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

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

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

The Development of Working-Class Organic Intellectuals in the Canadian Black Left Tradition: Historical Roots and Contemporary Expressions, Future Directions - Harris, Christopher (University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 2011)
This thesis explores the revolutionary adult education learning dimensions in a Canadian Black anti-racist organization, which continues to be under-represented in the Canadian Adult Education literature on social movement learning. This case study draws on detailed reflection based on my own personal experience as a leader and member of the Black Action Defense Committee (BADC). The analysis demonstrates the limitations to the application of the Gramscian approach to radical adult education in the non-profit sector, I will refer to as the Non-Profit Industrial Complex (NPIC) drawing on recent research by INCITE Women of Colour! (2007). This study fills important gaps in the new fields of studies on the NPIC and its role in the cooptation of dissent, by offering the first Canadian study of a radical Black anti-racist organization currently experiencing this. This study fills an important gap in the social movement and adult education literature related to the legacy of Canadian Black Communism specifically on the Canadian left.

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

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

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

Working in the Creative Economy: The Spatial Dynamics of Employment Risk for Musicians in Toronto - Hracs, Brian Jennings (University of Toronto, 2011)
Over the past decade the introduction of MP3’s, file sharing networks and illegal downloading has fundamentally changed the music industry, structurally and spatially. In the wake of this restructuring it is now estimated that 95% of all musicians in Canada operate independently of record companies (Canadian Independent Recording Artist Association or ‘CIRAA’). Digital technologies afford independent musicians greater freedom and control over how and where they live and work. Although economic geographers have been quick to examine the impact of the so called ‘MP3 Crisis’ on record sales and the major record labels, little is known about how changes at the macro-scale affect the working lives of individual musicians in specific locations. As a result, this dissertation focuses on the employment experiences and spatial dynamics of independent musicians in Toronto. Drawing on sixty-five in-depth interviews with musicians and key informants in the music industry, the thesis documents the intersections between technology, work and space. In particular, the analysis highlights the ways in which the new creative and spatial freedoms, associated with independent music production, are accompanied by intensified competition and employment risk, which musicians experience in an increasingly individualized way. Surviving in the current marketplace requires independent musicians to perform a range of new tasks and exhibit a higher degree of professionalism. Accordingly, the research outlines some of the reasons why some musicians are rejecting and reworking traditional bohemian lifestyles, spatial patterns and risk mediation strategies. In particular, there is growing evidence of new forms of networking and of the increased importance of strategic collaborations between musicians and fashion designers. There are also signs that some musicians are relocating from the downtown core to the surrounding suburbs, and that musical talent is becoming redistributed across the city-region. Ultimately, this dissertation demonstrates the need for specialized policies to incubate and retain creative talent in an increasingly global and digital marketplace.

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

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

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

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

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

Addressing Competition: Strategies for Organizing Precarious Workers - Cases from Canada - International Labour Office; Bhullar, Maya (Trade unions and the global crisis: labour's visions, strategies and responses, 2011)
Discusses the growth of precarious work in Canada in the context of labour law, employment law, and union density. Analyzes two organizing initiatives at a community level and at an industry level in which the Service Employees International Union, Local 2 Canada, participated: the Good Jobs for All campaign in Toronto and the Justice for Janitors national campaign. Contents: Development, globalization and decent work: an emerging Southern labour paradigm / Edward Webster -- Beyond the capitalist logic: theoretical debates and social experiences / Melisa Serrano and Edlira Xhafa -- Economy, ecology and the national limits to growth: the global poly-crisis and South Africa responses / Devan Pillay -- Understanding the past to change the present: the social compromise, the corporate theory of society and the future shape of industrial relations / Conor Cradden -- The new economy and labour's decline: questioning their association / Bill Dunn -- Global unions, local labour, and the regulation of international labour standards: mapping ITF labour rights strategies / Mark P. Thomas -- Private equity investment and labour: faceless capital and the challenges to trade unions in Brazil / José Ricardo Barbosa Gonçalves and Maria Alejandra Caporale Madi -- Labour and the locusts: trade unions responses to corporate governance regulation in the European Union / Laura Horn -- Transnational framework agreements: new bargaining tools impacting on corporate governance? / Isabelle Schömann -- Collective actions push trade union reform in China / Lin Yanling and Ju Wenhui -- Creating a functional state: redefining the labour-capital relationship in Nepal / Chandra D. Bhatta -- A rowing boat on the open sea, or in a haven from financial and environmental crises? New Zealand, the global financial crisis and an union response / Bill Rosenberg -- Turkey after 2008: another crisis - the same responses? / Yasemin Özgün and Özgür Müfüoglu -- Addressing competition: strategies for organizing precarious workers: cases from Canada / Maya Bhullar -- Perils and prospects: the US labour movement's response to the economic crisis / Jason Russell -- Meeting the right's attack on public sector unions in the United States: are there effective strategies? / Lee Adler.
Keywords: Economic aspects; Global financial crisis, 2008-2009; Globalization; Good Jobs for All; Justice for Janitors; Labor Unions; Labor movement; Precarious Employment

Militant Minority: British Columbia Workers and the Rise of a New Left, 1948-1972 - Isitt, Benjamin (University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division, 2011)
[This book] tells the compelling story of British Columbia workers who sustained a left tradition during the bleakest days of the Cold War. Through their continuing activism on issues from the politics of timber licenses to global questions of war and peace, these workers bridged the transition from an Old to a New Left.In the late 1950s, half of B.C.'s workers belonged to unions, but the promise of postwar collective bargaining spawned disillusionment tied to inflation and automation. A new working class that was educated, white collar, and increasingly rebellious shifted the locus of activism from the Communist Party and Co-operative Commonwealth Federation to the newly formed New Democratic Party, which was elected in 1972. Grounded in archival research and oral history, Militant Minority provides a valuable case study of one of the most organized and independent working classes in North America, during a period of ideological tension and unprecedented material advance. --Publisher's description
Keywords: 20th century; British columbia; History; New Left; Political activity; Working class

Neither Temporary, Nor Permanent: The Precarious Employment Experiences of Refugee Claimants in Toronto - Jackson, Samantha (Ryerson/Toronto Metropolitan University, 2011)
While Canada’s immigration system is shaped primarily by the nation’s economic needs, refugee claimants’ motivations are, by nature, non-economic. Resultantly, refugee claimants are often portrayed as a drain on Canadian resources. Despite this however, refugee claimants’ employment experiences remain underrepresented in the literature. This study explores the employment experiences of refugee claimants in Toronto, and finds that claimants face distinct and unique barriers stemming from their precarious legal status. Additionally, as neither temporary workers nor permanent citizens, this study finds that refugee claimants perceive employment as an integrative expression of belonging and citizenship. Through the lens of refugeeness, this study traces the subjective employment trajectories of refugee claimants. Findings indicate that refugee claimants’ employability is shaped by real and ascribed barriers associated with their citizenship status, creating decidedly unique and often difficult employment experiences.

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

Through Feminist Eyes: Essays on Canadian Women's History - Joan Sangster (AU Press, 2011)
Through Feminist Eyes gathers in one volume the most incisive and insightful essays written to date by the distinguished Canadian historian Joan Sangster. To the original essays, Sangster has added reflective introductory discussions that situate her earlier work in the context of developing theory and debate. Sangster has also supplied an introduction to the collection in which she reflects on the themes and theoretical orientations that have shaped the writing of women's history over the past thirty years. Approaching her subject matter from an array of interpretive frameworks that engage questions of gender, class, colonialism, politics, and labour, Sangster explores the lived experience of women in a variety of specific historical settings. In so doing, she sheds new light on issues that have sparked much debate among feminist historians and offers a thoughtful overview of the evolution of women's history in Canada. --Publisher's description. Contents: Introduction: Reflections on Thirty Years of Women’s History -- Discovering Women’s History == The 1907 Bell Telephone Strike: Organizing Women Workers -- Looking Backwards: Re-assessing Women on the Canadian Left == The Communist Party and the Woman Question, 1922-1929 -- Manufacturing Consent in Peterborough -- The Softball Solution: Female Workers, Male Managers, and the Operation of Paternalism at Westclox, 1923–1960 -- Pardon Tales’ from Magistrate’s Court: Women, Crime, and the Court in Peterborough County, 1920–1950 --Telling Our Stories: Feminist Debates and the Use of Oral History -- Foucault, Feminism, and Postcolonialism -- Girls in Conflict with the Law: Exploring the Construction of Female ‘Delinquency’ in Ontario, 1940–1960 -- Criminalizing the Colonized: Ontario Native Women Confront the Criminal Justice System, 1920–1960 -- Constructing the ‘Eskimo’ Wife: White Women’s Travel Writing, Colonialism, and the Canadian North, 1940–1960 -- Embodied Experience -- Words of Experience/Experiencing Words: Reading Working Women’s Letters to Canada’s Royal Commission on the Status of Women -- Making a Fur Coat: Women, the Labouring Body, and Working-class History.
Keywords: Women

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

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

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

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

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

Along the No. 20 Line: Reminiscences of the Vancouver Waterfront - Knight, Rolf (New Star Books, 2011)
In Along the No. 20 Line, Rolf Knight takes the reader on a tour through working-class East Vancouver of a century ago. Knight's "through-line" is literally a line: the old No. 20 streetcar route that ran between downtown Vancouver and the present-day neighbourhood of the Pacific National Exhibition. From 1892 to 1949, when it was shut down and replaced by the No. 20 Granville / Victoria Drive bus, the No. 20 streetcar carried thousands of Vancouverites back and forth between their East Van homes and their jobs on the docks, and in the mills, factories, and workshops along the No. 20 line. --Publisher's description

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Working Without Commitments: The Health Effects of Precarious Employment - Lewchuk, Wayne; Clarke, Marlea; De Wolff, Alice (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011)
From the end of the Second World War to the early 1980s, the North American norm was that men had full-time jobs, earned a "family wage," and expected to stay with the same employer for life. In households with children, most women were unpaid caregivers. This situation began to change in the mid-1970s as two-earner households became commonplace, with women entering employment through temporary and part-time jobs. Since the 1980s, less permanent precarious employment has increasingly become the norm for all workers. Working Without Commitments offers a new understanding of the social and health impacts of this change in the modern workplace, where outsourcing, limited term contracts, and the elimination of pensions and health benefits have become the new standard. Using information from interviews and surveys with workers in less permanent employment, the authors show how precarious employment affects the health of workers, labour productivity, and the sustainability of the traditional family model. --Publisher's description. Contents: Working without commitments: employment relationships and health -- A short history of the employment relationship: control, effort, and support -- Working without commitments and the characteristics of the employment relationship -- Gender, race, and the characteristics of the employment relationship -- The employment strain model and the health effects of less permanent employment -- The blurred lines between precariousness and permanence -- Sustainable, less permanent employment -- "On a path" to employment security? -- Unsustainable, less permanent employment -- Creating commitments in less permanent employment: policy reforms to address rising insecurity.
Keywords: Health aspects; Job stress; Precarious Employment; Social aspects

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

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

Manufacturing Meltdown: Reshaping Steel Work - Livingstone, D. W. (David W.); Smith, Dorothy E.; Smith, Warren (Fernwood, 2011)
In the 1980s, following decades of booming business, the global steel industry went into a precipitous decline, which necessitated significant restructuring. Management demanded workers' increased participation in evermore temporary and insecure labour. Engaging the workers at the flagship Stelco plant in Hamilton, the authors document new management strategies and the responses of unionized workforces to them. These investigations provide valuable insights into the dramatic changes occurring within the Canadian steel industry. --Publisher's description
Keywords: Acier Industrie et commerce Canada; Acier Industrie et commerce Gestion Participation du personnel Canada; Canada; Iron and steel workers Labor unions; Iron and steel workers Labor unions Canada; Management; Steel industry and trade; Steel industry and trade Canada; Steel industry and trade Management Employee participation; Steel industry and trade Management Employee participation Canada; Stelco Inc. Management; Stelco inc. Gestion; Travailleurs du fer et de l'acier Syndicats Canada

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Unpaid Household Work: A Site of Learning for Women with Disabilities - Matthews, Ann (University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 2011)
This thesis explores women's learning in unpaid household work through the lenses of impairment and disability. Informal learning from this standpoint is a perspective that is not yet integrated into the adult learning literature. The impetus for the study came from dissatisfaction with the social undervaluing of unpaid housework and carework, and the largely unrecognized learning behind the work, which is predominantly done by women. Disability and impairment provide unique lenses for making visible what people learn and how they learn in this context. Those who have or acquire impairment in adulthood need to learn how to do things differently. For this study I have taken a segment of data from a 4-year, 4-phase project on Unpaid Housework and Lifelong Learning in which I participated. The participants in this segment are women and men with disabilities who took part in 2 focus groups (11 women), an on-line focus group (20 women), and individual interviews (10 women and 5 men). Learning is explored through three different themes: first, learning related to self-care; second, learning to accept the impaired body; and third, strategies and resources used in the learning process. Analysis of the data shows that the learning that happens through unpaid household work is multidimensional, fluid, and diverse. Learning is accomplished through a complex 4-dimensional process involving a blend of the body, mind, emotions, and the spiritual self. Furthermore, what participants learned and how they learned is influenced by the sociocultural context in which it takes place. Learning, when seen as a 4-dimensional process, provides a framework for challenging traditional Western cultural beliefs about what counts as learning and knowledge. Such beliefs have cultivated the viewpoint that learning is individualistic, cognitive, and based on reason. I contest these beliefs by disrupting the binaries that support them (e.g., mind vs. body, reason vs. emotion). Participants used both sides of the binaries in their learning processes, negating the oppositional and hierarchical categories they establish. The concepts in the binaries still exist but the relationship between them is not oppositional, nor is one concept privileged over another, either within or across binaries.

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

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

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

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

Industrial Relations in Canada - McQuarrie, Fiona A. E. (Wiley, 2011)
{This textbook] received wide praise for helping students to understand the complex and sometimes controversial field of Industrial Relations, by using just the right blend of practice, process and theory.  The text engages business students with diverse backgrounds and teaches them how an understanding of this field will help them become better managers.The third edition retains this student friendly, easy-to-read approach, praised by both students and instructors across the country. The goal of the third edition was to enhance and refine this approach while updating the latest research findings and developments in the field. --Publisher's description
Keywords: Canada; Industrial relations

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

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

Borders, Gender, and Labor: Canadian and U.S. Mining Towns during the Cold War Era - Mercier, Laurie (Company Towns in the Americas: Landscape, Power, and Working-Class Communities, 2011)
This essay explores why the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (and later the United Steelworkers of America) in mining towns on both sides of the [US-Canada] border remained so resistant to female employment and activism from 1940 to 1980. By looking closely at how ideas about gender influenced union politics, we see how working-class women and men in mining communities both embraced and contested these ideologies. --Excerpt from author's essay
Keywords: Anaconda, Montana; Company towns; Flin Flon, Manitoba; Gender; History; Inco strike (1958); International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers; Kellogg, Idaho; Miners; Sudbury, Ontario; Women's auxiliaries

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

The Concept of Home Care Nursing Workload: Analysis and Significance - Mildon, Barbara (University of Toronto, 2011)
The concept of home care nursing workload has not been widely studied and no evidence was found that an analysis of the concept had been undertaken. Consequently, there was a knowledge gap regarding the definition and attributes for the concept of home care nursing workload as it is currently experienced. To address that gap, a descriptive, three-phase, mixed methods (quantitative and qualitative) study was conducted. In Phase One, Rodgers’ (2000) evolutionary method was used to analyze the concept of home care nursing workload based on the empirical literature. Phase Two was situated within the naturalistic inquiry paradigm and involved observation of ten home care registered nurses during their visits to 61 patients. In Phase three a questionnaire was administered to validate the draft definition and attributes for the concept of home care nursing workload. It was completed by 88 home care nursing experts from clinical practice, education, management and research. Qualitative findings were analyzed using inductive content analysis. Quantitative data were analyzed descriptively using SPSS. Data triangulation was used extensively within and between the study phases. Of 14 attributes in the phase three draft concept definition, respondents assigned the highest level of relevance to the attribute of cognitive effort and the lowest to physical effort. The final definition contained 20 attributes and includes the following excerpt: “Home care nursing workload is the totality of the cognitive, emotional and physical effort home care nurses expend to meet the expectations of all stakeholders in providing holistic, outcome directed and patient/family focused care within the context of a short or long-term therapeutic relationship.” Respondents reported high levels of agreement with the accuracy and completeness of the definition and the majority indicated the definition would be useful or very useful in their day-to-day work. The comprehensive concept exemplar that emerged from the study includes each of the identified attributes. The study findings provided evidence of the complexity and challenge inherent in quantitatively measuring home care nursing workload. Accordingly, implications of the findings are shared for the management and monitoring of workload and associated outcomes, as well as for nursing practice, education and research.

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

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

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

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

Onion Man - Mockler, Kathryn (Tightrope Books, 2011)
In the late 1980s of London, Ontario—a time in Canada when the recession lay like a lead weight on the shoulders of young people, leaving the future bleak—an eighteen-year-old girl is working for the summer at a corn canning factory. Her story is told through a series of masterfully-sculpted linked poems, following her relationship with her boyfriend, her alcoholic mother, her terminally-ill grandfather, the factory job, and the man who every night “peels an onion and eats it as if it were an apple.” The Onion Man doesn’t speak English and is tormented by the other workers, and ater his son dies, he commits suicide at the factory. The girl finds his body and the traumatic event prompts her to rethink the direction of her life. -- Publisher's description
Keywords: Englisch; Lyrik; Poetry; Poésie; poetry

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

Mental Health Issues and Work: Institutional Practices of Silence in a Mental Healthcare Organization - Moll, Sandra (University of Toronto, 2011)
Over the past decade, mental illness in the workplace has become a key issue in the health and business communities, fueled in part by recognition of the high prevalence rates and significant costs for individuals and organizations. Although research in the field is starting to emerge, there are significant gaps in what is known, particularly with respect to the workplace context and its impact on workers. The overall objective of this study was to characterize, from a sociological perspective, the experiences of healthcare workers with mental health issues, and to account for how their experiences were shaped by the social relations of work. A qualitative approach, based on principles of institutional ethnography, guided exploration of the interactional, structural and discursive dimensions of work within a large mental health and addictions treatment facility. Data collection included in-depth interviews with twenty employees regarding their personal experiences with mental health issues, interviews with twelve workplace stakeholders regarding their interactions with workers, and a review of organizational texts related to health, illness and productivity. Analysis of the transcripts and texts was based on an institutional ethnography approach to mapping social processes; examining connections between local sites of experience and the social organization of work. The study findings revealed a critical disjuncture between the public mandate of advocacy, open dialogue, and support regarding mental health issues, and the private experience of workers which was characterized by silence, secrecy and inaction. Practices of silence were adopted by workers and workplace stakeholders across the organization, and were shaped by discursive forces related to stigma, staff-client boundaries, and responsibility to act. The silence had both positive and negative implications for the mental health of workers, as well as for relationships and productivity in the workplace. In accounting for the practices and production of silence, I argue that silence is complex, multi-dimensional, and embedded within the social relations of healthcare work. It serves to maintain institutional order. This conceptualization of silence challenges current beliefs and practices related to stigma, disclosure, early identification, support, and return to work for employees with mental health issues.

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

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

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

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

Winnipeg General Strike - Naylor, James; Mitchell, Tom (Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, 2011)
For six weeks in the early summer of 1919, Winnipeg, then the largest city in the Canadian Prairies, was shut down by a general strike. More than 30,000 of the city's workers walked off their jobs in a test of strength that was to prove the focal point of a labor explosion that was national and international in scope. The strike was provoked by the refusal of employers to recognize and bargain with the metal and building trades federations of unions. The Winnipeg Trades and Labor Council organized a poll of its affiliates' members, and a general strike was approved by a vote of 11,112 to 524. The response to the strike call on May 15 was overwhelming. Not only did organized workers respond solidly, shutting down factories, newspapers, telephones, and streetcars, but thousands of unorganized workers joined them. The city fell silent....

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

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

Racing Solidarity, Remaking Labour: Labour Renewal from a Decolonizing and Anti-racism Perspective - Ng, Winnie Wun Wun (University of Toronto, 2011)
The study examines how Aboriginal workers and workers of colour experience union solidarity and explores the necessary conditions for the remaking of solidarity and the renewal of the labour movement. Grounded in anti-colonial discursive framework, the study analyzes the cultures and practices of labour solidarity through the lived experiences of Aboriginal activist and activists of colour within the Canadian labour movement. Utilizing the research methodologies of participatory action research, arts-informed research and critical autobiography, the research draws on the richness of the participants’ collective experiences and visual images co-created during the inquiry. The study also relies on the researcher’s self-narrative as a long time labour activist as a key part of the embodied knowledge production and sense making of a movement that is under enormous challenges and internal competing tension exacerbated by the neoliberal agenda. The findings reveal sense of profound gap between what participants experience as daily practices of solidarity and what they envisioned. Through the research process, the study explores and demonstrates the importance and potential of a more holistic and integrative critical education approach on anti-racism and decolonization. The study proposes a pedagogical framework on solidarity building with four interlinking components – rediscovering, restoring, reimagining and reclaiming – as a way to make whole for many Aboriginal activists and activists of colour within the labour movement. The pedagogy of solidarity offers a transformative process for activists to build solidarity across constituencies in the pursuit of labour renewal and social justice movement building.

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

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

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

Women, Migration and Care Work: Filipino Health Care Aides in Canada - Novek, Sheila (University of Manitoba, 2011)
Personal care homes have become increasingly dependent on the employment of immigrant care workers. This qualitative study explored the high concentration of Filipino health care aides in personal care homes from their own perspectives, as well as that of policy stakeholders. In depth interviews were conducted with seven Filipino health care aides working in personal care homes in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Semi-structured interviews with policy stakeholders examined the policy context of the health care aide labour force. The study identified several factors that influenced the migration and employment of Filipino health care aides including: poverty and unemployment, migrant social networks, barriers in the labour market and financial incentives. The lack of regulations for health care aides sustained the flow of immigrant labour and enabled the expansion of social networks. Although their employment decisions were primarily based on financial need, health care aides valued their work and viewed themselves as critical care providers.

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

Women's Gendered Experiences of Rapid Resource Development in the Canadian North: New Opportunities or Old Challenges? - O'Shaughnessy, Sara (University of Alberta, 2011)
Rapid resource development in northern and rural Canada is leading to unprecedented social, political, economic and environmental changes in a number of communities. In particular, gendered identities and divisions of labour in northern Canadian communities are poised to be dramatically altered by increasing labour demands, shifting time-use patterns, and intensifying income inequalities. Through a feminist poststructuralist discourse analysis of print media coverage of gendered issues in Fort McMurray, and semi-structured interviews with thirty-two women working in either the male-dominated oil sector or the female-dominated social services sector, this dissertation examines how women in Fort McMurray, Alberta—the host community for the Athabasca oil sands—negotiate their identities and make sense of the opportunities and challenges associated with the recent oil boom. Drawing on materialist feminist and feminist poststructuralist theory, this dissertation first elaborates a comprehensive analytical framework for investigating gender in the context of natural resource extraction. This framework contends that gendered identities are inherently multiple, and divisions of labour are embedded in particular temporal and spatial contexts. Furthermore, this framework examines discursive and material contradictions in diverse gendered experiences of resource extraction in order to move beyond universalizing gendered interests and identities. Second, this dissertation examines how discursively constructed female subject positions in local and global print media over the past decade adopt a frame of frontier masculinity. I demonstrate that these subject positions become resources upon which women in Fort McMurray draw on to negotiate their identities in ways that perpetuate a sense of dependency and anomalousness. Finally, I explore how neoliberal discourses of individualism and meritocracy provide a potential site of resistance to hegemonic frontier masculinity in women’s narratives of their opportunities and challenges. However, I ultimately argue that neoliberal discourses and practices do not prove transformative of gendered identities and divisions of labour because women are only able to partially engage with neoliberal subjectivity, which neglects collective interests and wellbeing.

The Impact of Formative Work Experiences on the Psychological Contract: The Case of the Generation-X Knowledge Worker - Ormsbee, Floyd (Carleton University, 2011)
Organisations operating in today's market are facing an upcoming shift in workforce demographics. A majority of today's current workforce belong to the Baby Boomer generation (individuals born between 1946 and 1964). Many of these workers have already reached retirement age with many more reaching retirement age in the near future. The workers who are next in chronological line to fill the vacancies created by these departures belong to Generation X. There has been much speculation in the popular press concerning these workers, their work histories, and their workplace expectations. There has also been extensive study of the employment relationship (the psychological contract), a worker's assessment of that relationship, and the outcomes associated with it. However, there is no model directly tying worker experiences to the psychological contract and in turn outcomes of the psychological contract. This case study applied qualitative and quantitative methodologies to investigate the role work experiences play in the formation of the psychological contract with a present employer and the outcomes associated with it. Survey data were collected and in-depth personal interviews were completed with 66 Generation X middle level managers working for one of Canada's top employers competing in the knowledge sector. Findings suggest that several key work experiences in the labour market as well as experiences with a present employer are influential in perceptions of the relationship employees have with their employer, how they assess that relationship, and ultimately the outcomes of engagement and trust. The study concludes with: (1) a model illustrating the relationships between workers' experiences and the psychological contract process, and (2) a typology of worker types based on the effects of previous work experiences and perceptions of experiences with a current employer.
Keywords: Generation X; Psychology; Social sciences; Work experiences

Doctors' Strike - Ostry, Aleck S. (Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, 2011)
In 1944 the first social democratic government in North America was elected in the province of Saskatchewan. The new government of Premier Tommy Douglas intended to introduce plans to insure both medical and hospital services immediately following the election; however, because of financial limitations, it decided instead to establish a provincewide system of hospital insurance. The Saskatchewan Hospital Insurance Plan, established in 1947 and funded mainly from provincial tax revenue, provided free inpatient hospital care for all residents of the province. ...on July 1, 1962, the date the Medical Care Insurance Plan was to go into effect, more than 90 percent of the province's doctors withdrew their services. This strike, although relatively short–it only lasted twenty-three days–was very bitter....

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

The Role and Regulation of Private, For-Profit Employment Agencies in the British Columbia Labour Market and the Recruitment of Temporary Foreign Workers - Parrott, Daniel (University of Victoria, 2011)
My thesis examines the role and regulation of private, for-profit employment agencies in the British Columbia labour market with respect to the recruitment of temporary foreign workers. In it, I reviewed the historical origins of employment agency legislation in Canada. I go on to describe Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program in connection with the transfer of federal immigration authority to the provinces. I also present a case study demonstrating how temporary foreign workers are recruited for the Live-in Caregiver Program in British Columbia, and use the study as a basis for comparing British Columbia’s employment agency legislation with the agency licensing regimes in the other Western Provinces. I conclude that Manitoba’s recent Worker Recruitment and Protection Act frames a best practice model for the protection of foreign workers during the recruitment process, and I encourage other provinces like British Columbia to develop and legislatively frame a similar set of best practices.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Re-examining the Social Relations of the Canadian 'Family Farm': Migrant Women Farm Workers in Rural Canada - Preibisch, Kerry L.; Encalada Grez, Eveyln (Reshaping Gender and Class in Rural Spaces, 2011)
This chapter focuses on women employed in labour-intensive agriculture in the global North, specifically women from rural Mexico who take up waged work as migrant workers in Canadian agriculture. It uses the term 'migrant worker' to refer to people employed in Canada under temporary visas who do not hold Canadian citizenship or permanent residency. Global restructuring of agrifood markets has resulted in rising levels of female employment in high value agriculture in the global South. Women tend to form a smaller percentage of the permanent workforce employed in commercial agriculture, often constituting the majority of the temporary, seasonal, and casual workforce that provides the greater portion of labour. The chapter shows the systems of labour control and forms of work organization made possible through these programs rely on multiple, reinforcing and contextual systems of oppression, particularly the power relations based on gender, race, and class, among others. --Introduction Leach and Pini bring together empirical and theoretical studies that consider the intersections of class, gender and rurality. Each chapter engages with current debates on these concepts to explore them in the context of contemporary social and economic transformations in which global processes that reconstitute gender and class interconnect with and take shape in a particular form of locality - the rural. The book is innovative in that it: - responds to calls for more critical work on the rural 'other' - contributes to scholarship on gender and rurality, but does so through the lens of class. This book places the question of gender, rurality and difference at its centre through its focus on class - addresses the urban bias of much class scholarship as well as the lack of gender analysis in much rural and class academic work - focuses on the ways that class mediates the construction and practices of rural men/masculinities and rural women/femininities - challenges prevalent (and divergent) assumptions with chapters utilising contemporary theorisations of class With the empirical strongly grounded in theory, this book will appeal to scholars working in the fields of gender, rurality, identity, and class studies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Organized Leadership for Equitable Change: Union-active Teachers Dedicated to Social Justice - Rottmann, Cynthia (University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 2011)
Historically, teachers’ unions have been some of the major organizational sites of social justice leadership in K-12 education (Kuehn, 2007; M. Murphy, 1990; Urban, 1982), but until the mid 1990s, the term “social justice unionism” (Peterson & Charney, 1999) had little currency in teacher union circles. The purpose of this qualitative case study was to examine the concept of social justice unionism in context. In particular, I asked how teacher union activists contributed and responded to the institutionalization of social justice in their organization. I used a critical constructionist (Ball, 1987; Berger & Luckmann, 1966; D. E. Smith, 1987) perspective to analyze 25 career history (Goodson, 1994) interviews with teachers, staff and elected officials affiliated with the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation between 1967 and 2007, and found that successive generations of union-involved activists dedicated to labour solidarity, feminism, multiculturalism, anti-colonialism and anti-homophobia used networks of like-minded colleagues to counter bureaucratic norms within their organization, the education system and society. A qualitative depiction of these changes suggests that they were layered, multi-dimensional and uneven. They played out on a contested, uphill gradient shaped, but not determined, by four factors: the organizational prioritization of teacher welfare over social justice; historically persistent micro-political struggles between two federation caucuses; the centralizing tendencies of union leadership in response to the provincial government’s centralization of educational authority; and broader ruling relations in Canadian society. Still, despite this uphill gradient, all activist networks left a durable trace on federation history. The major significance of this finding for critical theorists and social justice activists is a modestly hopeful alternative to the traditional conceptions of change embedded in organizational theory: revolution, evolution or despair.

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

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

Our Union: UAW/CAW Local 27 from 1950-1990 - Russell, Jason (Fabriks: Studies in the working class, 2011)
[The author] argues that the union local, as an institution of working-class organization, was a key agent for the Canadian working class as it sought to create a new place for itself in the decades following World War II. Using UAW/CAW Local 27, a broad-based union in London, Ontario, as a case study, he offers a ground-level look at union membership, including some of the social and political agendas that informed union activities. As he writes in the introduction, "This book is as much an outgrowth of years of rank-and-file union activism as it is the result of academic curiosity." Drawing on interviews with former members of UAW/CAW Local 27 as well as on archival sources, Russell offers a narrative that will speak not only to labour historians but to the people about whom they write. --Publisher's description
Keywords: Automobile industry workers; History; Labor Unions; Labor union locals; Social aspects

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

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

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

Estevan Riot 1931: Weighing the Causes - Saskatchewan. Provincial Archives (Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan, 2011)
Archival documents (news clippings, reports, photos, and sound recordings) with annotations on the causes and consequences of the Estevan Riot of 1931. The riot occurred during a strike of the United Mine Workers of Canada against the Estevan Bienfait Coal Mine. This website presentation was prepared for a history course offered by Saskatchewan Learning.

Racism in Canada - Satzewich, Vic (Issues in Canada, 2011)
There are widely divergent views about racism in Canada. Some believe that racism is a fundamental feature of Canadian society and national identity. This dystopian view of Canada as a fundamentally and irrevocably racist society carries considerable currency in some academic and activist circles. Others argue that racism is oversold as a social problem: while pockets of racism do exist, Canada remains a fundamentally fair place for people of diverse backgrounds to prosper and flourish.Vic Satzewich's short and accessible book explores how racism operates in Canadian society, past and present. Racism is a complex aspect of Canadian society; while it may not be an inherent and invariant feature of our country, it is also more prevalent than many people may realize. The book examines a variety of issues including racism and the immigration system, racial profiling, racism and First Nations and Islamophobia. It concludes with a discussion of some of the dilemmas and challenges associated with anti-racism theory and practice. --Publisher's description
Keywords: 1991-; CULTURAL pluralism; Canada; Race relations; Racism; Racisme; Relations raciales; Social conditions

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

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

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

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

Working in a Global Era: Canadian Perspectives - Shalla, Vivian (Canadian Scholars' Press, 2011)
Now in its second edition, this reader presents a critical examination of the changing structure of work in Canada and abroad. Its focus is on the role of Canadian labour in the globalized world. Contributors include David Livingstone, Pat Armstrong, Meg Luxton, Dave Broad, and other prominent Canadian scholars. Each of the seven themed sections begins with a contextual introduction by Vivian Shalla and concludes with critical thinking questions and suggestions for further reading. --Publisher's description.
Keywords: Economic aspects; Globalization; Labor; Labor movement

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

Gifts of Rights?: A Legal History of Employment Pension Plans in Canada - Shilton, Elizabeth (University of Toronto, 2011)
This thesis explores the role played by law in the current breakdown of the employment pension system, focusing on the legal status of pension plans within the employment relationship, and on the way lawmakers have defined, shaped and enforced employee pension rights. It traces the legal status of employment pensions from their 19th Century characterization as gifts to reward employees for long and faithful service, to their current 21st Century construction as terms of the contract of employment. The thesis argues that Canadian lawmakers within all three legal regimes structuring rights and obligations within the employment relationship – the common law, collective bargaining law and statute law – have contributed significantly to the overall dysfunction of the system by cultivating both substantive and procedural legal rules that locate critical issues concerning the scope, design, durability and distribution of employee pension rights within the control of employers. Predictably, Canadian employers have used that control to shape pension plans to meet their distinct business needs, needs that frequently collide with worker needs and expectations for good pensions. Even in the heyday of the ‘Fordist’ work structures that fostered employment pension plans, the system delivered benefits very unequally, privileging the interest of elite workers who fit the ‘male breadwinner’ mould, and failing to provide adequate and secure pensions for the majority of Canadian workers. Changes in the organization of work in Canada, including trends towards more precarious work, will continue to exacerbate the problems inherent in the system, escalating its distributional inequalities. In the current round of pension law reform, Canada’s policy makers should abandon the effort to repair a system which is flawed at its core, and should instead seek a new foundation for pensions outside the employment relationship, a foundation which will not subordinate the pension interests of workers to the business interests of employers.

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

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

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

Activist Social Workers in Neoliberal Times: Who are We Becoming Now? - Smith, Kristin (University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 2011)
My thesis explores the knowledge, subjectivities and work performances that activist social workers bring to their practice in Ontario, Canada during a period of workplace restructuring that includes cuts to services, work intensification, increased surveillance and the evolving discourses of neoliberalism. A key aspect of my dissertation is the exploration of tensions between the attachments, desires and aspirations of the activist social work self and what that self must do every day to get by. I am interested in how it is that social workers produce and maintain their sense of identities – their integrity, ethics and responsibilities as activists – while also managing to navigate the contradictions of restructured workplaces. My aim is to understand not how power in the form of restructuring policies is imposed on people, but rather, how power acts through subjects who find themselves both implicated in, and struggling to resist neoliberal restructuring. My research lens draws on Michel Foucault’s ideas about governmentality and on feminist poststructural, critical race, and postcolonial theories. I use these theories to see neoliberal strategies of rule as working in diffuse ways through social and health service workplaces, encouraging service providers to see themselves as individualized and active subjects responsible for particular performances that enact specific types of change. My research findings reveal that activist social workers respond to neoliberal strategies of rule in multiple ways while constituting themselves through a variety of competing discourses that exist in their lives. Social workers subjectivities appear to be produced through a range of discourses drawn from their family histories, unique biographies and the intersections of socially produced distinctions that are based on gender, race, class, sexuality, age and nationalism. My dissertation traces some of the many ways that social workers position themselves within and beyond the changing context of neoliberalism. In doing so, my research reveals tentative pathways for building critical resistance practices and suggests future social welfare measures that are based on social justice and equity.

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

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

Calling for Resistance: The Political Economy of Indian and Canadian Call Centre Industries - Stevens, Andrew James Raymond (Queen's University, 2011)
Call centres have in the last three decades come to define the interaction between corporations, governments, and other institutions and their respective customers, citizens, and members. From telemarketing to tele-health services, to credit card assistance, and even emergency response systems, call centres function as a nexus mediating technologically enabled labour practices with the commodification of services. Because of the ubiquitous nature of the call centre in post-industrial capitalism, the banality of these interactions often overshadows the nature of work and labour in this now-global sector. Advances in telecommunication technologies and the globalization of management practices designed to oversee and maintain standardized labour processes have made call centre work an international phenomenon. Simultaneously, these developments have dislocated assumptions about the geographic and spatial seat of work in what is defined here as the new international division of knowledge labour. The offshoring and outsourcing of call centre employment, part of the larger information technology and information technology enabled services sectors, has become a growing practice amongst governments and corporations in their attempts at controlling costs. Leading offshore destinations for call centre work, such as Canada and India, emerged as prominent locations for call centre work for these reasons. While incredible advances in technology have permitted the use of distant and “offshore” labour forces, the grander reshaping of an international political economy of communications has allowed for the acceleration of these processes. New and established labour unions have responded to these changes in the global regimes of work by seeking to organize call centre workers. These efforts have been assisted by a range of forces, not least of which is the condition of work itself, but also attempts by global union federations to build a bridge between international unionism and local organizing campaigns in the Global South and Global North. Through an examination of trade union interventions in the call centre industries located in Canada and India, this dissertation contributes to research on post-industrial employment by using political economy as a juncture between development studies, critical communications, and labour studies.

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

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

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

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

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

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

On-to-Ottawa Trek - Waiser, W. A. (Bill) (Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, 2011)
In early April 1935 hundreds of dissatisfied, disillusioned men walked out of federally run relief camps throughout British Columbia and descended on Vancouver in a bold attempt to reverse their dead-end lives and bring about some kind of "work for wages" program. No one wanted to deal with the men, least of all Conservative prime minister R. B. Bennett, who believed that the Communist Party of Canada had orchestrated the protest. As the stalemate dragged on week after numbing week, the men decided to go to Ottawa and lay their grievances directly before the government....

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Champagne and Meatballs: Adventures of a Canadian Communist - Whyte, Bert; Hannant, Larry (Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH, 2011)
Active for over forty years with the Communist Party of Canada, Bert Whyte was a journalist, an underground party organizer and soldier during World War II, and a press correspondent in Beijing and Moscow. But any notion of him as a Communist party hack would be mistaken. Whyte never let leftist ideology get in the way of a great yarn. In Champagne and Meatballs — a memoir written not long before his death in Moscow in 1984 — we meet a cigar-smoking rogue who was at least as happy at a pool hall as at a political meeting. His stories of bumming across Canada in the 1930s, of combat and camaraderie at the front lines in World War II, and of surviving as a dissident in troubled times make for compelling reading. The manuscript of Champagne and Meatballs was brought to light and edited by historian Larry Hannant, who has written a fascinating and thought-provoking introduction to the text. Brash, irreverent, informative, and entertaining, Whyte's tale is history and biography accompanied by a wink of his eye — the left one, of course. --Publisher's description
Keywords: Canada; Communist Party of Canada; Communistes; Communists; Journalistes; Journalists; Militaires; Parti communiste canadien; Soldiers; WHYTE, Bert

One Day Longer: A Memoir - Williams, Lynn (Lynn Russell) (University of Toronto Press, 2011)
Lynn Williams remains one of the most influential North American union leaders of the twentieth century. His two terms as president of the United Steelworkers of America, from 1983 until 1994, capped off a career in labour relations spanning nearly five decades. Among his many notable achievements were the new bargaining techniques he developed to face challenges from anti-union politicians such as Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. Williams also played a major role in the structural readjustment of the North American steel industry during its most turbulent period, the 1980s and 1990s. In his memoirs, Williams vividly recounts his life in labour, with all its triumphs, challenges, hopes, and dreams. While telling his own story, Williams also traces the rise and transformation of the labour movement from the Second World War to today. Providing an insider's perspective on union developments and issues, One Day Longer is a profound reflection of Williams's impressive career. --Publisher's description. Contents: In the beginning -- War and peace -- The Eaton drive -- Joining the Steelworkers -- Back east -- Organizing -- Sudbury -- Director, District 6 -- On to Pittsburgh -- Assuming the presidency -- Trying times -- Union work and politics -- New directions -- Epilogue.
Keywords: 20th century; Autobiography; History; Labor movement; Labor union members; North America; Presidents; United Steelworkers of America; Williams, Lynn (Lynn Russell), 1924-2014

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Abstracts, Volume 65 (Spring/Printemps 2010) (Labour/Le Travail, 2010)
English/French abstracts of articles in the Spring 2010 issue.

Abstracts, Volume 66 (Fall/Automne 2010) (Labour/Le Travail, 2010)
English/French abstracts of articles in the Fall 2010 issue.

Global Labour Journal (Global Labour Journal, 2010)
This online, open access, academic journal serves as a forum to capture the plentiful and diverse scholarly work emerging on labour activities worldwide, with the aim of understanding, recording, and promoting the transition of the labour movement to a new form of global unionism, and highlighting the ways labour activities are increasingly shaped by global forces. Global Labour serves the labour studies community by soliciting academic work on a wide variety of workers and worker related issues. These range from single country to comparative to international studies of workers and their organizations in the areas of the global North and South. We are especially interested in receiving submissions from regions of the world that are often neglected in labour studies. A key area of focus is the informal sector of labour, and the accompanying shift of focus away from the traditional ‘workplace’ as well as ‘traditional workers’ as the central locus of action. Other key areas of inquiry are migration; peasant agriculture and the transition to mass agriculture; and the impact of new multilateral institutions on global labour activities. The journal also solicits articles that represent the diversity of labour identities and emergent labour strategies, forms and organization. This includes corporate restructuring, traditional trade union responses, labour service organizations, new social movements, as well as the conventional institutions that workers engage in the workplace such as works councils, sector wide bargaining institutions, institutions that mediate conflict and political parties that have links with labour. The journal seeks to explore the role of globalization in breaking down boundaries between the global/local and the public/private as they relate to labour activities. The journal does not espouse a particular political line in labour studies, but welcomes a wide variety of approaches and analysis. Our aim is to provide a global forum for scholarly work on a comparative sociology of the labour movement. --Website description

Index - Volume 65 - 2010 (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2010)

Index, Volume 65 (Spring/Printemps 2010) (Labour/Le Travail, 2010)

Livres reçus (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2010)
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Publications récentes (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2010)
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Feeding the World: An Economic History of Agriculture, 1800-2000 - Adelman, Jeremy (Labour / Le Travail, 2010)
The article reviews the book, "Feeding the World: An Economic History of Agriculture, 1800-2000," by Giovanni Federico.
Keywords: AGRICULTURAL economics; BOOKS -- Reviews; FEDERICO, Giovanni; FEEDING the World: An Economic History of Agriculture 1800-2000 (Book); History; Nonfiction

Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Volume Two: 1968-2000 - Aivalis, Cheisto (Labour / Le Travail, 2010)
The article reviews the book," Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Volume Two: 1968-2000," by John English.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; ENGLISH, John, 1945-; JUST Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau 1968-2000 (Book); Nonfiction; TRUDEAU, Pierre Elliott, 1919-2000

Children of Fate: Childhood, Class, and the State in Chile, 1850-1930 - Alegre, Robert (Labour / Le Travail, 2010)
The article reviews the book, "Children of Fate: Childhood, Class, and the State in Chile, 1850-1930" by Nara B. Milanich.
Keywords: 1824-1920; BOOKS -- Reviews; CHILDREN of Fate: Childhood, Class & the State in Chile 1850-1930 (Book); CHILE; History; MILANICH, Nara B.; Nonfiction

The Aging Workforce: Addressing its Challenges Through Development of a Dignified Lives Approach to Equality - Alon, Pnina (University of Toronto, 2010)
Against the background of the global demographic shift towards an aging workforce and its impacts on the labour market and the economy in industrialized societies, this dissertation pinpoints six salient challenges for future litigation and policy-making in the area of labour and employment discrimination law. These include the global tendency towards abolishing mandatory retirement and increasing the eligibility age for pension benefits; legislative age-based distinctions; cost as a justification for age discrimination; performance appraisals of senior workers; and the duty to accommodate senior workers. At the core of each challenge lies a normative question regarding our conception of senior workers’ right to age equality, its importance and relative weight compared with other rights and interests. The aim of this dissertation is therefore to critically review the current understanding of this right and its moral and economic underpinning. Most notably, the dissertation contends that the prevailing conception of equality assessment (the Complete Lives Approach to equality), according to which equality should be assessed based on a comparison of the total share of resources obtained by individuals over a lifetime, has substantial implications for age discrimination discourse. As it uncovers the numerous difficulties with the complete lives approach, the dissertation develops an alternative: the Dignified Lives Approach to equality, according to which an individual should be treated with equal concern and respect, at any particular time and regardless of any comparison. The dissertation then articulates five essential principles founded in Dworkin’s notion of equal concern and respect: the principle of individual assessment, the principle of equal influence, the principle of sufficiency, the principle of social inclusion, and the principle of autonomy. When one of these principles is not respected at any particular time, a wrong is done, and the right to equality is violated. Next, the dissertation elucidates when and why unequal treatment of senior workers based on age does not respect each of these five principles and therefore constitutes unjust age discrimination. It demonstrates that senior workers’ right to age equality is a fundamental human right. Finally, it examines the above-mentioned challenges through the lens of the new Dignified Lives approach.

Gender and the Contours of Precarious Employment - Amine, Samir (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2010)
The article reviews the book, "Gender and the Contours of Precarious Employment," edited by Leah F. Vosko, Martha MacDonald and Iain Campbell.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

The Double Ghetto: Canadian Women and Their Segregated Work - Armstrong, Pat (Oxford University Press, 2010)
Named by members of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association as one of the most important works of Canadian sociology of the twentieth century, The Double Ghetto is a classic study of the segregated nature of women's work - and women's lives. Writing in the Canadian Journal of Sociology, Maureen Baker declared the book "a valuable contribution" when it first appeared. Today's working women find that while much has changed during the past three decades, all too many things remain the same. The Double Ghetto remains not only a landmark of Canadian sociology, but a disturbingly relevant examination of the challenges facing women in the workplace. --Publisher's description
Keywords: Women -- Employment -- Canada

Globalization, Flexibilization and Working Conditions in Asia and the Pacific - Artemova, Olga (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2010)
Globalization, Flexibilization and Working Conditions in Asia and the Pacific, edited by Sangheon Lee and Francois Eyraud, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Economic growth; Flexibility; Globalization; LABOR market; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Working conditions

No Small Change: Pension Funds and Corporate Engagement - Artemova, Olga (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2010)
No Small Change: Pension Funds and Corporate Engagement, by Tessa Hebb, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Corporate responsibility; Investment advisors; Labor Unions; Pension fund management; Retirement benefits; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

The Effects of Mass Immigration on Canadian Living Standards and Society - Artemova, Olga (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2010)
The Effects of Mass Immigration on Canadian Living Standards and Society, edited by Herbert Grubel, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Immigration policy; Labor Unions; Politics; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Social impact; Standard of living

‘If We Don't Get Back to Where We Were Before’: Working in the Restructured Non-Profit Social Services - Baines, Donna (British Journal of Social Work, 2010)
Drawing on data collected as part of a larger study of the experience of restructuring in the nonprofit (voluntary) social services in Canada and Australia, this article explores the responses to four overlapping interview questions regarding what drew nonprofit social service workers to the sector, what were the positive and negative aspects of working in the sector, and, if given the power, what is the one thing they would change. Responses to these questions highlight the way social service workers wish they could work, factors that impede this work, decrease worker autonomy and increase management control over their labour process. These new findings will be compared to findings from an earlier study of restructuring in the public and nonprofit Canadian social services, highlighting the way that changes in the labour process suppress or facilitate the empowerment of workers, including their capacity to dream of a better future.
Keywords: Canada/Australia comparison; Nonprofit; labour process; restructuring

In a Different Way: Social Unionism in the Nonprofit Social Services - An Australian/Canadian Comparison - Baines, Donna (Labor Studies Journal, 2010)
Drawing on comparative, qualitative data, this article explores unionization in the Canadian and Australian nonprofit social services. The article shows that the growth of unionization in this sector in Canada had little to do with deliberate strategies for union renewal. Instead, union growth and activism rose organically from the values orientation of the predominantly female workforce and the curtailment of workplace opportunities for social justice struggles. The Australian example reflects the conflux of legal contexts, political parties, managerial approaches, and the servicing model of unionism. The article concludes with a discussion of possibilities for those seeking to revitalize the union movement.
Keywords: Social services; Women; nonprofit sector; social unionism; union renewal

Neoliberal Restructuring, Activism/Participation, and Social Unionism in the Nonprofit Social Services - Baines, Donna (Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 2010)
During the era of neoliberalism, the nonprofit services sector has simultaneously been a site of (a) promarket restructuring and collective and individual resistance and (b) alternative forms of service delivery. Drawing on data collected as part of an ethnographic study in the Canadian nonprofit social services sector, this article explores the impacts of some of restructuring on professional, quasi-professional, and managerial employees in eight unionized, nonprofit social services. The data show that the adoption of social unionism has permitted some nonprofit social service workers to initiate new processes through which to have a voice in far-reaching social issues, sometimes in coalition with management and/or clients. The findings of this study point to the irrepressibility of the participatory spirit and its capacity to seek new forms and practices despite the stretched and restructured conditions of today’s nonprofit social services sector.
Keywords: Social services; Unions; participatory spirit; restructuring; voluntary spirit

Worker Representation and Workplace Health and Safety - Baril-Gingras, Geneviève (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2010)
Worker Representation and Workplace Health and Safety, by David Walters and Theo Nichols, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Employment practices; International; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Occupational safety; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Alberta's 2002 Teacher Strike: The Political Economy of Labor Relations in Education - Barnetson, Bob (Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2010)
In 2002, approximately two-thirds of school teachers in the Canadian province of Alberta went on strike. Drawing on media, government and union documents, this case study reveals some contours of the political economy of labor relations in education that are normally hidden from view. Among these features are that the state can react to worker resistance by legally pressuring trade unions and justifying this action as in the public interest. This justification seeks to divide the working class and pit segments of it against each other. The state may also seek to limit discussion and settlements to monetary matters to avoid constraining its ability to manage the workplace or the educational system. This analysis provides a basis for developing a broader theory of the political economy of labor relations in education. It also provides trade unionists in education with information useful in formulating a strike strategy.
Keywords: Elementary Secondary Education; Foreign Countries; Labor; Labor relations; Political Power; Politics of Education; Public Education; Public Schools; State Government; Teacher Strikes; Teachers; Unions; Working class

Children Working Alone in Alberta: How Child Labour and Working Alone Regulations Interact - Barnetson, Bob (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2010)
The Canadian province of Alberta does not effectively enforce its child labour laws. This non-enforcement interacts with the working-alone regulations in Alberta´s Occupational Health and Safety Act to deny workers under age 15 meaningful solo work protection. As a result, children and adolescents are exposed to the hazards adults face while working alone as well as hazards unique to children and adolescents working alone. This suggests that failing to enforce child labour laws has both obvious and subtle effects. The subtle effects are difficult to identify and remediate, in part because of the initial regulatory failure is politically difficult to acknowledge.

Effectiveness of Complaint-Driven Regulation of Child Labour in Alberta - Barnetson, Bob (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2010)
This study further develops our understanding of the employment experiences of children (ages 9-11) and adolescents (ages 12-14) in the Canadian province of Alberta, with particular attention to illegal employment and the effectiveness of complaint-based regulation. Survey data demonstrates there is a significant degree of illegal employment among children and adolescents. Interview data suggests that complaint-driven regulation of child labour is ineffective because parents, children and adolescents cannot identify violations and do not take action to trigger state enforcement.

The Political Economy of Workplace Injury in Canada - Barnetson, Bob (Fabriks: Studies in the working class, 2010)
Labour relations scholar Bob Barnetson sheds light on the faulty system of workplace injury compensation, highlighting the way some employers create dangerous work environments yet invest billions of dollars into compensation and treatment.
Keywords: Accidents; Costs; Economic aspects; Industrial accidents; Industrial hygiene; Industrial safety; Occupational diseases; Political aspects; Workers' compensation

An Independent Foreign Policy for Canada? Challenges and Choices for the Future - Bashevkin, Sylvia (Labour / Le Travail, 2010)
The article reviews the book, "An Independent Foreign Policy for Canada? Challenges and Choices for the Future," edited by Brian Bow and Patrick Lennox.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; BOW, Brian; CANADA -- Foreign relations -- 1945-; INDEPENDENT Foreign Policy for Canada? Challenges & Choices for the Future, An (Book); LENNOX, Patrick; Nonfiction

Intégration socioprofessionnelle des immigrants récents au Québec : le rôle de l'information et des réseaux sociaux - Béji, Kamel; Pellerin, Anaïs (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2010)
Aussi bien le Canada que le Québec ont connu durant les deux dernières décennies une croissance des flux migratoires afin de faire face notamment au vieillissement de la population active et à la pénurie de main-d’oeuvre. Depuis les accords Gagnon-Tremblay-McDougall, le Québec a adopté une politique d’immigration économique où la plupart des personnes sélectionnées ont un profil jeune, un niveau de qualification élevé et parlent le français ou l’anglais. Malgré la hausse du nombre d’immigrants, on observe une intégration professionnelle plus difficile pour les nouveaux arrivants. Plusieurs études et rapports gouvernementaux associent les difficultés d’intégration socioprofessionnelle principalement aux barrières linguistiques, à la non-reconnaissance des acquis et des compétences, aux pratiques discriminatoires et au manque de réseaux sociaux. Ces études évoquent souvent l’importance pour les nouveaux arrivants d’avoir une information pertinente les aidant à intégrer le plus rapidement possible le marché du travail en adéquation avec leurs attentes. L’objectif de cet article est alors d’asseoir une réflexion sur la nature, le rôle et l’impact des flux informationnels véhiculés par les différents réseaux sociaux sur l’intégration socioprofessionnelle des nouveaux arrivants. L’article tente de répondre à un certain nombre de questions : Quelles informations sont indispensables au succès de l’intégration socioprofessionnelle ? Quels sont les facteurs qui peuvent accentuer les lacunes informationnelles ? Comment les flux informationnels véhiculés par ces différents réseaux influencent-ils le processus d’intégration socioprofessionnelle des immigrants ? Pour tenter de répondre à ces questions, nous décrivons d’abord les principales difficultés rencontrées par les nouveaux arrivants au Québec. Ensuite, nous analysons les flux informationnels qui orientent le processus d’intégration sociale et professionnelle des immigrants et repensons le rôle que jouent les réseaux sociaux dans la diffusion des informations. En conclusion, nous suggérons des pistes de recherche en matière de politiques publiques d’immigration et d’intégration.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Organisation pathogène du travail et maintien durable en emploi : une question antinomique ? - Bellemare, Marie (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2010)
The article reviews the book, "Organisation pathogène du travail et maintien durable en emploi : une question antinomique ?," edited by Marie-France Maranda and Geneviève Fournier.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Northern Exposures: A Canadian Perspective on Occupational Health and Environment - Bennett, David (Work, health, and environment series, 2010)
David Bennett is the retired National Director of Health, Safety and Environment of the Canadian Labour Congress and the Book Review Editor of the journal New Solutions. Northern Exposures is the result of thirty years of work in the labor movement on workplace health and safety and environmental protection. In the 1990s, the author had a central responsibility in moving the Canadian Labour Congress from its established work in health and safety into environmental protection, a story detailed in Northern Exposures. The book is a collection of published articles and reviews, linked by a new Introduction that shows the development of the thinking and actions of the Canadian labor movement in areas that were in constant flux. --Publisher's description. Contents: The right to know about chemical hazards in Canada,1982-2006 -- Labour and the environment at the Canadian Labour Congress: the story of the convergence -- Occupational health: a discipline out of focus -- Pesticide reduction: a case study from Canada -- The Canadian Labour Congress' pollution prevention strategy -- Prevention and transition -- Cancer battles and the sleep of reason policy and science need not be related: review -- Book about cancer: pragmatic purpose, profound analysis: reviews -- The secret history of the war on cancer: review -- Industrial materials: a guidebook for the future: review -- 'Natural capitalism's' bold theory: review -- Beware ISO -- ISO and the WTO: a report to the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions' Working Party on Health, Safety, and Environment -- Health and safety management systems: liability or asset?
Keywords: Canada; Environmental health; Industrial hygiene; Occupational health and safety; Public Policy

Railroad Crossings: The Transnational World of North America, 1850-1910 - Berkowitz, Christine Ann (University of Toronto, 2010)
The last quarter of the nineteenth century is often referred to as the “Golden Age” of railroad building. More track was laid in this period in North America than in any other period. The building of railroads was considered synonymous with nation building and economic progress. Railway workers were the single largest occupational group in the period and among the first workers to be employed by large-scale, corporately owned and bureaucratically managed organizations. While there is a rich historiography regarding the institutional and everyday lives of railway workers and the corporations that employed them, the unit of analysis has been primarily bounded by the nation. These national narratives leave out the north-south connections created by railroads that cut across geo-political boundaries and thus dramatically increasing the flows of people, goods and services between nations on the North American continent. Does the story change if viewed from a continental rather than national perspective? Railroad Crossings tells the story of the people and places along the route of the Grand Trunk Railroad of Canada between Montreal, Quebec and Portland, Maine and the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad (and later of the Southern Pacific) between Benson, Arizona and Guaymas, Sonora. The study first takes a comparative view of the cross-border railroad development followed by a consideration of emerging patterns and practices that suggest a broader continental continuity. The evidence demonstrates that this broader continental continuity flows from the application of a certain “railroad logic” or the impact of the essence of railroad operations that for reasons of safety and efficiency required the broad standardization of operating procedures that in many ways rendered place irrelevant.

Le maintien dans l'emploi des travailleurs âgés dans trois entreprises belges - Bertrand, Françoise; Lemaire, Cécile; Barbier, Marie; Hansez, Isabelle (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2010)
La croissance économique future a besoin d’un taux d’emploi plus important des travailleurs de plus de 55 ans. Par rapport à cette problématique grandissante, il est important d’identifier les solutions préconisées par les travailleurs âgés pour favoriser le maintien dans l’emploi. Ainsi, les travailleurs âgés de trois entreprises ont été interrogés à ce sujet. Ce travail avait pour objectif d’identifier les solutions privilégiées par les travailleurs, parmi celles proposées par la littérature et celles que les travailleurs proposent de manière spontanée. Nous avons également tenté de déterminer si les solutions sont différentes en fonction de la catégorie socio-professionnelle, du temps de travail et du type d’horaire. Finalement cette étude a permis de cibler les actions à mettre en place : actions concernant la discrimination, les conditions de travail, le temps de travail et le développement professionnel. Elle a permis surtout de constater que les actions relatives à la lutte contre la discrimination sont davantage demandées par les ouvriers, les travailleurs à temps partiel et à horaire variable. Dans ce sens, il semble pertinent de considérer les demandes des ouvriers différemment des demandes des cadres. Ces derniers cherchant davantage des possibilités de développement, tandis que les ouvriers cherchent plus une amélioration des conditions de travail.
Keywords: Age discrimination; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Older workers; Professional development; Retention; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Statistical analysis; Studies

Teachers and Reform: Chicago Public Education, 1929-1970 - Berube, Maurice (Labour / Le Travail, 2010)
The article reviews the book, "Teachers and Reform: Chicago Public Education, 1929-1970," by John F. Lyons.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; EDUCATION -- United States; History; LYONS, John F.; Nonfiction; TEACHERS & Reform: Chicago Public Education 1929-1970 (Book)

Speaking of Class in the Québec Labour Movement: Interpreting the Relationship Between Class and Identity in the Québec Labour Movement 1850-2010 - Bisaillon, Richard (Concordia University, 2010)
An examination of the recent and contemporary Québec labour union movement and its relationship with the nationalist cause might incline the observer to conclude that this powerful synthesis of what are in fact two separate sets of collective interests is a recent phenomenon sparked by Québec’s Quiet Revolution. In fact, these two aspects of collective and individual self and their expression through institutional forms have evolved together over the last two centuries. A further examination of the broader historical pattern demonstrates that aspects of shared linguistic and cultural identity have always at the very least qualified, and most often significantly muted expressions of working class interests and identity. In fact, save for a brief period from the Quiet Revolution to the first mandate of the Parti Québécois in 1976, working class collaboration with other class fractions in Québec ostensibly made in the greater interests of linguistic and cultural solidarity have generally cost the working classes a premium, while actually working to the benefit of other class partners. This historical pattern combined with the increasing influence of a neo-liberal ideological position within the Québec “state” leads to a certain conclusion: that there is an essential incompatibility between institutions calculated to represent working-class interests and movements founded upon a struggle for cultural recognition and the assertion of national interests. While the former seek the elimination or reduction of socio-economic differences, the latter seek only a cycling of dominant elites, resulting in the same dominant class relations under a different cultural elite fraction. --Author's abstract ---------------- An examination of Quebec labour unions and French Quebec's nationalist movement, which the author argues evolved together over a 200 year period. The author devotes one chapter to the "second wave of unionisation that washed over employees at Concordia University in the mid-1980s." During this period the university experienced the creation of approximately half a dozen unions over the span of a very few years in an institution that was comparatively lightly touched by the union experience previously. The author devotes another three chapters to the successive historical periods as they apply to the evolution of the labour movement in Quebec. One of these chapters deals with the first embryonic forms of working class representation couched within the context of "working men's associations," "benevolent societies" and the like, to genuine trade and labour unions after 1872 when the act of combination was decriminalised in Canada. Reference is made to English-speaking associations and societies during this early period, such as Quebec City's Ship Labourers' Benevolent Society, founded in 1857, by Irish workers. The author concludes with an examination of the cultural and linguistic divisions within Quebec's union movements. -- Summary by Brendan O'Donnell, Bibliography on English-Speaking Quebec

Place aux individus : les itinéraires professionnels des travailleurs lors de la grève de Kirkland Lake, 1941-1942 - Blais, Sophie (Université Laurentienne, 2010)
Cette thèse de maîtrise retrace les parcours des travailleurs impliqués dans la grève des mines d'or de Kirkland Lake de 1941-1942. À partir de l'examen des fiches d'embauche et de service de la société aurifère la plus importante à Kirkland Lake, la mine Lake Shore, il a été possible de reconstituer, jour après jour, le déroulement du conflit, en y retraçant les va-et-vient précis de tous les travailleurs présents. À l'évidence, les itinéraires reconstitués des travailleurs sont multiples et divergents. Qu'il soit un employé de bureau ou un mineur, chaque travailleur a eu un parcours propre pendant la grève et a été susceptible de modifier à lui seul la tournure des événements, en adoptant, par exemple, des comportements non solidaires, ou en décidant de poursuivre la grève après sa fin officielle.

When the Labor Party Dreams: Class, Politics and Policy in New South Wales 1930-32 - Bongiorno, Frank (Labour / Le Travail, 2010)
The article reviews the book, "When the Labor Party Dreams: Class, Politics and Policy in New South Wales 1930-32 " by Geoff Robinson.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; NEW South Wales -- Politics & government -- 20th century; Nonfiction; ROBINSON, Geoff; WHEN the Labor Party Dreams: Class, Politics & Policy in New South Wales 1930-1932 (Book)

Mennonite Domestic Workers: Intersections of Gender, Ethnicity and Religion - Borger, Sandra Marie (Simon Fraser University, 2010)
The dominant representation of domestic work in the literature is quite negative, with uncaring employers, sexual, verbal, and physical abuse, and underpaid and overworked employees. However, the interviews conducted for this micro-study present an intriguingly different image. Young, immigrant Mennonite women who had come to Canada during the Second World War moved during the post-war period from their rural homes in the Fraser Valley, British Columbia, into the city of Vancouver. There, they were employed in domestic work and spent Thursday afternoons at the Maedchenheim, or girls’ home, with their peers. This thesis examines the disconnect between their accounts of domestic work and those of other domestics, with particular attention to how ethnoreligious understandings of gender, community, and survival informed my narrators’ memories and retellings of their experiences. It also explores whether the shift from a rural to an urban environment changed these women’s perceptions of their gender identity.

Beyond Work-Family Balance: Are Family-Friendly Organizations More Attractive? - Bourhis, Anne; Mekkaoui, Redouane (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2010)
This study endeavours to investigate the effect of family-friendly practices (FFPs) on organizational attractiveness. Using a policy-capturing research design, we tested the distinct effect of four FFPs (i.e., on-site child care; generous personal leaves; flexible scheduling; and teleworking) on applicant attraction. We also tested the effect of organizational reputation and candidates' desire for segmentation. Our results indicate that FFPs do have a main effect on attractiveness. More specifically, the two scenarios that received the highest scores on attractiveness were personal leaves and flexible scheduling. Contrary to expectations, we did not find a significant "Desire for segmentation x Family-friendly practices" interaction. As expected, corporate reputation does have a significant main effect of attractiveness. Implications for research and practice are discussed.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Corporate culture; International; Labor Unions; Recruitment; Reputation management; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Variance analysis

Sociologie des relations professionnelles / Sociologie du travail : les relations professionnelles - Bourque, Reynald (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2010)
The article reviews the books, "Sociologie des relations professionnelles, " new edition, by Michel Lallemant, and "Sociologie du travail : les relations professionnelles" by Antoine Bevort and Annette Jobert.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

The Transformation of International Trade Unionism in the Era of Globalization - Bourque, Reynald; Hennebert, Marc-Antonin (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2010)
Following the Second World Congress of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) held from June 21 to 25, 2010 in Vancouver, this article examines the changes undergone by international trade unionism in recent years. The increasing power of multinational corporations, as a result of globalization, has led to a transformation in international trade unionism which has produced a reorganization of its structures and the emergence of new forms of action to ensure the protection of workers´ rights worldwide. The key argument of this article is that the evolution of the structures and practices of international trade union organizations over the last two decades has been characterized by the implementation of strategies aimed, on the one hand, at reinforcing trade union unity and, on the other hand, at targeting multinational corporations. Lastly, although the transformation of international trade unionism has given rise to important structural changes, international trade union organizations continue to face formidable challenges in their efforts to effectively contribute to the regulation of the global economy.

Labour Conditions for Construction: Building Cities, Decent Work and the Role of Local Authorities - Bowden, Bradley (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2010)
Labour Conditions for Construction: Building Cities, Decent Work and the Role of Local Authorities, edited by Roderick Lawrence and Edmundo Werna, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Construction industry; Employment; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Roles; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Retirement's Past, Present, and Possibilities - Brennan, David M. (Labour / Le Travail, 2010)
The article reviews and comments on four books: "Democratizing Pension Funds: Corporate Governance and Accountability" by Ronald B. Davis; "When I'm Sixty-Four: The Plot against Pensions and the Plan to Save Them" by Teresa Ghilarducci; "No Small Change: Pension Funds and Corporate Engagement" by Tessa Hebb; and one other.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; DAVIS, Ronald B.; DEMOCRATIZING Pension Funds: Corporate Governance & Accountability (Book); GHILARDUCCI, Teresa; HEBB, Tessa; NO Small Change: Pension Funds & Corporate Engagement (Book); Nonfiction; WHEN I'm 64: The Plot Against Pensions & the Plan to Save Them (Book)

Guantánamo: A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution - Bronfman, Alejandra (Labour / Le Travail, 2010)
The article reviews the book, "Guantánamo: A Working-Class History Between Empire and Revolution," by Jana K. Lipman.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; GUANTANAMO Bay Naval Base (Cuba); GUANTANAMO: A Working-Class History Between Empire & Revolution (Book); History; LIPMAN, Jana K.; Nonfiction

Until the End: Memoirs of Sinter-plant Activist Jean L. Gagnon - Buse, Dieter K. (Labour / Le Travail, 2010)
The article reviews the book, "Until the End: Memoirs of Sinter-Plant Activist Jean L. Gagnon," by Adelle Larmour.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; GAGNON, Jean L.; LARMOUR, Adelle; MEMOIRS; Nonfiction; UNTIL the End: Memoirs of Sinter-Plant Activist Jean L. Gagnon (Book)

Mother Russia and the Socialist Fatherland: Women and the Communist Party of Canada, 1932-1941, with Specific Reference to the Activism of Dorothy Livesay and Jim Watts - Butler, Nancy Ellen (Queen's University, 2010)
This dissertation traces a shift in the Communist Party of Canada, from the 1929 to 1935 period of militant class struggle (generally known as the ‘Third Period’) to the 1935-1939 Popular Front Against Fascism, a period in which Communists argued for unity and cooperation with social democrats. The CPC’s appropriation and redeployment of bourgeois gender norms facilitated this shift by bolstering the CPC’s claims to political authority and legitimacy. ‘Woman’ and the gendered interests associated with women—such as peace and prices—became important in the CPC’s war against capitalism. What women represented symbolically, more than who and what women were themselves, became a key element of CPC politics in the Depression decade. Through a close examination of the cultural work of two prominent middle-class female members, Dorothy Livesay, poet, journalist and sometime organizer, and Eugenia (‘Jean’ or ‘Jim’) Watts, reporter, founder of the Theatre of Action, and patron of the Popular Front magazine New Frontier, this thesis utilizes the insights of queer theory, notably those of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and Judith Butler, not only to reconstruct both the background and consequences of the CPC’s construction of ‘woman’ in the 1930s, but also to explore the significance of the CPC’s strategic deployment of heteronormative ideas and ideals for these two prominent members of the Party.

The Fishermen's Frontier: People and Salmon in Southeast Alaska - Cadigan, Sean T. (Labour / Le Travail, 2010)
The article reviews the book, "The Fishermen's Frontier: People and Salmon in Southeast Alaska," by David F. Arnold.
Keywords: ALASKA; ARNOLD, David F.; BOOKS -- Reviews; FISHERMEN'S Frontier: People & Salmon in Southeast Alaska, The (Book); Fisheries; History; Nonfiction

Rose Henderson: A Woman for the People - Campbell, J. Peter (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010)
Feminism and the political left come to life in this account of an important early twentieth-century social activist. The political movements and social causes of the turbulent 1920s and 30s are brought to life in this study of the work and times of feminist, socialist, and peace activist Rose Henderson (1871-1937). Her commitment to social justice led to frequent monitoring and repression by the authorities but her contributions to activist thought continue to pose challenges for interpretations of the history of Canada, leftism, labour, and women. In the first biography of Henderson, Peter Campbell provides a broader vision and deeper analysis of the period, drawing together the history of labour and of women's movements in French and English Canada, as well as the rise of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation and its relationship with the Communist Party. Through analysis of Henderson's ground-breaking ideology Campbell shows that in the interwar years she and her comrades developed a distinctive feminism that differs from that of the first and second waves of feminist thought. A fresh look at the turmoil of the early twentieth century from an eye in the storm, Rose Henderson: A Woman for the People brings well-deserved attention to an influential feminist and leftist. --Publisher's description.

Le Japon au travail - Cantin, Étienne (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2010)
The article reviews the book, "Le Japon au travail," by Bernard Bernier, with the collaboration of Vincent Mirza.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

NAFTA and Labor in North America - Caulfield, Norman (University of Illinois Press, 2010)
A cogent analysis of North American trade unions' precipitous decline in recent decades. As companies increasingly look to the global market for capital, cheaper commodities and labor, and lower production costs, the impact on Mexican and American workers and labor unions is significant. National boundaries and the laws of governments that regulate social relations between laborers and management are less relevant in the era of globalization, rendering ineffective the traditional union strategies of pressuring the state for reform. Focusing especially on the effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement and the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (the first international labor agreement linked to an international trade agreement), Norman Caulfield notes the waning political influence of trade unions and their disunity and divergence on crucial issues such as labor migration and workers' rights. Comparing the labor movement's fortunes in the 1970s with its current weakened condition, Caulfield notes the parallel decline in the United States' hegemonic influence in an increasingly globalized economy. As a result, organized labor has been transformed from organizations that once pressured management and the state for concessions to organizations that now request that workers concede wages, pensions, and health benefits to remain competitive in the global marketplace. --Publisher's description. Contents: Labor and global capitalism in North America, 1850-1970 -- The politics of Mexican labor and economic development in crisis -- Mexican labor and workers' rights under NAFTA and NAALC -- Labor mobility and workers' rights in North America -- The crisis of union-management relations in the United States and Canada -- The North American auto industry: the apex of concessionary bargaining -- Veba Las Vegas! unions play casino capitalism : autoworkers lose.
Keywords: Industrial relations; Labor

Women's Labour, Relationship Breakdown and Ownership of the Family Farm - Chambers, Lori (Canadian Journal of Law and Society, 2010)
The dominant story of matrimonial property law reform in English Canada treats the farming family case of Murdoch v. Murdoch as the great catalyst for change, but there are persistent inequalities affecting farm women, even in provinces that have made progressive changes in the law of relationship breakdown. The farm is the quintessential family business and is both place of residence and source of income. Since the farm is not readily divisible, it is not surprising that all the major marital property law cases to reach the Supreme Court of Canada have involved farm property. What is surprising is that most provincial property reforms, though inspired by the Murdoch case, explicitly exclude farms from division, and those that include farms in the property to be divided still have mechanisms that tend to favour husbands. This article examines Canadian courts’ gendered conceptualization of what constitutes a family business by examining the cases on farm property and the related legislative reforms. Feminists, and all women who have benefited from matrimonial property law reform, have an obligation to recognize the problems created by our persistent failure to understand the farm as simultaneously home and place of business.

The Regulation of Paid Care Workers' Wages and Conditions in the Non-Profit Sector: A Toronto Case Study - Charlesworth, Sara (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2010)
The paper explores the distinctive regulatory space in which care workers' wages and conditions are determined. It draws on a case study of the non-profit sector of Toronto illustrated by the experience of four social services agencies located there. In doing so it examines the intersection between industrial regulation and practice, and other regulatory constraints or mechanisms identified by Lessig (1988). In community services these mechanisms include funding models, the gendered social norms that presume and underpin the valuation of paid care work and the organization of care work in diverse care settings. It is the mix of these regulatory forces and the specific contexts within which they interact that effect particular wage and non-wage outcomes for care work.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Community service; Federal regulation; Labor Unions; Medical personnel; Models; Nonprofit organizations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Wages & salaries

Migration, Class, and Transnational Identities: Croatians in Australia and America - Cicak-Chand, Ruzica (Labour / Le Travail, 2010)
The article reviews the book, "Migration, Class, and Transnational Identities: Croatians in Australia and America," by Val Colic-Peisker.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; COLIC-Peisker, Val; CROATS; MIGRATION, Class & Transnational Identities: Croatians in Australia & America (Book); Nonfiction; Social conditions

Negotiating Writers´ Rights: Freelance Cultural Labour and the Challenge of Organizing - Cohen, Nicole S. (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2010)
As media companies grow in profits and economic significance, workers in these industries are experiencing precarious forms of employment and declining union power. This article provides insight into the experiences of a growing segment of the media labour force in Canada: freelance writers, who face declining rates of pay, intensified struggles over copyright, and decreasing control over their work. At the same time, freelancers are currently experimenting with various appoaches to collective organizing: a professional association, a union, and an agency-union partnership. As part of a larger project on freelance writers’ working conditions and approaches to organizing, this article provides an overview of three organizational models and raises some early questions about their implications.

Penser le renouveau syndical par la sphère financière - Coiquaud, Urwana; Morissette, Lucie (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2010)
L’immixtion de l’acteur syndical dans la gestion des caisses de retraite a fait l’objet d’études au Canada et aux États-Unis. Les résultats auxquels elles aboutissent sont contrastés. Certaines déplorent de telles initiatives, car elles conduisent à diluer l’acteur syndical et ses valeurs. D’autres au contraire y voient l’opportunité d’étendre la fonction de représentation du syndicat. Au-delà de leur polarité, ces études analysent les ingrédients et le résultat de l’innovation, mais délaissent le processus de construction, soit le pourquoi et le comment l’acteur investit la sphère financière, et en quoi cette innovation s’aligne-t-elle sur les objectifs du renouveau syndical?C’est précisément l’objectif de cet article de répondre à ces questions en mobilisant le concept d’entrepreneur institutionnel (Campbell, 2004) pour envisager l’acteur syndical sous l’angle d’un entrepreneur à l’oeuvre qui « bricole » pour produire le changement. L’étude de cas porte sur une institution québécoise, le Comité syndical national de retraite de Bâtirente qui, fondé par la Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN) en 1987, a pour mission d’offrir aux membres de cette centrale des régimes de retraite. Après une série d’entrevues et l’analyse de contenu de différents documents traitant de Bâtirente, nos résultats démontrent qu’il a été créé par et pour les membres en collaboration avec la centrale. Dans une première phase, Bâtirente ne se dissocie guère d’autres investisseurs du milieu de la finance. Il imite leurs façons de faire et cherche avant tout à remplir sa mission et à devenir un acteur légitime dans ce milieu. Par contre, dans une seconde phase, en tant qu’entrepreneur institutionnel, Bâtirente innove en affirmant son allégeance syndicale : il introduit des critères environnementaux, sociaux et de gouvernance (ESG) dans sa gestion, mène des actions concrètes (vote de proposition d’actionnaires, etc.) et finalement participe indirectement au renouveau syndical.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Content analysis; Entrepreneurial finance; Labor Unions; Pension funds; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

La précarité : une relation entre travail, organisation et santé - D'Amours, Martine (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2010)
The article reviews the book, "La précarité : une relation entre travail, organisation et santé," edited by Gilbert de Terssac, Corinne Saint-Martin and Claire Thébault.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Les logiques d'action collective d'associations regroupant des travailleurs indépendants - D'Amours, Martine (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2010)
La croissance de la proportion des travailleurs indépendants au sein de la main-d’oeuvre, ainsi que les nouvelles caractéristiques de ces travailleurs, expliquent sans doute qu’on ait vu naître des associations vouées à leur promotion, à leur défense ou à leur représentation. L’objectif de cet article est d’analyser l’action collective organisée mise en oeuvre par des associations regroupant des travailleurs indépendants, du point de vue des logiques d’action qu’elles introduisent et des nouvelles règles qu’elles contribuent à créer dans le champ des relations industrielles. Après avoir exposé le cadre analytique et la méthodologie de recherche, nous présentons et illustrons cinq logiques d’action idéal-typiques : entrepreneuriale, syndicale classique, syndicale élargie, professionnelle et des normes minimales universelles.Chacune de ces logiques introduit dans le champ des relations industrielles un nouveau problème ou une nouvelle réalité, qu’il s’agisse de travailleurs indépendants pour lesquels une entité, qui n’a pas le statut légal d’employeur, contrôle des pans importants de la prestation de travail, de travailleurs mobiles qui font affaire avec plusieurs donneurs d’ouvrage, voire exercent plusieurs métiers; de travailleurs professionnels qui évoluent hors de l’orbite du système qui régule les professions reconnues, et finalement de travailleurs précaires, faussement désignés comme autonomes.Chacune mobilise une identité particulière, qui souvent diffère des identités traditionnelles en relations industrielles. Chacune finalement intervient au moins partiellement pour transformer les règles du jeu. Si certaines plaident pour le maintien ou du renforcement des règles actuelles, qui définissent le travailleur indépendant comme un entrepreneur, d’autres favorisent l’extension à certains groupes de travailleurs indépendants de la protection offerte aux salariés par les lois du travail, alors que d’autres encore promeuvent la mise en place de nouvelles règles, visant la négociation à l’échelle sectorielle de conditions minimales de travail pour des entrepreneurs indépendants. D’autres recherches seraient nécessaires pour mieux appréhender l’impact de ces nouveaux acteurs et de ces nouvelles règles sur les conditions de travail des indépendants, sur les acteurs traditionnels du champ des relations industrielles et sur le modèle de représentation collective.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Collective bargaining; Labor Unions; Labor law; Labor relations; Self employment; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement - Dennis, Michael (Labour / Le Travail, 2010)
The article reviews the book, "Staley: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement," by Steven K. Ashby and C. J. Hawking.
Keywords: A.E. Staley Manufacturing Co. -- History; ASHBY, Steven K.; BOOKS -- Reviews; HAWKING, C. J.; Nonfiction; STALEY: The Fight for a New American Labor Movement (Book)

Shadow of the Racketeer: Scandal in Organized Labor - Desan, Mathieu (Labour / Le Travail, 2010)
The article reviews the book, "Shadow of the Racketeer: Scandal in Organized Labor," by David Witwer.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; History; LABOR unions -- United States; Nonfiction; SHADOW of the Racketeer: Scandal in Organized Labor (Book); WITWER, David