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La restructuration recente des politiques sociales au Canada et au Quebec: elements d'analyse.(social protection reforms in Canada and Quebec)(Report)
March 22, 2009... 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, improve the efficiency of social policies, particularly in relation to employment incentives,...

Sixty years on the margin: the evolution of Ontario's tree planting industry and labour force: 1945-2007.(Report)
March 22, 2009... 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 labour market segmentation: labour demand, labour supply, and the state. Concomitantly, it...

A communist in the council chambers: communist municipal politics, ethnicity, and the career of William Kolisnyk.(Report)
March 22, 2009... 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 Communist Party was elected to public office. Although he was only an alderman for four years,...

Fellow traveller: a British Columbia fisherman writes home from the eastern bloc, 1952.(NOTE AND DOCUMENT/NOTE ET DOCUMENT)(Elgin Neish's travel to the 1952 Asia and Pacific Rim Peace Conference in China)
March 22, 2009... 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), as the Communist Party was then called, Neish penned letters home during his seven week trip...

The trouble with revisionism: or communist history with the history left in.(CONTROVERSY/POLEMIQUE)(Essay)
March 22, 2009... 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 major pole of ideological and cultural attraction, the global extension of its influence helped...