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Richard Apostle fonds

MS-2-681
Fonds
1966-2006, predominant 1981-2004

Fonds comprises records created and collected by Richard Apostle in the course of his research activities between 1966-2006, which informed their arrangement into the following series: AquaNet (Network of Centres of Excellence in Aquaculture); Community, State and Market on the North Atlantic Rim; Individual Transferable Fish Quotas; Information Services Employment Trends Survey; Marginal Work World Research Program; Public Policing in Nova Scotia; and Center for Local and Regional Development, Klaksvik, Faroe Islands.

Record types include manuscripts; published reports, papers and monographs; committee records, including minutes, agendas and reports; surveys; interview transcripts and notes; annual reports; operations manuals; datasets; secondary readings and newspaper clippings.

Apostle, Richard A.

Memorandums of agreement between the Government of Canada and the Province of Nova Scotia for the use or employment of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police

MS-2-681, Box 20, Folder 3
File
1966, 1977

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Secondary readings about follow-up studies

MS-2-681, Box 5, Folder 7
File
1968, 1973

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File includes two photocopied papers from Public Opinion Quarterly and a chapter on panel studies from the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences.

Letter from Richard Apostle to The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology and tables from "Segmentation and Wage Determination"

MS-2-681, Box 7, Folder 8
File
1968, 1983

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Marginal Work World Research Program

Series
1968-1986

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Series comprises records created and collected by Richard Apostle documenting his work in the Marginal Work World Research Program, an interdisciplinary and long-term examination of employment and work settings in the Maritime provinces carried out through the Institute of Public Affairs, Dalhousie University. Richard Apostle's research focused on two projects: the General Segmentation Survey, which involved the collection and analysis of private sector employment data across the Maritimes; and the longitudinal Morphology Survey, which sampled low-wage establishments across Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, and included managerial personnel and employee interviews. Record types include secondary readings and notes; datasets; agreements; recorded interview and transcripts; manuscripts and published papers; meeting records; and correspondence and memoranda.

Secondary readings and notes about labour market segmentation

MS-2-681, Box 2, Folders 1 - 5
File
1970-1983

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File contains published and unpublished papers and monographs collected by Richard Apostle in the course of his Marginal Work World Research Program projects. File includes handwritten notes.

Royal Commission on the Donald Marshall, Jr., Prosecution, volume 52

MS-2-681, Box 22, Folder 5
File
1971, 1988

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File contains a court transcript of the testimony of William Urquhart; handwritten notes by Richard Apostle regarding the Sydney police witnesses; a memorandum by Richard Apostle summarizing the relevant information from testimony before the Commission about the Sydney Police Force in 1971; and a memo to Richard Apostle from John E.S. Briggs outlining a "roadmap" to the testimony of Sydney Police witnesses.

Secondary readings about labour market segmentation

MS-2-681, Box 1, Folders 1 - 5
File
1973-1981

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File contains published and unpublished papers and monographs collected by Richard Apostle in the course of his Marginal Work World Research Program projects.

Report of the Royal Commission on Education, Public Services and Provincial-Municipal Relations, volume 2, part B

MS-2-681, Box 17, Folder 8
Item
1974

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Item is a photocopy of chapter fifteen on the Graham Commission Report.

Reviews and comments about Richard Apostle and Philip Stenning's first draft Review of Public Policing in Canada

MS-2-681, Box 17, Folder 4
File
1975-1988

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File includes reports and comments by Jean-Paul Brodeur, Christopher Murphy, James Bissell, C.L Campbell and others. File also includes correspondence regarding the Workshop on Public Policing; notes; and data re. expenditures on police protection in Nova Scotia towns and cities from 1975-1985.

Case studies of race-related murder convictions

MS-2-681, Box 11, Folder 7
File
1975, 1978, 1985

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Nova Scotia Police Commission annual reports, 1976-1984

MS-2-681, Box 12, Folder 6
File
1976-1987

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File also includes correspondence regarding police training and lists of courses taught in 1987 at the Canadian Police College and at the Atlantic Police Academy.

Correspondence and notes regarding interview for the Marginal Work World project

MS-2-681, Box 6, Folder 4
File
1976-1977

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

The general segmentation survey / Richard Apostle, Don Clairmont and Lars Osberg

MS-2-681, Box 5, Folder 10
File
1977 - 1980

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File also contains "Richard Apostle and Lars Osberg, "The General Segmentation Survey: Report 1 (1978); a write-up on sampling procedures sent to the Federal Statistical Activities Secretariat; Richard Apostle and Martha MacDonald, "Morphology Project II: Progress Report II" (1978); Richard Apostle and Larry Smith, "In-depth Interviews: Morphology Project II : Marginal Work World Programme" (1978); and Martha MacDonald, "Progress Report" (1977).

Sampling design notes and related correspondence

MS-2-681, Box 7, Folder 2
File
1977-1978

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File also includes Bryn Greer-Wootten, "Work and Workers in a Low-Wage Industry: The Case of the Leather Footwear Industry in Canada"; correspondence regarding sampling small establishments in Nova Scotia by industry; and comments on Richard Apostle's sample design.

Classification data

MS-2-681, Box 4, Folder 5
Item
1977

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Item is a list of business names, types and locations with coding instructions.

Enquete sur l'attitude du travaillant : Projet Morphologique / Institut des Affaires publiques

MS-2-681, Box 4, Folder 6
Item
1977

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Item is a French-language copy of the questionnaire marked for office use only.

Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics crime by offences data

MS-2-681, Box 18, Folders 2 - 6
File
1977-1988

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Secondary readings regarding job satisfaction

MS-2-681, Box 7, Folder 11
File
1977, 1979-1980

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File contains photocopied journal article and published reports.

Morphology Project interview transcriptions

MS-2-681, Box 5, Folders 3 and 4
File
1977 - 1979

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File contains handwritten interview transcripts or notes.

Coding instructions for Morphology Project survey data

MS-2-681, Box 5, Folder 1
Item
1977

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Item is a copy of coding instructions for surveys carried out as part of the Morphology project.

Morphology Project sample notes

MS-2-681, Box 5, Folder 2
File
1977

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Project memos, list of current porjects, meeting minutes and agendas

MS-2-681, Box 5, Folder 12
File
1977 - 1982

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File includes a December 1981 list of working papers, conference papers, research reports and publications of the Marginal Work World Research Program; a memorandum regarding computer usage and data storage; and research group meeting agendas, minutes and reports.

Coding manual for Worker Attitude Survey, Morphology Study / Richard Apostle and Martha MacDonald in collaboration with Don Clairmont and with the research assistance of Nancy Tienhaara

MS-2-681, Box 3, Folder 13
File
1977

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File includes typed and handwritten notes.

Worker attitude survey : Morphology Project / Institute of Public Affairs

MS-2-681, Box 4, Folder 8
File
1977

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File contains two copies of the questionnaire, one marked with corrections, and both marked for office use only.

In-depth interviews and establishment studies, paper no. 2 / Richard Apostle and Larry Smith

MS-2-681, Box 2, Folder 3
Item
1978

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Item is a report on the work done as part of the Morphology Project.

Correspondence, memoranda and notes on sample designs for the Morphology Project survey

MS-2-681, Box 3, Folder 11
File
1978-1979

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Computer print out of cross-tabulation of sex, area code, connect code, age, marital status ... run comparison

MS-2-681, Box 4, Folder 3
Item
1978

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Item is a print out from Dalhousie Computer Centre using Statistical Package for the Social Science, Version 7.0

Field work report : Worker Attitude Survey, Morphology Project, Marginal Work World Study / Nancy Tienhaara

MS-2-681, Box 5, Folder 15
Item
January 1978

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Item is a revised version of a report by Nancy Tienhaara, Institute of Public Affairs, Dalhousie University.

Morphology Project refusal follow-up correspondence and information sheets

MS-2-681, Box 5, Folder 5
File
1978

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

The segmentation perspective as a middle-range conceptualization in sociology / Don Clairmont, Richard Apostle and Reinhard Kreckel

MS-2-681, Box 3, Folder 1
File
1978

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File includes three draft manuscripts, a reader's report and correspondence from The Canadian Journal of Sociology, which published the paper in Volume 8, Number 3 (Summer 1983).

Marginal Work World project reviewed, gets green light / by Roselie Green

MS-2-681, Box 5, Folder 14
Item
May 5, 1978

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Item is a photocopied article from University News.

Statistics and weighting tables, text and correspondence

MS-2-681, Box 4, Folder 4
File
1978

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Taskforce on Canadian unity study Atlantic code book for closed questions

MS-2-681, Box 6, Folder 2
File
1978-1980

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File also includes a call for papers; handwritten data notes; and a questionnaire and interviewer's record for an Atlantic regionalism study.

Segmentation processes and the social structure of the Maritime provinces / Richard Apostle in collaboration with Don Clairmont

MS-2-681, Box 3, Folder 3
File
1978

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File includes two manuscripts, one of which is heavily annotated and includes Martha MacDonald as an author.

In-depth interviews and establishment studies / Richard Apostle and Larry Smith

MS-2-681, Box 6, Folder 1
File
1978

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Item is a heavily edited manuscript draft of Morphology Project II of the Marginal Work World Programme.

Interviewer assessment for Worker Attitude Survey, Morphology Project

MS-2-681, Box 4, Folder 7
Item
1978

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Item is a confidential appraisal of the interviewers on the Worker Attitude Survey.

Agreement between the Council of Maritime Premiers and Dalhousie University

MS-2-681, Box 4, Folder 10
Item
1978

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Item is an agreement regarding the Marginal Work World survey, which was funded in part by the Council of Maritime Premiers in exchange for a written report on the survey's findings, including implications and analysis.

Correspondence, notes and methodology reports on the Morphology Survey I and Morphology Project II

MS-2-681, Box 3, Folder 10
File
1978

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Correspondence and memoradum regarding the General Sementation Project's worker survey

MS-2-681, Box 6, Folder 7
File
1979

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

General Segmentation Survey progress report, notes, mail-out refusals and correspondence regarding methodology

MS-2-681, Box 6, Folder 11
File
1979

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Coding manual for the General Segmentation Project worker survey

MS-2-681, Box 4, Folder 12
File
1979

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File contains two copies of the classification data.

Labour market segmentation in Britain / K. Mayhew and B. Rosewell

MS-2-681, Box 4, Folder 1
Item
1979

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Item is a photocopied article from the Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Volume 41, Number 2 (May 1979).

Note to interviewers

MS-2-681, Box 4, Folder 11
Item
1979

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Item is a two-page set of instructions for interviewers of the Worker Attitude Survey.

Report to the Council of Maritime Premiers from the Institute of Public Affairs

MS-2-681, Box 6, Folder 6
File
1979-1981

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File also contains other reports and memoranda regarding the general segmentation survey, and a draft letter from Richard Apostle to Kell Antoft regarding the deposit of research data and its potential future use.

Unweighted cross-tabulations of non-electoral activity items with education and federal and provincial party ID

MS-2-681, Box 4, Folder 2
File
1979

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File contains a computer print out of contingency tables from a 1977 Ontario election study sent to Richard Apostle from R.J. Drummond at York University. There is also a photocopy of John Wilson, "The Canadian Political Cultures: Towards a Redefinition of the Nature of the Canadian Political System," Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique, Volume 7, Issue 3 (September 1974 ) 438-83.

Notecards with businesses names, addresses, service codes and other data

MS-2-681, Box 6, Folder 10
File
[1979?]

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

General Segmentation Project worker surveys

MS-2-681, Box 6, Folder 9
File
1979

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File contains blank surveys in English and French.

Memorandum, partial application and list of groups supporting the Ad Hoc Committee Concerned with Women and Work

MS-2-681, Box 4, Folder 9
File
1979 - 1980

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File contains a memo and project outline written by Martha MacDonald and Alexa McDonough. Also in the file is a list of publications, conference papers, projects, reports and outlines produced by the Marginal Work Worlds Program from September 1975 to September 1980.

A proposal for restructuring the Sydney Police Department / Nova Scotia Police Commission

MS-2-681, Box 10, Folder 8
Item
1979

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Item is a report published April 1979.

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