La part des militants: Biographie et mouvement ouvrier - Lagana, Marc (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "La part des militants: biographie et mouvement ouvrier," by Michel Dreyfus and Claude Pennetier.

Worker's Control on the Railroad: A Practical Example "Right Under Your Nose" - Lamonde, Fernande; Cameron, Nancy (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Worker's control on the railroad: a practical example 'right under your nose,'" edited by by G.R. Pool and D.J. Young.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Railroads; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Le travail déraciné : l'impartition flexible dans la dynamique sociale des entreprises forestières du Québec - Lapointe, Paul-André (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Le travail déraciné : l'impartition flexible dans la dynamique sociale des entreprises forestières du Québec," by Daniel Mercure.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Employees; Forest products; Forest products industry; Labor Unions; Outsourcing; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Seniority and Employment Equity for Women - Legault, Marie-Josée (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Seniority and Employment Equity for Women," by Louise Dulude.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Employment; Labor Unions; Sex discrimination; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Women

Plots, Shots, and Liberal Thoughts: Conspiracy Theory and the Death of Ginger Goodwin - Leier, Mark (James Mark) (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
Examines longstanding conspiracy theories, as well as the reconsideration of forensic evidence given in Susan Mayse's book, "Ginger: The Life and Death of Albert Goodwin," that the British-born miner and labour activist was murdered by Dominion Police on military orders of the federal government in 1918. Concludes that there was no proof of conspiracy nor was there sufficient evidence to show that the police shooter had intent to murder. Argues, however, that this does not absolve the government and business from culpability since they were responsible for taking Canada into an imperial war - and Goodwin, who opposed conscription and the war, was being pursued by the police for evading conscription.
Keywords: CAMPBELL, Dan; CONSPIRACY; CONSPIRACY theories; Canada; GOODWIN, Albert; LABOUR/LE Travail (Book); LEIER, Mark; SELF-defense (Law)

Things That Never Added Up To Me: Songs of Love, War, Theology, Golf and the Great American Railroad - Leier, Mark (James Mark) (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Things That Never Added Up To Me: Songs of Love, War, Theology, Golf and the Great American Railroad," by Al Grierson.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; GRIERSON, Al; Music; Nonfiction; THINGS That Never Added up to Me: Songs of Love, War, Theology, Golf & the Great American Railroad (Book)

Conflits du travail, changement social et politique en France depuis 1950 - Lequin, Jacques-André (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Conflits du travail, changement social et politique en France depuis 1950," by Monique Borrel.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Social conditions & trends; Strikes

Paying the Price of Freedom: Family and Labor among Lima's Slaves, 1800-1854 - Lipsett-Rivera, Sonya (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Paying the Price of Freedom: Family and Labor Among Lima's Slaves, 1800-1854," by Christine Hünefeldt.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; HUNEFELDT, Christine; Nonfiction; PAYING the Price of Freedom: Family & Labor Among Lima's Slaves 1800-1854 (Book); Slavery

Bibliography: Recent Publications in Canadian Labour History / Bibliographie : Travaux récents en histoire des classes populaires canadiennes - Lonardo, Michael; Sweeney, Robert C. H. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
Compilation of recent English/French publications on Canadian labour history that emphasize the period 1800-1975. Materials pertaining to the post-1975 period may also be included, although more selectively. [See the database, Canadian Labour History, 1976-2009, published at Memorial University of Newfoundland.]

Motives for Profit Sharing: A Study of Canadian Chief Executive Officers - Long, Richard J. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
A study seeks to explain why companies do or do not introduce employee profit sharing, through a telephone survey of CEOs at 626 Canadian companies. In addition to examining some of the usual contextual variables, the study goes beyond previous work by directly questioning CEOs about their motives for adopting or not adopting profit sharing, and by including managerial philosophy as a possible factor in their decision-making process. Results indicated that managerial philosophy and company size were the 2 key predictors of incidence or profit sharing. However, the firms most likely to adopt profit sharing in the future were those experiencing a high growth in sales coupled with a low growth in employees. Surprisingly, unionization was not related to either presence of, or intention to implement, profit sharing.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Chief executive officers; Correlation analysis; Executives; Labor Unions; Polls & surveys; Profit sharing plans; Size of enterprise; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Northern Sandlots: A Social History of Maritime Baseball - Lorenz, Stacy L. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Northern Sandlots: A Social History of Maritime Baseball," by Colin D. Howell.
Keywords: BASEBALL -- History; BOOKS -- Reviews; HOWELL, Colin D.; NORTHERN Sandlots: A Social History of Maritime Baseball (Book); Nonfiction

Retirement Plans and Pensions: An Empirical Study - Luchak, Andrew A. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
Based on 512 survey respondents, the age at which people voluntarily planned to retire was found to be influenced most strongly by incentives for early retirement embodied in their pension plan. The planned age of retirement was also influenced by the accuracy of information about pension plan features as well as by the respondents' age, gender, health status, and marital status, especially the employment and pension status of the spouse. Implications for public policy and human resource practices of the firm, as well as for implicit contracting are discussed.
Keywords: Age and employment; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Early retirement; Labor Unions; Pension funds; Pension plans; Regression analysis; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Canadian Railway Workers and World War I Military Service - MacKinnon, Mary (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article discusses the retention of employee records to keep track of railway workers serving the Canadian armed forces during World War I. It discusses the impact of the war on the Canadian economy, citing how it deepened the depression, how it affected the business performance of railways, including the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), and how railway employment fell between 1913 and 1915. It mentions the support given by the railway industry to the war effort which is evident in its collaboration with the metal manufacturing sector in producing shells, as well as its assistance to government efforts to boost munitions production. It also explores how companies monitor employees enlisted to serve the military and how this encouraged them to have an accurate record keeping.
Keywords: Armed forces; CANADIAN Pacific Railway Co.; Canada; RAILROADS -- Employees; RECORDS management; WAR -- Economic aspects; WEAPONS industry; WORLD War, 1914-1918

Espace social de l'entreprise et logiques d'action ouvrières - Maroy, Christian; Fusulier, Bernard (Relations Industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
Les logiques d'action des ouvriers du secteur industriel à l'endroit de la formation et des changements du travail ne sont pas homogènes. Elles sont tributaires de leurs caractéristiques personnelles mais aussi de leurs positions objectives dans l'espace social des entreprises qui les emploient. Des différences importantes de logiques apparaissent ainsi selon la génération des salariés, selon le moment de leur socialisation initiale au travail, ou selon la longueur de la scolarisation initiale. Mais la position dans l'entreprise intervient également. L'article s'appuie sur une monographie d'un équipementier automobile en Wallonie (Belgique) qui depuis une dizaine d'années développe une politique accentuée de modernisation technique et sociale. Le but de la recherche est de saisir les réactions des salariés à ces politiques managériales, en particulier en ce qui concerne la politique de formation. La recherche s'appuie sur une vingtaine d'interviews de travailleurs d'exécution des deux principaux ateliers et sur une étude statistique et documentaire.
Keywords: Attitudes; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Employees; Labor Unions; Organizational change

Résistance et transgression. Études en histoire des femmes au Québec - Marshall, Dominique (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Résistance et transgression. . Études en histoire des femmes au Québec," by Andrée Lévesque.

Private Policing and Surveillance of Catholics: Anti-Communism in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto, 1920-1960 - Maurutto, Paula (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
This study examines the private policing and surveillance tactics adopted by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto to prevent the spread of communism, particularly within its congregation. Catholic "spies" and informants kept the Church abreast of communist maneuverings in ethnic communities, religious organizations, and on university campuses. An extensive moral and educational campaign was launched by the Church to create a bulwark against the Reds. These actions highlight the historical role of voluntary organizations in the policing of citizens and the maintenance of national security. Policing is redefined as a phenomenon that operated beyond the exclusive domain of the state. The analysis seeks to introduce a broader notion of national security and policing by examining the interplay between public and private institutions.
Keywords: CATHOLICS; Communists; Labor; National security; Ontario; SECURITY management; Toronto (Ont.)

Fantasy, the Bomb, and the Greening of Britain: Romantic Protest, 1945-1980 - Mayer, Jill (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Fantasy, the Bomb, and the Greening of Britain: Romantic Protest, 1945-1980," by Meredith Veldman.
Keywords: 20th century; BOOKS -- Reviews; FANTASY, the Bomb & the Greening of Britain (Book); GREAT Britain; History; Nonfiction; VELDMAN, Meredith

Ideal Surroundings: Domestic Life in a Working-Class Suburb in the 1920s - McDonald, Robert A.J. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Ideal Surroundings: Domestic Life in a Working-Class Suburb in the 1920s," by Suzanne Morton.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; IDEAL Surroundings: Domestic Life in a Working-Class Suburb in the 1920s (Book); MORTON, Suzanne; Nonfiction; Working class

Clients and Consciousness: Drawing Militancy from Confusion on the Front Lines of the State - McElligott, Greg (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
This article uses the experience of the Canada Employment and Immigration Union to argue that progressive political action is still possible on the front lines of the state. The CEIU has used client coalitions to defend and transform its membership, and these efforts have been aided by the contradictions of the neoconservative project itself. Union successes have occurred when clients and community groups are on side, real material gains are conceivable, and the issues at stake impinge on the discretionary decisions of frontline workers. Union efforts are seen to constitute a prototypical strategy of "countermanagement," which can establish the foundations for a new, more democratically-accountable state.
Keywords: CONTRADICTION; EMIGRATION & immigration; Employees; Labor; Labor Unions; Skilled labor

Réaliser l'équité salariale; L'équité salariale : mise en oeuvre et enjeux - Mercier, Jacques (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the books, "Réaliser l'équité salariale," by Alain Gazaille and "L'équité salariale : mise en oeuvre et enjeux," by Marie-Thérèse Chicha.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Equal pay for equal work; Labor Unions; Labor law; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Les conditions difficiles dans les emplois des femmes et les instances gouvernementales en santé et en sécurité du travail - Messing, Karen; Boutin, Sophie (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
Les femmes participent de plus en plus au marché du travail, mais les normes et pratiques qui s'appliquent à la santé au travail ont été élaborées à un moment où les travailleurs étaient surtout des hommes. En 1990, les secteurs d'activité désignés comme étant les plus prioritaires pour l'intervention par la Commission de la santé et de la sécurité du travail du Québec avaient un taux de masculinité qui s'élevait à plus de 85 %. Dans cet article, nous démontrons une certaine exclusion des femmes de la prévention en santé au travail, nous donnons des explications pour cette exclusion et nous proposons des mesures de correction.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Employment; Labor Unions; Laws & regulations; Occupational health & safety; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Women; Working conditions

Fighter with a Heart: Writings of Charles Owen Rice, Pittsburgh Labor Priest - Moran, Martin (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Fighter with a Heart: Writings of Charles Owen Rice, Pittsburgh Labor Priest," edited by Charles McCollester.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor; Labor Unions; Religion; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Union leadership

Copper and Class Struggle - Mouat, Jeremy (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews and comments on the books "Race and Labor in Western Copper: The Fight for Equality, 1896-1918," by Philip J. Mellinger and "Copper Crucible: How the Arizona Miners' Strike of 1983 Recast Labor-Management Relations in America," by Jonathan D. Rosenblum.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; COPPER Crucible (Book); MELLINGER, Philip J.; Nonfiction; RACE & Labor in Western Copper: The Fight for Equality 1896-1918 (Book); ROSENBLUM, Jonathan D.

The Entrepreneurial Role of Organized Labour in the British Columbia Motion Picture Industry - Murphy, David G. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
Research into an industrial sector reflecting principles of the emergent network model of production indicates that organized labor can play a positive role in post-Fordist system of industrial governance. Within the dynamic motion picture industry of British Columbia (B.C.), organized labor was the key organizational factor in the birth and rapid expansion of the agglomeration of small, specialized film production firms. In this process, B.C. film unions have become the dominant actors in forging collaborative relations between local production companies, between the sector and the state, and between the district and other film centers, so critical to the success of the network model.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Motion picture industry; Roles; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Horses of a Shared Colour: Interpreting Class and Identity in Turn-of-the-Century Vancouver - Nelles, H. V. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews several books including "Red Flags and Red Tape: The Making of a Labour Bureaucracy," by Mark Leier and "Making Vancouver: Class, Status and Social Boundaries," by Robert A. J. McDonald.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; LEIER, Mark; MAKING Vancouver: Class, Status & Social Boundaries (Book); MCDONALD, Robert A. J., 1944-; Nonfiction; RED Flags & Red Tape: The Making of a Labour Bureaucracy (Book)

"Unions Aren't Native": The Muckamuck Restaurant Labour Dispute, Vancouver, B.C. (1978-1983) - Nicol, Janet Mary (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
Examines the roles of organized labour, the employer, the government, and the First Nations community with regard to the protracted labour dispute at the Muckamuck Restaurant in Vancouver, BC that ended in 1983 with the restaurant's closure. The case study draws on archival materials in addition to the author's recollections as a former union organizer and picketer during the strike. Concludes that although the strike had a downside, including the state's failure to protect the all-female First Nations workers from the employer's discriminatory and illegal practices, it was nevertheless significant in several respects.
Keywords: British Columbia; Canada; LABOR organizing; LABOR turnover; Labor Unions; Labor disputes; RESTAURANT employees; VANCOUVER (B.C.)

Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest - O'Donnell, Lorraine (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest," by Anne McClintock.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; IMPERIAL Leather: Race, Gender & Sexuality in the Colonial Contest (Book); Imperialism; MCCLINTOCK, Anne; Nonfiction

Quelques arpents d'Amérique. Population, économie, famille au Saguenay, 1838-1971 - Ouellet, Fernand (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Quelques arpents d'Amérique. Population, économie, famille au Saguenay, 1838-1971," by Gérard Bouchard.

Ireland Before and After the Famine: Explorations in Economic History, 1800-1925 - Owens, Gary (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Ireland Before and After the Famine: Explorations in Economic History, 1800-1925," by Cormac O'Grada.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; FAMINES; IRELAND; IRELAND Before & After the Famine: Explorations in Economic History 1800-1925 (Book); Nonfiction; O Grada, Cormac

Book Notes [39, Spring 1997] - Palmer, Bryan D. (Labour/Le Travail, 1997)
The article briefly reviews "Free Books for All: The Public Library Movement in Ontario, 1850-1930," by Lome Bruce, "The Wages of Slavery: From Chattel Slavery to Wage Labour in Africa, the Caribbean and England ," edited by Michael Twaddle, "Progress Without People: New Technology, Unemployment, and the Message of Resistance," by David F. Noble, "The Workers of Nations: Industrial Relations in a Global Economy," edited by Sanford M. Jacoby, "Labour's High Noon: The Government and the Economy, 1945-1951," edited by Jim Fyrth, "Can Europe Work? Germany and the Reconstruction of Postcommunist Societies," edited by Stephen E. Hanson and Willfried Spohn, "Biographical Dictionary of European Labor Leaders," edited by Thomas Lane, "Peasant Metropolis: Social Identities in Moscow, 1929-1941," by David L. Hoffmann, "Catching the Wave: Workplace Reform in Australia," by John Mathews, and "Everyday Forms of State Formation: Revolution and Negotiation of Rule in Modern Mexico," edited by Gilbert M. Joseph and Daniel Nugent.

Book Notes [40, Fall 1997] - Palmer, Bryan D. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article briefly reviews "Possible Worlds: Experiments in British Columbia," by AH Brown, "The Crest of the Mountain: The Rise of CUPE Local Five in Hamilton," by Ed Thomas, "Free to All: Carnegie Libraries and American Culture, 1890-1920," by Abigail A. Van Slyck, "North American Auto Unions in Crisis: Lean Production as Contested Terrain," edited by William C. Green and Ernest J. Yanaretla, "Trade Union Politics: American Unions and Economic Change 1960s-1990s," edited by Glenn Perusek and Kent Worcester, "Social Work in Practice," by Gerald A.J. de Montigny, "Engineering Labour: Technical Workers in Comparative Perspective," edited by Peter Meiksins and Chris Smith, "Miners, Unions, and Politics, 1910-1947," edited by lan Campbell, Nina Fishman and David Howell, "Gender and Class in Modern Europe," edited by Laura L. Frader and Sonya O. Rose.

What Do We Need A Union For? The TWUA in the South, 1945-1955 - Palmer, Bryan D. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "What Do We Need A Union For? The TWUA in the South, 1945-1955," by Timothy J. Minchin.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; History; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Textile Workers of America (TWUA); Textile industry

The Big Sleep: The Malartic Mine Fire of 1947 - Palmer, Bryan D.; Lunn, Robin (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
Introduces "The Big Sleep" by Jack Timmerman (1915-1953), an unpublished, graphic account of the Malartic Mine Fire of 1947 that resuled in the deaths of 12 miners at the gold mine in northwestern Quebec. Provides a biography of Timmerman, who was working at the mine at the time, as well as framing the disaster in terms of the persistence and frequency of such events.
Keywords: ACCIDENT investigation; Gold mines & mining; INQUESTS; LABOUR/LE Travail (Book); LUNN, Robin; MINE fires; PALMER, Bryan D.; QUEBEC (Province)

The British election: A commentary - Panitch, Leo; Leys, Colin (Labour/Le Travail, 1997)
Critiques the British Labour Party's abandonment of its long-standing commitment to "parliamentary socialism" and the electoral platform of the incoming "New Labour" government of Tony Blair. Concludes that new forms of socialist organization are necessary since the path forward does not lie in transforming the Labour Party.

Local and Regional Response to Global Pressure: The Case of Italy and its Industrial Districts - Papillon, Benoît Mario (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Local and Regional Response to Global Pressure : The Case of Italy and its Industrial Districts," edited by Francesco Cossentino, Frank Pike and Werner Sengenberger.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Globalization; International relations; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Labor unions; Planning & development; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

La sécurité d'emploi dans le secteur public, Essai - Paquet, Renaud (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "La sécurité d'emploi dans le secteur public, Essai," by Louis Borgeat.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Civil service; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

How the 'Reds' Got Their Man: The Communist Party Unmasks an RCMP Spy - Parnaby, Andrew; Kealey, Gregory S. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
Documents the exposure of Jack Esselwein, also known as Sergeant John Leopold, who, as an undercover operative of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, joined the Communist Party of Canada. His identity was revealed after a series of police raids on August 11, 1931, which led to the arrest of a number of leading Communists, including Tim Buck. Esselwein testified at the trial in November 1931 whereby the Communists were convicted and sentenced to penitentiary terms under the notorious section 98 of the criminal code. They had already discovered that Esselwein was a police spy. The Toronto Daily Star report (published November 13, 1931) on Esselwein's unmasking is included in the article.
Keywords: BUCK, Tim; Canada; Communist Party of Canada; ESSELWEIN, Jack; LEOPOLD, John; MALCOLM, Bruce; MCEWEN, Tom; Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP); SPIES

In Search of the Working Class: Essays in American Labor History and Political Culture - Parnaby, Andy (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "In Search of the Working Class: Essays in American Labor History and Political Culture," by Leon Fink.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; FINK, Leon; IN Search of the Working Class: Essays in American Labor History & Political Culture (Book); Nonfiction; Working class

Reluctant Host: Canada's Response to Immigrant Workers, 1896-1994 - Patrias, Carmela (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Reluctant Host: Canada's Response to Immigrant Workers, 1896-1994," by Donald H. Avery.
Keywords: AVERY, Donald H.; BOOKS -- Reviews; Foreign workers; Nonfiction; RELUCTANT Host: Canada's Response to Immigrant Workers 1896-1994 (Book)

La flexibilité du travail dans le secteur du textile et de l'habillement en Grèce du Nord - Pelagidis, Theodore (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
Cette étude a pour objectif la mise en relief des formes et caractéristiques que revêt la flexibilité — du travail principalement — du système productif de l'agglomération de Thessalonique, région connue pour son potentiel et la souplesse de ses structures de production et de travail. La première partie traite des concepts de flexibilité numérique et de flexibilité fonctionnelle dans le cadre de l'entreprise flexible, ainsi que des diverses interprétations qui en ont été faites. Nous utilisons ensuite ces concepts, dans la deuxième partie, pour étudier les caractéristiques de la flexibilité du système de production de l'agglomération de Thessalonique dans ses branches les plus dynamiques, à savoir l'habillement et le textile. L'enquête sur le terrain permet de préciser les traits distinctifs et de dégager la forme de flexibilité qui semble fonder le dynamisme de ce système productif.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Employees; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Textile industry

What Impact Has Privatization Had on Pay and Employment?: A Review of the Uk Experience - Pendleton, Andrew (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The features and objectives of privatization in the UK are examined. The centrality of labor management and industrial relations objectives to the program are outlined, with particular attention to the capacity of privatization to reduce political influences on pay determination and to encourage labor-shedding improvements in efficiency. The paper than considers the available evidence of the effects of privatization on pay and employment. It is found that pay levels have registered above-average increases since privatization. The evidence on employment reductions is more mixed. It is argued that greater product and labor market competition are necessary if the predicted effects of privatization are to be fully realized.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Efficiency; Employment; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Privatization; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Wages & salaries

Union and Employer Confederation Views on Current Labour Relations in 21 Industrialized Nations - Peterson, Richard B.; Sargent, John (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
A study reports the results of a cross-sectional mail survey sent to top officials of union and employer confederations in 21 industrialized market economies in Western Europe, North America, and Japan. The results regarding their assessment of the current labor relations situation in their own country show some significant differences related to employer vs. union side and by economic groupings. It is concluded that the relatively stable labor-management relationships during the 1960s and 1970s has apparently given way to greater divergence among the major industrial nations in recent years.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; International; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Trends

Diagnosing Unemployment - Phillips, Paul (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Diagnosing Unemployment," by Edmond Malinvaud.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; DIAGNOSING Unemployment (Book); MALINVAUD, Edmond, 1923-2015; Nonfiction; Unemployment

Les Ouvriers, la Patrie et la Révolution Paris 1914-1919 - Piette, Christine (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Les Ouvriers, la Patrie et la Révolution Paris 1914-1919," by Jean-Louis Robert.

Between Bargaining and Politics: An Introduction to European Labor Relations - Poole, Michael (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Between Bargaining and Politics: An Introduction to European Labor Relations," by Hans Slomp.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Politics; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

The Making of the Indian Working Class: The Case of the Tata Iron and Steel Company, 1880-1946 - Prashad, Vijay (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "The Making of the Indian Working Class: The Case of the Tata Iron and Steel Company, 1880-1946," by Vinay Bahl.
Keywords: BAHL, Vinay; BOOKS -- Reviews; INDIA; MAKING of the Indian Working Class: The Case of the Tata Iron & Steel Co. 1880-1946, The (Book); Nonfiction; Working class

Women of the Commonwealth: Work, Family, and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts - Prentice, Alison (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Women of the Commonwealth: Work, Family and Social Change in Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts," edited by Susan L. Porter.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; Nonfiction; PORTER, Susan L.; WOMEN -- Employment; WOMEN of the Commonwealth: Work, Family & Social Change in 19th-Century Massachusetts (Book)

Ninety-Nine Days: The Ford Strike in Windsor, 1945 - Pryke, Ken (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Ninety-Nine Days: The Ford Strike in Windsor, 1945," by Herb Colling.
Keywords: 99 Days: The Ford Strike in Windsor 1945 (Book); BOOKS -- Reviews; COLLING, Herb; Nonfiction; STRIKES & lockouts

Grosse Ile: Canada's Irish Famine Memorial - Quigley, Michael (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
Documents the horrific conditions at the quarantine station located on Grosse Île, a small island in the St. Lawrence River south of the port of Quebec City, during the Irish famine. In 1847-48, newly arrived Irish immigrants died by the thousands of malnutrition and typhus while under quarantine at Grosse Île. Mass graves were dug at the site for the victims, as had been done for the victims of the cholera epidemic of 1832. Discusses the political and economic plight of Ireland - in particular, the decisions of the governing British elite - that resulted in mass starvation and the exodus overseas. In 1996, the Canadian government recognized Grosse Île as an Irish memorial.
Keywords: CHOLERA; EPIDEMICS; FAMINES; GROSSE Ile (Montmagny, Quebec); LABOUR/LE Travail (Book); MEMORIALS; QUEBEC (Province); QUIGLEY, Michael

On the Line at Subaru Isuzu: The Japanese Model and the American Worker - Rinehart, James W. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "On the Line at Subaru Isuzu: The Japanese Model and the American Worker," by Laurie Graham.
Keywords: AUTOMOBILE industry; BOOKS -- Reviews; GRAHAM, Laurie; Nonfiction; ON the Line at Subaru Isuzu: The Japanese Model & the American Worker (Book); United States

Économie et société en Acadie, 1850-1950 - Robichaud, Léon (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Économie et société en Acadie, 1850-1950," by Jacques Paul Couturier and Phyllis E. Leblanc.

Globalization and the Decline of Social Reform - Sacouman, R. James (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Globalization and the Decline of Social Reform," by Gary Teeple.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; GLOBALIZATION & the Decline of Social Reform (Book); Globalization; Nonfiction; TEEPLE, Gary

California Red: A Life in the American Communist Party - Sangster, Joan (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "California Red: A Life in the American Communist Party," Dorothy Ray Healy and Maurice Isserman.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; CALIFORNIA Red: A Life in the American Communist Party (Book); COMMUNIST parties; HEALY, Dorothy Ray; ISSERMAN, Maurice; Nonfiction

Nationalsozialistische Frauenpolitik vor 1933: Dokumentation - Schade, Rosemarie (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Nationalsozialistische Frauenpolitik vor 1933: Dokumentation," edited by Hans-Jurgen Arendt, Sabine Hering and Leonie Wagner.
Keywords: ARENDT, Hans-Jurgen; BOOKS -- Reviews; HERING, Sabine; NATIONAL socialism & women; NATIONALSOZIALISTISCHE Frauenpolitik vor 1933: Dokumentation (Book); Nonfiction; WAGNER, Leonie

Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism 1945-1960 - Scheinberg, Stephen J. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Selling Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism 1945-1960," by Elizabeth A. Fones-Wolf.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; FONES-Wolf, Elizabeth A.; Free enterprise; Nonfiction; SELLING Free Enterprise: The Business Assault on Labor & Liberalism 1945-1960 (Book)

Nineteenth-Century Collective Violence: Toward a North American Context - See, Scott W. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The study of collective violence has generally reinforced national stereotypes that Canada is a "Peaceable Kingdom" and that the United States is extraordinarily violent. This article assesses the historiography of collective violence since the 1960s and offers specific suggestions for further exploration into Canada's riotous experiences. Scholars often assume that Canada's collective violence has been infrequent and less destructive than American episodes. Future research -- with a focus on nativism, the social legitimacy of the crowd, religious and ethnic conflict, the entrenchment of powerful state institutions, and vigilantism -- might prove otherwise. Regardless, Canadian collective violence will be better understood if it is conceptualized in a North Atlantic context.
Keywords: Canada; Historiography; NATIVISM; Riots; VIGILANCE committees; violence

Labor and Community: Mexican Citrus Worker Villages in a Southern California County, 1900-1950 - Seixas, Peter (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Labor and Community: Mexican Citrus Worker Villages in a Southern California County, 1900-1950," by Gilbert G. Gonzalez.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; GONZALEZ, Gilbert G.; LABOR & Community: Mexican Citrus Worker Villages in a Southern California County 1900-1950 (Book); Labor; Nonfiction

Information = Note to Readers - Sexton, Jean (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
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

Class, Democracy & Labor in Contemporary Argentina - Sheinin, David (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Class, Democracy and Labor in Contemporary Argentina," by Peter Ranis.
Keywords: ARGENTINA -- Social conditions -- 1983-; BOOKS -- Reviews; CLASS, Democracy & Labor in Contemporary Argentina (Book); Nonfiction; RANIS, Peter

Arctic Revolution: Social Change in the Northwest Territories, 1935-1994 - Smith, Donald B. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book "Arctic Revolution: Social Change in the Northwest Territories, 1935-1994," by John David Hamilton.
Keywords: ARCTIC Revolution Social Change in the Northwest Territories 1935-1994 (Book); BOOKS -- Reviews; HAMILTON, John David; Nonfiction; Social change

From Artisans to Paupers: Economic Change and Poverty in London, 1790-1870 - Smith, Timothy B. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "From Artisans to Paupers: Economic Change and Poverty in London, 1790-1870," by David R. Green.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; FROM Artisans to Paupers: Economic Change & Poverty in London 1790-1870 (Book); GREEN, David R.; Nonfiction; POVERTY

"We Ask for British Justice": Workers and Racial Difference in Late Imperial Britain - Smith, Tori (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "We Ask for British Justice": Workers and Racial Difference in Late Imperial Britain," by Laura Tabili.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; Nonfiction; Race discrimination; TABILI, Laura; WE Ask for British Justice: Workers & Racial Difference in Late Imperial Britain (Book)

Union Mergers in Hard Times: The View From Five Countries - Solomon, Norman A. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Union Mergers in Hard Times: The View From Five Countries," by Gary N. Chaison.
Keywords: Acquisitions & mergers; Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Unnecessary Debts - Spotton, Brenda (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Unnecessary Debts," by Lars Osberg and Pierre Fortin.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; DEBT; FORTIN, Pierre; Nonfiction; OSBERG, Lars; UNNECESSARY Debts (Book)

Voracious Idols and Violet Hands: Iconoclasm in Reformation Zurich, Strasbourg and Basel - Stayer, James M. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Voracious Idols and Violet Hands: Iconoclasm in Reformation Zurich, Strasbourg and Basel," by Lee Palmer Wandel.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; ICONOCLASM; Nonfiction; VORACIOUS Idols & Violet Hands: Iconoclasm in Reformation Zurich, Strasbourg & Basel (Book); WANDEL, Lee Palmer

Protecting Women: Labor Legislation in Europe, the United States, and Australia, 1880-1920 - Stewart, Mary Lynn (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book ,"Protecting Women: Labor Legislation in Europe, the United States, and Australia, 1880-1920," edited by Ulla Wikander, Alice Kessler-Harris and Jane Lewis.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; KESSLER-Harris, Alice; LEWIS, Jane; Nonfiction; PROTECTING Women: Labor Legislation in Europe, the United States & Australia 1880-1920 (Book); WIKANDER, Ulla; WOMEN -- Employment -- Law & legislation

Bad Girls and Masked Men: Recent Works on Sexuality in US History - Strange, Carolyn (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews and comments on extensivel on several books including "The Girl Problem: Female Sexual Delinquencies in New York 1900-1930," by Ruth M. Alexander, "Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture and the Making of the Gay Male World," by George Chauncey, and "Delinquent Daughters: Protecting and Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the U.S.," by Mary E. Oden.
Keywords: ALEXANDER, Ruth M.; BOOKS -- Reviews; CHAUNCEY, George; DELINQUENT Daughters: Protecting & Policing Adolescent Female Sexuality in the US (Book); GAY New York: Gender, Urban Culture & the Making of the Gay Male World (Book); GIRL Problem: Female Sexual Delinquencies in New York 1900-1930, The (Book); Nonfiction; ODEN, Mary E.

Inside Babylon: The Caribbean Diaspora in Britain - Tabili, Laura (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Inside Babylon: The Caribbean Diaspora in Britain," edited by Winston James and Clyde Harris.
Keywords: 20th century; BOOKS -- Reviews; GREAT Britain; HARRIS, Clyde; History; INSIDE Babylon: The Caribbean Diaspora in Britain (Book); JAMES, Winston; Nonfiction

People of the Bays and Headlands: Anthropological History and the Fate of Communities in the Unknown Labrador - Thornton, Patricia A. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "People of the Bays and Headlands: Anthropological History and the Fate of Communities in the Unknown Labrador," by John C. Kennedy.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; History; KENNEDY, John C.; NEWFOUNDLAND & Labrador; Nonfiction; PEOPLE of the Bays & Headlands: Anthropological History & the Fate of Communities in the Unknown Labrador (Book)

"When our membership awakens": Welfare Work and Canadian Union Activism, 1950-1965 - Tillotson, Shirley (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
Rather than seeing the mainstream, anti-communist labour leadership in the post-war era as opponents of membership activism and as politically right wing, we might more accurately see them as ideologically-diverse architects of an activism designed to suit the institutional conditions of the new industrial legality in the Cold War era. Labour bureaucrats they indisputably were, but the new regime of industrial relations prompted them to re-examine and to attempt to democratize the basis of their institutional power. Evidence for this thesis is supplied through a study of welfare work and its promoters. Further evidence lies in a survey of idological interpretations of union welfare work and the political uses to which it was put.
Keywords: Anti-communist movements; COLD War, 1945-1989; Civil service; INDUSTRIAL welfare; LABOR laws & legislation; Labor leaders; Social movements

Women Workers and Technological Change in Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Tilly, Louise A. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Women Workers and Technological Change in Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," edited by Gertjan de Groot and Marlou Schrover.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; DE Groot, Gertjan; Nonfiction; SCHROVER, Marlou; WOMEN Workers & Technological Change in Europe in the 19th & 20th Centuries (Book); Women employees

ISO 9000 : une force de management - Todorov, Branimir; Laflamme, Marcel (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "ISO 9000 : une force de management," by Branimir Todorov.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Quality management; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Les secrets de la préparation financière à la retraite - Tremblay, Louis (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Les secrets de la préparation financière à la retraite," by Louis Ascah.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Retirement planning; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Lawyers Against Labor - Tucker, Eric (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Lawyers Against Labor: From Individual Rights to Corporate Liberalism," by Daniel R. Ernst.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; ERNST, Daniel R.; LABOR laws & legislation; LAWYERS Against Labor: From Individual Rights to Corporate Liberalism (Book); Nonfiction

Arvida au Saguenay. Naissance d'une ville industrielle - Vallières, Marc (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Arvida au Saguenay: Naissance d'une ville industrielle," by José Igartua.

The Impact of Compressed Workweek on Absenteeism - Venne, Rosemary A. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
A study consists of absenteeism measures for a group of prison guards who switched from an 8-hour work day to a 12-hour day compressed workweek (CWW) schedule with absenteeism measures for one year prior to the onset of the schedule and 2 years on the new schedule. Absenteeism data were compared between the CWW group and a comparison group of regular schedule guards and between the pre-CWW and CWW periods. Absenteeism levels were higher for the CWW group compared to the comparison group, and were higher over the CWW period when compared to the pre-CWW period. In the best specified models, those guards on the CWW had higher absenteeism than the comparison group, though the latter difference was not statistically significant.
Keywords: Absenteeism; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Effects; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Working hours; Workweeks

'Cowering Women, Combative Men?': Femininity, Masculinity, and Ethnicity on Strike in Two Southern Ontario Towns, 1964-1966 - Ventresca, Robert A. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
In August 1964, the souther Ontario local 523 of the United Electrical and Radio Machine Workers led some 450 female auto-parts workers onto the picket-line. A year later, the same union local led over 1,200 male steelworkers in a strike against the Steel Company of Canada. In both cases, Italian immigrants joined with their non-Italian co-workers in a show of class solidarity. Italian men framed their decision to strike in terms of a manly duty as the family's decision maker and breadwinner; Italian women assumed the role of aggressive labour militant with relative equanimity, while the more outwardly militant Italian men expressed considerable personal uncertainty and fear even while they engaged in a public display of cross-ethnic class solidary. The paper explores how gender, class and ethnicity interact to influence the dynamics of labour militancy in the two strikes, though it also gives due consideration to the structural factors that helped to determine the outcome of both strikes.
Keywords: Canada; Foreign workers; IRON & steel workers; Labor disputes; STRIKES & lockouts; Skilled labor

L'État, l'autonomie collective et le travailleur - Étude comparée du droit italien et du droit français de la représentativité syndicale - Verge, Pierre (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "L'État, l'autonomie collective et le travailleur - Étude comparée du droit italien et du droit français de la représentativité syndicale," by Stamatina Yannakourou.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor law; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Competitive Advantage Through People: Unleashing the Power of the Work Force - Villeneuve, François (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Competitive Advantage Through People: Unleashing the Power of the Work Force," by Jeffrey Pfeffer.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Competitive advantage; Human resource management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Sociologie de l'entreprise et de l'innovation - Vultur, Mircea (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Sociologie de l'entreprise et de l'innovation," by Norbert Alter.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Organizational behavior; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

The Labour-Management Relationship and Organization Outcomes - Wagar, Terry H. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
Based on responses from 752 unionized organizations in Canada, a study examines the association between the quality of labor-management relations and a number of organizations outcomes. The average relationship between an employer and its major bargaining unit was moderately cooperative, with 28% of respondents reporting adversarial relations and 5% indicating a highly cooperative relationship. Results from ordered probit estimation indicated that more favorable organizational outcomes (as measured by management perceptions) were generally associated with a more cooperative relationship between union and management.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Effects; Labor Unions; Labor relations; R&D; Research & development; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Unionization

L'État des relations professionnelles : traditions et perspectives de la recherche - Weiss, Dimitri (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "L'État des relations professionnelles : traditions et perspectives de la recherche," edited by Gregor Murray, Marie-Laure Morin and Isabel Da Costa.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Professions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

"From Fordist Worker Resistance to Post-Fordist Capitalist Hegemony?" - Wells, Don (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews and comments extensivley on the books "Capitalism Comes to the Backcountry: The Goodyear Invasion of Napanee," by Bryan Palmer and "Working at Inglis: The Life and Death of Canadian Factory," David Sobel and Susan Meurer.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; CAPITALISM Comes to the Backcountry: The Goodyear Invasion of Napanee (Book); MEURER, Susan; Nonfiction; PALMER, Bryan; SOBEL, David; WORKING at Inglis: The Life & Death of Canadian Factory (Book)

Backing and filling: The 1997 Canadian election - Whitaker, Reginald; Rennie, Richard (Labour/Le Travail, 1997)
Discusses the federal Liberals' majority win under Jean Chrétien and its implications for the other political parties.

Occupational Determinants of Professional Union Membership - White, Frank (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
Empirical studies of union membership usually group all professionals together in one occupational category. A current study uses a simultaneous equations approach to analyze the union or collective bargaining association membership status of a sample of 9,417 employed Canadian professionals and managers from 16 different occupational groups. The results support the hypothesis that there are significant differences among professions in the probability of their members being in unions or collective bargaining associations. The relative differences are explicable in terms of the characteristics of the professions concerned.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Classification; Collective bargaining; Labor Unions; Memberships; Professionals; Professions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Team Toyota: Transplanting the Toyota Culture to the Camry Plant in Kentucky - Wils, Thierry (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Team Toyota: Transplanting the Toyota Culture to the Camry Plant in Kentucky," by Terry L. Besser.
Keywords: AUTOMOBILE industry; Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Japanese management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

On the March: Labour Rebellions in the British Caribbean, 1934-39 - Yelvington, Kevin A. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "On the March: Labour Rebellions in the British Caribbean, 1934-1939," by O. Nigel Bolland.
Keywords: BOLLAND, O. Nigel; BOOKS -- Reviews; GREAT Britain; Nonfiction; ON the March: Labour Rebellions in the British Caribbean 1934-1939 (Book); STRIKES & lockouts

Autowork - Zieger, Robert H. (Labour / Le Travail, 1997)
The article reviews the book, "Autowork," edited by Robert Asher and Ronald Edsforth.
Keywords: ASHER, Robert; AUTOMOBILE industry workers -- United States; AUTOWORK (Book); BOOKS -- Reviews; EDSFORTH, Ronald; Nonfiction

Obesity as a Covered Disability Under Employment Discrimination Law: An Analysis of Canadian Approaches - Zwerling, Harris L. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1997)
Since the passage of the first anti-discrimination laws in North America, the number of groups of classes protected has slowly expanded to include the disabled. British Columbia is the only jurisdiction in Canada in which obesity per se has been found to be a covered disability. All other Canadian jurisdictions that have explicitly addressed the issue require claimants to prove that their obesity is a disabling condition and has an underlying involuntary medical cause. Despite the reticence of various human rights agencies, there is ample legal basis for including obesity as a covered disability under human rights law.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Employment discrimination; HUMAN rights; Labor Unions; Laws & regulations; Legislation; Obesity; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; provinces

Rural and Urban Labour Processes: A Comparative Analysis of Australian and Canadian Development - Ferland, Jacques; Wright, Christopher (Labour History, 1996)
[E]xamines labour process developments within Canada and Australia during the later 19th and early 20th centuries. In contrast to traditional labour process studies, which have focused upon the development of sophisticated forms of managerial control within modern industry, this comparative analysis stresses the much simpler forms of labour control that existed within Canadian and Australian rural and urban workplaces. The paper explores the reasons underlying differences in labour process developments, and argues for the need to broaden labour process analysis in order to take account of spatial and geographic variations in working life.
Keywords: AUSTRALIA; Canada; LABOR process; LABOR productivity; MANAGERIAL economics; PRODUCTIVE life span; Work environment

Working Conditions under Lean Production: A Worker-based Benchmarking Study - Lewchuk, Wayne; Robertson, David (Asia Pacific Business Review, 1996)
Benchmarking is being used extensively in management's drive to achieve ‘world class’ levels of performance. The majority of benchmarking studies have little if anything to say about working conditions or the tradeoffs between productivity improvements and the conditions of working life. This article is based on a study which focuses on working conditions as described by workers, raising questions about the tradeoffs betwcen work reorganization and the quality of working life under Lean Production. The results, based on a survey of 1670 workers at 16 different companies, suggest that work life under Lean Production has not improved. Compared with workers in traditional Fordist style plants, those at Lean companies reported their work load was heavier and faster. They rcported work loads were increasing and becoming faster. They reported it was difficult to change things they did not like about their job and that it was becoming more difficult to get time off. While our survey results suggest that working in traditional Fordist plants is far from paradise, they also suggest that working in Lean plants is worse. At a minimum, our results should be viewed as a wake-up call to those who have painted a positive picture of work under Lean Production.

Abstracts / Résumés [37, Spring 1996] (Labour/Le Travail, 1996)
English/French abstracts of articles published in the issue.

Abstracts, Volume 38 - Joint Issue of L/LT 38 and Labour History 71; Australia and Canada: Labour Compared (Fall/Automne 1996) (Labour/Le Travail, 1996)

Index, Volume 37 (Spring/Printemps 1996) (Labour/Le Travail, 1996)

Livres reçus (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
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Publications: Canadian Committee on Labour History (Labour/Le Travail, 1996)
List of recent publications by the Committee.

Publications récentes (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
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Publications récentes (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
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Gender and Racial Inequality at Work: The Sources and Consequences of Job Segregation - Andiappan, P. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
The article reviews the book, "Gender and Racial Inequality at Work: The Sources and Consequences of Job Segregation," by Donald Tomaskovic-Devey.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Equality; Human capital; Human resource management; Labor Unions; Management science; Race; Segregation; Sexes; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

The White Women's Labor Laws: Anti-Chinese Racism in Early Twentieth-Century Canada - Backhouse, Constance (Law and History Review, 1996)
This article chronicles the prosecution of two Chinese men under a 1912 Saskatchewan statute forbidding “Chinese” men from employing “white” women. The “Act to Prevent the Employment of female labour in Certain Capacities” was motivated largely by anti-immigration and racist attitudes, and white workers' concerns about the competitive pricing of Chinese goods and services. Its effect was to bar Chinese business owners from hiring the cheapest labour available in the province.
Keywords: Canada; Canadian; Chinese; Crown; Saskatchewan; act; biographical; biography; business; class; classism; construct; discrimination; employment; ethnicity; historical; history; immigration; labor; labour; law; legal; legislation; political; race; racism; social; supreme court; trial; white; working-

Good Industrial Relations, Joint Problem Solving, and HRM - Beaumont, Phillip B.; Harris, Richard I. D. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
A question of concern to researchers in many advanced industrialized economies is whether new human resource management practices fit comfortably with the existing collective bargaining relationship in unionized establishments. Analysis of the current research, based on the 1990 national Workplace Industrial Relations Survey, indicates that an index of human resource management practices is negatively related to management reports of the quality of the existing employee-management relationship in unionized establishments, in contrast to the position in nonunion establishments. This finding is consistent with some existing case study research which indicates that human resource management practices are marginalizing the union-collective bargaining role in unionized organizations. Yet a case study of the paper industry indicates that such marginalization does not occur if the existing relationship is more of a joint problem solving one.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Human resource management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Problem solving; Research; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Postscript: Comparative Research and the 'New World Order' - Bergquist, Charles (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
Discusses the papers on the labour history of Australia and Canada presented in the volume. Argues that more attention should have been paid to the factors that enabled union incorporation in Australia half a century in advance of Canada as well as to the labour aspects of both countries' export economies. Compares the Argentinean experience (the author is a Latin America specialist) with that of Canada and Australia. Concludes that, in the era of the neoliberal new world order, comparative studies like these are valuable since the labour movement is vital to the health of democracy.
Keywords: AUSTRALIA; Canada; Comparative studies; ECONOMIC structure; INCORPORATION; Labor; Labor Unions; Labor movement; RELATIONS of production

Les comités paritaires de formation professionnelle au Québec : vers une plus grande coopération dans les relations du travail ? - Bilodeau, Michèle Bilodeau; Grenier, Jean-Noël; Bernier, Colette (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
Cet article examine le fonctionnement de quelque dix-sept comités paritaires de formation professionnelle mis en place aux niveaux local et sectoriel au Québec. La question posée est de savoir si de tels comités paritaires participent d'une évolution des relations du travail davantage axées sur la coopération dans un domaine, celui de la formation de la main-d’œuvre, normalement exclu du champ de la négociation collective ? Si la réponse est positive en ce qui concerne les comités sectoriels, au niveau des comités locaux les résultats de l'étude dégagent plutôt trois figures de relations du travail dont la plus importante demeure celle de relations mixtes faites à la fois de coopération et de conflit.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Occupational training; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

La Littérature prolétarienne en Belgique francophone depuis 1900 - Biron, Michel (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)

The National Archives and Left-Wing Sources from Russia: Records of the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion, the Communist Party of Canada and Left-Wing Internationals - Bolotenko, George (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
Describes the 10,000 pages of primary resources on the Mackenzie~Papineau Battalion dating from the Spanish Civil War (1936-38) and the 22,000 pages of materials on the Communist Party of Canada , the Comintern, and other internationals from the 1920s and 30s on microfilm at the Public Archives of Canada. The documents, which are mostly in English, were acquired in 1994-95 from the Russian Centre for the Preservation and Study of Records of Contemporary History, which preserves the archives of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The organization follows the original structure and description of the fonds; subdivisions of records are identified, each with a separate file list. Included in the trove are eight substantial files, about 1,200 peges in all, on union activity and labour in Canada and Soviet-Canadian relations during the years 1943-1979. Concludes by noting that, had the Public Archives the funds, there are far more resources on the Canadian left and Soviet-Canadian relations that could be acquired from Moscow.
Keywords: ARCHIVES; BOLOTENKO, George; CANADA. National Archives; Canada; Communist Party of Canada; GOVERNMENT publications; LABOUR/LE Travail (Book); SPAIN. Ejercito Popular de la Republica. MacKenzie-Papineau Battalion

Taylored Lives: Narrative Productions in the Age of Taylor, Veblen, and Ford - Boris, Eileen (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
The article reviews the book "Taylored Lives: Narrative Productions in the Age of Taylor, Veblen and Ford," Martha Banta.
Keywords: BANTA, Martha; BOOKS -- Reviews; Labor Unions; Nonfiction; TAYLORED Lives: Narrative Productions in the Age of Taylor, Veblen & Ford (Book)

Union Structure and Strategy in Australia and Canada - Bray, Mark; Rouillard, Jacques (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
The aim of this paper is to identify and explain the main differences in the structures and strategies of the national union movements in Australia and Canada during the 20th century. Parallel historical narratives reveal that the differences between the two union movements ebbed and waned. They were most similar to each other in the 19th century and after the 1960s, while there was more convincing evidence of divergence in the intermediate period. Following Ross Martin, the explanation offered for these trends emphasises the relationships between unions, political parties and the state. The earlier growth of mass unionism and the political strategies adopted in Australia after their defeats in the 1890s produced more sympathetic state policies (specifically compulsory arbitration from around the turn of the century), which allowed Australian unions to prosper in ways which Canadian unions did not begin to enjoy until the 1940s. At the same time, differences in the types of state policies in the two countries subsequently affected both the structure of unions, Canadian unions being more fragmented at national level than their Australian counterparts, and the strategies they employed, Canadian unions relying more on decentralized collective bargaining compared to the more centralized arbitration approach of Australian unions.
Keywords: ABSTRACTS; Labor Unions

Pourquoi la conciliation volontaire n'est-elle pas plus efficace que la conciliation obligatoire? - Brossard, Michel; Ross, Claudette (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
Les auteurs tentent, à partir des résultats d'une recherche présentés dans un article récent de la revue, d'expliquer pourquoi la conciliation volontaire n'est pas plus efficace que la conciliation obligatoire. La comparaison des objectifs, des comportements et des tactiques adoptés par les parties dans chacun des régimes fait ressortir des conclusions inattendues. Parmi celles-ci, les deux plus surprenantes sont les suivantes. Tout d'abord le changement de régime légal exerce une influence sur le comportement des parties non pas durant le processus mais au moment de son enclenchement. Ensuite il a engendré certains effets contre-productifs sur l'efficacité du processus par rapport au but visé par le législateur.
Keywords: Arbitration; 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

La vie dans les organisations: des indicateurs de succès - Brunet, Luc (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
The article reviews the book, "La vie dans les organisations: des indicateurs de succès," by Roch Laflamme.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Hours-of-Rest Regulations in the Canadian Shipping Industry - Buck, Leslie; Greenley, Michael; Loughnane, Dermot; Webb, Robert (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
A paper discusses hours of rest for Canadian shipping employees on the basis of statutory regulations, the research literature, and consultations with representatives of the shipping industry during 4 workshops held in different parts of Canada. Topics include analyses of current regulations, operational practices and research on work and rest and on time of day and rest, and recommendations for change. The analyses found that current regulations do not distinguish between sleep and recreation during rest periods and fail to take into account time of day effects in relation to quality of sleep. The proposed changes in the regulations require the use of non-rotating 24-hour duty schedules providing for minimum rest periods and maximum work periods.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Employees; Labor Unions; Labor law; Labor relations; Regulation; Research; Shift work; Shipping industry; Sleep; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Transportation; Working hours

Hope and Deception in Conception Bay: Merchant-Settler Relations in Newfoundland 1785-1855 - Bumsted, J. M. (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
The article reviews the book "Hope and Deception in Conception Bay: Merchant-Settler Relations in Newfoundland 1785-1855," by Sean T. Cadigan.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; BUSINESSPEOPLE; CADIGAN, Sean T.; HOPE & Deception in Conception Bay: Merchant-Settler Relations in Newfoundland 1785-1855 (Book); Nonfiction

Bill Pritchard's Propaganda Tour of Alberta, Winter 1915-16 - Campbell, J. Peter; Pritchard, William A. (Bill) (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
Introduces Pritchard's unpublished memoir of his speaking tour of rural Alberta on behalf of the Socialist Party of Canada during the bitterly cold winter of 1915-16.
Keywords: Alberta; CAMPBELL, Peter; LABOUR/LE Travail (Book); PRITCHARD, Bill; Propaganda; Socialism; Socialist Party of Canada

Charles Millard, A Canadian in the International Labour Movement: A Case Study of the ICFTU 1955-61 - Carew, Anthony (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
Shortly after its formation in 1949, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) became hamstrung by disagreements over cold war issues. General Secretary Oldeubroek's caution was criticized by the Americans, and Charles Millard, Canadian Director of the Steelworkers, was appointed Regional Director, a post established to counterbalance Oldenbroek's influence and to revitalise the organization. However, Millard's zeal was insufficient to compensate for his shortage of international experience, and lack of guile left him vulnerable to opponents among the movement's power brokers. At odds with both the American and British union leaderships, he resigned in 1961, a victim of the constraints placed on labour internationalism by the Cold War.
Keywords: COLD War, 1945-1989; Free trade; INTERNATIONAL Confederation of Free Trade Unions; INTERNATIONAL labor activities; Labor Unions; MILLARD, Charles

The Union as Employer: Personnel Practices in Canadian Labour Unions - Clark, Paul F.; Gray, Lois; Solomon, Norm (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
A study reports on personnel practices in unions operating in Canada. The analysis is based on survey data collected from a representative sample of 60 labor organizations. The findings indicate that for the overall sample, formal, written personnel policies are the exception and not the rule in Canadian unions. The data also reveal, however, that personnel practices are conducted on a more formal, sophisticated basis for Canadian unions with over 50,000 members. The results confirm findings of an earlier study of US unions that there is a relationship between size and sophistication of administrative practices in at least this one area. The "economy of scale" effect has important ramifications for the efficient operation of unions and for the future structure of the labor movement in North America.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Comparative analysis; Labor Unions; Personnel policies; Polls & surveys; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Marie Guillot de l'émancipation des femmes à celle du syndicalisme - Claveau, Cylvie (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
Review of: Marie Guillot de l'émancipation des femmes à celle du syndicalisme by Slava Liszek.

Forging Industrial Policy: The United States, Britain and France in The Railway Age - Cruikshank, Ken (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
The article reviews the book "Forging Industrial Policy: The United States, Britain and France in The Railway Age," by Frank Dobbin.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; DOBBIN, Frank; FORGING Industrial Policy: The United States, Britain & France in the Railway Age (Book); Industrial policy; Nonfiction; United States

Global Implications of Recent Innovations in U.s. Collective Bargaining - Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Joel; Power, Donald; McCabe-Power, Maureen (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
Research deals with recent innovations in cooperative forms of collective bargaining. The wide range of highly cooperative approaches to negotiations are reviewed. A fairly comprehensive model is presented which is termed "target-specific bargaining." The research also examines some of the cross-cultural implications associated with applying the new forms of bargaining outside the North American context in 2 very different countries, Poland and South Africa.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Collective bargaining; Innovations; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Playing for Dollars: Labor Relations and the Sports Business - Dabscheck, Braham (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
The article reviews the book, "Playing for Dollars: Labor Relations and the Sports Business," 3rd edition, by Paul D. Staudohar.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Professional sports; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Sports

The Employment Relationship in Australia - Dabscheck, Braham (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
The Employment Relationship in Australia by Tom Keenoy and Di Kelly is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Hommage à Lise Poulin Simon, 1937-1995 - Déom, Esther (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Union Planning: A Framework and Research Agenda - Devine, Kay Stratton; Reshef, Yonatan (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
Planning is fundamental to all organizations, including unions. A study presents a research framework and discusses future directions of academic research into union planning. The researchers' findings indicate that union planning is manifested in various forms. Further, the researchers propose that to capture that phenomenon adequately, researchers must approach it from a "union context," rather than building solely upon a management, economics or business policy framework.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Management; Private sector; Public sector; Research; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Strategic planning; Studies

Catching the Wave: Workplace Reform in Australia - Dingsdag, Don (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
The article reviews the book, "Catching the Wave: Workplace Reform in Australia," by John Mathew.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Reforms; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Work environment

L'évaluation des directions des ressources humaines dans le secteur public québécois - Dolan, Shimon L.; Belout, Adnane (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
Cet article présente les résultats d'une recherche empirique sur l'évaluation de l'efficacité des directions des ressources humaines (DRH) dans le secteur public québécois selon l'approche par les clients. Cette méthode mesure l'efficacité des DRH par la satisfaction de leurs clients. Le modèle proposé et testé distingue les attentes et la satisfaction des clients (contrairement aux travaux précédents) et tient compte des effets des caractéristiques des DRH sur l'évaluateur (le client). Les résultats de l'étude confirment globalement les grandes conclusions de Tsui (1987, 1990) quant à l'existence de différences significatives dans la satisfaction et les attentes des clients tout en apportant quelques modifications méthodologiques. Aussi, de façon globale, les conclusions mettent en relief l'effet de trois variables indépendantes (l'engagement des clients, la compétence des membres des DRH, la fréquence des contacts des clients avec leur DRH) sur la satisfaction des clients selon les deux axes « relations du travail » et « gestion des ressources humaines ».
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Civil service; Human resource management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Un parti sous influence: le Parti communiste suisse, une section du Komintern 1931 à 1939 - Donneur, André (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
Review of: Un parti sous influence: le Parti communiste suisse, une section du Komintern 1931 à 1939 by Brigitte Studer.

Beyond Purity: A Response to Sangster - Dubinsky, Karen; Marks, Lynne (Left History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Historical Inquiry and Debate, 1996)
Readers of [this journal] may well have experienced a number of disorienting sensations: watching media coverage of a political event or demonstration one attended which completely distorts what one observed, or reading reviews of one's own book and finding it unrecognizable. Reading Joan Sangster's "Beyond Dichotomies" had a bit ofthe same effect. Canadian women's history, and its relationship to the emerging field of gender history, as we have studied it, taught it, and written it is - from Sangster's presentation - barely recognizable. We suppose we are among the members of the "younger, more hip generation" (counterposed, presumably, to the sober socialist feminist), whose "consumer choice" Sangster decries. And so we welcome the opportunity to tell our version of the story. --Author's introduction

Soldiers' Work; Soldiers' Health: Morbidity, Mortality, and their Causes in an 1840s British Garrison in Canada - Duffin, Jacalyn (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
The Fort Wellington Hospital Register contains the case histories of 278 soldiers treated by military physicians in an 1840s British garrison. A computer-assisted analysis of the register provides information about illnesses suffered and the treatments prescribed, and allows for an examination of both soldiers and their doctors as workers. The soldiers were often ill because of the working conditions associated with soldiering, and their doctors were sometimes aware of the causal connection. This study leads to the epistemological suggestion that the disease labels used by the physicians were influenced by their working relationships with their solider-patients and their superiors in the military setting.
Keywords: Canada; DISEASES; GARRISONS, British; MILITARY art & science; MILITARY personnel; Physicians

Modes de rénumération et structures de salaire au Québec (1980-1992) - Ferland, Gilles (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
Cet article vise à appréhender la réalité québécoise en matière d'évolution des modes de rémunération et des structures de salaire négociés par les syndicats et les employeurs en mettant en évidence les changements qui se sont produits dans les conventions collectives depuis 1980.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

The Future of the International Labour Question from the Inside Looking Out - Fink, Leon; French, John D. (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
Reports on the annual conference of the International Labor Organization in Geneva in June 1993, at which over 130 countries attended with each sending delegations of labour, business and government officials. Takes note of the air of uncertainty that surrounded the proceedings in the aftermath of the Soviet Union's collapse and the capitalist shift of investment to the global south. Provides a snapshot of the discussion with an edited synopsis of interviews with a number of conference attendees, with the exception of the Canadian Autoworkers' Sam Gindin who was interviewed in June 1994 following the signing of NAFTA. Themes explored include the global economy, policy dilemmas facing the ILO, transnational strategies and the labour movement, and intellectual activists and labour history. The interviewees included Philip Bowyer, James Burge, Hans Engelberts, Dan Galeen, Sam Gindin, Charles Gray, Philip Jennings, Denis MacShane, Herbert Maier, and Charles Spring.
Keywords: CONFERENCES & conventions; GALEEN, Dan; GENEVA (Switzerland); INTERNATIONAL Labour Organisation; Industrial relations; LABOR -- Congresses; SWITZERLAND

A Marriage of Convenience: Business and Social Work in Toronto 1918-1957 - Finkel, Alvin (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
The article reviews the book "A Marriage of Convenience: Business and Social Work in Toronto 1918-1957," by Gale Wills.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; INDUSTRIES -- Social aspects; MARRIAGE of Convenience: Business & Social Work in Toronto 1918-1957, A (Book); Nonfiction; WILLS, Gale

Manitoba's First Farmers - Flynn, Catherine; Syms, E. Leigh (Manitoba History, 1996)
Most people believe that the early pioneer homesteaders, the Selkirk settlers, were Manitoba's first farmers. However, several centuries before the arrival of the Selkirk settlers, the land was already being worked by Aboriginal or First Nations peoples in various parts of Manitoba. The presentation of Manitoba's history has not generally shown Native peoples as farmers; instead, they have been portrayed as nomadic wanderers who resisted the efforts of well-intentioned Europeans who tried to induce them to take up farming and become "civilized". In Lost Harvests: Prairie Indian Reserve Farmers and Government Policy, Sarah Carter (1993) has documented in detail how representatives from Indian Affairs first introduced farming to Aboriginal groups, usually at the request of the Native peoples after they had been relocated to reserves, and then proceeded to set up a series of rules which made farming on the reserves an activity destined to fail. There is, however, well documented evidence for Postcontact maize (corn) horticulture in Manitoba prior to the movement of Aboriginal peoples to reserves. Moodie and Kaye (1969) discuss some of the early accounts of corn growing in Manitoba. They state that the first mention of Native corn horticulture north of the Middle Missouri is made by Henry Schoolcraft in 1805, when he observed the Netley Creek Natives growing corn and potatoes. Later, in 1821, these same people were reputed to have provided the Selkirk settlers with seed. Moodie and Kaye (1969) also report that the Netley Creek Odawas were well aware of the practice of maize growing but did not grow it themselves until they were given the seed in 1805. Following this, garden plots were placed in strategic provisioning locations and, by the 1850's, they had added beans and even melons to their inventory. The practice of gardening quickly caught on with other Woodland Native groups spurred by the demand for provisions by traders This example from the fur trade period is the most frequently cited example of the earliest known Native farming in Manitoba. But what of the Precontact period, the vast period of time prior to the fur trade and homestead eras? For information from this period we must turn to the archaeological record and to early historic observations on Native peoples to the south, particularly in the area around the Mississippi and Missouri rivers in what is now the Dakotas and Minnesota. Archaeologists have documented a long tradition of plant domestication and crop harvesting among the Aboriginal people of North, Central and South America. Corn, one of our own modern staples, was first domesticated in the highlands of Mexico approximately 7000 years ago. This highly adaptable plant was rapidly bred to produce a wide variety of strains which were eventually grown throughout much of Central and North America. Other domesticated crops include a variety of beans and gourds, tobacco, sunflowers, potatoes and numerous indigenous seedy plants such as chenopodium and amaranth. In fact, one of the ironies of modern farming is the effort that is currently invested in eradicating "weeds," many of which were either domesticated or heavily utilized by Precontact Aboriginal groups and are particularly well-suited to colonizing recently disturbed land. --Introduction

Success While Others Fail: Social Movement Unionism and the Public Workplace - Forrest, Anne (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
The article reviews the book, "Success While Others Fail: Social Movement Unionism and the Public Workplace," by Paul Johnston.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Civil service; Collective bargaining; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Public sector; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Women and Wage Labour in Australia and Canada, 1880-1980 - Frances, Raelene; Kealey, Linda; Sangster, Joan (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
A century of women's work history in Australia and Canada reveals both similarities and contrasts. Women workers in both countries have faced persistent occupational segregation and lower pay, justified by the "family wage" ideal of a male breadwinner and the accompanying perception of women's paid labour as secondary, less skilled and transient. While Canada's female labour force has historically demonstrated a significant proportion of immigrants from countries other than England, Australia's female labour force contained fewer immigrants but revealed a visible minority of Aboriginals who have demonstrated labour militancy in several well-known disputes in this century. Perhaps the most striking differences between the two countries, however, relate to the extent of the Australian state's involvement in wage tribunals and in the compulsory arbitration system, both of which have given women improved wages and "a floor of protection." By contrast, state intervention in Canada was minimal until well into the 20th century when minimum wage laws were passed during and after World War I. Despite these differences there are areas of similarity, particularly in this century as women workers tended to mobilize at roughly the same time, not only in unions and work places but also in neighbourhoods, ethnic communities, rural areas and to some extent in labour and left wing political groups. Modern feminist movements in both countries have waged some successful campaigns to change not only government views and agendas, but also those of trade unions. Thus, while Australian women have perhaps been more successful at "playing the state" depending on the government in power, both groups of women are increasingly faced with the challenge of government retreat from egalitarian policies under the onslaught of a right-wing, corporatist agenda.
Keywords: ABSTRACTS; Women employees

Workers' Education in Australia and Canada: A Comparative Approach to Labour's Cultural History - Friesen, Gerald; Taksa, Lucy (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
This essay investigates the formal and informal educational pursuits of the labour movements and working-class communities of Australia and Canada. It suggests that worker education in the two countries was conducted by similar institutions, notably by branches of England's Workers Educational Association (WEA) but within very different cultural contexts. By juxtaposing these two national cases we demonstrate that labour's reliance on such community-wide institutions was mediated by the relationship between the labour movements and informal networks of working class interaction, on the one hand, and the body politic, on the other. Australia's prominent labour movement and strong tradition of public working class interaction enabled community-wide educational activities to be challenged. In Canada, by contrast, the collaborative nature of adult education and the "tools courses" taught by unions represented a different consensus about the nature of class identity and the place of unions in national politics.
Keywords: AUSTRALIA; Adult education; CLASS identity; Canada; Labor movement; Social interaction; Working class

Northern Protest: Martin Luther King Jr., Chicago, and the Civil Rights Movement - Fuke, Richard Paul (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
The article reviews the book "Northern Protest: Martin Luther King Jr., Chicago, and the Civil Rights Movement," by James R. Ralph.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; CIVIL rights movements -- United States; History; NORTHERN Protest: Martin Luther King Jr., Chicago & the Civil Rights Movement (Book); Nonfiction; RALPH, James R.

Revolutionary Marxism and Social Reality in the Twentieth Century - Gabbert, Mark A. (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
The article reviews the book "Revolutionary Marxism and Social Reality in the Twentieth Century," by Ernest Mandel.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; MANDEL, Ernest; Nonfiction; REVOLUTIONARY Marxism & Social Reality in the 20th Century (Book); Socialism

Le droit du travail : théories et pratiques - Gagnon, Robert P. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
The article reviews the book, "Le droit du travail : théories et pratiques," 3rd edition, by Rodrigue Blouin.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor law; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Staging the Practices of Heritage - Gale, Bill (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
The article reviews and comments on the book, "Theater of Memory: Past and Present in Contemporary Culture," Volume I, by Raphael Samuel.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; Nonfiction; SAMUEL, Raphael; THEATER of Memory: Past & Present in Contemporary Culture (Book); Theater

Workers' Welfare: Labour and the Welfare State in 20th-century Australia and Canada - Garton, Stephen; Mccallum, Margaret E. (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
This article investigates the historical dimensions of the labour movement's relationship to the welfare state in Australia and Canada during the 20th century. It assesses existing class and party politics theories of this relationship and by proposing particular historical accounts of the welfare state in a comparative context, it seeks to move beyond the limitations of these theories. The article argues that such approaches focus too narrowly on social security and wage regulation as the key parameters of the welfare state, ignoring major fields of welfare intervention for women, indigenous peoples and war service. In attempting to provide a more comprehensive narrative of the welfare state in a comparative context the article seeks to provide a clearer conception of the distinctive features of settler society welfare states. And by placing the role of the labour movement in this broader history it critically assesses the successes and limitations of the labour movement's engagement with the welfare state.
Keywords: AUSTRALIA; Canada; Labor movement; Social security; WELFARE state; WOMEN & war; Working class

Changements dans la législation du travail au Canada [v. 51, no. 1, 1996], 1er juillet au 30 septembre 1995 = Changes in Canadian labour legislation, July 1 to September 30, 1995 - Gauvin, Michel; Brennan, Geoffrey (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Changements dans la législation du travail au Canada [v. 51, no. 2, 1996], 1er octobre au 31 décembre 1995 = Changes in Canadian labour legislation, October 1 to December 31, 1995 - Gauvin, Michel; Brennan, Geoffrey (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Changements dans la législation du travail au Canada [v. 51, no. 3, 1996], 1er janvier au 31 mars 1996 = Changes in Canadian labour law, January 1 to March 31, 1996 - Gauvin, Michel; Brennan, Geoffrey (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Changements dans la législation du travail au Canada [v. 51, no. 4, 1996], 1er avril au 30 juin 1996 = Changes in Canada Labour Law, April 1 to June 30, 1996 - Gauvin, Michel; Brennan, Geoffrey (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Making Law, Order, and Authority in British Columbia, 1821-1871 - Girard, Philip (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
The article reviews the book "Making Law, Order and Authority in British Columbia, 1821-1871," by Tina Loo.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; LOO, Tina; Law; MAKING Law, Order & Authority in British Columbia 1821-1871 (Book); Nonfiction

Marxism and Class Consciousness - Glaberman, Martin (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
Critiques the paper, "Strikes and Class Consciousness," by Tom Langford published in the Fall 1994 issue of Labour/Le Travail. Argues that Langford misunderstood and misapplied Marxist methodology in his analysis of class consciousness during the 1987 Hamilton postal workers' strike.
Keywords: Class consciousness; Communism; GLABERMAN, Martin; LABOUR/LE Travail (Book); LANGFORD, Tom; Labor disputes; STRIKES & lockouts

New Immigrants, Old Unions: Organizing Undocumented Workers in Los Angeles - Gonzalez, Gilbert G. (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
The article reviews the book "New Immigrants, Old Unions: Organizing Undocumented Workers in Los Angeles," by Hector L. Delgado.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; DELGADO, Hector L.; Foreign workers; NEW Immigrants, Old Unions: Organizing Undocumented Workers in Los Angeles (Book); Nonfiction

Grèves et services essentiels/Strikes and Essential Services - Grant, Michel (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
The articles reviews the book, "Grèves et services essentiels/Strikes and Essential Services," edited by Jean Bernier.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Work-Sharing Benefits in Canada: An Effective Employment Stabilization Policy Measure? - Gray, David (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
The paper discusses Canada's work-sharing program, which is a special provision of the unemployment insurance program. The time series properties of the national and regional activity levels of this program between 1982 and 1992 are analyzed with the aid of a regression equation. The model estimates the relationship between global work-sharing program activity and the business cycle in search of a countercyclical pattern. Despite evidence of persistence effects in the time series behavior of the participation levels for the conventional UI program, which have been tied to hysteresis effects for unemployment levels, the participation levels of this program appear to behave counter cyclically, as intended. Although there is some anecdotal evidence at the firm level which would suggest instances of repeat usage, persistence effects are not discernible at the macroeconomic level. On the other hand, despite the fact that the program is not to be used in instances of seasonal employment, the model does generate seasonal patterns.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Participants; Regression analysis; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Time series; Unemployment insurance; Work sharing

Producers, Proletarians, and Politicians: Workers and Party Politics in Evansville and New Albany, Indiana, 1850-87 - Greenberg, Brian (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
The article reviews the book "Producers, Proletarians, and Politicians: Workers and Party Politics in Evansville and New Albany, Indiana, 1850-87," by Lawrence M. Lipin.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; LIPIN, Lawrence M.; Labor; Nonfiction; PRODUCERS, Proletarians & Politicians: Workers & Party Politics in Evansville & New Albany, Indiana 1850-1887 (Book)

Harrisburg Industrializes: The Coming of Factories to an American Community - Gross, Laurence F. (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
The article reviews the book "Harrisburg Industrializes: The Coming of Factories to an American Community," by Gerald G. Eggert.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; EGGERT, Gerald G.; HARRISBURG Industrializes: The Coming of Factories to an American Community (Book); INDUSTRIALIZATION; Nonfiction

Fair Play or Fair Pay? Gender Relations, Class Consciousness, and Union Solidarity in the Canadian UE - Guard, Julie (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
Women who were activists in the Canadian district of the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) during the postwar and cold war era challenge the assumption that class consciousness is incompatible with female gender consciousness. Encouraged by the leadership's espoused commitment to gender equality, and secure in their strategic importance as a quarter of the lYE's membership, women activists not only refused to accept second-class status within the union, but called, in the name of solidarity, for men's active support in the struggle for women's rights. Although their arguments for a gender-conscious analysis of class struggle failed to convince the UE's leadership, their struggle laid the foundation for the working-class feminism that later emerged within the union.
Keywords: Feminism; Labor Unions; Leadership; Social movements; WAR & society; Women's rights

Labour's Dilemma: The Gender Politics of Auto Workers in Canada, 1937-1979 - Guard, Julie (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
The article reviews the book "Labour's Dilemma: The Gender Politics of Auto Workers in Canada, 1937-1979," by Pamela Sugiman.
Keywords: Automobile industry workers; BOOKS -- Reviews; LABOUR'S Dilemma: The Gender Politics of Auto Workers in Canada 1937-1979 (Book); Nonfiction; SUGIMAN, Pamela

Le malaise professionnel : nature et mesure du concept - Guérin, Gilles; Wils, Thierry; Lemire, Louise (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
Le malaise professionnel — vu comme un conflit entre les valeurs professionnelles et les exigences organisationnelles — a donné lieu à une abondante littérature au cours des quarante dernières années. Le concept est ici repris dans le but d'élaborer un construit qui s'appuie sur les huit principaux points de tension entre les cadres et les professionnels, soit la nature du travail, l'autonomie, la participation à la prise de décision, le style de gestion du supérieur, les conditions de travail, le développement de carrière, la reconnaissance et l'éthique. Construit à partir de questions mesurant tant les attentes professionnelles que les perceptions de réalisation de 2497 professionnels syndiqués du Québec, le construit de 16 indicateurs se révèle cohérent et valide puisqu'il est significativement corrélé avec les attitudes et comportements généralement associés au malaise par les auteurs.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Unemployment Reduction in Canada: Lessons from Japan and Sweden - Harcourt, J. Mark (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
The active labor market policy has been used to reduce the duration of unemployment in Sweden. The lifetime employment system has been used to lower the incidence of unemployment in Japan. Emulating Japan and Sweden could prove difficult, since their policies reflect and reinforce employment interests that are very different from Canada's. As a result, neither lifetime employment nor active labor market policy is transferable to Canada without major modifications to suit the stakeholder interests of Canadian unions, employers, and employees.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Employment; Government aid; International; LABOR supply; Labor Unions; Labor economics; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Unemployment

La sociologie des entreprises - Harrisson, Denis (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
The article reviews the book, "La sociiologie des entreprises," by Philippe Bernoux.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Worker's History Finds a Home [ontario Worker's Arts and Heritage Centre] - Heron, Craig (Bulletin of the Canadian Historical Association, 1996)
Recently the Toronto Star ran a story about a lavish new lakefront housing development in the eastern suburbs of Toronto owned by one of the Bronfman companies. Under the quaint name of “Port Union Village,” the developer is resurrecting the long-forgotten history of a tiny port that had existed on the spot in the nineteenth century in order to sell a myth of rural gentility in the 1990s. What the story failed to explain was that the new houses were rising on the site of the infamous Canadian Johns- Manville Company, where from the 1940s to the 1970s several hundred workers worked with asbestos. By 1980 43 CJM employées were dead of asbestos-related diseases. The company’s long suppression of information about these hazards became a national scandai before it collapsed into bankruptcy beneath a flood of lawsuits. The Star was thus complic- it in suppressing the memory of a significant industrial workplace, of the organized reistance of the men who worked there and the workplace culture that sustained them, and of their life with family and neighbours beyond the factory walls. For the residents of this new suburb, there never was a working-class expérience here (they might start asking questions when they find the asbestos in their backyard gardens).The Ontario Worker’s Arts and Heritage Centre exists so that this kind of historical white-washing and collective amnesia will not continue to take place. --Introduction

The Craftsmen's Spectacle: Labour Day Parades in Canada, the Early Years - Heron, Craig; Penfold, Steve (Histoire sociale / Social History, 1996)
Labour Day became a statutory holiday in Canada in 1894, but labour days and craftsmen’s parades had been summer events in several Canadian cities and towns for a number of years. Its creation as an official holiday responded to two demands: one for public recognition of organized labour and its important role, and another for release from the pressures of work in capitalist industry. It was up to unions, however, to produce the parades and shape the day’s events, and this task could prove to be too much for local workers’ movements with limited resources. The tension between celebration and leisure eventually undermined the original grand ideals, as wage-earners and their families began to spend Labour Day pursuing private pleasures rather than participating in a display of cultural solidarity.

Native Wage Labour and Independent Production during the 'Era of Irrelevance.' - High, Steven C. (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
Despite the inadequacies of the historiography, a growing number of anthropologists, economists, geographers, sociologists, and historians have taken an interest in native wage earners and independent producers since the publication of Rolf Knight's "Indians at Work" in 1978. This paper will discuss the existing literature (as it relates to our understanding of native labour history), the various methodological approaches involved, the changing nature of sources, and some of the opportunities for research. In doing so, I will demonstrate that there is an emerging consensus that aboriginal peoples not only participated in the capitalist economy during [the] so-called "era of irrelevance," [i.e., since the mid-19th century] but did so selectively in order to strengthen their traditional way of life. Native efforts to incorporate aspects of the capitalist economy into their seasonal round and their resistance to the government's assimilation policy laid the foundation for the future construction of the non-proletarian Amerindian worker. --From author's introduction
Keywords: CANNED foods industry; Canada; Capitalism; Fisheries; HIGH, Steven; INDIGENOUS peoples of the Americas; Indigenous Peoples; LABOUR/LE Travail (Book)

From Haute Cuisine to Ox Roasts: Public Feasting and the Negotiation of Class in Mid-19th-Century Saint John and Halifax - Huskins, Bonnie (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
The primary objective of this paper is to delineate a typology or hierarchy of public feasts in mid 19th-century Saint John and Halifax in order to show how we can use food and drink as markers of class and as instruments in the process of class formation. I will be considering such questions as: why did people in different classes partake of "victuals" and "spirits?" How does this reflect their different priorities and social practices at mid century? Emphasis will be placed on public secular feasts -- that is, the banquet, ox roast, institutional repast, and tea and coffee soirée -- which were held to commemorate royal and patriotic anniversaries. It is only through these local micro-studies that we can effectively "get at" the meanings associated with food and drink.
Keywords: ANNIVERSARIES; BEVERAGES; COOKING (Coffee); COOKING (Tea); FASTS & feasts; Food; TYPOLOGY (Psychology)

The Distribution of Investment Risk in Defined Benefit Pension Plans - Hyatt, Douglas E.; Pesando, James E. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
The "textbook" description is that members of defined benefit plans bear no investment risk, in sharp contrast to members of defined contribution plans. Three sources of empirical evidence are used to support the proposition that employees do bear at least some of the investment risk associated with pension fund performance. Poor fund performance leads to larger employer contributions to maintain the defined benefit obligation and this in turn leads to lower levels of other forms of compensation. It is concluded that risk-shifting does occur, in at least some plans, and that the textbook distinction is overstated.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Defined benefit plans; Investments; Labor Unions; Pension funds; Portfolio performance; Risk assessment; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Statistical analysis; Studies

Women's History, Gender History and Debating Dichotomies - Iacovetta, Franca; Kealey, Linda (Left History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Historical Inquiry and Debate, 1996)
Joan Sangster's "Beyond Dichotomies" (left history, 3.1, Spring/Summer 1995) is a polemic on the relationship between women's history and gender history. As such, it tends to bring out issues and highlight debates but, at the same time, it sometimes inevitably simplifies and potentially misrepresents in order to address important points. As friends and colleagues, we would like to take issue with some of the assertions and suggestions made in Sangster's piece. We think it is important to debate these issues and we hope to make a contribution. Such issues are central in feminist historical debates internationally and, while individuals who write Canadian women's history and gender history have clearly borrowed from the intemational literature, there has been no sustained Canadian "debate," at least not in print. --Introduction

Italian Radicals in Canada: A Note on Sources in Italy - Iacovetta, Franca; Ventresca, Robert (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
Discusses and provides examples of documentation of Italian radicals in Canada at the Casellario Politico Centrale (Rome), the files of which were extensive during the Fascist dictatorship in Italy (1922-43) since the regime wanted to identify and monitor its opponents. Argues that these materials may be used to write the history of the Italian left/anti-Fascism in Canada as well as contributing to studies of Canadian labour/immigration history and the international anti-fascist movement.
Keywords: Canada; EMIGRATION & immigration; FILES (Records); History; IACOVETTA, Franca; LABOUR/LE Travail (Book); Labor; RADICALS; VENTRESCA, Robert

Continuities and Discontinuities: The Political Economy of Social Welfare and Labour Market Policy in Canada - Irving, Allan (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
The article reviews the book "Continuities and Discontinuities: The Political Economy of Social Welfare and Labour Market Policy in Canada," edited by Andrew F. Johnson, Stephen McBride and Patrick J. Smith.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; CONTINUITIES & Discontinuities: The Political Economy of Social Welfare & Labour Market Policy in Canada (Book); EMPLOYMENT policy; JOHNSON, Andrew F.; MCBRIDE, Stephen; Nonfiction; SMITH, Patrick J.

Labour and Politics in Canada and Australia: Towards a Comparative Approach to Developments to 1960 - Irving, Terry; Seager, Allen (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
This chapter seeks to move the discussion of labour and politics beyond the contest of political ideologies in the movement and the constraints of the liberal democratic state. To explain the different political histories of the Australian and Canadian movements we use a model with three dimensions: the changing balance between labour and politics; the different social forces that labour seeks to represent; and the different conceptions of politics that labour holds. After a discussion of the literature on labour and politics in the two countries, the paper applies this model to distinguish two periods, a formative period up to the early 1920s, in which labour entered politics. and the period from the 1920s to the 1950s when parties or governments took politics into the labour movement. The model enables us to characterize the politics of the Australian Labor Party as a form of class-based labourism, with significant moments of working-class socialism. We characterize the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation/New Democratic Party as a form of populist socialism. The paper concludes with some insights gained from using a common model in a comparative exercise.
Keywords: AUSTRALIA; Canada; Labor movement; Political parties; SOCIAL forces; SOCIALISM & literature

L'historiographie du mouvement ouvrier suisse - Jost, Hans Ulrich (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
Discusses the history and historiography of the Swiss labour movement with reference to defining events such as the 1848 civil war, the 1918 general strike, the growth of the political left, and the student radicalism of the 1960s. Concludes that although substantial scholarship has emerged since the 1960s, there is still much work to be done, such as women in the labour movement and studies that integrate the rich and varied history of the working class, including the relationship with Swiss bourgeois society.

Individual-Level Determinants of Employee Shirking - Judge, Timothy A.; Chandler, Timothy D. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
Employee shirking, where workers give less than full effort to the job, has typically been investigated as a construct subject to organization-level influences. Neglected are individual differences that could explain why employees in the same organization or work-group might shirk. Using a sample of workers from the health care profession in the US, a new study sought to address these limitations by investigating subjective well-being (a dispositional construct), job satisfaction, as well as other individual-level determinants of shirking. Results indicate that whites shirk significantly more than nonwhites, and that subjective well-being, job satisfaction, and age have significant, negative effects on shirking. The implications of these results are discussed.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Employee attitude; Employee morale; Health care industry; Job satisfaction; Labor Unions; Organizational behavior; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Time management

The Infernal Machine - Kaplan, William (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
The article reviews the book "The Infernal Machine," by Larry Hannant.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; Communism; HANNANT, Larry; INFERNAL Machine, The (Book); Nonfiction

The Evolution of Dispute Resolution, Negotiation, and Mediation in Greece - Karassavidou, Eleonora; Markovits, Yannis (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
A 4-phase theory of industrial relations evolution is formulated so as to obtain a deeper understanding of contemporary developments in industrial relations, as well as to situate the pattern of Greek industrial relations prior to 1990. Greece initiated a "U-turn" in its industrial relations system in the 1990s. The institutionalization of free collective bargaining, 3rd-party intervention on a voluntary basis, and the establishment of the Organization of Mediation and Arbitration (OMED) form the core of the new status quo in employee-employer relations in Greece. A general evaluation of the 3 years' experience of OMED indicates that a gradual, positive change in the atmosphere of the Greek industrial relations appears to have taken place. However, the transition from a long-standing low-trust and authoritarian industrial relations pattern requires the diffusion of new knowledge and experience, changes in cultures and support from multiple sources.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Collective bargaining; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Mediation; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Theory

Global Perspectives on Organizational Conflict - Kervin, John (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
The article reviews the book, "Global Perspectives on Organizational Conflict," edited by M. Afzulur Rahim and Albert A. Blum.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; International; Labor Unions; Organizational behavior; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Launching a Renaissance in International Industrial Relations Research - Kochan, Thomas A. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
The presidential address at the 10th World Congress of the International Industrial Relations Association (IIRA) is presented. The IIRA is well on its way to inventing the institutions, policies and practices that can meet the full range of concerns of the diverse parties found in the workplace today and tomorrow. Given the resurgence in research, policy debates and innovations in practices, the contours of a new paradigm is emerging for international industrial relations.
Keywords: Associations; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Conferences; International; Labor Unions; Labor relations; R&D; Research & development; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Canadian Auto Workers: The Birth and Transformation of a Union - Kumar, Pradeep (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
The article reviews the book, "Canadian Auto Workers: The Birth and Transformation of a Union," by Sam Gindin.
Keywords: AUTOMOBILE industry; Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Immigration and Labour: Australia and Canada Compared - Lacovetta, Franca; Quinlan, Michael; Radforth, Ian (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
No persuasive account of labour in Australia and Canada can ignore the impact that immigration has wrought on the composition of the working class and preoccupations of workers, unions, and the varied political parties they have sponsored. Highlighting both similarities and differences between countries, the paper explores the paradoxical relationship that immigration has had with the labour movements of Australia and Canada. Although immigrants have been a critical source of union recruits, new ideas, and leaders (this being especially true for British skilled men), their presence was also long a source of concern, chauvinism, and division within predominantly white, Anglo-Celtic, and male-dominated union movements that adopted exclusionary policies, particularly regarding Asian and continental European workers. A more recent shift towards non-racist and inclusive policies unfortunately has not obliterated labour segmentation along racial and ethnic lines, especially job ghettos for immigrant women. Meanwhile, global restructuring and the loss of hard-earned union protections have increased immigrant workers' historic vulnerability. In explaining differences in the two countries -for example, Australia's greater 'success' at restricting non-white immigration before 1945 and Canada's earlier experience with a racially diverse work force - the paper cautions against easy generalizations, pointing instead to a series of historically contingent factors (such as 'accidents' of geography and differing political developments) that on some occasions led to rather different outcomes.
Keywords: AUSTRALIA; Canada; EMIGRATION & immigration; LABOR supply; Labor movement; POLITICAL development; Social classes

Sociologie des relations professionnelles - Laflamme, Gilles (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
The article reviews the book, "Sociologie des relations professionnelles," by Michel Lallement.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Le système de relations professionnelles allemand à l'épreuve de la réunification - Lallement, Michel (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
Comme dans de nombreux autres pays industrialisés, l'on assiste en Allemagne, depuis une dizaine d'années, à une nouvelle donne des relations professionnelles sous l'influence notamment des politiques de flexibilité du travail. La réunification entamée en 1989 a également contribué, pour sa part, à modifier les relations collectives de travail. Centré sur les mutations en cours, cet article met en évidence les limites du transfert institutionnel du système de relations professionnelles de l'Ouest vers l'Allemagne oriental et montre, qu'en dépit de telles difficultés, la réunification a contribué à accentuer le processus de décentralisation des négociations collectives qui était déjà perceptible en R.F.A. avant 1989.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Effects of Strike Participation on the Political Consciousness of Canadian Postal Workers - Langford, Tom (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
Marxists have long argued that major strikes produce an explosion of workers' class consciousness. A study discusses some weaknesses of the explosion-of-consciousness thesis, and tests research hypotheses using data from a case study of the 1987 strike by the Hamilton local of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers. A major finding is that an increase in a postal worker's negative attitudes toward out-groups did not necessarily go hand in hand with an increase in that striker's positive identifications with in-groups such as fellow workers, the local union and the labor movement. This supports treating the in-group and out-group dimensions of class consciousness as distinct. A second finding supports the hypothesis that an explosion of in-group consciousness due to inter-group conflict is more likely to occur among workers who are already identified with the in-group.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Effects; Labor Unions; Marxism; Participants; Postal & delivery services; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Social classes; Strikes; Studies

Reply to Martin Glaberman - Langford, Tom (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
Responds to Martin Glaberman's critique of his paper, "Strikes and Class Consciousness," published in the Fall 1994 issue. of Labour/Le Travail. Argues that his concept of class consciousness and collective struggle is at the individual, rather than the supraindividual level espoused by Glaberman and György Lukács. Also argues that history does not produce preordained outcomes such as workers' councils, only possibilities of what can be done, which is why he urged Canadian socialists to focus on activist workers who are broadly politicized, non-sectarian, and linked through community networks.
Keywords: Canada; Class consciousness; GLABERMAN, Martin; LABOUR/LE Travail (Book); LANGFORD, Tom; LUKACS, Gyorgy, 1885-1971; STRIKES & lockouts; Socialism

L'impact de la réglementation en matière de santé et sécurité au travail sur le risque d'accident au Québec : de nouveaux résultats - Lanoie, Paul; Streliski, David (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
Le présent article poursuit l'analyse, effectuée dans Lanoie (1992a), de l'effet conjoint des différentes mesures préventives et des interventions de la CSST sur les risques d'accident du travail au Québec, en élargissant la période étudiée (1983-90 au lieu de 1983-87), en ajoutant une autre catégorie d'accident — les incapacités permanentes — comme variable dépendante, et en réévaluant ces relations dans les secteurs à risque uniquement. Comme dans cette étude de Lanoie (1992a), nos résultats indiquent que les politiques adoptées au Québec ont, au mieux, engendré une diminution mineure de la fréquence des accidents durant cette période. Les faits marquants de cette étude sont l'impact constant, par rapport à 1987, des mesures d'intervention de la CSST sur la fréquence et la gravité des accidents dans l'ensemble des industries, l'effet plus prononcé des inspections sur la fréquence des accidents dans les secteurs à risque, et la relative inefficacité des mesures adoptées par la CSST à prévenir les accidents avec incapacité permanente.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Industrial accidents; Labor Unions; Laws & regulations; Occupational health & safety; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Statistics

Leadership, Social Support and Work Influence: A Study of the Group Form of Working in a Swedish Psychiatric Hospital - Lantz, Annika; Laflamme, Lucie (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
A paper studies leadership, conditions of influence and effectiveness in workplaces where a group form has been chosen. The study focuses on the interaction within work groups and between employees working in groups and their immediate superiors in a Swedish psychiatric hospital. Its aims are to investigate the effect of this interaction on degree of influence over work and on preconditions for working effectively. An attempt to achieve these aims is made by obtaining a more refined picture of the relation between superior and subordinate. The results show that there is a relationship between the support and opportunities for development that subordinates receive from their superior and the support that subordinates themselves give to their superior. Further, there are positive relationships between, on the one hand, the volume of exchange of social support and, on the other, personal work influence and preconditions for working effectively.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Group dynamics; Groups; Hospitals; Labor Unions; Leadership; Management; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Supervisors; Teamwork

Unionization and Profitability in the Canadian Manufacturing Sector - Laporta, Pasquale; Jenkins, Alexander W. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
A study looks at the effects of unions on profitability in the Canadian manufacturing sector, taking into account structural factors such as concentration and entry barriers. It is found that, although there is a moderately positive relationship between unionization and profitability at low levels of concentration, at higher levels of concentration unions are able to extract an increasing proportion of incremental profits that the firm (industry) may earn, until any incremental profit (rent) associated with further increase in industry concentration is completely captured by the union. This may reflect a greater ability on the part of unions to organize and exercise bargaining power in concentrated industries and redistribute income from capital to labor, but it also leads to underproduction and resource misallocation.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Finance; Labor; Labor Unions; Manufacturers; Manufacturing; Profitability; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Standard deviation; Studies; Unionization

The Interaction of Production, Distribution, and Rule-Making Systems in Industrial Relations - Lee, Hyo Soo (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
Research is viewed as a synthesis of production, distribution and rule-making systems (PDR systems), rather than regarding these 3 systems as independent forces. This PDR system theory focuses on the actors' strategic choices for the PDR systems, that is, subsystems of industrial relations system, and their interaction mechanisms. The contents and interactions of the PDR systems determine the performance levels of the organization - productivity, flexibility, innovation, fairness and satisfaction. This model can be used to analyze non-union workplaces as well as unionized settings by embracing collective bargaining as a subsystem of the rule-making system. The general framework of the model is illustrated by using data from a Korean automobile company, which is particularly well suited for this purpose since it reflects different combinations of different PDR practices over its history. The best practice of future industrial relations will be established by the PDR systems in which the creative humanware is maximized and actors spontaneously cooperative.
Keywords: AUTOMOBILE industry; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Human capital; Human resource management; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Models; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Theory

Notebook [37, Spring 1996] - Leier, Mark (James Mark) (Labour/Le Travail, 1996)
Opens with a "labour quote" drawn from Jack London's "War of the Classes" (1905) and promises that this will be a "new and irregular" feature. Reports on varioius forthcoming conferences with labour/work themes.

Which Side Are They On? Thinking About The Labour Bureaucracy - Leier, Mark (James Mark) (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
The article reviews and comments on the books, "Hoffa," by William Sloane, and "Labor Shall Rule: Sidney Hillman and the Rise of Labor," by Steven Fraser.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; FRASER, Steven; HOFFA (Book); LABOR Shall Rule: Sidney Hillman & the Rise of Labor (Book); Nonfiction; SLOANE, William, 1906-1974

La médiation et le règlement des conflits dans les services essentiels au Québec - Lemieux, Madeleine (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
Le régime québécois de maintien des services essentiels accorde une place prépondérante à la responsabilité des parties. Il est basé d'abord et avant tout sur une recherche de consensus autant dans la détermination et le maintien des services essentiels que dans le règlement des conflits qui peuvent affecter le service au public. L'auteure présente d'abord le mandat et le cadre légal de l'exercice des pouvoirs du Conseil des services essentiels du Québec. Elle explique ensuite comment s'exerce la médiation et, finalement, examine comment la question de la détermination des services essentiels, selon une approche consensuelle, est traitée par d'autres juridictions canadiennes.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Lincoln, Land, and Labor, 1809-1860 - Levine, Bruce (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
The article reviews the book "Lincoln, Land and Labor 1809-1860," by Olivier FrayssÉ.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; FRAYSEE, Olivier; LINCOLN, Land & Labor 1809-1860 (Book); Labor; Nonfiction

The Effectiveness of Bill 70 and Joint Health and Safety Committees in Reducing Injuries in the Workplace: The Case of Ontario - Lewchuk, Wayne; Robb, A. Leslie; Walters, Vivienne (Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, 1996)
The shift towards the internal responsibility system and the mandating of Joint Health and Safety Committees in the early 1980s represented a radical departure in terms of how health and safety were regulated in the workplace. This paper examines the effectiveness of this institutional change using firm level data provided by the Worker's Compensation Board on lost time accidents from 1976 to 1989. It finds that where management and labour had some sympathy for the co-management of health and safety through joint committees, the new system significantly reduced lost-time accident rates. At workplaces where either labour or management resisted the spread of co-management the mandating of committees appears to have little effect on lost-time accident rates.

Crossing the Line: Unionized Employee Ownership and Investment Funds - Long, Richard J. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
The article reviews the book, "Crossing the Line: Unionized Employee Ownership and Investment Funds," by Jack Quarter.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Employee ownership; Labor Unions; Labor-sponsored investment funds; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Correlates of Certification Application Success in British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba - Martinello, Felice (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
Time series data are used to estimate the effects of labor legislation, the political regime, and economic conditions on the proportion of certification applications granted. Applications filed with the British Columbia, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba Labour Relations Boards (1951-1992) are considered and analyzed separately. Changes in labor legislation have the largest impact on certification application success in all 3 provinces. The political environment is estimated to be important in British Columbia, but not in Saskatchewan or Manitoba. Economic conditions affect certification success in Saskatchewan and to a lesser extent in British Columbia, but not in Manitoba. Large changes in economic conditions are estimated to have only small effects on the proportion of applications granted.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Correlation analysis; Labor Unions; Labor law; Politics; Regression analysis; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Time series

Local Union Officers' Donations to a Political Action Committee - Master, Marick F.; Atkin, Robert S. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
During the 1980s, unions in the US significantly increased their political activity. An important aspect of this effort is contributing money to congressional and presidential candidates through political action committees (PAC). A paper examines the PAC donations among a sample of elected local union officers of the United Steelworkers of America (USW). The descriptive results show significant variation in officers' PAC donations. Regression analyses show that union commitment is a significant predictor of PAC support as is location in a non-right-to-work state. The results have implications for promoting union PAC fundraising efforts, and hence the potential of US unions to rely on political action as a strategy for resurgence.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Business-government relations; Campaign contributions; Labor Unions; Political action committees; Political activities; Regression analysis; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Temps partiel et précarité - Mayer, Francine (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
Ce texte utilise les données de l'Enquête sur l'activité de Statistique Canada pour les années 1988-89 pour examiner la question de la précarité liée au temps partiel dans une perspective longitudinale. Il propose comme indicateur de la précarité liée au temps partiel, la discontinuité dans l'emploi, notamment les risques de sortie hors emploi et les difficultés d'accès ou de retour au temps complet. Il trouve que (i) l'emploi à temps partiel est plus généralement lié aux discontinuités d'emploi que le temps complet, (ii) les risques de sortie d'emploi sont accrus chez les salariés à temps partiel, (iii) les femmes subissent davantage que les hommes la précarité liée au temps partiel. Chez elles, les facteurs susceptibles d'accroître les risques de précarité liée au temps partiel sont la responsabilité d'enfants d'âge préscolaire, une scolarité insuffisante et des horaires de travail qui les éloignent d'une situation de temps complet.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Riots in new Brunswick: Orange Nativism and Social Violence in the 1840s - McCarthy, Maureen (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
The article reviews the book "Riots in New Brunswick: Orange Nativism and Social Violence in the 1840s," by Scott W. See.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; Nonfiction; RIOTS in New Brunswick: Orange Nativism & Social Violence in the 1840s (Book); Riots; SEE, Scott W.

Gender, Race, and Policy: Aboriginal Women and the State in Canada and Australia - McGrath, Ann; Stevenson, Winona (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
This article examines the history of colonial and national policies towards indigenous peoples in Australia and Canada during the 19th and 20th centuries. It is specifically concerned with the ways in which such legislation affected Aboriginal women. In attempting to provide a comparative assessment of the "statutory subjugation" of Aboriginal women, the article examines the law's definition of identity and band membership; enfranchisement and assimilation; personal autonomy (marriage, divorce, sexuality, motherhood); private and personal property; and political reorganization. It concludes that gender and race were key determinants of government policy in both countries, and that under the Canadian Indian Act and Australian Aboriginal Acts, women, in particular, suffered a great decline in status and severe limitations of autonomy. But the failure of state policies to bring about the complete degradation of Aboriginal women in particular, and Aboriginal peoples in general, suggests that there were forces operating to "destabilize ... hegemonic colonial control." Competing colonial values, collective resistance of Aboriginal societies, and the individual contestations of both colonizer and colonized, in the end, undermined imperial objectives.
Keywords: ABSTRACTS; Social policy

How to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United States - Meyerowitz, Joanne (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
The article reviews the book "Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United States," Eileen Boris.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; BORIS, Eileen; HOME labor; HOME to Work: Motherhood & the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United States (Book); Nonfiction

Under the Stars: Essays on Labor Relations in Arts and Entertainment - Michelson, Grant (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
The article reviews the book, "Under the Stars: Essays on Labor Relations in Arts and Entertainment," edited by Lois S. Gray and Ronald L. Seeber.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Entertainment industry; Essays; Fine arts; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

The Marxists and the Jewish Question: The History of a Debate (1843-1943) - Mitchell, Harvey (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
The article reviews the book "The Marxists and the Jewish Question: The History of a Debate (1843-1943)," by Enzo Traverso.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; Communists; MARXISTS & the Jewish Question: The History of a Debate 1843-1943, The (Book); Nonfiction; TRAVERSO, Enzo

Le salarié, nouvelle conception civiliste ! - Morin, Fernand (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
Dans quelle mesure le Code civil du Québec de 1994 retient-il une nouvelle conception du salarié ? Les treize dispositions (articles 2085 à 2097 C.c.Q.) qui traitent directement du salarié et de l'employeur sont-elles à ce point différentes qu'il nous faudrait reconsidérer les bases juridiques de la relation de travail ? Pour répondre à de telles questions, l'auteur rappelle la conception du salarié retenue au Code civil du Bas-Canada (1866) de manière à mieux saisir l'importance des modifications apportées en 1994. En un deuxième temps, une analyse critique de ces treize dispositions nouvelles lui permet de distinguer ce qui serait vraiment nouveau et aussi ce qui lui apparaît comme de simples mises en forme de l'état du droit au moment de cette codification. En cette période de changements profonds des «modes d'emploi», il importe de saisir la portée réelle ou virtuelle de toutes les modifications effectuées à la définition du salarié, base fondamentale du droit du travail.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Modern Capitalism: Privatization, Employee Ownership and Industrial Democracy - Nadeau, Michel (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
The article reviews the book, "Modern Capitalism: Privatization, Employee Ownership and Industrial Democracy," by Nicholas V. Gianaris.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Employee ownership; Employees; Labor Unions; Participatory management; Privatization; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

The Limits of Affluence: Welfare in Ontario, 1920-1970 - Nelles, H. V. (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
The article reviews the book "The Limits of Affluence: Welfare in Ontario 1920-1970," by James Struthers.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; LIMITS of Affluence: Welfare in Ontario 1920-1970, The (Book); Nonfiction; PUBLIC welfare; STRUTHERS, James

Un État réduit? A Down-Sized State? - Ouimet, Gérard (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 1996)
The article reviews the book, "Un État réduit? A Down-Sized State?," edited by Robert Bernier and James Iain Gow.
Keywords: SnR_publicationTitle_Relations industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T15:31:55.974Z

Forging American Communism: The Life of William Z. Foster - Palmer, Bryan D. (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
The article reviews the book, "Forging American Communism: The Life of William Z. Foster," by Edward P. Johanningsmeier.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; Communism; FORGING American Communism: The Life of William Z. Foster (Book); JOHANNINGSMEIER, Edward P.; Nonfiction; United States

Nineteenth-Century Canada and Australia: The Paradoxes of Class Formation - Palmer, Bryan D. (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
This speculative essay presents a preliminary statement on the paradoxical character of 19th-century class formation in the two white settler dominions of Canada and Australia. Outposts of empire, these social formations were early regarded with disdain, the one a classic mercantilist harvester of fish, fur, and wood, the other a dumping ground for convicts. By the mid-to-late 19th-century, however, Canada and Australia were the richest of colonies. Within their distinctive cultures and political economies, both supposedly dominated by staples, emerged working classes that were simultaneously combatative and accommodated. By the 1880s impressive organizational gains had been registered by labour in both countries, but the achievements of class were conditioned by particular relations of fragmentation, including those of 'race' and gender.
Keywords: AUSTRALIA; CLASS analysis; Canada; Class formation; INTERGENERATIONAL mobility; SOCIAL forces; Working class

Separate Spheres: Women's Worlds in the 19th-Century Maritimes - Penfold, Steve (Labour / Le Travail, 1996)
The article reviews the book "Separate Spheres: Women's Worlds in the 19th-Century Maritimes," by Janet Guildford and Suzanne Morton.
Keywords: BOOKS -- Reviews; GUILDFORD, Janet; MORTON, Suzanne; Maritime Provinces; Nonfiction; SEPARATE Spheres: Women's Worlds in the 19th Century Maritimes (Book)