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La restructuration recente des politiques sociales au Canada et au Quebec: elements d'analyse.
SINCE THE MID-1990'S, Canada and Quebec have initiated important changes to their system of social protection; the objectives of the reforms were to control public expenditure or attain zero deficit . . .

Sixty years on the margin: the evolution of Ontario's tree planting industry and labour force: 1945-2007.(Report)
THIS PAPER EXAMINES the evolution of Ontario's tree planting industry and the segmentation of its labour force since the end of World War II. To do so, it draws upon Jamie Peck's causal emphases of . . .

A communist in the council chambers: communist municipal politics, ethnicity, and the career of William Kolisnyk.
THE ELECTION OF WILLIAM KOLISNYK as alderman for Winnipeg's Ward Three in the fall of 1926 was celebrated as one of the first times that any candidate in North America running under the banner of a . . .

Fellow traveller: a British Columbia fisherman writes home from the eastern bloc, 1952.(NOTE AND DOCUMENT/NOTE ET DOCUMENT)
IN AUTUMN 1952, FISHERMAN Elgin "Scotty" Neish travelled through Eastern Europe en route to the Asia and Pacific Rim Peace Conference in Beijing, China. A member of the Labor-Progressive Party (LPP) . . .

The trouble with revisionism: or communist history with the history left in.(CONTROVERSY/POLEMIQUE)
WHATEVER ONE MAKES OF IT, communism was one of the key political forces of the 20th century. At once a party, an international, a social movement and a system of government, to say nothing of a majo . . .

German labour experiences since World War Two: a suggested interpretation.(PRESENTATION/PRESENTATION)
Introduction ABOUT A CENTURY AGO Werner Sombart, who then considered himself a socialist, published his book Why is there No Socialism in the United States? (1) He argued that capitalist advanceme . . .

Nels Anderson: a profile.(PRESENTATION/PRESENTATION)(Biography)
Introduction DR. NELS ANDERSON (1889-1986) WAS among American sociologists a pioneer whose work is only now beginning to win the recognition it deserves, especially in Europe. His ethnographic stu . . .

"Knock, knock, knockin' on heaven's door": immigrants and the guardians of privilege in Canada.(Guarding the Gates: The Canadian
David Goutor, Guarding the Gates: The Canadian Labour Movement and Immigration, 1872-1934 (Vancouver: UBC Press 2007) Franca lacovetta, Gatekeepers: Reshaping Immigrant Lives in Cold War Canada (T . . .

Chinese workers confront capitalist labour relations.(Against the Law: Labour Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt; Creating
Ching Kwan Lee, Against the Law: Labour Protests in China's Rustbelt and Sunbelt (Berkeley: University of California Press 2007) Carolyn L. Hsu, Creating Market Socialism: How Ordinary People Are . . .

The political economy of inequality--reformism or socialism?(Inequality and Prosperity: Social Europe vs. Liberal America by Jon
Jonas Pontusson, Inequality and Prosperity: Social Europe vs. Liberal America (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press 2005) JONAS PONTUSSON IS A POLITICAL science professor at Princeton University w . . .

Faction figure: James P. Cannon, early communist history, and radical faith.
Bryan D. Palmer, James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left, 1890-1928 (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press 2007) IN HIS WIDE-RANGING PORTRAIT of American life publish . . .

Ben Swankey, What's New: Memoirs of a Socialist Idealist.(Book review)
Ben Swankey, What's New: Memoirs of a Socialist Idealist (Victoria, BC: Trafford Publishing 2008) BEN SWANKEY IS a charter member of that heroic generation that built the Communist Party of Canada . . .

Michael Petrou, Renegades: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War.(Book review)
Michael Petrou, Renegades: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War (Vancouver and Toronto: University of British Columbia Press 2008) THE EMINENT CANADIAN historian Jack Granatstein has been recruited . . .

Elise Chenier, Strangers in our Midst: Sexual Deviancy in Postwar Ontario.(Book review)
Elise Chenier, Strangers in our Midst: Sexual Deviancy in Postwar Ontario (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2008) STRANGERS IN OUR MIDST is an important book for it historicizes and evaluates . . .

Gerald Hunt & David Rayside, eds., Equity, Diversity, and Canadian Labour.(Book review)
Gerald Hunt & David Rayside, eds., Equity, Diversity, and Canadian Labour (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2007) THIS PAST LABOUR Day the annual festivities in Saskatoon sought to highlight t . . .

Jean McKenzie Leiper, Bar Codes: Women in the Legal Profession.(Book review)
Jean McKenzie Leiper, Bar Codes: Women in the Legal Profession (Vancouver: UBC Press 2006) NUMEROUS BOOKS have explored the legal profession, including women's battles to gain admission to law, th . . .

Richard Allen, The View from Murney Tower: Salem Bland, the Late Victorian Controversies, and the Search for a New Christianity,
Richard Allen, The Viewfrom Murney Tower: Salem Bland, the Late Victorian Controversies, and the Search for a New Christianity, Book One. Salem Bland: A Canadian Odyssey (Toronto: University of Toro . . .

Robert O'Brien, ed., Solidarity First: Canadian Workers and Social Cohesion.(Book review)
Robert O'Brien, ed., Solidarity First: Canadian Workers and Social Cohesion (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press 2008) THIS 226-PAGE edited collection analyzes the concept and applicat . . .

Douglas C. Harris, Landing Native Fisheries: Indian Reserves and Fishing Rights in British Columbia, 1849-1925.(Book review)
Douglas C. Harris, Landing Native Fisheries: Indian Reserves and Fishing Rights in British Columbia, 1849-1925 (Vancouver: UBC Press 2008) HARRIS'S CHIEF objective in writing this book is to lend . . .

John Sutton Lutz, Makuk: a New History of Aboriginal-White Relations.(Book review)
John Sutton Lutz, Makuk: A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations (Vancouver: UBC Press 2008) JOHN SUTTON LUTZ'S Makuk: A New History of Aboriginal-White Relations offers a much needed analysis . . .

Michiko Midge Ayukawa, Hiroshima Immigrants in Canada, 1891-1941.(Book review)
Michiko Midge Ayukawa, Hiroshima Immigrants in Canada, 1891-1941 (Vancouver: UBC Press 2008) IN HIROSHIMA Immigrants in Canada, 1891-1941, Michiko Midge Ayukawa presents both a scholarly and an in . . .

Gerald Tulchinsky, Canada's Jews. A People's Journey.(Book review)
Gerald Tulchinsky, Conodo's Jews. A People's Journey (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2008) CANADA'S JEWS IS the product of Gerald Tulchinsky's life-long immersion in Canadian Jewish life and . . .

John W. Warnock, Creating a Failed State: The US and Canada in Afghanistan.(Book review)
John W. Warnock, Creating a Failed State: The US and Canada in Afghanistan (Toronto: Fernwood 2008) WHILE CANADIAN social scientists and humanists on the Left have developed parallel critical univ . . .

Richard Ziegler, Reclaiming the Canadian Left.(Book review)
Richard Ziegler, Reclaiming the Canadian Left (Ottawa: Baico Publishing Consultants 2007) IN RECLAIMING the Canadian Left, Richard Ziegler excoriates the Canadian Left (defined broadly) for failin . . .

Kiran Mirchandani and Wendy Chan, Criminalizing Race, Criminalizing Poverty: Welfare Fraud Enforcement in Canada.(Book review)
Kiran Mirchandani and Wendy Chan, Criminalizing Race, Criminalizing Poverty: Welfare Fraud Enforcement in Canada (Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing 2007) MIRCHANDANI AND Chan begin Criminalizing Race, . . .

Dimitry Anastakis, ed. The Sixties: Passion, Politics, and Style.(Book review)
Dimitry Anastakis, ed. The Sixties: Passion, Politics, and Style (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press 2008) THE STUDY OF the 'Sixties' is in full expansion. Both within and outside of Canada . . .

Leo Panitch and Colin Leys, eds. Coming to Terms with Nature: Socialist Register 2007.(Book review)
Leo Panitch and Colin Leys, eds. Coming to Terms with Nature: Socialist Register 2007 (London: Merlin; New York: Monthly Review Press; Halifax: Fernwood Publishing) IN THEIR CHARACTERISTICALLY den . . .

Chad Montrie, Making a Living: Work and Environment in the United States.(Book review)
Chad Montrie, Making a Living: Work and Environment in the United States (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 2008) HISTORY IS fundamentally the story of humans transforming the natura . . .

Joseph Gerteis, Class and the Color Line: Interracial Class Coalition in the Knights of Labor and the Populist Movement.(Book re
Joseph Gerteis, Class and the Color Line: Interracial Class Coalition in the Knights of Labor and the Populist Movement (Durham and London: Duke University Press 2007) JOSEPH GERTEIS' BOOK is a va . . .

Robert M. Zieger, For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865.(Book review)
Robert M. Zieger, For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America since 1865 (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky 2007) IT COMES ACROSS well in this pungent book that the history of us lab . . .

Kim Moody, US Labor in Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform from Above, the Promise of Revival from Below.
Kim Moody, US Labor in Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform from Above, the Promise of Revival from Below (London: Verso 2007) IN MARCH 2005, hundreds of tomato pickers in Immokalee, Flor . . .

Scott Martelle, Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West.(Book review)
Scott Martelle, Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press 2007) IN THE UNITED STATES between 1911 and 1915, bitterly contes . . .

Ellen Dannin, Taking Back the Workers' Law: How to Fight the Assault on Labor Rights.(Book review)
Ellen Dannin, Taking Back the Workers" Law: How to Fight the Assault on Labor Rights (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press 2006) THE WEEK I RECEIVED this book the Alberta government introdu . . .

Robert Pollin, Mark Brenner, Jeannette Wicks-Lim, and Stephanie Luce, A Measure of Fairness: The Economics of Living Wages and M
Robert Pollin, Mark Brenner, Jeannette Wicks-Lim, and Stephanie Luce, A Measure of Fairness: The Economics of Living Wages and Minimum Wages in the United States (Ithaca: Cornell University Press 20 . . .

Brian Steensland, The Failed Welfare Revolution: America's Struggle over Guaranteed Income Policy.(Book review)
Brian Steensland, The Failed Welfare Revolution: America's Struggle over Guaranteed Income Policy (Princeton: Princeton University Press 2008) SYMBOLIC POLLUTION is the cultural theme to be derive . . .

David Barber, A Hard Rain Fell: SDS and Why It Failed.(Book review)
David Barber, A Hard Rain Fell: SDS and Why It Failed (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi 2008) DAVID BARBER HAS written an interesting book about the failure of Students for a Democratic So . . .

Bess Lomax Hawes, Sing It Pretty: A Memoir.(Book review)
Bess Lomax Hawes, Sing It Pretty: A Memoir (Urbana: University of Illinois Press 2008) BESS LOMAX HAWES has finally captured some of her fascinating story in this rich autobiography, although it i . . .

Lillian Pollak, The Sweetest Dream: Love, Lies, & Assassination.(Book review)
Lillian Pollak, The Sweetest Dream: Love, Lies, & Assassination (New York, Bloomington, Shanghai: iUniverse, Inc. 2008) FEW NOVELS ADDRESS the experience of United States Trotskyism. Harvey Swados . . .

Laura Gotkowitz, A Revolution for our Rights: Indigenous Struggles for Land and Justice in Bolivia, 1880-1952.(Book review)
Laura Gotkowitz, A Revolution for our Rights: Indigenous Struggles for Land and Justice in Bolivia, 1880-1952 (Durham: Duke University Press 2007) THE MASSACRE of nearly 30 innocent, unarmed civil . . .

Alejandra Bronfman, On the Move: The Caribbean since 1989.(Book review)
Alejandra Bronfman, On the Move: The Caribbean since 1989 (Halifax: Fernwood Publishing; London: Zed Books 2007) THE CARIBBEAN IS a paradoxical collection of nations. Travelers come from all over . . .

Anthony J. Barbieri-Low, Artisans in Early Imperial China.(Book review)
Anthony J. Barbieri-Low, Artisans in Early Imperial China (Seattle: University of Washington Press 2007) ONE OF THE GREAT ancient civilizations of the world, China is well known for its dazzling m . . .

Kate Bronfenbrenner, ed., Global Unions: Challenging Transnational Capital through Cross-Border Campaigns.
Kate Bronfenbrenner, ed., Global Unions: Challenging Transnational Capital through Cross-Border Campaigns (Ithaca and London: ILR Press 2007) ON FEBRUARY 9, 2006, this reviewer flew from Toronto t . . .

Geraldine Terry, Women's Rights.(Book review)
Geraldine Terry, Women's Rights (Halifax: Fernwood Press 2007) WOMEN'S RIGHTS is part of Oxfam's "Small Guides to Big Issues," a series of resource books designed for and written by people who are . . .

Gregory Clark, A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World.(Book review)
Gregory Clark, A Farewell to Aims: A Brief Economic History of the World (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press 2008) GREGORY CLARK'S brief economic history of the world seeks to explai . . .

Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson, Social Murder and Other Shortcomings of Conservative Economics.(Book review)
Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson, Social Murder and Other Shortcomings of Conservative Economics (Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring 2007) WHILE NOT WRITTEN as a history book, this small volume explores the s . . .

Cynthia Comacchio, Janet Golden, and George Weisz, eds. Healing the World's Children: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child He
Cynthia Comacchio, Janet Golden, and George Weisz, eds. Healing the World's Children: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Child Health in the Twentieth Century (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's P . . .

Wolfgang Sachs and Tilman Santarius, Fair Future: Resource Conflicts, Security and Global Justice.(Book review)
Wolfgang Sachs and Tilman Santarius, Fair Future: Resource Conflicts, Security and Global Justice (Black Point, NS: Fernwood Publishing Company 2007) IN 1987 THE RELEASE of the Brundtland Commissi . . .

Cent jours dans la vie des Campivallensiennes. La greve de 1946 a Salaberry-de-Valleyfield.
ABSTRACTS / RESUMES THE HISTORIOGRAPHY OF QUEBEC is replete with studies on the working-class movement and its repercussions on labour legislation and the like. However, very few researchers have . . .

Les absences au travail dans les mines de Kirkland Lake, 1927-1943 : conges, fins de semaine et vacances annuelles.(Report)
ABSTRACTS / RESUMES BASED UPON THE PAYROLL and personnel files from two mining companies in Kirkland Lake, the Lake Shore Gold Mines and the Wright-Hargreaves Mines, this paper examines the signif . . .

Race, gender, class, and colonial nationalism: railway development in Newfoundland, 1881-1898.
ABSTRACTS / RESUMES HISTORIANS HAVE LONG NOTED that policies of "progress" were integral to men and women throughout northern North America in the 19th century. A range of scholars have commented . . .