This article examines work-family balance. Data from the Workplace and Employee Survey(WES) was used to assess the overall situation of this phenomenon in Canada. Representative statistical data was used to determine to what extent employers have taken the work-family challenge into account. Our...

This article begins with an overview of the foremost texts dealing with the main theories of trade unionism, based upon a review of the Anglo-Saxon literature on the subject. Secondly, the authors discuss the relevance of these various theoretical contributions to an understanding of labour in...

Whether in Quebec, Canada or elsewhere in other OECD countries, women are now very active in the labour market, even when they have young children. However, the literature reveals that there are still significant gendered differences in regard to working and employment conditions. To shed new...

Innovation can be technological, social, and territorial in dimension, although the latter two dimensions are under-researched.A more inclusive definition of innovation is sought by examining all three of the aforementioned dimensions. Following a brief introduction, part one of this...

Queacute;bec has recently carried out various reforms in the area of occupational and technical training, educational policies and manpower policies, which have led to the establishment of new institutional frameworks. An important change in the role of socio-economic institutions in economic...