Pub Date : 2023-11-10DOI: 10.52975/llt.2023v92.004
Anupam Das, Ian Hudson, Mark Hudson
The relationship between labour movements and the environment has been the subject of considerable debate but little empirical research. Using panel data for Canadian provinces between 2001 and 2019, this article investigates the relationship between unionization rates and two measures of environmental quality: greenhouse gas emissions and total particulate matter pollution. We find that higher unionization rates are associated with lower emissions for both these measures. This finding suggests that stronger labour organizations do not lead to detrimental environmental outcomes.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-10DOI: 10.52975/llt.2023v92.0018
Zachary Hyde
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Pub Date : 2023-11-10DOI: 10.52975/llt.2023v92.0024
Silke Roth
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Pub Date : 2023-11-10DOI: 10.52975/llt.2023v92.0013
Bryan D. Palmer
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Pub Date : 2023-11-10DOI: 10.52975/llt.2023v92.003
Joan Sangster
In the 1970s, women in Toronto created the Waitresses Action Committee to protest the introduction of a “differential” or lower minimum wage for wait staff serving alcohol. Their campaign was part of their broader feminist critique of women’s exploitation and the gendered and sexualized nature of waitressing. Influenced by their origins in the Wages for Housework campaign, they stressed the linkages between women’s unpaid work in the home and the workplace. Their campaign eschewed worksite organizing for an occupational mobilization outside of the established unions; they used petitions, publicity, and alliances with sympathizers to try to stop the rollback in their wages. They were successful in mobilizing support but not in altering the government’s decision. Nonetheless, their spirited campaign publicized new feminist perspectives on women’s gendered and sexualized labour, and it contributed to the ongoing labour feminist project of enhancing working-class women’s equality, dignity, and economic autonomy. An analysis of their mobilization also helps to enrich and complicate our understanding of labour and socialist feminism in this period.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-10DOI: 10.52975/llt.2023v92.008
Nelson Ouellet
Dans cet article, les contrats de travail signés au Tennessee par les propriétaires fonciers et les affranchis sont placés au centre d’une étude sur un paradoxe de la liberté aux États-Unis. Nous soutenons l’idée que la santé des affranchis – qui comprend les soins médicaux, la subsistance et la protection physique – se négocie durant et après la guerre de Sécession dans le but d’assujettir les intérêts des Noirs, de l’État et des propriétaires terriens à un idéal de relations sociales de production régi par la liberté, le droit et le marché. En examinant les contrats de travail et leurs clauses médicales, nous revisitons l’approche médico-politique qui a maintes fois conduit les historiens à la thèse de l’échec de la Reconstruction. Nous plaçons aussi la famille noire dans le processus d’émancipation et de production par la voie des contrats et d’une relecture de la « culture de la dissimulation » proposée par l’historienne Darlene Clark Hine il y a plus de trente ans. Enfin, nous nous éloignons d’une lecture qui réduit les contrats à la seule oppression dont étaient victimes les Noirs après la guerre de Sécession. En complément, nous invitons le lecteur à examiner les débats sur la citoyenneté qui ont suivi la ratification du treizième amendement.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-10DOI: 10.52975/llt.2023v92.009
Ron Verzuh
The Rossland Evening World, a four-page daily dedicated to the mineworkers of British Columbia’s bustling West Kootenay mining town of Rossland, first appeared on May Day 1901 – just in time to do battle with local mine owners in the historic 1900–01 miners’ strike. The World may have owed its existence in part to William “Big Bill” Haywood, a founder of the militant Western Federation of Miners (wfm) and the Industrial Workers of the World. On visiting the town and the prospectors’ camp in the 1890s, Haywood saw that Rossland would soon grow into a thriving Pacific Northwest mountain community with a steady increase in wfm membership. He encouraged the miners to form wfm Local 38, possibly the first wfm local in Canada, and soon a dozen Kootenay locals formed wfm District Association 6. A wfm grant followed to help launch the local and the new daily. Amid growing frustration with bad working conditions and mine owners’ refusal to recognize the wfm, the World became a welcome sister to the wfm’s Miners’ Magazine, dedicating itself to “the Interests of Organized Labor.” By the fall of 1900, the strike of 1,400 miners was on, and the World published news and analysis throughout the region. Ultimately the strike was lost, but the World carried on until 1904. As its legacy, it showed how a daily newspaper could help build community support and provide a defence for the local unionized workforce.
《罗斯兰世界晚报》是一份四页的日报,专门报道不列颠哥伦比亚省熙攘的西库特尼矿业小镇罗斯兰的矿工。该报于1901年5月1日首次出版,正好赶上了1900年至2001年矿工大罢工中与当地矿主的斗争。《世界》的存在可能部分归功于威廉·“大比尔”·海伍德,他是激进的西部矿工联合会(wfm)和世界产业工人联合会的创始人。在19世纪90年代访问该镇和探矿者营地时,海伍德看到罗斯兰将很快发展成为一个繁荣的太平洋西北山区社区,wfm的会员人数稳步增加。他鼓励矿工们成立了wfm Local 38,这可能是加拿大第一个wfm Local,很快,十几名库特尼当地人成立了wfm District Association 6。wfm随后提供了一笔赠款,帮助推出当地日报和新日报。由于恶劣的工作条件和矿主拒绝承认wfm,《世界》杂志成为wfm旗下《矿工》杂志的受欢迎姊妹刊,致力于“有组织劳工的利益”。到1900年秋天,有1400名矿工参加了罢工,《世界报》在整个地区发表了新闻和分析。最终,罢工失败了,但世界银行一直坚持到1904年。作为它的遗产,它展示了一份日报如何帮助建立社区支持,并为当地工会工人提供辩护。
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