Labour/Le Travail back issues from September 1998:
Stanley Brehaut Ryerson (1911-1998).
Sep 22, 1998; ... STANLEY BREHAUT RYERSON, professeur emerite au departement d'histoire de l'Universite du Quebec a Montreal et epoux de Mildred (Mila) Halfand Ryerson, nous a quittes, le 25 avril 1998, apres une longue maladie. Il nous a legue un double heritage historique: des travaux d'historien et une ...
`Not a sex question'? The One Big Union and the politics of radical manhood.
Sep 22, 1998; ... Todd McCallum, " `Not a Sex Question'? The One Big Union and the Politics of Radical Manhood," Labour/Le Travail, 42 (Fall 1998), 15-54. THE WESTERN LABOR Conference opened in Calgary's Paget hall on Thursday, 13 March 1919. In attendance were over 230 delegates from 178 union ...
Portrait of a labour spy: the case of Robert Raglan Gosden, 1882-1961.
Sep 22, 1998; ... Mark Leier, "Portrait of a Labour Spy: The Case of Robert Raglan Gosden, 1882-1961," Labour/Le Travail, 42 (Fall 1998), 55-84. WE DO NOT KNOW much about labour spies, especially those who were paid informers rather than undercover police agents. Their reports are frequently ...
Martin Butler, masculinity, and the North American sole leather tanning industry: 1871-1889.
Sep 22, 1998; ... Deborah Stiles, "Martin Butler, Masculinity, and the North American Sole Leather Tanning Industry: 1871-1889," Labour/Le Travail, 42 (Fall 1998), 85-114. Introduction AT THE CLOSE of approximately a decade spent labouring in the tanning factories of eastern Maine, ...
Manhood and the militia myth: masculinity, class and militarism in Ontario, 1902-1914.
Sep 22, 1998; ... Mike O'Brien, "Manhood and the Militia Myth: Masculinity, Class and Militarism in Ontario, 1902-1914," Labour/Le Travail, 42 (Fall 1998), 115-41. IN MANY CULTURAL and historical contexts, warfare has been seen as a quintessentially masculine activity. The qualities of ...
Young men and technology: government attempts to create a "modern" fisheries workforce in Newfoundland, 1949-1970.
Sep 22, 1998; ... Miriam Wright, "Young Men and Technology: Government Attempts to Create a `Modern' Fisheries Workforce in Newfoundland, 1949-1970," Labour/Le Travail, 42 (Fall 1998), 143-59. MAKING ONE'S LIVING from the sea is an occupation around which whole mythologies have grown. Popularized ...
Women, work, and protest in the Italian diaspora: an international research agenda.
Sep 22, 1998; ... Donna Gabaccia and Franca Iacovetta, "Women, Work, and Protest in the Italian Diaspora: An International Research Agenda," Labour/Le Travail, 42 (Fall 1998), 161-81. HOW DO WE THEORIZE global migration, family economies, and labour activism from a women-centred perspective? How ...
Queer musings on masculinity and history.
Sep 22, 1998; ... Steven Maynard, "Queer Musings on Masculinity and History," Labour/Le Travail, 42 (Fall 1998), 183-97. NOT LONG AFTER I first met Ed Jackson, an activist whose political roots go back to the early days of the gay liberation movement in Canada, he drew my attention to an article ...
Industrial relations significance of unpaid work.
Sep 22, 1998; ... Anne Forrest, "The Industrial Relations Significance of Unpaid Work," Labour/Le Travail, 42 (Fall 1998), 199-225. Introduction THE STUDY OF INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS begins with the study of work: how work is performed, by whom, under what conditions, and for which ...
Organizing the meatpacking industry in the United States (Down on the killing floor; Unionizing the jungles).
Sep 22, 1998; ... Randi Storch, "Organizing the Meatpacking Industry in the United States," Labour/Le Travail, 42 (Fall 1998), 227-33. Rick Halpern, Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago's Packinghouses, 1904-54 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press 1997). ...
Domesticity all dressed-up: gender in antebellum politics and culture (We mean to be counted; Home fronts).
Sep 22, 1998; ... Tatiana van Riemsdijk, "Domesticity all dressed-up: Gender in Antebellum Politics and Culture," Labour/Le Travail, 42 (Fall 1998), 235-42. Elizabeth Varon, We Mean to be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press ...
Ale, beer and brewsters in England: women's work in a changing world, 1300-1600.
Sep 22, 1998 ... (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press 1996). IT IS AN OLD STORY. As soon as any trade perceived as marginally profitable, lowstatus "women's work" becomes economically attractive, it becomes men's work. Women then leave what was once "their" work, and find new "women's ...
Tenant League of Prince Edward Island, 1864-1867.
Sep 22, 1998 ... (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1996). IN SHARP CONTRAST to the rest of Canada, Prince Edward Island history continues to be closely associated with the land question. That the struggle against the lease-holding system remains fresh in the folk memory of PEI well over a ...
Resettlement of British Columbia: essays on colonialism and geographical change.
Sep 22, 1998 ... (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press 1997). IN THE PAST FEW YEARS, the writing of British Columbia history has become increasingly sophisticated. Removed finally from the absurdities of "western exceptionalism," historians are now moving beyond the parochial search ...
Philosophy of railways: the transcontinental railway idea in British North America.
Sep 22, 1998 ... (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1997). HISTORIANS have long recognized the essential role played by railways in the affairs of 19th-century Canada but, as is the case with a good many other general themes in our country's past, no single book exploring the role has been ...
Angels of the workplace: women and the construction of gender relations in the Canadian clothing industry, 1890-1940.
Sep 22, 1998 ... (Toronto: Oxford University Press 1997). TWO OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS reproduced in Mercedes Steedman's fine book illustrate the larger story she tells. Young, fashionably dressed women march across the cover of Angels of the Workplace, participants in a strike against Montreal's Rose ...
Major Douglas and Alberta Social Credit.
Sep 22, 1998 ... (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1997). CANADIAN SOCIAL SCIENTISTS have long been fascinated by Alberta's embrace in 1935 of the fruitcake economic theories of Major C.H. Douglas as adapted by his Alberta follower, "Bible Bill" Aberhart. Much of the existing literature ...
Business of power: hydroelectricity in southeastern B.C.
Sep 22, 1998 ... 1897-1997 (Victoria: Sono Nis Press 1997). THIS STUDY begins with the dawn of the electrical age and the critical role hydroelectricity, particularly West Kootenay Power, played in the Kootenays and Boundary regions of southeastern BC. The story begins with the transfer of ideas ...
Struggle for Canadian sport.
Sep 22, 1998 ... Toronto: University of Toronto Press 1996). IN THIS PRODIGIOUSLY RESEARCHED and sophisticated study, Bruce Kidd, a former Canadian Olympic athlete and highly regarded sport historian and sociologist, analyzes the complex relationship of sport to national identity in Canada. The ...
Slumbering volcano: American slave ship revolts and the production of rebellious masculinity.
Sep 22, 1998 ... (Durham: Duke University Press 1997). IN THE PREFACE to Notes of a Native Son, James Baldwin observes that the conundrum of race is the "inheritance of every American." The complex fate of being an American, who is a black American, as he describes it, is trying to locate ...
Mastered by the clock: time, slavery and freedom in the American South.
Sep 22, 1998 ... (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 1997). EDWARD THOMPSON and Herbert Gutman certainly convinced historians that time is of the essence. One indispensable element turning peasants into a modern proletariat, they demonstrated, was breaking them from rural or artisan ...
Race against empire: black Americans and anti-colonialism, 1937-1957.
Sep 22, 1998 ... (Ithaca: Cornell University Press 1997). IN THE LAST DECADE, historians of African America have excavated the "lost" history of the black freedom struggle. Before being destroyed by anti-Communist forces and virtually erased from the historical record, a diverse group of labour ...
Conundrum of class: public discourse on the social order in America.
Sep 22, 1998 ... (Chicago: University of Chicago 1995). THIS SURVEY of the public discourse on class in American society and politics from the colonial era through the Gilded Age begins with the premise that class is a contested concept and goes on to examine "how Americans have conceptualized ...
Utopianism and radicalism in a reforming America, 1888-1918.
Sep 22, 1998 ... (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press 1997). ONE HAS TO ADMIRE the chutzpah of an author who in the late 1990s begins a book by quoting the Internationale. That he couples this quote with another from the Sioux Ghost Dance suggests Francis Shor's imaginative reach, and his desire to ...
Fruits of their labor: Atlantic coast farmworkers and the making of migrant poverty, 1870-1945.
Sep 22, 1998 ... (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press 1997). IN THIS FINELY CRAFTED STUDY of migrant farmworkers on the American Atlantic coast, Cindy Hahamovitch details how changing agricultural markets and production practices combined with labour distribution ...
From the knights of labor to the New World Order: essays on labor and culture.
Sep 22, 1998 ... (New York: Garland 1997). THIS INSPIRING collection of essays, written over a period of twenty years, highlights those moments in the history of United States working class insurgency when the promise of emancipatory solidarity broke through the stifling ethos of bureaucratic ...
Safety first: technology, labor, and business in the building of American work safety, 1870-1939.
Sep 22, 1998 ... (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press 1997). THIS HISTORY of work hazards and their regulation lies at the intersection of several academic disciplines but at the margins of each. Labour historians, for example, have concerned themselves with struggles for ...
Power at odds: the 1922 national railroad shopmen's strike.
Sep 22, 1998 ... (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press 1997). ACCORDING TO HISTORIAN Colin Davis, the shopmen's strike that swept the United States in the summer and fall of 1922 was a "titanic struggle among union workmen, railroad managers, local state authorities, and the federal ...
"We are all leaders": the alternative unionism of the early 1930s.
Sep 22, 1998 ... (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press 1996). THIS COLLECTION of studies of organizing in the early 1930s reflects the view that Staughton Lynd presents in his introduction: "We propose that the CIO from the beginning intended a top-down, so-called responsible ...
What do we need a union for? The TWUA in the south, 1945-1955.
Sep 22, 1998 ... (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 1997). "THE PERIOD BETWEEN 1945 and 1955 was clearly a good one for southern textile workers but a bad one for the TWUA [Textile Workers Union of America]." (199) Thus concludes Timothy Minchin in an important new study of ...
WCFL: Chicago's voice of labor, 1926-78.
Sep 22, 1998 ... (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press 1997). THIS HISTORY of North America's only labour-owned radio station contributes to both labour history and the history of broadcasting. The Chicago Federation of Labor (CFL) began the radio station WCFL as an alternative to ...
Stepping left: dance and politics in New York City, 1928-1942.
Sep 22, 1998 ... (Durham: Duke University Press 1997). THE HISTORY of modern dance in the United States is usually told as a history of aesthetic developments disconnected from broader contexts of social change and political conflict. Ellen Graff challenges that narrative in Stepping Left, ...
Woody, Cisco, & me: Seamen Three in the merchant marine.
Sep 22, 1998 ... (Urbana: University of Illinois Press 1997). OK, YOU ARE JIMMY LONGHI, and this is a day in your life. You arrive at the National Maritime Union hall in New York City, where "the flavor of the crowd was definitely old sea dog misted over by the smell of whiskey," ready to sign ...
Young Sidney Hook: marxist and pragmatist.
Sep 22, 1998 ... (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press 1997). SIDNEY HOOD ended his days as a repugnant reactionary. A Cold War warrior since the 1940s, he was, for many years, as undiluted a voice of an expansive anti-communism as one could hope to find in American academic circles ...
Whittaker Chambers: a biography.
Sep 22, 1998 ... (New York: Random House 1997). IN THE INTRODUCTION to the 1997 edition of his book on the Hiss-Chambers case, Allen Weinstein notes that the story of the two men is so bizarre and fantastic it should be written by a novelist. Actually, I have always envisioned it as an opera ....
Workers against Lenin: labour protest and the Bolshevik dictatorship.
Sep 22, 1998 ... (London and New York: I.B. Tauris Publishers 1996). AT THE BEGINNING of 1921, Lenin and the Bolsheviks found their hard-won rule of Soviet Russia under threat. The danger no longer came from without, for the civil war had been won and the 1920 war with Poland had ended, but from ...
Creating German communism, 1890-1990: from popular protests to socialist state.
Sep 22, 1998 ... (Princeton: Princeton University Press 1997). THIS IS A MOST ambitious book which examines the German Communist Party (KPD) and its successor the Socialist Unity Party (SED) from the bottom up. Eric D. Weitz sees these parties as made up of partly autonomous historical subjects, ...
Cultural marxism in postwar Britain: history, the new left, and the origins of cultural studies.
Sep 22, 1998 ... (Durham and London: Duke University Press 1997). DENNIS DWORKIN's narrative of the development and evolution of the British Marxist tradition and cultural history is a fascinating study of 20th century intellectual current and influences in both Great Britain and the historical ...
Formations of class & gender.
Sep 22, 1998 ... (London: Sage Publications 1997). FORMATIONS OF Class and Gender is a product of 12 years of research with a group of 83 white working-class women in England. Beverley Skeggs began this research for her PhD in the mid-1980s, engaging in participant observation with a group of ...
Homo economics: capitalism, community, and lesbian and gay life.
Sep 22, 1998 ... (New York: Routledge 1997). HOMO ECONOMICS is a response to the political crisis of the contemporary gay and lesbian movement in the United States: to the obvious limits of working within the Democratic party, to the right-wing attack on gays and lesbians as a privileged, ...
Farewell to the factory: auto workers in the late twentieth century.
Sep 22, 1998 ... (Berkeley: University of California Press 1997). THE PRODUCT of nearly a decade of intellectual labour, Ruth Milkman's latest book joins her other recognized books on industry and workers. Farewell to the Factory spotlights "what is happening to industrial workers and their way ...
Paying for the piper: capital and labour in Britain's offshore oil industry.
Sep 22, 1998 ... (London: Mansell 1996). PAYING FOR THE PIPER is one of the most important works to be published on the offshore oil industry and the political economy of oil. Not since the ground-breaking works in the early 1980s of Noreng and Carson has such a well-written analysis of capital ...
Workers in a lean world: unions in the international economy.
Sep 22, 1998 ... (London: Verso 1997). IF THERE IS ONE PHRASE that has come to dominate mainstream political and economic discourse over the past ten years it is "the global economy." Politicians invoke its immense rhetorical power to frame policy decision, businesspeople demand greater ...
Portraits of the Japanese workplace: labor movements, workers, and managers.
Sep 22, 1998 ... ed. Andrew Gordon, Translators Andrew Gordon and Mikiso Hane (Boulder, CO: Westview Press 1996). NOT SO VERY LONG AGO popular interest in Japan largely concerned understanding how this relatively small, resource poor country had managed to build one of the worlds' great ...
San 'ya blues: laboring life in contemporary Tokyo.
Sep 22, 1998 ... (Ithaca: Cornell University Press 1996). IN THIS FINELY crafted book, Edward Fowler joins the world of Japan's day labourers, in particular the residents of the San'ya district on the edge of Tokyo. The book begins in cinematic fashion with a gripping short prologue, ...
Cynicism and postmodernity.
Sep 22, 1998 ... (London: Verso 1997). THIS IS A CHALLENGING, rewarding critique of deconstruction, postmodern political theory, and the "inner emigration" favoured by many intellectuals today over active politics. Deconstruction, metaphysical in essence, is unsuitable as a guide to politics; ...
Fragments: cool memories III, 1991-1995.
Sep 22, 1998 ... translated by Emily Agar (London, New York: Verso Press 1997). THE DUST COVER of this, the third volume in the Cool Memories series, proclaims Jean Baudrillard "the most important French thinker of the past twenty years." Readers of this book may well be puzzled by this claim ....
Book notes / References bibliographiques.
Sep 22, 1998 ... Matthew Cullerne Bown, Socialist Realist Painting (New Haven: Yale University Press 1998). THE AUTHOR traces socialist realist painting in Russia and the Soviet Union from its roots in the 19th century to 1991. Bown challenges those who have ignored the national, ...
Getting ahead of the class: reflections on Good will hunting.
Sep 22, 1998; ... TO MY MIND, the widely acclaimed 1998 Oscar-nominated hit, Good Will Hunting, offers us a convenient example of how identity in popular American film is constructed almost exclusively according to gender and heterosexuality, at the expense of class. Good Will Hunting is particularly useful ...
Anthology of American folk music and working-class music.
Sep 22, 1998; ... HARRY SMITH'S Anthology of American Folk Music, reissued with additional notes by Smithsonian Folkways in 1997, is an award winning (Grammies for Best Historical Album and Best Album Notes) 6-CD documentary sound recording set from America's intellectual and artistic past. It uses as its ...
Speech.
Sep 22, 1998; ... THE FOLLOWING excerpt is taken from a public lecture given by Marjorie Griffen Cohen, Professor of Economics and Chair of Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University (SFU), entitled "Economic Fundamentalism and its Threat to Democracy." The address, part of the 1998 President's Lecture ...
Barristas of the world unite!
Sep 22, 1998 ... IN JULY 1997, the CAW-backed workers at nine Vancouver Starbucks outlets became the first "barristas" in North American to secure a collective agreement with the trendy, Seattle-based international coffee giant. On the first anniversary of that historical union drive, Labour/Le Travail ...