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Sailing School Supplemental Notes
(Feb-19) Schotte, Margaret
Supplemental Notes to accompany the monograph: Margaret E. Schotte, "Sailing School: Navigating Science and Skill, 1550-1800." Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.
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Charity and Change: Montreal's English Protestant Charity Faces the Crisis of Depression
(Urban History Review / Revue d'histoire urbaine, 1987-6) MacLennan, Anne
Durant les années trente, tous les organismes charitables tant publics que privés, à travers le Canada, doivent s'adapter aux nouvelles circonstances engendrées par la Dépression. La crise est ressentie de façon particulièrement aiguë par le Montreal Council of Social Agencies, une organisation de la minorité protestante anglophone, dans une ville peu encline à accepter sa part de responsabilité au niveau des services publics. Le Conseil se voit contraint d'assumer le fardeau des services d'assistance destinés aux membres de sa communauté. La Dépression provoque un bouleversement brusque et à long terme des opérations du Conseil l'obligeant ainsi à réévaluer et à réaffirmer son rôle au sein des services sociaux. Par conséquent, le Montreal Council of Social Agencies exerce des pressions sur les autorités municipales, provinciales et fédérales, les incitant à s'impliquer davantage dans l'assistance sociale afin d'alléger les problèmes immédiats et potentiels. Il est important de souligner que durant les années trente, le Montreal Council of Social Agencies s'appuie sur les principes de la Charity Organization Society. Ces principes n 'ont pas fléchi durant cette crise, au contraire ils se sont maintenus et consolidés.
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Die Bedeutung der Werke und Theorien Norbert Elias' für die Erforschung der Frühen Neuzeit
(1990) Reisenleitner, Markus
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‘I have embraced the White man's religion’: Relations between the Peguis Band and the Church Missionary Society in the Red River Valley, 1820-1838
(Algonquian Conference, 1995) Podruchny, Carolyn
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Festivities, Fortitude and Fraternalism: Fur Trade Masculinity and the Beaver Club, 1785-1827
(Michigan State University Press, 1998) Podruchny, Carolyn
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Unfair Masters and Rascally Servants? Labour Relations between Bourgeois, Clerks and Voyageurs in the Montreal Fur Trade, 1780-1821
(1999) Podruchny, Carolyn
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Tradition, Cultural Boundaries and the Construction of Spaces of Identities
(2001) Reisenleitner, Markus
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The First Modern Plague: Epidemic Encephalitis in America, 1919-39
(College of Physicians of Philadelphia, 2002-12) Kroker, Kenton
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Werewolves and Windigos: Narratives of Cannibal Monsters in French-Canadian Voyageur Oral Tradition
(Duke University Press, 2004) Podruchny, Carolyn
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An Exploratory Study of Graduate Student Unions in Canada
(Département des relations industrielles de l’Université Laval, 2005) MacLennan, Anne; Zinni, Deborah M.; Singh, Parbudyal
Graduate student unions are beginning to attract attention in Canada and the United States. In Canada, unionization on campuses is especially important for organized labour, as union density has dropped below 30 percent for the first time in five decades. Graduate student unionization is also important in the wider context of precarious employment in North America. Despite the decline in overall union density, graduate student unions have continued to grow in the past decade. However, there is a paucity of scholarly research in this area. In this article, we trace the historical origins of graduate student unions in Canada, discuss relevant legal concerns, analyze pertinent collective bargaining and strike issues, and suggest avenues for future research.
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A Palace with a View: Imagining Europe in the Baroque City
(2006) Reisenleitner, Markus
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Nickelodeon Nation, by Heather Hendershot (editor)
(Canadian Journal of Communication, 2006) Coulter, Natalie
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Riot Control and Imperial Ideology in the Roman Empire
(Classial Association of Canada, 2007) Kelly, Benjamin
Ancient accounts of riots in the Roman Empire provide good evidence for elite attitudes to riot control, although not for the actual behaviour of the authorities in particular cases. They suggest that the authorities were generally expected to control all riots, whatever their causes. There was, however, deep ambivalence about the propriety of using military methods of control, and a belief that such methods could cause considerable bloodshed and damage to the urban fabric.
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The Rediscovery of Karl Marx
(Cambridge University Press & Assessment, 2007-11) Musto, Marcello
Few men have shaken the world like Karl Marx. His death, almost unnoticed, was followed by echoes of fame in such a short period of time that few comparisons could be found in history. His name was soon on the lips of the workers of Detroit and Chicago, as on those of the first Indian socialists in Calcutta. His image formed the background of the congress of the Bolsheviks in Moscow after the revolution. His thought inspired the programmes and statutes of all the political and union organizations of the workers' movement, from Europe to Shanghai.
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Improving Nature: Remaking Stanley Park’s Forest, 1888-1931
(BC Studies, 2008) Kheraj, Sean
This article examines forest policy for Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia from 1888-1931. The author argues that Park Board's forest policy developed with the objective of eliminating or disguising evidence of natural and anthropogenic environmental change, a landscape technique known as facade management. This policy was shaped in large part by a series of insect infestations and the recommendations of federal entomologists from the 1910s to the 1930s.
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Overeducated Immigrants in the Canadian labour market: evidence from the workplace and employee survey
(University of Toronto Press, 2008) Wald, Steven; Fang, Tony
This paper addresses the overeducation of recent immigrants in the Canadian labour market. Data from the 1999 Workplace and Employee Survey are used to explore the determinants and earnings consequences of overeducation. Although a well-developed body of literature examines the earnings consequences of overeducation, this paper presents the first Canadian estimates of returns to years of schooling that are contingent upon perceived job requirements. Compared with Canadian-born workers, recent immigrants are found to have a relatively high incidence of overeducation and to earn relatively low returns for surplus schooling. These are shown to be major contributors to the earnings gap between recent immigrants and workers born in Canada.
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The drunkard's search: looking for 'HRM' in all the wrong places
(Springer Verlag, 2008) McKenna, Steve; Singh, Parbudyal; Richardson, Jules
Specific concerns have been raised about the ontologies and epistemologies that have dominated HRM research and the concomitant ubiquity of positivistic research methodologies. These concerns have also given rise to calls for more pioneering research framed within alternative paradigms. This paper considers the theoretical and practical value of alternative approaches to the study of HRM. Results show, drawing on interpretive studies of HRM rooted in different epistemologies, ontologies, and methodologies that a composite body of HRM scholarship is needed, where dominant and emerging approach is to the study of HRM are mutually supportive.
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Transitions from temporary to permanent work in Canada: who makes the transition and why?
(Springer Verlag, 2008) Fang, Tony; MacPhail, Fiona
The focus of this paper is on a microeconomic analysis of the annual transition rate from temporary to permanent work of individual workers in Canada for the period 1999-2004. Given that a large proportion of temporary employment is involuntary, an understanding of the factors associated with the transition to permanent work may inform public policy. Factors associated with the transition, namely, human capital, household structures and labour market segmentation are analyzed using data from the Statistics Canada's Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) for the period 1999-2004, limited to paid workers aged 2-4 years, excluding students. Among the key factors associated with the transitions are younger age and low unemployment rates. The analysis adds to the Canadian and international literature on transitions from temporary to permanent work.
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Writing, Ritual, and Folklore: Imagining the Cultural Geography of Voyageurs
(Nelson, 2008) Podruchny, Carolyn
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Job analysis for a changing workplace
(Elsevier, 2008) Singh, Parbudyal;
Job analysis sits at the heart of all human resource practices, making it a critically important management activity in every organization. However, with increasing competition, shorter product life-cycles, rapid technological innovations, and the changing nature of organizational structures, its underlying assumptions are becoming increasingly questionable in today's dynamic work environment. Moreover, the methods used by traditional job analysis are simply not applicable to many new and emerging jobs and some authors feel it may even be an obstacle to organizational success. This has led to calls for a more proactive and strategic approach to job analysis so that the procedures will continue to be relevant. In this article, I emphasize the need for a strategic approach to job analysis, present a strategic job analysis framework, and discuss implications for organizations.