Labour/Le Travail articles from September 2004

Labour/Le Travail archives from September 2004

"Severing the Connections in a Complex Community": The Grange, the Patrons of Industry and the Construction/ Contestation of a Late 19th-Century Agrarian Identity in Ontario
September 22, 2004... THE LEADERSHIP of the Patrons of Husbandry and the Patrons of Industry in late 19th-century Ontario offered ideological visions of class harmony, the promise of united political action through antipartyism, and the assurance of material...

Setting the Minimum: Ontario's Employment Standards in the Postwar Years, 1944-1968
September 22, 2004... MINIMUM LABOUR STANDARDS are legally established standards that apply to most employers and employees, and include minimum wages, maximum hours of work, overtime, and paid time off. The regulation of minimum standards in Ontario was consolidated...

The Dredger's Daughter: Courtship and Marriage in the Baptist Community of Welland, Ontario, 1934-1944
September 22, 2004... IN 1924 SIXTEEN-YEAR-OLD KAY CHETLEY, along with her parents Jennie and Robert, and her sister Roberta, moved to the industrial city of Welland, Ontario. Kay was raised in east Saint John, New Brunswick where her father worked as a stationary...

The State of Writing on the Canadian Welfare State: What's Class Got to Do with It?
September 22, 2004... SINCE 1979, THE MAJOR SYNTHESIS on the history of the welfare state in Canada has been Dennis Guest's The Emergence of Social Security in Canada. Revised twice, most recently in 1997, Guest's overview is a workmanlike presentation of the...

Race and revolution.(Review Essays/Notes critiques)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Barbara Foley, Spectres of 1919: Class & Nation in the Making of the New Negro (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2003) Max Shachtman, Race & Revolution: A Lost Chapter in American Radicalism edited and introduced by...

Power and agency in Newfoundland and Labrador's history.(Review Essays/Notes critiques)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Gerald Sider, Between History and Tomorrow." Making and Breaking Everyday Life in Rural Newfoundland (Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press 2003) Jerry Bannister, The Rule of the Admirals: Law, Custom and Naval Government in Newfoundland,...

Revisiting deficit hysteria.(Review Essays/Notes critiques)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Tim Lewis, In the Long Run We Are All Dead: The Canadian Turn to Fiscal Restraint (Vancouver: UBC Press 2003) Janice Mackinnon, Minding the Public Purse: The Fiscal Crisis, Political Trade-offs and Canada's Future (Montreal and Kingston:...

Linda K. Cullum, Narratives at Work: Women, Men, Unionization, and the Fashioning of Identities.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Linda K. Cullum, Narratives at Work: Women, Men, Unionization, and the Fashioning of Identities (St. John's: ISER 2003) HOW WOULD you explore the oral history of a union of which the members have no memory? The Ladies Cold Storage Workers...

Stefano Harney, State Work: Public Administration and Mass Intellectuality.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Stefano Harney, State Work: Public Administration and Mass Intellectuality (Durham and London: Duke University Press 2002) STEFANO HARNEY's State Work ends with the observation that the state, as an object of Left/social movement...

Yonatan Reshef and Sandra Rastin, Unions in the Time of Revolution: Government and Restructuring in Alberta and Ontario.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Yonatan Reshef and Sandra Rastin, Unions in the Time of Revolution: Government and Restructuring in Alberta and Ontario (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2003) IF A PERSON had their choice of occupations during the 1990s, the role of...

Maureen G. Reed, Taking Stands: Gender and the Sustainability of Rural Communities.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Maureen G. Reed, Taking Stands: Gender and the Sustainability of Rural Communities (Vancouver: UBC Press 2003) TAKING STANDS is a thought-provoking book of great interest to researchers, activists, and policy makers. Focusing on women's...

Susan Prentice, ed., Changing Child Care: Five Decades of Child Care Advocacy and Policy in Canada.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Susan Prentice, ed., Changing Child Care: Five Decades of Child Care Advocacy and Policy in Canada (Halifax: Fernwood Publishing 200l) THIS ANTHOLOGY on child care history and practice fills a gap in the literature on the Canadian welfare...

Peter Sawchuk, Adult Learning and Technology in Working-Class Life.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Peter Sawchuk, Adult Learning and Technology in Working-Class Life (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2003) IN A BOOK that will surely invite the critical attention of labour educators, as well as researchers from a variety of...

Mark Kristmanson, Plateaus of Freedom: Nationality, Culture, and State Security in Canada, 1940-1960.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Mark Kristmanson, Plateaus of Freedom: Nationality, Culture, and State Security in Canada, 1940-1960 (Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press 2003) "GREAT IS TRUTH, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about...

Ann Silversides, AIDS Activist, Michael Lynch and the Politics of Community.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Ann Silversides, AIDS Activist, Michael Lynch and the Politics of Community (Toronto: Between the Lines 2003) I FIND IT DIFFICULT to review a book about someone whom I used to know and work with politically who is now dead. But, as...

Christopher MacLennan, Toward the Charter: Canadians and the Demand for a National Bill of Rights, 1929-1960.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Christopher MacLennan, Toward the Charter: Canadians and the Demand for a National Bill of Rights, 1929-1960 (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press 2003) IN 1960, ONE OF THE MOST disappointing pieces of legislation ever passed by the...

Wendy Mitchinson, Giving Birth in Canada, 1900-1950.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Wendy Mitchinson, Giving Birth in Canada, 1900-1950 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2002) WENDY MITCHINSON's book, Giving Birth in Canada, is a wonderfully rich and comprehensive social history of the controversies, practices, and...

Rae Bridgman, Safe Haven: the Story of a Shelter for Homeless Women.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Rae Bridgman, Safe Haven: The Story of a Shelter for Homeless Women (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2003) SAFE HAVEN is an important contribution to the literature on strategies to address homelessness. In this anthropological study...

Kelly Gorkoff and Jane Runner, eds. Being Heard. The Experiences of Young Women in Prostitution.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Kelly Gorkoff and Jane Runner, eds. Being Heard. The Experiences of Young Women in Prostitution (Winnipeg: Fernwood Publishing and Winnipeg: RESOLVE (Research and Education for Solutions to Violence and Abuse) 2003) THIS BOOK is based on...

Craig Heron, Booze: a Distilled History.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Craig Heron, Booze: A Distilled History (Toronto: Between the Lines 2003) DO NOT BE FOOLED by the ambiguous title. Booze is a Canadian tour de force, a social history of alcohol from New France to the new millennium. It is deftly...

Jonathan Swainger and Constance Backhouse, eds., People and Place: Historical Influences on Legal Culture.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Jonathan Swainger and Constance Backhouse, eds., People and Place: Historical Influences on Legal Culture (Vancouver: UBC Press 2003) ACCORDING TO THE UBC Press Marketing Department promotion for People and Place: Historical Influences on...

Ken Moffat, A Poetics of Social Work: Personal Agency and Social Transformation in Canada, 1920-1939.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Ken Moffat, A Poetics of Social Work: Personal Agency and Social Transformation in Canada, 1920-1939 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2001) WHY SHOULD social workers help the poor? With what aims? In the name of which principles?...

Jean Barman, Sojourning Sisters: the Lives and Letters of Jessie and Annie McQueen.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Jean Barman, Sojourning Sisters: The Lives and Letters of Jessie and Annie McQueen (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2003) SOJOURNING SISTERS is a vivid biographical portrait of the lives of Jessie and Annie McQueen, two Presbyterian...

Phillip Hansen, Taxing Illusions: Taxation, Democracy and Embedded Political Theory.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Phillip Hansen, Taxing Illusions: Taxation, Democracy and Embedded Political Theory (Halifax: Fernwood Publishing 2003) IN THIS ENGAGING little book, Phillip Hansen attempts two interrelated assignments. On the one hand the book is an...

Jean Lamarre, the French Canadians of Michigan: Their Contribution to the Development of the Saginaw Valley and the Keweenaw Peninsula, 1840-1914
September 22, 2004... "[T]HE MOBILITY of the French Canadians was a fundamental trait that demands examination if the continuity of the Quebec identity is to be fully understood." (7) Jean Lamarre examines this mobility in his study of the migration of...

Nelson Lichtenstein, State of the Union: a Century of American Labor.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Nelson Lichtenstein, State of the Union: A Century of American Labor (Princeton: Princeton University Press 2002) NELSON LICHTENSTEIN's book combines a survey of American labour history since the 1930s with an assessment of what went...

Dan Clawson, The Next Upsurge: Labor and the New Social Movements.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Dan Clawson, The Next Upsurge: Labor and the New Social Movements (Ithaca: Cornell University Press 2003) MOST CANADIAN trade unionists know just how weak the American labour movement is. We usually respond with concerns about the power...

Stephen H. Norwood, Strikebreaking and Intimidation: Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Stephen H. Norwood, Strikebreaking and Intimidation: Mercenaries and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century America (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 2002) OVER THE PAST 30 years or so, American social historians have directed...

David W. Noble, Death of a Nation: American Culture and the End of Exceptionalism.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... David W. Noble, Death of a Nation: American Culture and the End of Exceptionalism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press 2002) IT IS NOT AN OVERSTATEMENT to say that this book is David W. Noble's magnum opus. Between the covers is a...

Susanna Delfino and Michele Gillespie, eds. Neither Lady Nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Susanna Delfino and Michele Gillespie, eds. Neither Lady Nor Slave: Working Women of the Old South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 2002) WITH THIS VOLUME, editors Susanna Delfino and Michele Gillespie have furthered the...

Matt Garcia, a World of its Own: Race, Labour and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900-1970.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Matt Garcia, A World of its Own: Race, Labour and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900-1970 (Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press 2001) TO UNDERSTAND the history and culture of southern California...

Susan M. Sterett, Public Pensions: Gender and Civic Service in the States, 1850-1937.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Susan M. Sterett, Public Pensions: Gender and Civic Service in the States, 1850-1937 (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press 2003) PUBLIC PENSIONS provides a fascinating exploration of the history of pensions paid by American state...

Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner, A Very Dangerous Citizen, Abraham Lincoln Polonsky and the Hollywood Left.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Paul Buhle and Dave Wagner, A Very Dangerous Citizen, Abraham Lincoln Polonsky and the Hollywood Left (Berkeley: University of California Press 2001) A LIFE AS INTERESTING as that of Abraham Polonsky, the American writer and sometime...

Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, and Heather Boushey, The State of Working America 2002/2003.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Lawrence Mishel, Jared Bernstein, and Heather Boushey, The State of Working America 2002/2003 (Ithaca, NY: ILR Press 2003) ON THE DEDICATION page of this latest biennial update of the Economic Policy Institute's analysis of income and...

John McMillian and Paul Buhle, eds., The New Left Revisited.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... John McMillian and Paul Buhle, eds., The New Left Revisited (Philadelphia: Temple University Press 2003) JOHN McMILLIAN launches New Left Revisited on a political note. "[C]onservatives have taken the New Left both too seriously and not...

Michael Newman, Ralph Miliband and the Politics of the New Left.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Michael Newman, Ralph Miliband and the Politics of the New Left (London: Merlin Press 2002) THIS THOROUGH BOOK provides a fascinating account of the life, political concerns and involvements, and intellectual output of Ralph Miliband. It...

Priscilla Metscher, James Connolly and the Reconquest of Ireland, Special Issue, Nature, Society and Thought: a Journal of Dialectical and Historical Materialism.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Priscilla Metscher, James Connolly and the Reconquest of Ireland, Special Issue, Nature, Society and Thought: A Journal of Dialectical and Historical Materialism (University of Minnesota 2001) JAMES CONNOLLY, born in the slums of...

Paul B. Miller, From Revolutionaries to Citizens: Antimilitarism in France, 1870-1914.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Paul B. Miller, From Revolutionaries to Citizens: Antimilitarism in France, 1870-1914 (Durham and London: Duke University Press 2002) THE ROLE of the French antimilitarist Left in the years before World War I and its apparent "collapse"...

Paul G. Buchanan and Kate Nicholls, Labour Politics in Small Open Democracies: Australia, Chile, Ireland, New Zealand and Uruguay.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Paul G. Buchanan and Kate Nicholls, Labour Politics in Small Open Democracies: Australia, Chile, Ireland, New Zealand and Uruguay (New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2003) MARKET-ORIENTED reforms have swept much of the world over the past two...

Donna R. Gabaccia and Franca Iacovetta, eds., Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives: Italian Workers of the World.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Donna R. Gabaccia and Franca Iacovetta, eds., Women, Gender, and Transnational Lives: Italian Workers of the World (Toronto: University of Toronto Press 2002) GABACCIA AND IACOVETTA have organized a volume that demonstrates the benefits...

Jan Kok, ed., Rebellious Families: Household Strategies and Collective Action in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Jan Kok, ed., Rebellious Families: Household Strategies and Collective Action in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (New York: Berghahn Books 2002) THE TITLE of this collection is somewhat misleading. One of its two main goals is to...

Gisela Bock, Women in European History.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Gisela Bock, Women in European History (Oxford: Blackwell 2002) GISELA BOCK's book is a welcome addition to the growing number of texts that take a comparative approach to women's history in Europe. Bock's contribution is a distinctive...

Estelle B. Freedman, No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Estelle B. Freedman, No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of Women (New York: Ballantine Books 2002) WITH GREAT SKILL, historian Estelle B. Freedman synthesizes an enormous amount of interdisciplinary scholarship in...

Lynn M. Thomas, Politics of the Womb: Women, Reproduction, and the State in Kenya.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Lynn M. Thomas, Politics of the Womb: Women, Reproduction, and the State in Kenya (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press 2003) POLITICS OF THE WOMB presents a unique and convincing narrative of an "uneven...

Phyllis Moen, ed., It's About Time: Couples and Careers.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Phyllis Moen, ed., It's About Time: Couples and Careers (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press 2003) THIS BOOK demolishes some myths as well as reinforcing a number of widespread assumptions. The major myth that is demolished is...

Christopher J. Arthur, The New Dialectic and Marx's Capital.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Christopher J. Arthur, The New Dialectic and Marx's Capital (Leiden: Brill 2002) CHRISTOPHER ARTHUR has devoted much of his scholarly life to studying the relation between Marx's Capital and Hegel's Logic. This is a collection of essays,...

Book notes / references bibliographiques.(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Doug Smith, How to Tax a Billionaire : Project Loophole and the Campaign for Tax Fairness (Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring 2002) IN 1996, THE Auditor-General's report revealed that a wealthy family, likely the Bronfmans, had been allowed by the...

Recent publications in Canadian labour history / travaux recents en histoire des classes populaires canadiennes.(Bibliography / Bibliographie)(Book Review)
September 22, 2004... Books/Livres Amyot, Chantal et John Willis. Le courier est arrive! La poste rurale au Canada de 1880 a 1945. Gatineau : Musee canadien des civilisations, 2003. Beaton, Marilyn and Jeanette Walsh. From the Voices of Nurses: An Oral...