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L A B O U R / L E T R AVA I L
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REVUE D’ÉTUDES
OUVRIÈRES
CANADIENNES
SPRING
JOURNAL OF
CANADIAN LABOUR
STUDIES
2011
PRINTEMPS
ISSN 0700-3862
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labour /le travail
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Contributors / Collaborateurs spring 2011 printemps
issn : 0700–3862
7
articles
Tracey Adams Making a Living: African Canadian Workers in London,
Ontario, 1861–1901 Suzanne Mills
The Difficulty with Diversity: White and Aboriginal
Women Workers’ Representations of Diversity Management
in Forest Processing Mills
9
45
research notes / notes de recherche
Kendra Coulter
Unionizing Retail: Lessons From Young Women’s Grassroots
Organizing in the Greater Toronto Area in the 1990s
77
Yanick Noiseux
Travail atypique au Québec : les femmes au cœur de
la dynamique de centrifugation de l’emploi, 1976–2007 95
Julia Temple Newhook, Barbara Neis, Lois Jackson,
Sharon R. Roseman, Paula Romanow, and Chrissy Vincent
Employment-Related Mobility and the Health of Workers,
Families, and Communities: The Canadian Context 121
presentations / présentations
Gavin Smith
From Primitive Rebels to How to Change the World: Reflections
on Two Periods in Anthropology and History 157
Jane Stinson
A Tribute to Gilbert Levine: His Pioneering Role
in Labour Research 173
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review essays / notes critiques
Bryan D. Palmer
Profits of Doom: Spectres of Capitalist Crisis 189
Geoffrey Wood
Firms and Workers: History, Economy and Society – Institutional Approaches: New Directions and Syntheses 203
reviews / comptes rendus 215
index 293
abstracts / résumés 325
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reviews / comptes rendus
Lara Campbell, Respectable Citizens: Gender, Family, and
Unemployment in Ontario’s Great Depression, by Kurt Korneski
215
James N. McCrorie, The Guy in the Green Truck: A Biography
of John St. Amand, by Nolan Reilly
217
Benjamin Isitt, From Victoria to Vladivostok: Canada’s Siberian
Expedition, 1917–19, by Jonathan D. Smele
219
Claire Trépanier, A Woman of Valour: The Biography of
Marie-Louise Bouchard Labelle, by Kathleen Lord
221
Becki Ross, Burlesque West: Showgirls, Sex and Sin in Postwar Vancouver,
by Gerald Hunt
223
Sean Mills, The Empire Within: Postcolonial Thought and Political
Activism in Sixties Montreal, by Roberta Lexier
226
Emma LaRocque, When the Other is Me: Native Resistance Discourse,
1850–1990, by Sean Carleton
228
Ivana Caccia, Managing the Canadian Mosaic in Wartime: Shaping
Citizenship Policy, 1939–1945, by Royden Loewen
230
R. Douglas Francis, The Technological Imperative in Canada:
An Intellectual History, by Robert MacDougall
232
Michael G. Tyshenko with Cathy Paterson, sars Unmasked: Risk
Communication of Pandemics and Influenza in Canada, by Dan Zuberi
234
Norman Caulfield, NAFTA and Labor in North America,
by Ian Robinson
237
Sean T. Cadigan, Newfoundland and Labrador: A History,
by Duff Sutherland
239
Lara Vapnek, Breadwinners: Working Women and Economic Independence,
1865–1920, by Joan Sangster
242
Jennifer Guglielmo, Living the Revolution: Italian Women’s Resistance
and Radicalism in New York City, 1880–1940,
by Caroline Waldron Merithew 244
Kim Scipes, afl-cio’s Secret War against Developing Country Workers:
Solidarity or Sabotage?, by Katherine Nastovski
246
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Harvey Schwartz, Solidarity Stories: An Oral History of the ilwu,
by Bruce Nelson 248
Michael Dennis, The New Economy of the Modern South,
by Raymond A. Mohl
251
Jennifer Sherman, Those Who Work, Those Who Don’t: Poverty,
Morality and Family in Rural America, by Alan Hall
254
Paul Michael Taillon, Good, Reliable, White Men: Railroad Brotherhoods,
1877–1917, by Paul Craven
256
Francine A. Moccio, Live Wire: Women and Brotherhood in
the Electrical Industry, by Amy Bix
259
Donald Rogers, Making Capitalism Safe: Work Safety and Health Regulation
in America, 1880–1940, by Bob Barnetson
261
Si Kahn, Creative Community Organizing: A Guide for Rabble Rousers,
Activists & Quiet Lovers of Justice, by Len Wallace
263
Miguel Tinker Salas, The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and Society
in Venezuela, by John L. Hammond
266
Thomas N Bisson, The Crisis of the Twelfth Century: Power, Lordship,
and the Origins of European Government, by Peter Fleming
268
Elisa Camiscioli, Reproducing the French Race: Immigrants, Intimacy, and
Embodiment in the Early Twentieth Century, by Susan B. Whitney
271
Jürgen Kocka, ed., Work in a Modern Society – The German Historical
Experience in Comparative Perspective, by Ingo Schmidt
273
Ashwini Tambe, Codes of Misconduct: The Regulation of Prostitution
in Colonial Bombay, by Leslie Ann Jeffrey
275
Malek Abisaab, Militant Women of a Fragile Nation,
by Aziz Choudry
277
Edward W. Soja, Seeking Spatial Justice,
by Robert F. Barsky
280
Kathleen Christensen and Barbara Schneider, eds., Workplace Flexibility: Realigning 20th-Century Jobs for a 21st Century Workforce,
by Richard Pereira
282
Norene Pupo and Mark Thomas, eds., Interrogating the New Economy:
Restructuring Work in the 21st Century, by Geraldina Polanco
284
Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Commonwealth,
by Ellen L. Ramsay
286
D.W. Livingstone, ed., Education and Jobs: Exploring the Gaps,
by John Shields
289
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