Abstracts = Résumés [51, Spring/Printemps 2003] (Labour/Le Travail, 2003)
French/English abstracts for v. 51, (Spring 2003).

Abstracts = Résumés [52, Fall/Automne 2003] (Labour/Le Travail, 2003)

Index to Volumes 49 & 50, 2002 (Labour/Le Travail, 2003)
Produced by the Canadian Periodical Index.

Publications récentes (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
This article presents recent publications on industrial relations. Some of the publications include "Evolution of the Model of Industrial Relations in Bulgaria 1989-2002," by Teodor Detchev, "Labor Contract Negotiations in the Airline Industry," by Andrew von Nordenflycht and Thomas A. Kochan, "Collective Bargaining and Staff Salaries in American Colleges and Universities," by Daniel B. Klaff and Ronald G. Ehrenberg, and "Final-Offer Arbitration: A New Zealand Variation," by Ian McAndrew.
Keywords: Human capital; Industrial relations; LABOR arbitration; LABOR laws & legislation; Labor contracts; Labor economics

The Global Construction of Gender: Home-Based Work in the Political Economy of the 20th Century - Aneesh, A. (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book "The Global Construction of Gender: Home-Based Work in the Political Economy of the 20th Century," by Elisabeth Prügl.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; GLOBAL Construction of Gender: Home-Based Work in the Political Economy of the 20th Century, The (Book); HOME labor; Nonfiction; PRUGL, Elisabeth

Women's Legal Strategies in Canada - Atkins, C.g.k. (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "Women's Legal Strategies in Canada," edited by Radha Jhappan.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; Canada; JHAPPAN, Radha; Nonfiction; WOMEN'S Legal Strategies in Canada (Book); Women

Judging Bertha Wilson: Law As Large As Life - Backhouse, Constance (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book "Judging Bertha Wilson: Law As Large As Life," by Ellen Anderson.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; JUDGES; JUDGING Bertha Wilson: Law As Large As Life (Book); Nonfiction; WILSON, Bertha

Santé et sécurité et transformation du travail : réflexions et recherches sur le risque professionnel - Baril-Gingras, Geneviéve (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
Reviews the book "Santé et sécurité et transformation du travail: réflexions et recherches sur le risque professionnel," by Denis Harrisson and Camille Legendre.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; HARRISSON, Dennis; LEGENDRE, Camille; Nonfiction; PROFESSIONAL employees; SANTE et securite et transformation du travail: reflexions et recherches sur le risque professionnel (Book)

La performance organisationnelle et la complémentarité des pratiques de gestion des ressources humaines - Barrette, Jacques; Carrière, Jules (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
For more than ten years, much published material has argued that human resource management (HRM) can play a major role in improving organizational performance. Several researchers claim that to exert a significant impact on organizational performance, HR practices need to be integrated or complementary with each other. However, the concept of complementarity suffers from a lack of operational clarity and has been essentially approached from a statistical standpoint that has limited our understanding of the architecture of the overall system of HR practices. On the other hand, several authors assert that the complementarity of HR practices cannot be studied outside its organizational context, especially in the industrial sector. They argue that differences in the nature of activity between service organizations and manufacturing companies are likely to have implications on which practices are adopted and how these practices impact the human and corporate performance of the organizations in question. In its first phase, this study proposes an operational definition of the concept of complementarity that can be used to select which practices to include in an organization's HRM system. This complementarity has been defined as "the set of practices originating from various areas of HRM activity whose combined application can be rationally justified and empirically demonstrated to have a synergistic effect on organizational performance in a given sector." Thus, on the basis of this definition, the authors developed a number of "complex items," incorporating HRM practices from four major operational areas : staffing, remuneration, training and performance assessment. Each of these combinations embodies a link of complementarity between practices, and the additional impact of each combination is our way of measuring its complementarity. This study has the dual purpose of first verifying the hypothesis that "the more practices from different areas of HRM are complementary, the more they will improve organizational performance" (H. 1) and, second, that "it is likely that the impact of complementary practices will vary depending on whether the organizations concerned belong to the manufacturing or service sector" (H. 2). The items to measure organizational performance come from a previous study. These data were derived from questionnaires completed by 177 Canadian firms and the internal reliability varies from .77 to .90. To measure the degree of complementarity between HRM practices, 22 items were developed with an internal reliability of .84. The data were obtained from 238 manufacturing companies and 325 service organizations. The results corroborated Hypothesis 1, indicating that the complementarity of HR practices was responsible for a significant increase in productivity/ efficiency, competitive positioning and client acquisition/growth. The results also corroborated Hypothesis 2, showing that, when the two different economic sectors are compared in terms of dependant variables, a higher degree of complementarity is particularly associated in service companies with increased productivity and efficiency, better competitive positioning and a greater number of clients and increased market share. In the case of manufacturing companies, the results indicate that the higher degree of complementarity has particular impact on the first two factors. The results are discussed in the light of current research and the limitations of the research are presented.

Dignity at Work - Bélanger, Jacques (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
The article reviews the book, Dignity at Work," by Randy Hodson.
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; work

Toward a Canadian Consumer History - Belisle, Donica (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The small explosion of interest in the history of Canadian consumption [over the past decade] has generated important insights into the material, cultural, and political histories of North America. It also illustrates that a vast potential for more research into Canadian consumption exists. Arguing that a rigorous theorization of the field of Canadian consumer history would now be timely and beneficial, this essay highlights themes emerging in Canadian and international consumer historiography and suggests areas of further inquiry. Its comments are not meant to be definitive, but are rather intended to spark discussion on consumer history's past, present, and future. --From authors' introduction
Keywords: Canada; Consumers; Consumption (Economics); IDENTITY (Psychology); LABOUR/LE Travail (Book); MONOD, David; STRANGE, Carolyn; WALDEN, Keith

Whistleblowers: Broken Lives and Organization Power - Bendersky, Corinne (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book "Whistleblowers: Broken Lives and Organization Power," by C. Fred Alford.
Keywords: ALFORD, C. Fred; BOOKS -- Reviews; Nonfiction; WHISTLEBLOWERS; WHISTLEBLOWERS: Broken Lives & Organizational Power (Book)

Negotiation : Theory and Practice - Bilodeau, Pier-Luc (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
Reviews the book "Negotiation: Theory and Practice," by Alvin L. Goldman and Jacques Rojot.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; GOLDMAN, Alvin L.; NEGOTIATION; NEGOTIATION (Book); Nonfiction; ROJOT, Jacques

Race on the Line: Gender, Labor, and Technology in the Bell System, 1880-1980 - Bix, Amy Sue (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book "Race on the Line: Gender, Labor, and Technology in the Bell System, 1880-1980," by Venus Green.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; GREEN, Venus; HIGH technology; Nonfiction; RACE on the Line: Gender, Labor & Technology in the Bell System 1880-1980 (Book)

The Patriot War of 1837-1838: Locofocoism With a Gun? - Bonthius, Andrew (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
This paper presents a reinterpretation of the causes for the US Patriot movement of 1837-38, which rose up in support of the Canadian rebellion in Upper Canada (UC) initiated by William Lyon Mackenzie (the companion rebellion in Lower Canada is not considered in this paper since its causation was arguably considerably different). Most traditional treatments of this event, by US historians in particular, are stuck in narrative mode and lack convincing interpretation and analysis. The US Patriot war is usually quickly dismissed as the work of a few Anglophobes and adventurers seeking land and coin. The hypothesis advanced here suggests that the US Patriot movement and its progenitor rebellion in UC may be seen as an expression of the social class tensions growing out of the transition from a subsistence-barter/household economy and culture to the more impersonal commodity market economy - a transition that was proceeding in an uneven and combined manner on both sides of the nominal Canada/US border. Mackenzie's UC rebellion was both motivated by and encouragement to radical Democratic anti-bank forces in the US. Historians are urged to consider the Patriot movement in the larger context of class conflict and accommodation then being played out on a shared Canadian/American stage.
Keywords: Canada; Democracy; HISTORIANS -- United States; History; LABOUR/LE Travail (Book); MACKENZIE, William Lyon, 1795-1861; REBELLION, 1837-1838; Social classes; United States

Nonstandard Work, Nonstandard Workers - Boris, Eileen; Degiuli, Francesca (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews and comments on several books including "The Policy Analysis of Child Labor: A Comparative Study," edited by Christiaan Grootaert and Harry Anthony Patrinos, "Child Labor: An American History," by Hugh D. Hindman, and "Temps: The Many Faces of the Changing Workplace," by Jackie Krasas Rogers.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; CHILD Labor: An American History (Book); GROOTAERT, Christiaan; HINDMAN, Hugh D.; Nonfiction; PATRINOS, Harry Anthony; POLICY Analysis of Child Labor: A Comparative Study, The (Book); ROGERS, Jackie Krasas; TEMPS: The Many Faces of the Changing Workplace (Book)

Tangled Routes: Women, Work, and Globalization on the Tomato Trail - Bosanac, Stephen (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2003)
Tangled Routes: Women, Work, and Globalization on the Tomato Trail, by Deborah Barndt, is reviewed.

The War on the Squatters, 1920-1940: Hamilton's Boathouse Community and the Re-Creation of Recreation on Burlington Bay - Bouchier, Nancy B.; Cruikshank, Ken (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
Working-class Hamiltonians responded to s local housing crisis by creating a boathouse community along the shoreline of Burlington Bay and Dundas Marsh. Leasing or simply squatting the land, they enjoyed access to good fishing and hunting, a clean place to live, and seclusion from the gaze of best police. The notorious reputation of a nearby hotel, the presence of transients in the area, and rough elements of working-class recreation, however, made the community a prime target for urban reformers. They saw it as an unsightly problem, standing in the way of their plans to create an aesthetically-pleasing, moral, and orderly city. The "war on the squatters" shows the ways in which urban planners, conservationists, and moral reformers sought to reshape the human and natural environment of the bay, often at the expense of working people. Residents who had enjoyed resource and recreational advantages of living on the margins of Hamilton society paid the price politically when reformers contested their use of the area's natural resources. Although they won limited sympathy, they did not have the economic, legal, or political resources to fight those who saw their community as an aesthetic and moral blot on Hamilton's waterfront.
Keywords: Boathouses; ENVIRONMENTAL protection; Government policy; HAMILTON Harbour (Ont.); Housing; Human ecology; Ontario; Squatters; Urban planning; WAR & ethics

Syndicalisme et négociation collective en France à l'aube du XXI[supe] siècle. - Bourque, Reynald (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
The article reviews the books, "Les syndicats en miettes," by Jean-François Amadieu, and "Sociologie des syndicats" by Dominique Andolfatto and Dominique Labbé.

Gender in the Legal Profession: Fitting or Breaking the Mould - Boyd, Susan B. (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "Gender in the Legal Profession: Fitting or Breaking the Mould," by Joan Broekman.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; BROEKMAN, Joan; GENDER in the Legal Profession: Fitting or Breaking the Mould (Book); Nonfiction; WOMEN lawyers

A Square Deal For All And No Railroading: Historical Essays on Labour in Brandon - Bright, David (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book "A Square Deal for All and No Railroading: Historial Essays on Labour in Brandon," by Errol Black and Tom Mitchell.
Keywords: BLACK, Errol, 1939-2012; BOOKS -- Reviews; Labor; MITCHELL, Tom; Nonfiction; SQUARE Deal for All & No Railroading: Historical Essays on Labour in Brandon, A (Book)

Hard Bargaining - Bronfenbrenner, Kate (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
Discusses employer tactics - notably the threat of plant closure - to prevent US workers from organizing. Concludes there will be a worldwide race to the bottom in the absence of the collective voice and power that unions bring.

In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th Century America - Brooks, Tequila J. (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th Century America," by Alice Kessler-Harris.
Keywords: 20th century; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Economic conditions; Employment policies; History; Labor Unions; Labor law; Legal status laws etc; Men; Rights; Women

Bienfait: The Saskatchewan Miners' Struggle of '31 - Brown, Lorne (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "Bienfait: The Saskatchewan Miners' Struggle of '31," by Stephen L. Endicott.
Keywords: BIENFAIT: The Saskatchewan Miner's Struggle of '31 (Book); BOOKS -- Reviews; ENDICOTT, Stephen L.; Miners; Nonfiction

Sexual Orientation Provisions in Canadian Collective Agreements - Brown, Travor (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
The past decade has been marked by increased awareness concerning employment discrimination against gays and lesbians. Yet, to the author's knowledge, there has been limited research regarding the response of Canadian labour organizations to the workplace needs of gay and lesbian members. Limitations of these previous studies include small sample size, lack of theoretical framework, and the absence of empirical testing of hypotheses. The present study builds on these works through the use of Craig's model, the inclusion of multi-disciplinary research, and the empirical testing of data collected from more than 240 Canadian collective agreements. Key findings include that larger, public sector bargaining units with equality clauses in their collective agreements were most likely also to contain clauses that prohibited discrimination based on sexual orientation. The paper concludes with suggestions for future research.
Keywords: Canada; Discrimination in employment; HUMAN sexuality -- Psychological aspects; Industrial relations; Public sector; SEXUAL orientation

How New is the "New Employment Contract"? Evidence from North American Pay Practices - Budd, John W. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "How New is the "New Employment Contract"? Evidence from North American Pay Practices," by David I. Levine, Dale Belman, Gary Charness, Erica L. Groshen and K.C. O'Shaughnessy.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Employment policies; LABOR market; Labor Unions; Labor contracts; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Wages & salaries; Work environment

The Business of Women: Gender, Family, and Entrepreneurship in British Columbia, 1901-1971 - Buddle, Melanie Anne (University of Victoria, 2003)
This study examines female self-employment in British Columbia from 1901 to 1971. Entrepreneurial women comprised a small proportion of the total female labour force but they exhibited differences from the rest of the labour force that deserve attention. The study relies on the Census of Canada to gain perspective on trends in female self-employment over a broad time period; qualitative sources are also utilized, including Business and Professional Women’s Club records, to illustrate how individual businesswomen reflected patterns of age, marital status, and family observed at a broad level. The role of gender in women’s decisions to run their own enterprises and in their choice of enterprise is also explored. While the research focus is British Columbia, this study is comparative: self-employed women in the province are compared to their counterparts in the rest of Canada, but also to self-employed men, and to other working women, in both regions. Regionally, women in British Columbia had higher rates of self-employment than women in the rest of the country between 1901 and 1971. Self-employed women in both British Columbia and Canada were, like wage-earning women, limited to a narrow range of occupational types, but they were more likely to work in male-dominated occupations. Self employed women were also older and more likely to be married, widowed or divorced than wage-earning women; in these aspects, they resembled self-employed men. But there were gender differences: whether women worked in female or male-dominated enterprises, they stressed their femininity. The need to take care of their families, particularly if they had lost a spouse through death or desertion, provided additional rationale for women’s presence in the business world. Family, marital status, age, gender and region all played a role in women’s decisions to enter into self-employment between 1901 and 1971.

Some Adventures of the Boys: Enniskillen Township's "Foreign Drillers," Imperialism, and Colonial Discourse, 1873-1923 - Burr, Christina (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
This paper analyses the travel writings composed by the oil drillers from Enniskillen township, in southwestern Ontario, to explain how they went about re-inforcing the project of European capitalist imperialism while simultaneously disavowing the agency of native "Others." As British subjects and Anglo-Canadians, travel and travel writing helped to define Enniskillen's "foreign drillers" as both colonizers and colonized. As agents of imperialism Enniskillen drillers became part of an imperial overclass by virtue of their "whiteness," "Britishness," and technical expertise in the mining and refining of petroleum. The colonial oil fields also became a space for the re-invention of Victorian ideals of domesticity. The wives and children of foreign drillers also travelled abroad with their husbands. In their role as homemakers, women also reinforced imperialism and its hierarchies of race and class.
Keywords: EUROPE; HIERARCHIES; HUMAN acts; Imperialism; ONTARIO, Southwestern; TRAVEL writing

Public Enterprise Revisited: A Closer Look at the 1954-79 UK Labour Productivity Record - Calvert, John (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "Public Enterprise Revisited: A Closer Look at the 1954-79 UK Labour Productivity Record," by Christafis H. Iordanoglou.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; IORDANOGLOU, Christafis H.; LABOR productivity; Nonfiction; PUBLIC Enterprise Revisited: A Closer Look at the 1954-1979 UK Labour Productivity Record (Book)

Achieving Public Policy Objectives through Collective Agreements: The Project Agreement Model for Public Construction in British Columbia’s Transportation Sector - Calvert, John; Redlin, Blair (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2003)
The Construction of the $1.2 billion Vancouver Island Highway Project provided an opportunity for the building trades unions and the Government of BC to negotiate an innovative collective agreement that included union membership, training for local residents and members of equity groups, new employment opportunities for members of designated equity groups and a comprehensive health and safety program. The Project implemented the most comprehensive system of tracking progress in employment equity in BC’s history. By its completion, women, First Nations, persons with disabilities and visible minorities accounted for just under 20% of total hours worked in an industry where 2% representation is the norm. Over 94% of payroll went to local residents, ensuring their communities the benefits of this major capital project. Finally, the health and safety record was significantly better than on any comparable construction project. Far from being an impediment to the efficient and timely completion of this major construction project, the collective agreement made it possible to deliver training, employment opportunities and regional development

Temporary Work: The Gendered Rise of a Precarious Employment Relationship - Carre, Francoise (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "Temporary Work: The Gendered Rise of a Precarious Employment Relationship," by Leah F. Vosko.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; Nonfiction; TEMPORARY Work (Book); Temporary employment; VOSKO, Leah F.

Never Going Back: A History of Queer Activism in Canada - Chamberland, Line (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "Never Going Back: A History of Queer Activism in Canada," by Tom Warner.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; Gender identity; NEVER Going Back: A History of Queer Activism in Canada (Book); Nonfiction; WARNER, Tom

The New Parapolice: Risk Markets and Commodified Social Control - Clarke, Curtis (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book "The New Parapolice: Risk Markets and Commodified Social Control," by George Rigakos.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; NEW Parapolice: Risk Markets & Commodified Social Control, The (Book); Nonfiction; RIGAKOS, George; SOCIAL control

Families, Labour and Love: Family Diversity in a Changing World - Clarke, Debra (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "Families, Labour and Love: Family Diversity in a Changing World," by Maureen Baker.
Keywords: BAKER, Maureen; BOOKS -- Reviews; FAMILIES; FAMILIES, Labour & Love: Family Diversity in a Changing World (Book); Nonfiction

Changing Canada: Political Economy as Transformation - Clement, Wallace; Vosko, Leah F. (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003)
Changing Canada examines political transformations, welfare state restructuring, international boundaries and contexts, the new urban experience, and creative resistance. The authors question dominant ways of thinking and promote alternative ways of understanding and explaining Canadian society and politics that encourage progressive social change. They examine how the evolution of capitalism is producing new types of transformations and new forms of resistance, and show that aspects of the state and the wider society are being contested. They also discuss the often paradoxical or contradictory effects of various social forces, such as the liberating but also constraining features of new communications technologies, new employment norms, and new household forms. --Publisher's description
Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung; Canada; Canada Conditions sociales 1991-; Canada Conditions économiques 1991-; Canada Economic conditions 1991-; Canada Politics and government 1980-; Canada Politics and government 1993-2006; Canada Politique et gouvernement 1993-2006; Canada Social conditions 1991-; Capitalisme; Changement politique; Changement social; Changement économique; Développement social Canada; Economic history; Kanada; Politics and government; Politieke ontwikkeling; Politische Ökonomie; Politischer Wandel; Science économique; Since 1980; Sociaal-economische ontwikkeling; Social change; Social change Canada; Social conditions; Sozialer Wandel; Wirtschaftsreform; État-Providence

Gaia's Wager: Environmental Movements and the Challenge of Sustainability - Cochrane, Regina (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book "Gaia's Wager: Environmental Movements and the Challenge of Sustainability," by Gary C. Byner.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; BYNER, Gary C.; ENVIRONMENTALISM; GAIA'S Wager: Environmental Movements & the Challenge of Sustainability (Book); Nonfiction

Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerrilla - Conley, Jim (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book "Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerrilla," by Ann Hansen.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; DIRECT Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerrilla (Book); DIRECT action; HANSEN, Ann; Nonfiction

The Limits of Rural Capitalism: Family, Culture, and Markets in Montcalm, Manitoba, 1870-1940 - Conway, J.F. (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book "The Limits of Rural Capitalism: Family, Culture, and Markets in Montcalm, Manitoba, 1870-1940," by Kenneth Michael Sylvester.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; Capitalism; LIMITS of Rural Capitalism: Family, Culture & Markets in Montcalm, Manitoba 1870-1940, The (Book); Nonfiction; SYLVESTER, Kenneth Michael

Precarious Employment in the Canadian Labour Market: A Statistical Portrait - Cranford, Cynthia J.; Vosko, Leah F.; Zukewich, Nancy (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2003)
'Precarious employment' is a better concept for understanding labour market insecurity than the dominant concept in Canada, 'non-standard work.' We examine dimensions of precariousness between and within mutually exclusive forms of employment. The growth of 'non-standard work' is fuelled by increases in forms of employment that lack regulatory protection, such as own- account self-employment. Wage work falls along a continuum of precariousness measured as regulatory protection, control and income. Finally, employment in precarious forms is shaped by social location. White men are concentrated in the least precarious forms of employment, while white women, women of colour and youth are concentrated in the more precarious forms.

The Gender of Precarious Employment in Canada - Cranford, Cynthia J.; Vosko, Leah F.; Zukewich, Nancy (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
This article examines the relationship between gender, forms of employment and dimensions of precarious employment in Canada, using data from the Labour Force Survey and the General Social Survey. Full-time permanent wage work decreased for both women and men between 1989 and 2001, but women remain more likely to be employed in part-time and temporary wage work as compared to men. Layering forms of wage work with indicators of regulatory protection, control and income results in a continuum with full-time permanent employees as the least precarious followed by full-time temporary, part-time permanent and then part-time temporary employees as the most precarious. The continuum is gendered through both inequalities between full-time permanent women and men and convergence in precariousness among part-time and temporary women and men. These findings reflect a feminization of employment norms characterized by both continuity and change in the social relations of gender. (English)
Keywords: Canada; EMPLOYMENT (Economic theory); SEX discrimination in employment; Temporary employment; Wages

Narratives at Work: Women, Men, Unionization, and the Fashioning of Identities - Cullum, Linda K (Social and economic studies (St. John's, NL), 2003)
In February, 1948, a group of fish and blueberry processors formed the exclusively female, Ladies' Cold Storage Workers Union at Job Brothers fish plant in St. John's, Newfoundland. Unusual for the time, this organization was founded in the context of structural and social change in the Newfoundland fishery that altered the social relations of paid and unpaid work for women fish plant labourers. Cullum carefully explores this specific labour process and provides an open reading of the workers' narratives; a study of how the women of Job Brothers recounted stories of their work and domestic lives, and thus fashioned shifting identities as gendered, classed, and racialized subjects. --Publisher's description

Heroines and History: Representations of Madeleine de Verchères and Laura Secord - Cupido, Robert (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "Heroines and History: Representations of Madeleine de Verchères and Laura Secord," by Colin M. Coates and Cecilia Morgan.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; COATES, Colin M.; CULTURAL history; HEROINES & History: Representations of Madeleine de Vercheres & Laura Secord (Book); MORGAN, Cecilia; Nonfiction

International Unionism's Competitive Edge: FIFPro and the European Treaty - Dabscheck, Braham (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
Globalization and neo-liberalism have been associated with a decline in unions. In seeking to respond to these problems, unions could cooperate internationally. The orthodoxy among industrial relations scholars is that the European Treaty is antithetical to international unionism because of various provisions which promote competition. The experience of the International Federation of Professional Footballers' Associations (FIFPro) contradicts this orthodoxy. In August 2001, FIFPro entered into a framework collective bargaining agreement with Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) on a new set of rules to govern the worldwide employment of professional footballers. Football's transfer and compensation system violated competitive provisions, in particular the freedom of movement of workers, contained in the European Treaty. Following the 1995 decision of the European Court of Justice in Bosman, and strategic interventions by the European Commission, FIFA sought an accommodation with FIFPro, to protect its new employment rules from further legal attack.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Collective bargaining; European Union; Globalization; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Neoliberalism; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Soccer; Studies; Treaties; competition

The Political Economy of Work in the 21st Century: Implications for an Aging American Workforce - David, Helene (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "The Political Economy of Work in the 21st Century: Implications for an Aging American Workforce," by Martin Sicker.
Keywords: Aging; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Economic impact; Labor Unions; Older workers

Nelson Lichtenstein and the Politics of Reuther Scholarship - Devinatz, Victor G. (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article rebuts Nelson Lichtenstein's conclusion (published in the same issue of the journal) that Walter Reuther was affiliated with the US Communist Party in the mid to late 1930s. (At the time, Reuther was a vice president of the United Automobile, Aircraft, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW); he went on to become UAW president from 1946 till his death in 1970.)
Keywords: AUTHORS; COMMUNIST parties; LEADERS; LICHTENSTEIN, Nelson; MEETINGS; POLITICAL participation; Political parties; REUTHER, Walter, 1907-1970; United States

Recruitment Strategies and Union Exclusion in Two Australian Call Centres - Diane Van Den Broek, Catherine (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
Recruitment processes are seen as critical to the success of contemporary organizations and integral to human resource practices, particularly in those firms setting up greenfield operations or undertaking organizational change programs. This article analyses the recruitment methods used in several large call centres in the Australian telecommunications industry. It particularly focuses on the issue of how recruitment was explicitly or implicitly designed to recruit customer service representatives who might be antithetic to workplace trade unionism. Three processes are identified. These include the use of sophisticated recruitment processes which identify those with unitarist tendencies, identifying and excluding, or blacklisting, those with union backgrounds or those who previously worked in highly unionized firms and lastly applying pressure on recruits to sign individual non-union contracts at the appointment or promotion stage.
Keywords: AUSTRALIA; Call centers; EMPLOYEE recruitment; Organizational change; Telecommunication

Unions and Tangible Investments - Doucouliagos, Hristos; Laroche, Patrice (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
A number of conflicting theoretical hypotheses have been advanced regarding the impact of unions on investment behaviour. The net impact of unions on investment is thus an empirical issue. In this article, the available empirical literature is reviewed. In addition, new evidence of the impact of unions on investment is presented using French data. In contrast to previous studies, both aggregate and disaggregate measures of union activity are used. The results indicate that French unions, in general, have not had a negative impact on investment behaviour. However, there is some evidence that the more militant unions have a negative impact on investment.
Keywords: FRANCE; Investments; Labor Unions

No Retreat, No Surrender: Concessions, Resistance, and the End of the Postwar Settlement - Draper, Alan (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews and comments on several books including "Betrayal of Local 14: Paperworkers, Politics, & Personal Replacements," by Julius Getman, "Copper Crucible: How the Arizona Miners' Strike of 1983 Recast Labor-Management Relations in America," by Timothy J. Minchin and "Forging a Common Bond: Labor & Environmental Activism During the BASF Lockout," by Jonathon D. Rosenblum.
Keywords: BETRAYAL of Local 14: Paperworkers, Politics & Personal Replacements (Book); BOOKS -- Reviews; COPPER Crucible (Book); FORGING a Common Bond: Labor & Environmental Activism During the BASF Lockout (Book); GETMAN, Julius; MINCHIN, Timothy J.; Nonfiction; ROSENBLUM, Jonathon D.

Cultures of Opposition: Jewish Immigrant Workers, New York City, 1881-1905 - Draper, Tim (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "Cultures of Opposition: Jewish Immigrant Workers, New York City, 1881-1905," by Hadassa Kosak.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; CULTURES of Opposition: Jewish Immigrant Workers, New York City 1881-1905 (Book); Immigrants; KOSAK, Hadassa; Nonfiction

The Job Training Charade - Dunk, Thomas (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "The Job Training Charade," by Gordon Lafer.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; JOB Training Charade, The (Book); LAFER, Gordon; Nonfiction; Occupational training

Employment Security and Job Loss: Lessons from Canada's National Railways, 1956-1995 - Ehrlich, Leslie; Russell, Bob (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
Trade unions have dealt with the thorny issue of layoffs since their formation, but relatively little has been written on the topic of union strategies for surviving large-scale redundancies. This paper examines these strategies in an industry that is all too familiar with massive layoffs: railroading. An analysis of union responses to job losses presupposes an understanding of the factors underlying managerial decisions about staff reduction. We argue that the nature of "downsizing" has changed considerably in the last 40 years. In industries such as railroading, managers were formerly preoccupied with labour-saving technology. As such, unions struggled for a significant voice and co-determinative role in the introduction of new machinery. In Canada, unions came close to obtaining such a role through the recommendations of the Freedman Report. Following their defeat in acquiring a major role in determining issues of technological change, railway unions focused on winning employment security provisions in their contracts. However, managers would view employment security as an anomaly when they turned to organizational change to increase productivity. More recently, older railway unions and newer union entrants to the industry have experienced tactical disagreements over how to confront the offensive against employment security in railroading.
Keywords: Canada; INDUSTRIAL management; Labor Unions; Layoffs; Railroads; Unemployment; job security

The End of Marriage? Individualism and Intimate Relations - Eichler, Margrit (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "The End of Marriage? Individualism and Intimate Relations," by Jane Lewis.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; END of Marriage? Individualism & Intimate Relations, The (Book); INTERPERSONAL relations; LEWIS, Jane; Nonfiction

Mass Communication in Canada - Ellerman, Evelyn (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "Mass Communication in Canada," 4th edition, by Rowland Lorimer and Mike Gasher.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; Communication; GASHER, Mike; LORIMER, Rowland; MASS Communication in Canada (Book); Nonfiction

With These Hands: The Hidden World of Migrant Farm Workers Today - Epp, Roger (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book "With These Hands: The Hidden World of Migrant Farm Workers Today," by Daniel Rothenberg.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; MIGRANT agricultural workers; Nonfiction; ROTHENBERG, Daniel; WITH These Hands: The Hidden World of Migrant Farm Workers Today (Book)

Trade Unions in Renewal: A Comparative Study - Fairbrother, Peter; Yates, Charlotte A. B. (Charlotte Alyce Bronwen) (Employment and work relations in context series, 2003)
This comprehensive survey of continuity and change in trade unions looks at five primarily English-speaking countries: the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. The authors consider the recent re-examination by trade union movements of the basis of union organization and activity in the face of a harsher economic and political climate. One of the impetuses for this re-examination has been the recent history of unions in the USA. American models of renewal have inspired Australia, New Zealand and the UK, while Canada has undergone a cautious examination of the US model with an attempt to develop a distinctive approach. This book aims to provide a thorough grounding for informed discussion and debate about the position and place of trade unions in modern economies. --Publisher's description
Keywords: Commonwealth countries. Comparative industrial relations. Syndicats. Relations industrielles comparées. Sindicalismo. Sindicato. Comparative industrial relations. Labor unions; Labor unions. Labor unions; United States. Labor unions

Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris: Gender, Ideology, and the Daily Lives of the Poor - Farr, James R. (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "Surviving Poverty in Medieval Paris: Gender, Ideology, and the Daily Lives of the Poor," by Sharon Farmer.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; FARMER, Sharon; Nonfiction; POVERTY; SURVIVING Poverty in Medieval Paris: Gender, Ideology & the Daily Lives of the Poor (Book)

Biomedicine and Alternative Healing Systems in America: Issues of Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Gender - Feldberg, Georgina (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book "Biomedicine and Alternative Healing Systems in America: Issues of Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Gender," by Hans A. Baer.
Keywords: BAER, Hans A.; BIOMEDICINE & Alternative Healing Systems in America: Issues of Class, Race, Ethnicity & Gender (Book); BOOKS -- Reviews; Medicine; Nonfiction

Book Notes [51, Spring 2003] - Finkel, Alvin (Labour/Le Travail, 2003)
The article briefly reviews Bridget Anderson's "Doing the Dirty Work? The Global Realities of Domestic Labour;" Barbara Paleczny's "Clothed in Integrity: Weaving Just Cultural Relations and the Garment Industry;" Walter Johnson's "Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market;" Anna Heilman's "Never Far Away: The Auschwitz Chronicles of Anna Heilman;" Lesley Gill's "Teetering on the Rim: Global Restructuring, Daily Life, and the Armed Retreat of the Bolivian State;" "Public Sector Pay Determination in the European Union" edited by Robert Elliott, Claudio Lucifora, and Dominique Meurs; Philip Resnick's "The Politics of Resentment: British Columbia Regionalism and Canadian Unity;" "Against the Grain: Foresters and Politics in Nova Scotia" by L. Anders Sandberg and Peter Clancy; and "The Nonprofit Sector in Canada: Roles and Relationships," edited by Keith G. Banting.

Book Notes [52, Fall 2003] - Finkel, Alvin (Labour/Le Travail, 2003)
The article briefly reviews Howard Margolian's "Unauthorized Entry: The Truth About Nazi War Criminals in Canada, 1946-1956;" Raka Ray's "Fields of Protest: Women's Movements in India;" Naila Kabeer's "The Power to Choose: Bangladeshi Women and Labour Market Decisions in London and Dhaka;" Daniel James's "Doña María's Story : Life, History, Memory, and Political History;" "Women's Work in Britain and France" by Abigail Gregory and Jan Windebank; Elliott D. Sclar's "You Don 'I Always Get What You Pay For: The Economics of Privatization;" Mary H. Blewett's "Constant Turmoil: The Politics of Industrial Life in Nineteenth- Century New England;" Keith Wrightson's "Earthly Necessity: Economic Lives in Early Modern Britain;" Stephen Heathorn's "For Home, Country and Race: Constructing Gender, Class, and Englishness in the Elementary School, 1880-1914;" and Mêlante Nolan's "Bread Winning: New Zealand Women and the State."

Setting up Shop: Self-Employment Among Canadian College and University Graduates - Finnie, Ross; Laporte, Christine (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
This article reports the results of an empirical analysis of self-employment among recent college and university graduates using the National Graduates Survey databases. It finds that self-employment rates 2 years after graduation, calculated by year of graduation and level of education, ranged from 6.5% to 7.8% for men, and from 3.2% to 5.2% for women. Five years after graduation, the rates had increased, ranging from 9.9% to 11.1% of men, and from 5.3% to 6.7% for women. The evidence regarding employment rates, job satisfaction, the job-education skill match and earnings (the latter including the estimation of both cross-sectional and fixed effects models) suggests that self-employment is generally associated with enhanced labor market outcomes - that is, the results of "pull" factors. Policy implications are discussed.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; College graduates; Earnings; Education; Employment; Job satisfaction; LABOR market; Labor Unions; Postsecondary graduates; Self employment; Statistical analysis; Studies

Michel Chartrand : la colère du juste, 1968-2003 - Foisy, Fernand (Lanctôt, 2003)
Deuxième volet de la biographie de Michel Chartrand (Les voix d’un homme de parole), La colère du juste retrace les événements marquants de la vie du célèbre syndicaliste depuis mai 1968 jusqu’à nos jours. Ses prises de position éclatantes, ses multiples démêlées avec l’appareil judicaire, ses nombreux emprisonnements, dont sa détention lors de la crise d’Octobre 1970 (« Un jour quelqu’un va payer pour tous ces jours passés sans soleil et sans femme… »), les luttes multiples, syndicales et autres, qu’il a menées pour le mieux-être et la sécurité des travailleurs, les complots et manigances douteuses dont il a été souvent victime, avec en toile de fond une tranche importante de l’histoire du Québec moderne, tels sont les principaux éléments qui forment la trame de cette biographie imposante. Fernand Foisy a réussi à recréer le climat de l’époque, en donnant la parole aux principaux acteurs, rectifiant ici et là certaines notions erronées qui ont été véhiculées à propos de ce indomptable justicier au tempérament fougueux, Michel Chartrand. Un homme d’action et de parole, dont on découvrira tout le charme et ses passions pour la culture. Ce deuxième tome coïncide avec la diffusion de la deuxième partie de la série Simone et Chartrand, diffusée cet automne sur les ondes de Télé-Québec. --Résumé de l'éditeur
Keywords: Biographies; Chartrand, Michel; Dirigeants syndicaux Québec (Province) Biographies; History; Labor leaders; Labor leaders Québec (Province) Biography; Labor unions; Labor unions Québec (Province) History; Politics and government; Québec; Québec (Province) Conditions sociales 1960-1991; Québec (Province) Politics and government 1960-; Québec (Province) Politique et gouvernement 1960-; Since 1960; Syndicalism; Syndicalism Québec (Province); Syndicalisme Québec (Province); Syndicats Québec (Province) Histoire; Travailleurs Québec (Province) Conditions sociales; Travailleurs Québec (Province) Histoire; Working class; Working class Québec (Province) History; Working class Québec (Province) Social conditions; Working class Social conditions

Earnings Supplements and Job Quality among Former Welfare Recipients - Foley, Kelly; Schwartz, Saul (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
The Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) offered a generous but time-limited earnings supplement to a randomly assigned group of lone parents—who were also long-term social assistance recipients—if they found full-time work and left social assistance. Employment data was collected for this group over a three-year period following the offer, and for a randomly-assigned control group. This article analyzes the characteristics of the first job that SSP participants found after they left social assistance. The occupations and industries of the first job held are analyzed as is SSP's impact on hourly wages, weekly hours and job stability. The article finds that SSP increased employment in jobs that were no worse (and no better) than the jobs that participants might have taken in the absence of the program.
Keywords: Canada; SUPPLEMENTAL security income program; WELFARE recipients -- Employment

The Progressive Tradition in Canadian Literature - Frank, David (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews and comments on the book, "Progressive Heritage: The Evolution of a Politically Radical Literary Tradition in Canada," by James Doyle.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; Canadian literature; DOYLE, James; Nonfiction; PROGRESSIVE Heritage: The Evolution of a Politically Radical Literary Tradition in Canada (Book)

In the Company of Diamonds: De Beers, Kelinzee, and the Control of a Town - Frayne, Bruce (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "In the Company of Diamonds: De Beers, Kelinzee and the Control of a Town," by Peter Carstens.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; CARSTENS, Peter; IN the Company of Diamonds: De Beers, Kelinzee & the Control of a Town (Book); NATURAL resources; Nonfiction

Working-Class Public History in the Context of Deindustrialization: Dilemmas of Authority and the Possibilities of Dialogue - Frisch, Michael H. (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The paper is framed by the author's reminiscence of his attendance at a public tour of the Springhill underground mine in Nova Scotia. The tour guide, in response to a question, suddenly spoke compellingly of the disaster that had taken place there. The paper then analyzes the place of oral and public working-class history in an era of deindustrialization. There is a tendency for oral history to be used simply to provide an emotional gloss, but the author argues that particular incidents can also become a turning point in terms of the bigger picture. The author emphasizes the usefulness of dialogue and mutual interrogation in the cultural re-situation and re-imagination of narratives of workers' experience, struggles, and perspectives on change.
Keywords: Canada; History; INDUSTRIAL management; Industrial relations; Labor; Nova Scotia; Oral history; PUBLIC history; Social classes; WORKING class -- History

Labour Protection for Self-employed Workers - Fudge, Judy (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2003)
Self-employed workers have an legal ambiguous status. Traditionally self-employment is equated with entrepreneurship and legally it is considered to be a form of independent contracting and thus outside the ambit of labour protection and collective bargaining laws. But the evidence suggests that most of the self-employed, especially those who do not employ other workers, are much more like employees than they are like entrepreneurs. Instead of attempting to draw a new line between employment and independent contracting for the purpose of determining the scope of labour protection, collective bargaining, and social insurance laws, all workers, including the self-employed, who depend on the sale of their capacity to work should be covered by these laws, unless there are compelling public policy reasons for a narrower definition.

L'Europe syndicale au quotidien : la représentation des salariés en France, Allemagne, Grande-Bretagne et Italie - Gagnon, Mélanie (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)

Syndicalisme et classe ouvrière. Histoire et évolution d’un malentendu - Gagnon, Mona-Josée (Lien social et Politiques, 2003)
Prenant son départ dans une réflexion sur la notion de classe sociale, cet article analyse l’histoire et l’évolution du syndicalisme eu égard à son lien avec une classe ouvrière qu’il a eu pour mission de représenter. La construction de deux paradigmes contraires, qui se sont succédé et qui font écho à différents changements sociaux, permet de mettre en relief et de sérier les problèmes identitaires qui affectent le syndicalisme, tant dans son rôle de régulation que dans son rôle de contestation. La remise en question de la représentation biclassiste de la société, qui a caractérisé tant la pensée marxiste et le projet social-démocrate que plusieurs courants d’analyse sociologique, jointe à la « disqualification » de la classe ouvrière comme principal acteur du changement social, témoigne de la nécessité de rethéoriser le syndicalisme selon une approche dialectique, seule capable de prendre en compte les contradictions multiples qui façonnent le fait syndical.

Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take on the Global Economy / Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy - Gannagé, Charlene (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
Two books are reviewed: "Sweatshop Warriors: Immigrant Women Workers Take on the Global Economy," by Miriam Ching Yoon Louie, and "Disposable Domestics: Immigrant Women Workers in the Global Economy," by Grace Chang.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Domestic service; Employment; Foreign labor; Global economy; Globalization; Immigrant women; Labor Unions; Sweatshops; Women

L'histoire des mineurs du nord ontarien et québécois, 1886-1945 - Gaudreau, Guy; Daoust, Alain; De la Riva, Paul; Reilly, Karey (Cahiers des Amériques, 2003)
L’auteur fait revivre les itinéraires de milliers de travailleurs qui ont sillonné les mines du Nord-Est ontarien et du Nord-Ouest québécois au cours des premières décennies du xxe siècle. Grâce à l’exploitation des dossiers du personnel de sept sociétés minières réparties sur ce territoire, il scrute les arrivées et les départs des ouvriers-mineurs en cherchant à comprendre leurs motivations. L’image se dégageant de ces sources patronales reste fort différente de celle rapportée par l’histoire ouvrière et syndicale. En effet, ces travailleurs quittent d’eux-mêmes leur emploi beaucoup plus souvent qu’ils ne sont congédiés ou mis à pied, de sorte que leur chômage serait davantage volontaire qu’imposé. Étant donné la relative rareté de la main-d’œuvre spécialisée, les employeurs n’auraient pas eu d’autre choix que de réembaucher ceux qu’ils avaient auparavant engagés, et même ceux qu’ils avaient déjà congédiés. En somme, ces travailleurs, qui annoncent très souvent leur décision de « sacrer leur camp », affichent une indépendance face aux entreprises et une capacité de résistance qu’on ne soupçonnait pas. --Résumé de l'éditeur
Keywords: History; Mineral industries; Mineral industries Ontario, Northern History; Mineral industries Québec (Province) Abitibi-Témiscamingue History; Miners; Miners Ontario, Northern History; Miners Québec (Province) Abitibi-Témiscamingue History; Mineurs Québec (Province) Abitibi-Témiscamingue Histoire; Northern Ontario; Québec Abitibi-Témiscamingue

Harnessing Labour Confrontation: Shaping the Postwar Settlement in Canada, 1943-1950 - Gereluk, Winston (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
Reviews the book 'Harnessing Labour Confrontation: Shaping the Postwar Settlement in Canada, 1943-1950,' by Peter McInnis.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; HARNESSING Labour Confrontation (Book); Industrial relations; MCINNIS, Peter; Nonfiction

The World Turned: Essays on Gay History, Politics and Culture - Godbout, Louis (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "The World Turned: Essays on Gay History, Politics and Culture," by John D'Emilio.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; D'EMILIO, John; GAY people; Nonfiction; WORLD Turned: Essays on Gay History, Politics & Culture, The (Book)

Volunteer Activity and the Demands of Work and Family - Gomez, Rafael; Gunderson, Morley (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
The importance of volunteer activity for employees, employers and governmental and non-governmental organizations that are increasingly relying on volunteers is discussed, followed by an econometric analysis relating volunteer activity to a variety of characteristics of work and family as well as to personal and demographic characteristics of the volunteers. The analysis is based on Cycle 9 of the Canadian General Social Survey (GSS) of 1994—an ideal data set since it links volunteer activity to a wide range of characteristics of work and family. The results are interpreted through the lens of a household production function framework, highlighting the importance of time cost and income, but also characteristics of work and family. (English)
Keywords: Employees; Employers; Industrial relations; SOCIAL surveys; Volunteers; Work & family

Scènes de la vie en rouge. L'époque de Jeanne Corbin 1906 - 1944 - Goyette, Julien (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "Scènes de la vie en rouge: L'époque de Jeanne Corbin 1906-1944," by Andrée Lévesque.

De Français à Paysans. Modernité et tradition dans le peuplement du Canada français - Grabowski, Jan (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "De Français à Paysans: Modernité et tradition dans le peuplement du Canada français," by Leslie P. Choquette.

Westcountrymen in Prince Edward's Isle - Greenhill, Basil; Giffard, Ann (Formac, 2003)
This classic, first-of-its-kind study of merchant shipping illuminates the manner in which the rapid development of shipbuilding in Prince Edward Island played a significant role in Canada's early history. James Yeo, Sr., once a village labourer in his native Cornwall, came to the colony and quickly amassed a fortune from both shipbuilding and trade. His rough-and-ready business deals spawned his mercurial rise to prominence in the colony. First published in 1967, this book originated from an idea by Ann Giffard and was jointly executed with her husband, Basil Greenhill. It connects the burgeoning expansion of shipbuilding in the colonies with the settlers' hometown in Devon, and explains why, when Britain was cut off from supplies of wood in Europe, shipbuilding suddenly took hold in Canada. It is an unique study that shows that local history is an important window into the interconnected world of economic development. --Publisher's description
Keywords: Commerce; Great Britain; Great Britain Commerce Prince Edward Island; History; Prince Edward Island; Prince Edward Island Commerce Great Britain; Shipbuilding; Shipbuilding Prince Edward Island History; Shipping; Shipping Prince Edward Island History

Rainbow Quest: The Folk Music Revival and American Society, 1940-1970 - Gregory, David (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "Rainbow Quest: The Folk Music Revival and American Society, 1940-1970," by Ronald D. Cohen.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; COHEN, Ronald D.; Folk music; Nonfiction; RAINBOW Quest: The Folk Music Revival & American Society 1940-1970 (Book)

Efficacité des pratiques de maintien en emploi des cadres de 50 ans et plus - Guérin, Gilles; Saba, Tania (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
Dans le contexte actuel de pénuries de compétences, la fonction ressources humaines — après avoir encouragé les départs anticipés — se voit confrontée au défi de maintenir en emploi les employés vieillissants. Après avoir passé en revue les principales pratiques de gestion associées à la rétention des employés de 50 ans et plus, les auteurs mesurent leur effet sur l’extension de la vie professionnelle de 402 cadres des services sociaux et de santé de Montréal. Les résultats, une fois validés à partir de ceux de deux autres sources de données (tirés de la même enquête), permettent d’élaborer une stratégie de maintien en emploi axée sur les quatre dimensions suivantes : 1) élaboration d’un projet de fin de carrière, 2) aménagement du temps de travail, 3) amélioration de la qualité de vie au travail, 4) stimulants financiers. // In many industries in Quebec and Canada, as well as in other Western countries, labour shortages have now replaced labour surpluses in a context where succession is growing scarce and a real culture of rapid departure has developed as a result of the recent waves of early retirement and the work overload that this has created for the “survivors.” After years of encouraging departures and of managing early retirement programs, the human resources (HR) function now faces the new challenge of attempting to retain aging employees in today’s context of multiple restructuring, infrastructure sharing, growing competition and—for the Public Service—tighter management of the financial resources that the state makes available to institutions. This raises the question of whether it is possible today to have end-of-career employees extend their working lives. In the 1980s and 1990s, numerous studies (Rosen and Jerdee 1985a; Nusberg 1986, 1989; Meier 1988; Dennis 1988; Hale 1990; Shea 1991) presented—based on the specific needs and expectations of this category of workers—management practices which were supposed to satisfy end-of-career employees and encourage them to stay in their jobs longer. However, the issue of the effectiveness of these practices has rarely been addressed. What is the value of this model of managing aging? Can it be useful for HR managers? According to the domain-specific literature, a retention strategy may be based on a number of practices aimed at extending the working life of older employees. These practices will be presented according to seven main categories: career planning, career development, career moves, job content design, time management, pay and benefits, and employment relationship. The effectiveness of these practices will then be assessed on the basis of a sample of managers who, in March 2001, answered a more general questionnaire on job dissatisfaction, mobilization and retention in the Montreal health and social services sector. Out of a total of 3525 managers, 1054 managers answered the questionnaire. Of this number, 402 managers were aged 50 years or over and formed the sample used in this study. Extension of working life (EWL), the dependent variable used in this study, was assessed through four indicators: expectations of early retirement, expectations of extending working life, planned retirement age and desired age (regardless of any financial consideration). Thirty-seven practices which are supposed to be linked with retirement departure were drawn from the literature and retained as independent variables. Other variables—socio-demographic, professional, psychological and organizational—act as control variables in certain analyses. The results show that the percentage of explanation of EWL through end-of-career management practices is only 13%. As amply repeated in the literature, end-of-career managers are particularly partial to individualized arrangements. These managers stay on because their employer has organized a stimulating end-of-career project for them that is either challenging or offers particularly attractive working conditions. Without these accommodations, there is no hope of retaining these managers, short of offering substantial financial incentives. From this analysis of management practices emerged a strategy for retaining older managers based on: (1) a stimulating end-of-career project; (2) individualized arrangements of work time (and place) or advantages which allow for this flexibility and (3) in addition to—or in the absence of—these elements, financial incentives can always be used to “purchase” the retention of older employees. To validate the retention strategy which emerged from the preceding results, two additional analyses were conducted. The first analysis used other independent variables, i.e. the opportunities offered by the workplace to satisfy a number of professional expectations. These variables could be considered as intervening variables between management practices and the decision to stay employed. The second analysis was based on the results of an open-ended question which asked the respondent, “Under what conditions would you agree to extend your career beyond the planned retirement age?” The results allow us to complete and specify the retention strategy described above. Thus, four tools are available to retain end-of-career managers in the Montreal health and social services sector: End-of-career individual project. Time management. Improvement of quality of working life. Financial incentives. Although the impact of these practices on the extension of working life is less significant than the impact of individual factors (seniority, health status, expected financial situation at retirement, importance of work in life, etc.), the impact of these practices is far from insignificant. Thus, this demonstrates that the HR function has a role to play in the development and implementation of a management strategy to retain managers aged 50 or over.
Keywords: Civil service; Executives; Human capital; LABOR market; Labor economics; Public administration

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal - Haiven, Judy (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2003)
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal, by Eric Schlosser, is reviewed.

Policing Labour in Canada - Hall, Alan; De Lint, Willem (Policing and Society, 2003)
Recent research on the policing of labour disputes suggests that there have been substantial historical changes in policing practices and policies in North America and Europe. Much of the literature points to a postwar movement from reactive policing grounded in the threat and use of force to a more preventive consent-based approach which relies on communication, negotiation and self-policing. At the same time, there have been conflicting reports of increased use of police force and confrontation with labour in some countries such as Britain, while police actions in a number of recent anti-globalization protests in Canada, the United States and Europe have demonstrated readiness of the police to use substantial force in certain public disorder situations. These developments speak to the need to examine more fully the ways in which the police construct their role and the role of labour unions in labour strikes and public protests. Based on interviews with police in 38 different cities and 10 provincial jurisdictions across Canada, this article looks at the ways in which the police understand and implement policies in strike and protest situations. It is argued that the police in most services have constructed a minimalist role for themselves in "normal" strike and protest situations which is grounded in processes of responsibilization, flexible policing and privatization. As they understand most situations, the "best way" to maintain order is to limit the show and use of force, while relying on negotiation and persuasion to resolve conflicts, and civil court or labour board proceedings and the threat of court imposed fines. At the same time, in contexts where the police perceive a clear threat to public interest or safety, in particular when unions or more typically other radical groups refuse to play by the rules of the game, police thinking shifts markedly to the view that extraordinary force is necessary and justified both to prevent and control public disorder.
Keywords: Accommodation; Canada; Coercion; Labour; Protests; Public Interest; Strikes

Agnes Heller: Socialism, Autonomy and the Postmodern - Hansen, Phillip (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "Agnes Heller: Socialism, Autonomy and the Postmodern," by Simon Tormey.
Keywords: AGNES Heller: Socialism, Autonomy & the Postmodern (Book); BOOKS -- Reviews; Nonfiction; PHILOSOPHERS; TORMEY, Simon

Les représentations de la confiance entre gestionnaires et représentants syndicaux : une analyse qualitative - Harrison, Denis (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
La confiance est un attribut relationnel essentiel à la coopération dans un contexte de construction de nouvelles formes d’organisation du travail et de partenariat. Une analyse qualitative des représentations de la confiance entre les gestionnaires et les représentants syndicaux nous révèle que la confiance peut présider à la conception d’un nouveau lien entre les agents malgré les divergences dans les représentations des conditions essentielles à ce type de relation. Par ailleurs, notre étude montre que la confiance est un concept multidimensionnel où s’entremêlent des aspects personnels, situationnels et événementiels et des stades de développement dont l’atteinte permet de solidifier la relation malgré certaines difficultés. La confiance révèle une relation empreinte d’ambiguïté selon les agents présents, la situation et les enjeux. Les agents hésitent à accorder entièrement la confiance à l’autre sur la base d’une identité commune. Notre étude sur la confiance conclut que les agents désirent transformer la relation tout en conservant leur identité propre, sans s’aliéner ses besoins, ses valeurs, ses intérêts.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Management; Trust (Psychology)

Extreme Organising: A case study of Hibernia - Hatfield, Robert (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2003)
The article is a first hand account of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP) attempt to organise workers on Hibernia's offshore oil drilling platform. Documented are the problems of accessing workers on a worksite in the Atlantic and the challenges of inter-union rivalry to successful union organising campaigns. The paper provides a chronology of the campaign from its beginnings in 1997. Although the CEP won a contested certification in 2001, the struggle at Hibernia continues.

International Work-Time Trends: The Emerging Gap in Hours - Hayden, Anders (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2003)
This paper examines historical and recent trends in average annual work hours. The shared long-term decline in annual hours appears to be giving way to a growing divergence among OECD nations, with notable differences between several European nations and the United States. Significant differences among nations exist in annual vacation entitlements and are emerging with regard to the workweek. Competing notions of work-time flexibility held by employers and employees are an important new element in recent work-time debates, as is the related trend toward individualised forms of work-time reduction. Some European countries with pioneering work-time regimes are reviewed. The paper concludes by raising the question of how Canada can resist the American long-hours model and catch up with leading-edge practices.

Regulating Conflict in Public Sector Labour Relations - Hebdon, Robert; Mazerolle, Maurice (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
Using a comprehensive collective bargaining data set, we examine dispute resolution patterns of all bargaining units in the province of Ontario over a 10-year period. A central finding is that bargaining units covered by legislation requiring compulsory interest arbitration arrive at impasse 8.7 percent to 21.7 percent more often than bargaining units in the right to strike sectors. Even after controlling for legislative jurisdiction, union, bargaining unit size, occupation, agreement length, time trend, and part-time status, strong evidence was found that compulsory arbitration has both chilling and dependence effects on the bargaining process. The problem of failure to reach negotiated settlements is particularly acute in the health care sector, especially among hospitals. Our results also call into question the use of interest arbitration in a central bargaining context. The centralized structure appears to exacerbate the negative effects of interest arbitration
Keywords: INTEREST arbitration; Industrial relations; LABOR arbitration; LABOR laws & legislation; MEDICAL care; Public sector

Duquesne and the Rise of Steel Unionism - High, Steven C. (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "Duquesne and the Rise of Steel Unionism," by James D. Rose.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; DUQUESNE & the Rise of Steel Unionism (Book); Nonfiction; ROSE, James D.; Steel industry

Industrial Sunset: The Making of North America's Rust Belt, 1969-1984 - High, Steven C. (University of Toronto Press, 2003)
Plant shutdowns in Canada and the United States from 1969 to 1984 led to an ongoing and ravaging industrial decline of the Great Lakes Region. This book offers a comparative regional analysis of the economic and cultural devastation caused by the shutdowns, and provides an insightful examination of how mill and factory workers on both sides of the border made sense of their own displacement. The history of deindustrialization rendered in cultural terms reveals the importance of community and national identifications in how North Americans responded to the problem. Based on the plant shutdown stories told by over 130 industrial workers, and drawing on extensive archival and published sources, and songs and poetry from the time period covered, Steve High explores the central issues in the history and contemporary politics of plant closings. In so doing, this study poses new questions about group identification and solidarity in the face of often dramatic industrial transformation. --Publisher's description

When Coal was King: Ladysmith and the Coal-Mining Industry on Vancouver Island - Hinde, John Roderick (UBC Press, 2003)
The town of Ladysmith was one of the most important coal-mining communities on Vancouver Island during the early twentieth century. The Ladysmith miners had a reputation for radicalism and militancy and engaged in bitter struggles for union recognition and economic justice, most notably the Great Strike of 1912-14. This strike, one of the longest and most violent labour disputes in Canadian history, marked a watershed in the history of the town and the coal industry. --Publisher's description
Keywords: British Columbia Ladysmith; British Columbia Vancouver Island; Coal miners; Coal mines and mining; Coal mining History; History; Ladysmith (B.C.); Social aspects History; Social conditions History; Strikes and lockouts

Brothers and Sisters: Gender and the Labour Movement, a Feminist Labour Studies Conference at the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre, Hamilton, May 2002 - Iacovetta, Franca (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
Reports on the various presentations made by academics and union activists at the day-long conference, including by Madelaine Parent.

Contract Governance and the Canadian Public Sector - Ilcan, Suzan M.; O'Cannor, Daniel M.; Oliver, Marcia L. (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
This essay examines the changing character of public sector work in the Canadian federal public service context. It is based on an empirical examination of various forms of contractual relations currently operative within the Canadian state and on a comparative approach of other western liberal state reform initiatives. We argue that contract governance is an ongoing process involving distinct interrelations between the public and private sectors. In this context, we identify various forms of contract governance and flexibility schemes that have been enfolded and refolded into the conventional structures of governance, and unfolded into a liminal space between the state and civil society through the establishment of nonstandard work and the creation of alternative service delivery programmes. (English)
Keywords: CIVIL society; Civil service; Industrial relations; Private sector; Public administration; Public sector

The Search for Solidarity: The Industrial and Political Roots of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation in British Columbia, 1913-1928 - Isitt, Benjamin (University of Victoria, 2003)
Born out of the industrial and political struggles of organized labour at the end of the First World War, the BC CCF was a product of organizational and ideological conflict in the 1910s and 1920s. This study explores the shift of BC socialism towards industrial action, which culminated in the One Big Union and the sympathetic strikes of 1919. It then examines the emergence of anti-Communism on the Left, shaped by the experience of political unity and disunity during the 1920s. These two factors fundamentally influenced the ideology and strategy adopted by the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in British Columbia. The ideological and tactical divisions of the 1930s were contested during the 1910s and 1920s. The collapse of the One Big Union, combined with deteriorating relations with the Communist Party, shifted BC socialists away from industrial militancy and toward parliamentary forms of struggle.

Absence Culture The Effects of Union Membership Status and Union-Management Climate - Iverson, Roderick D.; Buttigieg, Donna M.; Maguire, Catherine (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
Drawing from Nicholson and Johns (1985) typology of absence culture (N = 460 from 43 work groups), we found that greater similarity in union membership status between co-workers was associated with a lowering of a member's absence culture, as was a more harmonious union-management (UM) climate. In addition, greater similarity in union membership was related to a lowered absence culture when the UM climate was perceived to be positive. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings for understanding the social context in which the absence culture of union members is engendered are discussed.
Keywords: Culture; LABOR-management committees; Labor union members; TYPOLOGY (Psychology)

Helping Working Families: The Earned Income Tax Credit - Jacobsen, Joyce P. (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
Reviews the book "Helping Working Families: The Earned Income Tax Credit," by Saul D. Hoffman and Laurence S. Seidman.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; EARNED income tax credit; HELPING Working Families (Book); HOFFMAN, Saul D.; Nonfiction; SEIDMAN, Laurence S.

Educating for Changing Unions - Jansen, Irene (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2003)
Educating for Changing Unions, by Bev Burke, Jo Jo Geronimo, D'Arcy Martin , Barb Thomas and Carol Wall, is reviewed.

Searching for the Springs of Health: Women and Working Families in Winnipeg's 1918-1919 Influenza Epidemic - Jones, Esyllt Wynne (University of Manitoba, 2003)
In the winter of 1918-1919, a pandemic of influenza crossed the globe, killing as many as 50 million people. This dissertation is a local study of influenza in Winnipeg, Canada. It dissects the social responses to the disease from four different perspectives: that of the public health and medical authorities; middle class Anglo-Canadian women volunteers who provided nursing care and material relief to the city's poorer influenza victims; working class and immigrant families; and organized labour. The dissertation argues that the influenza epidemic, coming on the heels of the devastating Great War, and arriving in the midst of class, ethnic, and gender conflicts, played a role in deepening the social cleavages of Winnipeg society in the period, particularly those of class and ethnicity. Class and ethnic tension was not the inevitable outcome of the epidemic. Rather, it was the result of the social inequality of the disease's impact--working families represented a disproportionately high number of influenza's victims--and the failure of public authorities to mount a compassionate and cooperative community effort to fight the disease. The volunteerism of middle class Anglo-Canadian women, too, failed to build the bonds of community. Labour believed that the state response to influenza was a betrayal of principles of justice and public good. Workers' families bore the brunt of public closures and layoffs. A spirit of mutualism sustained families and neighbourhoods through the disease, and contributed to the mobilizing successes of the workers' movement in 1918-1919. The trauma of the epidemic suggested the fragility of the social order, and workers' capacity to build an alternative society. Their vision of social transformation included the creation of the "springs of health": a living wage, quality housing, and equal access to a democratic medical system. Many working families, nevertheless, found it difficult to recover from the loss of spouses and children. Their stories suggest that influenza had a long-term impact upon the evolution of post-war Canada that we are only just beginning to understand.

A Promise and a Way of Life: White Antiracist Activism - Jones, Patrick (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "A Promise and a Way of Life: White Antiracist Activism," by Becky Thompson.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; Nonfiction; PROMISE & A Way of Life: White Antiracist Activism, A (Book); SOCIAL action; THOMPSON, Becky

Talking About Identity: Encounters in Race, Ethnicity and Language - Kelly, Jennifer (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "Talking About Identity: Encounters in Race, Ethnicity and Language," edited by Carl James and Adrienne Shadd.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; Ethnicity; JAMES, Carl; Nonfiction; SHADD, Adrienne; TALKING About Identity: Encounters in Race, Ethnicity & Language (Book)

Fighting for the Union Label: The Women's Garment Industry and the ILGWU in Pennsylvania - Kerr, Daniel (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "Fighting for the Union Label: The Women's Garment Industry and the ILGWU in Pennsylvania," by Kenneth Wolensky, Nicole Wolensky and Robert Wolensky.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; FIGHTING for the Union Label: The Women's Garment Industry & the ILGWU in Pennsylvania (Book); Labor Unions; Nonfiction; WOLENSKY, Kenneth; WOLENSKY, Nicole; WOLENSKY, Robert

Comrades and Partners: The Shared Lives of Grace Hutchins and Anna Rochester - Kessler-Harris, Alice (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book "Comrades and Partners: The Shared Lives of Grace Hutchins and Anna Rochester," by Janet Lee.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; COMRADES & Partners: The Shared Lives of Grace Hutchins & Anna Rochester (Book); FELLOWSHIP; LEE, Janet; Nonfiction

Blood, Sweat, and Cheers: Sport and the Making of Modern Canada - Kirby, Sandra (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "Blood, Sweat, and Cheers: Sport and the Making of Modern Canada," by Colin D. Howell.
Keywords: BLOOD, Sweat & Cheers: Sport & the Making of Modern Canada (Book); BOOKS -- Reviews; HOWELL, Colin D.; Nonfiction; SPORTS -- History

Portuguese Women in Toronto: Gender, Immigration, and Nationalism - Klimt, Andrea (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "Portuguese Women in Toronto: Gender, Immigration, and Nationalism," by Wenona Giles.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; GILES, Wenona; Nonfiction; PORTUGUESE Women in Toronto: Gender, Immigration & Nationalism (Book); WOMEN -- Social conditions

Mirrors of Stone: Fragments from the Porcupine Frontier - Krats, Peter V. (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book "Mirrors of Stone: Fragments From the Porcupine Frontier," by Charlie Angus and Louie Palu.
Keywords: ANGUS, Charlie; BOOKS -- Reviews; MIRRORS of Stone: Fragments From the Porcupine Frontier (Book); Nonfiction; PALU, Louie; PORCUPINES

Strategic Dilemma: The State of Union Renewal in Canada - Kumar, Pradeep; Murray, Gregor (Trade Unions in Renewal: A Comparative Study, 2003)
Detailed assessment of the mixed record of the Canadian labour movement over the past decade. Concludes that union renewal lies in the balance between union education and democracy, and engagement with workplace restructuring.
Keywords: Canada; Commonwealth countries; Labor unions; United States

Labor: Studies in Working-Class History - Labor and Working-Class History Associaiton (Labor: Studies in Working-Class History, 2003)
This journal is the official journal for the Labor and Working-Class History Association. The labor question—who will do the work and under what economic and political terms?—beckons today with renewed global urgency. As a site for both historical research and commentary, Labor hopes to provide scaffolding for understanding the roots of our current dilemmas. Although the tradition from which the journal derives its energy has focused primarily on social movements and institutions based on industrial labor, Labor intends to give equal attention to other labor systems and social contexts (agricultural work, slavery, unpaid and domestic labor, informal sector, the professions, etc.). Its focus begins on the US experience but extends to developments across the “American” hemisphere and to other transnational comparisons that shed light on the American experience.

Divided Minds: Intellectuals and the Civil Rights Movement - LaCroix, David (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book "Divided Minds: Intellectuals and the Civil Rights Movement," by Carol Polsgrove.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; CIVIL rights movements; DIVIDED Minds: Intellectuals & the Civil Rights Movement (Book); Nonfiction; POLSGROVE, Carol

Worlds of Work: Building an International Sociology of Work - Lallement, Michel (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Social aspects; Sociology; work

Mine de rien. Les Canadiens français et le travail minier à Sudbury, 1886-1930 - Lang, Nicole (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "Mine de rien. Les Canadiens français et le travail minier à Sudbury 1886-1930," by Paul DeLaRiva.

L'éthique en négociation collective - Lapointe, Josée; Ross, Claudette; Legault, Ginette (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
La littérature spécialisée est peu loquace sur les règles d'éthique spécifiques à appliquer lors du processus de négociation collective. Get article tente de dresser un premier portrait de ces règles. Suite à des entrevues auprès de praticiennes et praticiens québécois qui œuvrent à titre de porte-parole syndicaux dans ce domaine, ce premier inventaire indique que le bilan des écrits actuels néglige certaines facettes de la négociation collective. Les résultats font de plus ressortir que l'éthique en la matière va audelà de l'application d'une méthode de négociation basée sur les intérêts.

Trade Unions and Global Governance: The Debate on a Social Clause - Leisink, Peter (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
Reviews the book "Trade Unions and Global Governance: The Debate on a Social Clause," by Gerda van Roozendaal.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; Labor Unions; Nonfiction; TRADE Unions & Global Governance: The Debate on a Social Clause (Book); VAN Roozendaal, Gerda

Le plafonnement de carrière - Lemire, Louise; Rouillard, Christian (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
La littérature en études managérielles et en gestion des ressources humaines avance depuis plusieurs années que le sentiment de plafonnement de carrière que connaissent de plus en plus d'individus serait l'un des principaux effets pervers des nombreux changements survenus dans l'environnement des organisations. Menace réelle à l'accroissement de l'efficacité et de l'efficience des organisations, le plafonnement de carrière subjectif nécessiterait d'être combattu par des stratégies de gestion des ressources humaines. Cette recherche s'intéresse aux variations du sentiment de plafonnement de carrière chez les fonctionnaires d'une grande ville du Québec, suite à une restructuration organisationnelle qu'elle a subie au milieu des années 1990. Construite àpartir d'un questionnaire complété par 515 cadres et professionnels, cette recherche suggère que les pratiques de gestion des ressources humaines privilégiées dans cette organisation publique n'expliquent que faiblement la variation du sentiment de plafonnement ressenti par les fonctionnaires municipaux.

Wage Formation in Europe - Léonard, Evelyne (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
Reviews the book "Wage Formation in Europe," by Emmanuel Mermet.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; MERMET, Emmanuel; Nonfiction; WAGE Formation in Europe (Book); Wages

Un moindre mal pour les travailleuses? La Commission du salaire minimum des femmes du Québec, 1925-1937. (French) - Leroux, Éric (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
Au cours des dernières années, les activités des commissions du salaire minimum des femmes dans l'Ouest et en Ontario ont donné lieu à plusieurs études à caractère historique. S'inspirant de ces travaux, cet article examine le travail accompli par la Commission du salaire minimum des femmes du Québec, entre sa mise sur pied en 1925 et son démantèlement en 1937. Après avoir exposé les raisons qui poussent le gouvernement québécois à légiférer sur cette question, l'auteur présente la position des syndicats internationaux et des syndicats catholiques face au travail féminin. Au terme de l'analyse du mode de fonctionnement de la commission et, plus particulièrement, d'une évaluation critique des mécanismes d'application de la loi, l'auteur arrive à la conclusion qu'à l'instar des autres commissions à travers le Canada, la Commission du salaire minimum des femmes du Québec n'aura pas permis l'augmentation du salaire des femmes. Dans un contexte socio-économique où les femmes gagnent en moyenne la moitié du salaire des hommes, la décision de faire du salaire minimum un outil pour lutter contre les abus du système capitaliste aura pour principale conséquence le maintien des bas salaires. En définitive, les faibles taux de salaires minimums consentis par la commission consacrent le principe de l'inégalité des salaires selon le sexe, reflétant ainsi l'idéologie dominante de l'époque qui considère le travail de la femme comme marginal.
Keywords: Canada; INTERNATIONAL agencies; LABOR laws & legislation; Minimum wage; Ontario; QUEBEC (Province); Women's rights

L'âge de l'emploi : les sociétés à l'épreuve du vieillissement / La gestion des âges: face à face avec un nouveau profil de main-d'œuvre - Lesemann, Frédéric (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
Review of: L'âge de l'emploi : les sociétés à l'épreuve du vieillissement / La gestion des âges: face à face avec un nouveau profil de main-d'œuvre

La mondialisation et la pouvoir des syndicats locaux: le cas de l'industrie automobile au Mexique - Levesque, Christian (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
Partant de sept monographies réalisées dans autant d’usines de l’industrie automobile au Mexique, cet article explore les contours et les ressorts du pouvoir des syndicats locaux. Il cherche à montrer que la mondialisation n’a pas un effet surdéterminant sur la capacité d’action des syndicats, même au Mexique, où le régime institutionnel de relations du travail subit les contrecoups des nouvelles règles qu’impulse la mondialisation. La capacité d’action de syndicats, tout en étant largement contingente, se structure autour des ressources de pouvoir du syndicat et de l’approche de la direction à l’égard des travailleurs et du syndicat.
Keywords: AUTOMOBILE industry; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Globalization; Labor Unions; Power

Under-Staffing, Long Hours of Work and Health: The Don Jail - Lewchuk, Wayne (Ontario Public Service Employees Union, 2003)
This assessment was prepared for the Ontario Public Service Employees Union. It examines the conditions of work at the Don Jail. I was asked by the union whether under-staffing and the resulting levels of overtime represented a health risk and to offer recommendations, if any, arising out of my assessment. The assessment provides evidence in support of the union's claim that long hours of work represent a potential health risk to the staff of the Don Jail.

From Job Strain To Employment Strain: Health Effects Of Precarious Employment - Lewchuk, Wayne; de Wolff, Alice; Polanyi, Michael (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2003)
This article examines the relationship between health and the organization of precarious employment. We develop the concept of "employment strain" to capture the characteristics of precarious employment. Preliminary evidence suggests that workers in precarious employment relationships report poorer overall health than working Canadians and higher levels of stress than workers in standard employment relationships. They face high levels of uncertainty regarding access to work, the terms and conditions of that work, and future earnings. They engage in additional effort searching for work and balancing the demands of multiple employers. They have low earnings, few benefits, and reside in low income households.

Reuther the Red? - Lichtenstein, Nelson (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article discusses labour historian Victor Devinatz's article (published in Labour/Le Travail, 49 (Spring 2002)) that Walter Reuther was affiliated with the US Communist Party in the mid to late 1930s. At the time, Reuther was a vice president of the United Automobile, Aircraft, and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW); he went on to become UAW president from 1946 till his death in 1970. The author, who has written a major biography of Reuther, concludes that this was not the case, although Reuther did work closely with a number of UAW activists who were party members.
Keywords: COMMUNIST parties; Communism; Communists; GLABERMAN, Martin; LEADERS; POLITICAL participation; Political parties; REUTHER, Walter, 1907-1970; United States

Race, Space and the Law: Unmappinga White Settler Society - Lindberg, Tracey (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book "Race, Space and the Law: Unmappinga White Settler Society," edited by Sherene H. Razack.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; Nonfiction; RACE, Space & the Law: Unmapping a White Settler Society (Book); RAZACK, Sherene H.; Race

Labour History as the History of Multitudes - Linden, Marcel van der (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews and comments on the book, "The Many-Headed Hydra: The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic," by Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; LINEBAUGH, Peter; MANY-Headed Hydra: The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic, The (Book); Nonfiction; REDIKER, Marcus; Working class

The Alberta Pottery Industry, 1912-1990; A Social and Economic History - Loch-Drake, Cynthia (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book "The Alberta Pottery Industry, 1912-1990: A Social and Economic History," by Anne Hayward.
Keywords: ALBERTA Pottery Industry 1912-1990: A Social & Economic History, The (Book); BOOKS -- Reviews; HAYWARD, Anne; Nonfiction; POTTERY industry

Bibliography: Recent Publications in Canadian Labour History = Bibliographie : Travaux récents en histoire des classes populaires canadiennes(52, Fall 2003) - Lonardo, Michael; Sweeney, Robert C. H. (Labour/Le Travail, 2003)
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.]

Human Resource Development and Information Technology: Making Global Connections - Long, Richard J. (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
Reviews the book 'Human Resource Development and Information Technology: Making Global Connections,' edited by Catherine M. Sleezer, Tim L. Wentling and Roger L. Cude.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; HUMAN Resource Development & Information Technology: Making Global Connections (Book); Nonfiction; PERSONNEL management

Hip and Trivial: Youth Culture, Book Publishing and the Greying of Canadian Nationalism - Lorimer, Rowland (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "Hip and Trivial: Youth Culture, Book Publishing and the Greying of Canadian Nationalism," by Robert Wright.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; HIP & Trivial: Youth Culture, Book Publishing & the Greying of Canadian Nationalism (Book); Nationalism; Nonfiction; WRIGHT, Robert

Whose Detroit? Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City - Lyons, John F. (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book "Whose Detroit? Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City," by Heather Ann Thompson.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; Labor; Nonfiction; THOMPSON, Heather Ann; WHOSE Detroit? Politics, Labor & Race in a Modern American City (Book)

Paul Robeson in Canada: A Border Story - MacDowell, Laurel Sefton (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article discusses the life and work of the Black American actor-singer, Paul Robeson. Known for his Communist and Soviet sympathies, Robeson endured extensive harrassment at the hands of US authorities. In 1952, he was blocked at the border from entering Canada by the US State Department while en route to Vancouver to perform at the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers' union convention. The author concludes that, while Robeson paid a steep price, both personally and professionally, for his beliefs, he also was a hero to many.
Keywords: Actors; British Columbia; Canada; POLITICAL participation; RADICALS; ROBESON, Paul, 1898-1976; UNITED States. Dept. of State; United States; VANCOUVER (B.C.)

Sit Down and Drink Your Beer: Regulating Vancouver's Beer Parlours - Malleck, Dan (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "Sit Down and Drink Your Beer: Regulating Vancouver's Beer Parlours," by Robert Campbell.
Keywords: BEVERAGE industry; BOOKS -- Reviews; CAMPBELL, Robert; Nonfiction; SIT Down & Drink Your Beer: Regulating Vancouver's Beer Parlours (Book)

Working for McDonald's in Europe: The Unequal Struggle? - Marcoux, Gilles (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
Review of: Working for McDonald's in Europe: The Unequal Struggle?

Looking for Work, Searching for Workers: American Labor Markets During Industrialization - Margo, Robert A. (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
Reviews the book "Looking for Work, Searching for Workers: American Labor Markets During Industrialization," by Joshua L. Rosenbloom.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; LABOR market; LOOKING for Work, Searching for Workers: American Labor Markets During Industrialization (Book); Nonfiction; ROSENBLOOM, Joshua L.

Education and Democracy: The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn - Marshall, Dominique (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book "Education and Democracy: The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn," by Adam R. Nelson.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; EDUCATION & Democracy: The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn (Book); NELSON, Adam R.; Nonfiction; PHILOSOPHERS

Modulating Popular Culture: Cultural Critics on Tremblay's Les Belles-Soeurs - Martin, Michèle (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
This paper discusses the appropriation of a work of popular culture as a tactic in a politics of cultural hegemony. The work in question, Michel Tremblay's play Les Belles-Soeurs, is particularly interesting as it is the first working-class cultural production shown in public in the new Québec of the 1960s, where the Quiet Revolution was in full bloom. After sixteen years of conservative government and Church domination in the cultural domain, the province was led by a liberal govemment whose members were mostly from the urban petty-bourgeoisie. The field of cultural production changed markedly. The study illustrates a project of cultural critique in newspapers with differing audiences. It reveals the tactics adopted to accommodate and recuperate this irruption of popular culture. It compares the treatment of Les Belles-Soeurs by French reviewers in Québec with those in France and with English reviewers in Canada.
Keywords: HEGEMONY; History; LES Belles-Soeurs (Theatrical production); QUEBEC (Province); QUIET Revolution, 1960-1980; SOCIAL criticism; THEATER audiences; TREMBLAY, Michel, 1942-; WORKING class women

Renegade Lawyer: The Life of J. L. Cohen - McCormack, Judith (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
Renegade Lawyer: The Life of J.L. Cohen, by Laurel Sefton MacDowell, is reviewed.
Keywords: Attorneys; Biographies; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor law

Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana's Sugar Parishes: 1862-1880 - McGuire, Danielle (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book "Reconstruction in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana's Sugar Parishes: 1862-1880," by John C. Rodrigue.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; Labor; Nonfiction; RECONSTRUCTION in the Cane Fields: From Slavery to Free Labor in Louisiana's Sugar Parishes: 1862-1880 (Book); RODRIGUE, John C.

Watching China Change - Meaghan, Diane (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book "Watching China Change," by Robert Cosbey.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; CHANGE; COSBEY, Robert; Nonfiction; WATCHING China Change (Book)

La santé au travail des femmes occupant des emplois atypiques / Occupational Health of Women in Non-Standard Employment - Messing, Karen (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
Reviews the book "Occupational Health of Women in Non-Standard Employment," by Urla Zeytinoglu, Josefina Moruz and M. Bianca Seaton and Waheeda Lillevik.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; Industrial hygiene; LILLEVIK, Waheeda; MORUZ, Josefina; Nonfiction; OCCUPATIONAL Health of Women in Non Standard Employment (Book); SEATON, M. Bianca; ZEYTINOGLU, Urla

Sport, Leisure and Culture in Twentieth-Century Britain - Metcalfe, Alan (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "Sport, Leisure and Culture in Twentieth-Century Britain," by Jeffrey Hill.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; HILL, Jeffrey; Nonfiction; SPORT, Leisure & Culture in 20th Century Britain (Book); Sports

Divided We Stand: A Study of the Development of the Conflict Between the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers and the United Steelworkers of America in Sudbury, Ontario (1942-1969) - Miller, Jason A. (McMaster University, 2003)
During the height of the Cold War, a new form of conflict among Canadian workers emerged along political lines. In some cases, the major source of conflict shifted from that of union versus management to left-wing union versus right-wing union. This thesis focuses on such an inter-union battle between the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers and the United Steelworkers of America in Sudbury, Ontario from 1942 to 1969. ln this analysis, which attempts to incorporate the perspectives of the unions, the mine operators, and the Catholic Church and its affiliate organizations, it will be shown that despite the profound influence of the union executives, the media, the Church, and other prominent figures, the final decision regarding which union to join was ultimately made by the rank-and- file members at Inco and Falconbridge (with the miners at Inco choosing the Steelworkers as their bargaining agent while the miners at Falconbridge chose to remain with Mine-Mill).

Beyond Service: State Workers, Public Policy and the Prospects for Democratic Administration - Molloy, Andrew (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "Beyond Service: State Workers, Public Policy and the Prospects for Democratic Administration," by Greg McElligott.
Keywords: BEYOND Service: State Workers, Public Policy & the Prospects for Democratic Administration (Book); BOOKS -- Reviews; Government policy; MCELLIGOTT, Greg; Nonfiction

Rural Dimensions of Welfare Reform - Morel, Sylvie (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
Reviews the book 'Rural Dimensions of Welfare Reform,' by Bruce A. Weber, Greg L. Duncan and Leslie A. Whitener.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; DUNCAN, Greg L.; RURAL Dimensions of Welfare Reform (Book); WEBER, Bruce A.; WHITENER, Leslie A.

Psychologie du travail et comportement organisationnel (2e edition) - Morin, Denis (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "Psychologie du travail et comportement organisationnel," (2e édition) by Shimon L. Dolan, Éric Gosselin, Jules Carrière and Gérald Lamoureux.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Organizational behavior; Psychology; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; work

Fragilité des limites conventionnelles à l'arbitrage de grief : l'arrêt Parry Sound - Morin, Fernand (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
Le 18 septembre 2003, la Cour suprême du Canada rendait un arrêt concernant la compétence juridictionnelle de l'arbitre de grief de s'enquérir néanmoins du respect des règles de droit public même si la convention collective privait un salarié congédié du droit à tout contrôle arbitral1. La prol&eacutematique sous-jacente mettait en opposition quelques dispositions de la convention collective privant expressément le salarié à l'essai du droit à l'arbitrage suite à la résiliation du contrat de travail par l'employeur et des dispositions des lois de l'emploi lui conférant certains droits spécifiques. One ne saurait être surpris qu'un arbitre de grief soit saisi d'une telle question tant en Ontario qu'au Québec alors que cette même problématique est soulevée en tous milieux de teravail au Canada. Il convient de rappeler le cheminement de l'affaire en chacune des quatre strates du systéme judiciaire puis de souligner les principales réponses données par la Cour suprême du Canada à la majorité de ses juges (7/9) et par la double dissidence. Nous faisons suivre le tout de nos commentaires au sujet des principales questions de droit qui y sont traitées.
Keywords: CANADA. Supreme Court; Canada; Industrial relations; LABOR arbitration; LABOR laws & legislation; PROBATIONARY employees

Disorderly People: Law and the Politics of Exclusion in Ontario - Morley, Joseiyn C. (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book "Disorderly People: Law and the Politics of Exclusion in Ontario," edited by Joe Hermer and Janet Mosher.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; DISORDERLY People: Law & the Politics of Exclusion in Ontario (Book); DISORDERLY conduct; HERMER, Joe; MOSHER, Janet; Nonfiction

Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life - Mouat, Jeremy (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "Interesting Times: A Twentieth-Century Life," by Eric Hobsbawm.
Keywords: AUTOBIOGRAPHY; BOOKS -- Reviews; HOBSBAWM, E. J. (Eric J.), 1917-2012; INTERESTING Times: A 20th Century Life (Book); Nonfiction

Le Mouvement familial au Québec, 1960-1990. Une politique et des services pour les familles - Murray, Jocelyne (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "Le Mouvement familial au Québec, 1960-1990. Une politique et des services pour les familles," by Denise Lemieux and Michelle Comeau.

The Corporation as Family: The Gendering of Corporate Welfare, 1890-1930 - Naylor, James (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "The Corporation As Family: The Gendering of Corporate Welfare, 1890-1930," by Nikki Mandel.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; BUSINESS & politics; CORPORATION As Family: The Gendering of Corporate Welfare 1890-1930, The (Book); MANDEL, Nikki; Nonfiction

At Home and Abroad: U.S. Labor Market Performance in International Perspective - Osberg, Lars (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
Reviews the book "At Home and Abroad: U.S. Labor Market Performance in International Perspective," by Francine D. Blau and Lawrence M. Kahn.
Keywords: AT Home & Abroad: US Labor Market Performance in International Perspective (Book); BLAU, Francine D.; BOOKS -- Reviews; KAHN, Lawrence M.; LABOR market; Nonfiction

Immigration and American Unionism - Ottanelli, Fraser (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
Reviews the book 'Immigration and American Unionism,' by Vernon M. Briggs Jr.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; BRIGGS, Vernon M., 1937-; IMMIGRATION & American Unionism (Book); Labor Unions; Nonfiction

Dog Days: James P. Cannon vs. Max Shachtman in the Communist League of America, 1931-1933 - Palmer, Bryan D. (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "Dog Days: James P. Cannon vs. Max Shachtman in the Communist League of America, 1931-1933," by Prometheus Research Library Staff.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; DOG Days: James P. Cannon vs. Max Shachtman in the Communist League of America 1931-1933 (Book); Nonfiction; POLITICAL participation

What's Law Got To Do With It?: Historical Considerations on Class Struggle, Boundaries of Constraint, and Capitalist Authority - Palmer, Bryan D. (Osgoode Hall Law Journal, 2003)
This article offers a preliminary theoretical statement on the law as a set of boundaries constraining class struggle in the interests of capitalist authority. But those boundaries are not forever fixed, and are constantly evolving through the pressures exerted on them by active working-class resistance, some of which takes the form of overt civil disobedience. To illustrate this process, the author explores the ways in which specific moments of labour upheaval in 1886, 1919, 1937, and 1946 conditioned the eventual making of industrial legality. When this legality unravelled in the post-World War II period, workers were left vulnerable and their trade union leaders increasingly trapped in an ossified understanding of the rules of labour-capital-state relations, rules that had long been abandoned by other players on the unequal field of class relations. The article closes by arguing for the necessity of the workers' movement recovering its civil disobedience heritage.

From Consent to Coercion: The Assault on Trade Union Freedoms - Panitch, Leo; Swartz, Donald (Garamond Press, 2003)
Examines the "coercive assault" (i.e., legislative overrides) on trade union rights in Canada by both federal and provincial governments from the 1970s to the early 2000s. Also discusses labour-related decisions of the Supreme Court, and strategies for union renewal. Includes tables of union membership, strikes and lockouts, back-to-work measures, use of designations, and complaints of violations of union rights filed with the International Labor Organization.
Keywords: Collective bargaining; History; Labor Unions; Law and legislation

Profits über Alles! American Corporations and Hitler - Pauwels, Jacques R. (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews and comments on several books including "IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation," by Edwin Black, "Working for the Enemy: Ford, General Motors, and Forced Labor During the Second World War," by Reinhold Billstein, Karola Fings, Anita Hitler, and Nicholas Levis and "Hitler, der Westen und die Schweiz 1936-1945," by Walter Hofer and Herbert R. Reginbogin.
Keywords: BILLSTEIN, Reinhold; BLACK, Edwin; BOOKS -- Reviews; FINGS, Karola; HITLER, Anita; HITLER, der Westen und die Schweiz 1936-1945 (Book); HOFER, Walter; IBM & the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance Between Nazi Germany & America's Most Powerful Corporation (Book); LEVIS, Nicholas; Nonfiction; REGINBOGIN, Herbert R.; WORKING for the Enemy: Ford, General Motors & Forced Labor in Germany During the Second World War (Book)

Personnel et DRH : l'affirmation de la fonction personnel dans les entreprises (France, 1830-1990) - Pezet, Éric (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
Reviews the book 'Personnel et DRH: l'affirmation de la fonction personnel dans les entreprises,' by Jean Fombonne.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; FOMBONNE, Jean; Industrial relations; Nonfiction; PERSONNEL et DRH (Book)

No Plaster Saint: The Life of Mildred Osterhout Fahrni - Pitsula, James M. (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book "No Plaster Saint: The Life of Mildred Osterhout Fahrni," by Nancy Knickerbrocker.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; KNICKERBROCKER, Nancy; NO Plaster Saint: The Life of Mildred Osterhout Fahrni (Book); Nonfiction; WOMEN in politics

Gendered States: Women, Unemployment Insurance, and the Political Economy of the Welfare State in Canada, 1945-1997 - Porter, Ann (Studies in comparative political economy and public policy, 2003)
In the period since the Second World War there has been both a massive influx of women into the Canadian job market and substantive changes to the welfare state as early expansion gave way, by the 1970s, to a prolonged period of retrenchment and restructuring. Through a detailed historical account of the Unemployment Insurance (UI) program from 1945 to 1997, Ann Porter demonstrates how gender was central both to the construction of the post-war welfare state, as well as to its subsequent crisis and restructuring. Drawing on a wide range of sources (including archival material, UI administrative tribunal decisions, and documents from the government, labour and women's groups) she examines the implications of restructuring for women's equality, as well as how women's groups, labour and the state interacted in efforts to shape the policy agenda. Porter argues that, while the post-war welfare state model was based on a family with a single male breadwinner, the new model is one that assumes multiple family earners and encourages employability for both men and women. The result has been greater formal equality for women, but at the same time the restructuring and reduction of benefits have undermined these gains and made women's lives increasingly difficult. Using concepts from political economy, feminism, and public policy, this study will be of interest across a range of disciplines. --Publisher's description
Keywords: Economic policy; Employment; History; Social policy; Unemployment insurance; Women

Canadian Labour, the Cold War and Asia, 1945-1955 - Price, John (Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives, 2003)
This essay offers an initial exploration of the Canadian labour movement’s international policies during the early Cold War period, with particular reference to views on Asia where the Cold War had its most devastating effects. --Introduction

Making Sweatshops: The Globalization of the U.S. Apparel Industry - Prügl, Elisabeth (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "Making Sweatshops: The Globalization of the U.S. Apparel Industry," by Ellen Israel Rosen.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; MAKING Sweatshops: The Globalization of the US Apparel Industry (Book); Nonfiction; ROSEN, Ellen Israel; Sweatshops

"Ripped Off' By the System: Housing Policy, Poverty, and Territorial Stigmatization in Regent Park Housing Project, 1951-1991 - Purdy, Sean (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
Canada's oldest and largest public housing project. Regent Park in Toronto, was originally conceived as an ideal community for low-income families in housing hardship. By the 1990s, however, it had become virtually synonymous with socio-economic marginalization and behavioural depravity. Indeed, the broader social identity of Regent Park has become an accumulation and escalation of the stigma of its residents. The first section of this article charts the historical escalation of polarization between Regent Park residents and the Metropolitan Toronto population by comparing a series of broadly illustrative statistical traits over a 40-year period. This long-term historical perspective allows us to scrutinize the development of socio-economic marginalization both before and after the boom period of postwar capitalism from the 1940s to the 1970s. It confirms that Regent's resident population underwent a dramatic process of socio-economic divergence in comparison to the general Metropolitan Toronto population, which began in the mid to late 1960s before the onset of outright assaults on the welfare state. I flesh out the stark statistical portrayal by considering various qualitative sources such as oral testimony, letters to the author by former tenants, rare resident case files, and internal and public documents from the various housing authorities. In the second section, I explain the rise of socio-economic inequality. Contrary to currently popular underclass theories, I directly point the arrow of responsibility for rising poverty and inequality towards state housing policies, including wider urban renewal strategies and internal public housing practices, and neoliberal economic restructuring. Unlike most studies, I centre in a third section on the potently deleterious effects of stereotyping Regent Park as an outcast space. Stigmatizing renderings by extemal observers were not free-floating ideological representations but real reflections and shapers of spatial and social divisions with concrete economic and social consequences for tenants. I conclude by discussing what residents themselves thought about their homes and how they coped with stigmatization and material deprivation. Sometimes accepting and internalizing negative external representations and/or projecting these labels onto their neighbours and other times resolutely battling against these brutalizing depictions. Regent Park residents were always active players in building a meaningful living space.
Keywords: Canada; Housing; LABOUR/LE Travail (Book); POLARIZATION (Social sciences); POST-World War II period; Public housing; URBAN renewal; Urban planning

Reconsidering the Collective Impulse: Formal Organization and Informal Associations Among Workers in the Australian Colonies, 1795-1850 - Quinlan, Michael; Gardner, Margaret; Akers, Peter (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
We believe there is a need to move beyond simply privileging formal or informal organization as the most authentic expression of worker activity, but rather to recognize both and analyse the interrelationship between the two. The present article provides a method for achieving this as well as presenting the results of applying this method to a particular country and historical context [i.e, workers in the Australian colonies from 1795 to 1850]. --From authors' introduction
Keywords: AUSTRALIA; FORMAL organization; HOBSBAWM, E. J. (Eric J.), 1917-2012; INFORMAL organization; Immigrants; LABOUR/LE Travail (Book); Labor Unions; THOMPSON, E. P.

Paul has a Summer Job: Graphic Novel - Rabagliati, Michel. (Drawn and Quarterly, 2003)
Rabagliati's strip "Paul: Apprentice Typographer" was one of the highlights of 1999's Drawn & Quarterly anthology, and his first comic book Paul in the Country won the 2000 Harvey award for Best New Talent. This, his first graphic novel, is eagerly anticipated by comix connoisseurs who enjoy a sweet, unsentimental story about being a teenager and Rabagliati's crisp retro-modern 1950s drawing style. This book continues the story of Paul, a Quebecois teenager in the 1970s, as he experiences the first conflicts of responsibility with his desire to be free. Paul is outraged that he is forced to stop his high school art training. But he's been asked to put art aside because his other grades are so terribly low. Defiant, he quits school and anticipates a summer of leisure. But instead Paul follows the path of so many Quebecois teenagers: he lands a job as a counselor at one of the many summer camps in the mountains outside the city. There he finds himself guiding a motley band of kids, misfits and troublemakers, much like himself. After quitting school and trying his luck in the "real world," average teenager Paul gets a job as a counselor at a summer camp run for underprivileged children in 1970s Quebec. --Publisher's description
Keywords: Blue-collar work; Camp Counsellor; Comic books, strips, etc; Factory; Montreal, Quebec; Teenager

When Whites Riot: Writing Race and Violence in American and South African Cultures - Rachleff, Peter (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "When Whites Riot: Writing Race and Violence in American and South African Cultures," by Sheila Smith.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; Nonfiction; Racism; SMITH, Sheila; WHEN Whites Riot: Writing Race & Violence in American & South African Cultures (Book)

Modernity and Post-Colonialism: The Heart of the Empire (1909) by F.M. Bell-Smith - Ramsay, Ellen L. (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article provides a "contrapuntal reading" of Frederic M. Bell-Smith's painting, The Heart of the Empire (1909). Born in the UK, Bell-Smith emigrated to Canada at age 21 in the confederation year of 1867. Although Bell-Smith also painted country landscapes,The Heart of the Empire depicts a busy confluence in London's financial district known as Bank Junction. The author contrasts the painting with Niels Moeller Lund's 1904 work, which had the same title. Contextual themes of gender, industrialization (notably, the newspaper industry), nationalism, modernity, neo-imperialism, and post-colonialism are also explored. By pointing to the painting's layers of meaning, the author intends to promote dialogue on post-confederation Canadian art.
Keywords: BELL-Smith, F. M.; CANADIAN painting; Canada; Canadian art; LABOUR/LE Travail (Book); LANDSCAPE painters; MODERNITY; Women

Party People, Communist Lives: Explorations in Biography - Renton, Dave (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book "Party People, Communist Lives: Explorations in Biography," by John McIlroy.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; COMMUNIST parties; MCILROY, John; Nonfiction; PARTY People, Communist Lives: Explorations in Biography (Book)

Unions in the Time of Revolution: Government Restructuring in Alberta and Ontario - Reshef, Yonatan; Rastin, Sandra (University of Toronto Press, 2003)
The election of neo-conservative governments in Alberta and Ontario in the early 1990s brought dramatic changes to provincial public policy; both the Ralph Klein Revolution and Mike Harris' Common Sense Revolution emphasized fundamental changes in the role of government, balanced budgets, and the elimination of provincial debts. While public sector unions were forced to react, the response of the Alberta and Ontario unions differed significantly. The reasons, outcome, and long-term impact of the difference is the focus of Yonatan Reshef and Sandra Rastin's careful and revealing analysis. The authors' argument concentrates on union responses to the neo-conservative transformation in the two affected provinces, but the scope of the discussion expands to cover such issues as the differences between the two regimes, the damage to the Ontario labour movement dealt by the labour-oriented NDP government, the limits of inter-union cooperation, and the role of modern unions in politics. Lively and timely, Unions in the Time of Revolution places Canada's unions in the full context of the neo-conservative trend in provincial politics, and demonstrates the importance of individual union responses in times of such significant change. --Publisher's description. Contents: Alberta and Ontario: Industrial relations and their contexts -- Revolutions, Canada style -- Collective action conceptual framework -- Revolutionizing the Civil Service: OPSEU and AUPE -- Teachers: Protecting the profession, defending the union organization -- Sins of commission and sins of omissions: The Ontario days of action and missed opportunities in Alberta -- Sleeping with the devil: Strategic voting in the 1999 Ontario Election -- Revisiting the collective action model -- Additional thoughts on collective action.
Keywords: Alberta. Employee-management relations in government; Alberta. Government employee unions; Employee-management relations in government; Ontario. Employee-management relations in government. Government employee unions; Ontario. Fonction publique; Ontario. Fonctionnaires; Ontario. Government employee unions; Relations de travail; Syndicats

The Oriental Question: Consolidating a White Man's Province, 1914-1941 - Roy, Patricia (University of British Columbia Press, 2003)
[The author] continues her study into why British Columbians – and many Canadians from outside the province – were historically so opposed to Asian immigration. Drawing on contemporary press and government reports and individual correspondence and memoirs, Roy shows how British Columbians consolidated a “white man’s province” from 1914 to 1941 by securing a virtual end to Asian immigration and placing stringent legal restrictions on Asian competition in the major industries of lumber and fishing. While its emphasis is on political action and politicians, the book also examines the popular pressure for such practices and gives some attention to the reactions of those most affected: the province’s Chinese and Japanese residents. --Publisher's description
Keywords: 1900-1999; British Columbia; British Columbia Emigration and immigration History 20th century; British Columbia Politics and government 20th century; British Columbia Race relations; China; China Emigration and immigration History 20th century; Chinese; Chinese British Columbia History 20th century; Chinesen; Chinois Colombie-Britannique Histoire 20e siècle; Einwanderung; Emigration and immigration; Ethnische Beziehungen; History; Immigrants; Immigrants British Columbia History 20th century; Japan; Japan Emigration and immigration History 20th century; Japanese; Japanese British Columbia History 20th century; Japonais Colombie-Britannique Histoire 20e siècle; Politics and government; Race relations

Regulating Systematic Occupational Health and Safety Management: Comparing the Norwegian and Australian Experience - Saksvik, Per Øystein; Quinlan, Michael (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
The promotion of systematic occupational health and safety management (SOHSM) represents a comparatively recent but significant realignment of regulatory strategy that has been embraced by many, if not most, industrialized countries. As yet there has been little critical evaluation of the origins and implications of this shift, and to what extent the experience of these measures differs between countries. This article seeks to start the process of answering these questions by comparing SOHSM in Norway and Australia. A number of common challenges (problems of "paper" compliance, limited union input and the growth of precarious employment) are identified. In particular, the article highlights the interdependence of OHS and industrial relations regulatory regimes and argues the move away from inclusive collectivist regimes places significant constraints on independent vetting of SOHSM - a crucial element in their effectiveness.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Management; Occupational health & safety; Occupational safety; Regulation; Safety management; Studies; occupational health

Workers, Labour Unions and the Law: Canadian Labour Unions in the New World of Bilateral Freedom of Association - Sauve, David (Carleton University, 2003)
What are the consequences for the Canadian Labour movement in holding contradictory positions concerning freedom of association? The research into this question conceptualizes Canadian unions as partners with capital and the state in a legally constructed regime of labour relations and collective bargaining. Pertinent Supreme Court of Canada cases concerning labour unions and freedom of association demonstrate that labour unions are inconsistent in their claims concerning freedom of association. This study reveals that while labour unions claim freedom of association is unilateral, that is, workers do not have a right to dissociate, the courts have found that freedom of association is bilateral and workers have a constitutional right to not associate or associate with whom they choose. To date, the courts have also found that infringing on workers' freedom of association is justified under the 'Charter'. However, in the future, the courts may well find these infringements are not justified.

Unions and Learning in a Global Economy: International and Comparative Perspectives - Sawchuk, Peter H. (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book "Unions and Learning in a Global Economy: International and Comparative Perspectives," edited by Bruce Spencer.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; Labor economics; Nonfiction; SPENCER, Bruce; UNIONS & Learning in a Global Economy: International & Comparative Perspectives (Book)

Social Movement Unionism: Beyond the Organizing Model - Schenk, Christopher Robert (Trade Unions in Renewal: A Comparative Study, 2003)
Discusses way and means to rejuvenate union democracy and education, with references to the Canadian labour movement.
Keywords: Canada; Industrial relations; Labor unions; United States

Made in Indonesia: Indonesian Workers Since Suharto - Scipes, Kim (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
Reviews the book "Made in Indonesia: Indonesian Workers Since Suharto," by Dan La Botz.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; GUILDS; LA Botz, Dan; MADE in Indonesia: Indonesian Workers Since Suharto (Book); Nonfiction

Retooling the Mind Factory: Education in a Lean State - Sears, Alan (Garamond Press, 2003)
Alan Sears examines education reform in relation to a broad process of cultural and economic change. His book makes the case that education reform is one aspect of a broad-ranging neo-liberal agenda that aims to push the market deeper into every aspect of our lives by eliminating or shrinking non-market alternatives. The author begins by showing that advocates of education reform have had to make the case that the current system is not working. This sets the ground for an examination of the so-called 'Common Sense Revolution,' a claim that drastic change was required to redesign government policies to fit a changing world. Lean production methods are a crucial component of this changing world, and broader social and cultural change is now required to consolidate the emerging order built on the spread of these methods. Education reform is designed to recast the relations of citizenship, contributing to the cultural and social change promoted through the social policy of the lean state. --Publisher's description
Keywords: Conservatism; EDUCATIONAL change; Economic aspects; Education; Education and state; Ontario

Forces of Labor: Workers' Movements and Globalization since 1870 - Silver, Beverly J. (Cambridge studies in comparative politics, 2003)
Recasting labor studies in a long-term and global framework, the book draws on a major new database on world labor unrest to show how local labor movements have been related to world-scale political, economic, and social processes since the late nineteenth century. Through an in-depth empirical analysis of select global industries, the book demonstrates how the main locations of labor unrest have shifted from country to country together with shifts in the geographical location of production. It shows how the main sites of labor unrest have shifted over time together with the rise or decline of new leading sectors of capitalist development and demonstrates that labor movements have been deeply embedded (as both cause and effect) in world political dynamics. Over the history of the modern labor movement, the book isolates what is truly novel about the contemporary global crisis of labor movements. Arguing against the view that this is a terminal crisis, the book concludes by exploring the likely forms that emergent labor movements will take in the twenty-first century. --Publisher's description. Contents: Introduction -- Labor movements and capital mobility -- Labor movements and product cycles -- Labor movements and world politics -- Contemporary dynamics in world-historical perspective -- Appendix A: The World Labor Group Database: conceptualization, measurement, and data collection procedures -- Appendix B: Instructions for recording data from indexes -- Appendix C: Country classifications.
Keywords: Automobile industry workers; Business relocation; Capitalism; Economic aspects History; Globalization; History; Labor disputes; Labor movement; Manufacturing processes; TEXTILE workers

Social Activism and the Internet - Smith, Peter J. (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews and comments on several books, including "Global Showdown: How the New Activists Are Fighting Global Corporate Rule," by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, "Globalization From Below: The Power of Solidarity," by Jeremy Brecher, Tim Costello and Brendan Smith and "Reshaping World Politics: NGOs, the Internet, and Global Civil Society," by Craig Warkentin.
Keywords: BARLOW, Maude; BOOKS -- Reviews; BRECHER, Jeremy; CLARKE, Tony; COSTELLO, Tim; GLOBAL Showdown: How the New Activists Are Fighting Global Corporate Rule (Book); GLOBALIZATION From Below: The Power of Solidarity (Book); Nonfiction; RESHAPING World Politics: NGOs, the Internet & Global Civil Society (Book); SMITH, Brendan; WARKENTIN, Craig

Tears at Work: Gender, Interaction, and Emotional Labour - Soares, Angelo (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2003)
For a long time, it has been believed that it is possible to leave our emotions at the threshold of the workplace. This excessively simplifies the complexity and heterogeneity of work, leading to an underestimation of the effects of work on health. Our objective is to understand one particular form of the expression of workers’ emotions: crying at work, which may be linked to an excess of emotional labour or to the impossibility of its achievement. Thus, differences between male and female crying, at least at work, may be explained not only by a gendered socialisation of individuals, but also by the sexual division of emotional labour. This imposes an emotional overload on women, since a more intensive management of emotions is demanded of them at work.

The Case for Prior Learning Assessment and Recognition for Labour Education in Canada - Spencer, Bruce; Briton, Derek; Gereluk, Winston (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2003)
This article argues the case for recognising the value of labour learning within the formal education system. It is based on an introduction to the report by Gereluk (2001) and discusses the impact of prior learning and recognition (PLAR) on Canadian labour education as well as outlining why labour education deserves recognition. The article reviews aspects of labour education detailed in the report including the content and purposes of union courses and who participates in, and who delivers, union courses.

Regulating Girls and Women: Sexuality, Family, and the Law in Ontario, 1920-1960 - Srigley, Katrina (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book "Regulating Girls and Women: Sexuality, Family, and the Law in Ontario, 1920-1960," by Joan Sangster.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; Nonfiction; REGULATING Girls & Women: Sexuality, Family & the Law in Ontario 1920-1960 (Book); SANGSTER, Joan; WOMEN -- Legal status, laws, etc.

Not for Bread Alone: A Memoir - Stinson, Jane (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2003)
Not for Bread Alone: A Memoir, by Moe Foner and Dan North, is reviewed.

Bankers and Bomb Makers: Gender Ideology and Women's Paid Work in Banking and Munitions During the First World War in Canada - Street, Kori (University of Victoria, 2003)
During the First World War, some Canadian women found themselves in new and unfamiliar environments, doing jobs apparently unavailable to them before the war. Many of those women were successful in the new opportunities available to them. The focus of this study is twofold. First, it examines the scope and the nature of women's work in two industries, banking and munitions, during the war. This is an important step because we still know very little about women's experience of the war. Understanding how many women worked and in what capacity is essential to understanding the nuances of women's wartime experience. Women who worked in banking and munitions were not a homogeneous group. The composition of the wartime workforce is also analysed. The war's impact on wage rates for women is also examined. Second, the study focuses on the nature of the impact of wartime participation on gender ideology. In particular, the study seeks to determine if gender ideology was affected by women's expanded opportunities in masculine occupations during the war. Often, the historiography regarding women and war is characterised by a binary discourse that seeks to determine whether on not wars liberate women. Rather than engage in that debate, this study attempts to avoid it as much as possible. Women's experience of the war in these two industries was complex. The study explores how women could both challenge and reaffirm ideas about gender; how attitudes towards and about women could change and remain the same; and how employee and employers alike strove to undermine and maintain the sexual division of labour and labour processes that were threatened by the entrance of large numbers of women into jobs defined as men's work. Women's participation both challenged and reinforced traditional notions about gender. Essentially, despite being successful ‘bankers’ women remained unsuitable for a career in banking. Similarly, regardless of their participation in munitions factories, metal shops remained no place for women. Quantitative, oral interview and qualitative sources including contemporary newspapers and magazines, were used. In particular, a great deal of the evidence was derived from several databases constructed for this project.

From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short Illustrated History of Labor in the United States - Strouthous, Andy (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short Illustrated History of Labor in the United States," by Priscilla Murolo and A.B. Chitty.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; CHITTY, A. B.; FROM the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend: A Short Illustrated History of Labor in the United States (Book); Labor; MUROLO, Priscilla; Nonfiction

State and Revolution in Cuba: Mass Mobilization and Political Change, 1920-1940 - Stubbs, Jean (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "State and Revolution in Cuba: Mass Mobilization and Political Change, 1920-1940," by Robert Whitney.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; Nonfiction; PRACTICAL politics; STATE & Revolution in Cuba: Mass Mobilization & Political Change 1920-1940 (Book); WHITNEY, Robert

Women on the Job: Transitions in a Global Economy - Sugiman, Pamela (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "Women on the Job: Transitions in a Global Economy," by Ann Eyerman.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; EYERMAN, Ann; Nonfiction; WOMEN on the Job: Transitions in a Global Economy (Book); Women employees

The IWA in Canada: The Life and Times of an Industrial Union - Sutherland, Duff (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book "The IWA in Canada: The Life and Times of an Industrial Union," by Andrew Neufeld and Andrew Parnaby.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; IWA Canada; IWA in Canada: The Life & Times of an Industrial Union, The; Internatiional Woodworkers of America (Organization); Labor Unions; NEUFELD, Andrew; Nonfiction; PARNABY, Andrew

Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England: A Study in International Trade and Economic Development - Sweeny, Robert C.H. (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England: A Study in International Trade and Economic Development," by Joseph E. Inikori.
Keywords: AFRICANS & the Industrial Revolution in England: A Study in International Trade & Economic Development (Book); BOOKS -- Reviews; INIKORI, Joseph E.; Industrial Revolution; Nonfiction

Walking the Union Walk: Stories From the Communications, Energy, and Paperworkers Union - Swift, Jamie (Between the Lines, 2003)
Hi-tech tactics during a strike at a dockside factory in Montreal. A workplace cancer tragedy in Sarnia, Ontario. Immigrant workers sticking with their union at the chocolate factory. A struggle for pay equity in the courts and on the streets. A campaign to create jobs by cutting hours of work in B.C. An organizing drive 350 kilometres out into the frigid Atlantic. These are some of the fascinating stories told by Jamie Swift in his chronicle of the first ten eventful years of one of the most dynamic labour unions in North America. --Publisher's description
Keywords: Communication, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada; Employees; Energy industries; History; Labor Unions; Paper industry workers; Telecommunication

The Transformation of Edinburgh: Land, Property and Trust in the Nineteenth Century - Taylor, John H. (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "The Transformation of Edinburgh: Land, Property and Trust in the Nineteenth Century," by Richard Rodger.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; Nonfiction; REAL property; RODGER, Richard; TRANSFORMATION of Edinburgh: Land, Property & Trust in the Nineteenth Century, The (Book)

Opportunity and Uncertainty: Life Course Experiences of the Class of '73 - Thomson, Anthony (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book "Opportunity and Uncertainty: Life Course Experiences of the Class of 1973," by Paul Anisef, Paul Axelrod, Etta Balchman-Anisef, Carl James, and Anton Turrittin.
Keywords: ANISEF, Paul; AXELROD, Paul; BALCHMAN-Anisef, Etta; BOOKS -- Reviews; CLASS reunions; JAMES, Carl; Nonfiction; OPPORTUNITY & Uncertainty: Life Course Experiences of the Class of 1973 (Book); TURRITTIN, Anton

Du train à vapeur au TGV: sociologie du travail d'organisation - Tremblay, Diane-Gabrielle (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "Du train à vapeur au TGV : sociologie du travail d’organisation," by Gilbert de Terssac and Karine Lalande.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; History; Labor Unions; Railroads; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Travail, famille : le nouveau contrat - Tremblay, Diane-Gabrielle (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
Reviews the book "Travail, famille: le nouveau contrat," by Marie-Agnes Barrere-Maurisson.
Keywords: BARRERE-Maurisson, Marie-Agnes; BOOKS -- Reviews; Nonfiction; TRAVAIL, famille: le nouveau contrat (Book); Work & family

Working Time Changes: Social Integration through Transitional Labour Markets - Tremblay, Diane-Gabrielle (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
Reviews the book 'Working Time Changes: Social Integration Through Transitional Labour Markets,' by Jacqueline O'Reilly.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; Nonfiction; O'REILLY, Jacqueline; WORKING-Time Changes: Social Integration Through Transitional Labor Markets (Book); Working hours

Diverging Trends in Worker Health and Safety Protection and Participation in Canada, 1985-2000 - Tucker, Eric (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
Despite the comprehensiveness of neo-liberal restructuring in Canada, it has not proceeded uniformly in its timing or outcomes across regulatory fields and political jurisdictions. The example of occupational health and safety (OHS) regulation is instructive. This article compares recent OHS developments in five Canadian jurisdictions, Alberta, British Columbia, Nova Scotia, Ontario and the Federal jurisdiction. It finds that despite the adoption of a common model by all jurisdictions, there has recently been considerable divergence in the way that the elements of worker participation and protection have been combined. Modified power resource theory is used to explain a portion of this divergence.
Keywords: Canada; INDUSTRIAL hygiene -- Law & legislation; Industrial safety; Jurisdiction; OCCUPATIONAL health services

The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life - Tufts, Steven (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2003)
The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life, by Richard Florida, is reviewed.

Les codes de conduite des entreprises multinationales et l'action syndicale internationale - Vallée, Guylaine (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
Codes of conduct for multinational companies (MNCs) can be defined as a set of principles which a company voluntarily agrees to adhere to within the context of its activities. These principles may relate to aspects that are as diverse as trade practices, corporate conduct and ethics, environmental standards, working conditions and human rights, and apply to MNCs' subsidiaries and their subcontractors. Many Canadian companies have adopted such codes. These codes of conduct cannot be considered as spaces for the protection of the freedom of association since, according to an ILO study, only 15 percent of the codes contain references to association, organization and collective bargaining rights. However, they can be considered as spaces for the exercise of the freedom of association. Studies by a group of researchers of which we are members show that, in fact, codes of conduct involve collective relations. These collective relations do not correspond to the institutionalized labour relations of collective bargaining but rather bring several actors together, involve several issues, and combine several means of action. The latter are not limited to collective bargaining and strikes, but involve the presentation of shareholders' proposals, the organization of boycott and picketing campaigns, or the adoption of legal strategies that raise doubts about the MNC's respect for its commitments abroad. These means of action make it possible to intervene in areas where the MNC is vulnerable, i.e., its corporate image or the image of its product as well as its finances. State law is not absent from these social dynamics. Rules of law govern shareholders' proposals or the information that the company is required or not required to divulge, the secondary boycott and picketing campaigns, and the MNC's responsibility. This paper briefly sets out these rules and attempts to identify the opportunities that they create and the limits that they impose on actors, in particular trade unions, who wish to act on the MNC's new sources of vulnerability. The rules of corporate law will be examined first. The amendments made in 2001 to the Canada Business Corporations Act regarding the rules governing the shareholders' proposals, the proposals of the Canadian Democracy and Corporate Accountability Commission as well as the creation in Europe of the Statute for a European Company reveal the striking differences between the courses of action favoured in Europe and those proposed in Canada to integrate social concerns into corporate law. While the European model favours one actor—workers—whom it recognizes, regulating their representation and participation within the company, the aim of the Canadian proposals is to ensure that the interests of all stakeholders in the company—and not only those of workers—are taken into account by company managers. The evolving law related to freedom of expression also has an impact on the means of international trade union action. Codes of conduct are often a response to the campaigns led by trade unions and other civil society groups against the behaviour or the effects of the activities of a given company on the living conditions of populations or workers, or on the environment. These campaigns are based on strategies centred on the information about the company or its products and may take the form of a boycott or picketing, traditional union measures, if there ever were. What makes these means novel is that they are used independently of collective bargaining or recourse to a strike. Two recent decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada have cleared up any uncertainties about the legality of the trade unions' means of international action. These decisions must be interpreted alongside other decisions where the Supreme Court of Canada has had to interpret the freedom of expression of consumers or the limits to the freedom of expression established by the legal principles for defamation. This is the legal effect of the fact that trade unions are treated as any other civil society actor.

Multiple Risk Factors for Violence to Seven Occupational Groups in the Swedish Caring Sector - Viitasara, Eija; Sverke, Magnus; Menckel, Ewa (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
Violence towards health-care personnel represent an increasing problem, but little is known in terms of how different occupational groups are affected. A questionnaire was sent to a stratified sample of 2,800 of 173,000 employees in the Swedish municipal health and welfare sector. Seven major groups working with the elderly or persons with developmental disabilities were considered: administrators, nursing specialists, supervisors, direct carers, nursing auxiliaries, assistant nurses, and personal assistants. The response rate was 85 percent. Fifty-one percent of respondents reported exposure to violence or threats of violence over one year. The most vulnerable groups were assistant nurses and direct carers (usually of the developmentally disabled). Individual characteristics, such as age and organizational tenure, were related to exposure. Work-related characteristics, such as type of workplace, working full-time with clients, organizational downsizing, and high workload, were also associated with risk. Greater knowledge of impacts on different professional groups and relevant prevention are required.
Keywords: Medical personnel; SWEDEN; VIOLENCE in hospitals

Handbook of Mental Health in the Workplace - Vinet, Alain (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
Reviews the book "Handbook of Mental Health in the Workplace," by Jay C. Thomas.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; HANDBOOK of Mental Health in the Workplace (Book); Mental health; Nonfiction; THOMAS, Jay C.

Precarious Employment in Canada: Taking Stock, Taking Action - Vosko, Leah F. (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2003)

Le chômage des jeunes au Québec et au Canada. - Vultur, Mircea (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
Dans cet article, nous présentons, tout d'abord, les grandes lignes d'évolution du chômage des jeunes au Québec et au Canada, depuis 1976, ainsi qu `une série de facteurs à la source de cette évolution. Nous comparons, en deuxième lieu, le chômage des jeunes avec celui des adultes. L `analyse des indicateurs relatifs, de la durée et de l'indice de gravité du chômage des 15-24 ans et 25 ans ou plus montre qu `en dépit du fait que les taux de chômage des jeunes ont été systématiquement plus élevés et plus dépendants des fluctuations de l`économie, la situation des jeunes au regard du chômage a enregistré une amélioration relative de ses divers paramètres par rapport au chômage des adultes. Enfin, nous analysons le chômage des jeunes en fonction de la tranche d'âge, de la fréquentation scolaire et du niveau d'études. En conclusion, nous présentons des considérations sur les caractéristiques et les perspectives d'évolution du chômage des jeunes au Québec et au Canada.

All Hell Can't Stop Us: The On-to-Ottawa Trek and Regina Riot - Waiser, W. A. (Bill) (Fifth House Books, 2003)
In early June 1935, one thousand relief-camp strikers clambered aboard freight trains to take their grievances to Ottawa. Their trek would end in bloodshed on the streets of Regina on 1 July 1935, later known as "The bloodiest day of the Depression." In All Hell Can't Stop Us, noted historian Bill Waiser examines the social and political background of the On-to-Ottawa Trek and Regina Riot, and provides an in-depth account of the strikers, their supporters, and their powerful adversaries. This gripping history includes many unpublished sketches and photographs. --Publisher's description
Keywords: Unemployed -- Canada -- History -- 20th century

Labour Before the Law: The Regulation of Workers' Collective Action in Canada, 1900-1948 - Warskett, Rosemary (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "Labour before the Law: The Regulation of Workers' Collective Action in Canada, 1900-1948," by Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker.

Changing Prospects for Trade Unionism: Comparisons between Six Countries - Wheeler, Hoyt N. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
Changing Prospects for Trade Unionism: Comparisons between Six Countries, edited by Peter Fairbrother and Gerard Griffin, is reviewed.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Comparative analysis; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Manycountries; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Unionization

A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth Century Cuba - Whitney, Robert (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book, "A Nation for All: Race, Inequality, and Politics in Twentieth Century Cuba," by Alejandro de la Fuente.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; DE la Fuente, Alejandro; NATION for All: Race, Inequality & Politics in 20th-Century Cuba, A (Book); Nonfiction; Racism

Not Automatic: Women and the Left in the Forging of the Auto Workers' Union - Wigderson, Seth (Labour / Le Travail, 2003)
The article reviews the book "Not Automatic: Women and the Left in the Forging of the Auto Workers' Union," by Sol Dollinger and Genora Johnson Dollinger.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; DOLLINGER, Genora Johnson; DOLLINGER, Sol; Labor Unions; NOT Automatic: Women & the Left in the Forging of the Auto Workers' Union (Book); Nonfiction

Strategy, Organization and the Changing Nature of Work - Wood, Geoffrey (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2003)
Reviews the book "Strategy, Organization and the Changing Nature of Work," edited by Jordi Gual and Joan E. Ricart.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; BUSINESS planning; Nonfiction; STRATEGY, Organization & the Changing Nature of Work (Book)