Jobs and Justice: Fighting Discrimination in Wartime Canada, 1939-1945 - Clément, Dominique (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Jobs and Justice: Fighting Discrimination in Wartime Canada, 1939-1945," by Carmela Patrias.
Keywords: Canada; History; JOBS & Justice: Fighting Discrimination in Wartime Canada 1939-1945 (Book); Nonfiction; PATRIAS, Carmela; RACE discrimination in employment; Race discrimination

Des conflits de rôle au stress perçu : Les managers ont-ils besoin d’être soutenus? - Codo, Sylvie; Soparnot, Richard (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
De nombreuses recherches présentent le soutien social perçu comme un levier efficace de gestion du stress au travail. Notre recherche propose de vérifier cette hypothèse en interrogeant le rôle modérateur attribué au soutien social perçu provenant des supérieurs et des subordonnés dans les relations entre les conflits de rôle et le stress chez des managers intermédiaires (MI) et des managers de proximité (MP) du secteur public. Le modèle exigences-ressources professionnelles (Bakker et Demerouti, 2007) nous a servi de cadre théorique. D’après ce modèle, le soutien social perçu constitue une ressource professionnelle permettant d’atténuer les effets délétères des exigences professionnelles sur la santé mentale. Les données collectées auprès de 310 managers dans des administrations publiques locales confirment partiellement cette hypothèse. En effet, notre recherche ne permet pas d’appuyer dans un premier temps l’influence modératrice du soutien social perçu provenant des supérieurs et du soutien social perçu provenant des subordonnés dans la relation entre les conflits de rôle et le stress perçu chez les MI. Des résultats similaires sont observés dans certains cas chez des MP. Conséquemment, l’hypothèse de la non-mobilisation du soutien social comme une ressource professionnelle par les managers dans certaines conditions est avancée pour discuter ces résultats. Ces derniers révèlent dans un second temps que l’efficacité du soutien social perçu dépend de plusieurs facteurs : la nature et la source du soutien social perçu, le type de conflit de rôle en présence et le niveau hiérarchique des managers bénéficiaires (MI et MP). Ainsi, plus que MI, les MP semblent plus réceptifs au soutien social d’estime perçu provenant de leurs supérieurs lorsqu’ils sont confrontés aux conflits de rôle. Par conséquent, leur niveau de stress diminue. Afin de gérer le stress des MP occasionné par les conflits de rôle, nos implications managériales sont orientées vers une reconnaissance de leurs compétences professionnelles.
Keywords: administraciones públicas locales; administrations publiques locales; directivos de proximidad; directivos intermedios; job demands-resources model; local public administration; managers de proximité; managers intermédiaires; middle managers; modelo exigencias-recursos profesionales; modèle exigences-ressources professionnelles; proximity managers

Climate Change and Labour in the Energy Sector - Cohen, Marjorie Griffin; Calvert, John (Climate@Work, 2013)
[Analyzes] the impact of both climate change and climate policy on employment in the energy sector. --Editor's introduction
Keywords: Canada. Climatic changes; Climatic changes; Economic aspects; Economic aspects. Climatic changes; Government policy

Negotiating Precarious Cultural Work: Freelance Writers and Collective Organization in Media Industries - Cohen, Nicole S. (York University, 2013)
Commentary on freelance work in the cultural industries suggests that freelancers are autonomous "free agents" who enjoy fulfilling work and control over their careers. Yet empirical research demonstrates that freelance media work is becoming increasingly precarious. This dissertation is a case study of the working conditions of Canadian freelance writers, the political economic and cultural context in which they work, and their efforts to organize collectively to address challenges they face. The dissertation examines the underlying processes, practices, and power relations that shape the work of freelance writing to argue that freelancers' experiences flow directly from the capitalist logic of the corporate cultural industries in which they work. In this view, freelance writing has been transformed from being primarily a strategy of resisting salaried labour by journalists—an effort to gain some control over the terms of commodification of their labour power and autonomy over their craft—into a strategy for media firms to intensify exploitation of freelance writers' labour power through two primary strategies: the exploitation of unpaid labour time and control of copyright to writers' works. Drawing on Marxist political economic analysis, a survey of Canadian freelance writers, and interviews with freelance writers' unions and organizations, the dissertation examines how exploitation is obscured in freelance cultural work and how it can be confronted through collective organization. The dissertation examines Canadian freelance writers' current organizing efforts: a professional association, a union, and an agency-union hybrid, arguing that the models freelancers favour tend to reinforce notions of professionalism and a preference for service-based organizations, which has not given freelancers the power required to effectively defend themselves against corporations' changing business practices. The dissertation outlines the challenges writers' organizations need to overcome, not least freelance writers' ambivalence toward their status as workers. Finally, the dissertation foregrounds labour processes as central to understanding media, suggesting that continual downloading of the risks of journalistic labour onto precarious workers will have implications for the future of freelance writing as an occupation and the media content produced.
Keywords: Communication and the arts; Social sciences

Brève histoire des femmes au Québec - Cohen, Yolande (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Brève histoire des femmes au Québec," by Denyse Baillargeon.
Keywords: BAILLARGEON, Denyse; BREVE histoire des femmes au Quebec (Book); Nonfiction; QUEBEC (Province); Women

Persons with Disabilities in the Canadian Labour Market: An Overlooked Talent Pool - Collin, Chantal; Pang, Melissa; Lafontaine-Émond, Isabelle; Canada. Parliamentary Information and Research Service. Social Affairs Division (Library of Parliament Background Papers, 2013)
In the present context of labour shortages and skills gaps in Canada, it has been acknowledged that the country cannot afford to keep going without the talents of entire groups of populations that are currently underrepresented in the labour market. Among those groups are people with disabilities. This group is far from homogenous, and therefore not easy to define. Data in this paper helps to show a picture of the employment situation of people with disabilities. This paper also addresses some of the barriers that people with disabilities face, and provides an overview of certain federal programs that can help them. Finally, this paper discusses the Canadian legislative framework, with a focus on measures that prevent discrimination against people with disabilities, allowing them to join the workforce and engage fully in their communities. [Introduction]
Keywords: Canada; Employment; Government policy; Handicapés; PEOPLE with disabilities; Politique gouvernementale; Services; Services for; Travail

Making Feminist Politics: Transnational Alliances Between Women and Labour - Conway, Janet (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Making Feminist Politics: Transnational Alliances Between Women and Labour," by Suzanne Franzway and Mary Margaret Fonow.
Keywords: FONOW, Mary Margaret; FRANZWAY, Suzanne; History; MAKING Feminist Politics: Transnational Alliances Between Women & Labor (Book); Nonfiction; WOMEN in the labor movement; Women employees

Quebec Research on Work-related Musculoskeletal Disorders: Deeper Understanding for Better Prevention - Côté, Julie N.; Ngomo, Suzy; Stock, Susan; Messing, Karen; Vézina, Nicole; Antle, David; Delisle, Alain; Bellemare, Marie; Laberge, Marie; St-Vincent, Marie (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) represent a complex and multi-faceted challenge, requiring multi-disciplinary, multi-perspective research approaches ranging from fundamental, basic science research to studies of applied workplace-based interventions. Members of the MSD Research Axis of the Quebec Occupational Health and Safety Research Network have been actively engaged in WMSD research across this full spectrum, contributing to significant knowledge advances on WMSD. Despite this, many facets of WMSDs remain insufficiently understood, and WMSDs remain a considerable problem for our society. Advances on interventions to decrease risk and improve workers' health are notable, although the level and quality of evidence about the effectiveness of ergonomic interventions must be improved. This paper highlights contributions of the group towards the advancement of understanding and prevention of WMSDs.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Disease prevention; Labor Unions; Musculoskeletal diseases; Research & development--R&D; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; occupational health

Raising Retail: Organizing Retail Workers in Canada and the United States - Coulter, Kendra (Labor Studies Journal, 2013)
Retail workers are a significant but largely unorganized group in Canada and the United States. However, in recent years, there has been a marked increase in efforts to organize retail workers, including pursuit of innovative structures and strategies. The author focuses on the dominant threads of contemporary retail organizing work in Canada and the United States, outlining three current organizing vehicles: unionization, store-based networks, and occupation or sector-based associations. The author then reflects on the strengths, weaknesses, and possibilities of these approaches, independently and collectively, and emphasizes the need to confront the social and cultural as well as the economic devaluation of retail workers.

L'élaboration du droit de l'emploi au Québec : ses sources législatives et judiciaires - Coutu, Michel (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
L’élaboration du droit de l’emploi au Québec : ses sources législatives et judiciaires, by Fernand Morin, 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 Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program: Looking at Mexican Participation Through a Magnifying Glass - Cruz-Lopez, Irma Fabiola (University of Ottawa, 2013)
Mexican migrant workers have been coming to Canada since 1974 to work in agriculture as participants of the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP). Presently, Mexicans constitute the majority of SAWP workers. As well, Ontario is the main receiver of these workers followed by British Columbia and Quebec. Accordingly, the scope of this thesis mainly encompasses Mexican workers in Ontario. However, the thesis also includes Mexican SAWP workers in Quebec and British Columbia. This thesis reveals two main issues: (1) that all SAWP workers, particularly Mexican workers, lack key legal rights and protections relating to labour relations, employment, health and safety standards at the structural level of the SAWP; and at the federal, provincial, and international levels. (2) Even when they have rights under legislation relating to the above-mentioned subject matters, Mexicans, especially, lack the capacity to access them. Thus, they become 'unfree labourers' who are placed in a perpetual state of disadvantage, vulnerable to abuse and exploitation once in Canada.To describe the issues above, the thesis is divided into five chapters addressing the following: Chapter 1 presents the historical context behind the SAWP as well as the Mexican workers' circumstances that attract them to participate in the Program. Chapter 2 examines the applicable constitutional and federal framework for SAWP workers. In addition, it highlights key federal exclusions placed on them, which originate in the federal immigration and employment insurance legislation. Chapter 3 concludes that Ontario does not protect its agricultural workers from unfair treatment and exploitation in the workplace; rather, it perpetuates such practices. This reality is intensified for SAWP Mexican workers. Particularly, chapter 3 analyses a constitutional challenge to the Ontario legislation excluding agricultural worker from its labour relations regime; said challenge is based on ss. 2(d) and 15(1) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Chapter 4 maintains that similarly to workers in Ontario, SAWP workers in Quebec and British Columbia also face extreme disadvantages due in great part to the lack of or limited legal protections. Finally, chapter 5 asserts that due to its implementation in the Canadian framework, international law is inadequate to protect domestic and SAWP workers' rights. While each chapter identifies tangible drawbacks or anomalies, which affect SAWP workers negatively, the thesis also provides recommendations to alleviate said weaknesses.
Keywords: Collective bargaining; Discrimination; Employment insurance; Equality; Foreign workers; Immigration; Mexican workers; Migrant workers; Social sciences

Finding Home: Geographical Links Between Paid and Unpaid Work for Transnational Care Workers in Toronto's Suburbs - D'Addario, Silvia (York University, 2013)
Contemporary migration has become increasingly transnational as migrants maintain linkages with their place of origin and, in many cases, with multiple places. Transnational practices and identities highlight the complex ways that contemporary immigrants negotiate home. This dissertation explores the ways in which transnational Filipina care workers construct home and a sense of belonging, here and elsewhere. In order to examine these experiences of belonging, I investigate the linkages between paid and unpaid work in various workplaces and places of residence. This research weaves together experiences of paid and unpaid work and the locations that (re)create their feminized, racialized and classed circumstances. To capture the intricacies of home for transnational Filipina care workers, I analyze the 2006 Canadian Census and Statistics Canada's Ethnic Diversity Survey. I elaborate on these data with in-depth interviews and focus groups with three groups of Filipinas: recent health care workers, recent live-in caregivers and well-established residents. The analysis takes place in the inner suburbs of Scarborough, ON and the outer suburbs of Markham, ON; two locations that are key immigrant reception zones. My methodology investigates how various qualitative and quantitative methods can be employed to better understand how the complex relations between paid and unpaid work in various places of residence and workplaces influence the construction of home for transnational care workers.
Keywords: Care workers; Filipina; Ontario; Paid work; Social sciences; Suburbs; Toronto; Transnational; Unpaid work

Santé organisationnelle : Où en sommes-nous et vers où allons-nous au Québec? - Dagenais-Desmarais, Véronique; Dufour, Marie-Ève; St-Hilaire, France; Hébert, Rachèle (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
Dans un contexte où la qualité de vie au travail, le bien-être et la santé psychologique des employés sont actuellement au coeur des préoccupations des gestionnaires et des milieux de travail, les enjeux de santé organisationnelle deviennent incontournables. Or, malgré l’intérêt grandissant des chercheurs et des praticiens, la notion de santé organisationnelle a été l’objet de diverses conceptualisations et représente encore aujourd’hui un objet d’étude en pleine évolution. Dans cet ordre d’idées, cet article propose de faire une synthèse des approches contemporaines de la santé organisationnelle et d’investiguer comment cette thématique est abordée par les chercheurs québécois. Pour ce faire, une recension des écrits a d’abord été effectuée afin d’établir un portrait des connaissances acquises à ce jour. Ensuite, une enquête consultative a été réalisée auprès d’experts scientifiques québécois. À la fois les écrits et les experts consultés rapportent que la santé organisationnelle est un concept qui prend plusieurs sens, qui nécessite l’adoption d’une perspective plus globale et qui s’élargit à d’autres sphères que le travail. Or, contrairement à la documentation, les experts abordent surtout les aspects de la santé psychologique et moins la santé physique, et ils considèrent essentiellement les facteurs organisationnels comme des préoccupations de recherche future dans le domaine. Les résultats obtenus permettent de dresser un état des connaissances sur le concept de santé organisationnelle et son évolution, tout en identifiant les tendances émergentes susceptibles d’influencer les orientations scientifiques futures pour le regroupement stratégique en santé psychologique au travail du Réseau de recherche en santé et sécurité du travail du Québec.
Keywords: Delphi method; health; litterature review; méthode Delphi; método Delphi; organisation; organización; organization; recension des écrits; recensión bibliográfica; salud; santé; trabajo; travail; work

Care, Paid Work, and Work-Family-State Nexus: Learning from the US - Daly, Mary (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews and comments on the books, "Caring For America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State" by Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein, "Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America" by Evelyn Nakano Glenn and "Reshaping the Work-Family Debate: Why Men and Class Matter" by Joan C. Williams.
Keywords: BORIS, Eileen; CARING for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State (Book); FORCED to Care: Coercion & Caregiving in America (Book); GLENN, Evelyn Nakano; KLEIN, Jennifer; Nonfiction; RESHAPING the Work-Family Debate: Why Men & Class Matter (Book); WILLIAMS, Joan, 1952-

L’organisation des petits vendeurs de journaux à Montréal, 1903-1917 : comme quoi la jeunesse et la précarité ne sont pas des obstacles infranchissables à la syndicalisation - Dansereau, Bernard (Bulletin d'histoire politique, 2013)

Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life - Daschuk, James W. (James William) (University of Regina Press, 2013)
Revealing how Canada's first Prime Minister used a policy of starvation against Indigenous people to clear the way for settlement, the multiple award-winning Clearing the Plains sparked widespread debate about genocide in Canada. In arresting, but harrowing, prose, James Daschuk examines the roles that Old World diseases, climate, and, most disturbingly, Canadian politics-the politics of ethnocide-played in the deaths and subjugation of thousands of Indigenous people in the realization of Sir John A. Macdonald's "National Dream." It was a dream that came at great expense: the present disparity in health and economic well-being between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations, and the lingering racism and misunderstanding that permeates the national consciousness to this day. --Publisher's description
Keywords: Indians of North America -- Canada, Western -- History

(Se) Former pour transformer le travail : dynamiques de constructions d'une analyse critique du travail - David, Hélène (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Gouverner les fins de carrière à distance. Outplacement et vieillissement actif en emploi," by Thibauld Moulaert.
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

Security of Retirement Benefits in Canada: You Bet Your Life - Davis, Ronald B. (Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal, 2013)
This paper provides a careful review and analysis of employment-based pensions and other post-retirement benefits that may be available to Canadian workers when they retire, with particular emphasis on the extent to which such benefits are vulnerable to unilateral employer alteration or cancellation, or to the risks which arise in the event of the employer's insolvency. Taking stock of key differences between the rights of unionized employees and non-unionized ones, the author argues that the legal regimes governing common law employ- ment, collective bargaining and pensions offer varying degrees of security for post-retirement benefits, depending on the type of regime applicable to the work- place and the type of benefit. However, as the paper goes on to explain, the situ- ation changes dramatically if the employer becomes insolvent - all the more so because the federal legislation which regulates creditors' rights in an insolvency enjoys paramountcy over the provincial legislation that deals with employment, collective bargaining and pensions (including any provision made in that prov- incial legislation for so-called "deemed trusts"). The author sets out and weighs the numerous risks confronting employees' pension and post-retirement benefit entitlements in both an insolvency proceeding and in a restructuring, again drawing attention to the different dynamics that may come into play in unionized and non-unionized workplaces. In general, he finds, the security of pensions is stronger than that of non-pension benefits, but will still depend on the adequacy of the pension plan's funding before insolvency.

Three Essays in Labour Economics: An Application of Mixed Methods Research to Understanding of the Employment Status of Aboriginal Workers in Canada - Delic, Senada (Carleton University, 2013)
This thesis consists of three self-contained essays examining the link between Aboriginal identity and economic success in the Canadian labour market. The analytical approach encompasses mixed methods research, with two empirical tests and one qualitative inquiry. Both the neoclassical and institutional economics approaches to labour market analysis are considered, as discussed in the introduction to the thesis. Essay I employs monthly Labour Force Survey data and examines the difference in the impact of the 2008-2011 economic downturn on Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal workers. The main findings in this essay indicate that the economic downturn had a markedly more negative impact on Aboriginal than on non-Aboriginal workers. For one subgroup of Aboriginal workers - Métis - a large portion of the difference in the impact can be attributed to the difference in endowments while for the other subgroup of Aboriginal workers - North American Indian - only a small portion of the difference in the impact can be attributed to the difference in endowments, much remains unexplained. Essay II employs the 2006 Census and Aboriginal Peoples Survey data and examines the relative impact of various sources of capital -- human, social and cultural -- on the employment success of Aboriginal labour force participants living on-reserve, off-reserve, in urban and in rural areas across Canada. The single most important finding in this essay is that the predictions of human capital theory do not hold up when the associated empirical models are applied to different Aboriginal groups. Another important finding is that for some subgroups of Aboriginal population social capital and cultural factors are potentially important omitted variables in the associated equations. Essay III employs primary data collected from knowledgeable key informants working in the area of Aboriginal labour force development and investigates the role institutional and other constraints, not observable in the statistical information, play in the labour market experience of Aboriginal people. Findings here suggest that many paradoxes and puzzles that persist in the empirical literature can be better understood once the institutional arrangements related to the investment in human and other capital, the legacy of historical disadvantage, and the experience of workplace discrimination are taken into account.
Keywords: Aboriginal; Employment status; Human capital; Labor market discrimination; Recession; Social capital

La constitutionnalisation du droit de négociation collective : ses effets sur les régimes législatifs de représentation collective - Desjardins, Annick (Université de Montréal, 2013)
Dans un important arrêt rendu en 2007 dans l’affaire Health Services and Support, la Cour suprême du Canada a reconnu pour la première fois que la liberté d’association énoncée à la Charte canadienne des droits et libertés protégeait la «capacité des syndiqués d’engager des négociations collectives sur des problèmes reliés au milieu de travail». Pour conclure ainsi, la Cour trouve appui dans le droit international du travail. Avec cette décision, la Cour renverse sa position établie une vingtaine d’années plus tôt voulant que la négociation collective ne soit pas une activité bénéficiant d’une protection à titre de droit fondamental. Suite à ce changement de paradigme, nombre d’auteurs ont été d’avis que la constitutionnalisation du droit de négociation collective pourrait avoir des effets sur la validité de différentes mesures législatives et sur l’interprétation des lois encadrant les régimes de relations de travail. De plus, la négociation collective étant historiquement indissociable de la grève, il y avait tout lieu de croire que la protection de la Charte pourrait être étendue au droit de grève. Par la suite, en 2011, la Cour suprême a rendu la décision Fraser portant sur l’accès à un régime de représentation collective, précisant la portée du droit de négociation collective tel qu’envisagé dans Health Services. Le présent mémoire recense la jurisprudence qui a abordé la protection constitutionnelle de la négociation collective en droit public canadien et en droit privé québécois depuis l’arrêt Health Services afin d’identifier ses effets sur la validité des restrictions au droit de grève, sur la validité des restrictions au contenu des négociations et sur l’imposition de conditions de travail, sur la validité des exclusions de certaines catégories de travailleurs des régimes de représentation collective, et sur l’interprétation des dispositions de ces régimes. Les résultats de la recherche nous permettent de conclure que la constitutionnalisation du droit de négociation collective a engendré un certain volume de contestations de la part d’organisations syndicales. Ces procédures ont porté fruit dans des situations où l’atteinte aux droits était similaire aux précédents de la Cour suprême ainsi que dans un cas lié au droit de grève. Les effets plus vastes envisagés dans la recension de la littérature ne se sont pas matérialisés. Par ailleurs, nos résultats en droit privé indiquent que la constitutionnalisation du droit de grève n’a pas eu d’impact sur l’interprétation des régimes de relations industrielles. Enfin, le recours ou non au droit international par les tribunaux n’a pas d’effet sur nos résultats.

Le Réseau de recherche en santé et sécurité du travail du Québec : Un bilan de dix ans / The Quebec Occupational Health and Safety Research Network: A Ten Year Update - Desmarais, Lise; Legendre, Gabrielle (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
Editorial introduction to the issue.
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 Quebec Occupational Health and Safety Research Network: A Ten Year Update - Desmarais, Lise; Legendre, Gabrielle (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
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

Nuancing Neoliberalism: Lessons Learned from a Failed Immigration Experiment - Dobrowolsky, Alexandra (Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2013)
This paper contributes to current debates around neoliberalism and subnational developments in Canadian immigration policy. In response to critiques of neoliberalism’s “promiscuity,” scalar and governmentality frameworks are used to analyze Nova Scotia’s failed economic nominee category experiment. The competing choices, calculations, and commitments at stake at “meso”- and “micro”-scales reveal a more complex and compelling reality that underscores the contributions and challenges of a range of political actors. This, in turn, suggests possible disruptions to neoliberalization and seeks to strike a better balance between structure and agency, as well as economic and social immigration priorities.
Keywords: Agency; Decentralization and devolution; Demography; Governmentality; Immigration policy Canada; Migration; Neoliberalism; Population Economics; Provincial nominee program Nova Scotia; Scalar analysis; Sociology, general

Offshore Petroleum Politics: Regulation and Risk in the Scotian Basin - Doern, Bruce (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Offshore Petroleum Politics: Regulation and Risk in the Scotian Basin," by Peter Clancy.
Keywords: CLANCY, Peter; Nonfiction; Nova Scotia; OFFSHORE Petroleum Politics: Regulation & Risk in the Scotian Basin (Book); PETROLEUM in submerged lands

Advancement in Quebec Research on the Prevention of Risks Related to Occupational Exposure to Nanomaterials - Dolez, Patricia; Cloutier, Yves; Noël, Alexandra; Tabet, Lyes; Gautrin, Denyse; Debia, Maximilien; L'Espérance, Gilles; Hallé, Stéphane; Bahloul, Ali; Vinches, Ludwig (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
The nanotechnology field is a growing industry, particularly in Quebec: occupational exposure risks already exist and should increase exponentially. In recent years, work has been undertaken in Quebec to develop knowledge for improving the prevention of nanomaterial-related risks. In particular, a group of researchers, professionals and students involved in the nanotechnology field was created in 2006 under the aegis of the Quebec Occupational Health and Safety Research Network. Its aim is to share the expertise of the different stakeholders in this field in order to promote multidisciplinary collaboration and more rapid advancement in research.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Health risk assessment; Labor Unions; Nanomaterials; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; occupational health

Emotionalizing Organizations and Organizing Emotions - Dompierre, Johanne (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Emotionalizing Organizations and Organizing Emotions," edited by Barbara Sieben and Asa Wettergren.
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

Dwelling Places and Social Spaces: Revealing the Environments of Urban Workers in Victoria Using Historical GIS - Dunae, Patrick A.; Lafreniere, Donald J.; Gilliland, Jason A.; Lutz, John S. (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The Pacific Northwest underwent rapid economic growth in the late 19th century and cities on both sides of the Canada/US border burgeoned. The building boom was sustained by a large cohort of tradesmen and skilled labourers who lived in modest cabins, tenement blocks, boarding houses, and residential hotels. Most of these urban wageworkers were unmarried. They left few records of their experiences outside the job site or union hall. In this case study of Victoria, British Columbia circa 1891, we deployed a historical geographical information system (HGIS) to reconstitute the urban residential and social space of bout 2,000 otherwise elusive working men. Our research framework combines qualitative methods that are familiar to historians and quantitative methods favoured by geospatial researchers. By integrating both qualitative and quantitative data, we are able to represent the multiple spatial conditions experienced by Victoria's wageworkers in the early 1890s. In the process, we repopulated the city and reconstructed a largely vanished urban landscape. A primary objective of the essay is to demonstrate how GIS can be used as a research tool and new epistemology in the field of labour history.
Keywords: CITY dwellers; Geographic information systems; History; QUANTITATIVE research; Qualitative research; VICTORIA (B.C.); WORKING class -- History; WORKING class -- Housing

Winnipeg Beach: Leisure and Courtship in a Resort Town, 1900-1967 - Dunkin, Jessica (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Winnipeg Beach: Leisure and Courtship in a Resort Town, 1900-1967," by Dale Barbour.
Keywords: BARBOUR, Dale; History; Nonfiction; RESORTS; WINNIPEG Beach: Leisure & Courtship in a Resort Town 1900-1967 (Book)

When Your Boss is the State: The Paradoxes of Public Sector Work - Evans, Bryan (Public Sector Unions in the Age of Austerity, 2013)
Analyzes the turbulent history of labour relations between public sector unions and provincial and federal governments since the 1970s. Summarizes the distinctive features of the neoliberal state as employer.
Keywords: Labor Unions; Political activity

Fragile Future: The Attack Against Public Services and Public Sector Unions in an Era of Austerity - Fanelli, Carlo (Carleton University, 2013)
This study is about the ongoing transformation of neoliberal public policy, precarious work, and public sector unions' struggles against demands for austerity. Situated in long-term historical perspective, I examine to what extent changes in the nature and content of government intervention, social welfare provision, and restructuring of the public sector are structurally-induced, the products of historical and contemporary circumstances, the result of mismanagement, or some combination of other factors. I argue that in addition to reducing the compass of social services, recent expenditure restraint measures have targeted unionized workers in order to lower wages and reduce benefits across the sector. Case studies include original analyses of striking workers at the Canadian Museum of Civilization Corporation, collective bargaining between teaching assistants and contract instructors and Carleton University, and striking civic workers at the city of Toronto. Together the cases break new ground in understanding how neoliberalism is being reconstructed and redeployed in light of the Great Recession and the consequences this has had on public sector workers and services. The three jurisdictions in this study - municipal, provincial, and federal - represent three scales of neoliberal restructuring in Canada. While all three governments have resorted to some form of austerity, the methods used to reduce the deficit and move toward balanced budgets have been differential and multifaceted. These include service delivery restructuring, increasing use of public-private-partnerships, privatization, new user-fees, and/or consumption taxes, as well as public sector worker layoffs, workplace intensification, and the selling of Crown assets. I contend that such measures seek to shift the burden of recession onto the public sector by reducing social services provisioning and seeking concessions from unionized public sector workers. In fact, the state has taken a leading role in narrowing the field of free collective bargaining, suspending trade union rights, and implementing an aggressive program of dispossession. Absent the collective capacities to stop let alone reverse these measures, public sector unions have reached an impasse. Unable to translate militancy into an alternative ideological perspective and a coherent political and economic program, they continue to desperately hang onto previous gains that look increasingly insecure and fragile. I argue that in order for unions to regain their once prominent role in the pursuit of social justice and workplace democracy, they will need to take the risks of organizing working class communities and fighting back while they still have some capacity to do so - else they risk continuing the decades-long labour impasse and union decline. In my view, this necessarily requires an explicitly anti-capitalist perspective, with the aim being to develop both alternative policies and an alternative politics rooted in the working class.
Keywords: Austerity; Labor Unions; Public sector unions; Public services; Social sciences

The Anthropological Study of Class and Class Consciousness - Field, Les W. (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "The Anthropological Study of Class and Class Consciousness," edited by E. Paul Durrenberger.
Keywords: ANTHROPOLOGICAL Study of Class & Class Consciousness, The (Book); Class consciousness; DURRENBERGER, E. Paul; Nonfiction

A Wilder West: Rodeo in Western Canada - Field, Russell (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "A Wilder West: Rodeo in Western Canada," by Mary-Ellen Kelm.
Keywords: History; KELM, Mary-Ellen; Nonfiction; Rodeos; WILDER West: Rodeo in Western Canada, A (Book)

The Voices of Women Struggling to Manage Employment and Motherhood - Finer-Freedman, Judith (University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 2013)
The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions of working women when they announce their pregnancies, take maternity leave, transition back to work, and utilize flexible work policies. Using a qualitative methodology, transcripts of in-depth interviews were analyzed utilizing a life history approach. Key findings of the study are that women perceive more negative responses to the announcement of their pregnancies than positive ones. In terms of maternity and parental leave policies, all the participants had access to these benefits. Women found issues with financial adequacy, administration, and duration of these policies. Mothers found that financial support from the Canadian government was inadequate to allow them to take the full duration of the 52-week maternity and parental leave for which they were eligible. In addition, employer “top-up” payments were limited and administrative details of maternity leave were often not discussed fully with pregnant workers. When women returned to work, they found that workplaces did not offer resources such as a phased-in return to work or personnel to help them re-engage with their prior work projects. Women discussed the challenges of managing their dual roles of worker and mother and found that managers and coworkers put them in a mommy mould which lessened the quality of their assignments. New mothers found that they had difficultly juggling their work and home responsibilities, finding time for themselves, and receiving increased domestic support from their spouses. While some workplaces offered women flexible workplace policies, not all mothers chose to access them as they found these policies often negatively impacted their career progression. Other issues were a lack of flexible workplace policy transparency, inconsistent manager support, and difficulty maintaining a flexible schedule. Findings have major implications for an improved response from managers upon pregnancy announcement, improved dialogue among employers about increasing “top up” maternity leave pay to new mothers, developing a formal transition plan for new mothers returning to the workplace, and expanding the use of flexible workplace policies.

No Man's Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor - Fink, Joey (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "No Man's Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor," by Cindy Hahamovitch.
Keywords: FOREIGN workers -- United States; HAHAMOVITCH, Cindy; History; NO Man's Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America & the Global History of Deportable Labor (Book); Nonfiction

Estevan Coal Miners' Strike 1931 - Finkel, Alvin (The Canadian Encyclopedia, 2013)
Coal miners at Bienfait, Saskatchewan, had joined the militant Mine Workers' Union of Canada in 1931. In September of that year they went on strike to win recognition of their union as a prelude to pressing demands for a restoration of wages cut by the local coal operators. --Introduction

Le leadership transformationnel comme source d’engagement syndical : Le rôle modérateur de la justice - Fortin-Bergeron, Chloé; Doucet, Olivier; Hennebert, Marc-Antonin (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
Si certains travaux sur le renouveau syndical reconnaissent l’importance de s’intéresser au fait représentatif et plus particulièrement à la relation représentant-représenté, les effets du leadership des représentants syndicaux sur leurs membres demeurent très peu étudiés. Pour pallier ce déficit analytique, cette étude analyse l’effet direct du leadership transformationnel du représentant syndical sur l’engagement syndical ainsi que l’effet modérateur de la justice distributive et procédurale du syndicat local sur cette relation. Des analyses de régressions linéaires multiples, menées auprès d’un échantillon de 834 travailleurs syndiqués d’une entreprise québécoise, soutiennent l’existence d’un lien positif entre le leadership transformationnel du représentant syndical et l’engagement envers le syndicat, et ce, après avoir contrôlé certaines caractéristiques des répondants dont l’âge, le sexe, l’ancienneté et le niveau de scolarité. En outre, nos résultats démontrent que la justice syndicale de type procédural modère cette relation. En ce sens, un syndicat local reconnu comme offrant des procédures justes et équitables viendrait rehausser les efforts de leadership de ses représentants.Sur le plan théorique, cette étude supporte la théorie des échanges sociaux ainsi que le modèle d’engagement au groupe, en démontrant notamment que la justice et le leadership transformationnel jouent sur des mécanismes affectifs similaires. Sur le plan pratique, les résultats soulignent l’importance, pour les syndicats locaux, de se pencher sur les pratiques et sur les modes de fonctionnement au niveau local qui sont susceptibles de favoriser la perception de justice procédurale. Ces constats ouvrent ainsi de nouvelles avenues de recherche relatives aux efforts de revitalisation des syndicats locaux et, plus spécifiquement, aux effets du leadership syndical et à la dynamique sous-jacente à la relation représentant-représenté.
Keywords: distributive justice; engagement syndical; group engagement model; implicación sindical; justice distributive; justice procédurale; justicia distributiva; justicia procedural; leadership; liderazgo; modelo de adhesión al grupo; modèle d’engagement au groupe; procedural justice; social exchange theory; teoría de intercambios sociales; théorie des échanges sociaux; union commitment

A Company of One: Insecurity, Independence and the New World of White-Collar Unemployment - Foster, Jason (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "A Company of One: Insecurity, Independence and the New World of White-Collar Unemployment," by Carrie M. Lane.
Keywords: COMPANY of One: Insecurity, Independence & the New World of White-Collar Unemployment, A (Book); Employment; FINANCIAL crises; LANE, Carrie M.; Nonfiction; United States; White collar workers

In the Shadows: Exploring the Notion of "Community" for Temporary Foreign Workers in a Boomtown - Foster, Jason; Taylor, Alison (Canadian Journal of Sociology, 2013)
The rapid expansion of the oil sands in northern Alberta in the early 21st century led to the use of significant numbers of temporary foreign workers. These foreign workers became a part of the region’s so-called “shadow population.” This paper examines how the presence of foreign workers affects conceptions of community and social cohesion through the experiences of foreign workers employed in oil sands construction. The study finds foreign workers are excluded from the life of the community due to their differential exclusion, vulnerable and precarious connection to the labour market, experiences of discrimination, and conflicted transnational community identities. The paper discusses the shortcomings of community and social cohesion approaches in addressing temporary foreign workers and considers the policy limitations of a widespread temporary foreign worker program.

Contribution à un modèle explicatif de la charge de travail : le cas du service à la clientèle - Fournier, Pierre-Sébastien; Montreuil, Sylvie; Villa, Julie (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
La rapidité des changements qui s’opèrent dans les organisations engendre une intensification du travail qui se traduit par une augmentation de la charge de travail. La littérature scientifique identifie de plus en plus clairement la charge de travail comme un facteur de risques dont les répercussions affectent les individus et les organisations. Bien que les connaissances actuelles portant sur la charge de travail permettent de quantifier des conséquences humaines ou organisationnelles, elles sont difficiles à utiliser pour agir dans l’amélioration des situations de travail. Cet article a pour objectif de contribuer à la modélisation de la charge de travail dans sa globalité et sa complexité à l’intérieur de la dynamique de l’individu, de son activité professionnelle et de son contexte organisationnel. Elle vise à définir des composantes de la charge de travail et à cerner des facteurs qui l’influencent directement ou indirectement à partir de situations de travail réelles. Une recherche terrain s’est déroulée dans une organisation du secteur de l’assurance auprès de préposés au service à la clientèle en privilégiant des observations, des entretiens individuels et de groupe. Les activités réelles de travail des préposés ont été analysées en privilégiant le modèle de l’activité réelle de travail tel qu’utilisé en ergonomie. Cinq facteurs dynamiques de la charge de travail émergent de la recherche et ils permettent de réviser et d’enrichir un modèle explicatif de la charge de travail.
Keywords: approche ergonomique; carga de trabajo; charge de travail; customer service agents; daily working reality; empleados del servicio a la clientela; enfoque ergonómico; ergonomic approach; intensificación del trabajo; intensification du travail; préposés au service à la clientèle; trabajo real; travail réel; work intensification; workload

From Crisis to Austerity: Neoliberalism, Organized Labour and the Canadian State - Fowler, Tim (Red Quill Books, 2013)
The Great Recession was the largest crisis of capitalism since the Great Depression and the largest crisis in neoliberalism to date, sending shockwaves throughout the global economy. States scrambled to right the sinking capitalist ship in order to maintain high levels of accumulation. In Canada, as in so many other countries, the state introduced austerity measures aimed at organized labour and the broader working class. This volume explores the political economy of The Great Recession in Canada, and focuses on how labour has responded to the crisis, neoliberalism, and austerity measures. --Publisher's description. Contents: 1. From Crisis To Austerity: An Introduction / Tim Fowler -- 2. The Canadian State and the Crisis: Theoretical and Historical Context / Stephen McBride & Heather Whiteside -- 3. From the Great Recession of 2008-2009 to Fiscal Austerity: The Role of Inequality / Akhter Faroque and Brian K. MacLean  -- 4. Neoliberalism, Capitalist Crisis, and Continuing Austerity in the Ontario State / Tim Fowler  -- 5. Collective Bargaining in a Time of Austerity: Public-Sector Unions and the University Sector in Ontario / Mathew Nelson & James Meades --  6. "We Will Fight This Crisis": Auto Workers Resist an Industrial Meltdown/ Bill Murnighan & Jim Stanford -- 7. The Decline of the Labour Movement: A Socialist Perspective / Murray E.G. Smith & Jonah Butovsky -- 8. Labour’s Response to the Crisis and the Future of Working-Class Politics / David Camfield.

“Liking” Your Union: Unions and New Social Media during Election Campaigns - Fowler, Tim; Hagar, Doug (Labor Studies Journal, 2013)
The authors examine the use of new social media (NSM) by Canadian unions during electoral campaigns. The use of NSM by unions is emerging in Canada, and the authors study the 2011 federal and provincial elections, arguably the first time Canadian unions used NSM as part of their electoral strategies. The authors show that unions with close partisan ties to the New Democratic Party are more likely to embrace NSM as an electoral tactic than unions with no partisan ties or unions that engage in strategic voting.

Provincial Solidarities: A History of the New Brunswick Federation of Labour - Frank, David (Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH, 2013)
Established in 1913, the New Brunswick Federation of Labour is the second oldest provincial federation of labour in Canada. Its history began in early campaigns for workers’ compensation and union recognition and continues today in the latest battles to defend social standards, secure employment, and union rights. Active initially in the port city of Saint John and the railway centre of Moncton, the federation soon expanded to include workers in the mines and mills of the north, taking up the causes of public employees and women workers and confronting the realities of life and work in a bilingual society. A pioneering study, written in clear and forceful prose, this is the untold story of provincial labour solidarities that succeeded in overcoming divisions and defeats to raise the status of working men and women within New Brunswick society. Drawing on archives, newspapers, and workers’ own descriptions of their experiences, Frank makes an original contribution to our understanding of the political, economic, and social development of the province. In so doing, he helps meet the need for an informed public awareness of the history of workers and unions in all parts of Canada.
Keywords: History; Labor Unions; Labor movement; New Brunswick Federation of Labour

Solidarités provinciales: Histoire de la Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Nouveau-Brunswick - Frank, David; Comite canadien sur l'histoire du travail (Working Canadians: Books from the CCLH, 2013)
La Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Nouveau-Brunswick, fondée en 1913, est la deuxième plus ancienne fédération provinciale du travail au Canada. Son histoire remonte aux premières campagnes en faveur de l’indemnisation des accidents du travail et de la reconnaissance syndicale, et elle se poursuit dans les plus récentes luttes visant à défendre les normes sociales et à protéger les emplois et les droits syndicaux. La Fédération a vu le jour dans la ville portuaire de Saint John et le centre ferroviaire de Moncton, puis elle s’est étendue aux travailleurs des mines et des usines du nord de la province, soutenant la cause des employés du secteur public et des travailleuses, reflétant les réalités de la vie et du travail dans une société bilingue. Puisant dans les archives, les journaux et les expériences des travailleurs et des travailleuses, voici l’histoire inédite de solidarités syndicales provinciales qui ont surmonté les divisions et les revers afin de rehausser le statut des travailleurs et des travailleuses dans la société néo-brunswickoise. Par cette étude pionnière rédigée dans un style clair et puissant, Frank apporte une contribution originale à la compréhension de l’évolution politique, économique et sociale de la province, et il aide à combler le besoin d’éclairer la connaissance que le public a de l’histoire des travailleurs et des syndicats de toutes les régions du Canada. --Publisher's description
Keywords: Histoire; Work

Labour at the Lakehead: Ethnicity, Socialism, and Politics, 1900-1935 - Franz, Kyle R. (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Labour at the Lakehead: Ethnicity, Socialism, and Politics, 1900-1935," by Michel S. Beaulieu.
Keywords: BEAULIEU, Michel S.; Canada; LABOUR at the Lakehead: Ethnicity, Socialism & Politics 1900-1935 (Book); Labor; Nonfiction

Giant Factories - Freeman, Joshua B. (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article discusses the history of large factories from the Industrial Revolution in England to 21st-century China. Attention is drawn to the textile mills, iron and steel mills, and assembly lines depicted in the works of artists, photographers, writers, and cultural commentators. Labour militancy is also addressed. The conclusion ponders the future of large factories.
Keywords: BOURKE-White, Margaret, 1904-1971; CHINA; FACTORIES in art; FACTORIES in literature; Factories; History; TEXTILE factories; work

Montréal, l'avenir du passé: le dix-neuvième siècle - Frenette, Yves (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the educational CD-ROM, "Montréal, l'avenir du passé: le dix-neuvième siècle," produced by Robert C. H. Sweeny and the organization Montréal, l'avenir du passé (MAP).
Keywords: Geography; MONTREAL (Quebec); TEACHING aids & devices

Labour as a ‘Fictive Commodity’: Radically Reconceptualizing Labour Law - Fudge, Judy (The Idea of Labour Law, 2013)
[E]xamines...some competing accounts of labour law, including ones that rely on Sen's idea of enhancing people's 'capabilities' to live the kinds of lives that they value. [The author] sees a number os trengths with this approach, but also a few important limitations. [Fudge] then goes on to suggest a different basis for conceptualizing labour law: the idea that labour is not a commodity but rather a 'fictive commodity'. The unique problems association with seeling labour create 'regulatory dilemmas' - and the role of labour law is to addrss them. In this context, Fudge uses the 'capabilities' approach but supplements it to argue against the exclusion of unpaid care work from the scope of labour law. --From editors' introduction.

The Effects of a Training Levy on Training Characteristics and Outcomes: The Case of Quebec - Gagnon, Marie-Eve; Smith, Michael (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
Much of the policy discussion on training is concerned with its undersupply. In 1995, inspired by the French example, Quebec introduced a levy on employers who underspend on training. In this paper we use a micro data set on Canadian workplaces to compare training characteristics and training effects on wages in Quebec with other parts of Canada. In Quebec, we find a much lower incidence of on-the-job training, a greater tendency to use outside trainers, and a larger effect of on-the-job training on wages. We speculate on ways in which these results may be explained by the training levy policy.
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; Studies; Training; Wages & salaries; Work environment

Le retour au travail lors d’un deuil périnatal : Des pratiques organisationnelles en porte-à-faux? - Gagnon, Mélanie; Beaudry, Catherine (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
Cette recherche empirique qualitative de type exploratoire a pour objectif principal de lever le voile sur l’expérience de retour au travail d’employés vivant un deuil périnatal. Plusieurs recherches s’attachent à décrire et à étudier les conséquences d’un deuil périnatal chez les parents. Il est alors établi que le deuil périnatal se distingue des autres types de deuil, bien que l’intensité de la douleur vécue soit aussi importante. Pour l’heure, la littérature en ressources humaines se fait plutôt discrète sur la problématique du deuil périnatal spécifiquement en contexte de retour au travail. De fait, il devient nécessaire de référer à des études s’intéressant au retour au travail à la suite d’autres types de difficultés personnelles. À ce sujet, les écrits soulèvent trois catégories de facteurs influençant le retour au travail : les facteurs sociaux, organisationnels et individuels. L’importance de la perte que le deuil périnatal représente pour les parents endeuillés est souvent sous-estimée au sein des organisations. Lorsque les parents reviennent au travail après la perte de l’enfant à naître ou de leur nourrisson, ils sont fréquemment encore bien ancrés dans leur « processus de deuil » et d’adaptation à celui-ci. Or, le retour au travail dans le cadre d’un tel type de deuil est généralement peu encadré par les organisations. Cette étude fait donc état du vécu des employés en deuil au moment de leur réinvestissement en emploi. Afin d’explorer leur expérience, trois groupes de discussion ont été menés au Québec, avec des femmes ayant vécu la perte de leur enfant à naître ou de leur nourrisson.L’analyse de contenu a permis de conclure que la prise d’un congé à la suite du décès de l’enfant à naître ou du nourrisson, bien qu’importante, est insuffisante à elle seule, puisque lors de la reprise du travail, l’adaptation au deuil n’est pas terminée. Le facteur qui semble le plus déterminant au regard d’une réinsertion réussie s’avère le soutien que procurent les organisations par le biais de diverses pratiques, les plus importantes étant l’accès à un programme d’aide aux employés et l’aménagement du travail.
Keywords: deuil au travail; deuil périnatal; duelo en el trabajo; duelo perinatal; individual perspective; mourning and work; organizational practices; perinatal lost; perspectiva individual; perspective individuelle; pratiques organisationnelles; prácticas organizacionales; regreso al trabajo; retour au travail; return-to-work

Long Term Trends in Unionization - Galarneau, Diane; Sohn, Thao; Government of Canada. Statistics Canada (Insights on Canadian Society, 2013)
In Canada, unionization rates declined in the 1980s and the 1990s, but remained relatively stable over the 2000s. However, the rates evolved differently across various characteristics, including gender, age groups, provinces, and industries. In this brief, unionization rates are examined across various characteristics over the last 3 decades.

La culture musicale des mineurs de Kirkland Lake : un premier aperçu - Gaudreau, Guy (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
Cet article explore la culture musicale des mineurs de Kirkland Lake et en examine l’une de ses dimensions, celle exprimée par leurs pratiques de la musique, qu’elle soit symphonique ou populaire, chantée ou instrumentale, qu’elle se traduise par un concert ou qu’elle accompagne la danse ou les défilés. Connaissant les noms et les occupations de tout le personnel de deux des principales sociétés minières de la ville, la Lake Shore et la Wright-Hargreaves Gold Mines, nous avons cherché à savoir si les mineurs étaient reliés, d’une manière ou d’une autre, aux différentes manifestations musicales rapportées dans le journal local, le Northern News, tout au long de l’année 1934. Selon nous, la diversité des pratiques musicales observée s’expliquerait d’abord par la présence de nombreuses communautés ethniques parmi les mineurs mais aussi par des conditions de travail fort différentes, selon que le mineur travaille sous terre ou au jour.
Keywords: 20th century; Canada; ETHNIC groups; History; KIRKLAND Lake (Ont.); MINES & mineral resources; MINING corporations; MUSIC appreciation; MUSICIANS; Miners; Ontario

Parcours professionnels de femmes immigrées et de filles d'immigrés - Gauthier, Carol-Anne (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
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

Up Against the Wall: The Political Economy of the New Attack on the Canadian Labour Movement: A Reply to Andrew Jackson - Gindin, Sam (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2013)

Climate Change and Work and Employment in the Canadian Postal and Courier Sector - Gingrich, Meg; Ryan, Sarah; Bickerton, Geoff (Climate@Work, 2013)
[Examines] the relationship between climate and postal work, including mail transport, energy use in postal facilities and paper production. --Authors' introduction
Keywords: Canada. Climatic changes; Climatic changes; Economic aspects; Economic aspects. Climatic changes; Government policy

Labour Law and Union Recognition in Canada: A Historical-Institutionalist Perspective - Godard, John (Queen's Law Journal, 2013)
Despite the fact that the American Wagner model is the foundation of labour law in both Canada and the United States, that law has evolved in different ways in the two countries. The author argues that this can be accounted for by adopting a historical-institutionalist perspective, which explains differences by looking at formative historical conditions and the institutional norms and traditions to which they gave rise. The conditions and norms the author identifies in each country lead him to conclude that the Canadian and American Wagner models are driven by different underlying rationales: the American version is predominantly concerned with economic gain and limited state interference, whereas the Canadian version seeks to maintain order and stability through the exercise of state control. For the time being, Canada's version has proved more effective at sustaining higher levels of union density. The paper then asks what these differences might tell us about the future of labour law and unionization in Canada. The author argues that Wagnerism in Canada has been a double-edged sword. While it has given unions greater institutional security, that same security has discouraged labour leaders from pursuing meaningful reforms to avoid union decline. The author also observes that there has been an erosion of the distinct institutional norms and traditions that have historically prevailed in Canada, brought on by an ideological shift towards neo-liberalism and globalization. From a historical-institutionalist perspective, however, policies that deviate too far from a nation's historical trajectory are unlikely to survive for long.

Producing and Negotiating Non-Citizenship: Precarious Legal Status in Canada - Goldring, Luin; Landolt, Patricia (University of Toronto Press, 2013)
This timely volume contributes to conceptualizing multiple forms of precarious status non-citizenship as connected through policy and the practices of migrants and the institutional actors they encounter. Most examinations of non-citizens in Canada focus on immigrants, people who are citizens-in-waiting, or specific categories of temporary, vulnerable workers. In contrast, Producing and Negotiating Non-Citizenship considers a range of people whose pathway to citizenship is uncertain or non-existent. This includes migrant workers, students, refugee claimants, and people with expired permits, all of whom have limited formal rights to employment, housing, education, and health services. The contributors to this volume present theoretically informed empirical studies of the regulatory, institutional, discursive, and practical terms under which precarious-status non-citizens – those without permanent residence – enter and remain in Canada. They consider the historical and contemporary production of non-citizen precarious status and migrant illegality in Canada, as well as everyday experiences of precarious status among various social groups including youth, denied refugee claimants, and agricultural workers. -- Publisher's description.
Keywords: Aliens; Canada; Congresses. Aliens; Congresses. Emigration and immigration law; Droit; Government policy. Emigration and immigration law. Rechtspositie. Allochtonen. Auslnderpolitik Auslnderrecht Illegaler Einwanderer Genre/Form: Conference papers and proceedings; Social conditions; Social conditions. Emigration and immigration

Settling and Unsettling Memories: Essays in Canadian Public History - Gordon, Alan (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Settling and Unsettling Memories: Essays in Canadian Public History," edited by Nicole Neatby and Peter Hodgins.
Keywords: Canada; HODGINS, Peter; NEATBY, Nicole; Nonfiction; PUBLIC history; SETTLING & Unsettling Memories: Essays in Canadian Public History (Book)

The Devil's Milk: A Social History of Rubber - Goutor, David (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "The Devil's Milk: A Social History of Rubber," by John Tully.
Keywords: DEVIL'S Milk: A Social History of Rubber, The (Book); History; Nonfiction; RUBBER; RUBBER industry; TULLY, John

Now You're Logging - Griffiths, Bus; Hodgins, Jack (Harbour Publishing, 2013)
This comic was originally produced for B.C. Lumbermen. It first appeared in a war-time comic strip. Whether readers are interested in logging history, a good yarn or folk art, they will be enthralled by Now You're Logging, British Columbia's first graphic novel and a enduring West Coast classic, published in celebration of what would have been Bus Griffiths' 100th birthday. Now You're Logging is the story of Al and Red, who go to work in a small West Coast logging show during the dirty thirties. As they learn their trades, the reader is treated to an amazingly detailed view of the camp's varied operations—falling and bucking timber by hand, topping and rigging of spar trees, moving steam donkeys and making up log booms, plus all the colourful characters, camaraderie, romance and life-threatening exploits of a BC adventure story. --Publisher's description
Keywords: Adventure; Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting; Logging; Working class

The Din of Work: Broadcasting the Labour Movement at Price-Kénogami, 1977-1981 - Grosman, Jessica (Concordia University, 2013)
This study examines twenty radio programs created by the local CSN union at Price-Kénogami in the Saguenay, Quebec, on community radio station, CHOC FM. The program began during a period of profound change in the pulp and paper industry in Quebec that was marked by protracted labour conflict at this plant. The union envisaged a program that would inspire rank-and-file workers' labour activism and broadcast pro-labour news and information to the wider community. Yet if union executives hoped to insert working-class interests into the public sphere and carve out a space for class-based conversations about labour and social justice, their aspirations were never fully realized. Instead of broadening the circle of active union members and creating a class-based counter-public, the weekly CSN broadcasts became the exclusive reserve of union activists. Radio shows legitimized the actions of union executives and increased the latter’s sense of the union’s momentum. In mirroring Habermas’ conception of the public sphere, the CSN broadcasts privileged the voices of a selected few union executives. When the bitter strike of 1980-81 divided workers at Abitibi-Price (formerly Price-Kénogami), union radio hosts refused to even comment on the position of the dissidents. The CSN union broadcasts neither allowed for spirited internal debate nor did they help create effective channels through which to intervene in the public sphere. Rather, labour programming on CHOC remained an extension of the union, which seemed content with using the weekly broadcasts as an inward-looking space for self-reflection.

Our Way to Fight: Peace-Work Under Siege in Israel-Palestine - Haiven, Judy (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Our Way to Fight: Peace-Work Under Siege in Israel-Palestine," by Michael Riordon.
Keywords: ARAB-Israeli conflict -- Peace; Nonfiction; OUR Way to Fight: Peace-Work Under Siege in Israel-Palestine (Book); RIORDON, Michael

Research Handbook on the Future of Work and Employment Relations - Haiven, Judy (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
Research Handbook on the Future of Work and Employment Relations, edited by Keith Townsend and Adrian Wilkinson, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor law; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Work environment

Work Stress and Coping in the Era of Globalization - Haiven, Judy (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
Work Stress and Coping in the Era of Globalization, by Rabi S. Bhagat, James C. Segovis and Terry A. Nelson, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Cultural differences; Globalization; International; Labor Unions; Occupational stress; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

The Left in British Columbia: A History of Struggle - Hak, Gordon H. (Gordon Hugh) (Ronsdale Press, 2013)
This comprehensive history of the left in British Columbia from the late nineteenth century to the present explores the successes and failures of individuals and organizations striving to make a better world. Nineteenth-century coal miners and carpenters; Wobblies, Single Taxers, and communists; worker militancy in two world wars; the New Democratic Party; the Squamish Five; the Solidarity movement of 1983; and the Occupy movement of 2011 are all part of an historical provincial left that is notable for its breadth and dynamism. Moreover, the political and union initiatives of the traditional left are seen in conjunction with broader movements, including the struggles for women's suffrage and equality, human rights, Canadian nationalist visions, racial equality, and environmental health. Ginger Goodwin and Dave Barrett (as well as WAC Bennett and Gordon Campbell) are present, as are reformist liberals and green activists. Drawing on extensive published scholarship and primary newspaper sources, Dr. Hak's thorough examination of the British Columbia experience offers an historical context for understanding the contemporary left and a framework for considering future alternatives.

GRH et mondialisation : nouveaux contextes, nouveaux enjeux - Hallée, Yves (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "GRH et mondialisation : nouveaux contextes, nouveaux enjeux," edited by Didier Cazal, Éric Davoine, Pierre Louart and Françoise Chevalier.
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

Trajectoires des modèles nationaux : État, démocratie et travail en France et en Allemagne - Hanin, Frédéric (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Trajectoires des modèles nationaux : État, démocratie et travail en France et en Allemagne," edited by Michel Dupré, Olivier Giraud and Michel Lallement.
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

Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond - Hannant, Larry (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond," by David Gilbert.
Keywords: GILBERT, David; LOVE & Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground & Beyond (Book); Nonfiction; WEATHER Underground Organization

The Life of Norman Bethune - Hannant, Larry (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Phoenix: The Life of Norman Bethune," by Roderick Stewart and Sharon Stewart.
Keywords: BETHUNE, Norman, 1890-1939; Nonfiction; PHOENIX: The Life of Norman Bethune (Book); STEWART, Roderick; STEWART, Sharon

Classroom Struggle: Teachers' Unions, Collective Bargaining, and Neoliberal Reform - Hanson, Andy (Public Sector Unions in the Age of Austerity, 2013)
Analyzes from a national perspective the role of teachers in capitalist society, the growth of professionalism, the emergence of unions, and the ongoing battle for collective bargaining rights in the face of neoliberal austerity regimes.
Keywords: Labor Unions; Political activity

Not in Their Classrooms: Class Struggle and Union Strength in Ontario’s Elementary Teachers’ Unions, 1970–1998 - Hanson, Andy Bruce (Trent University, 2013)
This dissertation examines the rise of teachers’ union militancy in Ontario through a case study of the Federation of Women Teachers’ Associations of Ontario (FWTAO) and the Ontario Public School Teachers’ Federation (OPSTF) between 1970 and their amalgamation into the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario (ETFO) in 1998. It uses the archival records of the two unions, relevant legislation, media records, personal collections, and interviews to explore how these two professional organizations became politicized, militant labour unions able to engage with the state and the trustees of boards of education. The Introduction situates the public education project within nation building in a capitalist-democracy and outlines the theoretical influences informing the dissertation. Chapter 1 follows the two unions during the 1970s as they developed into labour unions. The 18 December 1973 one-day, province-wide, political strike achieved the right to strike and established a unique labour regime for teachers. Chapter 2 examines the advance of the unions during the 1980s as they developed labour militancy. At the same time, neo-liberalism was ascending and the post-war social accord was coming to an end resulting in attacks on unions and cuts to social programs. How gender affected the elementary teachers’ unions between 1970 and 1990 is developed in Chapter 3. The FWTAO campaigned for women’s equality on a platform of liberal feminism while the OPSTF followed a unionist path in an effort to convince women teachers to join them. Chapter 4 scrutinizes the effect of neo-liberal ideology on education during the 1990–1995 Bob Rae NDP government and the impact the Social Contract had on teachers. The development of teacher resistance to the neo-liberal state is explored in Chapter 5. Alliances with other labour organizations during the Days of Action campaign culminated in a two-week, province-wide strike in the fall of 1997 against the Mike Harris Conservative government. The Conclusion brings together the findings of the dissertationand suggests future research exploring teacher union strength in the Canadian context.

L’action collective au sein des alliances syndicales internationales : deux études de cas contrastées - Hennebert, Marc-Antonin; Dufour-Poirier, Mélanie (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
Une des principales innovations syndicales en matière de régulation sociale des firmes transnationales réside dans l’émergence d’alliances syndicales internationales visant à fournir un espace de concertation et de développement de stratégies communes aux syndicats représentant les travailleurs d’une même firme. Sur la base de deux études de cas menées au sein de deux multinationales de différents secteurs et d’un corpus empirique incluant plus d’une centaine d’entretiens avec des syndicalistes de différents pays, cet article analyse la construction de l’action collective syndicale au sein de ces alliances. Partant de trois clés de lecture découlant d’autant de théories classiques de l’action collective – soit la théorie de la mobilisation des ressources, celle de la régulation sociale ainsi que celle dite de la structure d’opportunités politiques –, cet article met en relief certains facteurs déterminants du développement de cette action au sein des alliances syndicales internationales. Au-delà de l’importance pour les acteurs d’investir des ressources dans ces alliances, on observe que la formalisation organisationnelle de ces dernières, par l’intermédiaire de la définition de certaines règles d’organisation et la création de « centres » décisionnels, peut jouer un rôle déterminant dans leur propension à initier des actions collectives. Notre étude souligne également l’importance pour les acteurs syndicaux impliqués de définir un projet commun mobilisateur qui donne à la fois une cible et un sens aux actions planifiées. Au final, étant donné le bilan contrasté pouvant être tiré de ces deux cas, cet article met en lumière à la fois l’importante contribution potentielle de ces alliances au renouveau syndical mais aussi les nombreux obstacles qui se posent au développement de l’action syndicale internationale.
Keywords: cooperación inter-sindical; coopération intersyndicale; corporación multinacional; entreprises multinationales; inter-union cooperation; international labour regulation; international unionism; multinational corporation; regulación laboral internacional; régulation internationale du travail; sindicalismo internacional; syndicalisme international

The Real Dope: Social, Legal, and Historical Perspectives on the Regulation of Drugs in Canada - Heron, Craig (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "The Real Dope: Social, Legal, and Historical Perspectives on the Regulation of Drugs in Canada," edited by Edgar-André Montigny.
Keywords: Canada; DRUG laws & regulations; MONTIGNY, Edgar-Andre; Nonfiction; REAL Dope: Social, Legal & Historical Perspectives on the Regulation of Drugs in Canada, The (Book)

Hazard or Hardship: Crafting Global Norms on the Right to Refuse Unsafe Work - Hilgert, Jeffrey (Cornell University Press, 2013)
Today, hazardous work kills 2.3 million people each year and injures millions more. Among the most compelling yet controversial forms of legal protection for workers is the right to refuse unsafe work. The rise of globalization, precarious work, neoliberal politics, attacks on unions, and the idea of individual employment rights have challenged the protection of occupational health and safety for workers worldwide. This book presents the protection of refusal rights as a moral and a human rights question. The book finds that the protection of the right to refuse unsafe work, as constituted under international labor standards, is a failure and calls for a reexamination of worker health and safety policy from the ground up. The current model of protection follows an individual employment rights framework, which fails to protect workers against the inherent social inequalities within the employment relationship. To adequately protect the right to refuse as a human right, both in North America and around the world, the book argues that a broader protection must be granted under a freedom of association framework.

Handbook of Research in International Human Resource Management - Hodder, Andy (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Handbook of Research in International Human Resource Management," 2nd edition, edited by Gunter K. Stahl.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Human resource management; International; Labor Unions; Management theory; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

The Forestry Industry - Holmes, John (Climate@Work, 2013)
Analyzes the impact of climate change and climate policy on employment in the forest industry. --Editor's introduction
Keywords: Canada. Climatic changes; Climatic changes; Economic aspects; Economic aspects. Climatic changes; Government policy

The Transportation Equipment Industry - Holmes, John; Hracs, Austin (Climate@Work, 2013)
Analyzes the impact of climate change and climate policy on employment and skill requirements in the transportation equipment industry. --Editor's introduction
Keywords: Canada. Climatic changes; Climatic changes; Economic aspects; Economic aspects. Climatic changes; Government policy

"Une grande union pour tous les travailleurs" : la One Big Union au Québec (1919-1929) - Houle-Courcelles, Mathieu (Université Laval, 2013)
La One Big Union (OBU) a marqué l’histoire du mouvement ouvrier au Canada. Associée au courant du syndicalisme industriel révolutionnaire, l’OBU s’est développée au Québec dès 1919, tout particulièrement à Montréal. Ce mémoire nous permettra mieux comprendre les stratégies d’implantation du syndicat dans la province jusqu’en 1929, en nous attardant sur ses objectifs et ses moyens d’action. Notre recherche mettra en lumière la culture politique de l’organisation et de ses militants, ses périodes d’avancées et de reculs, de même que ses rapports parfois conflictuels avec le reste du mouvement ouvrier.

Up Against the Wall: The Political Economy of the New Attack on the Canadian Labour Movements - Jackson, Andrew (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2013)
The Canadian labour movement faces an existential crisis. State and business hostility to unions is not new, but the attack has recently intensified as conservative political forces and major employer groups have embraced the agenda of the US Republican right. Mirroring anti-union US labour law would lead to the precipitous decline of union density in Canada, which is already eroding due to the manufacturing crisis and the long-standing failure of unions to organize in private services. The new attack is more a product of labour movement weakness than strength, and will be most effectively resisted by increasing union density and bargaining power in the private sector.

A Labour History of Ireland, 1824-2000 - James, Kevin J. (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "A Labour History of Ireland, 1824-2000," by Emmet O'Connor.
Keywords: LABOR movement -- History; LABOUR History of Ireland 1824-2000, A (Book); LABOUR Party (Ireland); Nonfiction; O'CONNOR, Emmet

Feminist History in Canada: New Essays on Women, Gender, Work, and Nation - Janoviček, Nancy; Carstairs, Catherine (UBC Press, 2013)
In the late 1970s, feminist historians urged us to “rethink” Canada by placing women’s perspectives and experiences at the centre of historical analysis. Forty years later, feminism continues to inform history writing in Canada and has inspired historians to look beyond the nation and adopt a more global perspective. This exciting new volume of original essays opens with a discussion of the debates, themes, and methodological approaches that have preoccupied women’s and gender historians across Canada over the past twenty years. The chapters that follow showcase the work of new and established scholars who draw on the insights of critical race theory, postcolonial theory, and transnational history to re-examine familiar topics such as biography and oral history, paid and unpaid work, marriage and family, and women’s political action. Whether they focus on the marriage of Governor James Douglas and his Metis wife, Amelia; representations of saleswomen in department store catalogues; or the careers of professional women such as international child activist Charlotte Whitton and Quebec social work professors at Laval University, the contributors demonstrate the continued relevance – and growth – of history informed by feminist perspectives, and they open a much-needed dialogue between francophone and anglophone historians in Canada.-- Publisher's description
Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung; Biographies; Canada; Feminism; Feminism Canada History; Feminismus; Femmes Canada Biographies; Femmes Canada Conditions sociales; Femmes Canada Histoire; Frau; Frauenbewegung; Féminisme Canada Histoire; Geschlechterrolle; History; Kanada; Women; Women Canada Biography; Women Canada History; Women Canada Social conditions; Women Social conditions

Unionization of Agricultural Workers in British Columbia - Jensen, Heather (University of Victoria, 2013)
This thesis provides a multi-method – historical, quantitative, qualitative, and jurisprudential – socio-legal case study of the unionization of agricultural workers in British Columbia. Agricultural employees have access to the Labour Relations Code of British Columbia. A historical examination of exclusion of agricultural workers from labour relations legislation from 1937 to 1975 explores the rationale behind labour relations laws and the political context of the legislative exclusion. Next, economic aspects of BC’s agricultural sector are described, with a focus on employment characteristics and the regionalised nature of agricultural production. Finally, this thesis explains the legal aspects of an ongoing campaign by the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) to unionize migrant and resident agricultural workers. The union organizing campaign shows how legal labour relations processes operate in relation to migrant workers in a sector with low rates of unionization and high rates of precarious and low-paid, dangerous work.

Stalin's Man in Canada: Fred Rose and Soviet Espionage - Kealey, Gregory S. (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Stalin's Man in Canada: Fred Rose and Soviet Espionage," by David Levy.
Keywords: Canada; Espionage; LEVY, David; Nonfiction; ROSE, Fred; STALIN'S Man in Canada: Fred Rose & Soviet Espionage (Book)

Obituary: Irene Whitfield - Kealey, Gregory S.; Cadigan, Sean (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
Pays homage to Irene Whitfield (1941-2013), who was managing editor of the journal from 1982 to 2007.
Keywords: PERIODICAL editors; WHITFIELD, Irene

Showing Agency on the Margins: African American Railway Workers in the South and Their Unions, 1917-1930 - Kelly, Joseph (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
During World War I and the 1920s, African American trainmen throughout the South took advantage of federal administrative bodies that had set anti-discrimination rules to challenge racist employers and white trainmen alike. After the war, white workers insisted that African Americans be relegated to porter jobs. White employers demanded that African American workers who continued to work as brakemen and flagmen, as they had during the war, accept lower wages for such skilled work than their white counterparts were paid. The federal government preferred to turn a blind eye to racial discrimination against African American workers in the period after federal control of the railways ended. Despite this concerted attack from all sides on their rights, unions of African American trainmen continued their fight, with some success, before federal administrative tribunals as well as the courts to retain skilled positions and receive the same pay as their white equivalents. Only the devastation of rail jobs in the 1930s largely destroyed the African American trainmen's wartime gains.
Keywords: 20th century; AFRICAN Americans -- Employment; Equal pay for equal work; History; LABOR laws & legislation; LABOR unions -- United States; PORTERS; RACE discrimination -- United States; RACE discrimination in employment; RAILROAD construction workers; RAILROADS -- United States; United States; WAGES -- Railroads

The Impact of Social Networks on Labour Market Outcomes: New Evidence from Cape Breton - Khan, Adnan Q.; Lehrer, Steven F. (Canadian Public Policy, 2013)
Debates centered on the role of social networks as a determinant of labour market outcomes have a long history in economics and sociology; however, determining causality remains a challenge. In this study we use information on random assignment to a unique intervention to identify the impact of changes in the size of alternative social network measures on subsequent employment at both the individual and community levels. Our results indicate that being assigned to the treatment protocol significantly increased the size of social networks, particularly weak ties. Nevertheless, these increases do not translate into improved employment outcomes 18 months following study completion. We do not find any evidence of treatment effect heterogeneity based on the initial size of one’s social network; rather those whose strong ties increased at a higher rate during the experiment were significantly less likely to hold a job following the experiment. We find that many of these results also hold at the community level among those who did not directly participate in the intervention. In summary, our results suggest that policies can successfully influence the [End Page S1] size of an individual’s social network, but that these increases have a limited impact on long-run labour market outcomes, with the notable exception of changes in the composition of individuals who hold jobs.

Du côté des vainqueurs : une sociologie de l'incertitude sur les marchés du travail - Kirouac, Laurie (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Du côté des vainqueurs : une sociologie de l’incertitude sur les marchés du travail," by François Sarfati.
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

Game Plan: A Social History of Sport in Alberta - Kossuth, Robert S. (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Game Plan: A Social History of Sport in Alberta," Karen L. Wall.
Keywords: Alberta; Canada; GAME Plan: A Social History of Sport in Alberta (Book); History; Nonfiction; Sports; WALL, Karen L.

Relentless Change: A Casebook for the Study of Canadian Business History - Krats, Peter V. (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Relentless Change: A Casebook for the Study of Canadian Business History," edited by Joe Martin.
Keywords: Business; Canada; History; MARTIN, Joe; Nonfiction; RELENTLESS Change: A Casebook for the Study of Canadian Business History (Book)

Labour Law’s Theory of Justice - Langille, Brian (The Idea of Labour Law, 2013)
Labour law does and must have a theory of justice. Without such a theory labour law has no account of the scope of its application or the point of its normative content. Scope and content are answerable to labour law's idea of justice and a change in our thinking about either entails a necessary rethinking of the other. Because labour law's world is changing labour law will have a new theory of justice. This chapter outlines briefly what such a theory might look like. It also discusses two lines of resistance to this way of thinking. --From editors' introduction

Revitalizing Union Action: The Impact Of Youth Committees In A Public Sector Labour Federation In Québec - Laroche, Mélanie; Dufour-Poirier, Mélanie (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2013)
This article examines the revitalization of a union federation's capacity to represent young workers. It presents a qualitative study of the role and impact of one of the most developed forms of youth involvement in a union, youth committees. It first analyzes the extent to which these committees helped put the concerns of members under the age of 30 on the union federation's agenda and fostered their participation in its internal life. Second, it examines the ways in which these committees initiated a degree of change in the federation at the institutional level. Overall, our findings indicate that youth committees were able to question existing practices and initiate a degree of union change. However, the disagreements expressed by the young workers tended to remain confined within these parallel structures, thus limiting their potential to change the representative capacity of the federation.

Brève histoire du régime seigneurial - Larose, André (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Brève histoire du régime seigneurial," by Benoît Grenier.
Keywords: BREVE histoire du regime seigneurial (Book); Canada; GRENIER, Benoit; History; MANORIALISM; Nonfiction; TO 1763 (New France)

The Union Is the Message: Messenger Work and Messenger Organizing in the Same-Day Courier Sector - Lavin, David Oliver (York University, 2013)
Work in the same-day courier sector is a precarious form of employment. Workers in this sector are also treated as self-employed and hired as independent contractors. The relationship with the firm for which they work, however, is hardly distinguishable from an employment relationship. Messengers are among a growing number of workers in Canada who can be labeled as disguised employees. To explore the phenomenon of disguised employment, I use a case study approach informed by critical political economic theory and a purposive approach to labour and employment law to examine work in the same-day courier sector in Toronto with a focus on a subpopulation of workers in this sector: bike messengers. I examine the causes and consequences of self-employment in the same-day courier sector, analyze messengers' work and argue that their employment status entails misclassification. In an increasingly market-mediated society we are witnessing a proliferation of unprotected work relationships with disguised employment being one manifestation of this development. Fortunately, some unions are trying to organize workers in disguised employment relationships. In this dissertation, I also examine an attempt by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers to organize workers in Toronto's same-day courier sector. I explore the processes and implications of organizing disguised employees and examine how organizing these workers relates to and can inform the project of union renewal in Canada. Gaining employee status, however, is no guarantee of successful organizing. The same-day courier sector is highly competitive and is dominated by small, decentralized employers. Organizing in such a sector is a formidable task. Under the collective bargaining regime, unions have to organize workers workplace by workplace. However, this is proving to be ineffective in highly competitive sectors dominated by small employers, and organizing efforts will likely only result in limited success. As I argue, unions can develop innovative strategies and tactics to organize workers. However, with the many structural obstacles unions face, these strategies and tactics can often fall short of their goals. To facilitate unionization in the same-day courier sector, the collective bargaining regime needs to be overhauled to mandate, or at least promote, multi-employer bargaining.

Développement des identités, des compétences et des pratiques professionnelles - Le Capitaine, Catherine (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Développement des identités, des compétences et des pratiques professionnelles," edited by Anne-Marie Vonthron, Sabine Pohl and Pascale Desrumaux.
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

Fernand Daoust - Leclerc, André (Collection Militantismes, 2013)
Fernand Daoust est surtout connu pour avoir été un dirigeant central de la Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec (FTQ) pendant vingt-quatre ans. Or, cela est le fruit d'un véritable parcours du combattant dans le mouvement ouvrier. Le syndicaliste est né en 1926 dans des conditions très modestes et élevé dans une famille monoparentale. Sa curiosité, sa soif de connaissance et sa détermination l'ont entraîné bien au-delà des activités auxquelles ses origines le destinaient. Dans cette première partie de sa biographie, qui couvre les années 1926-1964, nous l'accompagnons dans le Montréal de la grande dépression, nous assistons à ses premiers engagements nationalistes pendant la crise de la conscription, à sa découverte des idéologies progressistes et à son entrée dans le mouvement syndical, malgré les dures conditions imposées aux syndicalistes par le régime Duplessis. Nous le voyons découvrir la nécessité de l'action politique et pressentons le futur dirigeant syndical. Accédant aux études universitaires à force de courage et de persévérance, son horizon intellectuel s'élargit. C'est tout naturellement qu'il choisit le syndicalisme pour y développer et approfondir son engagement social et politique. En faisant sienne l'idéologie socialiste, qui inspire les courants les plus dynamiques du syndicalisme québécois, le jeune syndicaliste ne renie cependant pas ses racines. Son socialisme s'incarne dans une nation spécifique, celle du Québec. Il n'était pas d'accord avec une majorité de syndicalistes de gauche de l'époque, qui qualifiaient de rétrogrades les aspirations nationales québécoises. Au contact des idées de gauche, le nationalisme de droite, dans lequel il avait baigné à l'adolescence et auquel il n'avait jamais totalement adhéré, a fait place à un nationalisme progressiste, précurseur de celui qu'allait épouser une proportion grandissante de la population québécoise.
Keywords: 20e siècle; 20th century; Daoust, Fernand, 1926-; Dirigeants syndicaux; Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec; Histoire; History; Labor leaders; Quebec Federation of Labour; Québec (Province); Syndicalism; Syndicalisme

Les conditions de travail au Québec : Une analyse différenciée selon les groupes d’âge - Ledoux, Élise; Fournier, Pierre-Sébastien; Champoux, Danièle; Prud’homme, Pascale; Laberge, Marie; Aurousseau, Chantal; Ouellet, Sylvie; Chatigny, Céline (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
Cet article présente les travaux d’une communauté de chercheurs du Réseau de recherche en santé et en sécurité du travail du Québec (RRSSTQ), créée en 2006, laquelle s’intéresse aux questions d’âges et de rapports sociaux en milieux de travail, en lien avec les conditions de travail et la santé et la sécurité du travail. De disciplines diverses (ergonomie, sociologie, psychosociologie, communication, droit, éducation), cette communauté réalise des recherches à partir d’enquêtes et d’études de terrain s’appuyant sur une approche compréhensive des phénomènes. Cette problématique se situe dans un contexte social singulier marqué, entre autres, par la mondialisation des marchés, une introduction massive des nouvelles technologies, une transformation des formes d’emploi, ainsi qu’un vieillissement de la main-d’oeuvre dans les pays industrialisés. Ces transformations créent des conditions particulières de rétention et d’intégration de la main-d’oeuvre dans les milieux de travail. À partir des données de l’Enquête québécoise sur des conditions de travail, d’emploi et de santé et de sécurité du travail (EQCOTESST), réalisée en 2008, auprès d’un échantillon représentatif de 5 071 répondants, l’objectif de cette étude est de tracer un portrait des conditions de travail en fonction de l’âge des travailleurs au Québec. L’article propose l’interprétation de ce portrait à partir d’un cadre d’analyse s’appuyant sur une approche diachronique des dynamiques âge-travail-santé dans le but de mieux orienter les interventions en milieu de travail.
Keywords: age; approche diachronique; condiciones de empleo; condiciones de trabajo; condition de travail; condition d’emploi; diachronic approach; edad; employment conditions; enfoque diacrónico; trajectoires; trajectories; trayectorias; work conditions; âge

Rebel Life: The Life and Times of Robert Gosden, Revolutionary, Mystic, Labour Spy - Leier, Mark (James Mark) (New Star Books, 2013)
Extensively revised throughout and including a chapter of new material, Rebel Life chronicles the life of labour organizer, revolutionary, anarchist and labour spy Robert Gosden. Mark Leier's revisions incorporate new information about Gosden's career that has come to light since the first edition was published in 1999. Canada's west coast was rife with upheaval in the second and third decades of the twentieth century. At the centre of the turmoil is Robert Gosden, migrant labourer turned radical activistヨturned police spy. In 1913, he publicly recommends assassinating Premier Richard McBride to resolve theminers' strike. By 1919, he is urging Prime Minister Robert Borden to "disappear" key labour radicals to quelch rising discontent. What happened?Rebel Life plumbs the enigma that was Gosden, but it is much more: an introduction to BC labour history: a trove of rarely seen archival photograph, and sidebars rich with historical arcana; and, with its chapter describing the research that unearthed Gosden's story, Rebel Life is a rich resource for instructors, students, and trade unionists alike.

Protection of Temporary Foreign Workers: The Case of Filipinos in Canada - Leung, Kwan Ho (Ryerson University, 2013)
Temporary foreign workers have been employed – or simply used – throughout history. Their plights have gained some attention across the globe in recent decades. Canada as a major receiving country of these workers and the Philippines as a prolific sending country of workers are selected as case studies to examine whether measures taken internationally, nationally and locally are adequate to protect these workers, especially those in low-skilled occupations. Based on prior research on the workers’ well-being, the answer is no in at least five areas: recruitment, matching of qualifications, abuse, housing, and family separation. Suggestions are made to address these specific areas. In addition, it is argued that, in order to protect the workers, civil society should also be involved and expanded rights should be given to the workers.

In Pursuit of Gold: Chinese American Miners and Merchants in the American West - Lew-Williams, Beth (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "In Pursuit of Gold: Chinese American Miners and Merchants in the American West," by Sue Fawn Chung.
Keywords: 19th century; CHINESE -- United States; CHUNG, Sue Fawn; GOLD mines & mining -- History; History; IN Pursuit of Gold: Chinese American Miners & Merchants in the American West (Book); Nonfiction

Has There Been a She-covery? The Financial Crisis of 2008 and Its Impact on the Ontario Labour Market - Lewchuk, Wayne (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
This paper explores changes in labour market outcomes between June 2005 and November 2010. It asks if the recovery in labour markets following the 2008 financial crisis favoured men or women. The analysis is based on a unique longitudinal database of individuals in the Toronto-Hamilton labour market. Men were the most likely to have paid employment in the post-financial crisis period, but only at the cost of a significant deterioration in its terms and conditions. The findings suggest that many middle-aged workers were not protected by job seniority or implicit lifetime employment relationships. The findings point to a further decline in the prevalence of the standard employment relationship and the male breadwinner model of employment.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Economic recovery; Employment; LABOR market; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

The Limits and Possibilities of the Structures and Procedures for Health and Safety Regulation in Ontario, Canada - Lewchuk, Wayne (Safety or Profit? International Studies in Governance, Change, and the Work Environment, 2013)
As the title - Safety or Profit? - suggests, health and safety at work needs to be understood in the context of the wider political economy. This book brings together contributions informed by this view from internationally recognized scholars. It reviews the governance of health and safety at work, with special reference to Australia, Canada, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. Three main aspects are discussed. The restructuring of the labor market: this is considered with respect to precarious work and to gender issues and their implications for the health and safety of workers. The neoliberal agenda: this is examined with respect to the diminished power of organized labor, decriminalization, and new governance theory, including an examination of how well the health-and-safety-at-work regimes put in place in many industrial societies about forty years ago have fared and how distinctive the recent emphasis on self-regulation in several countries really is. The role of evidence: there is a dearth of evidence-based policy. The book examines how policy on health and safety at work is formulated at both company and state levels. Cases considered include the scant regard paid to evidence by an official inquiry into future strategy in Canada; the lack of evidence-based policy and the reluctance to observe the precautionary principle with respect to work-related cancer in the United Kingdom; and the failure to learn from past mistakes in the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. --Publisher's description
Keywords: Industrial hygiene; Industrial safety; Law and legislation

A New Union for Challenging Times: A Reply to Andrew Jackson - Lewenza, Ken (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2013)

The Intersecting Dynamics of Social Exclusion: Age, Gender, Race and Immigrant Status in Canada's Labour Market - Lightman, Naomi; Gingrich, Luann Good (Canadian Ethnic Studies, 2013)
Through the use of a social exclusion framework and analysis of recent data from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (2009), a national longitudinal database, this empirical research investigates the mechanisms through which social groups are made and socio-economic outcomes are determined in Canada today. Our objective is to explore and describe the social characteristics and personal attributes that intersect to direct divergent economic realities. To this end, we initially present a brief review of the social exclusion literature, as well as descriptive data on several aspects of age and immigration. This is followed by logistic regressions for five dimensions of economic exclusion, to examine who is made socially excluded in economic terms in Canada. Subsequently, to progress the analysis from a focus on the individual effects of specific social attributes, we calculate the combined odds of two dimensions of economic exclusion (low individual earnings and insecure employment) for eight prototypes of individuals, to highlight the intersecting effects of social dynamics related to age, gender, visible minority status and immigrant status, and to ultimately explore who gets ahead and who falls behind in the Canadian labour market. We conclude with a discussion of policy and research implications.

Climate@Work - Lipsig-Mummé, Carla (Labour in Canada (Halifax, N.S.), 2013)
Climate change is having an increasingly significant impact on work in Canada, and the effect climate change has, and will continue to have, on work concerns many Canadians. However, this fact has not been seriously considered either in academic circles, in the labour movement nor especially by the Canadian government. Climate@Work addresses this deficit by systematically tackling the question of the impact of climate change on work and employment and by analyzing Canada’s conservative silence towards climate change and the Canadian government’s refusal to take it seriously.--Publisher's description. Contents: Introduction. Section 1: Contexts.Changing Patterns in the Literature of Climate Change and Canadian Work: The Research of Academics, Government and Social Actors / Elizabeth Perry -- Climate, Work and Labour: the International Context / Carla Lipsig-Mummé --International Trade Agreements and the Ontario Green Energy Act: Opportunities and Obstacles / Stephen McBride & John Shields. Section 2: Sectors. The Impact of Climate Change on Employment and Skills Requirements in the Construction Industry / John O’Grady -- Climate Change and Labour in the Energy Sector / Marjorie Griffin Cohen & John Calvert -- The Transportation Equipment Industry / John Holmes, with Austin Hracs -- The Forestry Industry / John Holmes -- Tourism, Climate Change and the Missing Worker: Uneven Impacts, Institutions and Response / Steven Tufts -- Climate Change and Work and Employment in the Canadian Postal and Courier Sector / Meg Gingrich, Sarah Ryan & Geoff Bickerton. Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-196).
Keywords: Canada. Climatic changes; Climatic changes; Economic aspects; Economic aspects. Climatic changes; Government policy

Climate, Work and Labour: The International Context - Lipsig-Mummé, Carla (Climate@Work, 2013)
[D]escribes the international state of play for bringing the world of work into the struggle to green advanced economies, including the EU, Australia, the US, profiling Canada's strategic paralysis. -- Editor's introduction
Keywords: Canada. Climatic changes; Climatic changes; Economic aspects; Economic aspects. Climatic changes; Government policy

Private-Sector Pension Plans: Have Recent Pension Reforms Addressed the Needs of Plan Sponsors - Litner, Paul W.; Marin, Jonathan (Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal, 2013)
Defined benefit (DB) pension plans have historically been an import- ant element in Canada's "three pillar" retirement income system. However, recessions in the global and Canadian economies have increased pressures on the funding of DB plans, and highlighted concerns about their sustainability - developments which have prompted governments in Canada to introduce a num- ber of reforms to pension benefit legislation. The authors, counsel to employers and plan sponsors, provide an overview of the existing legislation and the reform process, with particular emphasis on changes to Ontario's regulatory framework for DB plans as it relates to four key areas: plan solvency andfunding, surpluses, partial plan wind-ups, and asset transfers and plan mergers or splits. The paper notes that many if not all of these measures have been well-received by plan sponsors. However, in assessing whether the reforms will have the intended effect of stemming the decline in DB plan participation, the authors question whether the measures taken so far are not "too little, too late," and suggest that more far-reaching, and permanent, steps will be necessary. The paper also reviews and comments on the main features of the legislation recently enacted by the federal government providing for pooled registered pension plans.

Flexibility at the Core: What Determines Employment of Part-Time Faculty in Academia - Liu, Xiangmin; Zhang, Liang (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
This study uses both institutional and individual level data to examine the variation of part-time faculty employment in colleges and universities in the United States. Results support the arguments that higher educational institutions actively adopt contingent work arrangements to manage their resource dependence with constituencies, to save on labour costs, and to maximize academic prestige. Private institutions, on average, have higher levels of part-time faculty than their public counterparts. The proportion of part-time students and the share of institutional revenues derived from tuition and fees are positively associated with part-time faculty employment. Institutions that have limited resource slack and pay high salaries to their full-time faculty members tend to employ a high proportion of part-time faculty.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Cost reduction; Labor Unions; Part time employment; Revenue; School faculty; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; higher education

Negotiating Narratives: Recent Approaches in Consumer Studies - Liverant, Bettina (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews and comments on the books "Debtor Nation: The History of America in Red Ink," by Louis Hyman, "Packaging Pleasure: Holiday Camps in Twentieth-Century Britain," by Sandra Dawson, and "Consumption and Its Consequences," by Daniel Miller.
Keywords: CONSUMPTION & Its Consequences (Book); DAWSON, Sandra; DEBTOR Nation: The History of America in Red Ink (Book); HYMAN, Louis, 1977-; MILLER, Daniel; Nonfiction; PACKAGING Pleasure: Holiday Camps in 20th-Century Britain (Book)

Unpacking "Alberta Beef": Class, Gender, and Culture in Edmonton Packinghouses During the Era of Nationall Pattern Bargaining, 1947-1979 - Loch-Drake, Cynthia Marie (York University, 2013)
The struggle to establish a progressive American-based industrial union, United Packinghouse Workers of America, in Edmonton's four major packinghouses during World War Two sparked the ""awakening"" of a social conscience in many workers who embraced the goals of strengthening the labour movement and promoting working-class political activism. The impact of this working-class community on electoral politics, however, was limited to a significant degree by notions of gender difference. The most successful politician to come out of an Alberta packinghouse was Ethel Wilson, a seamstress in the laundry department at Edmonton's Burns plant, who rose through municipal and provincial politics to become a cabinet minister in the anti-union Social Credit government of Ernest Manning, while a number of packing men were unable to achieve electoral success. Drawing on a wide array of sources, including oral interviews, union and government records, and newspapers, I argue that notions of gender difference intersected with class and ethnicity to handicap packing men and women in distinctive ways linked to a national system of pattern bargaining that gave them unprecedented trade union power during the decades following World War Two. During these years workers tended to support male leaders who could be aggressive, even bullying and dictatorial. This masculinist leadership style was most effective in confrontations with the powerful companies that comprised Canada's ""meat trust,"" particularly Canada Packers, and with the province's increasingly right-wing provincial government, but it often marginalized progressive voices in the union and excluded women almost entirely from the most powerful leadership positions. Conversely, in community politics, the aggressive image of packing masculinity was a liability that did not handicap Ethel Wilson, who was able to achieve success by downplaying her union credentials and trading on an image of respectable white Anglo-Canadian femininity.

From Demonized to Organized: Building the New Union Movement - Loreto, Nora (Our schools, our selves book series, 2013)
This book seeks to explain unionization to my generation; to my friends who distrust civil society organizations as much as they distrust government; to my unemployed friends who are living from contract to contract and who would kill for a stable, unionized job; for the workers who have never had the benefit of being represented when facing injustice at work; for the workers who would rather not think of what would happen if they were injured on the job. It’s a reminder to unionized folks that many of the truths that they take for granted are not obvious to others and that the labour movement must change how it reaches out to its members, its communities and to non-unionized workers if it hopes to grow. It’s a call to action for activists to share their stories, debunk the existing right-wing, anti-union rhetoric, re-engage in their communities, and build a movement that can defeat neoliberal policies and their political proponents. --From author's introduction
Keywords: Labour unions

Le transfert de connaissances au RRSSTQ : Bilan et perspectives - Lortie, Monique; Desmarais, Lise; Faye, Cheikh; Laroche, Éléna; Faurie, Isabelle (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
Cet article a pour objectif de poser un regard rétrospectif sur les activités scientifiques et les réflexions menées par le regroupement stratégique en transfert de connaissances (RS-TC) afin de dégager des axes de développement sur ce thème en lien avec la santé et sécurité au travail (SST). Afin de dresser ce bilan, nous avons effectué une analyse documentaire à partir de deux sources principales : 1) les activités de type symposiums et tables rondes organisées successivement en 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010 et 2011 et les diverses présentations et publications qui en sont issues et 2) les revues de littérature effectuées sur le transfert des connaissances en SST. Nous présentons d’abord un bref portrait des activités de transfert en SST réalisées par le RS-TC du Réseau de recherche en santé et sécurité du travail (RRSSTQ). Par la suite, nous proposons diverses pistes de réflexion développées à partir des activités menées depuis la création de ce regroupement au sein du RRSSTQ. Par exemple, le piège de restreindre le sens du terme connaissance et de s’y astreindre, le choix d’un intitulé représentatif de la question du transfert au Réseau, la nécessité d’opérer une double articulation individu/organisation, l’importance et la complexité du rôle des relayeurs, la multiplicité des outils de relais, la problématique de l’implantation. Nous terminons sur une piste de réflexion encore inexplorée par la communauté de chercheurs en TC de ce regroupement – les décideurs, auxquels peu d’efforts ont été consacrés – et sur les suites à donner au travail réalisé à ce jour : développer un cadre d’analyse propre à rendre compte des savoirs et savoir-faire développés au Réseau.
Keywords: agentes de relevo; formaciones; formations; guides; guías; intermediaries; knowledge; knowledge transfer; relayeurs; saberes; savoirs; training; transferencia de conocimientos; transfert des connaissances

Reds at the Blackboard: Communism, Civil Rights, and the New York City Teachers Union - Lyons, John F. (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Reds at the Blackboard: Communism, Civil Rights, and the New York City Teachers Union," by Clarence Taylor.
Keywords: COMMUNISM & education; NEW York (State); Nonfiction; REDS at the Blackboard: Communism, Civil Rights & the New York City Teachers Union (Book); TAYLOR, Clarence; TEACHERS' unions

Hearts and Minds: Canadian Romance at the Dawn of the Modern Era, 1900-1930 - Macdonald, Heidi (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Hearts and Minds: Canadian Romance at the Dawn of the Modern Era, 1900-1930," by Dan Azoulay.
Keywords: AZOULAY, Dan; HEARTS & Minds: Canadian Romance at the Dawn of the Modern Era 1900-1930 (Book); History; Nonfiction; ROMANTIC love

Labour and the Commemorative Landscape in Industrial Cape Breton, 1922-2013 - MacKinnon, Lachlan (Material Culture Review, 2013)
Labour landmarks are monuments, memorials, plaques and other sites that commemorate the past experiences of workers in society. These sites are also manifestations of the collective memory of labourers. In industrial Cape Breton, which has a long history of labour and class struggle, an analytical survey of labour landmarks reveals how the industrial past has been remembered and memorialized. This overview reflects the narratives that have been attached to these sites, the ways in which historical memory has been localized and constructed in industrial Cape Breton, and the new layers of meaning that are revealed as these communities transition into post-industrialism.

"To Those Who Lost Their Lives": Reading a Labour Landmark in Sydney, Nova Scotia - MacKinnon, Lachlan (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
Discusses the importance of labour landmarks, in particular the United Steelworker's Memorial Monument in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Provides the historical context of labour unrest and industrial fatalities that occurred at the Sydney steelplant, with summaries of the circumstances that resulted in the deaths of individual workers over the decades. Takes note of ownership changes, advances in workplace safety through unionism, and the plant's toxic legacy.
Keywords: COLLECTIVE memory; History; Labor Unions; STEEL industry -- History; SYDNEY (N.S.); UNITED Steelworkers of America; Workers' monuments

Two-Tier Workplace Compensation: Issues and Remedies - MacNeil, Michael (Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal, 2013)
As a result of the recession that began in 2008, many employers are look- ing for ways to cut labour costs. One way of doing so is to impose two-tier compensation schemes, whereby younger employees do essentially the same job as older ones, but for lower wages and benefits. The key concern of this paper is how Canadian labour, employment and human rights law could respond to the differential impact of two-tier schemes on younger workers. First, the author reviews the use of two-tier systems in the United States and Canada, showing that they affect not only workers' wages and benefits but also their pensions, as employers move from defined benefit to defined contribution plans. In the next part of the paper, he analyses arbitral, labour board and human rights tribunal case law, arguing that lower-tier workers face significant barriers in seeking legal recourse through duty of fair representation or human rights complaints. The author concludes with an overview of the restrictions on two-tier schemes in the Quebec employment standards statute, and discusses the difficulties of enacting similar legislation in other Canadian jurisdictions.

Behind the Resume: Influences on the Educational and Employment Trajectories of 1.5 and Second Generation Filipino-Canadians in Vancouver - Mais, Julia Kathleen (York University, 2013)
Many Filipino immigrants have moved to Canada as professionals, with high levels of English fluency and education. However, first and second generation Filipino-Canadians are still relatively disadvantaged in the labour market. Despite these negative collective outcomes, individual trajectories differ greatly, with many individuals achieving high levels of education and desirable employment. My research examines how social surroundings can facilitate or impede pathways to post-secondary education and employment by shaping aspirations and providing connections to the labour market. The research also analyses how gendered childrearing approaches, employment aspirations, peer norms and available role models result in distinct gendered experiences. The study is based on semi-structured interviews with adult children of Filipino immigrants in the Vancouver area who have attended post-secondary education and are employed. It will explain how, in most cases, trajectories are strongly influenced by the social networks in the spaces of the home, neighbourhood, education system and the Philippines.
Keywords: British Columbia; Social sciences

Redefining “Enterprising Selves”: Exploring the “Negotiation” of South Asian Immigrant Women Working as Home-based Enclave Entrepreneurs - Maitra, Srabani (University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 2013)
This study examines the experiences of highly educated South Asian immigrant women working as home-based entrepreneurs within ethnic enclaves in Toronto, Canada. The importance of their work and experiences need to be understood in the context of two processes. On the one hand, there is the neoliberal hegemonic discourse of “enterprising self” that encourages individuals to become “productive”, self-responsible, citizen-subjects, without depending on state help or welfare to succeed in the labour market. On the other hand, there is the racialized and gendered labour market that systematically devalues the previous education and skills of non-white immigrants and pushes them towards jobs that are low-paid, temporary and precarious in nature. In the light of the above situations, I argue that in the process of setting up their home-based businesses, South Asian immigrant women in my study negotiate the barriers they experience in two ways. First, despite being inducted into different (re)training and (re)learning that aim to improve their deficiencies, they continue to believe in their abilities and resourcefulness, thereby challenging the “remedial” processes that try to locate lack in their abilities. Second, by negotiating gender ideologies within their families and drawing on community ties within enclaves they keep at check the individuating and achievement oriented ideology of neoliberalism. They, therefore, demonstrate how the values of an “enterprising self” can be based on collaboration and relationship rather than competition, profit or material success. The concept of “negotiation”, as employed in this thesis, denotes a form of agency different from the commonly perceived notions of agency as formal, large-scale, macro organization or resistance. Rather, the concept is based on how women resort to multiple, various and situational practices of conformity and contestation that often can blend into each other.

Acquired Expertise of Administrative Tribunals and the Standard of Judicial Review: The Case of Grievance Arbitrators and Human Rights Law - Makela, Finn (Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal, 2013)
Focusing on arbitral decisions on human rights claims arising in the employment context, this paper looks at the nature of the expertise of adminis- trative tribunals and its role in determining the standard of judicial review. The author notes that arbitrators are considered to have expertise in labour rela- tions, and that this has been a key factor in the high level of deference generally shown by courts to their decisions. However, despite the expansion of arbitral jurisdiction over human rights matters in unionized workplaces, the courts, applying a "correctness" standard of review, have refused to grant deference to arbitrators with respect to their interpretation and application of human rights legislation, in part on the basis that they are not expert in the area. The author takes issue with this view, contending that arbitrators have in fact acquired significant expertise in interpreting human rights statutes in the context of the employment relationship, and that recognition of such expertise should lead to a reappraisal of the level of curial deference. In this regard, he argues, it would be open to the courts to deem arbitrators to possess the requisite expertise in human rights, thereby justifying a more deferential "reasonableness" standard of review.

Créativité et gestion : les idées au service de l'innovation - Malo, François Bernard (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
Créativité et gestion : les idées au service de l’innovation, by Camille Carrier et Sylvie Gélinas, 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

Mapping Social Relations of Older Workers' Employment: Using Institutional Ethnography to Explore the Meaning and Organization of Work, Health, and Safety of Aging Workers in the Home Support Sector - Mandville-Anstey, Sue Ann (Memorial University, 2013)
Demographic trends both provincially and nationally indicate increasing life expectancy and growing numbers of older adults living with chronic disease and disability. Human resource projections predict that Canada will need to double the number of formal home care workers in order to meet future demands. This demographic change has also resulted in increasing numbers of older adults choosing to remain engaged in the workforce past the traditional age time of retirement. Research on supportive services in the community has identified the issues and challenges of homecare but little has addressed the complex interplay of economic, political, and social factors that have resulted in the health and safety challenges associated with the work provided by home support workers. Using a method of inquiry called Institutional Ethnography, this research explored the meaning of work and health and safety considerations of workers over 50 years old who are providing home support services in Newfoundland. This exploration of health and safety needs and practices, work environments, as well as policies and government systems regulating the employment of workers can be summarized into three threads that describe the everyday work of these aging home support workers: Crossing Boundaries - More Than Just a Job; Making it Work in Unhealthy and Unsafe Work Environments; and Becoming a Home Support Worker: Experience, Orientation, and Training Necessary to do the Work. The findings suggest that decision making practices to engage in risk taking behaviour that impact health and safety in the workplace are influenced by the meaning of work as well as the emotional connections and close, personal relationships with clients. It is anticipated that this research may positively influence the health and safety of aging workers in this sector. This will be achieved through the recommendations for policy and practice that emerged from this research including the development and implementation of a risk assessment tool for home support workers, clear standards on education, orientation, and training, wage parity with the acute care sector, and more clarity on title, roles, and responsibilities of home support workers.

The Tailor of Ulm: Communism in the Twentieth Century - Manley, John (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "The Tailor of Ulm: Communism in the Twentieth Century," by Lucio Magri.
Keywords: 20th century; Communism; History; MAGRI, Lucio, 1932-2011; Nonfiction; TAILOR of Ulm: Communism in the 20th Century, The (Book)

Combating Mountaintop Removal: New Directions in the Fight Against Big Coal - Manuel, Jeffrey T. (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Combating Mountaintop Removal: New Directions in the Fight Against Big Coal," by Bryan T. McNeil.
Keywords: COAL mines & mining; COMBATING Mountaintop Removal: New Directions in the Fight Against Big Coal (Book); MCNEIL, Bryan T.; MOUNTAINTOP removal mining; Nonfiction; WEST Virginia

Research Handbook of Comparative Employment Relations - Markey, Raymond (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
Research Handbook of Comparative Employment Relations, edited by Michael Barry and Adrian Wilkinson, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Political economy; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Law's Permissions, Law's Exclusions: Precarious Migration Status in Canada - Marsden, Sarah Grayce (University of British Columbia, 2013)
The number of people with less than permanent migration status in Canada has increased in recent decades. While such people often have social and economic ties to Canada, and live and work within its territory, they do not have legal permanent membership by way of permanent residence or citizenship, and experience differential access to legal rights and entitlements. This dissertation examines the role of migration status in the lives of people who identify themselves as having “uncertain” migration status. In this study, I draw on interviews with migrants and representatives of migrant-serving agencies as well as legal and policy texts, deploying Dorothy Smith’s institutional ethnography as a methodology to ground the dissertation both analytically and structurally in the interview data. This study enlarges the understanding of the nature and effects of migration status as it is enacted in local institutional sites. Using the construct of “precarious migration status” as a theoretical frame, I focus specifically on the nature and effects of precarious migration status. I explore the effect of precarious migration status on working life and on migrants’ interactions with state institutions governing health care, education, and income security. I conclude that precarious migration status has a deleterious effect on the employment relationship itself as well as access to worker protections, even though the law creates no formal barrier to such protections on the basis of status. With regard to social state, individuals with precarious status are often formally excluded in the text of the law as well as through various exclusionary policies and practices within local institutional sites. I conclude that institutional sites in which precarious migration status functions to exclude should be understood as forms of enforcement. I further conclude that human rights and anti-discrimination strategies through Charter and provincial human rights statutes, while valuable, are unlikely to improve inclusion for precarious migrants, while contestation of membership at the level of local institutions has greater potential to do so.

Contesting White Supremacy: School Segregation, Anti-Racism and the Making of Chinese Canadians - Marshall, Alison R. (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Contesting White Supremacy: School Segregation, Anti-Racism and the Making of Chinese Canadians," by Timothy J. Stanley.
Keywords: ANTI-racism; CONTESTING White Supremacy: School Segregation, Anti-Racism & the Making of Chinese Canadians (Book); Chinese Canadians; History; Nonfiction; STANLEY, Timothy J.

Pierre Laporte - Martel, Marcel (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Pierre Laporte," by Jean-Charles Panneton.
Keywords: LAPORTE, Pierre Francois, 1799-1841; Nonfiction; PANNETON, Jean-Charles; PIERRE Laporte (Book)

Remaking E.P. Thompson - Matthews, Wade (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews and comments extensively on the book, "The Crisis of Theory: E. P. Thompson, the New Left and Postwar British Politics," by Scott Hamilton.
Keywords: CRISIS of Theory: E.P. Thompson, the New Left & Postwar British Politics, The (Book); HAMILTON, Scott; Nonfiction; THOMPSON, E. P. (Edward Palmer), 1924-1993

The Vancouver Hunger March of 1932: Explaining a Third Period Success - Maxwell, Jean-Francois (University of New Brunswick, 2013)
On 25 February 1932 some 6000 protestors descended on Vancouver for a “Hunger March” organized by the Communist Party of Canada (CPC) to demonstrate for better conditions for workers, both employed and unemployed, across the nation. Although Hunger Marches were organized throughout Canada, Vancouver’s march was by far the largest and certainly the most successful. This study presents a thorough examination of the circumstances surrounding the Hunger March and explains what made the event such a unique success in this city. The event’s success derives from the Vancouver CPC ‘s ability to take advantage of the large mass of transients who came into the city in the early part of the Great Depression and then to funnel their discontent into mass agitation. The following study shows how the Hunger March is symbolic of the Vancouver CPC’s revolutionary pragmatism during the Third Period,

International Trade Agreements and the Ontario Green Energy Act: Opportunities and Obstacles - McBride, Stephen; Shields, John (Climate@Work, 2013)
[Examines] the trade challenges to Ontario's Green Energy Act, exploring both the obstacles that international agreements pose to building an integrated economic strategy around the transition to cleaner energy and the opportunities. --Editor's introduction
Keywords: Canada. Climatic changes; Climatic changes; Economic aspects; Economic aspects. Climatic changes; Government policy

Indigenous Women, Work, and History, 1940-1980 - McCallum, Mary Jane (Critical studies in Native history ; 16, 2013)
When dealing with Indigenous women’s history we are conditioned to think about women as private-sphere figures, circumscribed by the home, the reserve, and the community. Moreover, in many ways Indigenous men and women have been cast in static, pre-modern, and one-dimensional identities, and their twentieth century experiences reduced to a singular story of decline and loss. In Indigenous Women, Work, and History, historian Mary Jane Logan McCallum rejects both of these long-standing conventions by presenting case studies of Indigenous domestic servants, hairdressers, community health representatives, and nurses working in “modern Native ways” between 1940 and 1980. Based on a range of sources including the records of the Departments of Indian Affairs and National Health and Welfare, interviews, and print and audio-visual media, McCallum shows how state-run education and placement programs were part of Canada’s larger vision of assimilation and extinguishment of treaty obligations. Conversely, she also shows how Indigenous women link these same programs to their social and cultural responsibilities of community building and state resistance. By placing the history of these modern workers within a broader historical context of Aboriginal education and health, federal labour programs, post-war Aboriginal economic and political developments, and Aboriginal professional organizations, McCallum challenges us to think about Indigenous women’s history in entirely new ways. --Publisher's description. Contents: Sweeping the Nation: Indigenous women and domestic labour in mid-twentieth-century Canada -- Permanent solution: the placement and relocation program, hairdressers, and beauty culture -- Early labour history of community health representatives, 1960-1970 -- Gaining recognition: labour as activism among Indigenous nurses -- Wages of whiteness and the Indigenous historian.
Keywords: 20th century; Economic conditions; Employment; History; Indigenous women; Social conditions

"Telford Time" and the Populist Origins of the CCF in British Columbia - McDonald, Robert A. J. (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article focuses on the Canadian political party the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in British Columbia (BC) and how it promoted populism and socialism within the province during the 1930s. The author explores the role of party founder Lyle Telford in the CCF movement, discusses how the CCF won the provincial vote in 1933, and examines the CCF's successor party the New Democratic Party (NDP).
Keywords: BRITISH Columbia -- Politics & government -- 20th century; CO-Operative Commonwealth Federation (Political party : Canada); Canada; History; NEW Democratic Party (Political party : British Columbia); Political parties; Socialism; TELFORD, Lyle; elections; populism

Beyond Blood: Rethinking Indigenous Identity - Miller, J. R. (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Beyond Blood: Rethinking Indigenous Identity," by Pamela D. Palmater.
Keywords: BEYOND Blood: Rethinking Indigenous Identity (Book); ETHNIC identity; Indigenous Peoples; Nonfiction; PALMATER, Pamela D.

The Invisible Handcuffs of Capitalism: How Market Tyranny Stifles the Economy by Stunting Workers - Milloy, Jeremy (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "The Invisible Handcuffs of Capitalism: How Market Tyranny Stifles the Economy by Stunting Workers," by Michael Perelman.
Keywords: Capitalism; Economic aspects; INVISIBLE Handcuffs of Capitalism: How Market Tyranny Stifles the Economy by Stunting Workers, The (Book); Nonfiction; PERELMAN, Michael

Negotiating Neoliberal Empowerment: Aboriginal People, Educational Restructuring, and Academic Labour in the North of British Columbia, Canada - Mills, Suzanne E.; McCreary, Tyler (Antipode, 2013)
Aboriginal peoples in Canada are gaining influence in post-secondary education through Aboriginal-directed programs and policies in non-Aboriginal institutions. However, these gains have occurred alongside, and in some cases through, neoliberal reforms to higher education. This article explores the political consequences of the neoliberal institutionalization of First Nations empowerment for public sector unions and workers. We examine a case where the indigenization of a community college in British Columbia was embedded in neoliberal reforms that ran counter to the interests of academic instructors. Although many union members supported indigenization, many also possessed a deep ambivalence about the change. Neoliberal indigenization increased work intensity, decreased worker autonomy and promoted an educational philosophy that prioritized labour market needs over liberal arts. This example demonstrates how the integration of Aboriginal aspirations into neoliberal processes of reform works to rationalize public sector restructuring, constricting labour agency and the possibilities for alliances between labour and Aboriginal peoples.
Keywords: education; indigenous peoples; restructuring; union; work

On Agency, Freedom, and the Boundaries of Slavery Studies - Millward, Jessica (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews and comments on several books including "From Africa to Jamaica: The Making of an Atlantic Slave Society, 1775-1807," by Audra A. Diptee, "Gleanings of Freedom: Free and Slave Labor Along the Mason-Dixon Line, 1790-1860," by Max Grivno, and "Forging Freedom: Black Women and the Pursuit of Liberty in Antebellum Charleston," by Amrita Chakrabarti Myers.
Keywords: DIPTEE, Audra A.; FORGING Freedom: Black Women & the Pursuit of Liberty in Antebellum Charleston (Book); FROM Africa to Jamaica: The Making of an Atlantic Slave Society 1775-1807 (Book); GLEANINGS of Freedom: Free & Slave Labor Along the Mason-Dixon Line 1790-1860 (Book); GRIVNO, Max; MYERS, Amrita Chakrabarti; Nonfiction

A Life in Balance? Reopening the Family-Work Debate - Morris, Marika (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "A Life in Balance? Reopening the Family-Work Debate," edited by Catherine Krull and Justyna Sempruch.
Keywords: KRULL, Catherine; LIFE in Balance? Reopening the Family-Work Debate, A (Book); Nonfiction; SEMPRUCH, Justyna; WORK-life balance

A Bridge of Ships: Canadian Shipbuilding during the Second World War - Muhammad, Robin Dearmon (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book. "A Bridge of Ships: Canadian Shipbuilding during the Second World War," by James Pritchard.
Keywords: BRIDGE of Ships: Canadian Shipbuilding During the Second World War, A (Book); Canada; Nonfiction; PRITCHARD, James; Shipbuilding

Babies for the Nation: The Medicalization of Motherhood in Quebec, 1910-1970 - Mullally, Sasha (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Babies for the Nation: The Medicalization of Motherhood in Quebec, 1910-1970," by Denyse Baillargeon, translated by W. Donald Wilson.
Keywords: BABIES for the Nation: The Medicalization of Motherhood in Quebec 1910-1970 (Book); BAILLARGEON, Denyse; Canada; MATERNAL health services; MEDICALIZATION; Nonfiction

"That Indispensable Figment of the Legal Mind": The Contract of Employment at Common Law in Ontario, 1890-1979 - Mummé, Claire Isabel (York University, 2013)
“The relation between an employer and an isolated employee or worker is typically a relation between a bearer of power and one who is not a bearer of power. In its inception it is an act of submission, in its operation it is a condition of subordination, however much the submission and the subordination may be concealed by the indispensable figment of the legal mind known as the 'contract of employment'.” Otto Kahn-Freund , Labour and the Law (London: Stevens, 1977) This study examines the legal evolution of the common law of employment contracts in Ontario between the 1890s and the 1970s. It focuses on the changing relationship between notions of property and contract in employment, as visible through the judicial discourse of reported common law cases. I argue that between the 1890s and the end of the 1970s Ontario saw the emergence and consolidation of two different conceptual paradigms for regulating work at common law. The common law of employment contracts was framed and reframed over different eras of the 20th century through what the courts understood of the nature of the exchange between the parties, the property interests involved and the legal tools necessary to manage that exchange. Contrary to the traditional narrative in the field, the courts of Ontario first conceptualized employment as an exchange as of the turn of the 20th century. This first paradigm emerged in tandem with the province’s second industrial revolution, and sought to regulate the discretionary nature of white collar professional work. The second paradigm was entrenched in the 1960s and 1970s. It is over these years that workers in Standard Employment Relationships (SER) first began to bring employment-related claims to the common law courts, a few decades after it emerged as the paradigmatic form of work around which Ontario’s labour market and employment laws were fashioned over the mid-century. The basic premises of the SER, of long-term employment, job security and internal career advancement, fundamentally changed the psychosical and economic terms of employment. But faced with workers’ claims for recognition of these new terms in law, the courts instead chose to entrench a limited legal framework which denied job security as an enforceable contract term.
Keywords: Contract; Employment; Employment law; Labour history; Labour law; Labour relations; Law; Property in employment

Workplace Representatives: Strategic Actors of Union Renewal?: Workplace Representatives and Union Renewal - Murray, Gregor; Lévesque, Christian; Dufour, Christian; Hege, Adelheid (Industrial Relations Journal, 2013)
Workplace representatives (shop stewards) provide insight into union transformations. This article explores the renewed research interest in terms of the representativeness of unionism and of workplace representatives, the complexity of the sites of representation and employer strategies, the search for new references and the centrality of workplace representatives in union renewal strategies.

Improving Organizational Interventions for Stress and Well-being - Muurlink, Olav (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
Improving Organizational Interventions for Stress and Well-being, edited by Caroline Biron, Maria Karanika-Murray and Cary L. Cooper, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Job satisfaction; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Stress; Work life balance

From Serious Shortage of Researchers to OHS Law Changes and Growing Industrial Needs: A Dynamic and Quiet Force - Nadeau, Sylvie; Fatisson, Julien; Badri, Adel; Emami-Mehrgani, Behnam (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
An initial observation by the work safety research community of the Quebec Occupational Health and Safety Research Network (QOHSRN) reveals that occupational safety, an aspect affecting all industrial sectors, requires international exchanges to meet the objectives and expand the knowledge gained within the network. This historical review is also meant to show the diversity of the work safety research community goals and the need to develop intersectoral research projects. The growing and essential involvement of student members within the research community ensures a solid future in that regard.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Historical analysis; Knowledge management; Labor Unions; Occupational safety; Reforms; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

In the Interest of Democracy: The Rise and Fall of the Early Cold War Alliance Between the American Federation of Labor and the Central Intelligence Agency - Nastovski, Katherine (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "In the Interest of Democracy: The Rise and Fall of the Early Cold War Alliance Between the American Federation of Labor and the Central Intelligence Agency," by Quenby Olmsted Hughes.
Keywords: AMERICAN Federation of Labor; COLD War, 1945-1989 -- Political aspects; HUGHES, Quenby Olmsted; IN the Interest of Democracy: The Rise & Fall of the Early Cold War Alliance Between the American Federation of Labor & the Central Intelligence Agency (Book); Nonfiction

The British Columbia CCF's Working-Class Moment: Socialism Not Populism - Naylor, James (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article focuses on the Canadian political party the British Columbia Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (BC/CCF) and how it contributed to a political left-wing social movement for Canada's working class during the 1930s. The author argues that while the BC/CCF had populist beginnings, it was truly a socialist party. He discusses how the BC/CCF impacted Canadian politics during the interwar years, argues that the party created an anti-liberal movement, and explores the BC/CCF's relationship to the Socialist Party of Canada.
Keywords: 20th century; BRITISH Columbia -- Politics & government -- 20th century; CANADA -- Politics & government -- 1914-1945; CO-Operative Commonwealth Federation (Political party : Canada); Canada; History; LEFT & right; Liberalism; Political parties; Social movements; Socialism; Socialist Party of Canada; WORKING class -- Political activity; populism

Dominion of Capital: The Politics of Big Business and the Crisis of the Canadian Bourgeoisie, 1914-1947 - Nerbas, Don (University of Toronto Press, 2013)
In the critical decades following the First World War, the Canadian political landscape was shifting in ways that significantly recast the relationship between big business and government. As public pressures changed the priorities of Canada's political parties, many of Canada's most powerful businessmen struggled to come to terms with a changing world that was less sympathetic to their ideas and interests than before. Dominion of Capital offers a new account of relations between government and business in Canada during a period of transition between the established expectations of the National Policy and the uncertain future of the twentieth century. Don Nerbas tells this fascinating story through close portraits of influential business and political figures of this period - including Howard P. Robinson, Charles Dunning, Sir Edward Beatty, R.S. McLaughlin, and C.D. Howe - that provide insight into how events in different sectors of the economy and regions of the country shaped the political outlook and strategies of the country's business elite. Drawing on business, political, social, and cultural history, Nerbas revises standard accounts of government-business relations in this period and sheds new light on the challenges facing big business in early twentieth-century Canada. --Publisher's description. Contents: Part 1: Big Business from Triumph to Crisis. Provincial Man of Mystery: Howard P. Robinson and the Politics of Capital in New Brunswick -- Charles A. Dunning: A Progressive in Business and Politics -- The Dilemma of Democracy: Sir Edward Beatty, the Railway Question, and National Government. Part 2: Continentalism and the Managerial Ethic. -- Stewardship and Dependency: Sam McLaughlin, General Motors, and the Labour Question -- Engineering Canada: C.D. Howe and Canadian Big Business -- Conclusion -- Après le déluge -- Endnotes.

Gender and the Games Industry: The Experiences of Female Game Workers - Newbery, Marsha (Simon Fraser University, 2013)
In the digital games industry women are statistical and cultural outliers. Using a cultural studies lens, this thesis examines the experiences of women game-makers in order to more deeply understand the attitudes of female game-workers, and to ascertain whether work in the male dominated gamed industry can be ‘good work’ for women. When compared to other cultural sectors, female game workers face unique barriers to sustaining careers in this high status industry. Gender stereotypes keep many women from fully participating in games industry culture which in turn discriminates against any worker who does not fit in to the ‘might is right’ mindset. Female game workers are getting mixed signals from an industry that appears to desire gender diversity in order to attract the growing ranks of female gamers, but is resistant to change sexist and discriminatory work practices that continue to alienate women.

The Legal In/Security of Temporary Migrant Agricultural Work: Case Studies from Canada and Australia - Newman, Andrew (Deakin Law Review, 2013)
Despite differing labour law systems and program structures, temporary migrant agricultural workers under the Canadian Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program and Australian Seasonal Worker Program often possess minimal security of employment rights and protections, despite potentially lengthy periods of consecutive seasonal service to the same employer. Such lesser rights and protections are partly due to the central role played by continuity of service in determining the length of reasonable notice periods and the strength of unfair dismissal protections and stand-down/recall rights. Although it is often presumed that the temporary duration of the seasonal work visa necessarily severs the legal continuity of the employment relationship, such is not the case. This article argues that security of employment rights and protections can be re-conceptualised to recognise non-continuous seasonal service within the current parameters of a fixed-term work visa. In both Canada and Australia this could be accomplished through contractual or collective agreement terms or through the amendment of labour law legislation. Such reforms would recognise a form of unpaid 'migrant worker leave', whereby the legal continuity of employment would be preserved despite periods of mandatory repatriation, thus allowing accrual of security of employment rights and protections.
Keywords: Australia; Canada; Labor laws and legislation; Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program

Memorial of War, Memorial of Hope: Contemplating the creation, destruction, and re-creation of Fred Ross' mural The Destruction of War/Rebuilding the World Through Education, 1948,1954, and 2011 - Niergarth, Kirk (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article is an extensive commentary on the history and significance of the mural, "The Destruction of War/Rebuilding the World Through Education," by Fred Ross. The mural was painted in the late 1940s at Fredericton High School in Fredericton, N.B. Removed in the 1950s, it was subsequently lost. A recreated version of the mural was installed at the University of New Brunswick in 2011.
Keywords: COLD War, 1945-1989; History; LOST works of art; MURAL painting & decoration -- 20th century; New Brunswick; ROSS, Fred; WORLD War, 1939-1945 -- Art & the war

The Historical and Contemporary Life-Value of the Canadian Labour Movement - Noonan, Jeff (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
Neo-liberal ideology has attempted to set different groups of workers--employed and unemployed, public and private sector, unionized and non-unionized--in opposition to each other. A successful response will require more than clear philosophical principles. It will require detailed, difficult, and long-term political efforts to construct solidarity. At the same time, that practical political work requires principles. The most effective principles on the basis of which solidarity can be built are those that disclose shared interests. The life-value principles underlying the most significant achievements of the union movement are the best means by which the shared interests of all workers can be disclosed. (English)
Keywords: CANADA -- Economic conditions -- 1991-; Canada; EMPLOYMENT (Economic theory); Employees; LABOR market; Labor Unions; Labor movement; Neoliberalism; SOLIDARITY; STRIKES & lockouts; Unemployment

Filipino Health Care Aides and the Nursing Home Labour Market in Winnipeg - Novek, Sheila (Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement, 2013)
Canada’s nursing homes have become increasingly dependent on immigrant health care aides. More than any other ethnic group, Filipino women are over-represented among health care aides in the Canadian health care system. This qualitative study explored the employment experiences of Filipino health care aides in nursing homes from their own perspectives as well as those of policy stakeholders. Fourteen in-depth interviews were conducted with Filipino health care aides and long-term-care policy stakeholders in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The results indicated that migrant social networks act as pathways linking immigrant women with employment opportunities in nursing homes. The composition of the labour force is also shaped by management strategies and labour market accommodations that respond to, and reinforce, these social networks. These findings have implications for workforce planning and the quality of care provision in nursing homes.

Valuing Care Work: Comparative Perspectives - Nyland, Chris (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Valuing Care Work: Comparative Perspectives," edited by Cecilia Benoit and Helga Hallgrimsdottir.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Caregivers; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Social policy; Welfare

The Impact of Climate Change on Employment and Skills Requirements in the Construction Industry - O'Grady, John (Climate@Work, 2013)
[Analyzes] the impact of both climate change and climate policy on employment in construction. --Editor's introduction
Keywords: Canada. Climatic changes; Climatic changes; Economic aspects; Economic aspects. Climatic changes; Government policy

Pitching for Each Others' Team: The North American Free Trade Agreement and Labor Transnationalism - Ozarow, Daniel (Labor History, 2013)
The North American Free Trade Agreement's side accord – the 1994 North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation – has been portrayed as providing an ineffective, bureaucratic procedure for dealing with labor complaints about infringements of national labor legislation. This paper reviews two decades of experience. It argues that after an initial period of formal activity, which did indeed expose the accord's severe limitations, a new era of intensified international links at grassroots level commenced. Despite its limitations, the accord initiated positive learning processes and intensified exchanges between the trade union movements in the USA, Canada and Mexico.
Keywords: INTERNATIONAL labor activities; LABOR movement -- Canada; LABOR movement -- Mexico; LABOR movement -- United States; NORTH American Agreement for Labor Cooperation (Organization); NORTH American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA); Transnationalism

Navigating the Productive/Reproductive Split: Latin American Transnational Mothers and Fathers in Canada's Temporary Migration Programs - Paciulan, Melissa; Preibisch, Kerry (Transnational Social Review, 2013)
This article explores the experiences of transnational agricultural migrant workers in Canada's guestworker programs. Examined through a gendered lens, it focuses on migrants' experiences as parents to children whom they must leave behind in their communities of origin when they migrate. Drawing on interview and ethnographic data, this article argues that transnational parents, especially mothers, face a unique set of challenges and barriers as participants in these programs. It explores how the injustices in the immigration-labor regime that migrants confront as racialized, non-citizen farm workers impact parents' ability to focus on their primary motivation to migrate—their children—thereby limiting their ability to fulfill idealized forms of motherhood and fatherhood and hindering their parent-child relationships. It also demonstrates that migrant mothers frequently experience increased feelings of self-doubt, guilt and inadequacy as transnational parents, which, in turn, diminishes the benefits of their migration.

Sasha and Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman - Palmer, Bryan D. (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Sasha and Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman," by Paul Avrich and Karen Avrich.
Keywords: AVRICH, Karen; AVRICH, Paul; BERKMAN, Alexander, 1870-1936; GOLDMAN, Emma, 1869-1940; Nonfiction; SASHA & Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman & Emma Goldman (Book)

The Making of the English Working Class at Fifty - Palmer, Bryan D.; Chakrabarty, Dipesh; Eley, Geoff; McCallum, Todd; Epstein, James; Carbonella, August; Tremblay, Robert; Fahrni, Magda; Lemisch, Jesse; Kessler-Harris, Alice; Hannam, June (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
Introduces the second of the two-part series in the journal on the 50th anniversary of the publication of "The Making of the English Working Class" by E.P. Thompson. Articles include: "The Lost Causes of E. P. Thompson" by Dipesh Chakrabarty; "Class Formation, Politics, Structures of Feeling" by Geoff Eley; "Comrade Thompson and Saint Foucault" by Todd McCallum; "Exploitation: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis?" by James Epstein; "Looking Back and Ahead" by August Carbonella; "The Making dans les eaux troubles de l’historiographie québécoise : réception hésitante d’un livre en avant de son temps" by Robert Tremblay; "Who now reads E.P. Thompson? Or, (Re)reading The Making at UQAM" by Magda Fahrni; and "Individual Statements on E.P. Thompson" by, respectively, Jesse Lemisch, Alice Kessler-Harris, and June Hannam.
Keywords: MAKING of the English Working Class, The (Book); THOMPSON, E. P. (Edward Palmer), 1924-1993

E.P. Thompson's The Making of the English Working Class at Fifty - Palmer, Bryan D.; Merrill, Michael; Way, Peter; Loo, Tina; Levine, David; Hill, Rebecca; Cadigan, Sean; Jacob, Margaret C. (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article introduces the first of a two-part series in the journal on the 50th anniversary of the publication of "The Making of the English Working Class" by British historian E.P. Thompson. In addition to describing their own responses, the authors discuss how the book has influenced working-class studies, its political impact, Thompson's Marxism, and his critique of Methodism. The articles in the presentation include: "E.P. Thompson’s Capital: Political Economy in The Making" by Michael Merrill; "Among the Autodidacts: The Making of E.P. Thompson" by Margaret C. Jacob; “The something that has called itself ‘Marxism’” by Peter Way; "The Face of Power" by Tina Loo; "A Definitive ‘And fookin’ Amen to that!" by David Levine; "Frame Breaking Then and Now" by Rebecca Hill; and "The Privilege of History" by Sean Cadigan.
Keywords: 20th century; LABOR movement -- History; MAKING of the English Working Class, The (Book); MARXIST philosophy; METHODISM; SOCIAL history -- 20th century; THOMPSON, E. P. (Edward Palmer), 1924-1993; WORKING class -- Research

Continuing Assault on Public Sector Unions, The - Panitch, Leo; Swartz, Donald (Public Sector Unions in the Age of Austerity, 2013)
Examines back-to-work legislation and various other measures that federal/provincial governments have used on public sector unions since 1975, as well as related court decisons under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Concludes that greater solidarity is needed to counter the governmental resort to coercion.
Keywords: Labor Unions; Political activity

Introduction: The Labour of Race - Park, Augustine S. J. (Canadian Journal of Sociology, 2013)
Special Issue Introduction: This special issue interrogates race as a labour. The “labor of race,” writes David Theo Goldberg in his book "The Threat of Race" (2009:4, emphasis in original), “is the work for which the category and its assumptions are employed to effect and rationalize social arrangements of power and exploitation, violence and expropriation.” Race, for Goldberg, is a “foundational code” that has been built by “racial thinkers,” that is “the day-laborers, the brick-layers, of racial foundations” (2009:4). Understanding race as a labour underscores the ontological unreality of race, which is now, of course, the constructivist orthodoxy in critical sociologies of race. In other words, conceptualizing race as a labour asserts race as an accomplishment, however unstable: an historical, social, economic, and cultural achievement that designates a constantly shifting political grammar. At the same time, understanding race as a labour, or the labour of race, demands that we ask to what work race is put. Following Zygmunt Bauman’s (2004) theorization of “wasted lives,” race might be theorized as a method of social ordering.

Life Among the Ruins: Deindustrialization in Historiographical Perspective - Parnaby, Andrew (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews and comments extensively on the book, "Industrial Ruination, Community, and Place: Landscapes and Legacies of Urban Decline" by Alice Mah.
Keywords: DEINDUSTRIALIZATION; INDUSTRIAL Ruination, Community & Place: Landscapes & Legacies of Urban Decline (Book); MAH, Alice; Nonfiction

All the People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America - Patmore, Greg (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "For All the People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements, and Communalism in America," by John Curl.
Keywords: COOPERATION -- History; CURL, John; FOR All the People: Uncovering the Hidden History of Cooperation, Cooperative Movements & Communalism in America (Book); Nonfiction

Unionism and Non-Union Employee Representation: The Interwar Experience in Canada, Germany, the US and the UK - Patmore, Greg (Journal of Industrial Relations, 2013)
The decline in trade union membership in a number of countries has led to concerns over a ‘representation gap’, where workers are deprived of a voice not only in regard to their workplace grievances, but also in regard to their contributions to productivity and the quality of working life. While a number of alternatives have been raised, including joint consultation and works councils, there are concerns that these alternatives may further weaken union organization by establishing rival forms of organization. This article examines the interwar experience with three types of workplace non-union employee representation in Canada, Germany, the US and the UK. Where management recognizes unions and unions actively ensure that they dominate these representation mechanisms, they can enhance union organization.
Keywords: Employee representation plans; Works councils; representation gap; union organization; works committees

Fort Chipewyan and the Shaping of Canadian History, 1788-1920s: "We like to be free in this country" - Payne, Michael (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Fort Chipewyan and the Shaping of Canadian History, 1788-1920s: 'We like to be free in this country,'" by Patricia A. McCormack.
Keywords: Canada; FORT Chipewyan & the Shaping of Canadian History 1788-1920s: We Like to Be Free in This Country (Book); FUR trade; History; MCCORMACK, Patricia A.; Nonfiction

Embodying and Resisting Labour Apartheid: Racism and Mexican Farm Workers in Canada's Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program - Paz Ramirez, Gabriela Adriana (University of British Columbia, 2013)
Contrary to government official discourses that present the Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program (SAWP) as a ‘human and just’ labour migration model, in this paper, the SAWP is presented as a migrant labour regime that functions as labour apartheid system of discipline and control, which is in place to satisfy the needs of capitalist development in the Canadian agricultural industry. By identifying the parallels and similarities of the differential treatment of Black migrant workers under South African apartheid with the differential treatment to which migrant farm workers are subjected under the SAWP, I explore how coercive migrant labour regimes of work function today in the context of heightened neoliberal hegemony and state multiculturalism. Through empirical evidences and theoretical claims, I identify main constitutive elements and forms of governance that cause workers to living and experiencing apartheid conditions; I explain how these forms of governance actually work on the ground, and how are they embodied, lived and contested by migrant farm workers participating in the program. I also delve in workers’ politics and their expressions of resistance and contestation to such system as they speak directly to the ways they experience apartheid conditions and the particular forms of how racism is inflicted over them. The SAWP presents an interesting opportunity to closely examine the ways in which colonialism works, how it is manifested today through labour and immigration schemes, and how these regimes are contested and challenged through migrant farm workers’ political subjectivities. In this respect, this paper paves the way for future movement-related research study of seasonal agricultural workers, which can generate collective insight and knowledge to support the organizing efforts of the precarious migrant workers in Canada.

Changing Patterns in the Literature of Climate Change and Canadian Work: The Research of Academic, Government and Social Actors - Perry, Elizabeth (Climate@Work, 2013)
[D]iscusses the surprising silence in English-language academic publishing on climate warming since 1995, finding that four-fifths of the research published is grey literature: reports and commissioned research, rather than publications in traditional, peer-reviewed journals. Why have the mainstream social sciences failed to invest in this important new field of research? What are the implications? -- Editor's introduction
Keywords: Canada. Climatic changes; Climatic changes; Economic aspects; Economic aspects. Climatic changes; Government policy

L'intervention en ergonomie - Petit, Johann (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "L’intervention en ergonomie," by Marie Saint-Vincent, Nicole Vézina, Marie Bellemare, Denys Denis, Élise Ledoux and Daniel Imbeau.
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

Judging Homosexuals: A History of Gay Persecution in Quebec and France - Pineault, Virginie (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Judging Homosexuals: A History of Gay Persecution in Quebec and France," by Patrice Corriveau.
Keywords: CORRIVEAU, Patrice; Canada; EUROPE; Homophobia; JUDGING Homosexuals: A History of Gay Persecution in Quebec & France (Book); Nonfiction

The Psychology of Assessment Centers - Poropat, Arthur (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
The Psychology of Assessment Centers, edited by Duncan J. R. Jackson, Charles E. Lance and Brian J. Hoffman, is reviewed.
Keywords: Assessment centers; Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Organization development; Psychological aspects; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Globalization, Restructuring and Unions: Transnational Co-ordination and Varieties of Labour Engagement - Pulignano, Valeria; Lucio, Miguel Martínez; Walker, Steve (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
The structure, content and space of union transnational co-ordination are much richer and complex than simply revolving around tensions and relations between bureaucrats and local activists. This is illustrated through the ETUC TRACE project, a study of a managed and steered form of international union coordination. Drawing on this study, this paper discerns a form of co-ordination that worked across various dimensions of action (i.e. "influencing" politics and "communicating" policy), various political relations (internal and external relations) and different organizational levels (micro and macro). By adding original material to the existing literature, the paper stresses the relevance of the project and the various dimensions for appreciating the problems unions face in establishing and sustaining effective cross-national coordination and a supportive environment of "union learning". The TRACE project acknowledged the need to build coordination through a variety of means and serves as an invaluable insight and lesson into more managed and conscious forms of coordination.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Coordination; Globalization; Labor Unions; Management theory; Organizational learning; Project management; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

La colonie nantaise de Lac-Mégantic. Une implantation française au Québec au XIXe siècle - Pyée, Audrey (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "La colonie nantaise de Lac-Mégantic. Une implantation française au Québec au XIXe siècle," by Marcel Fournier.
Keywords: EMIGRATION & immigration; FOURNIER, Marcel; FRANCE; History; LA colonie nantaise de Lac-Megantic: Une implantation francaise au Quebec au XIXe siecle (Book); LAC-Megantic (Quebec); Nonfiction

Health And Safety For Canadian Youth In Trades - Raykov, Milosh; Taylor, Alison (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2013)
This article examines occupational health and safety (OHS), with a particular focus on youth apprentices. It uses quantitative and qualitative data to examine the incidence of injuries among youth apprentices, and their experiences related to health and safety at work in Canada. Analysis of large-scale national surveys suggests a high incidence of work-related injuries among youth and low participation rates of younger workers in formal OHS training. A survey of 173 former Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program (OYAP) and Registered Apprenticeship Program in Alberta (RAP) participants finds that one-fifth suffered serious occupational injuries, which required time off work. The results from this study have important implications for youth apprenticeship programs, particularly the OHS- and trade-specific knowledge required for youth to work safely during and following their apprenticeship training.

Constitutional Restrictions on the Capacity of Governments to Enact Reforms: Does Section 2(d) of the Charter Include a Right to Strike Prospects for Reform of Industrial Relations in the Ontario Broader Public Sector: Papers from the Workshop on the Drummond Report Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace, Queen's University, June 22, 2012 - Regenbogen, Sonia; Pigott, Christopher D. (Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal, 2013)
This paper considers the likelihood of whether freedom of association under section 2(d) of the Charter will be held to include a constitutional right to strike - a question which the Supreme Court of Canada will have an opportun- ity to answer when it hears the upcoming appeal in the Saskatchewan Federation of Labour case. The authors note that the prospects for the recognition of such a right have changed dramatically in the five years since the Supreme Court concluded in B.C. Health that the Charter provided protection for a limited process of collective bargaining. The main reason for this shift is the Court's subsequent decision in the Fraser case, holding that collective bargaining is merely a "derivative right" of freedom of association and that an infringement of section 2(d) in the labour relations context will be found only where the impugned legislation or state action has the effect of making it "impossible" for employees to collectively pursue workplace goals. The authors go on to review how this "effective impossibility" test has been applied by appellate courts in Ontario, British Columbia and the federal jurisdiction in recent freedom of asso- ciation claims. In their view, the restrictive approach now taken by the courts makes it highly unlikely that section 2(d) will be found to protect a right to strike. Even if strike activity is held to attract constitutional protection, they argue, such protection would apply only in very limited situations.

Women, Work, and Family: Estimating Married Women's Status Achievement Over Their Careers - Reid, Sarah M. (University of Toronto, 2013)
My dissertation project examines women’s family lives, career trajectories, and status attainment. I draw on the concept of the work-family interface to highlight how work and families operate as contextual layers that cross-over in shaping definitions and appraisals of mothers as workers and workers as mothers. Utilizing data on married mothers’ complete working histories, I demonstrate that job exits due to motherhood negatively impact women’s occupational status attainment (SES), but I also show that women face penalties when changing jobs involuntarily and also due to personal reasons not tied to the maternal role. Importantly, in each instance, I demonstrate that these effects operate independently of the non-employment durations they engender, offering broad support for the status characteristics framework which points to the role of employer appraisals of women’s work commitment in shaping their SES outcomes. I also bring families back into the discussion of the work-family interface via the construction of a family-level framework that draws on mothers’, fathers’ and children’s attitudes about maternal employment as a platform for the development of discrete family configurations. I reveal a wide array of family attitude configurations that underscore that maternal employment continues to be contested moral terrain in some families while it is ii supported in others. In particular, I show that in egalitarian families—where maternal employment is not seen as a risk to ‘good’ mothering—mothers report more positive experiences of family and marital relations, less housework and more paid work, and higher earnings. I argue that family contexts represent an important yet understudied contextual reality that is more than the sum of individual views and which have unique consequences for women’s family lives and status trajectories.

Committing Theatre: Theatre Radicalism and Political Intervention in Canada - Rifkind, Candida (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Committing Theatre: Theatre Radicalism and Political Intervention in Canada," by Alan Filewood.
Keywords: COMMITTING Theatre: Theatre Radicalism & Political Intervention in Canada (Book); Canada; FILEWOOD, Alan; History; Nonfiction; THEATER -- Political aspects; Theater

Boom, Bust and Crisis: Labour, Corporate Power and Politics in Canada - Robinson, Ian (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
Boom, Bust and Crisis: Labour, Corporate Power and Politics in Canada, edited by John Peters, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Changes; Corporate culture; LABOR market; Labor Unions; Neoliberalism; Political economy; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Does Industrial Relations Research Support Policy? A Comparative Assessment of Research on Spain - Rohlfer, Sylvia (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
This article reviews the English-speaking literature on Spanish and German industrial relations published in the top 10 journals between 2000 and 2010. Our analysis contributes to the debate about the relevance of industrial relations by establishing the state of the art in research on Spain using Germany as a point of comparison. Apart from indicating deficiencies in research on Spain, the results reveal a greater convergence in research regarding its restricted multidisciplinary character, its focus on the international level and a strong emphasis on empirical, quantitative work with analysis conducted at various levels. At the same time some path dependency continues to exist, particularly concerning the active participants in research and the subjects for investigation. We conclude by discussing whether the research on Spain should require normative preconceptions in order to orient policymakers -- an aspect that has been largely overlooked when discussing the rejuvenation of industrial relations.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Comparative analysis; Convergence; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Policy making; Studies

Reforming the Structure of Collective Bargaining: Lessons from the Construction Industry Prospects for Reform of Industrial Relations in the Ontario Broader Public Sector: Papers from the Workshop on the Drummond Report Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace, Queen's University, June 22, 2012 - Rose, Joseph B. (Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal, 2013)
One of the reforms proposed for Ontario's broader public sector by the Drummond Report is the establishment of centralized bar- gaining structures. As Chaykowski and Hickey have argued, such a reform "must consider whether, how, and in what context, alterna- tive bargaining structures and enhanced coordination could yield outcomes which promote efficiencies and improve value."' In this regard, the transformation of bargaining structures in the Canadian construction industry offers some lessons on structural realignment.

Boom, Bust and Crisis: Labour Corporate Power and Politics in Canada - Rosenfeld, Herman (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Boom, Bust and Crisis: Labour Corporate Power and Politics in Canada," edited by John Peters.
Keywords: BOOM, Bust & Crisis: Labour, Corporate Power & Politics in Canada (Book); CANADA -- Economic conditions; Nonfiction; PETERS, John

Social Unionism and Union Power in Public Sector Unions - Ross, Stephanie (Public Sector Unions in the Age of Austerity, 2013)
Analyzes the tendency of public sector unions towards social unionist strategies, including in collective bargaining and mobilizing broader public support for services.
Keywords: Labor Unions; Political activity

Public Sector Unions in the Age of Austerity - Ross, Stephanie; Savage, Larry (Labour in Canada (Halifax, N.S.), 2013)
For decades, public sector unions in Canada have been plagued by austerity, privatization, taxpayer backlash and restrictions on union rights. In recent years, the intensity of state-led attacks against public sector workers has reached a fevered pitch, raising the question of the role of public sector unions in protecting their members and the broader public interest. Public Sector Unions in the Age of Austerity examines the unique characteristics of public sector unionism in a Canadian context. Contributors to this multi-disciplinary collection explore both the strategic possibilities and challenges facing public sector unions that are intent on resisting austerity, enhancing their power and connecting their interests as workers with those of citizens who desire a more just and equitable public sphere. --Publisher's description

"Just Business": 1970s Management Paternalism and Failed Service Sector Unionization - Russell, Jason (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
[The article shows] how management in the post-war period – in this case [Hobbs Hardware in] the mid-1970s – orchestrated effective campaigns to keep low-wage workers out of unions. This is especially true for those workers who toiled in seemingly inconsequential workplaces that were part of the growing service sector, and where unionization was largely prevented. The fact that unionization did not expand into the service sector would have lasting consequences for workers in service industries, for class relations across sectors, and for the Canadian labour movement. [The] analysis utilizes archival documents, but also relies on the memories of three former Hobbs workers.... --From author's introduction
Keywords: ASHTON, Steve; HOBBS Hardware (Company); LABOR organizing; Management; Neoliberalism; PERKINS, Doug; PERKINS, Ed; Paternalism; SERVICE sector

Uneasy Allies: Working for Labor Reform in Nineteenth Century Boston - Ryan, Francis (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Uneasy Allies: Working for Labor Reform in Nineteenth Century Boston," by David A. Zonderman.
Keywords: 19th century; BOSTON (Mass.); History; LABOR law reform; Nonfiction; UNEASY Allies: Working for Labor Reform in 19th-Century Boston (Book); ZONDERMAN, David A.

Oral History and Working Class History: A Rewarding Alliance - Sangster, Joan (Oral History Forum d'histoire orale, 2013)
Since the 1960s, if not before, oral history and working-class history have been a dynamic duo, complimenting and overlapping, but also challenging and questioning each other. Both lay and professional historians have been in the forefront of efforts to recuperate, interpret, and preserve the oral histories of working-class individuals and communities across the globe. They created written histories, archival collections, museum exhibits, and community projects that gave workers, their families, and their communities -- those who were less likely to leave archival and written sources for posterity -- a new voice, and a new place in history. Working-class oral history has also encompassed far more than recovery and preservation. Labour historians have enriched the field of oral history by addressing questions about method, theory, and approach, by offering critical reflections on our assumptions and expectations about oral history practice. Oral history has similarly enriched the field of working-class history, posing new questions, challenging existing interpretations, and encouraging the diversification of the themes and subjects we study. In recognition of this dynamic relationship, and the ongoing, mutually beneficial conversation between oral and working-class history, Oral History Forum commissioned this special issue. --Introduction

Public Sector Unions and Electoral Politics in Canada - Savage, Larry; Smith, Charles W. (Public Sector Unions in the Age of Austerity, 2013)
Explores the variable relationship of unions with the federal and provincial NDP (or the Parti Québécois), especially when it was the governing party. Concludes that while electoral participation may still be significant, broader mobilization is necessary for change to be achieved.
Keywords: Labor Unions; Political activity

The Paradox of Professionalism: Unions and Professionals in the Public Sector - Savage, Larry; Webber, Michelle (Public Sector Unions in the Age of Austerity, 2013)
Analyzes the conservative character of professional unions, which in recent decades have become more militant as a result of cutbacks and the erosion of their role.
Keywords: Labor Unions; Political activity

Working Professionalism: Nursing in Western Canada, 1958-1977 - Scaia, Margaret Rose (University of Victoria, 2013)
Changes in women’s relationship to caring labour, and changes in societal attitudes towards women as nurses during the period when they became union members and aspiring professionals, are revealed in thirty-seven oral history interviews with women who became nurses between 1958, a pivotal time in the development of the publicly funded health care system, and 1977, when the last residential school of nursing closed in Calgary. This study challenges the historiography that suggests that nursing programs of nursing in the 1960s and early 1970s were sites of unusual social regulation, and that nursing was a career choice that women made because of a lack of other more challenging or rewarding alternatives. This study also challenges assumptions that women in nursing were unaffected by the feminist movements of the 1960s and 1970s and instead passively accepted a position of gendered subservience at home and in the workplace. Instead, I argue that nurses skilfully balanced work and other social responsibilities, primarily domestic caregiving, and also were active in unionization and professionalization in advance of other Canadian women workers. The ability of nurses to maintain a prominent position in health care, to advocate for the conditions needed to provide the best nursing care possible, while also fighting for improved working conditions and higher professional status is an impressive story of how women in these decades used gender, and class, as tools to enact social change. These efforts are all the more impressive when considered within the context of social opposition faced by nurses as they both resisted and conformed to expectations that their primary role was as wives and mothers. Nurses negotiated this challenging political terrain by framing their work in terms of its practical necessity and gendered suitability as women’s paid employment. In making these claims, I position nursing and nursing education as a form of women’s labour that exemplifies employed women’s struggles to promote fairer wages, better working conditions, and access to the full benefits of economic and social citizenship for all women. This challenge to the prevailing assessment of nursing during this period establishes the main thesis of this dissertation.
Keywords: Labour history; Nursing history

Ours to Master and to Own: Workers' Control from the Commune to the Present - Schmidt, Ingo (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Ours to Master and to Own: Workers' Control from the Commune to the Present," edited by Dario Azzellini and Immanuel Ness.
Keywords: AZZELLINI, Dario; NESS, Immanuel; Nonfiction; OURS to Master & to Own: Workers' Control From the Commune to the Present (Book); WORKING class -- History

Social Integration and Workplace Industrial Relations: Migrant and Native Employees in German Industry - Schmidt, Werner; Müller, Andrea (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
This article examines the social integration of migrant and native employees in German industrial workplaces and the impact of workplace industrial relations on it. Drawing on data from interviews with management, works councils and employees, employee surveys and company statistics from three manufacturing companies, it analyzes the positioning of employees of different origin within the companies' social structure, explores their social interaction and asks what role works councils play in fostering social integration of a heterogeneous workforce. Findings show that workplaces are not free from discrimination but, rather, "pragmatic cooperation" and collegiality prevail. It is argued that the legal framework of German co-determination and workplace actors' orientation towards universalistic rule application ("internal universalism") encourages individuals to constitute themselves as employees with common interests and foster social integration.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Impact analysis; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Manufacturers; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Social integration; Social interaction; Studies; Workforce

Knowledge, Organization and the Division of Labour: Evaluating the Knowledge Class in Canada - Scholtz, Antonie Edward (University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 2013)
This dissertation explores the claim that, in advanced capitalist countries like Canada, a powerful knowledge class is assuming increasing dominance within the social relations of production. Attached to such theories are claims of trends toward post-bureaucratic organizations, rising job complexity and autonomy, and increased power within operational and strategic decision-making processes. In my study I focus on Canadian “specialist” employees (professionals and semi-professionals) and managers. I present aggregated and disaggregated data from two Canadian surveys conducted in 1983 and 2004 and complement this with original interviews with information technology (IT) workers and engineers. I find a seeming paradox within the labour process of specialists and managers, with task-level autonomy declining even as job complexity and involvement in organizational decisions are rising. I provide evidence that imperatives for profit/cost effectiveness are leading to efforts to make specialist and managerial labour and knowledge more transparent, integrated, and manageable, but this is not the same as degradation or proletarianization. In contrast to my expectation, I find boundaries in the division of labour are durable despite this “socialization” of many labour processes. I argue that a specialist-and-managerial class (SMC) exists in Canada, and will continue to exist, though it is subordinate to and exploited by the capitalist elite even as it excludes and exploits the working class through occupational closure and credential barriers. The SMC is thus contradictory, internally heterogeneous and fraying at its borders, but simultaneously resilient. The resiliency comes via possession of specific strategic knowledge and consequent ability to secure rents and/or control specific organization assets via delegated authority. Resiliency is also structural, with management in many organizations retaining an interest in separating planning and design (“conception”), on the one hand, from process and completion (“execution”), on the other, in order to maximize efficiency and productivity through more centralized control.

Canada and the Second World War: Essays in Honour of Terry Copp - Sendzikas, Aldona (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Canada and the Second World War: Essays in Honour of Terry Copp," edited by Geoffrey Hayes, Mike Bechtold, and Matt Symes.
Keywords: BECHTHOLD, Mike; CANADA & the Second World War: Essays in Honour of Terry Copp (Book); Canada; HAYES, Geoffrey; Nonfiction; SYMES, Matt; WORLD War, 1939-1945

In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism from Harlem to London 1917-1939 - Seniors, Paula Marie (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "In the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism From Harlem to London 1917-1939," by Minkah Makalani.
Keywords: BLACKS -- Political activity; IN the Cause of Freedom: Radical Black Internationalism From Harlem to London 1917-1939 (Book); MAKALANI, Minkah; Nonfiction

Choice, Interrupted: Travel and Inequality of Access to Abortion Services since the 1960s - Sethna, Christabelle; Palmer, Beth; Ackerman, Katrina; Janovicek, Nancy (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
Travel is one of many extra-legal barriers that restrict access to abortion services. Paradoxically, women travel at the international, domestic, and local levels to circumvent legal and/or extra-legal barriers to access. Through an examination of four specific Canadian responses to inequality of access to abortion services relative to shifts in the legal terrain from the 1960s onwards, the authors demonstrate that travel signifies an interruption to reproductive choice. Women went to Britain and the United States for an abortion when these countries relaxed their abortion legislation. Within Canada, women sought out the services offered by the Morgentaler Clinic in Montreal in order to avoid the abortion bureaucracy that limited their right to choose. In New Brunswick, the pro-life movement successfully lobbied hospitals to restrict abortion services, and the provincial government to deny funding for abortions performed in freestanding clinics, forcing women to travel to access abortion services. Pro-choice activists in southeastern British Columbia launched a successful campaign to protect hospital abortions, ensuring that rural women had access to abortion services within their home communities. Today, 25 years after the Supreme Court of Canada struck down the abortion law, abortion services are uneven at best and unattainable at worst in different regions of the country.
Keywords: Abortion; Canada; Hospitals; MEDICAL laws & legislation; MEDICAL tourism; PRO-choice movement; PRO-life movement; RURAL women; TRAVEL -- Health aspects; WOMEN'S health services; Women's rights

Gender Risk and Employment Pension Plans in Canada - Shilton, Elizabeth (Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal, 2013)
Current policy debates about Canada's retirement income system have failed to consider "gender risk" - i.e. the risk that Canadian women will bear a disproportionate share of welfare loss in old age. This paper argues that the continuing gender disparity in retirement income reflects Canada's heavy reli- ance on private pension instruments generated and shaped by labour markets. The author begins by looking at the relationship between gender and Canada's three-pillar retirement income system, noting that while public pensions distrib- ute benefits based on explicit policy goals, private pensions distribute them based on the "hidden hand" of market principles. She then considers the differential impact of employment-based pension plans on men and women as a function of the distinct patterns of male and female engagement in the labour market. Noting the close relationship between pension design choices and gender outcomes, she goes on to discuss the pension reforms introduced by Canadian governments in the 1960s and 1980s, in which those governments saw gender inequality as an issue to be addressed primarily by mandatory public plans rather than by voluntary private plans. Ultimately, the author contends, the gendered impact of Canada's pension system flows from the complex interaction between women's paid employment and their reproductive and caregiving work. A gender-equal pension system would recognize the unequal burden borne by women in labour markets and in families, and would pool and share the welfare risks which that inequality entails. Voluntary employment-based pension plans shaped by market imperatives at the enterprise level will not address these issues, in the author's view, nor will the type of individualized pension contemplated by the federal government's recent PRPP legislation providing for pooled savings vehicles to which employers do not contribute. What is needed, she argues, is a broad- based collective risk-sharing vehicle such as the CPP/QPP.

Vancouver Longshoremen, Resilient Solidarity and the 1935 Interruption: Company Unionism 1923-1945. - Smith, Roy Alfred (Simon Fraser University, 2013)
This thesis challenges the historiography that asserts the waterfront strike in Vancouver in 1935 was a failed militant surge by a new radical leadership in an otherwise twenty-year period of dormancy among the city's longshoremen. Using union documents, employer records, and interviews with workers, the thesis presents the entire company era, between 1923 and 1944, as a period of developing solidarity and resistance. In this context the 1935 strike and the union's leadership were a product of, not a radical departure from that continuity. The thesis shows that despite two lost strikes in 1923 and again in 1935, the administrative structures the employers established produced a resilient culture of solidarity that was in place before Partiament acted in 1944 to provide longshorement with the legal framework for union representation.

Last Nightshift in Savar: The Story of the Spectrum Sweater Factory Collapse - Spencer, Bruce (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Last Nightshift in Savar: The Story of the Spectrum Sweater Factory Collapse," by Doug Miller.
Keywords: Book reviews; Building failures; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Factories; Fatalities; Labor Unions; Labor standards; Multinational corporations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Moving Beyond Borders: A History of British Canadian and Caribbean Women in the Diaspora - Springfield, Consuelo Lopez (Labour / Le Travail, 2013)
The article reviews the book, "Moving Beyond Borders: A History of British Canadian and Caribbean Women in the Diaspora," by Karen Flynn.
Keywords: Diaspora; FLYNN, Karen; MOVING Beyond Borders: A History of Black Canadian & Caribbean Women in the Diaspora (Book); Nonfiction

Remembering and Forgetting Winnipeg: Making History on the Strike of 1919 - Stace, Trevor (Constellations, 2013)
This article examines the approaches that historians, beginning in the mid 20th century and into the early 21st century, used to write about the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919. It focuses on five major works: "The Winnipeg General Strike" by D.C. Masters; "Confrontation at Winnipeg" by David J. Bercuson; "The Workers' Revolt in Canada, 1917-1925" edited by Craig Heron; and "When the State Trembled: How A.J. Andrews and the Citizens' Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike" by Tom Mitchell and Reinhold Kramer. It identifies where the monographs depart from one another in interpretation; as well as where they remain the same. Given the layers of complexity, the interpretation of the event becomes especially salient in the 21st century as its 100th anniversary steadfastly approaches and the question of how should it be publicly presented in 2019 requires an answer soon (which the paper also addresses).

Employee Rights and Employer Wrongs: How to Identify Employee Abuse and How to Stand Up for Yourself - Stacey, Kent (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
Employee Rights and Employer Wrongs: How to Identify Employee Abuse and How to Stand Up for Yourself, by Suzanne Kleinberg and Michael Kreimeh, is reviewed.
Keywords: Absenteeism; Antisocial personality disorder; Book reviews; Bullying; 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

Participation financière et climat social : une analyse des perceptions comparées dirigeants/salariés - Stévenot, Anne; Guery, Loris (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2013)
L’article s’interroge, dans la perspective de l’institutionnalisme économique de Commons, sur la relation unissant les dispositifs de participation financière au climat social, appréhendé par le biais de la perception qu’en ont les dirigeants et les salariés, d’une part, et par des indicateurs de dysfonctionnements sociaux, tels que l’absentéisme et les conflits sociaux, d’autre part. La question des caractéristiques de ces pratiques (modalités de négociation présidant à leur mise en oeuvre, types de dispositifs, mode de calcul) est également posée. L’étude empirique est fondée sur l’exploitation de l’enquête REPONSE qui représente un échantillon de 3 000 établissements français et de 8 000 salariés. Au-delà des différences de perception entre dirigeants et salariés, les résultats, obtenus à l’aide de modèles de régressions logistiques, mettent tout d’abord en évidence que plus que le montant versé, c’est l’existence même d’un dispositif de participation financière qui influence le climat social. Par ailleurs plus les dispositifs apparaissent comme désintéressés de la part de l’entreprise et meilleur est le climat social du point de vue des salariés. Les modalités de conclusion de l’accord de participation financière, notamment l’intervention des syndicats, ont également une influence sur le climat social. Compte tenu des différences de résultats pouvant exister selon que l’on s’intéresse à la perception des dirigeants, à celle des salariés ou aux indicateurs de dysfonctionnements sociaux, l’article met également en lumière l’importance pour les recherches sur le climat social de prendre en compte à la fois les dimensions objectives du climat social et la perception qu’en ont les acteurs.
Keywords: ahorro salarial; clima de trabajo; climat de travail; employee savings; intéressement; participación en los beneficios; profit-sharing; remuneración; remuneration; rémunération; work atmosphere; épargne salariale

Rethinking Workplace Regulation: Beyond the Standard Contract of Employment - Stone, Katherine Van Wezel; Arthur, Harry W. (Russell Sage Foundation, 2013)
During the middle third of the 20th century, workers in most industrialized countries secured a substantial measure of job security, whether through legislation, contract or social practice. This "standard employment contract," as it was known, became the foundation of an impressive array of rights and entitlements, including social insurance and pensions, protection against unsociable working conditions, and the right to bargain collectively. Recent changes in technology and the global economy, however, have dramatically eroded this traditional form of employment. Employers now value flexibility over stability, and increasingly hire employees for short-term or temporary work. Many countries have also repealed labor laws, relaxed employee protections, and reduced state-provided benefits. As the old system of worker protection declines, how can labor regulation be improved to protect workers? In Rethinking Workplace Regulation, nineteen leading scholars from ten countries and half a dozen disciplines present a sweeping tour of the latest policy experiments across the world that attempt to balance worker security and the new flexible employment paradigm. Edited by noted socio-legal scholars Katherine V.W. Stone and Harry Arthurs, Rethinking Workplace Regulation presents case studies on new forms of dispute resolution, job training programs, social insurance and collective representation that could serve as policy models in the contemporary industrialized world. The volume leads with an intriguing set of essays on legal attempts to update the employment contract. For example, Bruno Caruso reports on efforts in the European Union to "constitutionalize" employment and other contracts to better preserve protective principles for workers and to extend their legal impact. The volume then turns to the field of labor relations, where promising regulatory strategies have emerged. Sociologist Jelle Visser offers a fresh assessment of the Dutch version of the 'flexicurity' model, which attempts to balance the rise in nonstandard employment with improved social protection by indexing the minimum wage and strengthening rights of access to health insurance, pensions, and training. Sociologist Ida Regalia provides an engaging account of experimental local and regional "pacts" in Italy and France that allow several employers to share temporary workers, thereby providing workers job security within the group rather than with an individual firm. The volume also illustrates the power of governments to influence labor market institutions. Legal scholars John Howe and Michael Rawling discuss Australiaʹs innovative legislation on supply chains that holds companies at the top of the supply chain responsible for employment law violations of their subcontractors. Contributors also analyze ways in which more general social policy is being renegotiated in light of the changing nature of work. Kendra Strauss, a geographer, offers a wide-ranging comparative analysis of pension systems and calls for a new model that offers "flexible pensions for flexible workers. With its ambitious scope and broad inquiry, Rethinking Workplace Regulation illustrates the diverse innovations countries have developed to confront the policy challenges created by the changing nature of work. The experiments evaluated in this volume will provide inspiration and instruction for policymakers and advocates seeking to improve worker's lives in this latest era of global capitalism. --Publisherʹs description
Keywords: Arbetsavtal; Arbetsmarknad; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Labor; Contrat de travail; Labor contract; Osgoodiana