The Myth of the Good War: America in the Second World War - Finkel, Alvin (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "The Myth of the Good War: America in the Second World War," by Jacques R. Pauwels.

Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal and Forgetting in Guatemala - Forster, Cindy (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal and Forgetting in Guatemala," by Daniel Wilkinson.

Psychologie de la formation, jalons et perspectives - Fournier, Pierre-Sébastien (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Psychologie de la formation, jalons et perspectives," by Jacques Leplat.
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

Theorizing Historical Consciousness - Frank, David (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Theorizing Historical Consciousness," edited by Peter Seixas.

Saint-Laurent: La Main de Montréal - Frenette, Yves (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Saint-Laurent: La Main de Montréal," by Pierre Anctil.

After Industrial Citizenship: Market Citizenship or Citizenship at Work? - Fudge, Judy (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
This article sketches the rise and fall of industrial citizenship in Canada, and presents two very different models of citizenship that might replace it. It begins by defining the concept of citizenship, and explaining how industrial citizenship has conventionally been understood. It then traces the genealogy of industrial citizenship in Canadian labour law, and how the processes of feminization, deregulation, and globalization have challenged it as a normative ideal and undermined the conditions that have sustained it. The article concludes by considering two scenarios for industrial citizenship in the future: one in which the substance of citizenship is circumscribed by an emphasis on the market, and the other in which citizenship is extended beyond employment to work.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Citizenship; HUMAN rights; Labor Unions; Labor law; Models; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Workers

Public Sector Employment and Gender Wage Inequalities in British Columbia: Assessing the Effects of a Shrinking Public Sector - Fuller, Sylvia (The Canadian Journal of Sociology, 2005)
The public sector is an important employer of women in Canada, particularly at the provincial level. As a result, recent initiatives to cut employment in this sector have the potential to impact broader gender inequalities in the labour market. This study uses data from the Labour Force Survey to estimate provincial-level public and private sector wage differentials in British Columbia for men and women, and to assess the degree to which declines in public sector employment in B.C. may affect the overall gender wage gap. Results confirm that provincial public sector employment is both relatively more prevalent and advantageous for women than for men. Substantial declines in employment in this sector therefore have the potential to noticeably increase the gender wage gap.

Deference and Defiance in Monterrey: Workers, Paternalism, and Revolution in Mexico, 1890-1950 - Galleguillos, Nibaldo H. (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Deference and Defiance in Monterrey: Workers, Paternalism, and Revolution in Mexico, 1890-1950," by Michael Snodgrass.

Work and Citizenship in Mexico in the Era of Globalization - García, Arnulfo Arteaga (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
This article analyzes the case of Mexico in order to provide an overview of citizenship at work in the context of a dependent regional economy in a global era. It examines the framework of rights (civil, political and social) linked to the condition of the working class in a state-corporatist labour regulation model. It also explores the repercussions for workers, both at work and beyond the workplace, of current transitions from this model as well as looking at the redefinition of labour rights now taking place. Four different segments of the labour force are used to illustrate the nature of the historical and continuing deficit in the exercise of citizenship at work. This preliminary exploration leads to the identification of some paths for future research.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Citizenship; Globalization; Labor Unions; Labor law; Regulation; Rights; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Social classes; Working conditions

The Blue Eagle at Work: Reclaiming Democratic Rights in the American Workplace - Gérin-Lajoie, Jean (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "The Blue Eagle at Work: Reclaiming Democratic Rights in the American Workplace," by Charles J. Morris.
Keywords: American history; Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Collective bargaining; Labor Unions; Labor law; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Wagner Act 1935-US

"Stand by the Union, Mr. Arch": The Toronto Labour Establishment and the Emigration Mission of Britain's National Agricultural Labourers' Union - Goutor, David (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
In the fall of 1873 Joseph Arch, the president of England's National Agricultural Labourers' Union (NALU), embarked on a mission to scout Canada as an emigration destination. He was received with much hospitality in Canada. Large-scale migration of British farmworkers had the support of an extraordinary consensus between the NALU, Canadian political and business elites, and Toronto labor leaders who wielded enormous influence over the labor movement in Ontario. The consensus was the result of developments in British agricultural unionism, Ontario's farming sector, Canada's immigration policy, and the Toronto labor establishment's approach to immigration. However, during the mission, tensions emerged between Arch and the Toronto labor establishment that strained the appearance of international union solidarity. These tensions revealed the treacherous nature of a relationship between labor leaders in an immigrant-receiving country and an organization, even a union, looking to promote emigration.

La négociation au travail - Greco, Luca (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "La négociation au travail," edited by Michèle Grosjean and Lorenza Mondada.
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

British Trade Unions since 1933 - Griffiths, Clare (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "British Trade Unions since 1933," by Chris Wrigley.

La mesure du contrat psychologique dans un contexte de travail francophone - Guerrero, Sylvie (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
Si le concept de « contrat psychologique » est désormais largement répandu dans la littérature, les instruments de sa mesure font encore défaut. Rousseau a proposé en 1990 le Psychological Contract Index (PCI), qu’elle a actualisé en 1998-2000. Cet article vise à adapter cet outil en France et à le compléter en testant deux mesures de la réalisation du contrat psychologique : une mesure directe et une mesure soustractive. Il pose aussi le problème de la mesure de la réciprocité propre au contrat psychologique et s’appuie sur le modèle de Morrison et Robinson pour tester une relation modératrice entre les scores de réalisation de l’entreprise et ceux de l’employé. Les résultats d’une enquête menée auprès de 217 cadres français confirment partiellement les hypothèses de l’auteure. Ils montrent que la structure factorielle du PCI manque de stabilité et doit faire l’objet de nouvelles recherches quant à sa validité : 14 facteurs sont identifiés au lieu des sept avancés par Rousseau dans le PCI. Conformément aux hypothèses posées, c’est la mesure directe de la réalisation du contrat qui démontre la meilleure validité. En outre, l’auteur valide le rôle modérateur de la réalisation du contrat psychologique par le salarié.

The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media - Gunster, Shane (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media," by Peter Steven.

Le renouveau syndical et la restructuration du travail : Introduction au numéro thématique de Just Labour - Haiven, Larry; Le Queux, Stéphane; Lévesque, Christian; Murray, Gregor (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2005)

Bus Griffiths' Now You're Logging: A Graphic Novel about British Columbia Coastal Logging in the 1930s - Hak, Gordon H. (Gordon Hugh) (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
A comic book is an unlikely entrée into the history of logging in coastal British Columbia, but Bus Griffiths’ 1978 graphic novel "Now You’re Logging" provides an intriguing window onto work in the woods in the 1930s. Griffiths worked for years as a logger on the coast, experiencing the camps of the 1930s directly. ..."Now You’re Logging" offers a particular version of the loggers’ life, but it still captures many aspects of work in the coastal forests of the 1930s, and does so in an accessible manner. There are many popular histories of British Columbia coastal logging, chock full of photographs, but Griffiths offers black-and-white drawings, and, as bird watchers inspecting field guides know, drawings often provide a more effective way of presentation. As a work of fiction it stands comfortably with other narratives, such as Haig-Brown’s "Timber" and Martin Allerdale Grainger’s "Woodsmen of the West," in giving helpful perspectives on the history of the loggers’ world. --From author's introduction and conclusion

The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power/Wealth by Stealth; Corporate Crime, Corporate Law and the Perversion of Democracy - Haley, Ella (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Wealth by Stealth: Corporate Crime, Corporate Law and the Perversion of Democracy," by Harry Glasbeek.

La citoyenneté et la reconnaissance du travail féminin : Une convergence souhaitable et nécessaire ? - Hallée, Yves (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
Cet article se veut une réflexion sur la mise en relation de l’équité salariale avec le concept de citoyenneté. Ainsi, la pérennité de l’équité salariale serait tributaire du partage des valeurs associées au travail féminin et de la reconnaissance collective du « care », le travail centré sur autrui, qui le caractérise. À partir d’un questionnement sur le caractère universel et inclusif de la citoyenneté et sur sa présomption d’égalité, le texte converge vers une représentation citoyenne susceptible de légitimer davantage le travail féminin. De plus, l’impulsion donnée par sa croissance, couplée à une identité imprégnée de valeurs associées au « care », pourraient contribuer à une meilleure reconnaissance salariale. L’équité salariale serait l’expression cohérente et effective d’une citoyenneté, qui passe par une reconnaissance juste et équitable du travail centré sur autrui.

Reforming Pensions in Europe: Evolution of Pension Financing and Sources of Retirement Income - Harvey, Mark (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
The book Reforming Pensions in Europe: Evolution of Pension Financing and Sources of Retirement Income, by Gerard Hughes and Jim Stewart, is reviewed.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Pension plan funding; Pension plans; Reforms; Retirement; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Duty to Accommodate - Hatfield, Robert (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2005)
Workers traditionally accommodated co-workers. But, as accommodation law developed, tensions emerged. In Meiorin: accommodation is the norm. Employers must eliminate standards, rules, practices, etc. that discriminate on prohibited grounds, up to undue hardship. In the Canadian Human Rights Act, undue hardship includes only cost, health and safety. Other jurisdictions, following Central Alberta Dairy Pool, consider: impact on the collective agreement, other workers’ rights, employee morale, size of operation, workforce and facility adaptability. O’Malley clarifies adverse affect discrimination. A rule, although made in good faith, may discriminate “if it affects a person … differently from others”. Accommodation may override contract provisions (Renaud), including seniority (Goyette). While employers have principal responsibility for accommodation, unions have a role too (Gohm). Unions reduce accommodation tensions by: auditing collective agreements, reviewing accommodation procedures, educating members and leaders.

L’obligation d’adaptation - Hatfield, Robert (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2005)
De tout temps, les travailleurs et les travailleuses se sont accommodés les uns les autres. Cependant, l’adoption de lois sur l’adaptation a semé des tensions entre eux. Avec Meiorin: l’adaptation est la norme. Les employeurs doivent éliminer les normes, règles, pratiques, etc., qui établissent une distinction fondée sur un motif illicite, pourvu que cela ne leur impose pas une contrainte excessive. Dans la Loi canadienne sur les droits de la personne, la contrainte excessive ne comprend que le coût et les considérations relatives à la santé et à la sécurité. Par suite de la décision Central Alberta Dairy Pool, d’autres ressorts tiennent en outre compte des répercussions sur la convention collective, des droits des autres travailleurs et travailleuses, du moral du personnel, de la taille de l’organisation, de son effectif et de sa facilité d’adaptation. La décision O’Malley éclaircit la discrimination par suite d’un effet préjudiciable. Toute règle, même si elle a été adoptée de bonne foi, peut être discriminatoire si elle influence une personne « d'une manière différente par rapport à d'autres personnes visées ». L’obligation d’adaptation peut l’emporter sur les dispositions des conventions collectives (Renaud), y compris celles qui portent sur l’ancienneté (Goyette). Bien que la responsabilité d’adaptation incombe principalement aux employeurs, les syndicats doivent en assumer une partie (Gohm). Les syndicats réduisent les tensions relatives à l’adaptation en vérifiant les conventions collectives, en examinant les procédures d’adaptation et en sensibilisant leurs membres et leurs chefs.

Capital and Community Reconsidered: The Politics and Meaning of Deindustrialization - High, Steven C. (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews and comments on "I Was Content and Not Content: The Story of Linda Lord and the Closing of Penobscot Poultry" by Cedric Chatterley and Alicia J. Rouverol, "Capital Moves: RCA’s 70-Year Quest for Cheap Labor" by Jefferson Cowie, "Beyond the Ruins: The Meaning of Deindustrialization" edited by Jefferson Cowie and Joseph Heathcott, and "Steeltown U.S.A.: Work and Memory in Youngstown," by Sherry Lee Linkon and John Russo.

Race and Politics in Histories of the 20th-century US Working Class - Hinshaw, John Hendrix (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews and comments on "Behind the Backlash: White Working-Class Politics in Baltimore, 1940-1980" by Kenneth D. Durr, "Victory at Home: Manpower and Race in the American South During World War II" by Charles D. Chamberlain, "Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth Century South" by Robert Rodgers Korstad, and "Black Freedom Fighters in Steel: The Struggle for Democratic Unionism" by Ruth Needleman.

"The Evils with Which We are Called to Grapple": Élite Reformers, Eugenicists, Environmental Psychologists, and the Construction of Toronto's Working-Class Boy Problem, 1860-1930 - Hogeveen, Bryan (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
Since the 19th century Toronto, Ontario's working-class delinquent boys have been subjected to intense scrutiny and control. The deviant and criminal conduct that brought working-class juvenile offenders to police and court attention did not change significantly over the late 19th and early 20th centuries. However, how their conduct was understood and governed was in a constant state of change and adjustment. This article explores how Toronto's working-class delinquent boys were represented and governed by elites, reformers, juvenile justice officials, medical experts, and university-trained psychologists from 1860 to 1930. More specifically, it demonstrates how the 19th-century male juvenile offender, judged the product of injurious circumstances, was reinvented by eugenicists as the mentally deficient subject of the late 1910's and again (re)defined as an environmental psychiatric subject after 1925. These representations often overlapped, were discontinued, conflicted, and were in constant tension. Despite theoretical and practical differences, elites, eugenicists, and environmental psychologists were all particularly troubled by working-class male delinquency.

Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor - Holmes, John (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Sweated Work, Weak Bodies: Anti-Sweatshop Campaigns and Languages of Labor," by Daniel E. Bender.

Machine-breaking in England and France during the Age of Revolution - Horn, Jeff (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
This essay will attempt to depict the dramatic impact that the violent wrecking of machines had on entrepreneurial decision-making and state action in England and France [in the 18th and 19th centuries]. Resistance to the machine must be situated in its local, regional, national, and international contexts in order to understand the consequences of organized, violent machine-breaking on the course of industrial development. The movements that led to the widespread destruction of machines were organized regionally rather than locally and the patterns of entrepreneurial reaction, technological development, and technology transfer, as well as mechanization, also varied by region. --From author's introduction

Fighting for Dignity: The Ginger Goodwin Story - Isitt, Benjamin (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Fighting for Dignity: The Ginger Goodwin Story," by Roger Stonebanks.

Fighting for a Living Wage - Jacobs, Ken (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Fighting for a Living Wage," by Stephanie Luce.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Economic policy; Labor Unions; Minimum wage; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; enforcement

The Economics of Affirmative Action - Jain, Harish C. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "The Economics of Affirmative Action," edited by Harry J. Holzer and David Neumark.
Keywords: Affirmative action; Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Economic theory; Essays; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Réponses syndicales à la sous-traitance - Jalette, Patrice (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2005)
La sous-traitance est l'un des plus importants défis pour les syndicats à l'heure actuelle. Cet article explore quatre positions syndicales en matière de sous-traitance : opposition, défensive, abstention et offensive. Différents exemples tirés de nos observations sur le terrain permettent d'illustrer ici les différentes attitudes adoptées et les ressources susceptibles d'être mobilisées par les syndicats pour répondre à la sous-traitance. Le principal constat demeure que la réponse syndicale à la sous-traitance est bien souvent plus subtile et nuancée qu'une simple opposition inconditionnelle. Afin de conserver une certaine marge de manœuvre dans le développement et l'adoption d'une position en matière de sous-traitance, il est nécessaire pour un syndicat de travailler sur ses ressources de pouvoir. Quelques pistes sont suggérées pour y parvenir : le développement d'une vision globale, la mobilisation à l'interne, la construction de liens de solidarité à l'externe. // Subcontracting is one of the most important current challenges for unions. This article explores four union positions with regard to subcontracting: oppositional, defensive, abstentionist and proactive. It draws on different examples and cases from the author's research in the field to highlight the different union stances and the resources likely to be mobilized by unions in response to subcontracting. The major finding is that rather than a simple position of unconditional opposition, union responses to subcontracting are highly varied and finely nuanced. Moreover, in order to enlarge its scope to develop a position on subcontracting, a union must work on its power resources. Several avenues are identified in order to reinforce these resources. It was found that a global vision, internal mobilization and the development of solidarity with outside groups all contribute to a greater capacity on the part of the union to deal with subcontracting.

Code Green: Money-Driven Hospitals and the Dismantling of Nursing - Jones, Esyllt (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Code Green: Money-Driven Hospitals and the Dismantling of Nursing. Weinberg," by Beth Dana.

Women in Non-Traditional Occupations: Challenging Men - Jurik, Nancy (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Women in Non-Traditional Occupations: Challenging Men," by Barbara Bagilhole.

La théorie de la structuration : Une analyse des formes et des dynamiques organisationnelles - Kechidi, Med (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
L’objectif de cet article est de présenter les concepts et la démarche de la théorie de la structuration d’Anthony Giddens. L’idée fondamentale du modèle de structuration des systèmes sociaux proposé par cet auteur est que les structures, ensemble de règles et de ressources, organisent les activités tout autant que les activités les organisent et leur donnent du sens et une finalité. Cette dualité de l’organisé et de l’organisant débouche sur une conception pertinente de l’action, de la coordination et du changement organisationnel ; elle permet notamment de « faire le pont » entre les dynamiques de structuration individuelles et les dynamiques de structuration collectives.

Ruling Canada: Corporate Cohesion and Democracy - Klassen, Jerome (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Ruling Canada: Corporate Cohesion and Democracy," by Jamie Brownlee.

Radio Active: Advertising and Consumer Activism, 1935-1947 - Kuffert, Len (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Radio Active: Advertising and Consumer Activism, 1935-1947, by Kathy M. Newman.

Human Capital in the United States from 1975 to 2000 : Patterns of Growth and Utilization - Lavoie, Marie (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Human Capital in the United States from 1975 to 2000 : Patterns of Growth and Utilization," by Robert H. Haveman, Andrew Bershadker and Jonathan A. Schwabish.
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

Droits de la personne, relations du travail et défis pour les syndicats contemporains - Legault, Marie-Josée (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
Les chartes des droits de la personne, les lois protégeant ces mêmes droits et la jurisprudence qu’elles engendrent provoquent des bouleversements dans les milieux de travail régis par le droit des rapports collectifs de travail et dans les règles de fonctionnement syndical. Les cas des femmes intégrant des secteurs d’emploi non traditionnellement féminins par le truchement des programmes d’accès à l’égalité et des associations regroupant les syndiqués contestant les effets des clauses de disparité de traitement sont ici utilisés pour illustrer la profondeur du choc entre les nouvelles règles fondées sur l’équité qu’introduisent les droits de la personne et les règles de l’égalité formelle entre syndiqués qui ont traditionnellement régi le fonctionnement syndical.

L'aveuglement organisationnel ou comment lutter contre les malentendus - Legendre, Camille (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "L’aveuglement organisationnel ou comment lutter contre les malentendus," by Valérie Boussard, Delphine Mercier and Pierre Tripier.
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

Choosing to Labour: Structure and Agency in School-Work Transitions - Lehmann, Wolfgang (Canadian Journal of Sociology, 2005)
We still know relatively little about how young people rationalize their educational and occupational plans and what this might tell us about the relationship between structure and agency in school-work transitions. In this paper, based on a multi-method comparison of youth apprentices in Canada and Germany, the range of school-work transition alternatives realistically under consideration was circumscribed by socio-economic status, habitus, cultural capital, and institutional factors. While their vocational choices reproduced their class position, youth apprentices nevertheless saw their entry into the trades as an expression of a preference for, and identity with, working-class ideals of manual work. Further analysis suggests, however, that these narratives can also be interpreted as post-facto rationalization strategies in response to public discourses that equate life course success with ever higher levels of educational attainment.

Union Disaffection and Social Identity: Democracy as a Source of Union Revitalization - Lévesque, Christian; Murray, Gregor; Queux, Stéphane Le (Work and Occupations, 2005)
This article examines union members’evaluation of the relevance of unions and their identification with a traditional collective value frame for union action. It seeks to take account of the impact of increasing labor market heterogeneity, declining instrumentality, and the behavior of unions and employers. Using Canadian data gathered from individual union members and their local union leaders, the study finds that new labor market identities are notlinked to weaker belief in the relevance of unions but are associated with weaker identification with the traditional value frame. Although declining instrumentality and hostile employer behavior are associated with greater identification with traditional value frames, greater union democracy is associated with less membership disaffection on both the relevance of unions and their collective modes of action. Union democracy is therefore found to be a key tool to address membership disaffection and to generate collective identities for a renewed union project.
Keywords: democracy; labor union; social differentiation; union renewal; workplace

The Workers' Festival: A History Of Labour Day In Canada - Levine, Gil (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "The Workers' Festival: A History Of Labour Day In Canada," by Craig Heron and Steve Penfold.

The Invisible Health Risks of Precarious Employment - Lewchuk, Wayne; De Wolff, Alice; King, Andy; Polanyi, Michael (Association of Industrial Relations Academics of Australia and New Zealand, 2005)
This article reports a new conceptual approach to measuring the characteristics of precarious employment and their effect on health. Our starting point is the Karasek 'job strain' model. We argue that 'job strain' focuses on the health effects of work once people are employed. It is less effective in capturing the health effects associated with the employment relationship, the process by which workers acquire work, keep work and negotiate its terms and conditions. We develop a new construct, 'employment strain' to measure these aspects of work organisation. Evidence presented indicates employment strain is associated with poorer health outcomes.

Union Networks and Global Unionism in Maritime Shipping - Lillie, Nathan (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
Under the auspices of the International Transport Workers' Federation's (ITF) Flag of Convenience campaign, maritime unions have developed transnational global structures exploiting interdependencies in transportation production chains. The ITF, a London-based association of transport unions, connects the struggles of seafarers and port workers through a global strategy of union networking and coordinated industrial action. Seafaring unions draw on the industrial leverage of port workers to negotiate minimum standard pay agreements, while dock unions leverage the growing influence of the ITF in fighting union busting in ports. A global transnational ship inspector network provides the power basis for imposing collective agreements on shipowners. Although conceived as a resource for organizing seafarers, the inspectorate also provides port unions with leverage.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Business conditions; International; Labor Unions; Maritime industry; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Hidden Knowledge : Organized Labour in the Information Age - Linhart, Danièle (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Hidden Knowledge : Organized Labour in the Information Age," by D. W. Livingstone et Peter H. Sawchuk.
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

Union Influence on Worker Education and Training in Canada in Tough Times - Livingstone, D. W.; Raykov, Milosh (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2005)
This research has focused on re-analyzing data from previous large-scale Canadian surveys that include information on education and training activities and union status, as well as other demographic and organizational factors, most prominently the 1993 and 1997 Adult Education and Training Surveys. In contrast to some recent studies, we find that union status has had consistent positive individual-level effects in Canada on participation in adult education courses and employer-sponsored courses in general, and especially for women union members. In addition, our analysis of data from the 1998 national survey on informal learning finds that in this much more extensive form of learning, unionized workers are significantly more likely than non-unionized workers to participate in more directly empowering forms of knowledge including learning about workers’ rights and political issues.

Recent Publications in Canadian Labour History - Lonardo, Michael; Sweeny, Robert C.H. (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
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.]
Keywords: BIBLIOGRAPHY (Documentation); Working class

Capacity Building - Preparing Caribbean Public Sector Unions for an Economic Environment in Transition - Lorde, Ann-Marie J. (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2005)
This paper seeks to examine the renewal of the Caribbean Public Sector trade unions (CPSU), and make a number of recommendations as it regards the capacity building and institutional strengthening of these unions. The paper begins with an introduction that lays the foundation for the discussion of capacity building for CPSU. It continues with a socio-historical background to the current difficulties facing the CPSU, and continues with an examination of a number of regional concerns for the CPSU. Based on the Regional concerns identified and the fact that CPSU need to step out of their traditional role of representation and, in addition, become concerned with national issues, the paper concludes with a number of recommendations for the way forward for the CPSU. // Cet article examine le renouveau des syndicats du secteur public des Caraïbes (SSPC) et établit un certain nombre de recommandations eu égard à leur capacité de consolidation institutionnelle. L’introduction expose les éléments de fonds qu’il s’agit d’avoir à l’esprit pour comprendre la capacité d’action des SSPC. S’en suivent une présentation des conditions socio-historiques qui expliquent leurs difficultés actuelles, puis un examen des questions régionales auxquelles ils font face. De là, et prenant parti que les SSPC doivent sortir de leur rôle traditionnel de représentation, y inclus une prise en compte des questions nationales, l’article conclut en identifiant des voies d’avenir.

The Future of Worker Representation - Lucio, Miguel Martínez (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
The book The Future of Worker Representation, edited by Geraldine Healy, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Forecasts; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Workers

Les stratégies des ressources humaines - Malo, François Bernard (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Les strategies des ressources humaines," 3rd edition, by Bernard Gazier.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Human resources; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Moscow Rules? 'Red' Unionism and 'Class Against Class' in Britain, Canada, and the United States, 1928-1935 - Manley, John (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article analyzes the claims of traditionalist and revisionist historians concerning communism by comparing industrial work of the national socialist parties in Great Britain, the U.S. and Canada in the period 1928-1935. The efforts made by the national parties to strive for leadership of the working class in the workplace are explored. Traditionalist historians are of the opinion that adequate comprehension of communism requires recognition of subordination of each national party to the demands of Moscow, Russia. According to revisionist historians, the national parties enjoyed autonomy in resisting or adapting to the demands of Moscow.
Keywords: Canada; Communism; Comparative studies; GREAT Britain; Labor Unions; SOCIALIST parties; United States; Working class

Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture - Mann, Geoff (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Real Country: Music and Language in Working-Class Culture," by Aaron A. Fox.

The Politics of Prostitution - Maria, Laura (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "The Politics of Prostitution," edited by Joyce Outshoom.

The Failed Century of the Child: Governing America's Young in the Twentieth Century - Marshall, Dominique (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "The Failed Century of the Child: Governing America's Young in the Twentieth Century," by Judeith Sealander.

La multiplicité des ancres de carrière chez les ingénieurs québécois : Impacts sur les cheminements et le succès de carrière - Martineau, Yvon; Wils, Thierry; Tremblay, Michel (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
Le modèle des ancres de carrière proposé par Schein en 1978 est considéré comme une contribution majeure pour comprendre les cheminements de carrière des individus. En fait, cette théorie repose sur le postulat implicite selon lequel un individu ne posséderait qu’une seule ancre dominante. Ce phénomène de dominance est encore appelé « différenciation ». Aussi, de nombreux chercheurs en déduisent-ils qu’il faut ne retenir que l’ancre de carrière ayant le score le plus élevé pour opérationnaliser ce concept de dominance ou de différenciation. Pourtant certains individus pourraient posséder plusieurs ancres élevées, ce qui pose la question de la multiplicité des ancres, ici appelée « indifférenciation ». S’appuyant sur un échantillon de 900 ingénieurs québécois, cette étude montre que « l’indifférenciation » est plus fréquente qu’on ne le pense, qu’elle n’est pas un phénomène pathologique et qu’elle permet de mieux cerner un cheminement de carrière mal connu, soit le cheminement hybride.

Working Like a Homosexual: Camp, Capital, Cinema - Maynard, Steven (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Working Like a Homosexual: Camp, Capital, Cinema," by Matthew Tinkcom.

The Tramp Is Back - McCallum, Todd (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews and comments on "The Tramp in America" by Tim Creswell, "Citizen Hobo: How a Century of Homelessness Shaped America" by Todd DePastino, and "Indispensable Outcasts: Hobo Workers and Community in the American Midwest, 1880-1930" by Frank Tobias Higbie.

Initiative individuelle et formation - Méhaut, Philippe (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Initiative individuelle et formation," edited by Fabienne Berton, Mario Correia, Corinne Lespessailles and Madeleine Maillebouis.
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

Third-Sector Development: Making Up for the Market - Melnyk, George (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Third-Sector Development: Making Up for the Market," by Christopher Gunn.

Responsabilité sociale d'entreprise et finance responsable : quels enjeux ? - Mercier, Samuel (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Responsabilité sociale d’entreprise et finance responsable : quels enjeux ?," edited by Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay and David Rolland.
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

Travail, organisation et santé: le défi de la productivité dans le respect des personnes - Morin, Denis (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Travail, organisation et santé : le défi de la productivité dans le respect des personnes," by Alain Vinet.
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

Formidable Heritage; Manitoba's North and the Cost of Development 1870 to 1930 - Morrison, William R. (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Formidable Heritage: Manitoba's North and the Cost of Development 1870 to 1930, by Jim Mochoruk.

Gurus, Hired Guns, and Warm Bodies: Itinerant Experts in a Knowledge Economy - Mosco, Vincent (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Gurus, Hired Guns, and Warm Bodies: Itinerant Experts in a Knowledge Economy," by Stephen R. Barley and Gideon Kunda.

When Coal Was King: Ladysmith and the Coal-Mining Industry on Vancouver Island - Mouat, Jeremy (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "When Coal Was King: Ladysmith and the Coal-Mining Industry on Vancouver Island," by John R. Hinde.

Conflict between Liberal Economic Ideology and Citizenship at Work - Murray, Georgina (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
Citizenship in work is a continuous process of sustaining and fighting for just social rights. The argument here is that currently a major impediment to this democratic process at work is the practical and ideological imposition of economic liberal policy, conceived for and by dominant class interests. This article discusses the idea of citizenship, its antithesis economic liberalism and its synthesis Keynesianism and the welfare state. Then it asks what these and other ideas bring to the debate about citizenship and work in a global society?
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Citizenship; Democracy; Economic policy; Labor Unions; Rights; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Social classes; Social policy

New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Class of '58 - Neatby, Nicole (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "New Jersey Dreaming: Capital, Culture, and the Class of '58. Ortner, Sherry B.

'Fight for Life': Dave Kashtan's Memories of Depression-Era Communist Youth Work - Niergarth, Kirk; Kashtan, Dave (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
Dave Kashtan, who was born in 1912, reminisces about his life and times in as a young Communist activist in Montreal in the late 1920s and 1930s, during which he visited the Soviet Union and was also jailed for a year for allegedly seditious remarks made at a public meeting in Montreal. Published posthumously, Kashtan's memoir (entitled "Living in One's Time") is introduced and edited by Kirk Niergarth.
Keywords: Canada; KASHTAN, Dave; Labor movement; SOCIAL stratification; Working class

Can Joint Training Increase Union Knowledge and Power? - Olson, Corliss (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2005)
Globalization has been accompanied by a decline in unionization; however, while globalization presents extremely serious challenges to unions, globalization does not necessarily result in weakened unions. It is important for unions to identify and utilize ways to increase and leverage union power that are responsive to the pressures of globalization. Companies frequently introduce training during restructuring efforts aimed at remaining competitive in a global environment. This paper describes a joint union-management training program which offers an example of a pro-active union approach to joint training initiatives. The training took place in early 2004 in a typical paper mill in central Wisconsin. While the training was designed and undertaken in response to various competitive pressures, the content of the training was primarily determined by employee focus groups. The training design is examined against criteria for successful union involvement in joint ventures. The paper argues that, while joint ventures typically address management's production concerns at the expense of labor, a pro-active union can work to ensure that benefits also accrue to the union. Recent literature on union power in a globalized economy suggests that this training model could be used in other industries to enhance union knowledge and power.

Maurice Spector, James R Cannon, and the Origins of Canadian Trotskyism - Palmer, Bryan D. (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article discusses communism in Canada. The study of communism is stated to have generated less new work and little controversy. Issues concerning bureaucratism of Comintern, Stalinization and transformation of the Left in 1920s are explored by comparing the political histories of Maurice Spector and James P. Cannon. In late 1928, Spector and Cannon abandoned Stalinism and embraced Trotskyism. The efforts made by Spector and Cannon to keep alive the revolutionary potential of Bolshevism highlights the importance of the subjective realm in the construction of a left opposition.
Keywords: BUREAUCRATIZATION; CANNON, James Patrick, 1890-1974; COMMUNIST International; Canada; Communism; OPPOSITION (Political science); RIGHT & left (Political science); SPECTOR, Maurice; TROTSKYISM

Le statut d’emploi : Un élément constitutif de la condition sociale ? - Paquet, Esther (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
Le travail atypique se caractérise par d’importantes disparités de traitements entre les personnes effectuant, au sein d’une même entreprise, des tâches semblables mais ayant des statuts d’emploi différents. Le présent article tente d’établir si le statut d’emploi peut être considéré comme un élément constitutif de la condition sociale au sens de l’article 10 de la Charte des droits et libertés de la personne. Pour ce faire, nous analyserons l’évolution jurisprudentielle de la notion de condition sociale en nous penchant tant sur l’interprétation des tribunaux de droit commun que sur celle du Tribunal des droits de la personne, nous identifierons les éléments objectifs et subjectifs du travail précaire et nous questionnerons l’interprétation de la notion de condition sociale proposée par la Commission des droits de la personne.

Making Class: The YMCA and Workingmen, 1877-1920 - Parnaby, Andrew (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Making Men, Making Class: The YMCA and Workingmen, 1877-1920," by Thomas Winter.

Keeping Up with the Dow Joneses: Debt, Prison, Workfare - Peck, Jamie (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Keeping Up with the Dow Joneses: Debt, Prison, Workfare," by Vijay Prashad.

Co-operative Values, Institutions and Free Riding in Australia: Can It Learn from Canada? - Peetz, David (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
While there is a strong logic favouring co-operation, it faces a central problem: the "free rider" or "cheat." Collectives find ways of promoting norms of solidarity and seek regulation to prevent free riding. Around two-fifths of Australian employees covered by collective agreements are free-riding non-members. Evidence suggests that the recent growth of free riding reflects institutional changes and not the decline of co-operative values and the ascendancy of individualism. The Canadian solution to the cheating problem, which is the Rand formula, inspired Australian unions to introduce (excessive) "agency fees" into collective agreements. These were eventually stopped by the state. Alternative models include "social obligation fees" - provisions for employees covered by the agreement to make a contribution to a voluntary organization of their choice.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Cheating; Collective bargaining; Cooperation; International comparisons; Labor Unions; Models; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Values

Individualisation and Resistance at the Coal Face - Peetz, David; Murray, Georgina (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2005)
This paper examines the implementation of a model of systematic individualisation of the employment relationship by a large multinational corporation in Australia, operating with the support of a pro-corporate state, and the nature and effects of resistance. Principally through interviews with affected workers, we show how the symbolic and the real effects of employment practices, relational practices and informational practices were all aimed at removing freedom of association and replacing it with uncontested, union-free managerial control. We consider how workers and their families were affected by these strategies and how they and their union responded. // Cet article examine la mise en place d'un modèle systématique d'individualisation de la relation d'emploi par une grande multinationale australienne, cela avec le support d'un gouvernement partialement favorable au patronat. La nature et l'impact de la résistance des travailleurs syndiqués sont également mis à jour. Nous montrons, principalement à l'appui des témoignages des travailleurs en cause, comment les effets réels ou symboliques des pratiques d'emploi, ceux des pratiques relationnelles et informationnelles ont été utilisés de concert pour dénier la liberté d'association et la remplacer par un contrôle gestionnaire incontestable et exempt de présence syndicale. Nous relatons comment les travailleurs et leurs familles ont souffert de ces stratégies patronales et comment leur syndicat a rétorqué.

La face cachée de l'organisation : groupes, cliques et clans - Pépin, Richard (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "La face cachée de l’organisation : groupes, cliques et clans," by Luc Brunet and André Savoie.
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

Notebook: Canadian Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War: New Evidence from the Comintern Archives - Petrou, Michael (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, symbolically ending the Cold War, few imagined that the resulting shockwaves that toppled the Soviet Union would also reach a perpetually dark and quiet microfilm reading room on the third floor of Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa. But this is what occurred. The disintegration of the Communist order in Russia loosened rigid Soviet control of state archives and made available to Western researchers material which had been inaccessible for the length of the Cold War. This included tens of thousands of documents pertaining to the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War—foreign volunteers, including roughly 1,600 Canadians, who had been recruited and sent to Spain by the Communist International to fight a fascist rebellion lead by General Francisco Franco. ...In 1993 and 1994, George Bolotenko, an archivist at Library and Archives Canada, visited the Centre for the Preservation and Study of Records of Contemporary History in Moscow, also known as the Comintern Archives, to purchase microfilmed copies of some 10,000 pages of documents on Canadians in the International Brigades. Although the impact of this material on historical scholarship has thus far been light, it has the potential to irrevocably change scholarship on Canadians in the Spanish Civil War. --Author's introduction
Keywords: ARCHIVAL resources; CIVIL War, 1936-1939; Foreign workers; History; SPAIN; VOLUNTARY military service

Walking the Union Walk: Stories from CEP’s First Ten Years - Phillips, Paul (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2005)
Walking the Union Walk: Stories from CEP’s First Ten Years, by Jamie Swift, is reviewed.

From "Old Left" to "New Labour"? Eric Hobsbawm and the Rhetoric of "Realistic Marxism" - Pimlott, Herbert (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
While the relationships between intellectual research and political commitment, and indeed political engagement, have been identified amongst social, labour, and Marxist historians, such as the Communist Party of Great Britain’s Historians’ Group, there are few, if any, examinations of the rhetorical and communications process by which such public intellectual activity is made: i.e., the “how” of political interventions. This paper addresses this important area in examining the means by which [Eric] Hobsbawm was able to intervene effectively in public debates, having a direct impact on the Labour Party’s future trajectory. Hobsbawm exercised considerable influence in the highly public political infighting within the Labour Party [i.e., Old Left and New Labour], even though he was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, and he was able to effect changes through his contributions to debates which affected both political parties simultaneously. --From author's introduction
Keywords: BLAIR, Tony, 1953-; Communism; DEBATES & debating; GREAT Britain; HOBSBAWM, E. J. (Eric J.), 1917-2012; Labor movement; Labor policy; METAPHOR; Public speaking

The Red Man's on the Warpath: The Image of the "Indian" and the Second World War - Pitsula, James M. (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "The Red Man's on the Warpath: The Image of the "Indian" and the Second World War," by R. Scott Sheffield.

Money in Their Own Name: The Feminist Voice in Poverty Debate in Canada, 1970-1995 - Porter, Ann (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Money in Their Own Name: The Feminist Voice in Poverty Debate in Canada, 1970-1995," by Wendy McKeen.

Weapons of Mass Persuasion: Marketing the War against Iraq - Poyntz, Stuart (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Weapons of Mass Persuasion: Marketing the War against Iraq," by Paul Rutherford.

An Introduction To “Restructuring Work And Labour In The New Economy” (RWL-INE) - Pupo, Norene (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2005)

Culture and Resistance: Conversations with Edward W. Said - Razack, Sherene H. (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Culture and Resistance: Conversations with Edward W. Said," by David Barsamian and Edward W. Said.

A Troublemaker's Handbook 2: How To Fight Back Where You Work - And WIN! - Rebick, Judy (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2005)
A Troublemaker's Handbook 2: How To Fight Back Where You Work - And WIN!, by Jane Slaughter, is reviewed.

Jewish Radicalism In Winnipeg, 1905-1960: Jewish Life and Times, Volume VIII - Reilly, Nolan (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Jewish Radicalism in Winnipeg, 1905-1960," edited by Daniel Stone.

From the Lower East Side to Hollywood: Jews in American Popular Culture - Reiter, Ester (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "From the Lower East Side to Hollywood: Jews in American Popular Culture," by Paul Buhle.

The Historical Origins of an Industrial Disaster: Occupational Health and Labour Relations at the Fluorspar Mines, St. Lawrence, Newfoundland, 1933-1945 - Rennie, Richard (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
Using union, government, and company records, as well as interviews, this article explores the origins of one of the most notorious industrial disasters in Canadian history - the deaths from industrial disease of some two hundred fluorspar miners on the south coast of Newfoundland. It explores the social, economic, and political forces that shaped the hazards they believed were destroying their health and the response of industry and the state to those efforts. Central to the account is a series of strikes that took place during 1941 and the actions of a government tribunal appointed to settle the dispute. Setting events at St. Lawrence in the context of some of the theoretical and methodological considerations intrinsic to the study of occupational health as a labor relations issue, this article not only adds to the knowledge of the forces that shaped this particular disaster but also represents a contribution to a neglected area of Canadian labor and working-class history.

Unfair Advantage: Workers' Freedom of Association in the United States under International Human Rights Standards - Root, Lawrence S. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
The book Unfair advantage: Workers' Freedom of Association in the United States under International Human Rights Standards, by Lance Compa, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Freedom of Association; Labor Unions; Labor law; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Workers

No Collar: The Humane Workplace and Its Hidden Costs - Russell, Jason (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "No Collar: The Humane Workplace and Its Hidden Costs, by Andrew Ross.

Mapping the Margins: The Family and Social Discipline in Canada, 1700-1975 - Rutherdale, Robert (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Mapping the Margins: The Family and Social Discipline in Canada, 1700-1975," edited by Nancy Christie and Michael Gauvreau,

Robitnytsia, Ukrainian Communists, and the 'Porcupinism' Debate: Reassessing Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in Early Canadian Communism, 1922-1930 - Sangster, Joan (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article offers information on the interrelationship between ethnicity, gender and class in Canadian communism in the period 1922-1930. Ethnicity is stated to have been a contested and complex relationship in the Canadian Communist Party, whereas the Ukrainian section of the party is stated to have been numerically strong. The interrelationship between ethnicity, gender and class is examined by analyzing the content of the Canadian Ukrainian newspaper "Robitnytsia." Emphasis is given on the debate concerning women's equality and the role of women in social movement published in the newspaper.
Keywords: Canada; Communism; Communist Party of Canada; Ethnicity; Gender identity; Social classes; Social movements; Women's rights

Flexible Work Arrangements: Conceptualizations and International Experience - Sarfati, Hedva (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
The book Flexible Work Arrangements: Conceptualizations and International Experience, by Isik Urla Zeytinoglu, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Flexible hours; International comparisons; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Die "Schutzbedürftigte Frau": Zur Konstruktion von Geschlecht durch Mutterschaftsversicherung, Nachtarbeitsverbot und Sonderschutzgesetzgebung - Schade, Rosemarie (The "Vulnerable Woman": The Construction of Gender by Maternity Assurance, Night Work Ban and Special Protection Legislation., 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Die "Schutzbedürftigte Frau": Zur Konstruktion von Geschlecht durch Mutterschaftsversicherung, Nachtarbeitsverbot und Sonderschutzgesetzgebung," edited by Regina Wecker, Brigitte Studer, and Gaby Sutter.

History of Social Work in Europe 1900-1960: Female Pioneers and their Influence on the Development of International Social Organizations - Schade, Rosemarie (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "History of Social Work in Europe 1900-1960: Female Pioneers and their Influence on the Development of International Social Organizations," edited by Sabine Hering and Berteke Waaldijk.

The Global Union Research Network: A Potential for Incremental Innovation? - Schmidt, Verena (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2005)
One of the current paradoxes for trade unions is that organizing is an essentially local or national affair whilst the most pressing challenge for unions, which is globalization, can only be faced in a global context. This paper analyzes to what extent the Global Union Research Network (GURN) has the potential to be regarded as an incremental innovation for research within the international labour movement. The paper argues that the GURN can become an incremental innovation and there are three stages to this argument. Firstly the GURN in conceptualized within the international trade union movement. Secondly the term 'innovation' is defined and the GURN is presented as a potential, albeit incremental, innovation. The final stage examines GURN sustainability and the barriers to its institutionalization.

Sexual Harassment Investigations: How to Limit Your Liability and More: A Practical Guide - Shebib, Maureen E. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
The book Sexual Harrassment Investigations: How to Limit Your Liability and More: A Practical Guide, by Arjun P. Aggarwal and Madhu M. Gupta, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Investigations; Labor Unions; Liability; Sexual harassment; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Contingent Employment in Europe and the United States - Shields, John (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Contingent Employment in Europe and the United States," edited by Ola Bergström and Donald Storrie.

The Nonprofit Sector in Interesting Times: Case Studies in a Changing Sector - Shields, John (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "The Nonprofit Sector in Interesting Times: Case Studies in a Changing Sector," edited by Kathy L. Brock and Keith G. Banting.

Pratiques en GRH et engagement des employés : Le rôle de la justice - Simard, Gilles; Doucet, Olivier; Bernard, Sarah (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
En s’appuyant sur la théorie de l’échange social, cet article rend compte de l’effet médiateur des différentes formes de justice organisationnelle (distributive, procédurale, interactionnelle) dans la relation entre les pratiques en gestion des ressources humaines (GRH) inspirées du modèle de Lawler (1986) et l’engagement affectif. Les 134 répondants sont des directeurs aux services financiers d’une institution bancaire située au Québec. Des analyses de régression, effectuées selon les procédures de Kenny, Kashy et Bolger (1998), ont confirmé l’hypothèse de recherche. Ainsi, les résultats font ressortir que la perception de chacune des formes de justice organisationnelle représente une variable médiatrice essentielle pour que la mise en place des pratiques en GRH contribue efficacement au développement et à la consolidation de l’engagement des employés envers leur organisation.

The Effects of the Use of Striker Replacement Workers in Canada: An Analysis of Four Cases - Singh, Parbudyal; Zinni, Deborah M.; Jain, Harish C. (Labor Studies Journal, 2005)
The use of striker replacements is one of the most controversial and emotional issues facing those involved with the industrial relations system. However, a paucity of research has been done on the actual use of replacement workers and how that affects industrial relations outcomes, such as strike activity. Initial research suggests that the use of replacements is associated with longer strikes, supporting the con tention that the use of replacements should be prohibited. Using four case studies, we explore some of the dynamics of strikes that utilize replacements versus those that do not. The results suggest that, in ad dition to economic factors, social and psychological variables may be intricately linked to the relationship between the use of replacements and strike activity.

Death by Consumption - Soron, Dennis (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews and comments on "State of the World 2004. Special Focus: The Consumer Society" by the Worldwatch Institute, edited by Linda Starke, "The High Price of Materialism" by Tim Kasser, and "The Consumer Trap: Big Business Marketing in American Life" by Michael Dawson.

Managing Employment Change - Soussi, Sid Ahmed (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Managing Employment Change," by Huw Beynon, Damian Grimshaw, Jill Rubery and Kevin Ward.
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

Hidden Knowledge: Organized Labour in the Information Age - Spencer, Bruce (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Hidden Knowledge: Organized Labour in the Information Age," by D.W. Livingstone and Peter H. Sawchuck.

Workplace Learning: A Critical Introduction - Spencer, Bruce (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Workplace Learning: A Critical Introduction," by John Bratton et al.

"In case you hadn't noticed!": Race, Ethnicity, and Women's Wage-Earning in a Depression-Era City - Srigley, Katrina (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
Unites an extensive collection of oral histories with the documentary record - newspapers, the census, and other government records - to examine women's employment during the Great Depression in Toronto, Ontario, discussing how privilege and disadvantage based on race and ethnicity, gender, and class influenced women's work experiences. In Toronto's garment industry and as clerical workers, domestics, and teachers, the women in this study had various levels of economic stability, came from varied ethnic and racial backgrounds, and enjoyed, as a consequence, different job options in a period when employment access was particularly important for women and their families. This article explores the intersection between identity and job access to show why this was so in the 1930's. Ultimately, individual experiences indicate that gender should not be given analytical predominance for understanding all depression-era labor markets. In some historical contexts and for some women, gender had less relevance to their experiences than race, ethnicity, or class.

Corporate Governance in Global Capital Markets - Stanford, Jim (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Corporate Governance in Global Capital Markets," edited by Janis Sarra.

The Oriental Question: Consolidating a White Man's Province, 1914-1941 - Stanley, Timothy J. (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "The Oriental Question: Consolidating a White Man's Province, 1914-1941," Patricia E. Roy.

Naming the System: Inequality and Work in the Global Economy - Stevenson, Paul (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Naming the System: Inequality and Work in the Global Economy," by Michael D. Yates.

Union Power: The Charged Politics of Electricity in Ontario - Swift, Jamie; Stewart, Keith (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2005)
A neoliberal electricity privatization experiment in Ontario, Canada’s largest province, was supposed to eliminate one of the country’s biggest public utilities and introduce market discipline to the system. The grand experiment would begin in 2001. But an activist campaign by an opposition coalition initiated by electricity workers was crucial in turning back the market-oriented reforms, and indeed turning it into one of the great political train-wrecks in Ontario history.

Going Public: The Role of Labor-Management Relations in Delivering Quality Government Services - Swimmer, Gene (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
The article reviews the book, Going Public: The Role of Labor-Management Relations in Delivering Quality Government Services," edited by Jonathan Brock and David B. Lipsky.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Essays; Government services; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

The Great Land Rush and the Making of the Modern World, 1650-1900: Land, Power, and Economics on the Frontier of Upper Canada - Teeple, Gary (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Land, Power, and Economics on the Frontier of Upper Canada," by John Clarke.

Challenging The Market: The Stuggle To Regulate Work And Income - Thomas, Mark (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Challenging The Market: The Stuggle To Regulate Work And Income," edited by Jim Stanford and Leah F. Vosko.

Globalization Under Fire - Thomas, Mark (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews and comments on "The Children of NAFTA: Labor Wars on the U.S./Mexico Border" by David Bacon, "Juggernaut Politics: Understanding Predatory Globalization" by Jacques B . Gelinas, "Labour and Globalisation: Results and Prospects" edited by Ronaldo Munck, and "System in Crisis: The Dynamics of Free Market Capitalism" by James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer.

Representations of a Radical Historian; System Failure: The Breakdown of the Post-War Settlement and the Politics of Labour in Our Time - Thorn, Brian T.; Palmer, Bryan D. (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The notebook opens with "Representations of a Radical Historian," a review of "You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train," a documentary on Howard Zinn by Deb Ellis and Denis Mueller (78 minutes, colour, (Brooklyn 2004)). In the second part, entitled "System Failure: The Breakdown of the Post-War Settlement and the Politics of Labour in Our Time," Bryan D. Palmer presents a revised version of an "educational and agitational address" given to the Alberta Federation of Labour's membership forum on 7 May 2004 in the aftermath of the British Columbia hospital and long-term care workers' strike.

From the 'Original Affluent Society' to the 'Unjust Society': A Review Essay on Native Economic History in Canada - Tough, Frank (Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, 2005)
This essay will initiate an assessment of the literature that actually seeks to explain the economic relationships between Natives and Whites. This review is not a detailed empirical study of a particular aspect of Native economic history or a demonstration of the immediate relevance of economic history. Instead, the present-day need for an accessible account, summary and analysis of the existing economic history literature and a critical evaluation of this disparate body of work will be addressed by this essay. By summarizing and reviewing this disparate literature, a rough chronology of Native economic history can trace major changes. Innovative studies using interesting data sources and methods will be highlighted. The examination of economic history before 1870 will focus on the fur trade to consider exchange relations, racial stratification, credit, and resource management problems. The period following 1870 will consider how the social overhead of the fur trade became a government responsibility. --From Introduction

The Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law - Tucker, Eric (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "The Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American Law," by John Fabian Witt.

Booze: A Distilled History - Tufts, Steven (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2005)
Booze: A Distilled History, by Craig Heron, is reviewed.

Work and Labour in Canada: Critical Issues - Tufts, Steven (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2005)
Work and Labour in Canada: Critical Issues, by Andrew Jackson, is reviewed.

Family Quarrel: Joe Salsberg, the'Jewish' Question, and Canadian Communism - Tulchinsky, Gerald (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
A biography of communist Joseph Baruch Salsberg is presented. He was born in 1902 in Lagov, Poland and had immigrated to Canada in 1913 with his parents. In his 30-year career in the Labor-Progressive Party of Canada (LPP), he and several Jewish radicals propagated the notion that communism results in a better world and provides solution to several problems including the Jewish question. According to Salsberg, antisemitism is prevalent in the Soviet Union.
Keywords: ANTISEMITISM; Communism; LABOR parties; SALSBERG, Joseph Baruch

Waterfront Revolts: New York and London Dockworkers, 1946-61 - Turnbull, Peter (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Waterfront Revolts: New York and London Dockworkers, 1946-61," by Colin J. Davis.

Job Stress, Depression and Work-to-Family Conflict: A Test of the Strain and Buffer Hypotheses - Wallace, Jean E. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
In this paper, the Job Demand-Control (JDC) model is used to predict depression and work-to-family conflict for married lawyers working full-time. The objectives of this paper are: (1) to determine whether the JDC model applies to work-to-family conflict; (2) to incorporate domain-specific job demand and job control variables; and (3) to examine a wider array of different forms of social support. First, the JDC model also helps explain work-to-family conflict. Second, domain-specificity does not appear key to documenting the buffering effects for job control. Third, spouse's support of one's career has the strongest main effect on both depression and work-to-family conflict, whereas coworker support functions as a moderator of lawyers' job demands and has both buffering and amplifying effects. This paper closes by discussing the possible conditions under which members of support systems may transfer or exacerbate stress effects rather than alleviate them.
Keywords: Attorneys; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Families & family life; Labor Unions; Models; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Social support; Stress; Studies; Work life balance

Are Activation Policies Converging in Europe? The European Employment Strategy for Young People - White, Michael (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
The article reviews the book< Are Activiation Policies Converging in Europe? The European Employment Strategy for Young People," edited by Amparo Serrano Pascual.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Employment; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Social policy; Young adults

Caring For/Caring About: Women, Home Care and Unpaid Caregiving - Whitney, Laurel (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Caring For/Caring About: Women, Home Care and Unpaid Caregiving," edited by Karen R. Grant et al.

Eugene A. Forsey: An Intellectual Biography - Wiseman, Nelson (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "Eugene A. Forsey: An Intellectual Biography," by Frank Milligan.

Imperialism and Disorder: The Global Ambitions and Internal Decay of the United States - Wood, Geoffrey (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews and comments on "Incoherent Empire" by Michael Mann, "Contours of Descent: US Economic Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity" by Robert Pollin, and "Tyranny in America: Capitalism and National Decay" by Neal Wood.

Non-Standard Work and Benefits: Has Anything Changed since the Wallace Report? - Zeytinoglu, Isik Urla; Cooke, Gordon B. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
This paper examines whether there has been improvement in benefits coverage for non-standard workers since the Wallace Report in 1983. This study uses Statistics Canada's Workplace and Employee Survey (WES) 1999 data. Results show significant differences in the receipt of benefits among non-standard workers, suggesting heterogeneity within this group of workers in terms of benefits coverage. Regular part-time and temporary full-time workers receive fewer benefits than regular full-time workers. Temporary part-time workers have significantly less likelihood of receiving benefits than the other three groups of workers. Overall, results show that since the Wallace Report findings, there has been little improvement in benefits coverage for non-standard workers, and they continue to be relatively disadvantaged in comparison to regular full-time workers.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Employee benefits; Labor Unions; Part time employment; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies; Temporary employment

The Voice of Southern Labor: Radio, Music, and Textile Strikes, 1929-1934 - Zieger, Robert H. (Labour / Le Travail, 2005)
The article reviews the book, "The Voice of Southern Labor: Radio, Music, and Textile Strikes, 1929-1934," by Vincent J. Roscigno and William F. Danaher.

An Exploratory Study of Graduate Student Unions in Canada - Zinni, Deborah; Singh, Parbudyal; MacLennan, Anne (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2005)
Graduate student unions are beginning to attract attention in Canada and the United States. In Canada, unionization on campuses is especially important for organized labour, as union density has dropped below 30 percent for the first time in five decades. Graduate student unionization is also important in the wider context of precarious employment in North America. Despite the decline in overall union density, graduate student unions have continued to grow in the past decade. However, there is a paucity of scholarly research in this area. In this article, we trace the historical origins of graduate student unions in Canada, discuss relevant legal concerns, analyze pertinent collective bargaining and strike issues, and suggest avenues for future research.

'It Is Not the Beliefs but the Crime That Matters': Post-War Civil Liberties Debates in Canada and Australia - Clément, Dominique (Labour History, 2004)
In both Canada and Australia, a modern rights movement dedicated to the preservation of individual rights irrespective of creed, class, beliefs, race or ethnicity emerged in the 1930s. One of the central themes in the early years of both movements was the treatment of communists and organised labour amid concerns over state abuse of freedoms of speech, association and due process. The Australian Council for Civil Liberties and the Canadian Civil Liberties Union were founded in the 1930s to counter increasing tendencies of the state to suppress political rights, most often directed against the radical left. However, divisions within the political left, most notably between social democrats and communists, as well as weaknesses in the legal system created significant obstacles to the civil liberties movement in both countries. The following article explores the key themes in the early Australian and Canadian civil liberties movement by comparing two separate national social movements operating within a similar legal, political and social context. Debates over the Communist Party Dissolution Bill (1950) and subsequent referendum (1951) in Australia and the espionage commission (1946) in Canada represented high profile post-war debates on civil liberties issues in both countries, arising out of attempts by the federal government to suppress communism.

Abstracts = Résumés [53. (Spring/Printemps 2004] (Labour / Le Travail, 2004)
English/French abstracts of articles published in v. 53, Spring 2004.

Abstracts = Résumés [54, Fall/Automne 2004] (Labour/Le Travail, 2004)
English/French abstracts of articles published in v. 54, Fall 2004.

International and Comparative Employment Relations: Globalization and the Developed Market Economies - Adams, Roy J. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2004)
The book, "International and comparative employment relations: Globalization and the Developed Market Economies," edited by Greg J. Bambier, Russell D. Lansbury, and Nick Wailes, is reviewed.
Keywords: Book reviews; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; International; International comparisons; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Labor Standards in the United States and Canada - Albertyn, Christopher J. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2004)
The book, "Labor Standards in the United States and Canada," by Richard N. Block and R. Oliver Clarke, is reviewed.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Economic theory; International comparisons; Labor Unions; Labor economics; Labor standards; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

The New Dialectic and Marx's Capital - Albritton, Robert (Labour / Le Travail, 2004)
The article reviews the book, "The New Dialectic and Marx's Capital," by Christopher J. Arthur.

Industrial Relations as a Discipline and Field in France and the UK - Almond, Philip (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2004)
This article analyses the differences in the post-war study of employment relations in the UK and France, examining both the orientations of the main literatures, and more recent developments in response to the changes of recent years. Through a comparison of the literature, the article seeks to analyse the implicit assumptions behind research in the field. The predominant means of investigating employment relations in both countries are seen to have been over-fixed on normative assumptions drawn from the specific circumstances of the post-war industrial relations climates of the two countries. This provides a partial explanation for the emergence of new normative frameworks, including that of Human Resource Management, particularly in the UK It is argued that in order for a move away from an explicitly managerial agenda to occur, researchers into industrial relations, particularly in English-speaking countries, must integrate their arguments within a greater awareness of wider societal change
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Economic theory; International comparisons; Labor Unions; Labor relations; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Between Nationalism and Continentalism: State Auto Industry Policy and the Canadian UAW, 1960-1970 - Anastakis, Dimitry (Labour / Le Travail, 2004)
In the turbulent 1960s Canadians debated foreign control of the Canadian economy and Canada’s relations with the United States. The Canadian section of the United Auto Workers (UAW) also struggled with these questions as it faced a number of government policies designed to bolster the auto industry and solve balance of payments difficulties, culminating in the 1965 Canada-United States Auto motive Products Trade Agreement (auto pact). The auto pact rationalized the Canadian Big Three (General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler) production into their parent corporations and by 1970 the Canadian industry was fully integrated into a continental system of North American automobile manufacturing. The Canadian UAW played an ineffectual role in shaping this transformation, one which rekindled and exacerbated conflict within the membership and between militant locals and the union’s leadership. Nonetheless, by the end of the decade, the union had become a strong advocate of the new continental auto regime, a reflection of the increased employment and production resulting from the changes. The essay explains the issues the union faced in this period and some of the long-term consequences which the continentalization of the auto industry had on the union.
Keywords: AUTOMOBILE industry; CHRYSLER Corp.; COMMERCIAL treaties; Canada; FORD Motor Co.; GENERAL Motors Corp.; INTERNATIONAL Union United Automobile Workers of America (CIO)

Imports, Exports, and Jobs. What Does Trade Mean for Employment and Job Loss? - Anderson, Patricia M. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2004)
The book, "Imports, Exports, and Jobs. What Does Trade Mean for Employment and Job Loss," by Lori G. Kletzer, is reviewed.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Economic theory; Employment; International trade; Labor Unions; Labor economics; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Labour Politics in Small Open Democracies: Australia, Chile, Ireland, New Zealand and Uruguay - Anner, Mark (Labour / Le Travail, 2004)
The article reviews the book, "Labour Politics in Small Open Democracies: Australia, Chile, Ireland, New Zealand and Uruguay," by Paul G. Buchanan and Kate Nicholls.

La révolution technique : essai sur le devoir d'humanité - Auger, Jean-François (Labour / Le Travail, 2004)
The article reviews the book, "La révolution technique : essai sur le devoir d'humanité," by Daniel Jacques.

Public Pensions: Gender and Civic Service in the States, 1850-1937 - Backhouse, Constance (Labour / Le Travail, 2004)
The article reviews the book, "Public Pensions: Gender and Civic Service in the States, 1850-1937," Susan M. Sterett.

New Labor History: Worker Identity and Experience in Russia, 1840-1918 - Badcock, Sarah (Labour / Le Travail, 2004)
The article reviews the book, "New Labor History: Worker Identity and Experience in Russia, 1840-1918," edited by Michael Melancon and Alice K. Pate.

Seven Kinds of Work - Only One Paid: Raced, Gendered and Restructured Work in Social Services - Baines, Donna (Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture & Social Justice, 2004)
Drawing on the literature as well as themes emerging from interview data collected as part of a multi-year, three-province (Alberta, Nova Scotia and British Columbia), qualitative study (eighty-three semi-structured interviews) of the restructured social services sector in Canada, this article explores discernible types of caring work delineating seven kinds, only one of which is paid. The social service workers' description of their changing worlds show not only extremely heavy workloads but also that their paid, volunteer, community, and union activist work involve many of the same skills, tasks and mind sets, thus blurring the lines between professional and non-professional identities as well as the lines between work and leisure. Moreover, this work was highly gendered and significantly racialized.
Keywords: Labor movement; Political activists; Social workers; Unpaid labor; Women in community development

Comparable Worth in a Decentralized Labour Market: The Case of Ontario - Baker, Michael; Fortin, Nicole M. (The Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue canadienne d'Economique, 2004)
[D]ocuments the application of pro-active pay equity legislation to the private sector of the Canadian province of Ontario in the early 1990s. We report substantial lapses in compliance among smaller firms where the majority of men and women work. We also find that the pay equity law had no effect on aggregate wages in female jobs or on the gender wage gap. This experience provides unique perspectives on (1) the tensions between the workings of a decentralized labour market and the principles of comparable worth and (2) the obstacles to its extension to the private sector.

Taking Stands: Gender and the Sustainability of Rural Communities - Basok, Tanya (Labour / Le Travail, 2004)
The article reviews the book, "Taking Stands: Gender and the Sustainability of Rural Communities," by Maureen G. Reed.

Worked Over: The Corporate Sabotage of an American Community - Batteau, Allen W. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2004)
The book, "Worked Over: The Corporate Sabotage of an American Community," by Dimitra Doukas, is reviewed.
Keywords: Anthropology; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Regions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Social classes; Towns

Taxing Illusions: Taxation, Democracy and Embedded Political Theory - Bazowski, Ray (Labour / Le Travail, 2004)
The article reviews the book, "Taxing Illusions: Taxation, Democracy and Embedded Political Theory," by Phillip Hansen.

Le passage au travail autonome : Choix imposé ou choix qui s’impose ? - Beaucage, André; Laplante, Normand; Légaré, Renée (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2004)
Inspirés par les explications « pull » et « push » de la résurgence du travail autonome dans les années 1980 et 1990, nous proposons un modèle inédit de l’entrée dans le travail autonome et une évaluation de sa pertinence à partir des résultats d’une enquête originale via l’Internet auprès de 748 travailleurs autonomes québécois. La principale hypothèse de notre modèle propose que le passage au travail autonome découle le plus souvent d’une décision motivée à la fois par des aspirations personnelles et professionnelles spécifiques et par des conditions d’emploi précaires ou insatisfaisantes. Les résultats de notre étude exploratoire confirment la pertinence de notre hypothèse quant à l’influence combinée des facteurs « push » et « pull » sur la décision d’entrer dans le travail autonome. Elle révèle néanmoins des différences significatives entre les déterminants des décisions des hommes et des femmes.

Silicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream: Gender, Class, and Opportunity in the Twentieth Century - Belisle, Donica (Labour / Le Travail, 2004)
The article reviews the book, "Silicon Valley, Women, and the California Dream: Gender, Class, and Opportunity in the Twentieth Century," by Glenna Matthews.

La relation de service : opportunités et questions nouvelles pour l'ergonomie - Bellemare, Marie (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2004)
The article reviews the book, "La relation de service : opportunités et questions nouvelles pour l’ergonomie," edited by François Hubault.
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

La convention collective au Québec - Bernier, Jean (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2004)
The article reviews the book, "La convention collective au Québec," by Gérard Hébert, Reynald Bourque, Anthony Giles, Michel Grant, Patrice Jalette, Gilles Trudeau and Guylaine Vallée.
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

Jacques-Victor Morin. Syndicaliste et éducateur populaire - Bischoff, Peter C. (Labour / Le Travail, 2004)
The article reviews the book, "Jacques-Victor Morin: Syndicaliste et Educateur Populaire," by Matieu Denis.

Le pouvoir de négocier. S'affronter sans violence : l'espace gagnant-gagnant en négociation - Boivin, Jean (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2004)
The article reviews the book, "Le pouvoir de négocier. S’affronter sans violence : l’espace gagnant-gagnant en négociation," by François Delivré.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

The Ties of Place: Contractors and Employer Strategies on the Western Canadian and Central Queensland Coalfields - Bowden, Bradley (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2004)
This study explores the ways in which spatial configurations have shaped the use of contractors in the export coalfields of Queensland (Australia) and western Canada since the late 1960s. It is argued that the divergent employer strategies pursued after 1996 - whereby Queensland producers dramatically increased their use of contractors while their Canadian counterparts did not-reflects their different spatial placement within the global coal trade. In Canada, the main problem was locational disadvantage due to distance from deep-water. In consequence, employers responded to falling prices by concentrating production in the area of greatest locational advantage. For Queensland producers, the issue was high mine-site labour costs. In this context, using contractors was part of a strategy to transform labour relations through the Workplace Relations Act.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Coal mining; Contractors; Exports; International comparisons; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Strategic planning; Studies

Rebellious Families: Household Strategies and Collective Action in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Bradbury, Bettina (Labour / Le Travail, 2004)
The article reviews the book, "Rebellious Families: Household Strategies and Collective Action in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," edited by Jan Kok.

Still the Most Difficult Revolution? A Report on the Conference on Women and Unions Held at Cornell University (Nov. 2003) in Honour of Alice H. Cook's 100th Birthday - Briskin, Linda (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2004)

"Pulled Apart, Pushed Together": Diversity and Unity within the Congress of South African Trade Unions - Brookes, Michael; Hinks, Timothy; Wood, Geoffrey; Dibben, Pauline; Roper, Ian (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2004)
This is a study of horizontal and vertical solidarity within a national labour movement, based on a nationwide survey of members of affiliated unions of the Congress of South African Trade Unions. On the one hand, the survey reveals relatively high levels of vertical and horizontal solidarity, despite the persistence of some cleavages on gender and racial lines. On the other hand, the maintenance and deepening of existing horizontal and vertical linkages in a rapidly changing socio-economic context, represents one of many challenges facing organized labour in an industrializing economy. COSATU's strength is contingent not only on an effective organizational capacity, and a supportive network linking key actors and interest groupings, but also on the ability to meet the concerns of existing constituencies and those assigned to highly marginalized categories of labour.
Keywords: Alliances; Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Labor Unions; Organizational structure; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

At Odds: Gambling and Canadians, 1919-1969 - Burr, Christina (Labour / Le Travail, 2004)
The article reviews the book, "At Odds: Gambling and Canadians, 1919-1969," by Suzanne Morton.

Neither Lady Nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South - Bynum, Victoria E. (Labour / Le Travail, 2004)
The article reviews the book, "Neither Lady nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South," edited by Susanna Delfino and Michele Gillespie.

Power and Agency in Newfoundland and Labrador's History - Cadigan, Sean (Labour / Le Travail, 2004)
Reviewed: Between History and Tomorrow: Making and Breaking Everyday Life in Rural Newfoundland. Sider, Gerald M.

Forces of Labor: Workers' Movements and Globalization since 1870 - Camfield, David (Labour / Le Travail, 2004)
The article reviews the book, "Forces of Labor: Workers' Movements and Globalization since 1870," by Beverly J. Silver.

Re-Orienting Class Analysis: Working Classes as Historical Formations - Camfield, David (Science & Society, 2004)
In order to conduct better class analysis, we need class theory that rises to the challenge of understanding class as a structured social process and relationship taking place in historical time and specific cultural contexts. The study of working classes as historical formations requires the replacement of underdeveloped concepts with theory adequate to the task. This theory should incorporate the knowledge that class never exists outside of other social relations such as gender and race, but is always mediated by those relations, and vice versa. Marx, Gramsci, Thompson and autonomist Marxism, enriched with the appreciation of the multidimensional nature of social being produced by feminism and other perspectives arising from struggles against oppression, provide important resources for the development of such a theory.

Unions in the Time of Revolution: Government Restructuring in Alberta and Ontario - Camfield, David (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2004)
The book, " Unions in the Time of Revolution: Government Restructuring in Alberta and Ontario," by Yonatan Reshef and Sandra Rastin, is reviewed.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Governmental reform; Labor Unions; Provincial government; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

The Small Details of Life: 20 Diaries by Women in Canada, 1830-1996 - Campbell, Gail G. (Labour / Le Travail, 2004)
The article reviews the book, "The Small Details of Life: 20 Diaries by Women in Canada, 1830-1996," edited by Kathryn Carter.

A Distilled History - Campbell, Robert A. (Labour / Le Travail, 2004)
The article reviews the book, "Booze: A Distilled History," by Craig Heron.

An Index to Labour/Le Travail, Volumes 51 and 52, 2003 Volume 53 (Spring/Printemps 2004) - Canadian Periodical Index (Labour/Le Travail, 2004)
Produced by the Canadian Periodical Index.

Organizing Rural Women: The Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario, 1897-1919 - Carbert, Louise (Labour / Le Travail, 2004)
The article reviews the book, "Organizing Rural Women: The Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario, 1897-1910," by Margaret C. Kechnie.

Sociologie de la négociation - Catlla, Michel (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2004)
The article reviews the book, "Sociologie de la négociation," by Reynald Bourque and Christian Thuderoz.
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

People and Place: Historical Influences on Legal Culture - Chapman, Terry L. (Labour / Le Travail, 2004)
The article reviews the book, "People and Place: Historical Influences on Legal Culture," edited by Jonathan Swainger and Constance Backhouse.

Le travail en chantier - Charest, Jean (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2004)
The article reviews the book, "Le travail en chantier," by Marcelle Duc.
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

Revisiting Deficit Hysteria - Chorney, Harold (Labour / Le Travail, 2004)
Reviewed: Minding the Public Purse: The Fiscal Crisis, Political Trade-Offs, and Canada's Future. MacKinnon, Janice.

Pension Fund Corporate Engagement: The Fifth Stage of Capitalism - Clark, Gordon L.; Hebb, Tessa (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2004)
Pension fund capitalism is a new, albeit evolving, stage of Anglo-American capital market development. It is marked by the ability of pension funds to aggregate the widely disbursed ownership of beneficiaries and therefore act as single entities with a unified voice. Pension funds within their investment portfolios are increasingly using this voice to engage companies. Such corporate engagement in its broadest definition is the use of one's ownership position to influence company management decision making. Corporate engagement brings together four distinct underlying currents: first, the increased use of passive index funds; second, the corporate governance movement; third, the growing impact of socially responsible investing; and, finally, the impact of new global standards. At its best corporate engagement offers a long-term view of value that both promotes higher corporate, social and environmental standards and adds share value, thus providing long-term benefits to future pension beneficiaries.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Corporate governance; Effects; Influence; Investment policy; Labor Unions; Pension plans; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Social responsibility; Standards; Stock indexing; Theory

Toward the Charter: Canadians and the Demand for a National Bill of Rights, 1929-1960 - Clément, Dominique (Labour / Le Travail, 2004)
The article reviews the book, "Toward the Charter: Canadians and the Demand for a National Bill of Rights, 1929-1960," by Christopher MacLennan.

Revealing the Class-Gender Connection: Social Policy, Labour Markets and Households - Clement, Wallace (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2004)
Comparative studies of welfare states are in the process of changing how they examine the relationships between class, gender and generations. Earlier accounts have focused on ideal types of regimes connecting social policy and labour markets. More recent accounts invoke families as key sites of investigation. The argument introduced here advocates for the combined connection between the intersections triad of social policy, labour markets and households as they reveal the relations embodied in class, gender and generation. Most of the illustrations locate households within the triad since they have received the least attention.

The Relationship between Employee Involvement and Workplace Dispute Resolution - Colvin, Alexander J. S. (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2004)
This paper examines the relationship between employee involvement programs and workplace dispute resolution using data from the Workplace and Employee Survey (WES) conducted by Statistics Canada. The results provide support for a link between employee involvement and lower grievance rates in unionized workplaces. This link existed for establishments in both the goods and service sectors, but the practices involved differed between industrial sectors. By contrast, in nonunion workplaces, results of the analysis provided support for a link between the adoption of employee involvement programs and formal grievance procedures, but not between employee involvement and lower grievance rates.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Dispute resolution; Employee involvement; Grievance procedures; Labor Unions; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Studies

Globalisation and Labour: the new 'Great Transformation' - Cravey, Altha J. (Labour / Le Travail, 2004)
The article reviews the book, "Globalisation and Labour: the new 'Great Transformation'," by Ronaldo Munck.

It's About Time: Couples and Careers - Crompton, Rosemary (Labour / Le Travail, 2004)
The article reviews the book, "It's about Time: Couples and Careers," edited by Phyllis Moen, Phyllis.

Les dimensions de l’hétérogénéité de la catégorie de travailleur indépendant sans employé : Éléments pour une typologie - D’Amours, Martine; Crespo, Stéphane (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2004)
Le présent article vise à décrire et à expliquer la diversité des situations couvertes par la catégorie juridique de travailleur indépendant (travailleur autonome sans employé). Utilisant les méthodologies de l’analyse factorielle de correspondances multiples et de la classification ascendante hiérarchique, il analyse l’hétérogénéité au sein d’un échantillon de 293 travailleurs indépendants, autour de cinq dimensions : les caractéristiques du producteur, la nature de sa clientèle, le type de produit, l’organisation du travail (incluant la rémunération) et la protection contre les risques sociaux et professionnels. Ce faisant, il contribue à dégager six profils de travailleurs indépendants : les non-professionnels indépendants, les petits producteurs dépendants, les professionnels libéraux, les conseillers et consultants, les autres indépendants et ceux cumulant travail indépendant et salariat atypique et, finalement, les professionnels bénéficiant d’ententes collectives de travail. Il illustre par ailleurs qu’une partie de cette hétérogénéité est attribuable au brouillage des frontières entre les modèles « purs » de salariat et d’indépendance.

Une expérience de l’extrême gauche au Québec : le Parti communiste ouvrier - Dansereau, Bernard (Bulletin d'histoire politique, 2004)

The Human Cost of Food: Farmworkers ' Lives, Labor, and Advocacy - Danysk, Cecilia (Labour / Le Travail, 2004)
The article reviews the book, "The Human Cost of Food: Farmworkers' Lives, Labor, and Advocacy," edited by Charles D. Thompson, Jr., and Melinda F. Wiggins.

From Revolutionaries to Citizens: Antimilitarism in France, 1870-1914 - Davis, Lawrence H. (Labour / Le Travail, 2004)
The article reviews the book, "From Revolutionaries to Citizens: Antimilitarism in France, 1870-1914," by Paul B. Miller.

Crises et renouveau du capitalisme. Le 20e siècle en perspective - Deblock, Christian (Labour / Le Travail, 2004)
The article reviews the book, "Crises et renouveau du capitalisme. Le 20e siècle en perspective," edited by Gérard Duménil et Dominique Lévy,

Giving Birth in Canada, 1900-1950 - Dodd, Diane (Labour / Le Travail, 2004)
The article reviews the book, "Giving Birth in Canada: 1900-1950," by Wendy Mitchinson.

La déclaration de l’OIT relative aux droits fondamentaux au travail : Une nouvelle forme de régulation efficace ? - Duplessis, Isabelle (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2004)
Cet article explore l’efficacité de la Déclaration relative aux principes et droits fondamentaux au travail en tant que réponse aux défis posés par une mondialisation considérée essentiellement sur le plan économique. La Déclaration a été adoptée en 1998 par l’Organisation internationale du Travail (OIT) et visait à arrimer le développement économique au progrès social en établissant un corps universel de droits socio-économiques. Au regard des sources traditionnelles du droit international public, la Déclaration soulève pourtant un certain nombre de difficultés. Premièrement, elle s’apparente à un instrument de soft law, c’est-à-dire à un instrument incitatif dénué de force obligatoire. Deuxièmement, la Déclaration ne s’adresse pas directement aux acteurs réels de la mondialisation contemporaine, les entreprises mondialisées, mais aux États. À partir de ces critiques, la conjoncture ayant mené à l’adoption de la Déclaration fera l’objet d’une attention particulière et permettra de mieux mesurer les effets juridiques de cet instrument normatif au sein et à l’extérieur de l’OIT.

"Severing the Connections in a Complex Community": The Grange, the Patrons of Industry and the Construction/Contestation of a Late 19th-century Agrarian Identity in Ontario - Ferry, Darren (Labour / Le Travail, 2004)
The leadership of the Patrons of Husbandry (the Grange) and the Patrons of Industry in late-19th-century Ontario offered ideological visions of class harmony, the promise of united political action through antipartyism, and the assurance of material prosperity to Ontario's farmers. The history of agrarian protest, however, can be viewed as one of broken promises and unfulfilled expectations. The tensions inherent in the differing material circumstances and various representational philosophies of agriculture made it impossible for the Dominion Grange and the Patrons of Industry to sustain harmony and unity for any length of time within a deeply divided agricultural population. As a result, entrenched ideological differences regarding the merits or shortcomings of the cooperative principle in the Dominion Grange and Patrons of Industry highlight the tensions and conflicts intrinsic to the varied approaches of the farmers themselves. Yet the initial success of both agrarian protest movements in Ontario displayed at least a willingness on the part of farmers to bond together for united action. Their cataclysmic collapse into irrelevancy by the turn of the century, however, also revealed the ideological, cultural, social, and economic fissures situated within Ontario's rural populace.

Book Notes [53, Spring 2004] - Finkel, Alvin (Labour / Le Travail, 2004)
The article briefly reviews Michael R. Weldon's "Little Mosie from the Margaree: A Biography of Moses Michael Coady;" Penny R. Gurstein's "Wired to the World, Chained to the Home: Telework in DailyLife;" Miriam Edelson's "My Journey with Jake: A Memoir of Parenting and Disability;" Jim Bohlen's "Making Waves: The Origins and Future of Greenpeace;" Gunther Peck's "Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West, 1880-1930;" Dale Hathaway's "Allies Across the Border: Mexico's 'Authentic Labor Front' and Global Solidarity;" Maria Victoira Murillo's "Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions, and Market Reforms in Latin America;" Peter McLaren's "Che Guevara, Paulo Freire, and the Pedagogy of Revolution;" "Left Catholicism: Catholics and Society in Western Europe at the Point of Liberation-1943-1955" edited by Gerd-Rainer Horn and Emmanuel Gerard; William B. Husband's "'Godless Communists': Atheism and Society in Soviet Russia, 1917-1932;" John Belchem's "Merseypride: Essays in Liverpool Exceptionalism;" Clare Haru Crowston's "Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791;" Pamela Pilbeam's "French Socialists Before Marx;" and John Isbister's "Capitalism and Justice: Envisioning Social and Economie Fairness."

Book Notes [54, Fall 2004] - Finkel, Alvin (Labour / Le Travail, 2004)
The article briefly reviews Doug Smith's "How to Tax a Billionaire: Project Loophole and the Campaign for Tax Fairness;" "The Resilient Outpost: Ecology, Economy, and Society in Rural Newfoundland," edited by Rosemary Ommer; Susan Sleeper-Smith's "Indian Women and French Men: Rethinking Cultural Encounter in the Western Great Lakes;" Mark Franko's "The Work of Dance: Labor, Movement, and Identity in the 1930s;" "Friends of the People: Uneasy Radicals in the Age of the Chartists," by Owen R. Ashton and Paul A. Pickering, ; Steve Wright's "Storming Heaven: Class Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism;" Wendy Z. Goldman's "Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin's Russia;" Julie R. Watts's "Immigration Policy and the Challenge to Globalization: Unions and Employers in Unlikely Alliance;" Heidi Tinsman's "Partners in Conflict: The Politics of Gender, Sexuality, and Labor in the Chilean Agrarian Reform, 1950-1973;" Rosa Isolde Reuque Paillalet's "When a Flower Is Reborn: The Life and Times of a Mapuche Feminist," edited and translated by Florencia E. Mallon; and S.A. Smith's "Like Cattle and Horses: Nationalism and Labor in Shanghai, 1895-1927."

The State of Writing on the Canadian Welfare State: What's Class Got to Do With It? - Finkel, Alvin (Labour / Le Travail, 2004)
The article analyzes scholarly works on the Canadian welfare state since 1979. Works discussed include Dennis Guest's "The Emergence of Social Security in Canada" (1979; 3rd edition, 1997), Jane Ursel's "Private Lives, Public Policy: 100 Years of State Intervention in the Family" (1992), James Struthers' '"The Limits of Affluence: Welfare in Ontario, 1920-1970" (1994), Penny Bryden's "Planners and Politicians: Liberal Politics and Social Policy, 1957-1968" (1997), and Nancy Christie's "Engendering the State: Family, Work, and Welfare in Canada" (2000). Concludes that while there has been important work in a number of areas, "the tendency in the historical and sociological literature to pay more attention to discourse than to political economy has tended to understate class dimensions in the formation of social policy."

La précarité du travail : une réalité aux multiples visages - Forgues, Éric (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2004)
The article reviews the book, "La précarité du travail : une réalité aux multiples visages," edited by Geneviève Fournier, Bruno Bourassa and Kamel Béji.
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 Action: Building Political Activism among Union Activists - Foster, Jason (Just Labour: A Canadian Journal of Work and Society, 2004)
New research into the political attitudes and behaviours of union activists challenges traditional beliefs about the prospects for politicizing unionists in Canada. A study of union activists in Alberta finds two significant results. First union activists are more politically active than the average Canadian. This contradicts conventional wisdom about union activists. Second, unions can play a direct and important role in fostering political participation among their activists, a finding that has the potential to extend to the general membership. However, to be effective in mobilizing unionists politically, unions need to approach the project differently than they do at present. It is a project of action, not words, and it must be grounded in the lived experience of union workers. In particular, perceptions of class play a central role in shaping the political decisions of unionists. Relational articulations of class lead to political mobilization, and thus union actions must reflect the lived experience of being working class in Canada.

Unions in the Time of Revolution: Government and Restructuring in Alberta and Ontario - Foster, Jason (Labour / Le Travail, 2004)
The article reviews the book, "Unions in the Time of Revolution: Government Restructuring in Alberta and Ontario, by Yonatan Reshef and Sandra Rastin.

Soutenir le développement de compétences par la conception d’aides à l’apprentissage sur le cours de vie professionnelle - Fournier, Pierre-Sébastien (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2004)
Cet article présente une réflexion entourant l’élaboration d’un modèle de conception de la formation visant une meilleure prise en compte de la réalité du camionneur. Derrière un problème de formation se cache un problème plus large de connaissances nécessaires pour affronter efficacement les situations de la vie et d’aide à l’apprentissage sur le cours de vie. Une telle aide nécessite préalablement de documenter la réalité du camionneur en termes d’activité de formation et d’activité de travail. Une observation participante d’une formation de camionneurs et une analyse de l’activité de travail ont été réalisées. Documenter ainsi la réalité du camionneur permet d’identifier des situations à transformer pour aider à l’efficacité et la sécurité des apprentis et des camionneurs. Cette réflexion a permis l’élaboration d’un modèle de conception proposant une double intervention : sur la formation et sur le travail comme moyen d’aider à l’apprentissage sur le cours de vie professionnelle.

Gender, Work, and Zeal: Women Missionaries in Canada and Abroad - Gagan, Rosemary (Labour / Le Travail, 2004)
The article reviews and comments on Ruth Compton Brouwer's "Modern Women Modernizing Men: The Changing Missions of Three Professional Women in Asia and Africa, 1902-69;" Shirley Jane Endicott's "China Diary: The Life of Mary Austin Endicott;" and Myra Rutherdale's "Women and the White Man's God: Gender and Race in the Canadian Mission Field."

Adult Learning and Technology in Working-Class Life - Gawron, Zenon (Labour / Le Travail, 2004)
The article reviews the book, "Adult Learning and Technology in Working-Class Life," by Peter Sawchuk.

Responsabilité sociale et régulation de l’entreprise mondialisée - Gendron, Corinne; Lapointe, Alain; Turcotte, Marie-France (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2004)
Cet article analyse le potentiel régulatoire de la responsabilité sociale dans un contexte de mondialisation économique à partir d’une distinction entre ses trois dimensions : les pratiques, le discours et le questionnement. Sans comprendre la dynamique des initiatives corporatives de responsabilité sociale, le discours sur la responsabilité sociale élude les questionnements auxquels l’entreprise doit aujourd’hui faire face pour conserver sa légitimité et assurer son ancrage dans la société. Mais plutôt que de déplorer leur manque d’effectivité, les auteurs avancent que les mesures volontaires de responsabilité sociale telles que les codes de conduite ou ce que certains appellent la soft law sont annonciatrices d’un cadre de responsabilité sociale en voie d’institutionnalisation à l’échelle mondiale. Sur la base d’une analyse de l’expérience européenne, ils montrent que deux cadres de responsabilité sociale au potentiel régulatoire très différent sont actuellement en concurrence, et concluent en jetant les bases du système régulatoire qui semble se configurer à l’échelle internationale.

Culture and the Labour Market - Ghinetti, Paolo; Lucifora, Claudio (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2004)
The book, ``Culture and the Labour Market,`` by Siobhan Austen is reviewed.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Culture; LABOR market; Labor Unions; Norms; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z; Theory

The Dredger's Daughter: Courtship and Marriage in the Baptist Community of Welland, Ontario, 1934-1944 - Gidney, Catherine (Labour / Le Travail, 2004)
In 1924 sixteen-year-old Kay Chetley along with her parents Jennie and Robert, and her sister Roberta, moved to the industrial city of Welland, Ontario. Kay was raised in east Saint John, New Brunswick where her father worked as a stationary engineer on dredging barges. Her mother, from a farming family in Petitcodiac, New Brunswick, had been a primary school teacher until her marriage. The family's economic status thus ranged between the artisan class and the emerging lower-middle class. To maintain that position, Kay's father moved the family to Ontario so that he could take up work in the construction of the new canal. Welland, however, soon became the setting for Kay's courtship, wedding, her first years as a married wom[a]n, and her subsequent years as a mother. This typical female life-cycle was played out not only within a tight-knit nuclear family, the dominant familial form in the early 20th century, but also within the community of First Baptist Church, Welland. Kay's life thus provides an illustration of the interconnectedness of religion, family, courtship, leisure, and work in one Ontario industrial community. The core of this study is constructed around a series of five-year diaries left by Kay Chetley. ...The diaries cover the bulk of the period from 1934 to 1944 and offer a few lines detailing Kay's activities each day. --Author's introduction

John Reed and the Writing of Revolution - Gilbert, James (Labour / Le Travail, 2004)
The article reviews the book, "John Reed and the Writing of Revolution," by Daniel W. Lehman.

Employment with a Human Face: Balancing Efficiency, Equity, and Voice - Gomez, Rafael (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2004)
The book ,"Employment with a Human Face: Balancing Efficiency, Equity, and Voice," by John Budd, is reviewed.
Keywords: Business And Economics--Labor And Industrial Relations; Business And Economics--Personnel Management; Economic theory; International; Labor Unions; Labor relations; Labor standards; SnR_publicationTitle_Relations Industrielles_Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations_2025-09-22T16:07:02.081Z

Building Chaos: An International Comparison of Deregulation in the Construction Industry - Grant, Michel (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2004)
The article reviews the book, "Building Chaos: An International Comparison of Deregulation in the Construction Industry," edited by Gerhard Bosch and Peter Phillips.
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

La chaîne invisible. Travailler aujourd'hui : flux tendu et servitude volontaire - Grenier, Jean-Noël (Relations industrielles / Industrial Relations, 2004)
The article reviews the book, "La chaîne invisible. Travailler aujourd’hui : flux tendu et servitude volontaire," by Jean-Pierre Durand.
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