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Unions in the Time of Revolution: Government Restructuring in Alberta and Ontario.

Publication: Industrial Relations (Canadian)
Publication Date: 01-JAN-04 		Format: Online - approximately 1072 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Unions in the Time of Revolution: Government Restructuring in Alberta and Ontario.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
Unions in the Time of Revolution: Government Restructuring in Alberta and Ontario by Yonatan RESHEF and Sandra RASTIN, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003, 279 pp., ISBN 0-8020-8753-1.

Although the contours of public sector labour relations in Canada in the 1990s have received some attention, little research has been done on the qualitative dimensions of public sector unions caught up in state restructuring, or on labour's response to neoliberal governments. Yonatan Reshef and Sandra Rastin's Unions in the Time of Revolution sets out to understand "what happens when a government promulgates policies that threaten the unions' vested interests in job and organizational security, and at the same time shuts the unions out of the political decision-making system" (p. 34). The authors focus on union protest against governments, a phenomenon distinct from routine contract negotiation and administration that usually involves workers across workplace and bargaining unit lines. Reshef and Rastin most often call this "collective action" (a rather specific and...

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