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Reviews / Comptes Rendus Document generated on 09/26/2021 6:16 p.m. Labour/Le Travailleur Reviews / Comptes Rendus Volume 22, 1988 URI: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/llt22rv01 See table of contents Publisher(s) Canadian Committee on Labour History ISSN 0700-3862 (print) 1911-4842 (digital) Explore this journal Cite this article (1988). Reviews / Comptes Rendus. Labour/Le Travailleur, 22, 273–376. All rights reserved © Canadian Committee on Labour History, 1988 This document is protected by copyright law. Use of the services of Érudit (including reproduction) is subject to its terms and conditions, which can be viewed online. https://apropos.erudit.org/en/users/policy-on-use/ This article is disseminated and preserved by Érudit. Érudit is a non-profit inter-university consortium of the Université de Montréal, Université Laval, and the Université du Québec à Montréal. Its mission is to promote and disseminate research. https://www.erudit.org/en/ REVŒWS/COMPTES RENDUS R. Cole Harris, ed, Historical Atlas of Canada, vol. 1, From the Beginning to 1800 by AlhnGtter/273 Bill Gillespie,/4 Class Act An Illustrated History of the Labour Movement in Newfoundland and Labrador by WJ.CCherwinski/274 Bryan D. Palmer, Solidarity: The Rise and Fall of an Opposition in British Columbia by Warren Magnusson / 277 Alan Metcalfe, Canada Leams to Play: The Emergence of Organized Sport, 1807-1914 by Geoffrey S. Smith /278 Dianne Newell, Technology on the Frontier: Mining in Old Ontario by Ian Radforth / 280 Briton Cooper Busdi, The War Against the Seals: A History of the North American Seal Fishery by Daniel Vickers/282 Charles M. Johnston, EC Drury: Agrarian Idealist by John English / 283 Desmond Morton and Glenn Wright, Winning the Second Battle: Canadian Veterans and the Return to Civilian Life 1915-1930 by Elizabeth Lees / 284 David Frank, Carol Ferguson, Richard Clair, Richard McQellan, Raymond Léger, comps., The New Brunswick Worker in the 20th Century/Les travailleurs au Nouveau-Brunswick au 20ieme siècle: A Reader's Guide/Un guide au Lecteur. A selective annotated bibliographyIbibUographie choisie et annotée by Graeme Wynn/286 George MacEachem, George MacEachem: An Autobiography, The Story of a Cape Breton Labour Radical, edited and introduced by David Frank and Don MacGillivray, by Nolan Reilly / 288 Jim Tester, et al., eds-, Sports Pioneers: A History of the Finnish-Canadian Amateur Sports Federation 1906-1986 by Peter Campbell / 289 Desmond Morton, The New Democrats 1961-1986: The Politics of Change by André Lamoureux / 291 Milda Danys, Lithuanian Immigration to Canada after the Second World War by John E Zuccbi / 294 C David Naylor, Private Practice: Canadian Medicine and the Politics of Health Insurance 1911-1966 by Wendy Mitchinson / 29S Cy Gonick, The Great Economic Debate: Failed Economics and a Future for Canada by Robert Malcolm Campbell/297 Don Wells, Soft Sell: "Quality of Working Life " Programs & the Productivity Race by Stan Marshall / 298 Katherine L. P. Lundy and Barbara Warme, eds., Work in the Canadian Context: Continuity Despite Change byJ.M.Pitsula/302 Susan G. Davis, Parades and Power: Street Theatre in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia by Chris Waters / 303 Stuart B. Kaufman, éd., et al, The Samuel Gompers Papers: The Making of a Union Leader, 1850-86, Volume I by Warren Van Tine / 305 Richard Jules Oestreicher, Solidarity and Fragmentation: Working People and Class Consciousness in Detroit, 1875-1900by Paul Krause / 307 Mary C Grimes, ed, The Knights in Fiction: Two Labor Novels of the 1880s by Graham Carr / 309 Patricia A. Cooper, Oice a Cigar Maker: Men, Women, and Work Culture in American Cigar Factories, 1900-1919 by Robert H. Babcock / 312 Serge Denis, Un Syndicalisme pure et simple: Mouvements Ouvriers et Pouvoir Politique Aux Etats-Unis, 1919-1939 by Stephen J. Scheinberg / 314 Michael Neuschatz, The Golden Sword: The Coming of Capitalism to the Colorado Mining Frontier by David Brundage/315 Roger D. Waldinger, Through the Eye of the Needle: Immigrants and Enterprise in New York's Garment Trades by Mercedes Steedman /316 Ronald Lawson, ed, 77K Tenant Movement in New York City, 1904-1984 by Michael 1. Doucet /319 Ruth Bordin, Frances Willard: A Biography by Man Jo Buhle / 321 Alice Wexler, Emma Goldman in America by Sylvie Murray / 323 4 David Nasaw, Children of the City: At Work and At Play by John Buflen / 325 Eileen Boris, At and Labor. Ruskin, Morris and the Crafiman Ideal in America by Kstasay Cook./321 Victoria Byerly, Hard Fanes Cotton Mill Girls: Personal Histories ofWomanhood and Poverty in aie South by Maty Murphy/328 Gary Ross Mormino, Immigrants on the HUU Italian-Americans in St. Louis, 1882-1982 by Bruno Ramirez / 329 Elizabeth Ewen, Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars by Jean Lamarre / 330 Martin Cbemiack, The Hawk's Nest Incident: America's Worst Industrial Disaster by Michael Kazin/ 331 Archie Green, ed, Work's Many Voices by Neil V. Rosenberg / 333 Joan Thiisk, ed, The Agrarian History of England and Wales: Volume V. Part 1: Regional Farming Systems; Parti:Agrarian Change by David Levine /334 Jane Lewis, ed. Labour and love: Women's Experience of Home and Family, 1850-1940 by Bettina Bradbury /337 Deborah M. Valenze, Prophetic Sons and Daughters: Female Preaching and Popular Religion in Industrial England; and Logic Barrow, Independent Spirits: Spiritualism and English Plebeians, 1850-1910 by James Epstein /338 Ahm Howkins, Poor Labouring Men: Rural Radicalism in /Vor]b& i£39-/923 by Chad Garfield / 341 Nicholas Jones, Strikes and the Media: Communication and GM^ by Vincent Mosco/342 BemàiàQ^ciMriàMtàe]eiiKF\ge^Hisu^edehFor7wmondesOumei% /789-i°eWbyLivMjelde/344 Jacques Darns and Marcel Gibelin, June '36: Class Struggle and the Popular Front in France by Thomas Rutman/347 David Hanley, Keeping Left? Ceres and the French Socialist Party by Tony Judt/349 Barbara Framoi, At the Very Least She Pays the Rent: Women and German Industrialisation, 1871-1914 by Louise A. Tilly/ 350 Rudy Koshar, Social Life, Local Politics, and Nazism: Marburg, 1880-1935 by James N. Retalladc / 352 Allan Merson, Communist Resistance in Nazi Germany by Martin Kitchen /354 Andrei S. Markovits, The Politics of the West German Trade Unions: Strategies of Class and Interest Representation in Growth and Crisis by Udo Sautter/357 Richard Stourac and Kathleen McCœry,Theatre As A Weapon:Worken'7heatreintheSovietUnion, Germany and Britain 1917-1934 by Lorraine A. Brown / 358 Catherine heGtai^ Frontier Expansion and Peasant Protest in Columbia; iit^ljxm The Agrarian Question and the Peasant Movement in Columbia: Struggles of dut National Peasant Association 1967-1981 by Bob Sbenlon / 360 Alan Gilben and Peter M. Ward,//ou^, (te Sfciiea^cfe Poor: Po^W/Y^ Cities by Abigail B. Bakan / 362 Peter Wirm, Weavers of Revolution: The Yarur Workers and Chile's Road to Socialism by Brian Loveman / 364 Chris De Bresson with Tim Petersen, Understanding Technological Change by James P. Hull / 367 Duncan Foley, Understanding Capital by Tracy Mott / 368 Paul D. Staudohar, The Sports Industry and Collective Bargaining by Hart Cantdon /370 Richard H. Hall, Dimensions of Work by Jerry P. White / 372 Charlotte Gold, Labor-Management Committees: Confrontation, Cooptation, or Cooperation?; and Mike Parker, Inside the Circle: A Union Guide toQWLby James Rinehart /373 5 REVIEWS / COMPTES RENDUS R. Cole Harris, t&.,HistoricalAtlas of Canada, of these plates are based on considerable vol. 1, From the Beginning to 1800 (Toronto: original research and they present infor­ University of Toronto Press 1987). mation that cannot be found in any other secondary work. Their strong point is the CANADA, THEY SAY, is a country with lots wealth of detail, consistently and ap­ of geography and very little history and parently exhaustively presented. A series that may be why even the study of its past of fourteen maps by Conrad Heidenreich has, to a significant extent, been the work and Françoise Noel charting French com­ of geographers. Historical geography mercial and military penetration into the does seem to be a particularly well- western interior from 1634 to 1755 is a developed field in Canada; think of the good example. Not only do these plates important monographs it can boast, from show the different trading posts and canoe Andrew Hill Clark's Acadia and Cole routes, they also locate native trappers Harris's Seigneurial System to A.J. Ray's and commercial intermediaries and indi­ Indians in the Fur Trade and Graeme cate their wars and migrations. The com­ Wynn's Timber Colony. Thus it is fitting plex and shifting encounter of Europeans that the most ambitious and most success- and Indians can be traced here as the focal ful attempt in years to make sense of the points of diplomacy and exchange moved Canadian past should take the form of an from the Great Lakes into the upper Mis­ atlas. Not that the Historical Atlas is en­ sissippi and the eastern prairies. Other tirely the work of professional geog­ plates do an equally good job of raphers. This wonderfully collaborative reconstructing the Newfoundland cod undertaking includes contributions from fishery from the sixteenth century to the a number of distinguished historians and eighteenth. anthropologists (not to mention botanists, Indeed, it is difficult to single out any archaeologists, and others), but the particular sections of the atlas for special methods and approaches represented here praise. I myself was fascinated by an are primarily those of geography. entry on the pre-contact Coast Tsimshians Moreover, the themes the atlas deals with by George MacDonald, Gary Coupland, are those, such as population distribution and David Archer. One could spend hours on the land and trade patterns, that are on this one page absorbing all the infor­ suitable for cartographic treatment. mation on village layouts, trade routes, In this first volume, 69 plates portray and seasonal migration patterns.
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