Harnessing Labour Confrontation: Shaping the Postwar Settlement in Canada, 1943-1950 by Peter McInnis, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002, 258 pp., ISBN 0-8020-3563-9.

Labour before the Law: The Regulation of Workers’ Collective Action in Canada, 1900-1948 by Judy Fudge and Eric Tucker, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2001, 398 pp., ISBN 0-19-541633-3

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3 Review of “ Knots ” by Alexei Sossinsky , Harvard University Press , 2002 , ISBN 0 - 674 - 00944 - 4

”Butterfly knot, clove hitch knot, Gordian knot, hangman’s knot, vipers’ tangle knots are familiar objects, symbols of complexity, occasionally metaphors for evil. For reasons I do not entirely understand, they were long ignored by mathematicians. A tentative effort by Alexandre-Th[e]ophile Vandermonde at the end of the eighteenth century was short-lived, and a preliminary study by the young Ka...

20th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, June 16-18, 1982

Utilization of Hospital Services by Recent Immigrants in Toronto, Canada

Recent immigrant communities face hardships that may create special health needs and barriers. This study explored the risk of hospitalization in high recent-immigration areas in Toronto compared to other Toronto neighbourhoods. The study used 1996 hospitalization and census data. Regression was used to examine the effects of recent immigration on hospitalization. Average household income was a...

Vincanne Adams (ed.), Metrics: What Counts in Global Health (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016), pp. 258, $24.95, paperback, ISBN 978-0-8223-6097-1.

In recent years a head of critical steam has built up around 'metrics'. This is shorthand for the glut of statistical indicators deployed today in global governance, both by established institutions like the United Nations and its special agencies, and by newer public/private partnerships and non-governmental organisations (NGOs). Their function is to crystallise in a single number a complex ar...