Labour/Le Travail articles from March 22 2007

Labour/Le Travail archives from March 22 2007

Globalization and the New Modes of Activism.(Globalization and Social Exclusion: A Transformationalist Perspective)(Global Citizens: Social Movements and the Challenge of Globalization)(Identity, Place, Knowledge: Social Movements Contesting Globalization)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Ronaldo Munck, Globalization and Social Exclusion: A Transformationalist Perspective (Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press 2005) Marjorie Mayo, Global Citizens: Social Movements and the Challenge of Globalization (Toronto and London: CSPI/Zed...

Jean-Claude Parrot, My Union, My Life: Jean-Claude Parrot and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Jean-Claude Parrot, My Union, My Life: Jean-Claude Parrot and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (Black Point, NS: Fernwood Publishing 2005) EVEN CANADIANS who know little of this country's history of organized labour may recognize the...

Cynthia J. Cranford, Judy Fudge, Eric Tucker, and Leah F. Vosko, Self-Employed Workers Organize: Law, Policy, and Unions.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Cynthia J. Cranford, Judy Fudge, Eric Tucker, and Leah F. Vosko, Self-Employed Workers Organize: Law, Policy, and Unions (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press 2005) THIS BOOK analyses the efforts of self-employed workers in four...

Leslie A. Robertson, Imagining Difference: Legend, Curse, and Spectacle in a Canadian Mining Town.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Leslie A. Robertson, Imagining Difference: Legend, Curse, and Spectacle in a Canadian Mining Town (Vancouver: UBC Press 2005) THIS IS A COMPLEX BOOK. It is built on two foundations: eighteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in Fernie,...

Philip Girard, Bora Laskin: Bringing Law to Life.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Philip Girard, Bora Laskin: Bringing Law to Life (Toronto: The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, University of Toronto Press 2005) THIS BIOGRAPHY is a new volume produced by the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. Its...

James Sacouman and Henry Veltmeyer, eds., From the net to the Net: Atlantic Canada in the Global Economy.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... James Sacouman and Henry Veltmeyer, eds., From the net to the Net: Atlantic Canada in the Global Economy (Aurora: Garamond Press 2005) EVERY TIME I sit down to write this review, the same image comes to mind: it is of a bearded man, about...

Daiva K. Stasiulis and Abigail B. Bakan, Negotiating Citizenship: Migrant Women in Canada and the Global System.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Daiva K. Stasiulis and Abigail B. Bakan, Negotiating Citizenship: Migrant Women in Canada and the Global System (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2005) NEGOTIATING CITIZENSHIP is an important contribution to the theoretical and...

Anna Pratt, Securing Borders: Detention and Deportation in Canada.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Anna Pratt, Securing Borders: Detention and Deportation in Canada (Vancouver and Toronto: UBC Press 2005) IN THE POST-9/11 world the issue of who gains access to a country, under what conditions they might enter, and for what causes they...

Catherine Carstairs, Jailed for Possession. Illegal Drug Use, Regulation, and Power in Canada, 1920-1961.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Catherine Carstairs, Jailed for Possession. Illegal Drug Use, Regulation, and Power in Canada, 1920-1961 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2006) ON AN ALMOST DAILY BASIS, the public is engaged in debate around issues arising from...

Gregory J. Inwood, Continentalizing Canada: The Politics and Legacy of the Macdonald Royal Commission.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Gregory J. Inwood, Continentalizing Canada: The Politics and Legacy of the Macdonald Royal Commission (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2005) THIS IS A TIMELY and very important book. For those of us old enough to remember the debate...

Jeffrey A. Keshen, Saints, Sinners, and Soldiers: Canada's Second World War.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Jeffrey A. Keshen, Saints, Sinners, and Soldiers: Canada's Second World War (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press 2004) FOR OVER 30 years, J.L. Granatstein's Canada's War has remained the standard account of the Canadian...

Mary Kinnear, Woman of the World. Mark, McGeachy and International Cooperation.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Mary Kinnear, Woman of the World. Mark, McGeachy and International Cooperation (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2004) FROM THE AGE of 27, Ontario-born Mary McGeachy was based in Geneva, as an officer of the Information Section of the...

Jennifer Gordon, Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Jennifer Gordon, Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2005) SUBURBAN SWEATSHOPS is a most unusual book. Written by a lawyer possessed of both a keen sense of social...

Josiah Bartlett Lambert, "If the Workers Took a Notion": The Right to Strike and American Political Development.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Josiah Bartlett Lambert, "If the Workers Took a Notion ": The Right to Strike and American Political Development (Ithaca, NY: ILR Press 2005) STRIKE ACTIVITY has declined in the United States since the immediate post-World War II years....

Ellen Reese, Backlash Against Welfare Mothers: Past and Present.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Ellen Reese, Backlash Against Welfare Mothers: Past and Present (Berkeley: University of California 2005) ELLEN REESE, a sociologist who studies social movements, offers a compelling narrative of the creation of the powerful conservative...

William DiFazio, Ordinary Poverty: A Little Food and Cold Storage.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... William DiFazio, Ordinary Poverty: A Little Food and Cold Storage (Philadelphia: Temple University Press 2006) A GLOBE AND MAIL opinion piece, entitled "Time for a Fair Deal for Low-Income Canadians" (1 June 2006) noted that the United...

Samuel W. White, Fragile Alliances: Labor and Politics in Evansville, Indiana, 1919-1955.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Samuel W. White, Fragile Alliances: Labor and Politics in Evansville, Indiana, 1919-1955 (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers 2005) GIVEN ORGANIZED labour's political decline, the rise of conservative political economic visions, and the...

Don Mitchell, The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Don Mitchell, The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space (New York and London: Guilford Press 2003) DON MITCHELL's The Right to the City makes an original contribution to an expanding literature on contested...

James N. Gregory, The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... James N. Gregory, The Southern Diaspora: How the Great Migrations of Black and White Southerners Transformed America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 2005) JAMES GREGORY's new book is ambitious. From a scholarly...

Peter Wallenstein, Tell the Court I Love My Wife: Race, Marriage and Law--An American History.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Peter Wallenstein, Tell the Court I Love My Wife: Race, Marriage and Law--An American History (New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2004) AS THE TITLE suggests, this is an ambitious work which narrates a national story of the history of...

Curry Malott and Milagros Pena, Punk Rockers' Revolution: A Pedagogy of Race, Class, and Gender.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Curry Malott and Milagros Pena, Punk Rockers' Revolution: A Pedagogy of Race, Class, and Gender (New York: Peter Lang 2004) ACCORDING to the authors of this book, punk rock is about estrangement from, and opposition to, capitalist...

Sanford M. Jacoby, The Embedded Corporation: Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Sanford M. Jacoby, The Embedded Corporation: Corporate Governance and Employment Relations in Japan and the United States (Princeton: Princeton University Press 2004) IN RECENT DECADES, swelling capital flows and trade have rendered...

Steven Kettell, Dirty Politics?: New Labour, British Democracy and the Invasion of Iraq.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Steven Kettell, Dirty Politics?: New Labour, British Democracy and the Invasion of Iraq (London and New York: Zed Books 2006) STEVEN KETTELL, like many other people, is puzzled by Tony Blair's decision to participate in the American-led...

Sam Moyo and Paris Yeros, eds., Reclaiming the Land: The Resurgence of Rural Movements in Africa, Asia and Latin America.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Sam Moyo and Paris Yeros, eds., Reclaiming the Land: The Resurgence of Rural Movements in Africa, Asia and Latin America (London: Zed Books 2005) THIS BOOK refocuses the academic discussion of land reform to its due status as central to...

Deborah Eade and Alan Leather, eds., Development NGOs and Labor Unions: Terms of Engagement.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Deborah Eade and Alan Leather, eds., Development NGOs and Labor Unions: Terms of Engagement (Bloomfield, CY: Kumarian Press 2005) MOST OF the authors of this fascinating collection of essays have worked on both sides of two divides: the...

Hilton L. Root, Capital and Collusion: The Political Logic of Global Economic Development.( )(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Hilton L. Root, Capital and Collusion: The Political Logic of Global Economic Development (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press 2006) THIS BOOK is an important addition to the now voluminous literature on global economic...

David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... David Harvey, A Brief History of Neoliberalism (New York: Oxford University Press 2005) "NEOLIBERALISM is in the first instance a theory of political economic practices that proposes that human well-being can best be advanced by...

Bruno Gulli, Labor of Fire: The Ontology of Labor between Economy and Culture.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Bruno Gulli, Labor of Fire: The Ontology of Labor between Economy and Culture (Philadelphia: Temple University Press 2005) AN INTEREST in Marx's work flourished among Western scholars between the mid-1960s and the late 1980s, but since...

Bonnie Smith, ed., Women's History in Global Perspective, 3 vols.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Bonnie Smith, ed., Women's History in Global Perspective, 3 vols. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press 2004) ONE OF THE MORE arduous yet intellectual challenges of teaching at a small liberal arts university in a conservative...

Edward Shorter, Written in the Flesh: A History of Desire.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Edward Shorter, Written in the Flesh: A History of Desire (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2005) IN HIS LATEST BOOK, Written in the Flesh: A History of Desire, Edward Shorter, the current Jason A. Hannah Chair in the History of...

Paola Monzini, Sex Traffic. Prostitution, Crime and Exploitation.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Paola Monzini, Sex Traffic. Prostitution, Crime and Exploitation (New York: Zed 2005) PAOLA MONZINI's Sex Traffic is a clear, mainstream overview of the "traffic in women." Monzini sets out to explain to a non-specialist audience the...

Robert A. Pape, Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism.(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Robert A. Pape, Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism (New York: Random House 2005) TREMENDOUS CHANGES have taken place in the publishing industry and especially in academic publishing over the past decades with the...

Kalli Beck, Chris Bowes, Gary Kinsmen, Mercedes Steedman, and Peter Suschnigg, eds., Mine Mill Fights Back: Mine Mill/CAW Local 598 Strike 2000-2001.(BOOKNOTES / REFERENCES BIBLIOGRAPHIQUES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Kalli Beck, Chris Bowes, Gary Kinsmen, Mercedes Steedman, and Peter Suschnigg, eds., Mine Mill Fights Back: Mine Mill/CAW Local 598 Strike 2000-2001 (Sudbury: Mine Mill n.d.) THIS IS AN EFFORT to provide a readable history of a key strike...

Katie Pickles and Myra Rutherford, eds., Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada's Colonial Past.(BOOKNOTES / REFERENCES BIBLIOGRAPHIQUES)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Katie Pickles and Myra Rutherford, eds., Contact Zones: Aboriginal and Settler Women in Canada's Colonial Past (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press 2005) THIS IS A SET of readings that explores women's historical experiences...

Cheryl Krasnick Warsh and Veronica Strong-Boag, eds., Children's Health Issues in Historical Perspective.(BOOKNOTES / REFERENCES BIBLIOGRAPHIQUES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Cheryl Krasnick Warsh and Veronica Strong-Boag, eds., Children's Health Issues in Historical Perspective (Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2005) THIS IS AN ambitious collection of essays on the evolution of child public...

Michael D. Mehta, Risky Business: Nuclear Power and Public Protest in Canada.(BOOKNOTES / REFERENCES BIBLIOGRAPHIQUES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Michael D. Mehta, Risky Business: Nuclear Power and Public Protest in Canada (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books 2005) THE DURHAM Nuclear Awareness [DNA] was a grassroots movement that mobilized opposition to the relicensing of the Pickering...

John W. Warnock, Saskatchewan: The Roots of Discontent and Protest.(BOOKNOTES
March 22, 2007... John W. Warnock, Saskatchewan: The Roots of Discontent and Protest (Montreal: Black Rose Books 2004) WARNOCK IS perhaps the most perceptive political economist of Saskatchewan, but some will find the focus of his latest book too narrowly...

Jonathan Cutler, Labor's Time: Shorter Hours, the UAW, and the Struggle for American Unionism.(BOOKNOTES / REFERENCES BIBLIOGRAPHIQUES)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 22, 2007... Jonathan Cutler, Labor's Time: Shorter Hours, the UAW, and the Struggle for American Unionism (Philadelphia: Temple University Press 2004) THIS BOOK focuses on Local 6000 of the UAW, a Ford local with 60,000 members of whom over a...