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Document generated on 09/23/2021 10:20 a.m. Labour/Le Travailleur Reviews / Comptes Rendus Volume 10, 1982 URI: https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/llt10rv01 See table of contents Publisher(s) Canadian Committee on Labour History ISSN 0700-3862 (print) 1911-4842 (digital) Explore this journal Cite this review (1982). Review of [Reviews / Comptes Rendus]. Labour/Le Travailleur, 10, 229–328. All rights reserved © Canadian Committee on Labour History, 1982 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/ REVffiWS/COMPTES RENDUS Robert Brymand R. James Sacouman, eds., Underdevelopment and Social Movements in Atlantic Canada by Ian McKay/ 231 Grant Reuber, Canada's Political Economy by Michael Bradfield / 237 Desmond Morton with Terry Copp, Working People. An Illustrated History of Canadian Labour. by Jacques Rouillard / 239 Kenneth W. Osborne, "Hard-working, Temperate and Peaceable" —The Portrayal of Workers in Canadian History Textbooks by Andre E. LeBIanc /240 Desmond Morton, Canada and War, A Military and Political History by Glenn T. Wright / 242 Donald Crcighton, The Passionate Observer: Selected Writings by William Westfall / 243 Philip S. Foner, Women and the American Labor Movement from Colonial Times to the Eve of World War I; James J. Kenneally, Women and American Trade Unions; Gerda Lerner, The Majority Finds Its Past; and Lois Scharf, To Work and to Wed. Female Employment, Feminism and the Great Depression by Veronica Strong-Boag / 245 Keith Wrightson and David Levine, Poverty and Piety in an English Village: Terling 1525-1700 by Susan D. Amussen / 249 John Stevenson, Popular Disturbances in England 1700-1870 and Gwyn A. Williams, The Merthyr Rising by Nicholas Rogers / 251 lorwerth Prothero, Artisans and Politics in Early Nineteenth-Century London: John Gast and His Times by Peter Bailey / 254 Ian Carter, Farm/jfr in Northeastern Scotland, 1840-1914. The Poor Man's Country; andM.L. Parry and T.R. Slater, The Making of the Scottish Countryside by D. H. Akenson /256 Roger El bourne. Music and Tradition in Early Industrial Lancashire 1780-1840 by Mavis Waters/258 Jane Lewis, The Politics of Motherhood: Child and Maternal Welfare in England, 1900-1939 by Angus McLaren / 259 Harold Smith, comp. The British Labour Movement to 1970: A Bibliography by Norman Horrocks / 261 Michael R. Weisser, Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Europe by Louis A. Knafla / 261 Christopher Kent, Brains and Numbers: Elitism, Comtism, and Democracy in Mid-Victorian England; and Robert Mandrou, From Humanism to Science. 1480-1700 by Roger Cooler / 262 Robert Damton, The Business of Enlightenment, A Publishing History of the Encyclopedic 1775- 1800 by Peter Simoni / 267 Michael R. Hanagan, The Logic of Solidarity: Artisans and Industrial Workers in Three French Towns. 1871-1914 by M.L. McDougall / 267 Paul-Henry Chombard de Lauwe, La Vie quotidienne des families ouvrieres by Arthur Borghese / 269 Denis Poulot, Le Sublime ou le travailleur comme U est en 1870, et ce qu'il peut etre by Arthur Borghese / 271 Alex Hall, Scandal, Sensation and Social Democracy. The SPD Press and Wilhelmine Germany 1890-1914; Max H. Kele, Nazis and Workers. Nationalist Socialist Appeals to German Labor, 1919-1933; Leila J. Rupp, Mobilizing Women for War. German and American Propaganda, 1939-1945; and Barrington Moore Jr., Injustice. The Social Bases of Obedience and Revolt by Larry Peterson / 274 229 230 LABOUR/LE TRAVAILLEUR Ian MacDougall, ed., A Catalogue of Some Labour Records in Scotland and Some Scot Records outside of Scotland by F.K. Donnelly / 277 Revolutionary Situations in Europe, 1917-1922: Germany, Italy, Austria-Hungary, Proceedings, 2nd International Colloquium, 25-27 March 1976 by Larry Peterson / 278 Edward Acton, Alexander Her&n and the Role of the Intellectual Revolutionary by N.G.O. Pereira / 280 Paul W. Drake. Socialism and Populism in Chile, 1932-52 and Colin Henfrey & Bernardo Sorj, Chilean Voices: Activists Describe Their Experiences of the Popular Unity Period by Peter Blanchard / 282 Michael T. Taussig, The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America by Peter Blanchard / 284 Martin A. Klein, ed., Peasants in Africa: historical and contemporary perspectives by Ann McDougall / 285 Ellen Mains, ed.. The Politics of Housework by Meg Luxton / 287 John Fox and William Johnston, Understanding Capital: A Guide to Volume I; and Frank Cunning ham, Understanding Marxism: A Canadian Introduction by Anthony Thomson / 290 Istavan Meszaros, The Work of Sartre: Volume One: Search for Freedom by J. Alan Lennon / 292 Russell Jacoby. Dialectic of Defeat: Contours of Western Marxism by Paul Piccone / 293 Horace B. Davis, Toward a Marxist Theory of Nationalism by Paul Craven / 295 Gary P. Freeman. Immigrant Labor and Racial Conflict in Industrial Societies and Sasha G. Lewis, Slave Trade Today by Paul Phillips /297 Michael J. Piore, Birds of Passage, Migrant Labour and Industrial Societies by Lars Osberg / 300 Gordon Swanson and Jon Michaelson, eds., Manpower Research and Labour Economics; and Michael J. Piore, ed., Unemployment and Inflation: Institutional and Structuralist Views by Martha MacDonald / 302 Klaus von Beyme, Challenge to Power: Trade Unions and Industrial Relations in Capitalist Countries; Tom R. Bums, Lars Erik Karlsson and Veljko Rus, eds., Work and Power: The Liberation of Work and the Control of Political Power; and J. David Edelstein and Malcolm Warner, Comparative Union Democracy: Organisation and Opposition in British and American Unions by Heather McAllister / 304 Cary L. Cooper and Enid Mumford eds,, The Quality of Working Life in Western and Eastern Europe; and Murray Yanowitch, Soviet Work Attitudes: The Issue of Participation in Manage ment by Gerry Hunnius / 307 Pastoral Production and Society! Production Pastorale et Societe by Richard Roberts/313 Charles F. Delzell, ed., The Future of History by Bruce Tucker/ 315 George Konrad and Ivan Szeleyni, The Intellectuals on the Road to Class Power; A Sociological Study of the Role of the Intelligentsia in Socialism by Reginald Whitaker / 316 David Bradby and John McCormick, People's Theatre by Alan Andrews / 318 Paul J. McNulty, The Origins and Development of Labor Economics by Lars Osberg/ 318 Anne Humpherys. Travels into the Poor Man's Country: The Work of Henry Mayhew; and Sheila M. Smith, The Other Nation: The Poor in English Novels of the 1840s and 1850s by Patricia E. Malcolmson / 321 Theresa Malkiel. Journal d'une greviste by Lucy Bullick / 324 REVIEWS 231 Robert Brym and R. James Sacouman, four regional studies are followed by three eds., Underdevelopment and Social fairly detailed analyses of Nova Scotia: Movements in Atlantic Canada (Toronto: one by Sacouman on the Antigonish New Hogtown Press 1979). Movement which stresses the structural factors which conditioned its rise; another by L. Gene Barrett on the fishing industry IT IS AN ALMOST shocking reflection on to 1938; and a third by Rick Williams the quality of socialist thought in Canada which carefully examines the struggles for that this is the first book-length study of trade unionism among inshore fishermen, the "Eastern Question" to come out of Then we turn to three studies of New the left. What a long silence! But it would foundland. Steven Antler discusses both have been impossible to assemble ten seri neo-marginalist and Marxist analyses of ous Marxist scholars a decade ago to pro monopoly in his "The Capitalist Under duce a book like this one. Given this long development of Nineteenth-Century New silence, one might have expected a weak, foundland;" Robert J. Brym and Barbara tentative exploration of the problems of Neis discuss the regional factors which Atlantic Canada. But this collection of contributed to the remarkable success of essays is not weak; in fact, it is not even the Fishermen's Protective Union of New "uneven," to use a word much beloved foundland, by far the most successful by reviewers of collected essays. third-party movement in the region; and Although there are differences between James Overton, in "Towards a Critical the authors in tone, method, and subject, Analysis of Neo-Nationalism in New each of the essays is carefully constructed foundland," offers a severe critique of and analytically clear. The Marxist dis various types of "populist" writing in the covery of Canadian regionalism is now a province. Merely to list the titles is a way fait accompli, and both socialist thought of conveying both the broad sweep and and regional studies should be trans ambition of the collection, and its close formed. attention to detail. Historians who have so Four of the essays present a regional often belaboured sociologists for their analysis. Henry Veltmeyer assesses "The neglect of the particular might find this Capitalist Underdevelopment of Atlantic collection puts this criticism to rest, and Canada" by situating regional disparity in fact starts turning the question to the within the categories of Capital. The historians' own abject neglect of explana other three regional essays are more con tion. cerned with social movements: R. James Sacouman describes the differences At the risk of imposing on Underde between the Maritime and Prairie Co velopment and Social Movements a unity operative Movements to 1940, and cor it does not profess, one can conclude that rects a serious blindspot in the literature the various authors all want to root the of Canadian protest movements; Robert J. study of underdevelopment in conditions Brym discusses "Political Conservatism of production which are considered to be in Atlantic Canada" and concludes that crucial to any understanding of the condi such conservatism comes from a deep- tions of exchange.