Fund and then assesses how the global connections with Chile and Peru in the mining sector have contributed to the union renewal in the USW. --Editors' introduction
Keywords: Humanity Fund; Labor Unions; Labor movement; Organizational change; United Steelworkers (USW)

Le Groupe socialiste des travailleurs (1974-1987) : deuxième partie : les autres dimensions de l'activité politique du GST - Gill, Louis (Bulletin d'histoire politique, 2006)
Les militants du GST étaient surtout présents dans les secteurs de l' éducation, de la santé et des services publics, beaucoup moins dans le secteur privé. Le GST comptait également un bon nombre de militants jeunes qui intervenaient principalement dans les organisations étudiantes. Dans le mouvement ouvrier, les militants du GST sont intervenus dans les syndicats locaux, les fédérations et les instances, centrales et régionales, des centrales syndicales, principalement à la CSN et à la CEQ. Ils ont influencé l'orientation et participé à la direction d'importantes batailles, dont celles du transport en commun à Montréal (grèves des employés d'entretien de la Commission de transport de la Communauté urbaine de Montréal1 ), des fronts communs des secteurs publics et parapublics, du secteur universitaire (grève professorale de quatre mois à l'UQAM en 1976-1977), des enseignants de l'Alliance des professeurs de Montréal et de la CEQ et du secteur de l'édition (grève de 21 mois des employées du CEC contre les géants Hachette et Power Corporation en 1977-1978). --Introduction

Le Groupe socialiste des travailleurs (1974-1987) (première partie) - Gill, Louis (Bulletin d'histoire politique, 2006)
Le Groupe socialiste des travailleurs (GST) a été fondé en septembre 1974 à l'initiative d'un noyau de militants, le Groupe trotskyste du Québec (GTQ), qui intervenait depuis la fin des années 1960 dans les organisations syndicales, dans les Comités d'action politique qui ont été à l'origine du Front d'action politique des salariés de Montréal (FRAP) et dans le FRAP lui-même, de sa fondation en 1970 à sa dissolution en 1973. Ses militants sont intervenus en 1973-1974 dans le cadre d'une initiative du Comité régional intersyndical de Montréal (CRIM), le Regroupement Action-Montréal (RAM), dont l'objectif de départ était de prolonger, avec l'appui des trois centrales (CSN, FTQ et CEQ), l'expérience d'action politique municipale du FRAP à Montréal qui avait reçu l'appui de la seule CSN, puis au sein du Regroupement des militants syndicaux (RMS) qu'ils ont contribué à mettre sur pied en mai 1974 après l'échec du RAM.... --Introduction

Unwilling Mothers, Unwanted Babies: Infanticide in Canada - Gleason, Mona (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "Unwilling Mothers, Unwanted Babies: Infanticide in Canada," by Kirsten Johnson Kramar.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; INFANTICIDE; KRAMAR, Kirsten Johnson; Nonfiction; UNWILLING Mothers, Unwanted Babies: Infanticide in Canada (Book)

Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London - Gorham, Deborah (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London," by Seth Koven.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; KOVEN, Seth; Nonfiction; SEX customs; SLUMMING: Sexual & Social Politics in Victorian London (Book)

Restructuring Strategy: New Networks and Industry Challenges - Gould, Anthony (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "Restructuring Strategy: New Networks and Industry Challenges," edited by Karel O. Cool, James E. Henderson and Rene Abate.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Corporate governance; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Strategic planning

Emma Goldman: The American Years - Graham, Robert (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book "Emma Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years, 1890-1919," Volume 1 and 2, edited by Falk Candace.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; EMMA Goldman: A Documentary History of the American Years 1890-1919 (Book); GOLDMAN, Emma, 1869-1940; History; Nonfiction; United States

Protection of Migrant Agricultural Workers' Rights - Gutierrez, Gonzalez Israel (McMaster University, 2006)
This thesis investigates several issues related to the provisions afforded by aspects of the Canadian welfare state to protect the rights of migrant labour participating in the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program. In the introduction and literature review, I provide the background of the program and present the nature of the issues that surround it. I also outline the problems that migrant agricultural workers face while participating in the program. These are mainly due to the few provisions that are extended to this secondary sector labour group, a group of workers that is barely visible to Canadian society. In the main part of the thesis, I analyze the two instruments that allow the entry of these workers into Canada and the different pieces of Canadian legislation that are relevant to protecting legitimate rights of any person who works in this country. More importantly, I also present findings derived from interviews with migrant agricultural workers and key informants from advocacy groups and the labour movement regarding those provisions. Based on their in Sights and on the dual market theory, I scrutinize the position of the Canadian welfare state concerning the legitimate provisions migrant workers should be entitled to and how the globalization context influences that position. I conclude with a series of ideas that, in my opinion, could positively affect this labour group's welfare status.

Zero Tolerance: Can It Work in a Unionized Environment? - Haiven, Judy (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
An essay is presented on work environment tolerance. It offers a history of employment and examines the possible role of employers in the proliferation of work culture. The author relates his first experience with unionized environment and discusses conversations he has had with several employees on the subject of labor union.
Keywords: ESSAY (Literary form); INDUSTRIAL engineering; Labor Unions; Labor policy; PERSONNEL management; Work environment

Pistes de renouveau syndical : défis et enjeux : Introduction / Paths to Union Renewal: Challenges and Issues: Introduction - Haiven, Larry; Lévesque, Christian; Roby, Nicolas (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2006)
Editorial introduction to the theme of the issue. Includes bibliography.

Making a Difference: Knowledge Activism and Worker Representation in Joint OHS Committees - Hall, Alan; Forrest, Anne; Sears, Alan; Carlan, Niki (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2006)
This article elaborates the concept of knowledge activism as a way of understanding effective health and safety representation within the current Ontario legal regime of internal responsibility. Based on interviews with unionized health and safety representatives in the auto industry, we suggest that knowledge activism is a form of political activism by worker health and safety representatives that is organized around the strategic collection and tactical use of technical, scientific and legal knowledge. We argue that knowledge activism is more effective with reference to larger scale changes in work processes, workplace organization and technologies, and with reference to occupational health issues. Knowledge activism is conceptualized as an effective adaptation to a legislative regime which involves worker representatives in decisions without providing substantive power or proactive enforcement support.
Keywords: Activism; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Employee involvement; Knowledge; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; occupational health

Pension Law - Hanin, Frédéric (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "Pension Law," by Ari N. Kaplan.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Pension plans; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Pension Power: Unions, Pension Funds and Social Investment in Canada - Hanin, Frédéric (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "Pension Power: Unions, Pension Funds and Social Investment in Canada," by Isla Carmichael.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Pension fund management; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Social investing

Pro-Family Politics and Fringe Parties in Canada - Harder, Lois (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "Pro-Family Politics and Fringe Parties in Canada," by Chris MacKenzie.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; MACKENZIE, Chris; Nonfiction; PRO-Family Politics & Fringe Parties in Canada (Book); Social movements

American Multinationals in Europe: Managing Employment Relations across National Borders - Hayden, Annette (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "American Multinationals in Europe: Managing Employment Relations across National Borders," edited by Phil Almond and Anthony Ferner.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Foreign operations of US corporations; Human resource management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Contracting Public Services in New York State: Labour Effects - Hebdon, Robert (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2006)
This study examines 54 cases of restructuring public services in towns and counties in upstate New York. The 54 cases include 39 cases of privatization in the form of contracting out, nine cases of contracting back in, and six cases of contracting out services to another government. Local government privatization was found to have some harmful effects on workers. Few local employers had adjustment policies to protect affected employees and disproportionate negative impacts were found on women and minorities. Privatization was also found to have significant de-unionizing effects. On the other hand, it had no clear impact on wages and benefits. The role of unions in the restructuring process is more complex than was previously thought. Unions were the catalyst for opposition actions but only in cases involving for-profit restructuring. In the nine cases that involved contracting work back into the public sector, unions supported restructuring changes, and in the six cases of contracting out to another government, union opposition was not significant.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Local government; Privatization; Public sector; Regression analysis; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Unionization; states

Labour Organization - Hebert, Gerard (The Canadian Encyclopedia (TCE), 2006)
The first labour organizations in Canada appeared in the early 19th century, but their growth and development really occurred in the early decades of the 20th century. During most of the 19th century labour unions were local, sporadic and short-lived....

Globalization and the Mexican-Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program: Power, Racialization and Transnationalism in Temporary Migration - Hennebry, Jenna L. (University of Western Ontario, 2006)
This research investigates the formation and maintenance of power relations within the organization and everyday practices of work and transnational living, and the social and economic impacts among Mexican migrants and their families participating in the Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP). Through the analysis of the qualitative data collected through ethnographic case studies in Mexico, 350 hours of participant observation, and semi-structured interviews with 25 migrant workers, 5 farmers and 5 representatives from other state and non-state intermediaries, findings have emerged pertaining to three research themes: power, racialization and transnationalism. This research finds that Mexican migrant workers are consistently located in subordinate power positions in the organization and the everyday practices of the SAWP; and governments, employers, and other intermediaries have significant control over migrants' daily lives and their migration parameters. Racialization processes in both the institutional and everyday practices of the SAWP produce, maintain, and legitimize a system of temporary migration characterized by imbalanced power relations and the unequal allocation of resources and rights through the differentiation of the "Mexican migrant worker" with reference to race and ethnicity. Migrant workers and their families actively participate in transnational practices that are integral to seasonal migration, including the family networks that facilitate entry into the program, the "migration work" performed by women, and the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). This essential "migration work" involves preparing the family for migration and sustaining the transnational family through managing and/or working within family farms and small businesses, receiving and managing international remittance transfers and telephone calling, managing and utilizing remittances for daily living and development, and performing carework. These findings support the "transnationalization of culture" hypothesis, and indicate that a gendered culture of migration is emerging within the SAWP. It is argued that the SAWP is an exemplar of "time-space compression" in action which leads to the exploitation and subordination of "Mexican migrant workers." Temporary migration systems like the SAWP are seen as recursively related to globalization, where foreign labour dependence and remittance economies are created and perpetuated through globalization and a "migration industry" powered by new information and communication technologies.
Keywords: Globalization; Mexican-Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program; Racialization; Seasonal agricultural workers; Social sciences; Temporary migration; Transnationalism

Protecting Aboriginal Children - Hick, Steven F. (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "Protecting Aboriginal Children," by Christopher Walmsley.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; INDIGENOUS children; Nonfiction; PROTECTING Aboriginal Children (Book); WALMSLEY, Christopher

Making Steel: Sparrows Point and the Rise and Ruin of American Industrial Might - High, Steven C. (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "Making Steel: Sparrows Point and the Rise and Ruin of American Industrial Might," by Mark Reutter.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; MAKING Steel: Sparrows Point & the Rise & Ruin of American Industrial Might (Book); Nonfiction; REUTTER, Mark; Steel industry

Building Global Labour Networks: The Case of the Global Labour University - Hoffer, Frank (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2006)
The article discusses the experience of the Global Labour University project. Summarizing major challenges labour is facing in adapting to the structural changes of globalisation, the paper puts the idea of a Global Labour University in the broader context of labour's needs to respond to a dominantly pro-business, pro-market globalisation discourse. The second part of the article introduces and critically discusses the Global Labour University project as an initiative to contribute to the need for global research, teaching and networking for a fairer globalisation.

Making the Shift from Pink Collars to Blue Ones: Women's Non-Traditional Occupations - Hulme, Kristin (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article explains the persistent absence of women from the trades and industrial occupations. It notes that trades and industrial occupations are understood to be masculine because those who fill them have a gender and their gender rubs off on the jobs they mainly do. The second factor states the persistence of the dominance of men is a de-gendering of women as women by the workers by the workers themselves, unions, and the labour market. It has been concluded that women knew that their success could inspire others, but emphasized notions of individualism and formal equality rather than gender imbalances and discrimination on the job.
Keywords: BUILDING trades; Construction industry; Discrimination in employment; EMPLOYMENT (Economic theory); Individualism; LABOR market; MASCULINE identity; SELF-interest; WOMEN -- Employment; Women employees

Is Sex Work? Re-assessing Feminist Debates About Sex, Work, and Money - Hunt, Gerald; Chamberland, Line (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the books "The World of Male Sex Workers," by Michel Dorais and "Taking it Off, Putting it On: Women in the Strip Trade," by Chris Bruckert.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; BRUCKERT, Chris; DORAIS, Michel; Nonfiction; TAKING It Off, Putting It On: Women in the Strip Trade (Book); WORLD of Male Sex Workers, The (Book)

Building Democracy for Women and Sexual Minorities: Union Embrace of Diversity - Hunt, Gerald; Haiven, Judy (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2006)
This article assesses Canadian labour's response to changed demographics by considering the way unions have engaged with women and sexual minorities (gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people). Many unions have now adopted inclusive policies. However, to consider how effectively these policies have been articulated and implemented at the local level, we consider two illustrative cases. One case involves a serious breakdown at the local level over pay equity for women; another case tells the story of a local's support for a gay man's challenge to a school board. We conclude that labour's apparent formal recognition of women and sexual minorities has not necessarily diffused into effective accommodation locally, although we also find grounds for optimism.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Gays & lesbians; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Women; Workplace diversity

Reconsidering the Bluestockings - Hustak, Carla (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "Reconsidering the Bluestockings," edited by Nicole Pohl and Betty A. Schellenberg.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; Nonfiction; POHL, Nicole; RECONSIDERING the Bluestockings (Book); SCHELLENDERG, Betty A.; STOCKS (Finance)

The Blue Eagle at Work: Reclaiming Democratic Rights in the American Workplace - Hyde, Alan (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "The Blue Eagle at Work: Reclaiming Democratic Rights in the American Workplace," by Charles J. Morris.
Keywords: BLUE Eagle at Work: Reclaiming Democratic Rights in the American Workplace, The (Book); BOOKS -- Reviews; MORRIS, Charles J.; Nonfiction; Work environment

Regulating Precarious Labour Markets: What Can We Learn from New European Models? - Jackson, Andrew (Precarious Employment: Understanding Labour Market Insecurity in Canada, 2006)
[E]xplores how more widespread collective bargaiing, minimum employment in Nordic countries like Denmark, could have a favourable impact on the ways in which labour markets operate at the micro-level. --From editor's introductory chapter, p. 38.
Keywords: Labor Unions; Labor laws and legislation; Labor market; Temporary employment

Rowing Against the Tide: The Struggle to Raise Union Density in a Hostile Environment - Jackson, Andrew (Paths to Union Renewal: Canadian Experiences, 2006)
[P]rovides an overview of the trends and patterns of union density in Canada and its implications for union renewal. Of particular interest is [the author's] analysis of the opportunities for new organizing in various industries and occupations. --Editors' introduction
Keywords: Labor Unions; Labor movement; Organizational change

Labour Left Out: Canada's Failure to Protect and Promote Collective Bargaining as a Human Right - Jain, Harish C. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "Labour Left Out: Canada's Failure to Protect and Promote Collective Bargaining as a Human Right," by Roy J. Adams.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Collective bargaining; HUMAN rights; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Labour Relations - Jamieson, Stuart Marshall (The Canadian Encyclopedia (TCE), 2006)
Labour relations refers to the relations between employers and employees. They are affected by a number of factors, including labour organizations, collective bargaining, labour market, government policy, the structure of the economy, labour law and technological change....

Brainworkers: The Middle-Class Labour Reformer and the Late-Victorian Canadian Industrial Novel - Janes, Daniela (Canadian Literature, 2006)
Taken together, the fiction and non-fiction writing of these two nineteenth-century Canadian intellectuals [Agnes Maule Machar (1837-1927) and Albert Richardson Carman (1865-1939)] suggests both the vitality of the public debate about labour reform, and the broad social interest and significance attributed to the labour question as one of the issues that would define the moral character of the period. Both Machar and Carman approach the labour question as Christian intellectuals, and their sense of the middleclass’s social responsibility is clearly articulated in both their novels and their essays. These writers suggest that what is needed is not an increase in charity but a rejuvenation of each citizen’s sense of moral responsibility. The idea of “brotherhood,” emphasized in the writing of both Carman and Machar, connects the church’s rhetoric of spiritual brotherhood to the labour reform movement’s emphasis on the practical brotherhood that unites workers and which is manifested in their drive toward combination and unionization. Machar and Carman’s own efforts as brainworkers who speak out about the urgent necessity for reform are echoed in their fictional heroes’ quest to create a more egalitarian society. --Author's conclusion

Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age - Jones, Rheti S. (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age," by Kevin Boyle.
Keywords: ARC of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights & Murder in the Jazz Age (Book); BOOKS -- Reviews; BOYLE, Kevin; Civil rights; Nonfiction

Doing IT: Women Working in Information Technology - Kainer, Jan (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "Doing IT: Women Working in Information Technology," by Krista Scott-Dixon.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; DOING IT: Women Working in Information Technology (Book); Nonfiction; SCOTT-Dixon, Krista; information technology

United Apart: Gender and the Rise of Craft Unionism - Kealey, Linda (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "United Apart: Gender and the Rise of Craft Unionism," by Ileen A. DeVault.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; DEVAULT, Ileen A.; Economic aspects; Nonfiction; PERSONNEL management; UNITED Apart: Gender & the Rise of Craft Unionism (Book)

Working on Screen: Representations of the Working Class in Canadian Cinema - Khouri, Malek; Varga, Darrell (University of Toronto Press, 2006)
As themes in film studies literature, work and the working class have long occupied a peripheral place in the evaluation of Canadian cinema, often set aside in the critical literature for the sake of a unifying narrative that assumes a division between Québécois and English Canada's film production, a social-realist documentary aesthetic, and what might be called a 'younger brother' relationship with the United States. In Working on Screen, contributors examine representations of socio-economic class across the spectrum of Canadian film, video, and television, covering a wide range of class-related topics and dealing with them as they intersect with history, political activism, globalization, feminism, queer rights, masculinity, regional marginalization, cinematic realism, and Canadian nationalism. Of concern in this collection are the daily lives and struggles of working people and the ways in which the representation of the experience of class in film fosters or marginalizes a progressive engagement with history, politics, and societies around the world. Working on Screen thus expands the scholarly debates on the concept of national cinema and builds on the rich, formative efforts of Canadian cultural criticism that held dear the need for cultural autonomy. -- Publisher's description

Labour Relations Practices of Nonprofits Acting as For-Profits: An Explainable Dissonance - Kimel, Eyal (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2006)
This article seeks to connect two seemingly distinct phenomena. Labour disputes in the nonprofit sector and the pressure nonprofits have undergone to become more economically and operationally efficient. The article describes the antics of some nonprofits in Ontario, and equates them with similar tactics that are employed by mega corporations that are notorious for their mistreatment of employees. The article endeavors to find a correlation between the mistreatment of employees by nonprofits and the ever-growing pressure, nonprofits have had to endure in recent years, to become more efficient. The author argues that the ethics of efficiency and corporate-like models of operation bring along other characteristics of for-profit businesses that may explain actions taken by nonprofits that are otherwise in direct contrast with everything they stand for.

Wal-Town: The Film - Kirby, Sergeo (Office national du film du Canada ; Productions Grand Nord Québec, 2006)
In this feature documentary, 6 student activists visit 36 Canadian towns to take on one giant corporation. Filmed over 2 summers, these young crusaders (plus a gonzo journalist) try to raise public awareness about Wal-Mart's business practices and their effect on cities and towns across Canada. With youthful passion and often hilarious cultural jams, this film takes us to the frontlines of the ongoing debate over the company's increasing dominance in the Canadian retail market.
Keywords: Canada; Hypermarchés; Industrie et Commerce; Travail; Économie

Cuba: A Revolution in Motion - Kirk, John M. (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "Cuba: A Revolution in Motion," by Isaac Saney .
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; CUBA: A Revolution in Motion (Book); Nonfiction; Revolutions; SANEY, Isaac

The 10 Percenters: Gender, Nationality, and Occupational Health in Canada - Kome, Penney (Worker Safety under Siege: Labor, Capital, and the Politics of Workplace Safety in a Deregulated World, 2006)
"[E]xamines the interconnections between gender, nationality, and occupational health. ...[The author] reports that 10 percent of adult Canadians, mostly women, have debilitating work-related musculo-skeletal disorders that seriously limit the scope of their daily activities. ...Canadians have a distinct disadvantage in fighting occupational injury and illness since record keeping was outsourced by the government during the 1990s to thirteen regional Associations of Workers Compensation Boards of Canada, a nonprofit association that charges fees to access the data that were formerly available to the public for free." --Editor's introduction
Keywords: Industrial hygiene; Industrial safety

Paths to Union Renewal: Canadian Experiences - Kumar, Pradeep; Schenk, Christopher Robert (Broadview Press, 2006)
This book focuses on the efforts and progress of union revitalization and organizing, and documents the renewal initiatives undertaken by unions in Canada. Unions, separately or in coalition with other unions or social groups, have begun to re-examine the basis of their organization and activity in the face of a harsher economic and political climate. Signs of union renewal include increased rank-and-file participation in the life of the union, increased democratic decision-making, evidence of new horizontal union structures, the development of a worker-centred societal vision, and a new emphasis on organizing both internally and externally. Paths to Union Renewal addresses a subject of considerable political and social importance about which there have been a number of debates. A key impetus for this re-examination has originated in the United States where decades-long union decline has engendered new ideas adopted by a number of unions and the national central labour body the AFL-CIO. This in turn has led to debates on renewal strategies in Western Europe and Anglo-Saxon countries from Britain to Australia. Despite this, little detailed research of the processes, structures, and implications of union renewal has been undertaken across Canada. Paths to Union Renewal fills this gap by critically examining union renewal in a variety of unions, providing a basis for informed discussion and debate on the role and place of trade unions in contemporary society. --Publisher's description
Keywords: British Columbia Federation of Labour. Organizing Institute; British Columbia Government and Service Employees Union (BCGEU); Canadian Auto Workers (CAW); Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE); Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP); Community unionism; Labor Unions; Labor movement; Organizational change; United Food and Commerical Workers (UFCW); United Steelworkers (USW)

Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures: Stories - Lam, Vincent. (Doubleday Canada, 2006)
Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures is a collection of mature and intricate stories connected through the relationships that develop among a group of young doctors as they move from the challenges of med school to the intense world of emergency rooms, evac missions, and terrifying new viruses. --Publisher's description. Contents: How to get into medical school, part I -- Take all of Murphy -- How to get into medical school, part II -- Code clock -- A long migration -- Winston -- Eli -- Afterwards -- An insistent tide -- Night flight -- Contact tracing -- Before light -- Glossary of terms -- Acknowledgements.
Keywords: Doctor; Medical Students; Physicians; Short Stories; White-collared work

Corporate Integrity, Rethinking Organizational Ethics and Leadership - Langlois, Lyse (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "Corporate Integrity, Rethinking Organizational Ethics and Leadership," by Marvin T. Brown.
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

Decentralized Bargaining in a Globalizing Industry: The Automotive Assembly Industry in Australia - Lansbury, Russell D.; Wright, Chris F.; Baird, Marian (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2006)
This paper examines the impact of enterprise bargaining on employment relations practices in the Australia automotive assembly sector in the context of the globalization of the industry. While there has been convergence towards lean production principles among the four auto assemblers, arising from global trends, there has also been divergence resulting from enterprise bargaining, among other variables. Strong similarities are apparent between the companies in areas such as work organization, skill formation and enterprise governance, whereas there are differences in remuneration and staffing practices. However, it remains to be seen whether decentralized bargaining will continue to yield greater differentiation in employment relations among the automotive manufacturers in an increasingly globalized industry.
Keywords: AUTOMOBILE industry; Bargaining; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Decentralization; Globalization; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Rétablir la confiance dans l’entreprise par le recours à la médiation - Le Flanchec, Alice; Rojot, Jacques; Fourboul, Catherine (In, 2006)
Cet article examine le rôle de la médiation comme outil d’action sur la confiance entre les représentants de salariés et d’employeurs. La notion de confiance est appréhendée à travers les typologies de McAllister (1995) et de Lewicki et Bunker (1995b). Il apparaît que la médiation joue un rôle fort sur la dimension cognitive de la confiance, mais un rôle moindre sur sa dimension affective. Parallèlement, les dimensions basées sur le calcul et sur la connaissance sont fortement influencées, mais la médiation a un impact plus faible sur la dimension identitaire de la confiance. Une approche en termes de « contrat psychologique » peut alors aider à rétablir la confiance identitaire ou affective, bien qu’il puisse subsister une part de méfiance irréductible, liée aux blocages idéologiques. Cette réflexion est illustrée par une étude qualitative du « dispositif d’appui au dialogue social » mis en place par l’Agence nationale pour l’amélioration des conditions de travail (ANACT) en France.

Work - Legendre, Camille (The Canadian Encyclopedia (TCE), 2006)
At different times in different cultures, work has been considered a divine punishment, an activity unworthy of free citizens, as the best possible way to accomplish the will of the Creator, or as the best possible way to earn a living. In modern Canadian society, work has been for most people the central activity around which life has revolved. However in the last decades, major technological, economic, social and cultural changes have raised a good deal of questioning about its future. "Work" may be on the threshold of a new era....

From Culture to Democracy: Culture and Politics in the Italian Elections of 1948 - Leonardi, Robert (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "From Culture to Democracy: Culture and Politics in the Italian Elections of 1948," by Robert A. Ventresca.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; FROM Culture to Democracy: Culture & Politics in the Italian Elections of 1948 (Book); Nonfiction; POLITICS & culture; VENTRESCA, Robert A.

Danielle Cuisinier Dionne (1921-2006) - Lévesque, Andrée (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article pays homage to labour activist Danielle Cuisinier Dionne (1921-2006).
Keywords: DIONNE, Danielle Cuisinier; Obituaries

Red Travellers: Jeanne Corbin and Her Comrades - Lévesque, Andrée (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006)
Jeanne Corbin typifies the female militants of the first generation of Canadian Communists. Andrée Lévesque's powerful account of the experiences of Corbin and her female comrades reveals the essential role women played in the movement. Levesque also shows that, despite some efforts to construct egalitarian gender relations, these women subordinated gender issues to the class struggle. Corbin's red itinerary began when she joined the Young Communist League in Edmonton. She later held party posts across the country through her involvement with The Worker in Toronto, a French communist paper in Montreal, the Workers' Cooperative in Timmins, and a lumbermen's strike in Abitibi - where she was jailed for taking part in a protest. She died of tuberculosis in London, Ontario, in 1944. Levesque relies on a wide range of sources to provide a unique exploration of Canadian labour and social history. --Publisher's descriptioin

The Hidden Costs of Precarious Employment: Health and the Employment Relationship - Lewchuk, Wayne; De Wolff,, Alice; King, Andrew; Polanyi, Michael (Precarious Employment: Understanding Labour Market Insecurity in Canada, 2006)
[C]ontributes to an understanding of the nature of precarious employment and its broader social implications, with an emphasis on its impact on health. It reports findings of a survey exploring connections between the employment relationship, the organization of work, and workers' health. ...[The authors] develop a new concept - "employment strain" - to examine how precarious employment relationships affect workers' health.
Keywords: Industrial hygiene; LABOR market; Labor Unions; Labor laws and legislation; Temporary employment

When Corporations Substitute for Adversarial Unions: Labour Markets and Human Resource Management at Magna - Lewchuk, Wayne; Wells, Don (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2006)
The industrial relations system at Magna International is an example of an integrated, coherent, non-union human resource management strategy. It includes significant mechanisms of worker voice and conflict resolution as substitutes for union representation. Potential labor-management conflicts associated with Taylorized labor processes are often translated into group problem-solving. Redistributive conflicts are re-framed as mutual gains through profit-sharing. Corporate communications promote an ethos of competitiveness. Individualized pay and promotion schemes, segmented internal labor markets, and the exposure of individual plants to competitive pressures, promote cultures of labor cooperation in the pursuit of productivity gains. The success of this union avoidance model is situated in a context of the erosion of unionized labor relations, the disciplinary effects of precarious labor markets, and the vulnerability of workplaces to transnational competitive forces. Continued success is predicated on Magna's ability to survive sectoral and macroeconomic restructuring forces which are, in large measure, beyond management's control.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Conflict resolution; LABOR market; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Motor vehicle industry; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Always Be Closing - Lichtenstein, Alex (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews and comments on several books including "Every Man a Speculator: A History of Wall Street in American Life," by Steve Fraser, "Something for Nothing: Lick in America," by T. J. Jackson Lears and "Born Losers: A History of Failure in America," by Scott A. Sandage.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; BORN Losers: A History of Failure in America (Book); EVERY Man a Speculator: A History of Wall Street in American Life (Book); FRASER, Steve; LEARS, T. J. Jackson; Nonfiction; SANDAGE, Scott A.; SOMETHING for Nothing: Luck in America (Book)

Precarious Employment and Occupational Health and Safety Regulation in Quebec - Lippel, Katherine (Precarious Employment: Understanding Labour Market Insecurity in Canada, 2006)
[Analyzes] existing legislation, law and legal literature on the application of occupational health and safety and on workers' compensation legislation in Quebec. [Argues] there are very few tools available to examine regulatory effectiveness from a legal perspective...[and that] it is crucial for legal researchers to join with researchers determining health effects. --From editor's introductory chapter, p. 38.
Keywords: Labor Unions; Labor laws and legislation; Labor market; Temporary employment

Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream - Lipsig-Mummé, Carla (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream," by Janice Fine.
Keywords: Aliens; Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

The Impact of Industrial Action Ballots on Trade Union Procedures, Practices and Behaviour: the British Context - Lockwood, Graeme (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2006)

Men of Blood: Violence, Manliness and Criminal Justice in Victorian England - Loeb, Lori (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "Men of Blood: Violence, Manliness and Criminal Justice in Victorian England," by Martin J. Wiener.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; Criminal law; MEN of Blood: Violence, Manliness & Criminal Justice in Victorian England (Book); Nonfiction; WIENER, Martin J.

Bibliography: Recent Publications in Canadian Labour History [58, Fall 2006] - Lonardo, Michael; Sweeny, Robert C. H. (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
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); WOMEN & war

Empirical Study of Employment Arrangements and Precariousness in Australia - Louie, Amber M.; Ostry, Aleck S.; Quinlan, Michael; Keegel, Tessa; Shoveller, Jean; LaMontagne, Anthony D. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2006)
Much research on precarious employment compares permanent workers with one or two other broadly-defined employment categories. We developed a more refined method of examining precariousness by defining current employment arrangements in terms of job characteristics. These employment arrangement categories were then compared in terms of socio-demographics and self-reported job insecurity. This investigation was based on a cross-sectional population-based survey of a random sample of 1,101 working Australians. Eight mutually exclusive employment categories were identified: Permanent Full-time (46.4%), Permanent Part-time (18.3%), Casual Full-time (2.7%), Casual Part-time (9.3%), Fixed Term Contract (2.1%), Labour Hire (3.6%), Own Account Self-employed (7.4%), and Other Self-employed (9.5%). These showed significant and coherent differences in job characteristics, socio-demographics and perceived job insecurity. These empirically-supported categories may provide a conceptual guide for government agencies, policy makers and researchers in areas including occupational health and safety, taxation, labour market regulations, the working poor, child poverty, benefit programs, industrial relations, and skills development.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Comparative analysis; Employment policies; Job descriptions; Job satisfaction; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Social Reproduction: Feminist Political Economy Challenges Neo-Liberalism - Luxton, Meg; Bezanson, Kate (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006)
Using a feminist political economy approach, contributors document the impact of current socio-economic policies on states, markets, households, and communities. Relying on impressive empirical research, they argue that women bear the costs of and responsibility for care-giving and show that the theoretical framework provided by feminist analyses of social reproduction not only corrects the gender-blindness of most economic theories but suggests an alternative that places care-giving at its centre. In this illuminating study, they challenge feminist scholars to re-engage with materialism and political economy to engage with feminism. -- Publisher's description
Keywords: Canada; Discrimination à l'égard des femmes Canada; Feminist economics; Feminist economics Canada; Feminist theory; Feminist theory Canada; Femmes Canada Conditions sociales; Femmes Canada Conditions économiques; SOCIAL SCIENCE Feminism & Feminist Theory; SOCIAL SCIENCE Sociology General; Sex discrimination against women; Sex discrimination against women Canada; Théorie féministe Canada; Women Canada Economic conditions; Women Canada Social conditions; Women Economic conditions; Women Social conditions; Économie féministe Canada

Notebook - MacDonald, Dan; Robicheau, Wendy G. (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
In two parts, the Notebook opens with "Steel-ing Cape Breton's Labour History," by Dan McDonald, who critiques "The Steel Plant in the Home," an exhibit at the Cape Breton Centre for Heritage and Science. McDonald also argues that Cape Breton's rich labour history has been trumped by the notorious Sydney tar ponds and a giant fiddle built as as tourist attraction. The second part, entitled "Report from the Archives: Records of the Joint Action Group to Clean Up the Sydney Tar Ponds," by Wendy Robicheau, discusses the 90 linear metres of unprocessed records received by the Beaton Institute from the Joint Action Group, a community-based organization dedicated to cleaning up the tar ponds.
Keywords: CAPE Breton (N.S. : County); CONSENSUS (Social sciences); Culture; Labor; Nova Scotia; PRODUCTION (Economic theory); Social conflict; Steel industry; Working class

The Industrialization of Tree Harvesting Systems in the Eastern Canadian Forest, 1955-1995 - MacDonald, Peter; Clow, Michael (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
An essay is presented on industrialization. It offers a history of employment and examines the possible role of employers in the proliferation of work culture. The author relates his first experience with unionized environment and discusses conversations he has had with several employees on the subject of labor union.
Keywords: DEVELOPMENT economics; ESSAY (Literary form); INDUSTRIAL engineering; Labor Unions; Labor policy; Work environment

Canadian Working-Class History: Selected Readings - MacDowell, Laurel Sefton; Radforth, Ian Walter (Canadian Scholars' Press, 2006)
[This book updates] recent and classic scholarship on the history, politics, and social groups of the working class in Canada. Some of the changes...in the new edition include better representation of women scholars and nine provocative and ground-breaking new articles on racism and human rights; women's equality; gender history; Quebec sovereignty; and the environment. --Publisher's description
Keywords: Equality; History; Human rights; Labor Unions; Labor movement; Labour; Racism; Social history; Women; Working class; labour rights

Unsocial Europe: Social Protection or Flexploitation? - MacRae, Heather (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "Unsocial Europe: Social Protection or Flexploitation?," by Anne Gray.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; GRAY, Anne; Labor; Nonfiction; UNSOCIAL Europe: Social Protection or Flexploitation? (Book)

Paths to Union Renewal: Canadian Experiences - Mangan, David (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "Paths to Union Renewal: Canadian Experiences," edited by Pradeep Kumar and Christopher Schenk.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Organizational change; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Unionization

Organizing Call Centres: The Steelworkers' Experience - Martin, D'Arcy; Steedman, Mercedes; Garcia-Orgales, Jorge; Guard, Julie (Paths to Union Renewal: Canadian Experiences, 2006)
Case study of efforts [by the United Steelworkers] to organize Omega Direct Response, a call centre in Sudbury, Ontario. The study shows that, by working together, rank-and-file workers as inside organizers and experienced professional organizers can develop winning strategies that can enable unions to organize hard to organize workplaces. The paper also includes perspectives from a conference on organizing call centres held in Toronto in September 2003. --Editors' introduction
Keywords: Call centers; Community Direct Response (Sudbury, Ont.); Labor Unions; Labor movement; Organizational change; United Steelworkers (USW)

Working Class Culture and the Development of Hull, Quebec, 1800-1929 - Martin, Michael (J. Bernier, 2006)
...This [book], most decidedly, is not only the narrative of the prominent citizens in the history of Hull. Rather, it is the story of thousands of virtually unknown men, women, and children of the working class of Hull, Quebec. Among many others, it’s the story of James McConnell, a worker from Nova Scotia, hired by Philemon Wright in Quebec City in 1801. It’s the story of Luther Colton, a carpenter from New York, who came to Hull in 1802. It’s the story of Joseph Delorme, one of the first French Canadians to be hired by Philemon Wright to work in his shanties, just to give three examples of normally unnamed workers. This study of the ordinary people of Hull reflects an agenda that emerged in the last half of the 20th century when historians came to see that “the real task of history in our time is to recreate, appreciate and analyze the full spectrum of past societies; that means, pre-eminently to attempt to understand the lives of the working people, the great mass of any society,” rather than merely the politicians and elites who governed past societies. This book also studies the workers who helped the workers of Hull forge an awareness of themselves as a class in a self-conscious attempt to improve the lot of ordinary working people. --Author's preface
Keywords: History; Hull (Gatineau, Québec) History; Hull (Gatineau, Québec) Social conditions; Québec Gatineau Hull; Social conditions; Working class; Working class Hull (Gatineau, Québec) History

Hidden Actors, Muted Voices: The Employment of Rural Women in Saskatchewan Forestry and Agri-Food Industries = Muettes et invisibles : les femmes des régions rurales dans l'industrie forestière et l'agroalimentaire en Saskatchewan - Martz, Diane J. F.; Mills, Suzanne E.; Brueckner, Ingrid; Reed, Maureen Gail (Status of Women Canada, 2006)
In April 2003, funding by Status of Women Canada was provided to carry out a research project to understand the nature, extent and conditions of rural women’s employment in forestry and agri-food industries. While women have a long history of employment in these resource sectors, surprisingly, their employment contributions and experiences have not been publicly discussed. The goal of this research was to make visible the employment experiences of rural women in these industries, particularly as rural women have fewer job opportunities than women living in cities. We describe issues faced by women working in the forestry and agri-food industries and recommend policies to enhance women’s employment experiences.
Keywords: Agricultural processing industry workers; Attitudes; Employment; Rural women; Saskatchewan; Women in agriculture; Women in forestry

Black Struggle, Red Scare: Segregation and Anti-Communism in the South, 1948-1968 - McDuffie, Erik S. (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "Black Struggle, Red Scare: Segregation and Anti-Communism in the South, 1948-1968," by Jeff Woods.
Keywords: BLACK Struggle, Red Scare: Segregation & Anti-Communism in the South 1948-1968 (Book); BOOKS -- Reviews; Communism; Nonfiction; WOODS, Jeff

Ageing, Disability and Workplace Accommodations - McMullin, Julie Ann; Shuey, Kim M. (Ageing and Society, 2006)
In most western nations, laws discourage discrimination in paid employment on the basis of disability, but for these policies to be of benefit, individuals must define their functional limitations as disabilities. There is a strong relationship between age and disability among those of working age, yet it is unclear whether older workers attribute their limitations to disability or to ‘ natural ageing ’. If the latter is true, they may not believe that they need or qualify for workplace accommodations (i.e. adaptations or interventions at the workplace). Similarly, if an employer as- cribes a worker’s limitation to ‘natural ageing’, rather than to a disability, they may not offer compensatory accommodation. Using data from the Canadian 2001 Participation and Activity Limitation Survey, this paper asks whether workers who as- cribe their functional limitation to ageing are as likely as those who do not to report a need for a workplace accommodation. It also addresses whether those who identify a need for compensatory accommodations and who ascribe their limi- tation to ageing have unmet workplace-accommodation needs. The findings sug- gest that, even when other factors are controlled, e.g. the type and severity of disability, the number of limiting conditions, gender, age, education, income and occupation, those who made the ageing attribution were less likely to recognise the need for an accommodation; and among those who acknowledged a need, those who ascribed their disability to ageing were less likely to have their needs met.

A Community Coalition in Defense of Public Medicare - Mehra, Natalie (Paths to Union Renewal: Canadian Experiences, 2006)
Case study of unions mobilizing with community groups to defend public Medicare in Canada. The catalyst for the national campaign in 2001-02 was the royal commission on the future of health care in Canada, chaired by Roy Romanow.
Keywords: Community activism; Community groups; Community unionism; Labor Unions; Labor movement; Public medicare; Romanow, Roy; Royal Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada

Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-1921 - Merithew, Caroline Waldron (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-1921," by Brian Kelly.
Keywords: ALABAMA; BOOKS -- Reviews; COALFIELDS; KELLY, Brian; Nonfiction; RACE, Class & Power in the Alabama Coalfields 1908-1921 (Book)

A Battle Royal: Service Work Activism and the 1961-1962 Royal York Strike - Milloy, Jeremy (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
Although the service work occupies on increasingly central position in the Canadian labour market, its legacy of activism has largely been forgotten by scholars. This paper begins a reclamation of that legacy by analysing the bitter 1961-1962 strike at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto, Canada's most luxurious lodgings. The unsuccessful battle of mostly immigrant workers against a powerful corporation anticipates the multinational consolidation of and asymmetrical struggle in the industry over the next four decades. The paper evaluates strategies used by service workers, explores the different historical dynamics of service-work trade unionism, analyses the cultural contests which sprang up around such a powerful symbolic action, and seeks to explain what lessons have been learned by current Toronto hotel activists. It represents one starting point in the important work of understanding service work activism, and the economic, political, and cultural battles around class, gender, ethnicity, and consumption in Canada.
Keywords: CULTURAL movements; INTERNATIONAL business enterprises; POLITICAL participation; Popular culture; SOCIAL criticism; SOCIAL processes; Social history; Social movements; Social psychology

Segregation of Women and Aboriginal People Within Canada's Forest Sector by Industry and Occupation - Mills, Suzanne E. (The Canadian Journal of Native Studies, 2006)
This study examines employment segregation by gender and by Aboriginal ancestry within Canada's forest sector in 2001. Results show that while gender segregation was principally by occupation, segregation by Aboriginal ancestry was principally by industry sub-sector. White women were over represented in clerical occupations and Aboriginal men were over represented in woods based industries. Patterns of employment for Aboriginal women differed from those of both Aboriginal men and white women.
Keywords: Employment; Ethnic Interests; Forest products industry; Gender equity; Native North Americans; Native People; Native women; Occupations; Segregation

Aboriginal Organizing in Saskatchewan: The Experience of CUPE - Moran, Don (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2006)

L’entrevue structurée pour améliorer la sélection du personnel - Morin, Denis (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "L’entrevue structurée pour améliorer la sélection du personnel," by Normand Pettersen and André Durivage.

Union Resistance and Union Renewal in the CAW - Murningham, Bill; Robertson, David (Paths to Union Renewal: Canadian Experiences, 2006)
[D]iscusses the determinants of a strong union movement, the evolution of the union [from 1985 to 2005], and the challenges of union resistance and union renewal. These include making gains in bargaining, expanding democracy, organizing, deepening membership involvement and participation, generational renewal, strengthening social unionism, building alliances with social movements, strengthening our capacity to mobilize, and defining ourselves by what we do. The paper asserts that one of the union's greatest strengths is its culture. -- Editors' introduction
Keywords: Canadian Auto Workers (CAW); Labor Unions; Labor movement; Organizational change

Innovation in Canadian Unions: Patterns, Causes and Consequences - Murray, Gregor; Kumar, Pradeep (Paths to Union Renewal: Canadian Experiences, 2006)
[H]ighlights some of the innovations in structures, policies, and practices underway in union organizations in Canada, and the factors underlying the patterns of change. The paper draws on an extensive survey of innovations and change conducted by the authors in 2001 in partnership with Human Resources and Skills Development Canada and major unions and federations. --Editors' introduction
Keywords: Labor Unions; Labor movement; Organizational change

Globalization and Union Renewal: Perspectives from the Quebec Labour Movement - Murray, Gregor; Lévesque, Christian (Paths to Union Renewal: Canadian Experiences, 2006)
[A]nalyzes the Quebec experience with union renewal, focusing on the critical role of power resources, that is "resources that a union can access and mobilize in order to influence the process of change." --Editors' introduction
Keywords: Labor Unions; Labor movement; Organizational change

Rank-and-File Involvement in Policy-Making at the CEP - Newman, Keith R. (Paths to Union Renewal: Canadian Experiences, 2006)
[O]utlines the process of decision-making in the union on major policies, emphasizing the involvement of rank-and-file membership. The case study describes how the union formulated the energy policy in 2001 and the benefits of rank-and-file membership participation in policy-making. --Editors' introduction
Keywords: Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP); Labor Unions; Labor movement; Organizational change

Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas, Volume One: From Anarchy to Anarchism (300 CE to 1939) - Newman, Saul (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "Anarchism: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas, Volume One: From Anarchy to Anarchism (300 CE to 1939)," edited by Robert Graham.
Keywords: ANARCHISM: A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas: From Anarchy to Anarchism (Book); Anarchism; BOOKS -- Reviews; GRAHAM, Robert; Nonfiction

L'impact du cadre législatif sur le taux de syndicalisation des intérimaires au Québec et en France - Notebaert, Gérard (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2006)
L’industrie du travail intérimaire a connu une expansion remarquable au cours des dernières décennies. Le présent article a pour but de comparer la situation des travailleurs intérimaires au Québec et en France et d’expliquer les causes de leur très faible taux de syndicalisation. Pour ce faire, nous ferons les portraits schématiques de l’industrie de l’intérim, décrirons les cadres réglementaires qui régissent le travail intérimaire, examinerons certaines caractéristiques des régimes de représentation collective et analyserons les conditions dans lesquelles s’exerce le syndicalisme des intérimaires dans chacun de ces pays. Si les caractéristiques propres au travail intérimaire rendent difficiles l’organisation et la mobilisation syndicale de cette catégorie de travailleurs en raison de leur dispersion au sein d’une multitude d’entreprises utilisatrices, le très faible taux de présence syndicale dans cette industrie découle également d’autres facteurs spécifiques à chacun de ces pays et que nous tâcherons d’identifier.
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

Mobilizing Young People: A Case Study of UFCW Canada Youth Programs and Initiatives - O'Halloran, Christopher; Liu, Anna (Paths to Union Renewal: Canadian Experiences, 2006)
[E]xamines the development of youth programs and initiatives within UFCW Canada to increase youth involvement and participation in the union. Of interest are the union's national youth internship program, designed to train young union activists by providing them with basic labour education and training, local union youth committees, and youth conferences for exchange of experiences and views on union strategies and campaigns. The authors believe that the youth initiative has led to the integration of young workers into every level of the union and increased their particiaption in decision-making structures, servicing, and organizing. --Editors' introduction
Keywords: Labor Unions; Labor movement; Organizational change; United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Canada; Youth

The Role of Nonstandard Workers in Client-Organizations - Olsen, Karen M. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2006)
This paper examines the diversity and complexities of nonstandard work. Two types of nonstandard workers are studied: workers employed by temporary help agencies (THAs) and contract company workers, both of which are involved in a triadic employment relationship. The analyses are based on interviews with managers in three service-sector companies in Norway. The paper discusses the dilemmas managers in client-organizations face when agency temporaries and contract company workers are integrated and do work similar to what is done by the regular workers in the firm. Managers in client-organizations require loyalty from nonstandard workers, and under certain conditions, nonstandard workers are able to form pressure groups. The findings are discussed in relation to the highly regulated labour market in Norway, in a period of labour shortage.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Contract labor; Corporate culture; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Roles; Service industries; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Temporary employment

Nursing Against the Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care - Olson, Karin (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "Nursing Against the Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care," by Suzanne Gordon.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; GORDON, Suzanne; NURSING Against the Odds: How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes & Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses & Patient Care (Book); Nonfiction; Nursing

Union Workload: a Barrier to Women Surviving Labour-Movement Leadership - Paavo, Adriane (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2006)

Editor's Note = Note du directeur [58, Fall 2006] - Palmer, Bryan D. (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The editor pays tribute to managing editor Irene Whitfield, who retired after 25 years' service. Josephine Thompson has succeeded her in various capacities.
Keywords: Labor; PREFACES & forewords; Research

Iron and Steel Unionism in Canada and Australia, 1900-1914: The Impact of the State, Ethnicity, Management, and Locality - Patmore, Greg (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
Compared to Canada, Australian trade union membership grew dramatically in the period from 1900 to 1914. Through a comparative analysis of two iron and steel plants in Canada and Australia, this article broadens the debate about union growth in this particular period as well as generally. One plant was located at Lithgow, New South Wales, and the other at Sydney, Nova Scotia. While workers at both plants unionized in September-October 1902, the union at the Sydney plant collapsed following a major strike in 1904. Iron and steel unionism did not revive at the Sydney plant until during World War I. With the exception of a brief period, iron and steel unionism continued at the Lithgow plant for the period under examination. This article attempts to explain why iron and steel unionism persisted at Lithgow rather than Sydney and focuses on the factors of the state, the ethnic diversity of the workforce, management, and community or locality.
Keywords: CULTURAL fusion; CULTURAL pluralism; ETHNIC groups; GROUP identity; LABOR supply; Labor Unions; Labor disputes; MULTICULTURALISM; Steel industry

Le Conseil central des syndicats nationaux de Montréal (CSN) à l'heure de la radicalisation syndicale : 1968-1980 - Poirier, Stéphanie (Université de Montréal, 2006)
Ce mémoire porte sur le syndicalisme québécois dans les années 1960 et 1970 alors qu’il traverse une phase de bouleversement et qu’il radicalise son idéologie. Nous nous penchons plus particulièrement sur le cas de la CSN qui affermit sa critique du capitalisme avec la publication de textes d’orientation socialiste tels que Il n'y a plus d’avenir pour le Québec dans le système actuel et Ne comptons que sur nos propres moyens. Parmi les instances de la centrale, il y a les conseils centraux régionaux dont celui de Montréal, le plus imposant en terme d’effectifs (près de 60 000 en 1968). Rassemblant la frange la plus militante de la centrale, il a pour rôle l’éducation et l’action politique des membres. Le Conseil central des syndicats nationaux de Montréal (CCSNM) se trouve au centre de la tourmente sociale et nationale au cours de ces deux décennies alors qu’il est dirigé par la figure imposante et colorée de Michel Chartrand, président de 1968 à 1978. Dans l’historiographie, le Conseil central de Montréal est souvent considéré comme un haut lieu de la radicalisation syndicale. En analysant son discours et ses actions, nous démontrons qu’il prend effectivement des positions radicales et qu’il défend des opinions nationalistes. Malgré le fait qu’il tente de passer à l’action politique et milite pour la création d’un parti de travailleurs, le Conseil se caractérise principalement par son discours contestataire et sa critique acerbe du capitalisme. Nous verrons qu’il développe une position nationaliste indépendante au cours de la période, en se dissociant du projet du Parti québécois, qu’il juge bourgeois. Bien que les relations entre la CSN et le Conseil soient tendues, ce dernier a tout de même un impact important sur la CSN, particulièrement au niveau de la protection de la langue française et sur la position adoptée par la centrale au référendum de 1980. Le Conseil constitue donc un acteur important de la radicalisation de la société québécoise des années 1960 et 1970 en influençant la CSN, le mouvement syndical ainsi que les milieux de gauche à Montréal.

L'image des syndicats dans les éditoriaux de trois quotidiens montréalais lors de la première année du gouvernement québécois dirigé par Jean Charest (avril 2003 - avril 2004) - Posca, Jean-Simon (Université du Québec à Montréal, 2006)
Ce travail décrit et fait l'analyse de l'image des syndicats dans les éditoriaux des quotidiens payants montréalais lors de la première année au pouvoir du gouvernement québécois dirigé par Jean Charest (avril 2003 à avril 2004). Il se concentre sur les éditoriaux traitant des luttes entre les syndicats et le gouvernement Charest. Il examine les éditoriaux relatifs au syndicalisme parus dans Le Devoir, La Presse et The Gazette. Le travail présente et explique les ressemblances et les divergences apparaissant entre les différents journaux dans l'image que ceux-ci renvoient des syndicats.

"A Very Conservative Radical": Reverend Robert Connell's Encounter with Marxism in the BC CCF - Price, Christine (Simon Fraser University, 2006)
The historiography of the British Columbia Cooperative Federation differs from that of other provincial CCF groups for its lack of attention to the participation of religious reformers in shaping the party's early history. Yet the first CCF House Leader in the province, Reverend Robert Connell, was a fervent believer in the social gospel and in the goals of ecumenism. His attempts to bring "Christian principles" into politics resulted in a battle between reformers and radicals in the party, ultimately resulting in his departure from political life. The division of the BC CCF in 1936 as a result of what has become known as the "Connell Affair" created a loss of momentum for the party which lost its status as Official Opposition in the 1937 provincial election. This event presents a unique opportunity to study the interaction of a social gospel inspired Christian reformer with firmly irreligious supporters of Marxism.

Women in the Labour Force - Proctor, Merran (Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan, 2006)
Traditionally, reference to women in the labour force has focused on women in the paid labour force. Yet in Saskatchewan's agricultural-based economy, as in many other Canadian communities, economic development relied greatly on women's unpaid labour. --Introduction

Still 'Regime Competition'?: Trade Unions and Multinational Restructuring in Europe - Pulignano, Valeria (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2006)
This article studies trade unions' response to transnational change in a large multinational corporation within the motor industry in Europe. We show how the use of the European Works Councils (EWCs) as a forum for European negotiation did not counter the management's effort to whipsaw trade unions, such as to play off workers against each other in local negotiations. This seems to suggest that the effort to network and coordinate between employee representatives, and to negotiate with management through 'active' EWCs is ineffective at controlling inter-union competition in cases of transnational restructuring. Hence, research outcomes illustrate that an analysis of the impact of European-level agreements on plant level is requested in order to assess the effectiveness of 'active' EWCs in forging cross-national links.
Keywords: Agreements; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Motor vehicle industry; Multinational corporations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

The Practice of Everyday Colonialism: Indigenous Women at Work in the Hop Fields and Tourist Industry of Puget Sound - Raibmon, Paige (Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 2006)
In the late nineteenth century, thousands of Indigenous women journeyed hundreds of miles annually along the Pacific Northwest coast and converged around Puget Sound. They came to pick hops in the fields of farmers who occupied lands in western Washington. These migrants did not look like modern factory workers, yet they were laborers in a late-nineteenth-century incarnation of industrial agriculture. They came en masse to harvest a cash crop destined for sale on the global market, a crop internationally sought as a preservative and fl avoring for beer, a crop that could provide no sustenance to them or their families. Field workers were paid in cash wages, not in kind. This was no shop floor, but a labor hierarchy (both racialized and gendered) structured the conditions of their work all the same. --Introduction

Patients at Work: Insane Asylum Inmates' Labour in Ontario, 1841-1900 - Reaume, James (Mental Health and Canadian Society: Historical Perspectives, 2006)
Keywords: History; Mental illness; Psychiatric hospitals; Psychiatry

Affirmative Action Positions for Women on the Canadian Labour Congress Executive: Comments to the Advancing the Equity Agenda Conference - Riche, Nancy (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2006)

Postes d’action positive pour des femmes au sein de l’Exécutif du Congrés du Travail du Canada : Commentaires à l’intention de la conférence sur l’avancement du programme de l’équité - Riche, Nancy (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2006)

Le travailleur forestier québécois : transformations technologiques, socioéconomiques et organisationnelles - Rioux, Claude (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "Le travailleur forestier québécois : transformations technologiques, socioéconomiques et organisationnelles," by Camille Legendre,.

Apprivoiser le syndicalisme en milieu universitaire: histoire du syndicat genéral des professeurs et professeures de l'Université de Montréal - Rouillard, Jacques (Boréal, 2006)
Un syndicat de professeurs d’université n’est pas un syndicat comme les autres. L’individualisme inhérent au travail et à la culture professorale a toujours contribué à rendre plusieurs d’entre eux méfiants et plutôt réservés face à la solidarité syndicale. Chez les professeurs, le « nous » syndical s’est graduellement construit, par étapes, parfois dans la tourmente et la division. C’est ce cheminement des universitaires, cet «apprivoisement» du syndicalisme, qui est l’objet de ce volume. La conscience syndicale chez les professeurs commence véritablement à prendre racine avec la création du Syndicat des professeurs en 1966. Elle aboutit à la formation du SGPUM en 1972 et à son accréditation trois ans plus tard. Dans les années 1980 et 1990 l’utilité du syndicalisme ne fait plus de doute chez les professeurs, frappés par de faibles augmentations salariales, quand ce n’est pas des gels et des récupérations. Dans les années 2000, leur solidarité se renforce avec l’objectif de rattrapage des conditions de travail qui va culminer avec la première grève des professeurs en hiver 2005. Jacques Rouillard propose ici un historique de quarante ans de vie syndicale et de plus de cinquante ans de vie associative. Soucieux également d’insérer l’évolution du syndicat dans la trame générale de l’histoire du syndicalisme québécois, il accorde une large place dans cet historique aux négociations des syndicats des secteurs public et parapublic. --Résumé de l'éditeur

Working-Class History - Rouillard, Jacques; Frank, David; McCallum, Todd; Palmer, Bryan D. (The Canadian Encyclopedia (TCE), 2006)
Working-class history is the story of the changing conditions and actions of all working people. Most adult Canadians today earn their living in the form of wages and salaries and thus share the conditions of dependent employment associated with the definition of "working class." -- Introduction

Firmes multinationales et relations industrielles en Europe centrale : Une approche institutionnaliste - Rugraff, Éric (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2006)
Les nouvelles relations industrielles en Europe centrale sont en partie le résultat du rejet du système communiste et des structures qui lui étaient associées. Mais la trajectoire empruntée par ces pays est également la conséquence de l’influence exercée par les firmes multinationales. Pour continuer à attirer des flux significatifs d’investissements étrangers, les pays d’Europe centrale ont défini des législations sur la protection de l’emploi moins contraignantes pour les employeurs qu’en Europe de l’Ouest et ont favorisé l’émergence de relations du travail et d’un gouvernement d’entreprise marqués par la liberté contractuelle. Les firmes multinationales, acteurs centraux dans ces pays, privilégient des relations industrielles décentralisées et « désintermédiées ». Les firmes multinationales qui se sont implantées en Europe centrale contribuent à engager ces pays sur une trajectoire qui fait la part belle à la liberté de négociation entre acteurs individuels.

What's Class Got to Do with It? American Society in the Twenty-first Century - Russell, Jason (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "What's Class Got to Do with It? American Society in the Twenty-first Century," edited by Michael Zweig.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; Nonfiction; TWENTY-first century; WHAT'S Class Got to Do With It? American Society in the 21st Century (Book); ZWEIG, Michael

Syndicalisme critique et défi institutionnel : Vers l’individualisation du militantisme ? - Sainsaulieu, Ivan (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2006)
Nous posons dans le cas d’une monographie française (les syndicats Sud) la question de la régénérescence démocratique du syndicalisme bureaucratique. Malgré des référents politiques communs, notamment le souci de rénovation « démocratique » via la recherche de proximité avec la base, le réveil de l’action revendicative met aux prises des logiques d’action et des porteparole opposés au nom du réveil de sensibilités politiques divergentes, mais tous héritiers d’une même culture politique soixante-huitarde. Dimensions collectives et individuelles se mêlent donc à des problèmes de structure du syndicalisme, partagé entre deux conceptions contradictoires du contrôle (salarial ou social) ou de la démocratie (directe et indirecte). Le procès d’institutionnalisation contredit la réactivation des référentiels politiques du syndicalisme français, tandis que le procès d’individuation sociale accentue le rôle des individus dans un contexte de rareté de l’action collective.

Remembering Texpack: Nationalism, Internationalism, and Militancy in Canadian Unions in the 1970s - Sangster, Joan (Studies in Political Economy, 2006)
In 1971, the word "Texpack" became a flashpoint of political attention, debate, and anger for labour activists across Canada. Many mobilized to support strikers at Texpack's small textile firm in Brantford, Ontario, though some trade unionists from the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) turned their backs on the independent Canadian union, the Canadian Textile and Chemical Workers Union (CTCU), leading the strike. The significance of Texpack lay not simply in this stark manifestation of schisms within the house of labour, but rather in the strike's central role as a touchstone for political debates concerning economic and Left nationalism, and what kind of unions best served Canadian workers. This article explores the strike as a microcosm of broader political struggles of the period, particularly questions of nationalism and internationalism of unions. --From introduction

The Other Women's Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America - Sangster, Joan (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "The Other Women's Movement: Workplace Justice and Social Rights in Modern America," by Dorothy Sue Cobble.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; COBBLE, Dorothy Sue; Nonfiction; OTHER Women's Movement: Workplace Justice & Social Rights in Modern America, The (Book); WOMEN -- Social conditions

East Asian Welfare Regimes in Transition: From Confucianism to Globalisation - Sarfati, Hedva (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "East Asian Welfare Regimes in Transition: From Confucianism to Globalization," edited by Alan Walker and Chack-kie Wong.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Confucianism; Globalization; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Welfare

Y-a-t-il une politique européenne d'emploi, de sécurité professionnelle et de dialogue social ? - Sarfati, Hedva (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2006)
The article reviews the conference papers, "Y-a-t-il une politique européenne d’emploi, de sécurité professionnelle et de dialogue social ?," from the Conférence EUROCAP, Nantes, février 2006.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Organized Labour and the Constitutional Question - Savage, Larry (York University, 2006)
This dissertation examines Canada's constitutional question through the lens of the labour movements in both English Canada and Quebec. The existence of two distinct labour movements in Canada has meant that political struggles that have typified national politics are also in evidence in labour politics. The sovereignty-association partnership agreement between the Canadian Labour Congress and the Quebec Federation of Labour provides a good example of the pervasiveness of this dynamic and discourse. The dissertation examines this relationship specifically, and the constitutional politics of labour organizations in English Canada and Quebec, more generally, with a view to explaining how Canada's constitutional questions have been reflected in the politics of organized labour.
Keywords: Constitutional question; Social sciences; Sovereignty-association partnership agreement; organized labor

Union Renewal and Precarious Employment: A Case Study of Hotel Workers - Schenk, Christopher Robert (Precarious Employment: Understanding Labour Market Insecurity in Canada, 2006)
Case study of workers in a large Toronto-based hotel and their campaign first to attain just working conditions, and then to retain them in the face of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) crisis of 2003 that disrupted the Toronto hospitality industry.
Keywords: Labor Unions; Labor laws and legislation; Labor market; Temporary employment

Union Renewal and Organizational Change: A Review of the Literature - Schenk, Christopher Robert; Kumar, Pradeep (Paths to Union Renewal: Canadian Experiences, 2006)
An extensive review of recent academic and union literature, highlighting the varying experience and approaches to union renewal in differing institutional and environmental context and its general lessons for Canada. [The authors] discuss the meaning and concepts of union renewal, its rational and major thesis, key renewal strategies, comparative experience, obstacles to change and facilitating factors and the challenges of union renewal in the Canadian setting. --Editors' introduction
Keywords: Labor Unions; Labor movement; Organizational change

The Politics of the Past in an Argentine Workiing-Class Neighbourhood - Schild, Veronica (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "The Politics of the Past in an Argentine Working-Class Neighborhood," by Lindsay DuBois.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; DUBOIS, Lindsay; Nonfiction; POLITICS of the Past in an Argentine Working-Class Neighbourhood, The (Book); Working class

Immaterial Fordism: The Paradox of Game Industry Labour - Schumacher, Leif (Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation, 2006)
In different ways, Marxist autonomist, regulation school, and neoliberal theories all claim that work in the new economy is increasingly characterised by high levels of creativity, cooperation, and innovation, albeit accompanied by uncertainty and a relentless pace of work, introducing a new form of labour that differs fundamentally from past forms. This paper does not disagree with the proposition that capital is currently in the process of intensifying its search for more efficient value extraction. However, through a case study of lawsuits launched against the video game company Electronic Arts regarding its labour practices, it argues that the change in the nature of knowledge work and immaterial labour has been overstated by the adherents of these three schools and that what we are witnessing is not so much a replacement of traditional Fordist practices by post-Fordist ones as a new fusion of the two forms.

Working in a Global Era: Canadian Perspectives - Shalla, Vivian (Canadian Scholars Press, 2006)
This progressive new reader examines work in a global era. It is an ideal text for sociology of work and labour courses across Canada. This book will also be relevant to a wide range of courses in labour studies and industrial relations programs in Canada." "Divided into eight key parts with a total of 16 essential readings, this volume covers a great deal of ground: Fordist and post-Fordist methods of work organization; labour markets in transition; working in the free-trade zones; migration, transnationalism, and domestic work; neo-liberalism and the dismantling of the welfare state; education, training, and skills in a knowledge-based economy; and the labour movement in transition. All major issues surrounding work in Canada are covered. Book jacket. --Publisher's description
Keywords: Labor -- Canada -- Textbooks

Home Economics: Nationalism and the Making of 'Migrant Workers' in Canada - Sharma, Nandita Rani (University of Toronto Press, 2006)
Home Economics is an urgent and much-needed reminder that society must pay careful attention to how nationalist ideologies construct ‘homelands’ that essentially leave the vast majority of the world's migrant peoples homeless. A massive shift has taken place in Canadian immigration policy since the 1970s: the majority of migrants no longer enter as permanent residents but as temporary migrant workers. In Home Economics, Nandita Sharma shows how Canadian policies on citizenship and immigration contribute to the entrenchment of a system of apartheid where those categorized as migrant workers live, work, pay taxes and sometimes die in Canada but are subordinated to a legal regime that renders them as perennial outsiders to nationalized Canadian society. In calling for a no borders policy in Canada, Sharma argues that it is the acceptance of nationalist formulations of home informed by racialized and gendered relations that contribute to the neo-liberal restructuring of the labour market in Canada. She exposes the ideological character of Canadian border control policies which, rather than preventing people from getting in, actually work to restrict their rights once within Canada. Home Economics is an urgent and much-needed reminder that in today's world of growing displacement and unprecedented levels of international migration, society must pay careful attention to how nationalist ideologies construct homelands that essentially leave the vast majority of the world's migrant peoples homeless. --Publisher's description
Keywords: Ausländischer Arbeitnehmer; Canada; Canada Emigration and immigration Government policy; Canada Émigration et immigration Politique gouvernementale; Capitalism; Capitalisme; Einwanderung; Electronic books; Emigration and immigration Government policy; Foreign workers Government policy; Foreign workers Government policy Canada; Globalization; Kanada; Kapitalismus; Mondialisation; Travailleurs étrangers Politique gouvernementale Canada; capitalism; globalism

Labour After Communism - Siegelbaum, Lewis (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "Labour After Communism," by David Mandel.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; Communism; LABOUR After Communism (Book); MANDEL, David; Nonfiction

The Spirit of Labor - Simon, Geoff Mann (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "The Spirit of Labor," by Hutchins Hapgood, with introduction and notes by James R. Barrett.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; HAPGOOD, Hutchins; History; Nonfiction; PERSONNEL management; SPIRIT of Labor, Introduction & Notes by James R. Barrett, The (Book)

Sex After Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany - Slaughter, Jane (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "Sex After Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth-Century Germany," by Dogmar Herzog.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; HERZOG, Dogmar; HUMAN sexuality; Nonfiction; SEX After Fascism: Memory & Morality in 20th-Century Germany (Book)

The Porto Alegre Experiment: Learning Lessons for Better Democracy - Smith, Peter J. (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "The Porto Alegre Experiment: Learning Lessons for Better Democracy," by Marion Gret and Yves Sintomer.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; GRET, Marion; Nonfiction; PORTO Alegre Experiment: Learning Lessons for Better Democracy, The (Book); REPRESENTATIVE government; SINTOMER, Yves

The Empire Reloaded - Soares, Judith (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "The Empire Reloaded," edited by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; Capitalism; EMPIRE Reloaded, The (Book); LEYS, Colin; Nonfiction; PANITCH, Leo

Travail et identités : la portée de l’impératif technologique : Une étude de cas - Soussi, Sid (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2006)
La dynamique de transformation de l’organisation du travail dans un contexte de changements technologiques et organisationnels dans une organisation industrielle de haute technologie a conduit à la fragmentation de la communauté technicienne et à la refonte de son identité professionnelle historique. Cette dynamique n’apparaît pas comme le résultat d’un quelconque déterminisme technologique. Les changements technologiques ont été, en dernière instance, un enjeu stratégique autour duquel se sont cristallisés les rapports de force dans l’organisation. Ils ont fait l’objet d’une instrumentalisation sur laquelle se sont appuyées les instances de l’entreprise pour légitimer leurs choix stratégiques en matière d’organisation du travail.

¡Cochabamba! Water War in Bolivia - Spronk, Susan (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "¡Cochabamba! Water War in Bolivia," by Oscar Olivera and Tom Lewis.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; COCHABAMBA! Water War in Bolivia (Book); DEMONSTRATIONS (Collective behavior); LEWIS, Tom; Nonfiction; OLIVERA, Oscar

The Workers' Organizing and Resource Centre In Winnipeg - Stearns, Catherine; Bickerton, Geoff (Paths to Union Renewal: Canadian Experiences, 2006)
[E]valuates the experience of the Winnipeg-based Workers' Organizing And Resource Centre, an initiative of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) and community activists drawn from several communities. --Editors' introduction
Keywords: Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW); Community unionism; Labor Unions; Labor movement; Organizational change; Workers' Organizing and Resource Centre (Winnipeg, Man.)

The BCGEU: The Road to Renewal - Steeves, Gary (Paths to Union Renewal: Canadian Experiences, 2006)
Case study of the British Columbia Government and Service Employees Union's strategy for renewal as an ongoing process. A more formal exercise was begun in 1998 to improve union servicing that resulted in the adoption of five objectives as pilot projects; recommendations were adopted in 2000 to improve them. The devastating impact of the provincial government's cutbacks of 2001 is described, as well as subsequent renewal efforts.
Keywords: British Columbia Government and Service Employees Union (BCGEU); Labor Unions; Labor movement; Organizational change

Masters and Servants: The Hudson's Bay Company and Its Personnel, 1668-1782 - Stephen, Scott P. (University of Manitoba, 2006)
During its long first century (1670-1782), the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC) developed personnel practices not on the basis of abstract policy but by patching together experiments and expedients. Its initial vulnerability increased the value of loyal and experienced servants, and frequent shortfalls in wartime recruitment allowed old hands to demand and receive higher wages and gratuities. Peace after the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 allowed the Company to prune its payroll and to resume the carefully optimistic expansion that French attacks had interrupted in 1686. This required a larger labour force, but recruitment processes remained relatively unchanged from previous years (although Orkneymen became increasingly prominent). Expanding operations in the mid-eighteenth century imposed greater regularity on existing ad hoc methods of recruiting and retaining personnel, but labour needs did not expand rapidly enough to unduly strain those methods. Increasing inland travel and trade after 1743 placed new demands on servants by requiring that ‘extraordinary’ labour become ‘ordinary’. The Committee discovered that this could only be done with ‘encouragement’, the slow pace of which hampered inland ventures into the 1780s. Inland operations changed the nature of HBC service and influenced the way master, factor, and servant interacted; they also illuminated the practices and assumptions which had been prevalent since Utrecht and probably before. The HBC drew its labour force from the competitive labour ‘market’ of early modern Britain: the movement of men to and from the Bay was an aspect of domestic labour mobility. The relationship between the Committee and their employees was that of master and servants, heavily influenced by the circumstances of trading in Hudson Bay. Labour relations within HBC posts were framed by the dominant social construct of early modern Britain, the patriarchal household-family, made up of a master (the patriarch) and a family of kin, apprentices, and servants. Men at all levels of the Company hierarchy could try to shape the reality of their HBC experiences, but did so in terms of commonly accepted ideals. Deferential behaviours and strong vertical ties existed alongside tension and negotiation: the Committee and their servants all understood the nature of ideal master-servant relationships, but they also had experience of the realities of life in various kinds of households. The Company’s servants internalized and practised the expected values of deference and submission, but did so without abandoning or deferring their own self-interest; indeed, they could use their mastery of the language to advance their own interests. The household-factory was the fundamental social unit of HBC establishments. Although membership changed, the institution maintained continuity over time. Furthermore, each household-factory was internally held together, and bound to other household-factories and to the London Committee by ties of patronage, brokerage, and friendship, that mediated the network of horizontal and vertical relationships.

Engaging in Equity Bargaining in the New Economy: A Primer - Stinson, Jane (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2006)

Conference Insights: Moving the Equity Agenga Forward - Stinson, Jane; Bickerton, Geoff (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2006)

Guest Editors’ Précis to the Special Section of Just Labour: Advancing the Equity Agenda inside Unions and at the Bargaining Table - Stinson, Jane; Warskett, Rosemary; Bickerton, Geoff (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2006)

Fact or Fiction? German Writer A.E. Johann, a Winnipeg Communist, and the Depression in the Canadian West, 1931-1932 - Stokes, Lawrence D. (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article focuses on the life and works of A.E. Johann, a Winnipeg Communist and a labourer on farms in northern British Columbia. He wrote a total of 18 volumes of both fiction and nonfiction along with numerous articles for newspapers and magazines in Germany. His nonfictional books were commonly anecdotal in form and one volume can plausibly claim to be at least a semi-scholarly study of its subject. It notes that the success of his initial volume in Canada prompted his publisher to finance his travels generously, which he therefore undertook driving an almost new Ford purchased when he arrived in Montreal. Moreover, Johann appears to have been a generally trustworthy chronicler of the Canadian situation.
Keywords: AUTHORS; British Columbia; Communists; Farmers; GERMAN literature; JOHANN, A. E., 1901-; Mass media; NONFICTION novel; PERIODICAL publishing

All That is Solid Melts into Air: Worker Participation and Occupational Health and Safety Regulation in Ontario, 1970-2000. - Storey, Robert; Tucker, Eric (Worker Safety under Siege: Labor, Capital, and the Politics of Workplace Safety in a Deregulated World, 2006)
"[P]rovides a historical analysis of worker participation and occupational health and safety regulation in Ontario from 1970 to 2000 in light of the rise of neoliberal policies. [The authors] describe a shift from systems of mandated partial self-regulation in which workers had to participate, supported by external enforcement of regulations, to more ambiguous models that included the downsizing of government and voluntary compliance by employers." --Editors' introduction. Contents: Acts of God, acts of man: the invisibility of workplace death / Jordan Barab -- Criminal neglect: how dangerous employers stay safe from prosecution / Rory O'Neill -- Regulating risk at work: is expert paternalism the answer to workers irrationality? / Peter Dorman -- Silicosis and the on-going struggle to protect workers's health / Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner -- How safe are U.S. workplaces for Spanish-speaking workers? / Laura H. Rhodes -- Got air? The campaign to improve indoor air quality at the City University of New York / Joan Greenbaum and David Kotelchuck -- State or society? The rise and repeal of OSHA's ergonomics standard / Vernon Mogensen -- The ten-percenters: gender, nationality, and occupational health in Canada / Penney Kome -- All that is solid melts into air: worker participation in Ontario, 1970-2000 / Robert Storey and Eric Tucker -- The sinking of the neoliberal P-36 platform in Brazil / Carlos Eduardo Siqueira and Nadia Haiama-Neurohr -- Health and safety at work in Russia and Hungary: illusion and reality in the transition crisis / Michael Haynes and Rumy Husan.
Keywords: Industrial hygiene; Industrial safety

Civic Capitalism: The State of Childhood - Struthers, James (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "Civic Capitalism: The State of Childhood," by John O'Neill.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; CIVIC Capitalism: The State of Childhood (Book); Capitalism; Nonfiction; O'NEILL, John

Almost Home: Reforming Home and Community Care in Ontario - Sussman, Tamara (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "Almost Home: Reforming Home and Community Care in Ontario," by Patricia M. Baranek, Raisa B. Deber and A. Paul Williams.
Keywords: ALMOST Home: Reforming Home & Community Care in Ontario (Book); BARANEK, Patricia M.; BOOKS -- Reviews; COMMUNITY policing; DEBER, Raisa B.; Nonfiction; Safety measures; WILLIAMS, A. Paul

Non-Union Employee Representation in North America: Diversity, Controversy and Uncertain Future - Taras, Daphne G.; Kaufman, Bruce E. (Industrial Relations Journal, 2006)
The diverse conceptual perspectives and practical experiences with non-union employee representation (NER) in the USA and Canada are reviewed. We first propose a six-dimensional descriptive schema to categorise observed NER practices. Dimensions of diversity include (i) form; (ii) function; (iii) subjects; (iv) representational modes; (v) extent of power; (vi) degree of permanence. We then turn to the NER controversy, which is a tangled skein consisting of many different threads of values and prescriptions. To unbundle the controversy, we develop four ‘faces’ of NER—(i) evolutionary voice; (ii) unity of interest; (iii) union avoidance; and (iv) complementary voice—so that future research can more consciously test the validity of competing perspectives with hard data. Generalising about NER is problematic because of these many dimensions of diversity, and because NER is viewed through different ideological and conceptual lenses. We conclude that NER’s future trajectory is uncertain due to conflicting trends but in the short run is most likely to remain a modest-sized phenomenon.

Campagne justice @ Quebecor : Leçons pour les syndicats canadiens - Tate, Alan (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2006)

Powerful Community Relationships and Union Renewal in Australia - Tattersall, Amanda (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2006)
Terms such as labor-community coalitions, community unionism and social movement unionism are important features of current strategies for union renewal. This article develops a three-part framework of union-community relationships, from ad hoc to deeply engaged relationships. Criteria such as common interest, coalition structure, scale and union participation are identified as important variables for relationship variation and campaign success. The article explores the framework by analyzing three case studies from Sydney, Australia, involving the central labor council -- Unions NSW. The paper argues that union-community relationships vary significantly: ad hoc relationships are useful to react to a crisis while deeper relationships are most useful to build a long-term agenda. Deeper relationships are supported when they are built alongside a process of internal union renewal. Deeper relationships are more successful if unions develop workplace leaders, support political union education and provide space for workplace stewards to connect to community campaigns.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Coalitions; Community relations; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Framed!: Labor and the Corporate Media - Taylor, Gregory (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "Framed!: Labor and the Corporate Media," Christopher R. Martin.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; FRAMED: Labor & the Corporate Media (Book); MARTIN, Christopher R.; Mass media; Nonfiction

All Hell Can't Stop Us: The On-to-Ottawa Trek and the Regina Riot - Taylor, Jeff (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "All Hell Can't Stop Us: The On-to-Ottawa Trek and Regina Riot," by Bill Waiser.
Keywords: ALL Hell Can't Stop Us: The On-To-Ottawa Trek & Regina Riot (Book); BOOKS -- Reviews; CANADA -- Politics & government; Nonfiction; WAISER, Bill

Gender Myths v. Working Realities: Using Social Science to Reformulate Sexual Harassment Law - Taylor, K. W. (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "Gender Myths v. Working realities: Using Social Science to Reformulate Sexual Harassment Law," by Theresa M. Beiner.
Keywords: BEINER, Theresa M.; BOOKS -- Reviews; GENDER Myths v. Working Realities: Using Social Science to Reformulate Sexual Harassment Law (Book); Nonfiction; SEXUAL harassment -- Law & legislation

Retailers, Manufacturers and Labour: An Early Case of Regulation of Labour Standards in the Clothing Industry - Teal, Greg (Employment Relations Record, 2006)
New South Wales is at the forefront globally in the protection of labour standards in the clothing industry by regulating the supply chain from the bottom to the top, from home workers to clothing retailers. This is the first case in which retailers are effectively brought under a legal regulatory framework in which they are acknowledged as having responsibilities in which the clothing that they sell is manufactured. This is the critical difference between and the great advantage of this model over other models that have attempted to regulate the manufacturing nodes in the supply chain or which rely solely upon voluntary codes. In Canada during the Great Depression and subsequently in the 1930s, a regulatory system was developed in Quebec, which attempted to restrict the more destructive of competitive practices between manufacturers and to (and in part through) generalise negotiated labour standards throughout the industry by way of a Parity Committee. This case holds particular significance for current supply chain regulation developments in New South Wales, Australia and, indeed, globally. Its significance lies in the documented evidence of the exertion of the retail sector over the manufacturers in the clothing industry in Quebec, the practices of manufacturers and contractors to attempt to respond to the demands of the retailers by reducing labour costs, and by the dynamism of a labour movement that was able to win a system of regulation to protect unionised and nonunionised workers within the clothing supply chain. Its significance for current initiatives, however, also lies in what the model was unable to achieve, in particular, bringing the retail sector into the regulatory framework, and, the industrial model of regulation which, which sought supply chain regulation without accounting for all nodes of the chain.
Keywords: Business and Management; CD ROMs; Communications; Crime and Justice; Early Childhood Resources; Engineering and Technology; Environment and Natural Resources; Genealogy (Family History); Health (Medicine); History and Heritage; Hospitality and Tourism; Indigenous Peoples; Information Management and Technology; Law; Literature; New Zealand Resources; Newspapers; Public Affairs; Public Relations; Science and Technology; Secondary School Resources; Social Sciences and Community Issues; Sports; Trade Skills; books; e-resources; e-titles; full text databases; genealogy; journals; monographs; online resources; papers; print publishing; reports

Faith and Factory: Russian Mennonite Workers in Twentieth-Century Manitoba - Thiessen, Janis Lee (University of New Brunswick, 2006)
[This thesis is] a labour history of Russian Mennonites employed in three Mennonite-owned factories in Manitoba: Friesens Corporation of Altona, Loewen Windows of Steinbach, and Palliser Furniture of Winnipeg. Each of these businesses had a primarily Mennonite workforce at their founding, and eventually became the largest employers in the community in which they were established. This comparative microhistory makes a significant contribution to the literature: though approximately one-quarter of North American Mennonites are working-class, few scholarly works have investigated their experiences. The history of immigration of these Mennonites is important in understanding their adaptation to North American capitalism. Immigrants had common experiences of some aspects of settlement, such as language acquisition and finding employment. Immigrants exhibited a variety of responses to government efforts to promote assimilation, and demonstrated different attitudes toward job security and expectations for their children, in part because of their diverse prior experiences of war, religious conservatism, and prejudice in their country of origin. The result was the development of an increasingly urban and heterogeneous Mennonite community in Manitoba, which perhaps contributed to the failure to develop a strong sense of class consciousness among them. The historical development of Mennonite religious thought in the twentieth century is connected to the geographical shift of North American Mennonites from rural to urban environs. This move necessitated a re-assessment of Mennonite religious beliefs, particularly of their understandings of 'Gelassenheit ', to nonresistance, and 'agape' love. The Christian's responsibility to the world came to be stressed at the expense of traditional values such as submission to the community and separation from the world. Religious belief had a role in restraining the behaviour of both workers and owners, encouraging the former to accept work discipline, and limiting the latter in their conspicuous consumption. In a case study, Barthes' semiological approach is used to demythologize an advertising campaign at Loewen Windows as a means of examining the linkages between religion and capitalism. The role of religion differentiated the operation of paternalism at these businesses from their non-Mennonite counterparts. Though Mennonite workers rarely expressed their views in class-conscious ' language', the 'content' of their remarks, particularly with respect to the labour process and their autonomy, points to the existence of a class division in these factories. The nature of their employment as factory workers affected not only their job mobility and security, the speed of their work, their sleeping patterns and social lives, but also their identity. Class differences between Mennonite employers and employees clearly existed; class consciousness on the part of workers is less evident. With the transformation of Friesens Corporation, Loewen Windows, and Palliser Furniture from small family businesses to large corporations, the relationship between Mennonite workers and their employers was reinterpreted. Employers made use of Mennonite religious motifs to craft a common ethos, but increased ethnic diversity in the workforce at Palliser Furniture, together with objective class differences between workers and owners at all three companies, resulted in some splits in the unity of the Mennonite workplace. The interplay of competing interests nonetheless resulted in redefinitions of ownership rights and their meaning for workers with respect to profit sharing and employee share ownership, as well as several unsuccessful attempts to unionize. The tension between Burkholder's emphasis on social responsibility, as exhibited by labour's demands for economic justice, and Hershberger's insistence on avoidance of confrontation was evident in the struggle of Manitoba Mennonites with their response to labour activism in the 1970s. Pacifism often had been dismissed as passivity in the past; now the adherence to the principle of nonviolence could be seen as an excuse for accepting economic exploitation. Mennonite support for cooperatives and credit unions could have translated into support for labour unions, but in late twentieth-century Manitoba, it did not. Though North American Mennonites' attitudes toward unions may have undergone change during this period, they continued to avoid becoming members. The conclusion explores whether Mennonite involvement in industrial capitalism is (or can ever be) in any way distinct from that of secular participants. Are there theological resources within Mennonitism that can mount an effective challenge to the negative results of global capitalism? This work is a modest attempt to contribute to the debate, both within the Mennonite community and without, regarding the possibilities for social and economic transformation. It is also an attempt to argue for the relevance of the consideration of religion in scholarly discourse in general, and historical study in particular.
Keywords: Employment; Family-owned business enterprises; History; Labor; Manitoba; Mennonites; Religous aspects

De la conciliation emploi-famille á une politique des temps sociaux - Thoemmes, Jens (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "De la conciliation emploi-famille á une politique des temps sociaux," edited by Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Union Strategies to Re-Regulate Working Time - Thomas, Mark (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2006)
The organization of working time is a central concern in today's labour market, as it is connected to experiences of work-life conflict, employment insecurity, and broader patterns of gender inequality. This article examines union responses to working time changes using a case study of four large unions, as well as a larger survey of working time provisions in major collective agreements. The article contends that working time re-regulation strategies include not only efforts to reduce hours of work, but also a range of strategies to promote employee-oriented time flexibility. These working time strategies provide some means to address growing forms of work-life conflict and working time inequalities; however, these strategies are constrained by a number of factors, including employer resistance and the need for broader-based representational and collective bargaining structures.

Direct Action, Subsidiarity and the Counterhegemonic: Three Case Studies of Antipoverty Activism in Twentieth Century Canada - Thompson, David Alexander (University of Victoria, 2006)
An analysis of three poor people's movements in twentieth century Canada serves to wrest the ideas and activist tradition of Canada's poor people from historical obscurity. Between 1932 and 1935, the Communist-inspired Vancouver unemployed councils engaged in direct actions to challenge Depression-era social policy, capital and the police. The arrival of the modern post-war welfare state did not end poverty; however. Vancouver antipoverty activists were circumscribed by society's relative affluence and organizational and sectarian debates within labour councils and the antipoverty movement. Finally, since 1989 the Toronto-based Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) has extended antipoverty activism to include the issues of immigrants, First Nations, women and children. Drawing on theorist Antonio Gramsci and the socialist-anarchist tradition, this thesis posits that direct action and a subsidiarity relationship between activists and their community are essential to the success and longevity of poor people's movements.

Precarious Employment and People with Disabilities - Tompa, Emile; Scott, Heather; Trevithick, Scott; Bhattacharyya, Sudipa (Precarious Employment: Understanding Labour Market Insecurity in Canada, 2006)
The authors explore the contemporary employment-related experiences of people with disabilities with reference to the rise of precarious employment since the mid-1970s. ...[The] chapter offers an analysis of labour market trends; it consideres how the movement in and out of employment among people with disabilities relates to their experience of precariousness. The authors pay considerable attention to remedial legislation, such as federal and provincial pay and employment equity legislation, designed to facilitate access to employment and how, and in what ways, it influences (or fails to influence) conditions of work. --From editor's introductory chapter (p. 35).
Keywords: Industrial hygiene; Labor Unions; Labor laws and legislation; Labor market; Temporary employment

Accountability and Reform in the Aftermath of the Westray Mine Explosion - Tucker, Eric (Working Disasters: The Politics of Recognition and Response, 2006)
This edited collection draws together original case studies written by leading researchers in Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Sweden, and the United States that examine the politics of working disasters. The essays address two fundamental questions: what gets recognized as a work disaster? And how does the state respond to one? --Publisher's description. Contents: Introduction: The Politics of Recognition and Response / Eric Tucker -- Trucking Tragedies: The Hidden Disaster of Mass Death in the Long-Haul Road Transport Industry / Michael Quinlan, Claire Mayhew, and Richard Johnstone -- The Australian Epidemic of Repetition Strain Injury: A Sociological Perspective / Andrew Hopkins -- "All Part of the Game": The Recognition of and Response to an Industrial Disaster at the Fluorspar Mines, St Lawrence, Newfoundland, 1933-1978 / Richard Rennie -- The Long Road to Action: The Silicosis Problem and Swedish Occupational Health and Safety Policy in the 20th Century / Annette Thörnquist -- Disaster, Meaning Making, and Reform in Antebellum Massachusetts / Patricia Reeve -- Regulating Safety, Regulating Profit: Cost-Cutting, Injury and Death in the British North Sea after Piper Alpha / Dave Whyte -- Courts, Crime, and Workplace / Richard Johnstone -- Blame and Causation in the Aftermath of Industrial Disasters: Nova Scotia's Coal Mines from 1858 to Westray / Susan Dodd -- Accountability and Reform in the Aftermath of the Westray Mine Explosion / Eric Tucker.
Keywords: Government policy; Industrial accidents; Industrial safety; Occupational diseases

Introduction: The Politics of Recognition and Response - Tucker, Eric (Working Disasters: The Politics of Recognition and Response, 2006)
This edited collection draws together original case studies written by leading researchers in Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Sweden, and the United States that examine the politics of working disasters. The essays address two fundamental questions: what gets recognized as a work disaster? And how does the state respond to one? --Publisher's description
Keywords: Government policy; Industrial accidents; Industrial safety; Occupational diseases

Will the Vicious Circle Be Unbroken? The Exclusion of Ontario Farm Workers from the Occupational Health and Safety Act - Tucker, Eric (Precarious Employment: Understanding Labour Market Insecurity in Canada, 2006)
[The author] critically examines the rationale offered to justify the exclusion of agricultural workers from occupational health and safety legislation [in Ontario] which lasted until 2005. The chapter is a case study of marginalized workers denied the benefit of labour law protections. --From editor's introductory chapter, p. 38.
Keywords: Labor Unions; Labor laws and legislation; Labor market; Temporary employment

Railing Against the Company Union: The State, Union Substitution, and the Montréal Tramways Strike of 1943 - Tucker, Sean; Thorn, Brian (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
At the height of World War II labour unrest, Montréal tramway workers, the majority of whom were French Canadian, struck over recognition of their Canadian Congress of Labour-affiliated union over two entrenched rival unions. The strike, which threatened critical wartime production in Canada's largest industrial centre, illustrates how multi-union workplaces were a source of wartime industrial disorder. Circumstances related to the strike tested the capacity of the federal government to respond in a way which was compatible with Prime Minister King's broader goals of industrial stability and national unity. King's inaction on labour law reform at this time led key cabinet ministers to pursue criminal charges against the parties involved in the tramway strike. However, legal proceedings were obverted after King intervened on a recommendation from Carl Goldenberg, who had successfully conciliated the strike. Concurrent to these events was the announcement of a wide-ranging public inquiry into national labour unrest, which eventually led to the adoption of a new labour code (PC 1003). The new federal labour law adopted provisions similar to those in the US Wagner Act, which severely limited union substitution, subjugating worker free choice and collective self-determination to the goals of capital and the state.
Keywords: EMPLOYMENT (Economic theory); ILLEGAL employment; INDUSTRIAL laws & legislation; LABOR laws & legislation; LEGISLATIVE power; Labor Unions; Labor disputes; SOCIAL legislation; STRIKES & lockouts

Renewal from Different Directions: The Case of UNITE-HERE Local 75 - Tufts, Steven (Paths to Union Renewal: Canadian Experiences, 2006)
[This] study is important for many reasons. it relates to a large local of workers in major hotels in Toronto, owned by multinational firms. The workforce consists largely of immigrant and visible minority women with poor wages and working conditions. As Tufts points out, the gender, ethnic and income segmentation of the hotel labour market creates difficult challenges for building union solidarity and for new organizing and effective bargaining. In this context, Local 75's experience with organizing and pattern bargaining is instructive. --Editors' introduction
Keywords: Hotel and hospitality workers; Labor Unions; Labor movement; Organizational change; Toronto; Unite-HERE. Local 75

“We Make it Work”: The Cultural Transformation of Hotel Workers in the City - Tufts, Steven (Antipode, 2006)
This article explores the “cultural project” of a hotel workers’ union in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is an examination of the efforts of HERE (now UNITE-HERE) Local 75 to transform the identity and image of hotel workers through the promotion of cultural activities involving rank-and-file members. Part of a larger union renewal project, the cultural project attempts to build solidarity by connecting with members’ lives beyond the workplace. Furthermore, the union's cultural strategies are linked to the development of the city's tourism sector, situating the union's efforts in broader processes of place promotion. The investigation seeks to identify how worker engagement with the cultural implicates organized labour in contradictory processes producing both emancipatory and oppressive economic landscapes.

Constructing a Labour Gospel: Labour and Religion in Early 20th-Century Ontario - Turkstra, Melissa (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
This paper considers the presence of Christianity in the labour movement in early 20th-century Ontario. During this period labour leaders were unquestionably disillusioned with the established churches and did not hesitate to criticize clergy-men for their indifference and hostility to labour's cause. This disillusionment did not mean, however, that organized labour abandoned religion. Both moderate reformist and radical labour leaders articulated a non-sectarian, activist Christianity that helped them frame the issues they were concerned about. Alliances also developed between the churches and labour bodies at the national level and labour-friendly clergy and a small group of labour leaders in industrial centres in southern Ontario.
Keywords: ALLIANCES (International relations); CHRISTIANITY; CHURCH; Clergy; International relations; Labor movement; Ontario; RELIGIONS; Social movements

La relation de service au client : Source inévitable de contrainte pour les travailleurs ? - Ughetto, Pascal (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2006)
Ces dernières années, la problématique de la relation de service a conduit à l’analyse de situations de travail de plus en plus prégnantes en s’intéressant de très près au déroulement de l’activité. Cette perspective peut être poussée jusqu’à étudier le caractère sollicitant d’une activité fondée sur la confrontation aux clients et les implications de cette sollicitation sur les contraintes ressenties par les salariés dans l’exercice du travail. Il s’agit donc d’examiner les effets de l’organisation de l’activité – y compris les dispositifs de gestion qui y interviennent et l’influence du travail de l’encadrement – à l’égard des contraintes que ressentent les salariés. Cette organisation peut alléger ou renforcer ces contraintes et accentue l’envie des salariés d’en discuter pour adapter les finalités et modalités du travail.

The Struggle Against Wage Controls: The Saint John Story, 1975-1976 - Vair, George; Canadian Committee on Labour History (Past CCLH Publications, 2006)
In October 1976 one million Canadian workers walked off the job to protest the wage controls imposed by Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. In a memorable personal account of this historic general strike, Saint John labour activist George Vair recalls how workers in one New Brunswick city mobilized to defend themselves and their unions and defeat the unpopular program. --Publisher's description
Keywords: General Strike, Saint John, N.B., 1976; Government policy; History; Labor movement; Strikes and lockouts; Wages

Guide pratique de l'arbitrage de grief au Québec - Veilleux, Diane (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "Guide pratique de l’arbitrage de grief au Québec," by Jean-Serge Masse.
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

Justice on the Job : Perspectives on the Erosion of Collective Bargaining in the United States - Verge, Pierre (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "Justice on the Job : Perspectives on the Erosion of Collective Bargaining in the United States," edited by Richard N. Block and Sheldon Friedman.
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

Normes sociales, droit du travail et mondialisation : confrontations et mutations - Verge, Pierre (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "Normes sociales, droit du travail et mondialisation : confrontations et mutations," by Marie-Ange Moreau.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Union Membership Statistics in 24 Countries - Visser, Jelle (Monthly Labor Review, 2006)
Analyzes union membership data in 24 countries (including Canada) of past and present union density rates, including explanatory factors for the differences and trends in unionization.

Precarious Employment: Towards an Improved Understanding of Labour Market Insecurity - Vosko, Leah F. (Precarious Employment: Understanding Labour Market Insecurity in Canada, 2006)
This chapter initiates the conversation between theory, method, evidence, and practice that is the focus of this book. It conceptualizes precarious employment, probes its dynamics in Canada, and identifies avenues for fostering understanding in the service of positive social change by way of several linked arguments set in the three major sections that follow. --Author's introduction
Keywords: Industrial hygiene; LABOR market; Labor Unions; Labor laws and legislation; Temporary employment

Precarious Employment: Understanding Labour Market Insecurity in Canada - Vosko, Leah F. (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006)
This interdisciplinary volume offers a multifaceted picture of precarious employment and the ways in which its principal features are reinforced or challenged by laws, policies, and labour market institutions, including trade unions and community organizations. Contributors develop more fully the concept of precarious employment and critique outmoded notions of standard and nonstandard employment. The product of a five-year Community-University Research Alliance, the volume aims to foster new social, statistical, legal, political, and economic understandings of precarious employment and to advance strategies for improving the quality and conditions of work and health. --Publisher's description
Keywords: Industrial hygiene; Labor Unions; Labor laws and legislation; Labor market; Temporary employment

What Is to Be Done? Harnessing Knowledge to Mitigate Precarious Employment. - Vosko, Leah F. (Precarious Employment: Understanding Labour Market Insecurity in Canada, 2006)
[S]ynthesizes the central findings of the volume ...[and] explores the implications of precarious employment for workers, households, and communities as well as its larger public costs and identifies several avenues for improving knowledge in an attempt to better workers' conditions of work and qaulity of health. --From editor's introductory chapter, p. 39.
Keywords: Labor Unions; Labor laws and legislation; Labor market; Temporary employment

Conceptualizing Precarious Employment: Mapping Wage Work Across Social Location and Occupational Context - Vosko, Leah F.; Cranford, Cynthia J. (Precarious Employment: Understanding Labour Market Insecurity in Canada, 2006)
[A]dvances a new methodological approach to understanding precarious wage work.... This approach considers how race and gender, as they intersect with occupation, shape and, in turn, are shaped by precarious employment. Its main empirical finding is that a "racialized gendering of jobs" characterizes the contemporary Canadian labour market. --From editor's introductory chapter (p. 34).
Keywords: Industrial hygiene; Labor Unions; Labor laws and legislation; Labor market; Temporary employment

Community Unions and Labour Movement Renewal: Organizing for Fair Employment - Vosko, Leah F.; Ladd, Deena; Gellatly, Mary; Cranford, Cynthia (Paths to Union Renewal: Canadian Experiences, 2006)
[Discusses] the concept and practice of community unionism and demonstrates the potential for building a union-community alliance for labour movement renewal through an analysis...of the Workers' Action Centre (WAC) in Toronto. --Editors' introduction
Keywords: Community activism; Community groups; Community unionism; Labor Unions; Labor movement; Workers' Action Centre (Toronto, Ont.)

Precarious by Choice? Gender and Self-Employment - Vosko, Leah F.; Zukewich, Nancy (Precarious Employment: Understanding Labour Market Insecurity in Canada, 2006)
[Examines] forms of self-employment by select dimensions of precarious employment and finds a gendered continuum of precarious self-employment. The chapter also illustrates that many dimensions of precarious employment characterize key forms of self-employment, such as part-time and full-time solo self-employment. The conclusion...supports challenges to contemporary definitions of "entrepreneurship"...yet the adoption of a gender lens allows them to interrogate and challenge the notion of "choice" underpinning prevailing understandings of main reasons for self-employment. --From editor's introductory chapter (p. 34).
Keywords: Industrial hygiene; Labor Unions; Labor laws and legislation; Labor market; Temporary employment

Overcoming Union Resistance to Equity Issues and Structures - Walker, Marie Claire (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2006)

Labour - Three Centuries of Working for Wages in Saskatchewan - Warren, Jim W. (The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan, 2006)

International Homogenization or the Persistence of National Practices? The Remaking of Industrial Relations in Mozambique - Webster, Edward; Wood, Geoffrey; Brookes, Michael (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2006)
This paper is the first systematic attempt to provide an overview of industrial relations practices at firm level in Mozambique. Through a nationwide survey of firms, the paper assesses the extent to which specific sets of practices are associated with particular regions, and/or sectors, and explores the relationship between IR practice and national institutional realities. The survey revealed that informalism and autocratic managerialism characterize the practice of employment relations. But it would be mistaken to assume a convergence towards a global systematic archetype of low wage/low skill/low security of tenure set of practices. Instead, the authors conclude, contemporary Mozambique employment relations are an example of external market pressures being channelled and moulded by the persistence of national level realities that stretch back to the colonial era. In the absence of effective institutional mechanisms, familiar conventions are likely to persist because people know how these work in practice.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Developing countries--LDCs; Employment practices; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Polls & surveys; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Increasing Inter-Union Co-operation and Co-ordination: The BC Federation of Labour Organizing Institute - Weir, John (Paths to Union Renewal: Canadian Experiences, 2006)
[E]valuation of the B.C. Organizing Institute, an initiative of the British Columbia Federation of Labour.... [P]rovides valuable insights into the problems that have to be overcome in developing coordinated education and training programs for leadership development, promoting inter-union cooperation, and creating a culture of organizing. --Editors' introduction
Keywords: British Columbia Federation of Labour; Education; Labor Unions; Leadership; Organizational change; Organizing Institute (British Columbia); Training

Union Education, Union Leadership and Union Renewal: The Role of PEL - Weststar, Johanna (Paths to Union Renewal: Canadian Experiences, 2006)
[E]xamines the Paid Education leave (PEL) program, a negotiated employer-funded worker education program administered by the Canadian Auto Workers. The primary purpose of the study is to evaluate the ability of the PEL to develop membership knowledge, activism and leadership to facilitate union renewal. [The author's] paper, based on survey research and interviews, maintains that the PEL program does contribute to leadership development and to the union renewal process by serving to alter the perceptions and attitudes of its participants. --Editors' introduction
Keywords: Canadian Auto Workers (CAW); Community unionism; Labor Unions; Labor movement; Organizational change; Paid Education Leave (PEL)

Mothers of the Municipality: Women, Work, and Social Policy in Post-1945 Halifax - Whitney, Laurel (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "Mothers of the Municipality: Women, Work, and Social Policy in Post-1945 Halifax," edited by Judith Fingard and Janet Guildford.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; FINGARD, Judith; GUILDFORD, Janet; MOTHERS of the Municipality: Women, Work & Social Policy in Post-1945 Halifax (Book); Nonfiction; Welfare economics

Cette manche au syndicat - La grève chez Dupuis Frères en 1952 - Willis, John (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
Le 1 Mai 1952 les 1200 travailleurs du grand magasin et du comptoir postal de Dupuis Frères à Montréal, ont vote en faveur de la grève. D'une durée de trois mois, l'interruption du travail oppose une locale de la Confédération des travailleurs catholiques du Canada [CTCC] à une puissante entreprise commerciale et symbole national de l'économie canadienne-française (Dupuis Fréres). L'historiographie de l'après-guerre n'accorde pas une grande place à ce conflit, qui, à l'encontre d'aurres conflits mieux connus — telle la grève de l'amiante (1949) et la grève de Murdochville (1957), s'est solde par une éclatante victoire du syndicat. L'article examine d'abord le contexte général et les conditions spécifiques qui ont entraîné le déclenchement de la grève. Il analyse ensuite l'enchaînement des événements, qui se sont déroulés en quatre phases ou séries de faits dans le temps. Il importe de prendre le temps de reconsidérer les événements dans l'ordre, car il ressort de l'exercice une perspective nous permettant d'appréhender l'enjeu fort thé àtralisé du conflit qui se deroule dans une conjoncture de croissance économique et d'effervescence syndicale. Nous offrons un canevas preliminaire, que d'autres pourront compléter à leur manière, le but de I'exercice étant, dans un premier temps, de faire ressortir cette grève des boules à mites de l'Histoire.
Keywords: AUTHORSHIP; BUSINESS enterprises; CORPORATE image; Canada; DIRECT mail advertising; ENTREPRENEURSHIP; Historiography; Labor disputes; VENTURE capital; economic development

Disability Disclosure in the Workplace - Wilton, Robert D. (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2006)
This paper is concerned with workplace accommodation and the extent to which people feel able to disclose disabilities at work. Disclosure is central to accommodation in the sense that workers must feel comfortable describing their needs to employers. Where this is not the case, for example, where workers are concerned about the precariousness of their position and the fact that disclosure may result in dismissal, legal requirements for accommodation can be ineffective. To explore this issue, the paper uses qualitative data from interviews with fifty-nine people with physical, learning, psychiatric and sensory disabilities in the Hamilton labour market. Analysis indicates that most respondents viewed disclosure as a risky endeavour, and a significant minority did not disclose due to concerns about not being hired or being dismissed. The conclusion discusses the need for accommodating workplaces and the implications for the labour movement.

Women are Key to Union Renewal: Lessons from the Canadian Labour Movement - Yates, Charlotte A. B. (Charlotte Alyce Bronwen) (Paths to Union Renewal: Canadian Experiences, 2006)
[E]xamines the ways in which union organizing gender-baised and highlights possible union strategies to overcome the bias and improve organizing success. ...The paper draws on the survey of union organizers in Ontario and British Columbia conducted by the authors in 2000 and 2001. --Editors' introduction
Keywords: Labor Unions; Labor movement; Organizational change

When Women Come First: Gender and Class in Transnational Migration - Zaman, Habiba (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "When Women Come First: Gender and Class in Transnational Migration,"Sheba Mariam George.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; EMIGRATION & immigration; GEORGE, Sheba Mariam; Nonfiction; WHEN Women Come First: Gender & Class in Transnational Migration (Book)

Minding the Machine: Languages of Class in Early Industrial America - Zonderman, David A. (Labour / Le Travail, 2006)
The article reviews the book, "Minding the Machine: Languages of Class in Early Industrial America," by Stephen P. Rice.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; Industrial Revolution; MINDING the Machine: Languages of Class in Early Industrial America (Book); Nonfiction; RICE, Stephen P.

Life Below Stairs - Blair, Louisa (The Beaver, 2005)
It's the second oldest profession in the world. Until recently, a society without them was considered inconceivable. Yet they are one of the most invisible and silent groups of people in Canadian history: the servants. The maid, the butler, the footman, the coachman, the groom, the nurse, the laundress: most of them were either illiterate or too busy to have left a record of their lives. The literati hardly mentioned them. They were part of the furniture. In fact, artists lavished more attention on the furniture. --Introduction

Canadian Labor Today: Partial Successes, Real Challenges - Brennan, Barry (Monthly Review: An Independent Socialist Magazine, 2005)
Analyzes the conflicted terrain of the Canadian labour movement as a result of neoliberal restructuring of the economy and the frayed relationship with the social democratic NDP. Compares union densities in Canada and the US. Concludes that transformative union renewal must include the political rebuilding of a worker-based socialist movement.
Keywords: Canada; Canadian Auto Workers (CAW); Economic conditions; Labor Unions; Labor movement; Labor union members; New Democratic Party (NDP); Organizational structure

Abstracts / Résumés [55, Spring/Printemps 2005] (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
English/French abstracts of the articles in the current issue.

Abstracts = Résumés (56, Fall 2005) (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
English/French abstracts of articles in the Spring 2015 issue.
Keywords: ABSTRACTS; BIOGRAPHIES -- Abstracts; Communism; Ethnicity; Working class

Taking Back the Streets: Women, Youth, and Direct Democracy - Ackelsberg, Martha (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Taking Back the Streets: Women, Youth, and Direct Democracy," by Temma Kaplan.

Organizing Wal-Mart: The Canadian Campaign - Adams, Roy J. (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2005)
The central focus of this article is the effort by Canadian unions to organize Wal-Mart. Organizing the world's largest corporation is considered to be critical because the company's business "template" calls for wages and benefits considerably inferior to those of unionized workers. To date, although a few bargaining units have been certified, Wal-Mart has managed to thwart all attempts to negotiate collective agreements. However, because the United Food and Commercial Workers have certified units in a few provinces with first contract arbitration, the achievement, eventually, of a collective agreement appears to be likely.

Cleaners and Pop Culture Representation - Aguiar, Luis L M (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2005)
Building cleaners are increasingly portrayed in pop culture. This article seeks to provide reasons for their increased visibility, and then examines precisely how they are constructed. The analysis reveals three overriding themes of representation: (1) cleaners as a discourse for Americanism; (2) cleaners as stand ins for the rehabilitation of ‘whiteness’; and (3) cleaners as endure the neoliberal workplace.

The Montreal Massacre: A Story of Membership Categorization Analysis - Atwood, Kristin (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "The Montreal Massacre: A Story of Membership Categorization Analysis," by Peter Eglin and Stephen Hester.

Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984 - Ayres, Jeffrey (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984." by Steven C. High.

Textile Strikes in Quebec: 1946, 1947, 1952 - Baillargeon, Denyse (Madeleine Parent: Activist, 2005)
Describes the strikes in the textile mills of Montreal, Valleyfield and Lachute that were led by Madeleine Parent and Kent Rowley in the post-World War II period, and the anti-communist purge of US-based unions that resulted in their dismissal from the United Textile Workers of America in 1952.
Keywords: Biography; Feminism; History; Parent, Madeleine, 1918-2012; Social conditions; Syndicalism; Women political activists

Training the Excluded for Work: Access and Equity for Women, Immigrants, First Nations, Youth, and People with Low Income - Baines, Donna (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Training the Excluded for Work: Access and Equity for Women, Immigrants, First Nations, Youth, and People with Low Income," edited by Marjorie Griffin Cohen.

Imperialism and its Discontents - Bakan, Abigail B. (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews and comments on "The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity" by Tariq Ali, "The Clash of Barbarisms: September 11 and the Making of the New World Disorder" by Gilbert Achcar , "Welcome to the Desert of the Real" by Slavoj Zizek's, "The New Rulers of the World" by John Pilger, and "The New Mandarins of American Power" by Alex Callinicos.

Caetana Says No: Women's Stories from a Brazilian Slave Society - Barbosa, Rosana (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Caetana Says No: Women's Stories from a Brazilian Slave Society," by Sandra Lauderdale Graham.

Architecture de ressources humaines : Perspectives théoriques et pistes de recherche - Barrette, Jacques (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
Le domaine de la gestion stratégique des ressources humaines manque d’encadrement théorique en ce qui concerne le caractère unique de l’architecture de ressources humaines (RH). L’article propose une réflexion théorique sur cette notion et ses deux dimensions principales : l’alignement vertical et la cohérence horizontale. L’exposé explique comment et pourquoi les organisations de même type possèdent sensiblement la même architecture RH. L’importance du rôle des contingences internes et des conditions de réalisation des objectifs RH est abordée. L’auteur explore le caractère unique de la GRH au niveau de la cohérence des pratiques et la complexité des liens avec l’alignement vertical. Un modèle combinant les deux dimensions de l’architecture RH propose des pistes de réflexion quant à leur effet interactif sur la performance organisationnelle. Des hypothèses et stratégies de recherche pour mesurer la présence et l’impact de la cohérence horizontale sur la performance organisationnelle sont suggérées.

Union Raiding and Organizing in Ontario - Bartkiw, Timothy J.; Martinello, Felice (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
This paper provides the first analysis of aggregate raiding activity in Ontario by isolating raid applications from available certification data. Raiding in Ontario generally decreased over the 1975 to 2003 period save for the huge increases in 2000 and 2001 involving the CAW and SEIU. Bargaining units are significantly larger in raids, and legislative changes had little effect on aggregate raiding levels. Over most of the period raiding activity has been quite modest. Thus analyses of union organizing and its effect on union density are unlikely to be affected by leaving raids in the organizing data. An important exception occurs in 2000 and 2001, where the certification data seriously overstate new organizing. Corrected measures show that new (non-raid) union organizing continues to decline in Ontario. The decline in new organizing has been greater than the decline in raiding, resulting in an increased proportion of organizing due to raids in recent years.
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; Statistical analysis; Union membership

The Segmentation of Academic Labour: A Canadian Example - Bauder, Harald (ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 2005)
Academia increasingly faces pressures of corporatization and flexibilization. Of particular concern is the segmentation of academic labour into stable tenured or tenure-track professors and “flexible” sessional and adjunct faculty. In this paper, I review evidence of the segmentation of the Canadian academic labour market, examine the conditions that permit segmentation to exist, discuss why academic geographers in both segments comply with a segmented labour market and, finally, propose potential strategies to address the issue of segmentation.
Keywords: Academia; Academic geographers; Corporatization; Faculty; Flexibilization; Segmentation

The Impact of Macroeconomic Conditions on the Instability and Long-Run Inequality of Workers' Earnings in Canada - Beach, Charles M.; Finnie, Ross; Gray, David (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
This paper examines the variability of workers' earnings in Canada over the period 1982-1997. Using a large panel of tax file data, we decompose total variation in earnings across workers and time into a long-run inequality component between workers and an average earnings instability component over time for workers. We find an increase in earnings variability between 1982-89 and 1990-97 that is largely confined to men and largely driven by widening long-run earnings inequality. Second, the pattern of unemployment rate and GDP growth rate effects on these variance components is not consistent with conventional explanations and is suggestive of an alternative paradigm of how economic growth over this period widens long-run earnings inequality. Third, when unemployment rate and GDP growth rate effects are considered jointly, macroeconomic improvement is found to reduce the overall variability of earnings as the reduction in earnings instability outweighs the widening of long-run earnings inequality.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Economic conditions; Economic impact; Economic models; Economic theory; Inequality; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Wages & salaries

Mine Mill Fights Back: Mine Mill/CAW Local 598 Strike 2000-2001, Sudbury - Beck, Kaili; Kinsman, Gary; Steedman, Mercedes; Suschnigg, Peter; Bowes, Chris (Mine Mill / CAW Local 598, 2005)
Illustrated history of the 2000-2001 strike of the Mine Mill/Canadian Auto Workers Local 598 strike against Falconbridge in Sudbury, Ont. Published in collaboration with Laurentian University's Labour and Trade Union Studies' Program.
Keywords: History; Labor Unions; Mineral industries; Miners; Social aspects; Strikes and lockouts

Dignity at Work for Low Wage, Low Skill Service Workers - Berg, Peter; Frost, Ann C. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
Using responses from a telephone survey of 589 low wage, low skill workers in US hospitals, the authors investigate the workplace features that influence workers' perceptions of dignity at work. Both work organization variables and union representation are investigated as potential factors affecting workers' perceptions of fair treatment by their employer, intrinsically satisfying work, and economic security. Work organization and union representation have little effect on dignity at work with the exception of their association with higher wages and therefore a greater degree of economic security. Results indicate that higher pay, adequate levels of staffing and resources, and access to training are the variables that are most closely associated with dignity on the job.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Dignity; Labor Unions; Perceptions; Polls & surveys; Skills; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Variables; Wages & salaries

Le travail non qualifié : permanences et paradoxes - Bernier, Colette (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Le travail non qualifié : permanences et paradoxes," edited by Dominique Méda and Francis Vennat.
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 PME québécoises et la formation : De l’effet de taille aux dispositifs institutionnels - Bernier, Colette (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
À partir d’un questionnement concernant le faible investissement des PME en formation, cet article tente de démontrer l’importance de l’environnement institutionnel par rapport aux seuls effets de taille. Par une analyse systémique de divers facteurs pouvant expliquer la formation dans une quarantaine de PME, l’article met en relief l’existence de trois configurations d’entreprises ayant des rapports différenciés à la formation; celles-ci vont de l’entreprise familiale qui offre peu de formation à l’entreprise indépendante offrant une formation structurée en passant par diverses formes d’entreprises qui, sur la base de leur insertion sous des bannières ou franchises ou encore de l’action des comités sectoriels ou d’organismes régionaux, accordent une importance de plus en plus grande à la formation et la structurent en conséquence. L’article conclut sur la nécessité d’une prise en compte « systémique » des dispositifs institutionnels pour la mise en place de politiques publiques adéquates.

Contractors or Disguised Employees? : A Case Study of Couriers in Winnipeg - Bickerton, Geoff; Warskett, Rosemary (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2005)
The courier industry in Canada is rapidly expanding. This is due to a number of factors including greater international trade in goods; more use of just-in-time inventory strategies; and the rapid development of internet commerce. Significant technological and organizational developments within the industry have led to greater segmentation of markets. As a result, large national and international parcel delivery firms dominate the international and intercity markets, while there has been a proliferation of smaller firms in the same-city, same-day markets. The research findings from a case study conducted in Winnipeg reveal that couriers in certain parts of the industry are relatively well paid, with benefits and employment conditions negotiated by their union, while others are independent contractors with low incomes, no benefits and insecure tenure. The article compares the experience of these two types of couriers and examines what is being done to improve the terms and conditions of work for same-day couriers. It is concluded that nature of the same day courier industry means that union organizing will be very difficult and there is no guarantee of success. Unionization, however, is a necessary prerequisite for the improvement of conditions and wages in this growing industry.

Community Unionism: A Strategy for Organizing in the New Economy - Black, Simon J. (New Labor Forum, 2005)
Focuses on considering community unionism as a strategy for labor organizing with emphasis on autonomous community-based labor group organizational model. Background on the concept of community unionism; Information on the two examples of community unionism, the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty and the National Mobilization Against Sweatshops; Limitation of community unionism in making the type of economic gains for their members that a trade union can through collective bargaining.
Keywords: AUTONOMY (Political science); COMMUNITY organization; Collective bargaining; LABOR organizing; Labor