Paid to Play - The Canadian Hockey League Players Class Action Litigation - Thornicroft, Kenneth Wm. (University of Denver Sports and Entertainment Law Journal, 2019)
In 2014, the National Labor Relations Board's Regional Director ruled that scholarship football players at Northwestern University were "employees ". Subsequently, in 2015, the full board, andwithout deciding the players' status, declined to assert jurisdiction effectively ending the dispute. There are parallels between this dispute and lawsuits currently before the Canadian courts involving the Canadian Hockey League ("CHL'). The CHL is nominally an "amateur" league and is the principal development league for players hoping to pursue a career as a professional hockey player. The players claim they are "employees" under provincial employment standards statutes. The CHL maintains that the players are "student athletes ", akin to NCAA Division I scholarship athletes. This article examines the similarities and distinctions between CHL players and NCAA Division I athletes, discusses the CHL litigation, the probable outcome, and the possible ramificationso f this litigationf or the CHL and its players. *

Représentations savantes de la négociation collective et travail de négociation - Thuderoz, Christian (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2019)
Cet article se fixe deux objectifs, correspondant à ses deux parties : 1- discuter l’analyse d’Allan Flanders (1968) à propos des théories de la négociation collective (collective bargaining theories) identifiées par Neil Chamberlain (1951); et 2- s’appuyer sur la conclusion de Flanders à propos de la participation à la régulation collective (participation in job regulation) du syndicat pour élargir ce raisonnement aux deux négociateurs — syndicalistes et employeurs. L’article propose de lire cela comme un travail — le ‘travail de négociation’. Dans une première partie, l’auteur propose de renommer les trois théories de la négociation collective (collective bargaining theories de Chamberlain et Flanders) et d’y ajouter deux autres théories : les approches ‘marchandes’, ‘constitutionnelles’, ‘décisionnelles’, ‘rationnelles’ et ‘radicales’. Dans une seconde partie, l’auteur commente les spécificités de ce ‘travail de négociation’. Il souligne son originalité : il ne peut s’effectuer solitairement; chacun est pour l’autre un adversaire, mais leur travail conjoint consiste à se muer en partenaires d’interaction; et il combine intra et internégociation. Sont présentées, ensuite, les contraintes pesant sur les négociateurs, le travail de négociation consistant à en réduire le poids et les muer en ressources. Il les nomme ainsi : les contraintes de ‘normativité’, de ‘coopération’, de ‘réciprocité’ et ‘d’efficacité ‘. L’auteur tire enfin quelques leçons de son approche : un, cela permet de la comparer à d’autres activités sociales, pour en comprendre l’originalité. Deux, saisie comme un travail, la négociation collective se prête moins à une lecture idéologique, oscillant entre déploration et dénonciation. Trois, une approche davantage poïétique éclaire les « échecs » du travail conjoint de régulation. Quatre, l’enquête sur ‘le travail’ de négociation collective peut se conjoindre à celle de ses représentations savantes, portant au jour les dilemmes pratiques qu’elles génèrent aux négociateurs.
Keywords: collective bargaining; joint regulation; negociación colectiva; négociation collective; regulación conjunta; régulation conjointe; teorías; theories; théories; trabajo de negociación; travail de négociation; work of negotiation

Beyond the Noise of Solemn Assemblies: The Protestant Ethic and the Quest for Social Justice in Canada - Thwaites, James (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2019)
The article reviews the book, "Beyond the Noise of Solemn Assemblies: The Protestant Ethic and the Quest for Social Justice in Canada," by Richard Allen.

The Voice of Labour: A Life in Toronto's Construction Industry - Toppan, Marino; Principe, Angelo; Breda, Paola; Frank Iacobucci Centre for Italian Canadian Studies (Frank Iacobucci Centre for Italian Canadian Studies monograph series., 2019)
The memoirs of union organizer Marino Toppan, during the union organizing days of the residential construction "jungle" in Toronto: 1955-1980.

Never Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest - Trottier, Brody (Labour / Le Travail, 2019)
The article reviews the book, "Never Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest," by Hanif Abdurraqib.

Le précompte syndical obligatoire revu à la lumière de la décision de la Cour suprême américaine dans l’affaire Janus - Trudeau, Gilles (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2019)
La Cour suprême des États-Unis a récemment décidé, dans l’affaire Janus, que le précompte syndical imposé par la législation de l’Illinois aux employés de l’État viole les libertés d’expression et d’association que leur garantit la constitution américaine. Cette décision met en évidence le statut profondément différent dont bénéficie la Formule Rand au Canada, où elle est considérée comme un élément essentiel du régime de négociation collective de type Wagner qui prévaut à l’échelle national. Non seulement est-elle partout permise, mais la législation l’a rendue obligatoire, d’une façon ou d’une autre, dans une majorité de juridictions canadiennes, notamment au Québec. De plus, la Cour suprême du Canada a reconnu, il y a de cela près de 30 ans, que le précompte syndical obligatoire n’entravait ni la liberté d’association ni la liberté d’expression protégées par la Charte canadienne des droits et libertés.
Keywords: Canada; Formule Rand; Janus Case; Rand Formula; United States; affaire Janus; agency shop; droits et libertés; précompte syndical obligatoire; rights and freedoms; États-Unis

Mandatory Dues Check-off Reviewed in Light of the US Supreme Court’s Decision in the Janus Case - Trudeau, Gilles (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2019)
The United States Supreme Court has recently ruled in the Janus Case that the agency shop (mandatory dues check-off) imposed by Illinois law on state employees violates the freedom of expression and association guaranteed by the US Constitution. This decision underscores the profoundly different status enjoyed by the Rand Formula in Canada, where it is considered an essential element of the nation-wide Wagner-type collective bargaining system. Not only is it permitted everywhere, legislation has made it mandatory, in one way or another, in a majority of Canadian jurisdictions, including Quebec. Furthermore, almost 30 years ago, the Supreme Court of Canada recognized that mandatory dues check-off did not interfere with the freedom of association or expression protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Keywords: Canada; Formule Rand; Janus Case; Rand Formula; United States; affaire Janus; agency shop; droits et libertés; précompte syndical obligatoire; rights and freedoms; États-Unis

Canada - Tucker, Eric (Regulating Strikes in Essential Services: A Comparative 'Law in Action' Perspective, 2019)
"Regulating Strikes in Essential Services" offers a comparative perspective on one of the most sensitive areas of industrial relations: strike in essential services. Designing a fair, effective and acceptable regime that will reconcile public interest and the public's need for an uninterrupted flow of essential services on the one hand, while maintaining the freedom of collective bargaining on the other, is an ever more difficult public policy challenge. This book, the first detailed analysis of existing legal and practical approaches across a spectrum of key national jurisdictions, provides a structured and insightful overview of the law and practice of regulating strikes in essential services. As such it could be of great value for public policy debate and the enhancement of national law in the field. --Publisher's description
Keywords: Bevölkerung; Daseinsvorsorge; Human services Management; Internationaler Vergleich; Regulierung; Services sociaux Administration; Sicherstellung; Streikrecht; Strikes and lockouts Law and legislation; Versorgung; Öffentliche Dienstleistung

The Class Politics of Law: Essays Inspired by Harry Glasbeek - Tucker, Eric; Fudge, Judy (Fernwood Publishing, 2019)
For nearly fifty years, Professor Harry Glasbeek has been at the forefront of legal scholars and public intellectuals challenging assumptions and understandings about the injustices embedded in the economic, social, political and legal orders of Western capitalist democracies. His writings and teachings have influenced generations of law students, academics and activists. [This book] brings together eleven incisive contributions from pre-eminent scholars across several disciplines activated by the same desire for democracy and justice that Glasbeek advances, showing how capitalism shapes the law and how the law protects capitalism. This collection foregrounds a class analysis of the laws responses to corporate killing, workplace violence, surveillance, worker resistance and income inequality, among other issues. --Publisher's description
Keywords: Economic aspects. Law; Political aspects. Law; Political aspects. Sociological jurisprudence; Sociological jurisprudence. Law

Carrying Little Sticks: Is There a ‘Deterrence Gap’in Employment Standards Enforcement in Ontario, Canada? - Tucker, Eric; Vosko, Leah F.; Casey, Rebecca; Thomas, Mark; Grundy, John; Noack, Andrea M. (International Journal of Comparative Labour Law and Industrial Relations, 2019)
This article assesses whether a deterrence gap exists in the enforcement of the Ontario Employment Standards Act (ESA), which sets minimum conditions of employment in areas such as minimum wage, overtime pay and leaves. Drawing on a unique administrative data set, the article measures the use of deterrence in Ontario’s ESA enforcement regime against the role of deterrence within two influential models of enforcement: responsive regulation and strategic enforcement. The article finds that the use of deterrence is below its prescribed role in either model of enforcement. We conclude that there is a deterrence gap in Ontario.

The Labour Companion: A Bibliography of Printed Sources of Canadian Labour History - Vaisey, G. Douglas (Canadian Committee on Labour History, 2019)
The Canadian Labour Bibliography was an initiative of the Committee on Canadian Labour History in the 1970s. The initial efforts to create an annual reading list of publications dealing with Canadian labour topics led to the creation of The Labour Companion: a bibliography of Canadian labour history based on materials printed from 1950 to 1975. ...The enthusiasm that greeted The Labour Companion prompted Greg Kealey, then teaching at Dalhousie University, to obtain a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council grant for a much larger product – a comprehensive reading list of books, pamphlets, articles and theses pertinent to the Canadian labour experience (the labour movement, trade unions, living conditions, key legislation, etc.). The intent was to build on the 1980 bibliography and to catalogue the published record on the Canadian working class from earliest times to 1985. Items of more recent vintage have crept in, but no effort was made to deal comprehensively with the entire published record from the late 1980’s forward. To locate that material, researchers should consult Michael Lonardo’s Canadian Labour History Bibliography, an electronic compilation covering 1976 to 2009, found at Memorial University Library https://www.library.mun.ca/qeii/labour/ --Introduction

Disrupting Deportability: Transnational Workers Organize - Vosko, Leah F. (ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2019)
In an original and striking study of migration management in operation, Disrupting Deportability highlights obstacles confronting temporary migrant workers in Canada seeking to exercise their labor rights. Leah F. Vosko explores the effects of deportability on Mexican nationals participating in Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP). Vosko follows the decade-long legal and political struggle of a group of Mexican SAWP migrants in British Columbia to establish and maintain meaningful collective representation. Her case study reveals how modalities of deportability—such as termination without cause, blacklisting, and attrition—destabilize legally authorized temporary migrant agricultural workers. Through this detailed exposé, Disrupting Deportability concludes that despite the formal commitments to human, social, and civil rights to which migration management ostensibly aspires, the design and administration of this "model" temporary migrant work program produces conditions of deportability, making the threat possibility of removal ever-present. --Publisher's description
Keywords: Agricultural laborers, Foreign; Agricultural laborers, Foreign British Columbia; British Columbia; CANADA; Canada; Deportation; Deportation British Columbia; Foreign workers Labor unions Organizing; Foreign workers Labor unions Organizing British Columbia; Foreign workers, Mexican Civil rights Canada; POLITICAL SCIENCE Labor & Industrial Relations; Precarious employment; Precarious employment British Columbia; Travail précaire Colombie-Britannique; Travailleurs agricoles étrangers Colombie-Britannique; Travailleurs étrangers Syndicalisation Colombie-Britannique; Travailleurs étrangers mexicains Droits Canada

A Decade Later: The Legacy of the Supreme Court of Canada’s Health Services Decision on Workers’ Rights - Walchuk, Brad (Global Labour Journal, 2019)
The year 2017 marked the ten-year anniversary of the Health Services case, a precedent-setting decision by the Supreme Court of Canada that ruled collective bargaining is protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. This article explores the impact and legacy of BC Health Services, and finds that while workers’ constitutional rights have been expanded under the Charter over the past decade, governments nevertheless continue to violate these rights. It concludes that the legacy of the case is not an enhanced level of protection for these rights to be enjoyed fully, but rather that the default option has been and will continue to be a financial penalty for the state in instances in which they violate workers’ rights.

The Great Canadian Sedition Trials: The Courts and the Winnipeg General Strike, 1919-1920 - Walker, Jack (University of Manitoba, Faculty of Law, 2019)
Few occurrences in modern times have produced the social upheaval, fear, and hatred that were seen during the Red Scare of 1919. Few events have brought forth such a frenzy of mob action and intolerance, or can match the excitement and drama. One of life's coincidences led me to study one of the manifestations of the Red Scare: the trials that grew out of the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919. Their prominent place in Manitoba's legal history has made them deserving of the title "The Great Canadian Sedition Trials." --From author's prologue

With Glowing Hearts: How Ordinary Women Worked Together to Change the World (and Did) - Webber, Jennifer Wynne (Scirocco Drama, 2019)
When the "Kirkland Lake gals of 1941" begin to share their story with a present-day audience, a siren sounds and they soon find themselves pulled right back into the fateful winter of 1941-42. There, they gather again at the mine-head, waiting for word on the men trapped underground, as their fear and rage builds. When the husband of one of the women is badly injured, their desire to help her quickly leads them into a much larger campaign to help all the families they can. Before long, they've become the heart and soul of a large-scale union-organizing drive that is fuelled by their sheer will - and sometimes giddy enthusiasm - but that is also put to the test by their own inexperience, a bitter strike, and the brutal force of the powers-that-be. --Publisher's description
Keywords: Drama. Labor unions; Drama. Labor unions. Miners. Women labor union members; Drama. Miners; Drama. Women labor union members; Gold Miners' Strike, Kirkland Lake, Ont., 1941-1942; Kirkland Lake; Ontario

Research Handbook of Employment Relations in Sport - Weststar, Johanna (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2019)
The article reviews the book, "Research Handbook of Employment Relations in Sport," edited by Michael Barry, James Skinner and Terry Engelberg.

A New Kind of Union: Unifor and the Birth of the Modern Canadian Union - Wilson, Fred (Lorimer, 2019)
The inside story of how two important Canadian unions decided to create a new kind of union with new ways of fighting for worker's rights In the fall of 2011 the leaders of two of the biggest Canadian unions, Canadian Auto Workers union (CAW) President Ken Lewenza and Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada (CEP) President Dave Coles, found common ground. The labour movement was in crisis. They faced hostile governments, union busting corporations, and declining membership. Something drastic needed to be done. Fred Wilson was an insider in the process by which the leaders of these two large organizations found a way to create a new kind of union, one that was more democratic, more inclusive, and more powerful. Two years later, a new union with a new name was founded. From its inception, Unifor has been a source of optimism and inspiration that a fairer, more secure future can be won for working people, and that unions can adapt to changing times and remain a relevant voice for workplace and social justice. This book describes how this came about. --Publisher's description
Keywords: CAW-Canada; CAW-Canada Histoire,; CAW-Canada History; Canada; Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada; Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada History; History; Labor unions; Labor unions Canada History; Labor unions Mergers; Labor unions Mergers Canada History; Syndicat canadien des communications, de l'énergie et du papier Histoire; Syndicats Canada Histoire; Syndicats Fusion Canada Histoire; Unifor (Labor union) History; Unifor (Syndicat) Histoire

Just Watch Us: RCMP Surveillance of the Women's Liberation Movement in Cold War Canada - Wiseman, Matthew S. (Labour / Le Travail, 2019)
The article reviews the book, "Just Watch Us: RCMP Surveillance of the Women's Liberation Movement in Cold War Canada," by Christabelle Sethna and Steve Hewitt.
Keywords: Access to information; Anxieties; Archives & records; Books; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Cold War; Communism; Feminism; Gender; History--History of North And South America; Independence movements; Institutionalization; Manycompanies; Mounted police; National security; New Left; Political activism; Security services; Social activism; Surveillance; Womens rights movement

Occupational Health and Safety Indicators and Under-Reporting: Case Studies in Chinese Shipping - Xue, Conghua; Tang, Lijun; Walters, David (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2019)
An index-based approach to indicate the outcome of Occupational Health and Safety management has been commonly used in the implementation of the International Safety Management Code and the operation of Occupational Health and Safety management systems in the international shipping industry. Although the index-based approach is asserted to be a convenient way to measure and quantify the outcome of Occupational Health and Safety management, it is not justified in the wider literature and further empirical research is suggested by various authors. The aim of this study is to explore the role of an index-based approach in managing Occupational Health and Safety in the shipping industry. This article investigates the effectiveness of indicators in Occupational Health and Safety management in two Chinese chemical shipping companies. A qualitative approach is applied to examine the views of seafarers on safety reporting practice. The study reveals that, although the need for reporting is understood by most of the crew members, the reporting practice is significantly affected by different factors such as the crew’s concerns for their own interests, Chinese cultural factors and management’s dominant power over the crew’s performance evaluation. The findings suggest that there is a significant gap between what is required by the rules and what really occurs in terms of safety reporting practice. The study highlights the emerging problems of using Occupational Health and Safety indicators as benchmark for measuring the outcome of Occupational Health and Safety management in Chinese shipping. The conclusion is drawn in a Chinese context, and although the findings may not be similar to other industries or the shipping industry in other countries, they provide valuable indications for re-thinking and re-shaping maritime regulatory strategies.
Keywords: OHS indicators; Occupational Health and Safety management; case study; declaración subestimada; estudios de casos; facteurs sous-jacents; factores subyacentes; gestion de la santé et de la sécurité au travail; gestión de la salud y seguridad ocupacional; indicadores de salud y seguridad ocupacional; indicateurs de SST; sous-déclaration; under-reporting; underlying factors; étude de cas

Informal Workers and Collective Action: A Global Perspective - Yerochewski, Carole (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2019)
The article reviews the book, "Informal Workers and Collective Action: A Global Perspective," edited by Adrienne E. Eaton, Susan J. Schurman and Martha A. Chen.

Precarious Lives: Job Insecurity and Well-Being in Rich Democracies - Zeytinoglu, Isik (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2019)
The article reviews the book, "Precarious Lives: Job Insecurity and Well-Being in Rich Democracies," by Arne L. Kalleberg.

We Still Demand! Redefining Resistance in Sex and Gender Struggles - Adamyk, Natalie (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
The article reviews the book, "We Still Demand! Redefining Resistance in Sex and Gender Struggles," edited by Patrizia Gentile, Gary Kinsman, and L. Pauline Rankin.

England's Great Transformation: Law, Labour, and the Industrial Revolution - Frank, Christopher (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
The article reviews the book, "England's Great Transformation: Law, Labour, and the Industrial Revolution," by Marc Steinberg.

Be Wise! Be Healthy! Morality and Citizenship in Canadian Public Health Campaigns - Kealey, Linda (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
The article reviews the book, "Be Wise! Be Healthy! Morality and Citizenship in Canadian Public Health Campaigns," by Catherine Carstairs, Bethany Philpott, and Sara Wilmshurst.

The Great Cowboy Strike: Bullets, Ballots, and Class Conflicts in the American West - Laegreid, Renee M. (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
The article reviews the book, "The Great Cowboy Strike: Bullets, Ballots, and Class Conflicts in the American West," by Mark Lause.

Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman: A Memoir from the Early Twentieth Century - Mayer, Heather (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
The article reviews the book, "Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman: A Memoir from the Early Twentieth Century," by Matilda Rabinowitz.

Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South - Rothman, Joshua D. (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
The article reviews the book, "Masterless Men: Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South," by Keri Leigh Merritt.

For Class and Country: The Patriotic Left and the First World War - Weier, Jonathan (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
The article reviews the book, "For Class and Country: The Patriotic Left and the First World War," by David Smith.

Ontario's Improving Labour Market Leaves Many Behind - Zeitler, Rosa (Monitor, 2018)
Discusses the PEPSO report, "Getting Left Behind."

Will the Ontario Labour Movement Return to Class Struggle as Austerity Deepens? - Gindin, Sam (Canadian Dimension, 2018)
The Ontario labour movement is in deep crisis, and has been staggering since the end of the 1990s. Given the labour movement’s historic role in leading and supporting progressive change, its current disorientation should be a matter of alarm to its members of course, but also to anyone concerned with countering the insatiable greed and social destructiveness of capitalism. --Introduction

Recommendations for Amendments to the Labour Relations Code: A Report to the Honourable Harry Bains, Minister of Labour [British Columbia] - Labour Relations Code Review Panel; Fleming, Michael; Banister, Sandra; Dong, Barry (British Columbia, Ministry of Labour, 2018)
On February 6, 2018, the Minister of Labour appointed us as a Labour Relations Code Review Panel with a broad mandate to review the B.C. Labour Relations Code, RSBC 1996, c 244 (the “Code”) and to provide recommendations for any amendments or updates to the Code. The terms of reference directed us to consult with the community, consider labour law developments in other Canadian jurisdictions and to: "….assess each issue canvassed from the perspective of how to “ensure workplaces support a growing, sustainable economy with fair laws for workers and business” and promote certainty as well as harmonious and stable labour/management relations. The conceptual and structural framework for the Code was established 45 years ago and there have been significant changes in the B.C. workforce, workplaces and economy in theintervening decades. --Introduction

Preferences for the Distribution of Incomes in Modern Societies: The Enduring Influence of Social Class and Economic Context - Andersen, Robert; Yaish, Meir (Canadian Public Policy, 2018)
Using International Social Survey Program data, we explore the relationship between economic context and attitudes with respect to the distribution of incomes in 20 modern societies, including Canada. Our findings demonstrate that economic inequality has an enduring influence on attitudes. Consistent with the economic self-interest thesis, preferences for equality are strongest among those in working-class occu- pations. Moreover, independent of one’s own social class, one’s father’s social class has a similar enduring impact on attitudes later in life. These relationships are relatively similar across the 20 societies we explore. Still, significant differences in attitudes can be explained by national economic context. We find a strong positive relationship between national-level inequality and opinions on how much inequality there ought to be in the income distribution. In contrast to previous research, however, our findings suggest that national-level economic prosperity and equality of opportunity have little influence on public opinion.

Community Unionism Without the Community? Lessons from Labor-Community Coalitions in the Canadian Child Care Sector - Black, Simon (Labor Studies Journal, 2018)
The theory and practice of community unionism has been central to discussions of alt-labor, union renewal, and revitalization, particularly in relation to union praxis at the urban or local scale. This comparative case study explores two labor-community campaigns to defend public child care services in the context of neoliberal austerity in urban/suburban space. While labor-community coalitions are a necessary—if not sufficient—condition for success, in urban/suburban contexts in which community allies are weak and municipal administrations hostile, public-sector unions must continue to play a leading role in campaigns despite the risk of being cast as defenders of sectional interests rather than of the public good. In such contexts, union involvement in community organizing is a necessary precursor to successful labor-community campaigns.

Individual Financial Returns from Quebec Pension Plan Reform Options: Analyzing Proposals to Renew a Second-Pillar Retirement Income Program - Boisclair, David; Lacroix, Guy; Marchand, Steeve; Michaud, Pierre-Carl (Canadian Public Policy, 2018)
We use simulation methods and a detailed tax calculator to analyze the likely effects of two recent pro- posals aimed at reforming the Quebec Pension Plan (QPP): the federal proposal, eventually implemented throughout Canada, and the Quebec government’s December 2016 proposal. Accounting for education- adjusted life expectancy, earnings variability over the course of a career, and their interactions with the tax code and retirement income system, we find that internal rates of return (IRRs) for new QPP contribu- tions are similar under both reforms for individuals with lifetime average annual earnings of more than $40,000. Both reforms yield substantial IRRs for low-income individuals. Although the Quebec proposal offers higher IRRs for individuals earning less than $40,000, the federal proposal yields greater present value benefits for these same individuals. We show that if new QPP benefits were exempted from the Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) clawback, and provided that the working income tax benefit and GIS were not enhanced, the two reforms would yield similar IRRs for individuals with average earnings of more than $15,000. The QPP reform would thus better focus on the middle-income earners originally targeted by reform advocates.

How Do Older Laid-Off Workers Get By: Reemployment, Early Retirement, or Social Insurance Benefits? - Finnie, Ross; Gray, David (Canadian Public Policy, 2018)
We investigate the post-layoff configuration of income sources and pathways of prime-age and older laid- off workers exhibiting a high degree of prior attachment. Using a unique Canadian administrative database that links the event of the involuntary layoff with detailed data on income receipt, we track all of their sources of income over an interval spanning five years after layoff. We conduct a multivariate statistical analysis of the incidence of relying on income from several alternative sources, specifically early retirement (both public and private), reemployment, self-employment, or reliance on social insurance benefits (other than pensions). The two most common states for laid-off workers who have not yet reached normal retirement age are early retirement and continued labour market activity. Our findings indicate that the older workers are at the point of layoff, the greater the likelihood is that they will rely on pension income as their primary income source. This incidence of reliance on pension income also increases with the number of years elapsed since the point of layoff.

Getting Left Behind: Who Gained and Who Didn't in an Improving Labour Market - Lewchuk, Wayne; Procyk, Stephanie; Lafleche, Michelynn; Dyson, Diane; Goldring, Luin; Shields, John; Viducis, Peter (Poverty and Employment Precarity in Southern Ontario, 2018)
In times of economic growth, it is fair to expect that wages and job quality will improve with positive benefits being experienced throughout society. But between 2011 and 2017—a period when Ontario’s economy experienced significant gains—our research found that these expectations did not come true: the adage that a rising tide will lift all boats proved to be false in Ontario.

Health and Capacity to Work of Older Canadians: Gender and Regional Dimensions - Milligan, Kevin; Schirle, Tammy (Canadian Public Policy, 2018)
We address health capacity to work among older Canadian workers with a specific focus on differences by gender and region. We find that in 2012 men would have needed to work more than five additional years between ages 55 and 69 to keep pace with how much men worked in 1976, holding health capacity constant. For working women, the comparable result is only two years more work. Most of these gaps arose before the mid-1990s; since then, employment advances have offset mortality improvements. Regionally, more than half the Ontario–Atlantic employment difference among older men is rooted in health differences.

Do Large Employers Treat Racial Minorities More Fairly? An Analysis of Canadian Field Experiment Data - Banerjee, Rupa; Reitz, Jeffrey G.; Oreopoulos, Phil (Canadian Public Policy, 2018)
Analysis of amended data from a large-scale Canadian employment audit study (Oreopoulos 2011) shows substantial organization size differences in discrimination against skilled applicants with Asian (Chinese, Indian, or Pakistani) names in the decision to call for an interview. In organizations with more than 500 employees, Asian-named applicants are 20 percent less likely to receive a callback; in smaller organizations, the disadvantage is nearly 40 percent. Large organizations may discriminate less frequently because of more resources in recruitment and training, more human resources development, and greater experience with diversity. Anonymized résumé review may allow organizations to test hiring procedures for discrimination fairly inexpensively.

Lived Experiences of Social Unionism: Toronto Homecare Workers in the late 2000s - Cranford, Cynthia; Hick, Angela; Birdsell Bauer, Louise (Labor Studies Journal, 2018)
This article examines workers’ experiences with a union characterized by a social unionist framing and repertoire in the political realm and bureaucratic servicing of problems in the workplace realm. It analyzes interviews with members and officials about union strategies within privatized homecare predominately provided by immigrant women in Toronto. Workers report both consensual and tense relations with clients prompting them to praise their union’s political strategies yet criticize its limited workplace support. Findings indicate the importance of framing and repertoire that connect quality work with quality care, yet indicate a complex labor process that requires more conceptual and strategic attention.

Abstracts / Résumés, Fall / Automne 2018 (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
English/French abstracts of articles in the Fall 2018 issue.

Workers' Action Centre (Workers' Action Centre, 2018)
The Workers’ Action Centre (WAC) is a worker-based organization. We are committed to improving the lives and working conditions of people in low-wage and unstable employment. Thousands of working families are struggling to make ends meet, so we take action and organize for decent work. We believe that the leaders in the fight for decent work should be the workers directly affected by poor working conditions. Workers have firsthand experience of problems at work, and have the best insight into what will bring fairness and dignity to Ontario’s workplaces. Our members are workers in precarious jobs. We are recent immigrants, workers of colour, women, men, and youth. Most of us don’t belong to unions because we work in small workplaces, are temporary workers, on contract, independent contractors or unemployed. This month we may be juggling 2 or 3 jobs, but next month we might not have any work or income. When we are able to find full-time work, there is still little protection against unfair working conditions or employers who don’t pay us what we should be paid. --Website

Troubling the Teacher Diversity Gap: The Perpetuation of Whiteness Through Practices of Bias Free Hiring in Ontario School Boards - Abawi, Zuhra Elizabeth (University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 2018)
Teaching staff in Ontario schools do not reflect the increasing diversity of the students who occupy Ontario classrooms today. School boards across Ontario have come under considerable scrutiny regarding the lack of diverse teacher representation that adequately reflects Ontario’s demographic composition (Childs et al., 2010; Ryan, et al., 2009; Turner, 2015). This thesis addresses the Ontario teacher diversity gap (James Turner, 2017; Turner 2015; Turner, 2014; Ryan, et al., 2009) in relation to provincial equity and inclusive educational policies, which have been created to address the dominance of white teachers in publicly-funded education in Ontario. However, findings from the research indicate that these policies have not had the desired results, and in some ways have contributed to perpetuating the status quo, and the ongoing overrepresentation of white teachers in schools. The thesis furthermore addressed the notion of bias-free hiring (Fine Handlesman, 2012; Hassouneh, 2013) practices through narratives of Ontario teachers themselves. The predominant assumption of bias-free hiring is that one can divorce themselves from their unconscious biases and preconceptions of groups who are dissimilar to them in order to recruit the so-called “most qualified applicant”. The narrative of the “most qualified applicant” is a term invoked when racialized people seek access to employment opportunities. School administrators have great influence on who is hired; therefore it is important for administrators to interrogate their own social locations and positions of power, and unconscious bias in terms of how they recruit teachers. Findings from the research indicate that teachers from racialized groups have different experiences when seeking employment as teachers in publicly-funded school boards in Ontario. In response to this the EHT Equity Hiring Toolkit for Ontario School Administrators has been developed to support school administrators to recruit more diverse teachers. The EHT provides a framework for school administrators to engage in antiracist praxis and action, by examining their social location, and ways that their positionality impacts the hiring decisions they make. School administrators can use the creation of the Toolkit based on the findings of the data that emerged from the research as a Creative Professional Activity (CPA). I consider this to be my contribution to the field of social justice education and leadership.

Firms as Political Entities – Saving Democracy through Economic Bicameralism - Adams, Roy J. (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
The article reviews the book, "Firms as Political Entities -- Saving Democracy through Economic Bicameralism," by Isabelle Ferreras.
Keywords: Bicameralism; Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Collective bargaining; Democracy; Economics; Industrial democracy; Labor Unions; Saving

La dynamique de construction d’une GRH sociétale dans une PME française du secteur de l’économie sociale et solidaire - Adla, Ludivine; Gallego-Roquelaure, Virginie (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
Dans notre monde globalisé, l’aire de jeux des acteurs n’est plus circonscrite à la structure, mais elle est, désormais, élargie au territoire. Cet effacement des frontières organisationnelles tend à favoriser le développement d’une logique partenariale, y compris en matière de gestion des ressources humaines (GRH) au regard des bouleversements de l’environnement socio-économique. C’est dans ce contexte actuel qu’une nouvelle forme émergente de GRH apparaît, se situant dans une démarche de RSE (responsabilité sociétale des entreprises) étendue qui ne se restreint plus uniquement à certains aspects sociaux. L’objectif de cet article est d’étudier une approche alternative de la GRH qui se veut plus sociétale. Nous nous attachons à répondre à la problématique suivante : comment instaurer une GRH sociétale en PME ? Utilisant l’approche contextualiste de Pichault et Nizet (2013), nous soulignons l’importance pour le dirigeant de mobiliser des acteurs tant internes qu’externes pour atteindre cet objectif. À partir du cas d’une PME française du secteur de l’économie solidaire, nous explorons, grâce à des récits de vie, des entretiens semi-directifs, des observations participantes et non participantes, ainsi que des analyses documentaires, le processus de construction de cette nouvelle forme de GRH. Nos résultats mettent en lumière trois étapes-clés : 1- l’émergence de cette GRH autour de la création d’un pacte social; 2- son évolution source d’adhésion et de frustration; et, enfin, 3-la diffusion de cette GRH alternative auprès des partenaires externes.

The Constant Liberal: Pierre Trudeau, Organized Labour, and the Canadian Social Democratic Left - Aivalis, Christo (UBC Press, 2018)
Pierre Elliott Trudeau – radical progressive or unavowed socialist? Christo Aivalis argues that although Trudeau found key influences and friendships on the left, he was in fact a consistently classic liberal, driven by individualist, capitalist principles. Trudeau’s legacy is still divisive. Most scholars portray Trudeau’s ties to unions and the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation as either evidence of communist affinities or as being at the root of his reputation as the champion of a progressive, modern Canada. The Constant Liberal traces the charismatic politician’s relationship with left and labour movements throughout his career. Trudeau worked with leftists in the 1950s to oppose right-wing Quebec premier Maurice Duplessis but against them as prime minister when workers and progressives were seen as obstacles to higher corporate profit margins. While numerous biographies have noted the impact of Trudeau’s engagement with the left on his intellectual and political development, this comprehensive analysis is the first to showcase the interplay between liberalism and democratic socialism that defined his world view – and shaped his effective use of power.The Constant Liberal suggests that Trudeau’s leftist activity was not so much a call for social democracy as a warning to fellow liberals that lack of reform could undermine liberal-capitalist social relations. Historians, political scientists, and political historians are the primary audience for this book, but it will also find readers among scholars of political economy, economics, industrial relations, and Canadian studies. It will appeal broadly to those interested in the life and thinking of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, the Canadian social democratic left, and liberalism/neo-liberalism. --Publisher's description
Keywords: Biography; Canadian History; History; Labour History; Memoirs & Letters; Political Science

Les grèves de la Shmata, 1934-1937: étude des contradictions de genres, d'ethnicités et de classes dans le mouvement ouvrier juif à Montréal - Alatorre, Florian (Université du Québec à Montréal, 2018)
Les grèves générales de la robe déclenchées en août 1934 et en avril 1937 marquent un épisode de solidarité entre ouvrier.ères juif.ves et travailleuses canadiennes-françaises jusqu'alors sans précédent. Si quelques grèves avaient déjà réuni piqueteuses juives et canadiennes-françaises dans les années 1920, aucun de ces conflits de travail n'avait connu cette ampleur. Souvent isolées à une seule fabrique de vêtements, ces grèves étaient de taille plus modeste, tant par la durée du conflit que par le nombre de grévistes qu'elles comprenaient. La grève de 1934 organisée par l'IUNTW rassembla dès son déclenchement 4 000 piqueteur.ses, interrompit l'activité de 90 établissements, et totalisa en tout 45 000 journées de travail perdues. La grève de 1937 qui s'inscrivit dans la continuité de l'organisation des ouvrières de la robe entamée par la grève de 1934, rassembla plus de 5 000 grévistes et couta 55 000 journées de travail perdues à l'industrie montréalaise de la robe. Le présent mémoire explore les grèves générales des ouvrier.ères de la robe qui s'enclenchèrent au cours de la décennie 1930 à Montréal. Opposant un prolétariat canadien-français et juif à des manufacturiers pour la majorité eux-aussi juifs, ces grèves s'inscrivent dans le phénomène plus vaste d'un mouvement ouvrier juif canadien. L'expérience de ces conflits de travail est parcourue par de multiples tensions. Le prolétariat de l'aiguille est traversé par de multiples contradictions où s'entrelacent plusieurs axes de hiérarchisation qui fragmentent la force de travail. Conséquemment, ce mémoire se penche plus précisément sur les rapports de pouvoir et les axes hiérarchiques qui structurent à la fois la production, mais aussi la lutte syndicale, plus précisément autour des rapports de genres, de classes et d'ethnicité sur le plancher de l'usine et à l'intérieur des organisations syndicales. Ce mémoire cherche à comprendre comment l'articulation des relations de genres, d'ethnicité et de classes module l'expérience de la lutte ouvrière dans le cas précis du mouvement ouvrier juif montréalais dans le secteur de la robe, au cours de la décennie 1930 et comment dans un prolétariat fragmenté sur une multiplicité d'axes hiérarchiques ont pu se construire des alliances et des moments forts de solidarité au sein de grèves et de luttes ouvrières.
Keywords: 1900-1999; Academic Dissertation; Academic theses; Années trente (Vingtième siècle); Clothing workers Labor unions; Grèves et lock-out Vêtements Industrie et commerce Québec (Province) Montréal Histoire 20e siècle; History; Labor movement Québec (Province) Montréal Religious aspects Judaism; Labor movement Religious aspects Judaism; Mouvement ouvrier Québec (Province) Montréal Aspect religieux Judaïsme; Nineteen thirties; Québec Montréal; Strikes and lockouts Clothing trade; Strikes and lockouts Clothing trade Québec (Province) Montréal History 20th century; Syndicalism; Syndicalisme; Thèses et écrits académiques; Travailleurs du vêtement Syndicats

Struggling for a New Left: The New Tendency, Autonomist Marxism, and Rank-and-File Organizing in Windsor, Ontario during the 1970s - Antaya, Sean (Trent University, 2018)
This study examines the emergence of the New Left organization, The New Tendency, in Windsor, Ontario during the 1970s. The New Tendency, which developed in a number of Ontario cities, represents one articulation of the Canadian New Left's turn towards working-class organizing in the early 1970s after the student movement's dissolution in the late 1960s. Influenced by dissident Marxist theorists associated with the Johnson-Forest Tendency and Italian workerism, The New Tendency sought to create alternative forms of working-class organizing that existed outside of, and often in direct opposition to, both the mainstream labour movement and Old Left organizations such as the Communist Party and the New Democratic Party. After examining the roots of the organization and the important legacies of class struggle in Windsor, the thesis explores how The New Tendency contributed to working-class self activity on the shop-floor of Windsor's auto factories and in the community more broadly. However, this New Left mobilization was also hampered by inner-group sectarianism and a rapidly changing economic context. Ultimately, the challenges that coincided with The New Tendency's emergence in the 1970s led to its dissolution. While short-lived, the history of the Windsor branch of The New Tendency helps provide valuable insight into the trajectory of the Canadian New Left and working-class struggle in the 1970s, highlighting experiences that have too often been overlooked in previous scholarship. Furthermore, this study illustrates the transnational development of New Left ideas and organizations by examining The New Tendency's close connections to comparable groups active in manufacturing cities in Europe and the United States; such international relationships and exchanges were vital to the evolution of autonomist Marxism around the world. Finally, the Windsor New Tendency's history is an important case study of the New Left's attempts to reckon with a transitional moment for global capitalism, as the group's experiences coincided with the Fordist accord's death throes and the beginning of neoliberalism's ascendancy.

Inside the Mobilities Regime of Newfoundland and Labrador’s Construction Megaprojects: Experiences of Rotational Work Close to Home - Barber, Lachlan (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
This article explores the experiences of construction-industry workers commuting to major project sites with a view to broadening understandings of the meaning and impact of the development of extractive industries in Newfoundland and Labrador since the 1990s. Theoretically, the article draws upon and develops the concept of “mobilities regimes,” a formulation that locates relations of power and inequality in the co-constitution of mobility and institutional structures. The empirical findings are based on research conducted between December 2014 and June 2016 as part of the On the Move Partnership, a research initiative examining employment-related geographical mobility (e-rgm) in a variety of sectors and provinces across Canada. The focus is on mobility associated with projects that fall under the provincial Special Project Order (spo) legislation. A total of 60 interviews to date have been conducted with workers as well as with key informants, including government officials, employers, and labour organizations. The central argument is that a mobilities regime is discernible not only in policies and project documents produced by governments, employers, and labour organizations, but also in the experiences of workers. These gendered experiences reveal that Newfoundland and Labrador’s spo projects enable people who may otherwise commute interprovincially to work close to home, but this work has contradictory meanings for the men and women involved due to the mobility it entails. By making visible the experiences of workers in the mobilities regimes of much-celebrated projects, the article encourages reflection on the effects on workers and their families of the underlying capitalist imperatives driving Newfoundland and Labrador’s contemporary economic transition.

Syndicalisme et santé au travail - Baril-Gingras, Geneviève (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
The article reviews the book, "Syndicalisme et santé au travail," edited by Lucie Goussard et Guillaume Tiffon.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Framing, Resources and Repertoire of Local Trade Union Action for Health and Safety: A Study Conducted with a Quebec Central Labour Body - Baril-Gingras, Geneviève; Dubois-Ouellet, Sarah (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
Employment and working conditions having an impact on health and safety are some of the most important concerns of workers. Amongst the various means by which trade unions contribute to prevention, the contribution of Worker Safety Representatives (WSR) is well-established and the most studied, including their participation in joint occupational health and safety committees (JOHSC). However, there are surprisingly few studies examining the place of OHS as an issue of workers’ collective action. Conducted with a large Quebec Central Labour Body, this study aims to understand why and how local-level unions concentrate upon these issues, the repertoire of means that they employ and the context that supports or hindus such actions. The conceptual framework is based on previous realistic evaluations of OHS preventive interventions and includes Levesque and Murray’s (2010) trade union power resources and strategic capabilities. In phase I, eleven semi-structured interviews were conducted with union staff members and elected representatives from different sectors, covering a wide array of activities such as unionization, training, negotiation, OHS prevention and compensation. Results also refer to five case studies (phase 2) of local-level trade unions identified by phase 1 respondents as particularly active in relation to prevention. The process by which working conditions having a negative impact on OHS are framed (or not) as trade union issues is examined. Levers and barriers are also identified. Factors affecting the presence of resources for trade union autonomous action aimed at prevention (like the integration of WSR to the union core structure, release time for prevention, etc.) are highlighted. A widely diverse repertoire of workplace-level trade union means of action for OHS is also highlighted by the interviews and case studies, not limited just to those provided by the Quebec OHS regime. It includes the recourse to labour relations mechanisms (e.g. negotiation and strike) and is based on an autonomous agenda, including mobilization. The potential of OHS issues for union revitalization is discussed, as well as the barriers that must be overcome.

Canada’s Labour Market Training System - Barnetson, Bob (Open paths to enriched learning, 2018)
How does the current labour market training system function and whose interests does it serve? In this introductory textbook, Bob Barnetson wades into the debate between workers and employers, and governments and economists to investigate the ways in which labour power is produced and reproduced in Canadian society. After sifting through the facts and interpretations of social scientists and government policymakers, Barnetson interrogates the training system through analysis of the political and economic forces that constitute modern Canada. This book not only provides students of Canada’s division of labour with a general introduction to the main facets of labour-market training—including skills development, post-secondary and community education, and workplace training—but also encourages students to think critically about the relationship between training systems and the ideologies that support them. --Publisher's description.

Going the Extra Mile: Managers and Supervisors as Moral Agents for Workers with Disability at Two Social Enterprises - Bartram, Timothy; Cavanagh, Jillian; Sim, Stephen; Pariona-Cabrera, Patricia; Meacham, Hannah (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
This study examines the ethical management of workers with disability (WWD) employed at two social enterprises in Australia. Viewed largely through the spectrum of institutionally-based conflict in the employment relationship, this research draws on a framework of situated moral agency (Wilcox, 2012) to establish the ways in which WWD are afforded opportunities to engage in work and how managers and supervisors practise situated moral agency at the workplace. A qualitative case study approach is used with 62 participants through semi-structured interviews and focus groups. Key findings demonstrate supervisors constantly have to reshape and reinterpret human resource management (HRM) policies and practices to exercise and extend moral agency. This phenomenon suggests contradictions between moral agency and ethical management practice within current HRM regimes. The key message of the paper is that HRM does not always support the ethical management of WWD. Consequently, we question the ethical nature of contemporary HRM policy and practice for WWD, and argue for further research to unpack ethical ways to more effectively support WWD in the workplace. For WWD to be included at work, achieve life skills and their goals, managers and supervisors need to engage with their moral agency. Finally, we draw implications for management and employment relations theory and practice.
Keywords: action morale; disability; discapacidad; discernimiento moral; empresas sociales; entreprises sociales; ethical management; gestion des ressources humaines; gestion éthique; gestión de recursos humanos; gestión ética; handicap; human resource management; moral agency; social enterprises

Users / Patients as Industrial Relations Actors: A Structurationist Analysis - Bellemare, Guy; Briand, Louise; Havard, Christelle; Naschberger, Christine (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
This paper proposes a structurationist model that revises the notion of actors in industrial relations (Bellemare, 2000), reconsiders the frontiers of the industrial relations system (Bellemare and Briand 2006, Legault and Bellemare, 2008) and encompasses the developments of "life politics." This model is illustrated by the influence of users/patients on the work organization and governance bodies of a University Hospital in France, as well as on the health care system (public policies, research priorities, etc.).
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Corporate governance; Governance; Health care services policy; Hospitals; Influence; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Patients; Public health; Studies; Work organization

Le régime des décrets de convention collective au Québec. Quel avenir? - Bernier, Jean (Droit fondamental du travail, 2018)
Cet ouvrage réunit les actes du colloque tenu à Montréal le 11 mai 2017 dans le cadre du congrès de l'Association francophone pour le savoir (ACFAS) sous le thème «Régulation sociale et juridique : quel avenir pour le régime des décrets de convention collective au Québec ??». Il fait le point sur ce régime en vigueur depuis 1934 et régi par la Loi sur les décrets de convention collective. Le livre comprend deux parties. La première, qui porte sur les décrets et les acteurs sociaux, présente un état des lieux aussi bien au plan historique qu'en termes d'expériences très actuelles, éprouvées par les grandes organisations patronales et syndicales. La seconde partie propose un regard vers le futur et met en lumière certaines voies et hypothèses de changements susceptibles de bonifier le régime juridique. --Résumé de l'éditeur
Keywords: Actes de congrès; Collective labor agreements; Collective labor agreements Québec (Province) Congresses; Conference papers and proceedings; Congress; Conventions collectives Québec (Province) Congrès; Québec; Québec (Province). Congresses; Québec (Province). Congrès; proceedings (reports)

La culpabilité au travail : La parole aux salariés - Berthe, Bénédicte; Chédotal, Camille (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
La culpabilité est une émotion couramment éprouvée dans la vie quotidienne. L’objectif de cette recherche était de l’étudier dans le cadre du travail. Une recherche exploratoire a donc été menée afin, d’une part, d’identifier les situations générant de la culpabilité au travail ainsi que les effets de cette émotion et, d’autre part, de déterminer si la culpabilisation est une stratégie de management permettant d’obtenir davantage de travail de la part des salariés. Les personnes interviewées sont des salariés aux profils variés selon l’âge, le sexe, le poste occupé, le secteur d’activité, la taille de l’entreprise et le statut. Vingt-huit entretiens semi-directifs ont ainsi été menés. Les résultats identifient les caractéristiques de la culpabilité éprouvée au travail en révélant que cette dernière est familière, d’intensité et de fréquence variables, et évolutive. L’analyse des entretiens révèle aussi huit situations génératrices de culpabilité qui sont liées aux phénomènes suivants : une absence ou un retard, la perception d’un travail globalement mal fait, des demandes ou des promesses non suivies, des comportements ou attitudes non corrects, des caractéristiques personnelles (par exemple, un manque de compétence), un client ou un collègue qui souffrent et ne peuvent être aidés, un manque de temps ainsi que l’impact du travail sur la vie privée. Cette recherche montre que la culpabilité ressentie génère une gêne chez les personnes. Mais elle a, surtout, des effets positifs sur le travail réalisé par les salariés. La culpabilité a généralement un effet bénéfique sur les efforts au travail, sauf quand cette émotion est trop intense. La culpabilisation est un autre axe important de cette étude. Si elle est bien constatée par les répondants, il en ressort qu’elle est jugée inefficace lorsqu’elle émane des supérieurs. Elle est alors rejetée et mal vécue. Cet article ouvre des perspectives de recherche afin, d’une part, d’approfondir la place et le rôle de cette émotion et, d’autre part, de développer des implications managériales en termes de bien-être au travail et de performance au travail.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Hone the Means of Production: Craft Antagonism and Domination in the Journalistic Labour Process of Freelance Writers - Bertuzzi, Robert (Western University, 2018)
The works of Karl Marx have been central to the formation of a body of critical communication scholarship in Canada. But as Nicole S. Cohen adeptly shows, the influence of Marx’s thought has been absent, mostly, as it relates to questions involving cultural labourers. Of particular interest to her is Marx’s formulation concerning exploitation and its relationship to the field of journalism as it affects freelance writers. This dissertation extends the notion of a “missing Marx” by incorporating other concepts from his oeuvre. His writings on alienation help to address one of two major research questions posed in this dissertation. The first being: why is it that freelance writers in Canada are willing to work for such low levels of remuneration? Historically, a dichotomous rendering has prevailed as to whether exploitation or alienation provides a better explanatory framework for understanding the experiences of workers—in this case, freelance writers. One of the aims of this work is to bring alienation and exploitation into conversation with one another. This requires an analytical investigation of the journalistic labour process. Ideas of craft have helped shape identity and understandings of work in the journalistic field over a few centuries now. This understanding segues into the second research question: at this juncture of deepening capitalist crises, and subsequent renewed interest in craft modes of production, what relevance do these forces have in the lives of contemporary freelance writers? This dissertation addresses both of the above research questions as well as the aforementioned phenomenon through interviews of Canadian freelance writers in the spirit of Marx’s workers’ inquiry. These 25 interviews in combination with documentary analysis of the historically changing conditions of journalism explore the pertinence of the field’s craft sensibility upon its freelance workforce under circumstances of intensifying alienation. Statements from informants reveal the craft dimensions of the labour process as both a source of domination and of resistance as well as playing a possible future role in the enactment of broader class struggles.

Precarious Professionals: Non-Tenure-Track Faculty in Southern Ontario Universities - Birdsell Bauer, Louise (University of Toronto, 2018)
While precarious work is a phenomenon often associated with non-professional workers, the emerging case of non-tenure-track faculty (NTTF) calls for a new framework building on scholarship on both precarious work and the professions. An in-depth case study of NTTF in southern Ontario shows how a new phenomenon of ‘precarious professionals’ is emerging. Drawing on sixty semi-structured interviews with faculty members, university administrators and union representatives across southern Ontario, I analyze workers’ experiences in temporary contract work in the academic profession, and their views on the way certain types of professional work are valued. Building off previous literature on precarious work, gender and work, and professional work, this thesis defines precarious professionals as highly skilled workers who do professional work that is valued and devalued along lines of gender. Their experiences in temporary contract work marginalize them economically and professionally in complex and compounding ways that trap them between identifying as precarious workers and as professionals. Union organizers and activists draw on a two-pronged approach that addresses both dimensions of precarious worker and professional identities. This thesis shows variation in workers’ experiences, suggesting that not all temporary contract workers become precarious professionals, and shows how that variation can be explained.

Work-Related Deaths in Canada - Bittle, Steven; Chen, Ashley; Hébert, Jasmine (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
This paper critically examines official statistics on workplace fatalities in Canada. Each year the Association of Workers’ Compensation Boards of Canada reports on the number of workers who die from a work-related injury or illness/disease. The problem, however, is that these data report the number of deaths that were accepted for compensation; it is not a system for tracking all work-related deaths. Drawing from a range of data sources and employing a broad definition of what constitutes death at work we attempt to generate a more accurate estimate of the number of work-related fatalities in Canada. In so doing our goal is not to produce a definitive number of annual deaths at work – an impossibility given the paucity of data sources – but instead to challenge dominant ways of conceptualizing what constitutes a work-related fatality and thus contribute to ongoing efforts to raise academic, political, and public awareness about this important issue. In this sense our goal is to question whether official statistics regarding workplace fatalities are complete when set against a broader understanding of what constitutes death at work.

Anti-Unionism in Professional Sport: The Case of Major Junior Hockey - Black, Simon (Labour Under Attack: Anti-Unionism in Canada, 2018)
Examines anti-unionism in professional sport through a case study of ongoing efforts to organize players in the Canadian Hockey League, the world's largest development hockey league.

"This is Hallowed Ground": Canada and International Labour Law - Blackett, Adelle (Canada in International Law at 150 and Beyond, 2018)
A specialized agency of the United Nations that predates both the United Nations and the establishment of the Bretton Woods institutions, the International Labour Organization (ILO) was founded at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, and was part of the Treaty of Versailles. This paper is a deliberate exercise in remembering the history of the ILO. It recalls the historical ideal of international labour law (ILL) in the ILO’s founding to explain the renewed relevance of ILL in the midst of global restructuring. The paper traces a similar trajectory through the story of ILL in the Canadian courts. Throughout, the paper suggests that the evolution of ILL, internationally and in Canada, constitutes a crucial basis upon which to build ILL’s transnational futures.

La désindustrialisation : une fatalité ? - Blanchet, Yves (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
The articles reviews the book, "La désindustrialisation : une fatalité ?," edited by Jean-Claude Daumas, Ivan Kharaba and Philippe Mioche.

Rough Work: Labourers on the Public Works of British North America and Canada, 1842-1882 - Bleasdale, Ruth E. (Canadian social history series, 2018)
The labourers at the heart of this study built the canals and railways undertaken as public works by the colonial governments of British North America and the federal government of Canada between 1841 and 1882. Ruth Bleasdale's fascinating journey into the little-known lives of these labourers and their families reveals how capital, labour and the state came together to build the transportation infrastructure that linked colonies and united an emerging nation. Combining census and community records, government documents, and newspaper archives Bleasdale elucidates the ways in which successive governments and branches of the state intervened between labour and capital and in labourers' lives. Case studies capture the remarkable diversity across regions and time in a labour force drawn from local and international labour markets. The stories here illuminate the ways in which men and women experienced the emergence of industrial capitalism and the complex ties which bound them to local and transnational communities. Rough Work is an accessibly written yet rigorous study of the galvanization of a major segment of Canada's labour force over four decades of social and economic transformation. --Publisher's description

Industrial Island - African-Caribbean Migration to Cape Breton Canada, 1900-1930 - Bonner, Claudine (Dalhousie University, 2018)
The late 19th and early 20th centuries evidenced extreme changes in industry and urbanization which fueled the movement of people worldwide. Included in this movement was an African Diaspora migration up and out of the Caribbean Basin and into the United States and elsewhere, as people sought to escape economic hardships within the region. Some took the opportunity to make their way to Sydney, Nova Scotia, where they labored for the Dominion Iron and Steel Company. The story of their migration to Cape Breton is of interest because they have remained a footnote in Canadian migration history. This thesis offers an opportunity to look at the lived experiences of these African Caribbean migrants and the community they created in Whitney Pier. This community served to spread notions of racial uplift and Black nationalism, evidenced by its involvement in the then growing Garvey movement.

Austérité, flexibilité et précarité au Québec : la fuite en avant - Boucher, Marie-Pierre; Noiseux, Yanick (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
L’évolution de l’emploi au Québec et au Canada est marquée par la multiplication des statuts d’emploi, la précarisation et la résurgence du phénomène des travailleurs et travailleuses pauvres. Après un rapide rappel des transformations marquant un glissement vers des politiques néolibérales survenues à la fin des années 1970, nous examinons les récentes transformations de la politique sociale liée au travail à l’ère de l’austérité. Pour ce qui est du gouvernement fédéral, nous examinons le programme d’assurance-emploi ainsi que les programmes concernant les travailleurs migrants temporaires. Pour ce qui est du gouvernement du Québec, nous nous attardons surtout sur les politiques d’aide sociale, ainsi que sur les services de garde à l’enfance. Nous traitons ces programmes en tant que politiques d’emploi et mettons en relief le rôle joué par l’État dans l’approfondissement du virage néolibéral amorcé il y a maintenant près de quarante ans.

La qualité d’emploi en France : cartographie et classification des professions d’exécution - Brolis, Olivier; Devetter, François-Xavier (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
Cet article vise, en s’appuyant sur L’Enquête Conditions de travail (2013), à construire une typologie des professions relevant d’un statut « ouvrier » ou « employé » à partir du niveau et du type de qualité de l’emploi qu’elles induisent. Cette approche de la qualité d’emploi par les professions apparaît importante pour trois raisons complémentaires : d’abord, parce que la nature de la profession s’avère déterminante au-delà des caractéristiques des individus qui l’occupent pour expliquer les écarts en termes de qualité de l’emploi; ensuite, du fait de l’importance de la nature des professions dans la détermination des règles encadrant le travail; et, enfin, en raison du rôle joué par les politiques publiques dans le soutien de la qualité dans certaines professions.
Keywords: France; Francia; calidad de empleo; clasificación; classification; job quality; low-skilled occupations; profesiones poco calificadas; professions peu qualifiées; qualité de l’emploi

How Can the Organizing Work Involved in the Joint Regulation of Lean Projects Promote an Enabling Organization and Occupational Health? - Bruère, Sébastien; Bellemare, Marie; Caroly, Sandrine (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
The objective of this article is, through an empirical study, to further understanding of the actions and decisions taken in the context of Lean implementation projects carried out under joint regulation (Lévesque and Murray, 1998) agreements. We, therefore, attempt to identify factors that may facilitate the organizing work involved in joint regulation of Lean projects to allow workers to develop a broader range of health-minded work methods and habits. Our assumption is that factors which influence joint regulation, such as the union’s capacity for action, management’s attitude and the purpose of the change, also influence the occupational health outcomes of Lean projects. We believe that the organizing work involved in joint regulation (actions and decisions) has an impact on these factors and influences the occupational health outcomes. Our research question is therefore this: What are the actions and decisions involved in joint regulation of Lean implementation projects that lead to closer correspondence with enabling organization criteria? This empirical study was exploratory in nature and had a multiple case study design. Two cases of lean projects were documented through eight individual interviews and the collection of documents. The main results indicate that, while joint regulation appears essential in terms of meeting enabling organization criteria, it alone is insufficient to explain the health effects of Lean projects. All stakeholders need to define the project goals, modes of assessment and management rules, both cooperatively and transparently, and through their involvement in decisions regarding all processes.

The Fight for $15: The Right Wage for a Working America - Bush, Dave (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
The article reviews the book, "The Fight for $15: The Right Wage for a Working America," by David Rolf.

Just Work? Migrant Workers' Struggles Today - Calnitsky, Naomi Alisa (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
This article reviews the book, "Just Work? Migrant Workers' Struggles Today" eds. Aziz Choudry and Mondli Hlatshwayo.

Labours of Love: Family, Human Rights, and Worker Invisibility in Seasonal Mexican Farm Worker Agricultural Migrations to Canada, 1974–Present - Calnitsky, Naomi Alisa (Left History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Historical Inquiry and Debate, 2018)
This article provides a focused review of the history of seasonal and “foreign” farm labour migration in Canada, and in particular the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP). It underscores how Mexican migrant workers in particular have been portrayed in Canadian narrative discourses, drawn primarily from political and journalistic sources in Canada in the postwar period.  Extended to Mexico in 1974, the SAWP has a longer history of managed agricultural migration in Canada that is also introduced. The article discusses leitmotifs linked to the history of temporary migration between Mexico and Canada: the fundamental place of family and gender relations; the trope of the male migrant as “breadwinner” (despite the later emergence of women migrants in the program); Mexican officials based in Canada and their role in mitigating labour disputes and unionization efforts among the seasonal migrant class in Canada; and the subjective, “subaltern” stories of migrant workers uncovered through an oral history case study carried out in British Columbia and Manitoba from 2012–2015. It introduces other thematic problems including exclusion/invisibility, human rights, patterns of remuneration, and “complementarity” in farm work, in a context of prior reliance upon the managed internal migration of First Nations’ harvest workers in both Ontario’s and Manitoba’s agricultural sectors.

Tax, Order, and Good Government: A New Political History of Canada, 1867–1917 - Campbell, J. Peter (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
This article reviews the book, "Tax, Order, and Good Government: A New Political History of Canada, 1867–1917," by E.A. Heaman.

Ontario and Quebec's Irish Pioneers: Farmers, Labourers, and Lumberjacks - Campey, Lucille H. (The Irish in Canada, 2018)
Beginning in the eighteenth century, an increasing number of Irish people sought the better life that Ontario and Quebec offered. Set free from the stifling economic and social constraints that held them back in their homeland, they prospered. And yet, strangely enough, they continue to be mourned as victims. In the second book of the Irish in Canada series, Lucille Campey takes on the victim-ridden mythology of destitute Irish immigrants fleeing the famine of the 1840s. In fact, the Irish influx to Quebec and Ontario began a century earlier. Comprehensive and extensive research has been distilled to produce an informative and lively account of this great immigration saga, whose roots date back to the time of the British Conquest of New France in 1763. -- Publisher's description
Keywords: Canada Emigration and immigration History; Canada, Ontario Emigration and immigration History; Canada, Québec Emigration and immigration History; Emigration and immigration; History; Immigrants; Immigrants Ontario History; Immigrants Québec (Province) History; Ireland; Ireland Emigration and immigration History; Irish; Irish Ontario History; Irish Québec (Province) History; Irlandais Ontario Histoire; Irlandais Québec (Province) Histoire; Irlande Émigration et immigration Histoire; Ontario; Ontario Emigration and immigration History; Ontario Émigration et immigration Histoire; Québec; Québec (Province) Emigration and immigration History; Québec (Province) Émigration et immigration Histoire

Griffintown: Identity and Memory in an Irish Diaspora Neighbourhood - Caron, Matthieu (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
The article reviews the book, "Griffintown: Identity and Memory in an Irish Diaspora Neighbourhood," by Matthew Barlow.

Migration and Agriculture. Mobility and change in the Mediterranean Area - Castracani, Lucio (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
This article reviews the book, "Migration and Agriculture. Mobility and change in the Mediterranean Area" by Alessandra Corrado, Carlos de Castro et Domenico Perrotta.

Diaspora Solidarities: Refugees, Human Rights, and the Jewish Labour Committee of Canada, 1936-1967 - Chanco, Christopher John Jacobi (York University, 2018)
This transnational history of the Jewish Labour Committee of Canada (JLC) retraces the organisations narratives, networks, and practices of diaspora solidarity, from the moment of its establishment and into the post-war period. The JLCs activists refracted their solidarities through the lens of a diasporic Jewish identity. At a time when Canada imposed strong barriers against refugees, the JLC worked to send aid to the anti-fascist resistance in Europe while participating in a series of immigration schemes to bring Jews from displaced persons camps over to Canada. It was in this unique moment that the JLC could also launch pioneering human rights and anti-racism campaigns within the labour movement. Representing one section of the organised Jewish community in Canada, the JLC proved a critical part of the transformation of the countrys treatment of refugees and minorities in the following decades.

Brother - Chariandy, David (Penguin Random House Canada, 2018)
David Chariandy's Brother is his intensely beautiful, searingly powerful, and tightly constructed second novel, exploring questions of masculinity, family, race, and identity as they are played out in a Scarborough housing complex during the sweltering heat and simmering violence of the summer of 1991. With shimmering prose and mesmerizing precision, David Chariandy takes us inside the lives of Michael and Francis. They are the sons of Trinidadian immigrants, their father has disappeared and their mother works double, sometimes triple shifts so her boys might fulfill the elusive promise of their adopted home. Coming of age in The Park, a cluster of town houses and leaning concrete towers in the disparaged outskirts of a sprawling city, Michael and Francis battle against the careless prejudices and low expectations that confront them as young men of black and brown ancestry--teachers stream them into general classes; shopkeepers see them only as thieves; and strangers quicken their pace when the brothers are behind them. Always Michael and Francis escape into the cool air of the Rouge Valley, a scar of green wilderness that cuts through their neighbourhood, where they are free to imagine better lives for themselves. Propelled by the pulsing beats and styles of hip hop, Francis, the older of the two brothers, dreams of a future in music. Michael's dreams are of Aisha, the smartest girl in their high school whose own eyes are firmly set on a life elsewhere. But the bright hopes of all three are violently, irrevocably thwarted by a tragic shooting, and the police crackdown and suffocating suspicion that follow. With devastating emotional force David Chariandy, a unique and exciting voice in Canadian literature, crafts a heartbreaking and timely story about the profound love that exists between brothers and the senseless loss of lives cut short with the shot of a gun. --Publisher's description
Keywords: Canada; Children of immigrants; Children of immigrants Canada Fiction; Enfants d'immigrants Canada Romans, nouvelles, etc; Fiction; Ontario Toronto; Ontario Toronto Scarborough; Scarborough (Toronto, Ont.) Fiction; Toronto (Ont.) Fiction; Trinidadians; Trinidadians Canada Fiction; Trinidadiens Canada Romans, nouvelles, etc

Aux marges de l’emploi : Parcours de travailleuses domestiques québécoises 1950-2000 - Charron, Catherine (Hors Collection, 2018)
La reconnaissance du travail ménager occupe les féministes depuis des décennies. Mais qu’ont à dire celles qui en ont fait leur gagne-pain, les travailleuses de l’ombre par excellence? Dans ce livre, Catherine Charron examine le travail domestique rémunéré au Québec entre les années 1950 et 2000. Elle expose les parcours d’une trentaine de femmes de la région de Québec et leur donne la parole. Dans un contexte où le marché du travail subit de profondes transformations, les boulots domestiques, loin de disparaître, se reconfigurent et continuent d’occuper une part non négligeable de la main-d’œuvre féminine. Tandis qu’une proportion croissante de femmes ont un meilleur accès à la scolarisation et au salariat, de nombreuses autres se trouvent refoulées dans diverses filières d’emplois domestiques: la garde d’enfants, l’aide à domicile pour les personnes âgées, les travaux d’entretien ménager. Les trajectoires des femmes interrogées par Catherine Charron, nées entre 1914 et 1958, illustrent le rapport changeant des femmes à l’emploi et à la famille à partir des années d’après-guerre ainsi que leurs réalités hétérogènes. À l’intersection du public et du privé, le travail domestique rémunéré s’exerce dans la continuité du travail gratuit assigné aux femmes au sein de la famille et de la communauté, ce qui contribue à le rendre invisible. Aux marges de l’emploi révèle cette face cachée de l’économie marchande et domestique, incontournable dans toute réflexion sur le travail, et rend justice à celles qui l’incarnent. --Résumé de l'éditeur

Blood, Sweat, and Fear: Violence at Work in the North American Auto Industry, 1960–80 - Clark, Daniel (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
This article reviews the book, "Blood, Sweat, and Fear: Violence at Work in the North American Auto Industry, 1960–80" by Jeremy Milloy.

On the Centennial of the October (Bolshevik) Revolution: A Canticle - Clarke, George Elliott (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
This poem describes the conditions that lead to the Great October Socialist Revolution that took place in Russia in the year 1917. The Russian Revolution was foundational to the labour and social reforms that took place in Canada in the same era (Winnipeg general strike) and over the course of the next 100 years (healthcare, unions, and credit unions).

The Equity Myth: Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities - Clément, Dominique (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
This article reviews the book, "The Equity Myth: Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities" by Frances Henry, et al.

Bodies and Borders: Migrant Women Farmworkers and the Struggle for Sexual and Reproductive Justice in British Columbia, Canada - Cohen, Amy; Caxaj, Susana (Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research, 2018)
In 2016, nearly 7,000 Mexican men and women arrived in BC under the federally-administered Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP). While all farmworkers face similar workplace hazards, women farmworkers face unique barriers to their reproductive health and wellbeing such as intense surveillance, sexual harassment, and unwanted pregnancies. The reproductive health of women in the SAWP is under-researched. Even less is known about women’s experiences in the interior of British Columbia. Based on insights gained in the field and through community-based research and advocacy efforts, this paper outlines what is currently known about women SAWP workers’ struggles to attain full reproductive justice. We discuss the unique factors that affect the reproductive health and sexual experiences of SAWP workers in particular. Ultimately, we argue that women SAWP workers face disproportionate barriers when accessing reproductive healthcare and that their sexual behaviour is heavily controlled through a variety of legal and extra-legal mechanisms. We conclude with a discussion on how migrant women creatively resist restrictions imposed upon them, and we make recommendations aimed at improving the experiences of women SAWP workers attempting to achieve reproductive justice in BC.

"I Work at VICE Canada and I Need a Union": Organizing Digital Media - Cohen, Nicole S.; de Peuter, Greig (Labour Under Attack: Anti-Unionism in Canada, 2018)
This chapter examines the campaign to unionize one workplace within [an] organizing wave: VICE Canada, a subset of VICE media, a privately held business who’s youth oriented properties spend a range of news and culture websites a magazine and advertising agency to TV channels and a record label. --Authors

After Industrial Citizenship: Adapting to Precarious Employment in the Lanarkshire Coalfield, Scotland, and Sudbury Hardrock Mining, Canada - Condratto, Shelley; Gibbs, Ewan (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)

Inequality and Divisions on the Shop Floor: The Case of John Deere Welland Works - Corman, June; Duffy, Ann; Pupo-Barkins, Norene (Labour Under Attack: Anti-Unionism in Canada, 2018)
This chapter explores the consequences of a particular set of management strategies deployed at John Deere Welland Works plant between 1998 and 2009. This chapter examines the interplay of tiered pay systems with team bonus incentives in the context of seniority-based bidding for jobs. This case study demonstrates how these management strategies foster divisions and dissension among the workers creating a legacy of inequality and strong undercurrent of anti-union sentiment among unionize workers at the plant. --Authors

Performants… et licenciés – Enquête sur la banalisation des licenciements - Côté, Josée (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
The articles reviews the book, "Performants… et licenciés – Enquête sur la banalisation des licenciements," by Mélanie Guyonvarc’h.

The Cultural Politics of Labour in Retail - Coulter, Kendra (Labour Under Attack: Anti-Unionism in Canada, 2018)
This chapter draws upon research conducted on retail work from 2009 to 2016 and it highlights the most significant patterns and findings about union avoidance and how anti-unionism is manifested in retail stores on an ongoing basis and in organizing attempts. --Author

Working the Phones: Control and Resistance in Call Centres - Crowley, Martha (Canadian Journal of Sociology, 2018)
The article reviews the book, "Working the Phones: Control and Resistance in Call Centres," by Jamie Woodcock.

Defying Expectations: The Case of UFCW Local 401 - Dabscheck, Braham (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
This article reviews the book, "Defying Expectations: The Case of UFCW Local 401," by Jason Foster.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Frontiers of Labor: Comparative Histories of the United States and Australia - Dabscheck, Braham (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
The article reviews the book, "Frontiers of Labor: Comparative Histories of the United States and Australia," edited by Greg Patmore and Shelton Stromquist.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; International comparisons; Labor Unions; Meta-analysis; Social sciences

Hard Labor: The Battle that Birthed the Billion-Dollar NBA - Dabscheck, Braham (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
The articles reviews the book, "Hard Labor: The Battle that Birthed the Billion-Dollar NBA," by Sam Smith.

The Great Cowboy Strike: Bullets, Ballots and Class Conflicts in the American West - Dabscheck, Braham (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
This article reviews the book, "The Great Cowboy Strike: Bullets, Ballots and Class Conflicts in the American West," by Mark A. Lause.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Trajectories of Neoliberal Transformation: European Industrial Relations since the 1970s - Dabscheck, Braham (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
The article reviews the book, "Trajectories of Neoliberal Transformation: European Industrial Relations since the 1970s," by Lucio Baccaro and Chris Howell.

Labour Market Attainment of Canadian Women in 1921: Influences of Religious Affiliation, Ethnicity, and Linguistic Proficiency - Dilmaghani, Maryam (Labor History, 2018)
The 1921 Canadian Census is exploited to examine the labour market attainment of Canadian women. Acknowledging the general context of Catholic and Protestant divide and the tensions between francophones and anglophones during the WWI, special attention is paid to the influences of religious affiliation, ethnicity, and linguistic proficiency. Working urban women, overwhelmingly unmarried, are found to earn between 68 and 29% less than their male counterparts, depending on occupation and religio-linguistic group. The gender earnings gap is found to be the largest among francophone Catholics. When the sample is restricted to unmarried urban women, francophone Catholic females are found at a large disadvantage compared with anglophone Catholic and Protestant females. Bilingual Catholic women, mostly of French Canadian ethnicity, were the second lowest earning group in Canada of 1921. Bilingual Protestant women, on the other hand, are found to have had the most favourable labour market outcomes. The cumulative weight of the results indicates that among religious affiliation, ethnicity, and linguistic proficiency, ethnicity had exercised the strongest influence on the labour market attainment of Canadian women at that time.

Faculty Narratives of Disability in Academic Work - Dolan, Vera Lúcia Brandão (University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 2018)
In the neoliberal academy, professors who disclose any form of impairment risk raising concerns about their fitness to perform their jobs. Academics are expected to deliver highly measurable outcomes from their work in order to build a positive reputation among their peers. But given the negativity that typically characterizes the disability discourse in Western cultures, it is all too easy for the scholarly community to infer that differentness equates to ineptness. Thus, individualist and ableist discourses are central to the discussion of power relations and care of the self in the contemporary academy. The focus of this doctoral thesis is “diversable” professors performing under neoliberal academic regimes. The term “diversability” is used to designate people with disabilities—particularly of an invisible nature—while debunking the fallacious connotation of incompetence habitually attached to their differentness. Combining self-narrative and postmodern-grounded theory, this study derives valuable insights from the stories of 16 professors, both tenured and untenured, who reveal how they navigate disability, as well as the intersecting dimensions of differentness attached to their self-identities. The findings suggest that diversable professors, in spite of an academic environment embedded in disability avoidance—and the usual structural contingencies that can prevent scholars from fully demonstrating their value—can present counter-narratives that include positive constructions of self-identity as good teachers, researchers and advocates for social justice. This research also uncovers inadequacies in the academy itself—but not without a message of hope for remedial change.

Les peurs au travail - Dompierre, Johanne (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
The articles reviews the book, "Les peurs au travail," edited by Alain Max Guénette and Sophie Le Garrec.

A Crisis of Representation - Doron, Dennis (Labour Under Attack: Anti-Unionism in Canada, 2018)
Over the past few decades, the impact and influence of the media have grown to exceed any other source of public opinion. Union density has steeply declined during this same time period, so the public perception of unions has been increasingly derived from highly selective representations in the media rather than direct experience. This chapter analyzes the increasing influence of the media on the labour movement and provides insight into how unions can ensure that they are represented fairly in the media.

La discussion des modèles d’action, une condition pour l’action des comités en santé et en sécurité au travail - Dugué, Bernard; Petit, Johann (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
Le Comité d’hygiène, de sécurité et des conditions de travail (CHSCT) s’avère, en France, une pièce maitresse des dispositifs de prévention des risques et d’amélioration des conditions de travail dans les entreprises. Bien que son rôle soit de plus en plus reconnu, il a souvent des difficultés à fonctionner et à trouver sa place dans le paysage des relations professionnelles.

The Daunting Enterprise of the Law – Essays in Honour of Harry W. Arthurs - Dumas, P. Martin (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
The article reviews the book, "The Daunting Enterprise of the Law -- Essays in Honour of Harry W. Arthurs," edited by Simon Archer, Daniel Drache, and Peer Zumbansen.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Essays; Labor Unions; Labor law; Law; Political economy

After Prison: Navigating Employment and Reintegration - Dunford, David Tyler (Canadian Journal of Sociology, 2018)
The article reviews the book, "After Prison: Navigating Employment and Reintegration," edited by Rose Ricciardelli and Adrienne M.F. Peters.

Race, Exclusion, and Archival Silences in the Seasonal Migration of Tobacco Workers from the Southern United States to Ontario - Dunsworth, Edward (Canadian Historical Review, 2018)
This article explores the role of race in structuring the movement of seasonal tobacco workers from the Southern United States to Ontario from the 1920s to the 1960s. Over this period, tens of thousands of southern migrant workers of varying skill levels travelled to Ontario to take up jobs in all aspects of tobacco production. Participation in the movement was limited exclusively to white workers until 1966, when it was integrated at the behest of American officials fearful of contravening the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Methodologically, the article follows Michel-Rolph Trouillot and is an exercise in uncovering silences in the archive, as civil servants in both countries and employer representatives in Ontario were extremely hesitant about mentioning the movement’s racial character on record. Beyond methodology, the findings presented here contribute to a deeper understanding of the uneven nature of the “deracialization” of Canada’s immigration policies in the 1960s and to charting more of Canada’s role in the construction and maintenance of transnational systems of white supremacy.

Trajectories of Neoliberal Transformation: European Industrial Relations since the 1970s - Dupuis, Mathieu (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
This article reviews the book, "Trajectories of Neoliberal Transformation: European Industrial Relations since the 1970s" by Lucio Baccaro and Chris Howell.

“A Sharp Offensive in all Directions:” The Canadian Labour Defense League and the Fight against Section 98, 1931–1936 - Eaton, C. Scott (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
In 1931, eight leaders of the Communist Party of Canada (cpc) were convicted under Section 98 – a federal law that criminalized the advocacy of radical politics – and the party was declared illegal in Canada. The Canadian Labour Defense League (cldl), the party’s ancillary organization responsible for legal matters, conducted an intense campaign directed at securing both the release of the party’s leaders and the repeal of Section 98. This campaign included the distribution of pamphlets, the organization of demonstrations, and even the production of a dramatic play, entitled Eight Men Speak. Canadian state officials, led by Prime Minister R. B. Bennett, responded to the party’s efforts oppressively. Prison guards fired shots into cpc general secretary Tim Buck’s cell in Kingston Penitentiary, and Bennett himself had Eight Men Speak banned from performance in Toronto. Such kneejerk reactions, however, afforded cldl leaders opportunities to conduct meaningful work. This article argues that the cldl skillfully accentuated its own repression, keeping Section 98 relevant to Canada’s voting populace and placing capitalism and the Canadian state on trial in the eyes of the Canadian public.

Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada - Eidlin, Barry (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics, 2018)
Why are unions weaker in the US than in Canada, two otherwise similar countries? This difference has shaped politics, policy, and levels of inequality. Conventional wisdom points to differences in political cultures, party systems, and labor laws. But Barry Eidlin’s systematic analysis of archival and statistical data shows the limits of conventional wisdom, and presents a novel explanation for the cross-border difference. He shows that it resulted from different ruling party responses to worker upsurge during the Great Depression and World War II. Paradoxically, US labor’s long-term decline resulted from what was initially a more pro-labor ruling party response, while Canadian labor’s relative long-term strength resulted from a more hostile ruling party response. These struggles embedded ‘the class idea’ more deeply in policies, institutions, and practices than in the US. In an age of growing economic inequality and broken systems of political representation, Eidlin’s analysis offers insight for those seeking to understand these trends, as well as those seeking to change them. --Publisher's description
Keywords: Comparative Politics; Politics; Politics and International Relations; Poltical Sociology; Sociology

The Public Sector in an Age of Austerity: Perspectives from Canada's Provinces and Territories - Evans, Bryan M.; Fanelli, Carlo (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018)
Following the 2008 global financial crisis, Canada appeared to escape the austerity implemented elsewhere, but this was spin hiding the reality. A closer look reveals that the provinces--responsible for delivering essential public and social services such as education and healthcare--shouldered the burden. The Public Sector in an Age of Austerity examines public-sector austerity in the provinces and territories, specifically addressing how austerity was implemented, what forms austerity agendas took (from regressive taxes and new user fees to public-sector layoffs and privatization schemes), and what, if any, political responses resulted. Contributors focus on the period from 2007 to 2015, the global financial crisis and the period of fiscal consolidation that followed, while also providing a longer historical context--austerity is not a new phenomenon. A granular examination of each jurisdiction identifies how changing fiscal conditions have affected the delivery of public services and restructured public finances, highlighting the consequences such changes have had for public-sector workers and users of public services. The first book of its kind in Canada, The Public Sector in an Age of Austerity challenges conventional wisdom by showing that Canada did not escape post-crisis austerity, and that its recovery has been vastly overstated. -- Publisher's description
Keywords: 2008-2009; Canada; Canada Appropriations and expenditures, Provincial; Canada Provinces Crédits budgétaires et dépenses; Civil service Canada Provinces; Civil service Canadian provinces; Crise financière mondiale, 2008-2009 Politique gouvernementale Canada Provinces; Finance, Public Canada Provinces; Finance, Public Canadian provinces; Finances publiques Canada Provinces; Finanzkrise; Finanzpolitik; Fiscal policy Canada Provinces; Fiscal policy Canadian provinces; Fonction publique Canada Provinces; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 Government policy Canada Provinces; Haushaltskonsolidierung; Kanada; Länderhaushalt; Neoliberalism Canada Provinces; Néo-libéralisme Canada Provinces; Politique fiscale Canada Provinces; Regionalregierung; Öffentliche Dienstleistung; Öffentlicher Sektor

Imagined Communities of 'Whiteness': Racial-Nationalist Origins of Settler-State Formation in Argentina and Canada, 1840-1914 - Evans, Jessica Jacqueline (York University, 2018)
This dissertation sits at the intersection of critical international political economy and a decolonizing, anti-racist approach to empirical political science. Specifically, I examine how liberal state forms are presupposed by and premised upon illiberal practices of sorting, policing, and defining populations. Rather than view such practices as anomalous to the modern state form, I view them as productive. I depart from the dominant literature in this field of study (postcolonial theory) with a typical focus on discursive and local practices, and instead advance a defense of Marxism rooted in an examination of the material practices of states responding to global political-economic pressures. This analytical and methodological focus stems from an engagement with the theoretical and empirical work conducted through Political Marxism, and through an engagement with the concept of uneven and combined development. I compare instances of racialized nation-building from the nineteenth century, focusing on the ways in which the creation of racialized hierarchies of belonging were seminal to the production of liberal state capacity and legitimacy. I examine the cases of Canada and Argentina to explore how the dispossession and management of indigenous peoples served to foment vast networks of bureaucratic, fiduciary, and coercive state capacities. Such capacities were necessary in the project of constructing competitive liberal economies to respond to pressures generated by an emergent global market in agricultural goods. This work sheds new light on the role of race and racialization in the formation of the nation-state system, while responding to and contesting common assumptions about the legal equality assumed to underpin Western nationalism(s).

Technology and the Future of Work: The Impact on Labour Markets and Welfare States - Fast, Travis (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
The articles reviews the book, "Technology and the Future of Work: The Impact on Labour Markets and Welfare States," by Bent Greve.

Indigenous People Wage Labour and Trade Unions - Fernandez, Lynne; Silver, Jim (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Manitoba Office, 2018)
Have Indigenous people in Canada been active as wage labourers and union members? If so, what have been the circumstances? When and where and for what reasons have Indigenous people worked for wages and been union members and how have they fared in these roles? In this short paper we examine a wide range of recent studies that have looked at various aspects of these questions.

Indigenous Workers and Unions: The Case of Winnipeg's Local 500 - Fernandez, Lynne; Silver, Jim (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Manitoba Office, 2018)
Indigenous people have worked for wages for more than 150 years in Canada, and before that in what was to become Canada. They have often been members of unions and in some cases actively. They have been known to engage in strike actions even when not represented by a union. However, relations between Indigenous people and unions have often been difficult. In many cases unions have failed to serve the interests of Indigenous wage workers. --Introduction

The Role of Management and Trade Union Leadership on Dual Commitment: The Mediating Effect of the Workplace Relations Climate - Fortin-Bergeron, Chloe; Doucet, Olivier; Hennebert, Marc-Antonin (Human Resource Management Journal, 2018)
This article examines the effect of transformational and laisser‐faire leadership on the part of local union leaders and immediate supervisors on the dual commitment of unionised workers. Building on the social information processing perspective, it is suggested that these leadership styles are linked to commitment through the workplace relations climate (WRC). Based on a sample of 834 unionised workers, our results suggest that WRC represents an important mechanism explaining the effect of the immediate supervisor's leadership in unionised settings. Results also show that transformational leadership on the part of union representatives is positively linked to union and organisational commitment. This article contributes to the WRC and dual commitment literatures by going beyond structural and institutional explanations and considering relational and actor‐related variables, such as leadership styles.

Defying Expectations: The Case of UFCW Local 401 - Foster, Jason (Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH, 2018)
In October 2005, Jason Foster, then a staff member of the Alberta Federation of Labour, was walking a picket line outside Lakeside Packers in Brooks, Alberta with the members of local 401. It was a first contract strike. And although the employees of the meat-packing plant—many of whom were immigrants and refugees—had chosen an unlikely partner in the United Food and Commercial Workers local, the newly formed alliance allowed the workers to stand their ground for a three-week strike that ended in the defeat of the notoriously anti-union company, Tyson Foods. It was but one example of a wide range of industries and occupations that local 401 organized over the last twenty years. In this study of UFCW 401, Foster investigates a union that has had remarkable success organizing a group of workers that North American unions often struggle to reach: immigrants, women, and youth. By examining not only the actions and behaviour of the local’s leadership and its members but also the narrative that accompanied the renewal of the union, Foster shows that both were essential components to legitimizing the leadership’s exercise of power and its unconventional organizing forces. -- Publisher's description
Keywords: United Food and Commerical Workers (UFCW)

Unfree Labour? Struggles of Migrant and Immigrant Workers in Canada - Foster, Jason (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
This article reviews the book, "Unfree Labour? Struggles of Migrant and Immigrant Workers in Canada," edited by Aziz Choudry and Adrian A. Smith.

Les référentiels de compétences comme outils de gestion : concilier les apports déterministes et constructivistes - Foucher, Roland; Rhnima, Aziz (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
Les démarches relatives aux « compétences », qui marquent la gestion des ressources humaines (GRH) depuis quelques décennies, recourent à des référentiels servant à établir les compétences à maîtriser et déployer. Ces outils de gestion s’inscrivent dans un contexte organisationnel évolutif et interactif suscitant des interrogations, particulièrement sur la façon de les déployer afin qu’ils traduisent les compétences valorisées par les parties concernées et celles effectivement déployées.
Keywords: competence; competence model; competencia; compétence; constructivism; constructivisme; constructivismo; determinism; determinismo; déterminisme; gestion des ressources humaines; gestión de recursos humanos; human resource management; referencial; référentiel

Justice For Whom? Migrant Workers in Canada - Fudge, Judy (Contemporary Inequalities and Social Justice in Canada., 2018)
This chapter explores the relationship between the social organization of migrant workers’ unfreedom through the conditionality of legal status and how the creation and deployment of precarious migrant labour regulates national labour markets. It begins by drawing the connections between neoliberal labour regimes, immigration controls, and the exploitation of migrant workers. It shows how precarious migrant status is linked to precarious employment, and how the categories of “foreigner” and “citizen” are used to justify the unfreedom and hyper-exploitation of migrant workers. Focusing on “low-skilled” occupations within the food services sector in which precarious (low-paid and insecure) jobs predominate, this chapter then describes the “low-skilled” (since October 2014 called “low-wage”) stream of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program, its growth, the “public” reaction to foreigners taking Canadian jobs, and the government’s response to this controversy.

Slavery and Unfree Labour: The Politics of Naming, Framing, and Blaming - Fudge, Judy (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
The article reviews and comments on the books, "Contemporary Slavery: Popular Rhetoric and Political Practice," edited by Annie Bunting and Joel Quirk, "Modern Slavery: The Margins of Freedom," by Julia O'Connell Davidson, and "The Poverty of Work: Selling Servant, Slave and Temporary Labor on the Free Market," by David Van Arsdale.

Equality on Trial: Gender and Rights in the Modern American Workplace - Fuentes, Kristina (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
This article reviews the book, "Equality on Trial: Gender and Rights in the Modern American Workplace" by Katherine Turk.

After the International Organization for Migration: recruitment of Guatemalan temporary agricultural workers to Canada - Gabriel, Christina; Macdonald, Laura (Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 2018)
The global agricultural industry is increasingly supported by transnational migrant labour. The experience of this precarious workforce in receiving states has been the focus of intensified scrutiny by policy-makers and academics at the global and national scale. Drawing on field research we examine how the International Organization for Migration was involved in the development of a transnational labour migration corridor from Guatemala to Canada, and how the organisation’s activities are associated with new forms of migration governance. This story, while unique in some ways, illustrates the increased complexity of the international management of migration. For instance, destination states such as Canada continue to play key roles in the management and recruitment of temporary labour migration but other actors have also entered the picture. This development, as this case illustrates, places migrant workers in increasingly vulnerable positions, while states can disclaim responsibility for their plight.

The Second Line of Defense: American Women and World War I - Glassford, Sarah (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
This article reviews the book, "The Second Line of Defense: American Women and World War I" by Lynn Dumenil.

The Institutional Organization of Black Female Child Protection Workers’ (Re)construction of their Role as Carers in Child Protection: An Institutional Ethnographic Inquiry - Goary, Woyengi (University of Toronto, 2018)
This institutional ethnographic study explores the coordinated processes that organize Black female child protection workers’ (re)construction of their role as carers in the Ontario child protection system. This examination occurs within the backdrop of colonialism and shifting and unequal power relations in Canada. Absent from social work research is an understanding of the complex sequences of actions in every day child protection activities that authorize colonial ideologies and practices and the impact of Black female child protection workers’ negotiation of this context on their well-being. This study’s informant sample includes 9 Black female child protection workers currently employed at a child protection institution in Ontario. Data was collected from semi-structured interviews and textual analysis. The findings revealed colonialism in the child protection system is maintained through institutional patterns of exclusion and acts of dissimulation in the institutional discourse and practice. In response, Black female child protection workers resist colonial practices through their injection of acts of caring into their work. At the same time, their constant experiences of structural violence lead to institutional trauma. This research highlights a contradiction within the social work framework; the overt espousal of human rights and social justice as ethical priorities, while covertly maintaining colonialism in the child protection system, specifically towards Black female child protection workers and their communities. The findings advance social work knowledge by offering a way to identify the existence and the impact of the colonial context on Black female child protection workers as well as map out the sequences of actions or inactions that embed colonial ideologies and practices in the child protection system.

Writers' Rights: Freelance Journalism in a Digital Age - Gollmitzer, Mirjam (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
This article reviews the book, "Writers' Rights: Freelance Journalism in a Digital Age" by Nicole Cohen.

Concertation ou négociation? Distinguer les deux afin de faciliter les prises de décisions en contexte de réadaptation au travail - Gouin, Marie-Michelle; Truchon, Manon (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
En contexte de réadaptation au travail, l'action concertée (concertation) serait déterminante pour le succes du retour au travail. Or, un débat théorique entoure toujours le concept de concertation ?, qui peut étre rapproché (ou non) de la négociation ?. De plus, aucune étude n'a encore exploré les processus de prises de décisions collectives a partir d'échanges entre les multiples parties prenantes a un programme de réadaptation au travail. Cet article vise a proposer des définitions opérationnelles distinguant la concertation de la négociation, puis a les tester en contexte de réadaptation au travail. D'abord, des définitions de l'action concertée ?, de la concertation et de la négociation sont comparées, afin d'en venir a distinguer ces deux derniers concepts, notamment par la présence de conflit(s) et des relations (de coopération/ collaboration) entre les parties. Les définitions proposées sont, ensuite, testées empiriquement a partir de données issues d'une étude de cas multiples (N=6) qui explore les processus de prises de décisions entre les parties prenantes a un programme de réadaptation au travail. Les données de l'étude montrent l'importance de comprendre la concertation et la négociation comme des types de processus de prises de décisions complexes et dynamiques. L'étude permet aussi de distinguer la concertation et la négociation a l'aide des définitions proposées en contexte de réadaptation au travail. Le recours a ces définitions pourrait engendrer d'importantes retombées, notamment sur le plan des pratiques en réadaptation au travail. Ces définitions pourraient, en effet, permettre de mieux cibler des stratégies a privilégier pour atteindre des décisions favorables au retour durable et en bonne santé des travailleurs en incapacité, selon le type de prise de décisions anticipé. Ceci dit, d'autres études devront venir approfondir la connaissance des processus de prises de décisions collectives (incluant la concertation et la négociation) en contexte de réadaptation au travail, ainsi que leurs liens possibles avec le succes ou l'échec du retour au travail.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Case studies; Collective action; Collectives; Cooperation; Decision making; Definitions; Disability studies; Disabled workers; Handicapped; Interest groups; Intervention; Labor Unions; Negotiation; Negotiations; Operational definitions; Rehabilitation; Return to work programs; Stakeholders; Studies; Success; Work

From the Streets to the State: Changing the World by Taking Power - Gray, Paul Christopher (SUNY series in new political science, 2018)
For decades, emancipatory struggles have been deeply influenced by the slogan “Change the world without taking power.” Amid growing social inequalities and the return of right-wing authoritarianism, however, many now recognize the limits of disengaging from government and the state. From the Streets to the State chronicles many diverse and exciting projects to not only take state power but to fundamentally change it. A blend of scholars and activists explore issues like the nonsectarian relationships between new radical left parties, egalitarian social movements, and labor movements in Greece, Germany, Spain, Portugal, and Turkey. Contributors discuss municipal campaigns based in popular assemblies, solidarity economies, and independent political organizations fighting for racial, gender, and economic justice in cities such as Jackson, Vancouver, and Newcastle. This volume also studies the lessons learned from the Pink Tide in Latin America as well as the social movements of racialized and gendered workers transforming human rights across the United States. Finally, the book offers case studies from around the world surveying the role of state workers and public sector unions in radically democratizing public administration through coalitions between the providers and users of public services. -- Publisher's description. Contents: Part 1: Changing the World...and Ourselves: The Radical Left and the Problems of State Power. From the streets to the state : a critical introduction / Paul Christopher Gray -- Democratizing the party and the state : transcending the limits of the left / Leo Panitch. Part 2: Confronting Leviathan: Parties, Social Movements, and the Capitalist State. Building "parties of a new type" : a comparative analysis of new radical left parties In Western Europe / Xavier Lafrance and Catarina Príncipe -- Watching over the right to turn left : the limits of state autonomy in pink tide Venezuela and Ecuador / Thomas Chiasson-LeBel -- Casting shadows : Chokwe Lumumba and the struggle for racial justice and economic democracy in Jackson, Mississippi / Kali Akuno -- The radical democracy of the People's Democratic Party : transforming the Turkish state / Erdem Yörük -- Toward a radical politics of rights : lessons about legal leveraging and its limitations / Michael McCann and George I. Lovell. Part 3: In, against, and beyond the Behemoth: Projects for “Democratic Administration.” Market failures, failing states : challenges for democratization projects / Greg Albo -- Forging a "social knowledge economy" : transformative collaborations between radical left governments, state workers, and solidarity economies / Hilary Wainwright -- Femocratic administration and the politics of transformation / Tammy Findlay -- Beyond service, beyond coercion? : prisoner co-ops and the path to democratic administration / Greg McElligott.
Keywords: Capitalism; Case studies; Left-wing extremists; New Left; Political aspects; Right and left (Political science)

Agir ensemble. Penser la démocratie syndicale - Grenier, Jean-Noël (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
The article reviews the book, "Agir ensemble. Penser la démocratie sydicale," by Christian Nadeau.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions

Antécédents et efficacité des stratégies de médiation de conflits : le cas des présidents de Commissions mixtes paritaires en France - Grima, François; Brunel, Olivier; Georgescu, Irène; Taphanel, Ludovic (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
Le but de cet article est de comprendre la dynamique de mediation en associant ses antecedents, ses differentes manifestations et un resultat : l'accord. Théoriquement, en proposant une approche synthétique qui integre des elements contextuels, comme la presence de tiers ou les caracteristiques des mediateurs, cette recherche realise une contribution academique importante, d'autant que ces elements sont demeures ignores par la litterature. Empiriquement, le choix du contexte français est porteur d'enseignements manageriaux importants. Lorsque le nouveau gouvernement redefinit les fondements du droit du travail en donnant un nouveau rôle a la branche professionnelle, mieux comprendre comment l'action d'un mediateur valorise l'emergence d'un accord nous apparaît fructueux pour tous les partenaires. De meme, ce travail permet de valoriser la complexity du rôle tenu par le mediateur pour l'obtention d'un accord.
Keywords: Agreement; Bias; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Commissions; Ethnocentrism; Interest groups; Intervention; Labor Unions; Mediation; Mediators; Presidents; Quantitative methods; Regulation; Research; Social dynamics; Studies

Anarchism and the Working Class: The Union of Russian Workers in the North American Labor Movement - Grueter, Mark (Simon Fraser University, 2018)
Thousands of Russian anarchist immigrants, organized by the Union of Russian Workers (URW), took part in a surging union movement and strike wave that broke out across North America in the 1910s. However, they have received scant attention from historians, and no account of the URW exists. My dissertation fills in this gap by detailing the activity of the URW against the background of the rising labor movement, and it considers the question of anarchism's relationship to the working class. Historians have traditionally situated anarchism outside of the labor movement, yet the Russian anarchists in North America joined both radical and mainstream unions, and URW leaders recruited migrants explicitly by appealing to their class interests as foreign workers exploited by American capitalism. The study highlights the anarchists’ involvement in labor organizing, and it centers their perspectives to help narrate a history of the period. It first traces a history of the international anarchist movement along with migration patterns to North America in order to contextualize the research and shed light on the origins of the URW and why their story matters. Utilizing anarchist publications, local English-language newspapers, government surveillance files, and archival materials, the study finds that URW members made a wide array of contributions to the emerging industrial union movement in the United States and developed a critique of American capitalism that ranged beyond the immediate strikes. It argues that alongside the Industrial Workers of the World, the URW helped to push labor to the left and prepare the ground for the rise of major industrial unions with socialist leanings in the 1930s. Simultaneously, the study shows how the URW harnessed its strength in North America to make substantial material contributions to the anarchist movement in Russia, in the lead up to the 1917 revolution, while developing an anti-Bolshevik critique also echoed by subsequent movements on the left. By locating Russian anarchism and the URW in the labor movement, this study challenges historiographical claims which deny anarchism's working-class character. Thus, it contributes to a growing body of newer research which finds the anarchist movement rooted in labor and working-class organizing.

Mistreatment in Organizations - Haines, Victor Y. (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
The article reviews the book, "Mistreatment in Organizations," edited by Pamela Perrewé, Jonathon Halbesleben, and Christopher Rosen.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Occupational health; Occupational stress

The Rise and Fall of Corporate Social Responsibility - Haiven, Larry (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
The article reviews the book, "The Rise and Fall of Corporate Social Responsibility," by Douglas M. Eichar.

Les organisations en soutien aux démarches de (ré)insertion socioprofessionnelle des personnes en situation d’itinérance : de nouveaux acteurs en relations industrielles au Québec? - Hallée, Yves; Plamondon, Gabrielle (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
Cet article s’intéresse aux organisations de la société civile (OSC) spécialisées dans le soutien aux démarches de (ré)insertion socioprofessionnelle des personnes en situation d’itinérance (PSI) et aux nouveaux acteurs dans le système de relations industrielles québécois. À partir d’une étude de cas réalisée dans l’Arrondissement Ville-Marie de Montréal, nous avons utilisé les dimensions développées par Bellemare (2000) pour rendre opérationnel le concept d’acteur, les travaux de Heery et al. (2012) sur les OSC britanniques, ainsi que les résultats issus de nos recherches dans cet arrondissement, pour déterminer si les OSC impliquées dans la (ré)insertion socioprofessionnelle des PSI peuvent être considérées comme de nouveaux acteurs en relations industrielles (RI). Selon les dimensions de l’analyse, il apparaît que nous pouvons considérer les OSC qui sont engagées dans des expériences de (ré)insertion socioprofessionnelle des PSI comme de nouveaux acteurs en RI. En effet, en termes d’implication aux divers niveaux d’analyse des RI, elles interviennent de façon ponctuelle sur les lieux de travail, mais de façon beaucoup plus continue sur les plans organisationnel et institutionnel. Au niveau organisationnel, mentionnons que les OSC sont en lien avec des entreprises par le biais d’un réseau entretenu avec une OSC qui agit à titre d’intermédiaire afin de permettre le déploiement des programmes d’employabilité. Il s’agit d’un mode de fonctionnement en réseau où nous retrouvons de nombreux échanges interorganisationnels permettant d’assurer un continuum de services dans le but de soutenir les individus dans leur trajectoire de retour au travail et de faciliter les transitions des PSI en entreprises. En ce qui a trait au degré de continuité de l’implication des OSC dans le système de RI, nos résultats diffèrent de ceux de Heery et al. (2012). Nous avons, en effet, constaté une implication soutenue dans les programmes d’employabilité et de pré-employabilité, alors que ces auteurs parlent plutôt d’implication sporadique ou discontinue. Nos résultats montrent, également, des changements au niveau des règles liées aux conditions de travail et dans l’organisation de l’entreprise par la mutualisation de certaines pratiques de GRH, que nous assimilons à une influence des OSC sur le niveau organisationnel. De plus, ces dernières contribuent indirectement à influencer l’environnement social des entreprises grâce à l’action concertée entre OSC et entreprises dans le but d’apporter une solution au problème de concentration de l’itinérance dans le territoire du centre-ville montréalais.
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Pour une approche renouvelée de la gestion des ressources humaines (GRH) = A renewed approach to human resource management (HRM) - Hallée, Yves; Taskin, Laurent; Vincent, Steve (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
Editorial introduction to the three articles in the issue that call for a renewed approach to human resource management (HRM). Includes bibliography.

Industrial Stagecraft: Tooling and Cultural Production - Hambleton, Jennifer (Western University, 2018)
The tooling of theatrical spectacle requires collaboration between stagecraft technicians and designers in an increasingly globalized and standardized manufacturing process. While hand skills are still used and remain useful, digital fabrication and other tools are now incorporated in labour processes in scenery manufacturing workshops, altering collaborative work in complex ways. This thesis is an inquiry into the epistemological role of software and digital fabrication tools in stagecraft practices and explores how the politics of craft labour intersect with material practices in media production labour. The technical aspects of the fabrication of theatrical spectacles and display environments, the way objects are used to think, and the ways tools mediate practices suggest how tacit knowledge is produced and reproduced in scenery manufacturing workshops that build theatrical sets and corporate display environments. The articles in this thesis draw from case study research of a community of craft technicians who work in the industry of theatrical display in southern Ontario, Canada. Each of the four articles focuses on different facets of this case study. The technician’s work in labour processes in scenery workshops is compared to repair and bricolage. Autonomy or self-determination over tasks in the workshop sites is explored in its material and embodied sense. The collaboration between the designer and scenic artist is mediated with digital media and this complicates established occupational roles. A case of collective organizing exemplifies the individualistic/collective dichotomy of craft labour. Using an inductive approach, the empirical research for this community case study was accomplished with participant observation and semistructured interviewing. My analysis of interview transcripts and interpretation of field data utilizes an autoethnographic methodology to reflect on and draw from my past work experience in theatre production labour as a builder and scenic artist. In this integrated article thesis, I consider how material practices constitute culture in media production labour.

Hard Work Conquers All: Building the Finnish Community in Canada - Harpelle, Ronald N.; Ratz, David K.; Beaulieu, Michel S. (UBC Press, 2018)
Above the entrance to the Finnish Labour Temple, in what was once Port Arthur in northern Ontario, is the motto labor omnia vincit – “hard work conquers all.” Since 1910, these words have reflected the dedication of the Finnish community in Canada. This book is a social history of Finnish immigration and community building in Canada during the twentieth century. The first Finns to arrive ranged from conservative churchgoers to radical socialists, reflecting the ideologies that divided their homeland. After the First World War, left-wing Finns fled persecution; following the Second World War, Finns sought the economic security that Canada offered. Each new wave of immigration imbued the relationship between people, homeland, and host country with the politics, ideologies, and cultural expressions of its time. The story of Finns in Canada dovetails with the larger literature on immigration and enriches the history of socialism and ethnic repression in this country. The insightful essays in Hard Work Conquers All explore the nuanced cultural identities of Finnish Canadians, their continued ties to Finland, intergenerational cultural transfer, and the community’s connections with socialism and labour movements. This is a fresh interpretation of the successive waves of Finnish immigration and their influence on Canadian politics and society. --Publisher's description
Keywords: 1900-1999; Canada; Canadiens d'origine finlandaise; Canadiens d'origine finlandaise Conditions sociales 20e siècle; Canadiens d'origine finlandaise Conditions économiques 20e siècle; Canadiens d'origine finlandaise Mœurs et coutumes 20e siècle; Finnish Canadians; Finnish Canadians Economic conditions 20th century; Finnish Canadians Social conditions 20th century; Finnish Canadians Social life and customs 20th century; Finns; Finns Canada; Finns Canada Economic conditions 20th century; Finns Canada Social conditions 20th century; Finns Canada Social life and customs 20th century; Finns Social conditions; Finns Social life and customs

Syndicats et responsabilité sociétale de l’entreprise : analyse longitudinale des stratégies des Confédérations françaises - Havard, Christelle; Sobczak, André (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
Au cours des vingt dernières années, la responsabilité sociétale de l’entreprise (RSE) est devenue une préoccupation majeure du débat public et de la recherche en sciences sociales. La multiplication des démarches RSE a nécessairement un impact sur les organisations syndicales qui sont amenés à s’adapter et à réagir ou qui peuvent se saisir des opportunités offertes par la RSE. L’objectif de cet article est d’apporter un éclairage sur la manière dont les stratégies des centrales syndicales en matière de RSE se construisent.
Keywords: France; Francia; corporate social responsibility; estrategia como práctica; responsabilidad social de empresa; responsabilité sociétale de l’entreprise; sindicato; strategy as practice; stratégie comme pratique; syndicat; union

Firmes multinationales et droits syndicaux : la contribution des alliances syndicales internationales à l’effectivité des Accords-cadres internationaux - Hennebert, Marc-Antonin; Lévesque, Christian; Murray, Gregor; Bourque, Reynald (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
Cet article s’intéresse à la contribution des alliances syndicales internationales (ASI) à l’effectivité des Accords-cadres internationaux (ACI), notamment à leur capacité à favoriser le processus de syndicalisation et de négociation de conventions collectives dans des pays où la législation nationale peine à assurer le respect de ces droits fondamentaux. Le contenu de ces accords, généralement le fruit d’une entente bilatérale entre la direction d’une multinationale et celle d’une Fédération syndicale internationale, repose habituellement sur certaines conventions de l’OIT dont celles relatives au droit d’association et à la liberté de recourir à la négociation collective.
Keywords: Accord-cadre international; Acuerdo marco internacional; alianzas sindicales internacionales; alliances syndicales internationales; corporate social responsibility; firmas multinacionales; firmes multinationales; international framework agreement; international union alliances; multinational companies; responsabilidad social de empresas; responsabilité sociale des entreprises

Working Lives: Essays in Canadian Working Class History - Heron, Craig (University of Toronto Press, 2018)
Craig Heron is one of Canada's leading labour historians. Drawing together fifteen of Heron's new and previously published essays on working-class life in Canada, Working Lives covers a wide range of issues, including politics, culture, gender, wage-earning, and union organization. A timely contribution to the evolving field of labour studies in Canada, this cohesive collection of essays analyzes the daily experiences of people working across Canada over more than two hundred years. Honest in its depictions of the historical complexities of daily life, Working Lives raises issues in the writing of Canadian working-class history, especially "working-class realism" and how it is eventually inscribed into Canada's public history. Thoughtfully reflecting on the ways in which workers interact with the past, Heron discusses the important role historians and museums play in remembering the adversity and milestones experienced by Canada's working class. -- Publisher's description. Table of contents: Part 1: On the job. On the job in Canada -- Ontario’s first factory workers -- Work and struggle in the Canadian steel industry, 1900-50. Part 2. Workers’ Cultures. Arguing about idleness -- Labour and liquor -- Into the streets. Part 3: Getting organized. Labourism and the working class -- The Great War, the state, and working-class Canada -- Contours of a workers’ revolt. Part 4: A gendered world. Working girls -- Boys will be boys -- Male wage-earners and the Canadian state. Part 5: Doing history. Workers in the camera’s eye -- The labour historian and public history -- The relevance of class.

The Mexican Heartland: How Communities Shaped Capitalism, a Nation and World History, 1500-2000 - Herrmann, Julián Durazo (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
The article reviews the book, "The Mexican Heartland: How Communities Shaped Capitalism, a Nation and World History, 1500-2000," by John Tutino.1

One Job Town: Work, Belonging, and Betrayal in Northern Ontario - High, Steven C. (University of Toronto Press, 2018)
There's a pervasive sense of betrayal in areas scarred by mine, mill and factory closures. [This book] delves into the long history of deindustrialization in the paper-making town of Sturgeon Falls, Ontario, located on Canada's resource periphery. Much like hundreds of other towns and cities across North America and Europe, Sturgeon Falls has lost their primary source of industry, resulting in the displacement of workers and their families. One Job Town takes us into the making of a culture of industrialism and the significance of industrial work for mill-working families. One Job Town approaches deindustrialization as a long term, economic, political, and cultural process, which did not begin and simply end with the closure of the local mill in 2002. High examines the work-life histories of fifty paper mill workers and managers, as well as city officials, to gain an in-depth understanding of the impact of the formation and dissolution of a culture of industrialism. Oral history and memory are at the heart of One Job Town, challenging us to rethink the relationship between the past and the present in what was formerly known as the industrialized world. --Publisher's description.
Keywords: Conditions sociales; Ontario; Paper mills; Personnel; Sturgeon Falls. Deindustrialization; Sturgeon Falls. Mills and mill-work; Sturgeon Falls. Moulins; Sturgeon Falls. Paper industry workers; Sturgeon Falls. Papeteries (Usines); Sturgeon Falls. Produits du papier; Sturgeon Falls. Sturgeon Falls (Ont.)

The Deindustrialized World: Confronting Ruination in Postindustrial Places - High, Steven C.; MacKinnon, Lachlan; Perchard, Andrew; Storey, Robert H.; Parnaby, Andrew; Clark, Jackie; Taksa, Lucy; Stanton, Cathie; Contrepois, Sylvie; Neumann, Tracy; Hurley, Andrew; O'Hanlon, Seamus; et al. (UBC Press, 2018)
Since the 1970s, the closure of mines, mills, and factories has marked a rupture in working-class lives. The Deindustrialized World interrogates the process of industrial ruination, from the first impact of layoffs in metropolitan cities, suburban areas, and single-industry towns to the shock waves that rippled outward, affecting entire regions, countries, and beyond. Seeking to hear the “roar ... on the other side of the silence,” scholars from France, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States share their own stories of ruin and ruination and ask others what it means to be working class in a postindustrial world. In Part 1, they explore the ruination of former workplaces and the damaged health and injured bodies of industrial workers. Part 2 brings to light disparities of experiences between rural resource towns and cities, where hipster revitalization often overshadows industrial loss. Part 3 reveals the ongoing impact of deindustrialization on working people and their place in the new global economy. Together, the chapters open a window on the lived experiences of people living at ground zero of deindustrialization, revealing its layered impacts and examining how workers, environmentalists, activists, and the state have responded to its challenges. --Publisher's description

Perogies and Politics: Canada's Ukrainian Left, 1891-1991 - Hinther, Rhonda L. (Studies in gender and history, 2018)
In Perogies and Politics, Rhonda Hinther explores the twentieth-century history of the Ukrainian left in Canada from the standpoint of the women, men, and children who formed and fostered it. For twentieth-century leftist Ukrainians, culture and politics were inextricably linked. The interaction of Ukrainian socio-cultural identity with Marxist-Leninism resulted in one of the most dynamic national working-class movements Canada has ever known. The Ukrainian left's success lay in its ability to meet the needs of and speak in meaningful, respectful, and empowering ways to its supporters' experiences and interests as individuals and as members of a distinct immigrant working-class community. This offered to Ukrainians a radical social, cultural, and political alternative to the fledgling Ukrainian churches and right-wing Ukrainian nationalist movements. Hinther's colourful and in-depth work reveals how left-wing Ukrainians were affected by changing social, economic, and political forces and how they in turn responded to and challenged these forces. -- Publisher's description
Keywords: 1800-1999; Canada; Droite (Science politique) Canada Histoire 19e siècle; Droite (Science politique) Canada Histoire 20e siècle; Gauche (Science politique) Canada Histoire 19e siècle; Gauche (Science politique) Canada Histoire 20e siècle; History; Right and left (Political science); Right and left (Political science) Canada History 19th century; Right and left (Political science) Canada History 20th century; Ukrainians Canada Politics and government 19th century; Ukrainians Canada Politics and government 20th century; Ukrainians Politics and government; Ukrainiens Canada Politique et gouvernement 19e siècle; Ukrainiens Canada Politique et gouvernement 20e siècle

Does Employment in Precarious Work Lead to Wage Disparities For Canadian Immigrants? - Hira-Friesen, Parvinder (Canadian Ethnic Studies, 2018)
Using data from the Canadian Labour Force Survey for March of 2006 to 2012, this paper examines how employment in precarious jobs may lead to lower earnings among Canadian newcomers. Results suggest that recent immigrants are struggling financially due to wage disparities created by precarious employment. Both males and females experience an initial earnings disadvantage which is further exacerbated by being employed in involuntary part-time work, temporary work and multiple jobs.

Fiery Joe: The Maverick Who Lit Up the West - Hoffman, George (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
This article reviews the book, "Fiery Joe: The Maverick Who Lit Up the West" by Kathleen Carlisle.

Power, Politics, and Principles: Mackenzie King and Labour, 1935-1948 - Hollander, Taylor (University of Toronto Press, 2018)
Set against the backdrop of the U.S. experience, Power, Politics, and Principles uses a transnational perspective to understand the passage and long term implications of a pivotal labour law in Canada. By utilizing a wide array of primary materials and secondary sources, Hollander gets to the root of the policy-making process, revealing how the making of P.C. 1003 in 1944, a wartime order, that forced employers to the collective bargaining table and marked a new stage in Canadian industrial relations, involved real people with conflicting personalities and competing agendas. Each chapter of Power, Politics, and Principles begins with a quasi-fictional vignette to help the reader visualize historical context. Hollander pays particular attention to the central role that Mackenzie King played in the creation of P.C. 1003. Although most scholars describe the Prime Minister's approach to policy decisions as calculating and opportunistic, Power, Politics, and Principles argues that Mackenzie King's adherence to key principles, especially his determination to preserve and enhance the cohesiveness of the country, created a more favourable legal environment in the long run for Canadian workers and their unions than a similar collective bargaining regime in the U.S. --Publisher's description
Keywords: 1935-1948; 20th century; Canada; Collective bargaining; History; King, William Lyon Mackenzie, 1874-1950; Labor laws and legislation; Labor policy; Labor unions; Politics and government

How the Workers Became Muslims: Immigration, Culture and Hegemonic Transformation in Europe - Hopkins, Carmen Teeple (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
This article reviews the book, "How the Workers Became Muslims: Immigration, Culture and Hegemonic Transformation in Europe" by Ferruh Yilmaz.

When Prisoners Had a Union: The Canadian Food and Allied Workers Union Local 240 - House, Jordan (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
Most Canadian prisoners work, yet very little attention has been paid to them as workers by either labour scholars or unions. However, in 1977 the Canadian Food and Allied Workers union (CFAW) organized both incarcerated and non-incarcerated meat cutters into the country's first and only legally recognized union representing primarily prisoners, CFAW Local 240. The union drive came in response to the Ontario government's push to increase prisoners' participation in the workforce, including the introduction of a number of "outside managed industrial programs", which involved private firms operating within provincial correctional facilities. These privately managed industries rekindled some older debates around the potential for prison labour to undermine the wages of free labour, but in the case of the experimental abattoir program at Guelph, they also resulted in something new: unionized prisoners. The union not only made important gains for the workers, but also made modest gains for prisoners' rights. While CFAW Local 240 would eventually be merged into subsequent unions, it continues to serve as a model for working prisoners and represents a rare moment in Canadian history - one where a union organized prison labour instead of opposing it.

Patterns of Protest: Property, Social Movements, and the Law in British Columbia - Isitt, Benjamin (University of Victoria, 2018)
Embracing a spatial and historical lens and the insights of critical legal theory, this dissertation maps the patterns of protest and the law in modern British Columbia―the social relations of adjudication—the changing ways in which conflict between private property rights and customary rights invoked by social movement actors has been contested and adjudicated in public spaces and legal arenas. From labour strikes in the Vancouver Island coal mines a century ago, to more recent protests by First Nations, environmentalists, pro- and anti-abortion activists, and urban “poor peoples’” movements, social movement actors have asserted customary rights to property through the control or appropriation of space. Owners and managers of property have responded by enlisting an array of legal remedies and an army of legal actors—lawyers, judges, police, parliaments, and soldiers—to restore control over space and assert private property rights. For most of the past century, conventional private property claims trumped the customary claims of social movements in the legal arena, provoking crises of legal legitimacy where social movement actors questioned the impartiality of judges and the fairness of adjudicative procedures. Remedies and legal technologies asserted by company lawyers, awarded by judges, and enforced by police and soldiers were often severe―from Criminal Code proscriptions against riotous assembly and deployment of military force, to the equitable remedy of the injunction and lengthy prison sentences following criminal contempt proceedings. But this pattern shows signs of change in recent years, driven by three major trends in British Columbia and Canadian law: (1) the effective assertion of indigenous customary rights; (2) growing recognition of the importance of human rights in democratic societies, particularly in the context of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms; and (3) changes in the composition of the legal profession and judiciary. This changing legal landscape has created a new and evolving legal space, where property claims are increasingly treated as contingent rather than absolute and where the rights of one party are increasingly balanced by customary rights, interests, and aspirations of others. Consequently, we are seeing a trend toward the dilution of legal remedies traditionally available to the powerful, creating space for the assertion of non-conventional property claims and the emergence of new patterns of power relations.

Frank Little and the IWW: The Blood That Stained an American Family - Johnson, Jeffrey A. (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
The article reviews the book, "Frank Little and the IWW: The Blood That Stained an American Family," by Jane Little Botkin.

Neoliberal Capitalism and Precarious Work: Ethnographies of Accommodation and Resistance - Kalleberg, Arne L. (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
This article reviews the book, "Neoliberal Capitalism and Precarious Work: Ethnographies of Accommodation and Resistance" by Rob Lambert and Andrew Herod.

Le stress au travail, un enjeu de santé - Kamoun, Salima (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
This article reviews the book, "Le stress au travail, un enjeu de santé," by Patrick Légeron.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

The Emerging Industrial Relations of China - Kaufman, Bruce E. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
This article reviews the book, "The Emerging Industrial Relations of China," edited by William Brown and Chang Kai.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Evaluating the State of the Employment Relationship: A Balanced Scorecard Approach Built on Mackenzie King’s Model of an Industrial Relations System - Kaufman, Bruce; Barry, Michael; Gomez, Rafael; Wilkinson, Adrian (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
The industrial relations (IR) field in Canada and the United States (US) emerged in the late 1910s-early 1920s and is thus on the cusp of its 100th anniversary. The impetus for the creation of the IR field was growing public alarm in both countries over the escalating level of conflict, violence, and class polarization in employer-employee relations. The two countries established federal-level government investigative committees, the Royal Commission on Industrial Relations (1919) in Canada and the Commission on Industrial Relations (1911-1915) in the US, to travel cross-country, gather evidence, and report their findings and overall evaluation. To commemorate the IR field’s centenary, this paper conducts the same type of cross-national ER evaluation, but with modern methods. First, this exercise requires a formal evaluation instrument, like a physical exam worksheet. Adopted is a modified version of a balanced scorecard. Second, the scorecard’s framework and questions should be theoretically informed. The framework used is a modified version of the diagrammatic model of an IR system presented by Mackenzie King in Industry and Humanity (1918). The third step is to fill in the scorecard with data from individual workplaces, which are obtained for the US from a new nationally-representative survey of 2000+ workplaces, the State of Workplace Employment Relations Survey (SWERS). The fourth step is to aggregate all the diagnostic measures to obtain a summary numerical estimate for each of the companies of its state of ER performance and health. Based on a 1-7 (7 = highest) scale, then converted to F to A grades, we find that the average ER grade given by managers is B+ and by employees C+. The company scores are graphed in a frequency distribution that visually represents, for the first time in the literature, the lowest-to-highest pattern of employment relations performance and health across the US.
Keywords: IR climate; IR systems; Mackenzie King; balanced scorecard; clima de relaciones industriales; climat des RI; industrial relations (IR) theory; matriz de control equilibrado; sistemas de RI; système d’évaluation équilibré; systèmes de RI; teoría de relaciones industriales (RI); théorie des relations industrielles (RI)

History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out: Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Working-Class History - Kealey, Gregory S. (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
This article reviews the book, "History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out: Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Working-Class History" by James R. Barrett.

Learning Bad Habits Across Generations: How Negative Imprints Affect Human Resource Management in the Family Firm - Kidwell, Roland E.; Eddleston, Kimberly A.; Kellermanns, Franz W. (Human Resource Management Review, 2018)
Organizational learning can be a key shared value that perpetuates the family's and the family firm's culture across generations. Imprinting theory helps to explain the impact that lessons learned and transmitted can have on the development of human resources in the family firm. However, the results of imprinting may not necessarily be positive, particularly when imprinting manifests itself in negative processes and expectations. Whereas imprinting and organizational learning are often associated with a “positive halo effect,” they have the potential to result in negative behaviors and deleterious firm-level outcomes. Employing imprinting theory as a framework, we highlight the potential dark side of imprinting within the family firm context and how it can damage human resource efforts and threaten company performance and firm survival. Finally, we suggest how bad habits may be broken and replaced with more effective routines so as to ensure the family firm's continuity and success.

Dear Current Occupant: A Memoir - Knight, Chelene (Essais (Toronto, Ont.), 2018)
From Vancouver-based writer Chelene Knight, Dear Current Occupant is a creative nonfiction memoir about home and belonging set in the 80s and 90s of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Using a variety of forms including letters, essays and poems, Knight reflects on her childhood through a series of letters addressed to all of the current occupants now living in the twenty different houses she moved in and out of with her mother and brother. From blurry non-chronological memories of trying to fit in with her own family as the only mixed East Indian/Black child, to crystal clear recollections of parental drug use, Knight draws a vivid portrait of memory that still longs for a place and a home. Peering through windows and doors into intimate, remembered spaces now occupied by strangers, Knight writes to them in order to deconstruct her own past. From the rubble of memory she then builds a real place in order to bring herself back home. -- Publisher's description
Keywords: Autobiographical fiction; Biographies; Biography; Black people British Columbia Vancouver Social conditions; Black people Social conditions; British Columbia Vancouver; Creative nonfiction, Canadian; Creative nonfiction, Canadian (English); Essais fictionnels canadiens-anglais; Knight, Chelene, 1981-; Vancouver (B.C.) Biography; Women authors, Black; Women authors, Black Biography; Écrivaines noires Biographies

Shaping Graphic History: Primary Sources and Closure in Showdown! Making Modern Unions - Kristofferson, Rob; Orpana, Simon (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
This research note examines the authors’ graphic history Showdown! Making Modern Unions to build on recent scholarship about the pedagogical use of comics by considering the tools and possibilities this medium opens up to professional historians regarding the treatment of primary sources. We suggest that graphic histories enable strategies for using primary sources that actually enhance and popularize the ways historians can effectively use evidence, particularly in terms of building the critical consciousness of an expanded base of readers. Employing the comics theory concept of closure, we show graphic history to be uniquely situated to allow historians and readers to become actively engaged with and derive meaning from primary sources in a way not possible in other forms of historical writing. Examples from Showdown! are used to show the depth and breadth of these methodological possibilities.

A Critical Analysis of Canada's Sex Work Legislation: Exploring Gendered and Racialized Consequences - Kunimoto, Erica Mika (Stream: Interdisciplinary Journal of Communication, 2018)
In 2013, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that three sections of the Criminal Code of Canada pertaining to sex work were unconstitutional. In response to this ruling—otherwise known as the Bedford Decision—the Conservative government introduced the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act (PCEPA) in 2014. In this paper, I ask: to what extent does the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act meet its stated goal of addressing the health and safety of those who “engage in prostitution”? In exploring this question, I first trace the legal terrain leading to the PCEPA’s conception. Following this, I show that the PCEPA has failed to address its stated goals in two central ways. First, by co-opting the progressive framing of the Bedford Decision in a way that obscures the situations of violence it seeks to address, and second, by making the most precarious category of sex work even more dangerous through its implementation. In order to render the actual foundations of the PCEPA visible, I draw upon critical race and feminist theory. Through this analysis, I show how gendered and racialized hierarchies regulate violence along and within the sex work spectrum. Overall, this paper argues that the PCEPA has failed to address the health and safety of “those engaged in prostitution,” and instead, has facilitated racialized patterns of gender violence against vulnerable populations.

Documentaries: Poems - Lakevold, Dale (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
This artcile reviews "Documentaries: Poems" by Walter Hildebrandt.

On Durban's Docks: Zulu Workers, Rural Households, Global Labor - Lalouvière, Paul la Hausse de (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
The article reviews the book, "On Durban's Docks: Zulu Workers, Rural Households, Global Labor," by Ralph Callebert.

Aboriginal/Non-Aboriginal Wage Gaps in Canada: Evidence from the 2011 National Household Survey - Lamb, Danielle; Yap, Margaret; Turk, Michael (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
Using data from the 2011 National Household Survey, the present analysis seeks to provide a recent estimate of aboriginal/non-aboriginal earnings disparities for a sample of employees who work full-time, full-year. Wage gaps are estimated and decomposed at the mean for several aboriginal identity groups as well as those living on- and off-reserves. consistent with previous research, the results of the present analysis find earnings disparities are, in general, larger for aboriginal identity respondents (i.e. those who identify themselves as aboriginal persons), as opposed to those who report having aboriginal ancestry, but who do not identify as aboriginal persons. among aboriginal identity groups living off-reserve (First Nations, Métis and Inuit), First Nations experience the largest earnings inequality, followed by Inuit males and Métis. aboriginal identity respondents living on-reserve experience by far the largest earnings disadvantage of all the groups considered in the analysis. the study concludes by discussing the implications of the findings for future research, with an emphasis on the importance of addressing the potential role of discrimination in labour markets.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

The Occupational Health and Safety Vulnerability of Recent Immigrants Accessing Settlement Services - Lay, A. Morgan; Kosny, Agnieszka; Aery, Anjana; Flecker, Karl; Smith, Peter M. (Canadian Journal of Public Health = Revue Canadienne De Sante Publique, 2018)
Objective: To compare occupational health and safety (OHS) vulnerability of recent Canadian immigrants and workers born in Canada. Methods: Recent immigrants (n = 195) were recruited at four settlement agencies in Southern Ontario, and non-immigrants in Ontario (n = 1030) were contacted by phone and email by a third-party survey provider. The questionnaire measured OHS vulnerability using a 27-item measure and collected sociodemographic and workplace information. Responses were used to evaluate one overall and three specific (policy and procedure, awareness, and empowerment) measures of OHS vulnerability. Log-binomial models compared the overall and policy and procedure-, awareness- and empowerment-related vulnerability of recent immigrants to non-immigrant workers. Models were adjusted for demographic and workplace characteristics. Results: New immigrants experience statistically elevated levels of overall (adjusted risk ratio [ARR] = 1.60, 95% CI 1.23-2.07) and empowerment-related vulnerability (ARR = 1.54, 95% CI 1.09-2.17). Compared to workers born in Canada, immigrants also report elevated levels of policy and procedure vulnerability (ARR = 1.37, 95% CI 0.98-1.92), although this estimate did not meet traditional criteria for statistical significance. Conclusions: This study uses a novel multi-dimensional measure to identify how differences in workplace context place recent immigrant workers at increased risk of work-related injury or illness. Recent immigrant workers experience increased risk of OHS vulnerability. In particular, this vulnerability results from exposure to hazards in combination with inadequate levels of empowerment to protect themselves in the workplace. Policy-makers, advocates, and employers should implement strategies that not only build workplaces where occupational hazards are minimized but also ensure immigrant workers are empowered to act on their workplace rights and engaged to improve workplace safety.
Keywords: Adult; Canada; Emigrants and Immigrants; Emigrants and immigrants; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Occupational Health; Occupational health; Power, Psychological; Risk Assessment; Surveys and Questionnaires; Vulnerable Populations; Vulnerable populations; Worker

The Great Labour Unrest: Rank-and-File Movements and Political Change in the Durham Coalfield - Laybourn, Keith (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
The article reviews the book, "The Great Labour Unrest: Rank-and-File Movements and Political Change in the Durham Coalfield," by Lewis H. Mates.

The Life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist - Laybourn, Keith (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
This article reviews the book, "The Life of Ellen Wilkinson, Socialist, Feminist, Internationalist" by Laura Beers.

Beyond “Hero-based” Management: Revisiting HRM Practices for Managing Collective Expertise - Lelebina, Olga; Gand, Sébastien (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
While expert knowledge is a crucial resource for large science-based companies, management of the specific population of experts remains a sensitive issue for the HRM. In order to recognize and retain these employees, companies traditionally implement a dual ladder—a career management tool that proposes an alternative technical career track to the managerial one, thus allowing recognition of an expert status in the organization. However, multiple studies have demonstrated that the implementation of a dual ladder does not bring the expected results. While previous research has investigated the individual aspirations of experts as possible reasons for their dissatisfaction with this managerial tool, we show the importance of the collective dimension of expertise and claim that the latter is insufficiently supported by HRM practices. Drawing on a case study in a large multinational firm, we explore the consequences of individualized practices on expert work and discuss the role of HRM in dealing with so-called “hero-based” management. The findings show that individualized practices could endanger the learning and innovation capacities of the firm and compromise processes such as decision making and problem solving. It could also jeopardize the continuity of expertise from a long-term perspective as younger generations refuse to align with a “hero-based” culture. Despite such a strategic challenge, HR managers experience difficulties in reinforcing the collective dimension of expertise. This opens up new perspectives for the HRM function that could lead the management of experts towards new horizons by supporting the fragile equilibrium between “agency” and “communion” in expertise processes.

On Labour Repression - Leon, Cedric de (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
The article reviews and comments on the books, "Against Labor: How U.S. Employers Organized to Defeat Union Activism," edited by Rosemary Feurer and Chad Pearson, and "Political Economy of Labor Repression in the United States," by Andrew Kolin.

"We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now": The Global Uprising against Poverty Wages - Luce, Stephanie (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
The article reviews the book, "'We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now': The Global Uprising against Poverty Wages," by Annelise Orleck.

White Gloves Off: The Work of the Ontario Committee on the Status of Women - Marsden, Lorna; Atcheson, Beth (Second Story Press, 2018)
During the 1970s and 1980s, after the Royal Commission on the Status of Women made its far-reaching recommendations, the volunteer Ontario Committee on the Status of Women went head-to-head with the Ontario government of Premier William Davis to fully implement equality for women in Ontario. Areas of concern were in employment, pay and benefits, child care and reproduction rights, education and training, family law, pensions, politics and the civil service, and human rights generally. Members of this committed organization tell the stories of how they came together, how they organized and lobbied for change, how they collaborated with other groups, how the issues changed, and what the work means for women in Ontario today. --Publisher's description

Claiming the Land: British Columbia and the Making of a New El Dorado - Marshall, Daniel Patrick (Ronsdale Press, 2018)
This trailblazing history of early British Columbia focuses on a single year, 1858, the year of the Fraser River gold rush — the third great mass migration of gold seekers after the Californian and Australian rushes in search of a new El Dorado. Marshall’s history becomes an adventure, prospecting the rich pay streaks of British Columbia’s “founding” event and the gold fever that gripped populations all along the Pacific Slope. Marshall unsettles many of our most taken-for-granted assumptions: he shows how foreign miner-militias crossed the 49th parallel, taking the law into their own hands, and conducting extermination campaigns against Indigenous peoples while forcibly claiming the land. Drawing on new evidence, Marshall explores the three principal cultures of the goldfields — those of the fur trade (both Native and the Hudson’s Bay Company), Californian, and British world views. The year 1858 was a year of chaos unlike any other in British Columbia and American Pacific Northwest history. It produced not only violence but the formal inauguration of colonialism, Native reserves and, ultimately, the expansion of Canada to the Pacific Slope. Among the haunting legacies of this rush are the cryptic place names that remain — such as American Creek, Texas Bar, Boston Bar, and New York Bar — while the unresolved question of Indigenous sovereignty continues to claim the land. -- Publisher's website description. Contents: Introduction: Fraser River fever on the Pacific slope of North America -- Prophetic patterns: the search for a new El Dorado -- The fur trade world -- The Californian world -- The British world -- Fortunes foretold: the Fraser River War -- Mapping the new El Dorado -- Inventing Canada from west to east -- Conclusion: "The river bears south."
Keywords: 19th century. Indians of North America; British Columbia; Fraser River Valley; Fraser River Valley. Gold mines and mining; Frontier and pioneer life; Government relations; Government relations. Genre/Form: History; History. Frontier and pioneer life. Gold mines and mining. Indians of North America. Indians of North America

The Generation Effect: Millennials, Employment Precarity and the 21st Century Workplace - Martin, Jeffrey C.; Lewchuk, Wayne (Poverty and Employment Precarity in Southern Ontario/McMaster University, Social Sciences, 2018)
The Generation Effect shows that employment precarity is penalizing a generation. Precarious employment has become an unwanted, unnecessary and not-by-choice, new reality of our workforce and economy. Despite the recent changes to Ontario employment regulations, most legislation remains outdated and provides for a workforce and economy that no longer exists. Our social support systems are outdated and currently unable to support the growing ranks of the working poor and people living in poverty. The continued adherence to neoliberalism, an economic philosophy and ideology that has made it easy for corporations to trade and enhance their profits and, at the same time, eliminate full-time permanent jobs, has made life more difficult for millennial workers. The Generation Effect provides a snapshot of the lives of Hamilton-area millennials working in a labour market that differs significantly from that of their parents. It is a starting point for a long overdue conversation about the current nature and structure of work, its impact on millennial workers and their families, our communities and society at large. --From authors' summary

The Role of Empowerment on the Relationship between Flexible Work Arrangements, Work-Life Balance, and Job Satisfaction in the Canadian Public Sector - Marzi, Elham (University of Toronto, 2018)
Some studies have shown strong support for positive outcomes related to flexible work arrangements such as improved performance and productivity (Bloom, Liang, Roberts, Ying, 2015; Laschinger, Finegan, Shamian, Wilk, 2001; Laschinger, Leiter, Day, Gilin, 2009), while others have found detrimental effects including negative impacts on managing and separating work, life, and family demands (Cohen Single, 2001; Yuile, Chang, Gudmundsson, Sawang 2012). The typical approach to studying flexible work arrangements is to examine outcomes at the individual level among employees, assessing the relationship with performance and work-life, or work-family balance. This study examined the relationship between flexible work arrangements and job attitudes and work-life balance, simultaneously at both the individual and organizational unit level of analysis in the Federal public sector in Canada. The data is from responses captured five times over the span of 12 years within the public-sector workforce. The findings provide further contributions to the body of research on the job demands-resources model (Bakker Demrouti, 2007) and support the idea that some types of flexible work arrangements are positively related to work-life balance and job satisfaction, while also being positively mediated by structural empowerment of employees. These findings hold both at the individual and organizational level. Certain flexible work arrangements, namely flextime and telework, show consistent and positive relationships with work-life balance at both the individual and organizational unit level. Compressed work weeks, and income averaging, however, show signs of negative relationships and require further study. A critical finding of this study is that empowerment consistently fosters improved work-life balance and job satisfaction, providing strong evidence for practitioners to prioritize employee structural empowerment as part of strategic human resource plans.

How Capitalism Destroyed Itself: Technology Displaced by Financial Innovation - Masters, Marick F. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
This article reviews the book, "How Capitalism Destroyed Itself: Technology Displaced by Financial Innovation," by William Kingston.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Global Labour Studies - Mastrocola, Christopher (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
The article reviews the book, "Global Labour Studies," by Marcus Taylor and Sébastian Rioux.

Lean Production, Izzat and Industrial Conflict in the Indian Auto Sector: A Case Study - Mathew, Sagi K.; Burgess, John (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
The purpose of this article is to highlight the role that Izzat played in the unfolding industrial disputation that emerged at the Toyota plant in Bangalore between 1999 and 2007. Isolated instances contributed to a build-up of employee and community resentment at what was perceived as an attack on Izzat. Behind the events is the attempt to transpose Japanese “lean production and management systems” into an Indian subsidiary where local industrial and cultural conditions were not suitable for the imposition of such practices from headquarters to a subsidiary. The result of the analysis contributes to the understanding of workplace industrial relations (IR) in India and the centrality of Izzat. Within India, the significance of trade unions; the respect of employees; the importance of family and community; the importance of seniority; and the role of respect and honour are factors that multinationals often fail to understand in the design and implementation of their production and HRM systems. The study contributes to the debate over the transferability of standardized HRM policies and practices. MNEs should play a proactive role in supporting the employees of subsidiaries to adjust to and accommodate new paradigms in workplace industrial relations. The aggressive production and HRM practices at the Toyota plant were not compatible with the norms and cultural institutions of the Indian workforce. One of the key implications of this research is that foreign production, organizational and industrial relations systems and practices cannot be transplanted into host-country environments without the due recognition of key cultural conditions, notably Izzat in India.
Keywords: Automobile industry; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Case studies; Community relations; Escalation; Forces and relations of production; Honor; Labor Unions; Labor disputes; Labor process; Labor relations; Management; Production; Studies

Conceptualization, Measurement, and Association of Underemployment to Mental Health Inequities between Immigrant and Canadian-born Labour Force Participants - Mawani, Farah N. (University of Toronto, 2018)
This thesis aims to increase understanding of the association of underemployment (unemployment or overqualification) to mental health inequities between immigrant and Canadian-born labour force participants. The first paper provides a theoretical framework to guide design, analyses and interpretation of findings for this thesis, and future research on social determinants of mental health inequities. The second paper uses the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) Cycle 1.2 to assess the construct validity of self-rated mental health (SRMH) for the overall population, and sub-groups by immigrant status and sex. Positive associations between SRMH and a comprehensive array of mental morbidity measures were large and consistent, but a sizeable percentage of respondents with mental morbidity did not rate their mental health as fair/poor. SRMH is useful for assessing social determinants of inequities in general mental health, but not specific mental health morbidities. The third paper uses CCHS Cycle 2.1 (2003) to examine the association of underemployment to fair/poor self-rated mental health (SRMH) in: 1. labour force participants (18-64 yrs) in Canada, and 2. between a. immigrants vs. Canadian-born labour force participants, and b. recent immigrant (< 10 years in Canada) vs. long-term immigrant (³ 10 years in Canada) labour force participants. Underemployment was positively associated with fair/poor SRMH for labour force participants. There was a significant positive association of overqualification to fair/poor SRMH for immigrant (AOR 1.63), but not for Canadian-born labour force participants (AOR 1.03), and differences between the groups were significant (p<0.05). Unemployment had a higher magnitude of association (AOR 3.41) than overqualification (AOR 1.52) to fair/poor SRMH for long-term immigrants, while overqualification had a higher magnitude of association (AOR 2.04) than unemployment (AOR 1.15) to fair/poor SRMH for recent immigrants arriving between 1993-2003. For recent immigrants, the associations of unemployment and overqualification to fair/poor SRMH were not statistically significant (p<0.05). Though differences between groups did not achieve statistical significance (p<0.05), differences may have practical importance....

Home and Away: Circular Migration, Mobile Technology, and Changing Perceptions of Home and Community in Deindustrial Cape Breton - McIntyre, Mark (University of Victoria, 2018)
This thesis engages deindustrialization as a lived process and applies the concepts of precarity as they relate to communities navigating processes of deindustrialization. Through ethnographic interviews and participant observation research conducted over the summer of 2017 I examine the lived experiences of circular migrant labourers and their significant others, who live in the former coal town of Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada, as they engage in strategies to keep their families in the community. I explore the continuities of industrialization, deindustrialization and labour; the history of work in the region; the present sacrifices that families make to stay in the communities; why families stay; and what they circular migrant labourers and their significant others imagine the future of the region will look like as they raise their children there. Further, as circular migrant labourers are away from home and their families for significant amounts of time, often at irregular schedules, I ask about the strategies that labourers and their families use to eke out a living in a marginalized community. I ask participants what it is like to have to leave the community for work; what it is like to stay behind while your significant other is away for work; what is it like to be home together; and what strategies are used to keep in touch. One such strategy is the use of internet communication technologies to negotiate physical and social distance. However, these technologies do not always necessarily make up for time spent away from loved ones.

Law and the "Sharing Economy": Regulating Online Market 'Platforms - McKee, Derek; Makela, Finn; Scassa, Teresa (University of Ottawa Press, 2018)
Controversy shrouds sharing economy platforms. It stems partially from the platforms’ economic impact, which is felt most acutely in certain sectors: Uber drivers compete with taxi drivers; Airbnb hosts compete with hotels. Other consequences lie elsewhere: Uber is associated with a trend toward low-paying, precarious work, whereas Airbnb is accused of exacerbating real estate speculation and raising the cost of long-term rental housing. While governments in some jurisdictions have attempted to rein in the platforms, technology has enabled such companies to bypass conventional regulatory categories, generating accusations of “unfair competition” as well as debates about the merits of existing regulatory regimes. Indeed, the platforms blur a number of familiar distinctions, including personal versus commercial activity; infrastructure versus content; contractual autonomy versus hierarchical control. These ambiguities can stymie legal regimes that rely on these distinctions as organizing principles, including those relating to labour, competition, tax, insurance, information, the prohibition of discrimination, as well as specialized sectoral regulation. This book is organized around five themes: technologies of regulation; regulating technology; the sites of regulation (local to global); regulating markets; and regulating labour. Together, the chapters offer a rich variety of insights on the regulation of the sharing economy, both in terms of the traditional areas of law they bring to bear, and the theoretical perspectives that inform their analysis. --Publisher's description

Women's ILO: Transnational Networks, Global Labour Standards and Gender Equity, 1919 to Present - McKillen, Elizabeth (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
The article reviews the book, "Women's ILO: Transnational Networks, Global Labour Standards and Gender Equity, 1919 to Present," edited by Eileen Boris, Dorothea Hoehtker, and Susan Zimmermann.

La fabrique de l’Homme nouveau. Travailler, consommer et se taire ? - Mercure, Daniel (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
The article reviews the book, "La fabrique de l’Homme nouveau. Travailler, consommer et se taire ?," by Jean-Pierre Durand.

On the Line: A History of the British Columbia Labour Movement - Mickleburgh, Rod (Harbour Publishing, 2018)
The BC tradition of fighting back against unfair pay and unsafe working conditions has been around since before the colony joined Confederation. In 1849 Scottish labourers at BC's first coal mine at Fort Rupert went on strike to protest wretched working conditions, and it's been a wild ride ever since. For years the BC labour movement was the most militant in the land, led by colourful characters like Ginger Goodwin, murdered for his pains, and pull-no-punches communist Harvey Murphy, who brought the house of labour down on himself with his infamous "underwear speech." Through years of battles with BC's power elite and small victories followed by bitter defeats, BC unions established the five-day work week, the eight-hour day, paid holidays, the right to a safe, non-discriminatory workplace and many more taken-for-granted features of the modern work landscape. But unions' enemies never sleep and, well into the second decade of the twenty-first century, battles still go on, like that of BC teachers in their long and ultimately successful struggle to improve classroom conditions. On the Line also highlights the role played by women, Indigenous and minority workers in working toward equality and democracy in workplaces and communities. In prose that is both accessible and engaging, accompanied by over two hundred archival photos, Mickleburgh tells the important story of how BC's labour organizations have shaped the economic, political and social fabric of the province--at a cost of much blood, sweat, toil and tears. This volume is the most comprehensive overview of labour's struggle in BC and will be of particular interest to union members, community activists, academics and readers of regional history. -- Publisher's description
Keywords: 1900-1999; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Labor; British Columbia; History; Labor movement; Labor movement British Columbia History 20th century; Labor unions; Labor unions British Columbia History 20th century; Mouvement ouvrier Colombie-Britannique Histoire 20e siècle; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Labor & Industrial Relations; Syndicats Colombie-Britannique Histoire 20e siècle

The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century - Milloy, Jeremy (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
This article reviews the book, "The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century" by Walter Scheidel.

An Exceptional Law: Section 98 and the Emergency State, 1919–1936 - Mitchell, Tom (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
This article reviews the book, "An Exceptional Law: Section 98 and the Emergency State, 1919–1936" by Dennis G. Molinaro.

Fondaction, un Fonds pleinement engagé dans la finance socialement responsable - Morissette, Lucie (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
The article reviews the book, "Fondaction, un Fonds pleinement engagé dans la finance socialement responsable," edited by Benoît Lévesque.

Hommage à Jacques Bélanger (1952-2018) / A Tribute to Jacques Bélanger (1952-2018) - Murray, Gregor; Trudeau, Gilles; Lévesque, Christian (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
C’est avec tristesse et désarroi que nous apprenions, le 28 juin 2018, le décès de notre collègue et ami, Jacques Bélanger. Comme bien des lecteurs et des lectrices de la revue RI/IR le savent, Jacques Bélanger fut un professeur titulaire renommé du Département des relations industrielles de l’Université Laval, un contributeur fréquent à RI/IR, et le codirecteur et cofondateur du Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la mondialisation et le travail, le CRIMT. Intellectuel brillant, théoricien novateur, pédagogue chevronné, comment, dans un espace si restreint, donner un juste aperçu de ce que Jacques fut et de son immense contribution à la recherche et à l’avancement des connaissances sur le travail humain dans ses multiples déclinaisons ? Jacques Bélanger, chercheur de réputation mondiale, est toujours demeuré profondément attaché à ses origines et à Saint-Vallier de Bellechasse, son village.... / Our reaction to news of the death of our dear colleague and friend, Jacques Bélanger, on 28 June 2018, was one of deep sadness and dismay. As so many RI/IR readers will know, Bélanger was a distinguished Professor in the Industrial Relations Department at Université Laval, a frequent contributor to RI/IR, and the co-director and co-founder of the Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work, the CRIMT. Bélanger was a brilliant intellectual, innovative theorist and accomplished teacher. In the few words permitted here, we can only provide a glimpse of his multiple contributions to research and the advancement of knowledge across diverse aspects of contemporary work and employment. Despite his international renown, Jacques Bélanger was profoundly attached to his origins and, in particular, to his birthplace and village of origin, Saint-Vallier de Bellechasse.....
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Deaths; Employment; Globalization; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Personal profiles; University professors; Work

Days of Action: Ontario's Extra-Parliamentary Opposition to the Common Sense Revolution, 1995-1998 - Nesbitt, Douglas (Queen's University, 2018)
From 1995 to 1998, Ontario was the site of a sustained political and industrial conflict between the provincial government of Premier Mike Harris and a loosely-coordinated protest movement of labour unions, community organizations, and activist groups. The struggle was aimed at the defeating the “Common Sense Revolution,” a sweeping neoliberal program advanced by the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario. The program designed to renovate the state, rationalize the social safety net, repeal barriers to capital accumulation, and decisively weaken the strength of organized labour. What became a union-led extra-parliamentary opposition drew in large sections of the population often aligned with a political culture of statist collectivism encompassing both social democracy and “Red Toryism”. The movement emerged at a time when the two major parties aligned with such ideas embraced neoliberal policies. Under the leadership of Mike Harris, the Red Tories were pushed out of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives in the early 1990s. Meanwhile, the one-term New Democratic government of 1990-95 made a decisive turn towards neoliberal austerity amidst a catastrophic recession, declining federal transfers, and employer hostility. Through the union-led “Days of Action” of large political strikes, mass demonstrations, and numerous militant protests, the implementation of the Common Sense Revolution was slowed and weakened and the government’s popularity greatly diminished. However, the province’s union leadership was deeply divided over loyalties to the New Democratic Party following its turn to neoliberal austerity. One union leadership faction opposed the Days of Action while the other proved unwilling to escalate the scale of industrial disruption against the Common Sense Revolution. The crisis led to an open factional dispute within organized labour that culminated in the formal suspension of the political strikes in the summer of 1998. The outcome was an unprecedented political defeat for the labour-led forces defending an expansive redistributive welfare state, and a retreat by organized labour from extra-parliamentary political strategies in favour of electoralism. The government managed to regain support before winning re-election in 1999. The end of the Days of Action marked the political triumph of neoliberal restructuring and permanent austerity, and the crafting of a new political and economic common sense that has endured in Ontario to this day.

Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW - Newkirk, Anthony B. (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
The article reviews the book, "Wobblies of the World: A Global History of the IWW," edited by Peter Cole, David Struthers, and Kenyon Zimmer.

Travail et subjectivité: perspectives critiques - Ngarsandjé, Guelmbaye (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
This article reviews the book, "Travail et subjectivité : perspectives critiques," by Daniel Mercure and Marie-Pierre Bourdages-Sylvain.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Propaganda and Persuasion: The Cold War and the Canadian-Soviet Friendship Society - Niergarth, Kirk (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
This article reviews the book, "Propaganda and Persuasion: The Cold War and the Canadian-Soviet Friendship Society" by Jennifer Anderson.

Re-focus on Women in an Industrial Revolution: Montreal 1848–1903 - Olson, Sherry (The Routledge Companion to Spatial History, 2018)

L’effet du mentorat sur la réussite de carrière : quelles différences entre hommes et femmes ? - Ouerdian, Bach; Gara, Emna; Malek, Adnane; Dali, Najwa (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
Nombreuses sont les recherches ayant examiné l’impact du mentorat sur la réussite de carrière. Toutefois, davantage d’études sont requises afin d’appréhender cette relation, car force est de constater que la majorité des recherches menées jusque-là ont occulté la bi-dimensionnalité de chacun de ces deux construits. Par ailleurs, vu les spécificités féminines, nous estimons que la compréhension de l’impact du mentorat sur la réussite de carrière serait améliorée par l’intégration du genre. Le but de ce travail est de démontrer que le genre joue un rôle modérateur entre le mentorat reçu — estimé par ses deux fonctions instrumentale et psychosociale — et la réussite de carrière aussi bien objective que subjective. Des analyses en équations structurelles, notamment des analyses multigroupes ont été conduites à partir de données recueillies dans le secteur bancaire tunisien auprès de 237 cadres moyens et supérieurs. Nos analyses montrent que les femmes obtiennent moins de promotions et semblent moins satisfaites de leur carrière. Il ressort aussi que les femmes perçoivent moins de soutien de la part de leur mentor, particulièrement d’ordre psychosocial. Si la présente recherche démontre que pour les hommes, comme pour les femmes, le soutien prodigué par le mentor est associé à la réussite de carrière objective, il n’en est pas de même pour le type du mentorat à l’origine de cette réussite. Ainsi, seule la fonction instrumentale favorise l’avancement des femmes, contrairement aux hommes, dont l’avancement est lié uniquement à la fonction psychosociale du mentorat. Enfin, la présente étude indique l’inexistence d’un lien direct entre les fonctions du mentorat et la réussite subjective, et ce, aussi bien pour les hommes que les femmes. Toutefois, nos résultats permettent de mettre en évidence un effet indirect du mentorat psychosocial sur la réussite subjective des hommes par le biais de leur succès objectif.

Wildcat Workers: The Unruly Face of Class Struggle - Palmer, Bryan D. (Canada's 1960s: the Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era, 2018)
Rebellious youth, the Cold War, New Left radicalism, Pierre Trudeau, Red Power, Quebec's call for Revolution, Marshall McLuhan: these are just some of the major forces and figures that come to mind at the slightest mention of the 1960s in Canada. Focusing on the major movements and personalities of the time, as well as the lasting influence of the period, Canada's 1960s examines the legacy of this rebellious decade's impact on contemporary notions of Canadian identity. Bryan D. Palmer demonstrates how after massive postwar immigration, new political movements, and at times violent protest, Canada could no longer be viewed in the old ways. National identity, long rooted in notions of Canada as a white settler Dominion of the North, marked profoundly by its origins as part of the British Empire, had become unsettled. Concerned with how Canadians entered the Sixties relatively secure in their national identities, Palmer explores the forces that contributed to the post-1970 uncertainty about what it is to be Canadian. Tracing the significance of dissent and upheaval among youth, trade unionists, university students, Native peoples, and Quebecois, Palmer shows how the Sixties ended the entrenched, nineteenth-century notions of Canada. The irony of this rebellious era, however, was that while it promised so much in the way of change, it failed to provide a new understanding of Canadian national identity. A compelling and highly accessible work of interpretive history, Canada's 1960s is the book of the decade about an era many regard as the most turbulent and significant since the years of the Great Depression and World War II. --Publisher's description

Anarchism and Transnational Networks in North and South America - Paola, Pietro Di (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)

Social Movement Unionism as Union-Civil Alliances: A Democratizing Force? The New Zealand Case - Parker, Jane; Alakavuklar, Ozan (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
This exploratory study examines union-civil alliances in New Zealand (NZ). It focuses on the involvement of NZ’s peak union body, the Council of Trade Unions, in three civil group coalitions around the Living Wage Campaign, Decent Work Agenda and Environmental Agenda. It assesses how the CTU and its affiliates’ coalition involvement are informed by and seek to progress liberal (representative), participatory and/or more radical democratic principles, and what this means for organizational practice; the relations between the coalition parties; workplaces; and beyond. Through case discussions, the study finds that civil alliances involving the CTU and its affiliates do not reflect a core trait of union activity in NZ. Among the union-civil alliances that do exist, there is a prevailing sense of their utility to progress shared interests alongside, and on the union side, a more instrumental aim to encourage union revival. However, the alliances under examination reflect an engagement with various liberal and participatory democratic arrangements at different organizational levels. More radical democratic tendencies emerge in relation to ad hoc elements of activity and the aspirational goals of such coalitions as opposed to their usual processes and institutional configurations. In essence, what emerges is a labour centre and movement which, on the one hand, is in a survivalist mode primarily concerned with economistic matters, and on the other, in a position of relative political and bargaining weakness, reaching out to other civil groups where it can so as to challenge the neo-liberal hegemony. Based on our findings, we conclude that Laclau and Mouffe’s (2001) view of radical democracy holds promise for subsequent coalitions involving the CTU, particularly in the context of NZ workers’ diverse interests and the plurality of other civil groups and social movements’ interests. This view concerns on-going agency, change, organizing and strategy by coalitions to build inclusive (counter-) hegemony, arguing for a politic from below that challenges existing dominant neo-liberal assumptions in work and other spheres of life.
Keywords: New Zealand; Nouvelle-Zélande; Nueva Zelandia; alianza civil; alliance civile; centrales sindicales; centrales syndicales; civil alliance; coalición; coalition; coalition-building; democracia liberal; democracia participativa; démocratie libérale; démocratie participative; liberal democracy; mouvement social; movimiento social; participatory democracy; peak body; pensamiento radical; pensée radicale; radical democracy; sindicalismo; social movement unionism (SMU); syndicalisme; trade unions

Immigrants, Communists, and Solidarity Unionism in Niagara, c.1930–1960 - Patrias, Carmela (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
Focusing on the Niagara region, this study explains the continued adherence of thousands of Canadian workers to communist-led unions during the Cold War era. It argues that co-operation between communist-led unions and communist-led ethnic clubs and other political and social activists in the pursuit of human rights, social justice, and environmental goals explains why thousands of workers continued to adhere to such unions despite intense red-baiting in the 1940s and 1950s. Reaching out to allies beyond the workplace in solidarity unionism was especially important because of the marginalization of communist-led unions within the Canadian labour movement. The study’s findings reinforce the view that local economic and political conditions played a significant role in shaping communist-led unions in Canada. The study also highlights the contribution of interethnic collaboration among immigrant workers to the development of the Canadian labour movement.

Becoming A Dependent Class: Quoddy Herring Fishermen in the 1920s - Payne, Brian (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
This article explores the labour history of the Maine–New Brunswick sardine herring fishery. It looks specifically at the impact of the 1920–21 recession on weir fishermen who provided juvenile herring fish for the Maine canneries. The article argues that Maine canneries successfully formed a buyers’ trust, which was a widely accepted form of business integration among government and business leaders during the 1920s, and used that trust to break the independence of weir fishermen. The trust used its power to devalue the market price of herring fish and take control of the supply and production of fish, which forced the fishermen into a dependent class. The article thus sheds light on the impact of recessions and recession recoveries on labourers by illustrating the ill effects of market concentration, which is an economic norm following recessions.

Living at Work and Intra-Worker Sociality Among Migrant Farm Workers in Canada - Perry, J. Adam (Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2018)
This article examines how the dormitory labour system as it is employed in the agricultural streams of Canada's Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) affects workers' everyday sociality. In the article, I demonstrate how the physical compression of home and work into a singular geographic site shapes workers' identities and everyday relationships. Drawing on findings gathered from interviews with migrant farm workers from Mexico and Guatemala working in Southern Ontario, I explore how the requirement to warehouse temporary foreign workers directly on employer property collides with workers' ability to establish an autonomous and dignified life in Canada. In particular, I demonstrate how the TFWP agricultural dormitory system produces inter-generational dynamics that intensify worker self-discipline and generates gender dynamics that support the development of a hyper-productive transnational workforce.
Keywords: Canada; Dormitories; Migrant workers; Precarious work; Temporary foreign worker program; china; flexibility; labor; migration; ontario; power

Revisiting the Law and Governance of Trafficking, Forced Labor and Modern Slavery - Perry, Mike (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
The article reviews the book, "Revisiting the Law and Governance of Trafficking, Forced Labor and Modern Slavery," edited by Prabha Kotiswaran.

Grève et paix : une histoire des lois spéciales au Québec (Collection Mémoire des Amériques, 2018)
Les lois d'exception, ou lois « spéciales », ont été au cœur de l'histoire politique québécoise des cinquante dernières années. Depuis le milieu des années 1960, entre luttes sociales et crises économiques, tous les gouvernements y ont eu recours pour interdire et réprimer l'exercice du droit de grève dans les secteurs public et privé. Ces atteintes répétées visant un droit reconnu par l'Assemblée nationale ont suscité un fort mouvement de contestation syndicale, voire de désobéissance civile dans les années 1970. Affaibli par l'adoption de lois spéciales particulièrement sévères, de décrets imposant les conditions de travail et de réformes sociales draconiennes à partir du début des années 1980, le mouvement syndical peine toujours à retrouver sa combativité. Au moyen d'une documentation inédite, Grève et paix montre pour la première fois comment les lois d'exception ont bouleversé non seulement le monde du travail, mais la société québécoise dans son ensemble. --Résumé de l'éditeur
Keywords: Grèves et lock-out Droit Québec (Province) Histoire; History; Québec; Strikes and lockouts Law and legislation; Strikes and lockouts Law and legislation Québec (Province) History; Syndicalism; Syndicalism Québec (Province) History; Syndicalisme Québec (Province) Histoire

Vers la fin de la gestion des carrières? La GRH face au rôle croissant des intermédiaires du marché du travail - Pichault, François; Lorquet, Nadège; Orianne, Jean-François (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
La littérature en GRH a longuement discuté les évolutions intervenues dans le champ des carrières en opposant le modèle classique de la carrière organisationnelle au modèle de la carrière nomade, censé répondre au nouveau contrat psychologique qui lie les travailleurs aux organisations du XXIe siècle. Désormais, il s’agirait pour les gestionnaires RH d’attirer des talents dont ils savent que le passage dans l’organisation sera limité dans le temps. Le développement sans précédent des formes de travail au projet, à mi-chemin entre l’emploi salarié et le statut d’indépendant, semble donner raison à cette conception « moderne » de la carrière. Toutefois, une observation plus fine des évolutions en cours sur le marché du travail montre que les carrières des travailleurs au projet ne sont pas seulement le fruit des initiatives individuelles de travailleurs offrant leurs talents sur le marché. Elles passent souvent par des structures d’intermédiation qui, en offrant diverses formules de sécurisation, deviennent des partenaires incontournables de la gestion des trajectoires professionnelles. À partir d’un travail conceptuel sur la notion d’intermédiaire du marché du travail et sur la base de multiples études de cas contrastées sur le marché du travail belge, notre article montre la diversité des formes que peut prendre ce travail d’intermédiation et dégage deux « types idéaux » reflétant des conceptions opposées de la sécurisation des transitions professionnelles : la première considère les travailleurs au projet comme des « quasi-salariés »; la seconde comme des « quasi-indépendants ». Nous montrons, ensuite, en quoi ce jeu triangulaire conduit à une remise en cause de la gestion des carrières en tant qu’attribut régalien de la fonction RH.

67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence ; Above the Shots: An Oral History of the Kent State Shootings - Powell, Christopher (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
The article reviews the books, "67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence," by Howard Means and "Above the Shots: An Oral History of the Kent State Shootings," by Craig S. Simpson and Gregory S. Wilson.

Sick and Tired: Health and Safety Inequalities - Premji, Stephanie (Labour in Canada (Halifax, N.S.), 2018)
Bringing together a multidisciplinary group of experts from the fields of labour studies, public health, ergonomics, epidemiology, sociology and law, Sick and Tired examines the inequalities in workplace health and safety. Using an anti-oppressive framework, chapters interrogate a wide range of issues, including links between precarious employment and mental health, the inverse relationship between power and occupational health through the experiences of women, immigrants and older workers, and the need for creative strategies that promote health and safety in ways that support empowerment and equity. --Publisher's description
Keywords: Canada. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Canada. Equality; Canada. Industrial safety; Economics; General. Equality. Industrial hygiene. Industrial safety; Industrial hygiene

La position des centrales syndicales et des organisations patronales à l'égard de l'immigration au Québec, de 1965 à 1995 - Provost-Turgeon, Florence (Université de Montréal, 2018)
Ce mémoire porte sur l’immigration au Québec en comparant le point de vue des principales organisations représentant le monde patronal et le monde syndical de l965 à 1995. Les instances étudiées sont, du côté patronal : le Conseil du patronat du Québec (CPQ) et la Chambre de commerce du district de Montréal (CCDM). Du côté syndical, nous analysons le discours des principales centrales, soit la Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN), la Fédération des travailleurs du Québec (FTQ) et la Centrale de l’enseignement du Québec (CEQ). Avec l'augmentation constante du nombre d'immigrants et la diversification de leurs origines, la période étudiée se caractérise par la volonté du gouvernement québécois de prendre en charge les politiques d’immigration et d’intégration des immigrants à la société québécoise. Désireux d'intervenir conjointement avec le gouvernement fédéral, il crée, en 1968, un ministère de l'Immigration. Tout au long de la période étudiée, des négociations entre les deux paliers de gouvernement se traduisent par des ententes qui définissent la marge de manoeuvre de l'État québécois et guident ses actions en matière d'immigration et d'intégration. Au cours des années 1980, l'État québécois se dote d'une politique d'intégration et d'encadrement des immigrants qu’il qualifie d’interculturalisme, destinée à promouvoir la reconnaissance de la pluralité ethnoculturelle et l'adhésion de tous les citoyens à la langue française. En participant aux consultations publiques du gouvernement et en présentant des réclamations, les organisations patronales et syndicales tentent d'influencer les politiques d'immigration. Chaque instance développe une manière particulière d’analyser les questions liées à l’immigration. Dans une large mesure, leurs discours se rejoignent sur l’idée que le gouvernement du Québec prenne en charge le domaine de l’immigration et sur l’apport bénéfique des immigrants pour la société québécoise. Bien souvent cependant, elles s’opposent sur les normes de sélection et sur la manière de mettre en application les politiques d’immigration.

Framing Work: Unitary, Pluralist and Critical Perspectives in the Twenty-first Century ; Perspectives on Contemporary Professional Work - Quinlan, Michael (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2018)
The article reviews the books, "Framing Work: Unitary, Pluralist and Critical Perspectives in the Twenty-first Century," by Edmund Heery, and "Perspectives on Contemporary Professional Work," edited by Adrian Wilkinson, Donald Hislop and Christine Coupland.

Protecting Labor Rights in Preferential Trade Agreements: The Role of Trade Unions, Left Governments, and Skilled Labor - Raess, Damian; Dür, Andreas; Sari, Dora (The Review of International Organizations, 2018)
This paper investigates variation in the design of labor provisions in preferential trade agreements (PTAs) by focusing on the power of trade unions, the role of government partisanship, and the relative strength of skilled labor. We expect strong trade unions and left-leaning governments to be associated with more, and more far-reaching labor provisions in PTAs. We also expect the strength of skilled workers relative to the strength of unskilled workers to negatively correlate with the depth of labor provisions in PTAs. In addition, the effect of trade unions should be conditional on both the presence of left government and democracy. We test these hypotheses relying on an original dataset of labor provisions included in 483 PTAs signed between 1990 and 2016. This dataset covers 140 different labor provisions that relate to six overarching dimensions. The quantitative analysis finds support for the expectations concerning the influence of trade unions and the role of a country’s skill profile.
Keywords: Design of international institutions; Human rights; Labor provisions; Non-trade issues; Preferential trade agreements

De l'universel au particulier : les luttes en faveur des droits humains au Québec, de l'après-guerre à la Révolution tranquille - Rainville, Paul-Étienne (Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, 2018)
Notre thèse porte sur l' histoire du militantisme en faveur des droits humains au Québec, de la fm de la Deuxième Guerre mondiale aux premières années de la Révolution tranquille. Elle s'appuie sur une analyse comparative des discours et des revendications portés par quatre organisations issues du mouvement syndical (la Fédération des travailleurs du Québec et la Confédération des travailleurs catholiques du Canada), de la communauté juive (le Congrès juif canadien) et du mouvement étudiant francophone montréalais (l'Association générale des étudiants de l' Université de Montréal). À travers ces quatre études de cas, nous mettons en lumière le rôle déterminant des organisations non gouvernementales et des groupes et individus victimes d'atteintes à leurs droits dans les processus de réappropriation, d'internalisation et de diffusion des idéaux des droits humains à l'échelle locale et nationale. En exposant les similitudes et les spécificités des trajectoires de ces organisations, de même que l'étendue de leurs réseaux d'alliances, nous démontrons que le discours des droits humains s'est érigé comme un important instrument de mobilisation, de contestation et de changement social pour les principaux groupes et mouvements sociaux actifs au Québec dans les deux décennies suivant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Fondée sur une approche multiscalaire, notre recherche porte une attention particulière aux réseaux transnationaux dans lesquels s' inscrivent les acteurs que nous étudions et aux enjeux internationaux qui influencent leur combat pour la reconnaissance de droits humains à l' échelle locale, nationale, régionale et mondiale. À partir de cette dialectique globale-locale, nous démontrons l'impact déterminant du mouvement international des droits humains sur l'évolution des débats qui agitent la société québécoise, mais aussi le rôle structurant du contexte local, marqué par le passage de la période dite de la « Grande noirceur» à celle de la Révolution tranquille au Québec. Sur le plan théorique, notre étude explore la manière dont les identités et les rapports de pouvoirs ethniques, de classe, d'âge et de genre contribuent à orienter les discours, les revendications et les stratégies des militants qui se revendiquent de l'idéal universaliste des droits humains. En nous inspirant des approches discursive, délibérative et socioconstructiviste, nous montrons que ces droits ne constituent pas un idéal abstrait et universel qui serait par essence désintéressé. Ils apparaissent en effet, sur le plan empirique, comme une catégorie discursive socialement construite et historiquement contingente, qui peut être mobilisée, négociée ou contestée par les acteurs sociaux en fonction de leurs idéologies, de leurs intérêts, de leurs stratégies et de leurs propres conceptions du juste et de l'injuste. Enfm, en envisageant ces droits dans leur dimension formelle (les normes établies par l' État, le droit et la loi) et identitaire (la reconnaissance d' identités sociales et citoyennes), nous mettons en lumière la dialectique entre universalisme et particularisme qui est à l'oeuvre dans l'universalisationconcrète de l' idéal des droits humains.

May Morris: Arts and Crafts Designer - Ramsay, Ellen L. (Labour / Le Travail, 2018)
The article reviews the book, "May Morris: Arts and Crafts Designer," by Rowan Bain, Hanne Faurby, Jenny Lister, Anna Mason, and Jan Marsh.