Labour/Le Travail back issues from September 1997:
Editor's note.
Sep 22, 1997; ... AT THE JUNE 1997 Editorial Board meeting of Labour/Le Travail I was elected editor, replacing Gregory S. Kealey, founding editor who had served the journal so well since before its first issue appeared in 1976. It was a nostalgic moment for those of us who have worked with Greg and we ...
Note de directeur.
Sep 22, 1997; ... LORS DE LA reunion du comite de redaction de Labour/Le Travail en juin 1997, j'ai ete elu directeur, en remplacement de Gregory S. Kealey, directeur-fondateur qui a si bien servi la revue depuis l'epoque precedant la parution du premier numero en 1976. Ce fut un moment nostalgique pour ...
D'un atelier de moulage a un autre: les migrations des mouleurs originaires des Forges du Saint-Maurice et la segmentation du marche du travail nord-americain, 1851-1884.
Sep 22, 1997; ... Peter Bischoff, <<D'un atelier de moulage a un autre: les migrations des mouleurs originaires des Forges du Saint-Maurice et la segmentation du marche du travail nord-americain, 1851-1884,>> Labour/Le Travail, 40 (Fall 1997), 21-73. DANS UNE PETITION adressee au gouvernement ...
Sous-traitance forestiere dans le Nord-Est ontarien, 1900-1930.
Sep 22, 1997; ... Guy Gaudreau, <<La sous-traitance forestiere dans le Nord-Est ontarien, 1900-1930,>> Labour/Le Travail, 40 (Fall 1997), 75-112. COMBIEN DE FAMILLES canadiennes comptent, dans leur histoire familiale, au moins un de leurs membres ayant travaille dans les chantiers forestiers? Et ...
Private policing and surveillance of Catholics: anti-communism in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto, 1920-1960.
Sep 22, 1997; ... Paula Maurutto, "Private Policing and Surveillance of Catholics: Anti-communism in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto, 1920-1960," Labour/Le Travail, 40 (Fall 1997), 113-36. "THE HOLY SEE is terribly afraid of Communism, the centre of which, in Canada, is Toronto," wrote ...
"When our membership awakens": welfare work and Canadian union activism, 1950-1965.
Sep 22, 1997; ... Shirley Tillotson, " `When our membership awakens': Welfare Work and Canadian Union Activism, 1950-1965," Labour/Le Travail, 40 (Fall 1997), 137-69. People sometimes can't understand why the wrong element gets control of an organization. Well, the answer is simple. If anyone had ...
Clients and consciousness: drawing militancy from confusion on the front lines of the State.
Sep 22, 1997; ... Greg McElligott, "Clients and Consciousness: Drawing Militancy from Confusion on the Front Lines of the State," Labour/Le Travail, 40 (Fall 1997), 171-98. Didn't they realize there are union people in here, too? -- besieged employment centre worker, 1994 (1) ...
Documents pour l'etude des expositions et musees pour la prevention des accidents et des maladies du travail au Quebec au debut du siecle.
Sep 22, 1997; ... Jean-Claude Dionne, "Documents pour l'etude des expositions et musees pour la prevention des accidents et des maladies du travail au Quebec au debut du siecle," Labour/Le Travail, 39 (Spring 1997), 199-211.EN CETTE FIN DE SIECLE, l'acces aux informations techniques concernant la prevention ...
Canadian railway workers and World War I military service.
Sep 22, 1997; ... Mary MacKinnon, "Canadian Railway Workers and World War I Military Service," Labour/Le Travail, 40 (Fall 1997), 213-34. HISTORIANS have generally used recruiting records to study the composition of Canadian armed forces during World War I. This note uses another type of ...
"Unions aren't native": the Muckamuck restaurant labour dispute, Vancouver, B.C. (1978-1983).
Sep 22, 1997; ... Janet Mary Nicol, " `Unions Aren't Native': The Muckamuck Restaurant Labour Dispute Vancouver, B.C. (1978-1983)," Labour/Le Travail, 40 (Fall 1997), 235-51. "IN THIS SOCIETY," explained First Nations union organizer Ethel Gardner to a skeptical First Nations community, "being ...
How the `Reds' got their man: the Communist Party unmasks an RCMP spy.
Sep 22, 1997; ... Andrew Parnaby and Gregory S. Kealey, "How the `Reds' Got Their Man: The Communist Party Unmasks an RCMP Spy," Labour/Le Travail, 40 (Fall 1997), 253-67. Introduction "Leopold was a hero to most ..." ON 11 AUGUST 1931, a special force of police officers ...
Horses of a shared colour: interpreting class and identity in turn-of-the-century Vancouver.
Sep 22, 1997; ... H.V. Nelles, "Horses of a Shared Colour: Interpreting Class and Identity in Turn-of-the-Century Vancouver," Labour/Le Travail, 40 (Fall 1997), 269-75. Mark Leier, Red Flags and Red Tape: The Making of a Labour Bureaucracy (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1995). ...
Quelques arpents d'Amerique: population, economie, famille au Saguenay, 1838-1971.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (Montreal: Boreal Express 1996). VOICI UN LIVRE muri pendant de nombreuses annees, edifie sur une documentation impressionnante et dont l'argumentation serree conserve sa force jusqu'a la fin. En effet, a l'origine et au coeur de son analyse, se trouve le concept de reproduction ...
Wild things: nature, culture and tourism in Ontario, 1790-1914.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1995). THE MOST SUCCINCT and convincing comment I have heard on the historical construction of nature -- and the centrality of tourism to this process -- did not come from the learned brain of a geographer, historian or sociologist, but from ...
Stanley Brehaut Ryerson, un intellectuel de combat.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (Hull: Vents d'Ouest 1996). TREIZE COLLABORATEURS et collaboratrices reunis sous la direction de Robert Comeau et Robert Tremblay ont participe a la realisation d'un ouvrage remarquable sur l'epoque, l'oeuvre et la vie militante et intellectuelle de Stanley Brehaut Ryerson. On ...
Seeking the highest good: social service and gender at the University of Toronto, 1888-1937.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1996). SOCIAL WORKERS' efforts to achieve professional status have always been dogged by the social construction of their work as "women's work" with little underlying science or formal skill required. Sara Z. Burke points out that the ...
Resistance et transgression: etudes en histoire des femmes au Quebec.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (Montreal: Editions du remuemenage 1995). LES PETITS ESSAIS qu'Andree Levesque a remanies pour cette collection ont en commun d'etudier de concert l'evolution des representations des femmes, dans le Montreal du premier tiers du vingtieme siecle, et l'histoire des conditions ...
Clothes off our back: a history of ACTWU 459.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (Winnipeg: Manitoba Labour Education Centre 1995). IN 1985, THE MANITOBA Labour Education Centre initiated a Labour History Series, which was intended to: "make all Manitobans more aware of the vital contributions made to the life of this province by the women and men who worked ...
Ninety-nine days: the Ford strike in Windsor, 1945.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (Toronto: NC Press Limited 1995). IN HIS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS to his account of the 1945 Ford strike in Windsor, Herb Colling provides evidence of his experience as a reporter and an announcer for the CBC in Windsor by indicating that he wishes to tell the story of those involved ....
Highwire act: power, pragmatism and the Harcourt legacy.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (Vancouver: New Star Books 1996). STUDENTS OF MODERN British Columbia politics are surprisingly well-supplied with contemporary accounts of the province's often flamboyant political leaders. From a study of W.A.C. Bennett by Paddy Sherman (Bennett), written while the sometime ...
Thunder Bay: from rivalry to unity.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (Thunder Bay, ON: The Thunder Bay Museum Historical Society 1995). LOCAL HISTORY has never developed as a mature field of academic historiography in Canada. The finely grained sensitivity to place in all its peculiarities that is the strength of the antiquarian has not often ...
Arctic revolution: social change in the Northwest Territories 1935-1994.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (Toronto and Oxford: Dundurn Press 1994). JOHN DAVID HAMILTON explains how the Northwest Territories (NWT), one-third of Canada's land mass, moved in half a century from a form of traditional colonialism to self-rule. Hamilton, an internationally award-winning journalist, first ...
Invention of the white race v1: racial oppression and social control.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (Verso Books: London 1994). BIOLOGY TELLS us that race is a social construct. Racism, likewise, might be sociogenic rather than phylogenic -- "homologous with gender and class oppression." (1) But at the end of the 20th century can we be absolutely certain about the second part ...
Women of the Commonwealth: work, family, and social change in nineteenth-century Massachusetts.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press 1996). THE RESULT OF A 1992 symposium on the history of women in Massachusetts, held under the auspices of the Institute for Massachusetts Studies, Susan Porter's collection of essays is somewhat misleadingly titled, as it deals ...
Dreamer's paradise lost: Louis C. Fraina/Lewis Corey (1892-1953) and the decline of radicalism in the United States.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press 1995). LOUIS FRAINA (Lewis Corey), one of the most fascinating characters in the history of American radicalism, has long been lurking on the margins of left scholarship, looking for a suitable biographer. He has finally found one in ...
Al Grierson: Things that never added up to me: songs of love, war, theology, golf and the Great American Railroad.
Sep 22, 1997; ... (Ashland, OR: Folkin' Records, 4330 Highway 99 South, 1995). THE POPULARITY of acoustic music, ranging from unplugged concerts to country music to the blues, is refreshing. But all too often "acoustic artists" rely on drums, rhythm guitarists, keyboards, strong sections, and ...
Lawyers against labor.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press 1995). THE HISTORY of American labour law continues to be both fruitful and contested terrain for scholars from a variety of disciplines, who not only focus on different aspects of their subject, but also look at their material ...
White guys: studies in post-modern domination and difference.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (New York and London: Verso 1995). IN THE LAST 15 years it has become almost routine for any good social and/or historical analysis to address the variables of class, race/ethnicity, gender, and, increasingly, sexuality. Within each of these categories there is usually an ...
Struggle for the breeches: gender and the making of the British working class.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press 1995). MORE THAN THIRTY years have passed since the British Marxist historian, E.P. Thompson, introduced readers to the world of working-class culture and politics in his pathbreaking book, The Making of the English Working Class. In ...
Imperial leather: race, gender and sexuality in the colonial contest.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (New York and London: Routledge 1995). MANY HISTORIANS will be interested in reading Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest for its cutting-edge methodology and analysis as much as for its subject matter. For one thing, as its title indicates, it is ...
From artisans to paupers: economic change and poverty in London, 1790-1870.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (Aldershot, UK: Scolar Press, 1995). THE HISTORY of poor relief is a veritable cottage industry in England, and has been for quite some time. No other country has seen so many talented scholars devote their time and energy to this important chapter of social history. Remarkably, ...
Crewe: railway town, company and people, 1840-1914.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (Aldershot, UK: Scolar Press 1995). FEW TOWNS CAME to symbolize the industrial history of 19th-century Britain with quite the clarity of Crewe. Built on a green field site in the 1840s, it was the child of the Grand Junction Railway Company and its successor, the London and ...
"We ask for British justice": workers and racial difference in late Imperial Britain.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (Ithaca: Cornell University Press 1994). LAURA TABILI has made a valuable contribution to both British labour history and imperial history. Her book examines the use of racial ideology in the interwar British shipping industry, and its impact on Black and white seamen. Tabili's ...
Inside Babylon: the Caribbean diaspora in Britain.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (London and New York: Verso 1993). THIS VOLUME BRINGS together a series of admirable essays on hitherto under-served aspects of post-1945 British race relations. It should be of interest to any scholar concerned with post-1945 British history, or with the operation of racialized ...
Fantasy, the bomb, and the greening of Britain: romantic protest, 1945-1980.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1994). IN SOME WAYS the writing of history could be considered a romantic endeavour. It attempts to bridge that unbridgeable chasm between our own era and the past. It takes the blind leap of faith that it is possible for us to understand ...
Fabrication of labor: Germany and Britain, 1640-1914.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press 1995). THIS IS a formidable, perceptive, and innovative work which examines "the national origins of cultural definitions of labour as a commodity, the installation of these specifications into procedures on the shop ...
Protecting women: labor legislation in Europe, the United States, and Australia, 1880-1920.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (Urbana: University of Illinois Press 1995). ELEVEN OF THE THIRTEEN essays in Protecting Women examine the motivations behind the movement for protective labour legislation for women in individual countries. Although most of these essays consider traditional theses about ...
Women workers and technological change in Europe in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (London and Bristol, PA: Taylor and Francis 1995). THIS COLLECTION of essays brings a temporal and spatial comparative approach to the relationships among technological change, occupational segregation, and women's wage work. Gertjan de Groot, Marlou Schrover, and their ...
Part des militants: biographies et mouvement ouvrier.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (Paris: Les Editions de l'Atelier 1996). CET OUVRAGE, consacre a l'apport des militants au mouvement ouvrier francais s'organise autour de l'aventure de Jean Maitron (1910-1987), de Claude Pennetier, et de quelques 400 chercheurs qui ont realise le Dictionnaire biographique du ...
Transformation of Italian communism.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Transaction Publishers 1995). THE ITALIAN Communist Party's (PCI) decision to reconstitute itself as the Democratic Party of the Left in 1991 was indeed a major event in the history of the working-class movement. In becoming the PDS (Partito ...
Class, democracy & labor in contemporary Argentina.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers 1995). READERS FAMILIAR with Peter Ranis' work will recognize this as a repackaged version of his Argentine Workers: Peronism and Contemporary Class Consciousness (1992). With the exception of a substantial new introduction, nothing has ...
On the march: labour rebellions in the British Caribbean, 1934-39.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle 1995). THIS IS A wonderful piece of historical sociology. Bolland brings together the story of the wave of labour strikes and riots that swept the British West Indies during the 1930s, and the ways in which they led, and led to, nascent ...
Making of the Indian working class: the case of the Tata Iron and Steel Company, 1880-1946.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (New Delhi & London: Sage Publications 1995). VINAY BAHL offers a wide and refreshing discussion of the trials of colonial capitalism and, most particularly, the national industrial bourgeoisie's attempt to develop an industrial sector. Her specific case study is the Tata Iron ...
Globalization and the decline of social reform.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (Toronto: Garamond 1995). IN SIX CHAPTERS, Gary Teeple provides a useful overview of the post-World War II rise and decline of social democratic reformism and the welfare state in "Western nations" on the one hand, and the rapid rise to relatively uncontested global hegemony of ...
Desert capitalism: maquiladoras in North America's western industrial corridor.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (Tucson: University of Arizona Press 1996). THE BLOSSOMING of the maquila industry in the middle of the Arizona-Sonora desert -- a region that had previously supported only saguaro cactus, a customs house and a railroad junction -- is the focus of Kathryn Kopinak's study of a ...
Diagnosing unemployment.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1994). JOHN RALSON SAUL in the 1995 Massey Lectures writes: "Economics as a prescriptive science is actually a very minor area of speculative investigation. Econometrics, the statistical narrow, unthinking, lower form of economics, is ...
Unnecessary debts.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (Toronto: James Lorimer & Company 1996). THE ANXIETY generated by Canada's debt threat has subsided -- the Canadian public resigned to the argument that we can no longer afford the luxury of publicly-funded social programs. Hospitals must be closed, funding for education cut and ...
Economics of the trade union.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1995). PARADOXICALLY, as British trade unions have declined in strength they have become the focus of an expanding body of research by labour economists. Booth, a foremost expert of this field, provides an authoritative survey of this work, ...
Sizing down: chronicle of a plant closing: with lessons for understanding and survival.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (Ithaca: ILR/Cornell University Press 1996). WHO IN THE United States now cares about "downsizing?" In the 1970s and early 1980s, massive layoffs and their devastating ripple effects for workers and communities were widely regarded as tragedies. Youngstown, Gary, Detroit -- ...
Crossing the line: unionized employee ownership and investment funds.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (Toronto: James Lorimer & Company 1995). THIS BOOK ATTEMPTS to describe and analyze certain aspects of the changing relationship between labour and capital since the 1970s. The author uses six case studies drawn from different parts of Canada to illustrate how unionized labour ...
Gender balancing history: towards an inclusive curriculum v1-7.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (Montreal: Institut Simon de Beauvoir Institute, Concordia University 1993). THIS BIBLIOGRAPHY came out of a context of undergraduate curriculum revision with the aim of encouraging the development of a more diverse history program. The editors hope that the bibliography, ...
Racism and paid work.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (Toronto: Garamond Press 1996). RECENT ATTACKS on affirmative action and other policies and programs advocating employment equity and opportunity makes the discussion of racism and paid work particularly timely. Tania Das Gupta's book is a welcome addition to the growing ...
Maid in the market: women's paid domestic labour.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (Halifax: Fernwood Publishing 1994). THIS COLLECTION of essays represents a nice addition to the growing literature on women's positions in paid work. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Jane Bertrand, Audrey Macklin, Patricia McDermott, Rusty Neal, Ester Reiter and ...
Book of Sodom.
Sep 22, 1997 ... (London: Verso 1993). RECENT SCHOLARSHIP on the history of sexuality has shifted away from the medical and legal codification of sexuality and the sexual acts of persons to a focus on the geographical and social terrain of sexual experience. Examinations of the sexual landscape ...
British election: a commentary.
Sep 22, 1997; ... The 1997 election is being rightly celebrated as, above all, a huge relief. For the moment New Labour has the benefit of everybody's doubt. There is, after all, an alternative, and people are willing to wait and see what it looks like. And the size of the majority means that things can be ...
Backing and filling: the 1997 Canadian election.
Sep 22, 1997; ... The federal election of 1997 was no turning point in Canadian history. No election is likely to hold the potential of changing the fundamental direction of the economy and society, and certainly not the distribution of wealth and the class structure. Indeed, on these issues the spectrum of ...