File comprises four letters sent from Fred Thompson to John Bell between July and October, 1976. The letters provide a recounting of Thompson's time in Halifax as a labourer and labour activist and reveal an ongoing discussion between Bell and Thompson regarding labour issues and labour history.
File contains published and unpublished papers and monographs collected by Richard Apostle in the course of his Marginal Work World Research Program projects.
File contains published and unpublished papers and monographs collected by Richard Apostle in the course of his Marginal Work World Research Program projects.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.
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).
File includes a signed permissions form and letter from Butterworth & Co. (Canada) regarding the paper's inclusion in K. Lundy and B. Warme, eds., Work in the Canadian Context, second edition.
File contains a manuscript, research notes, and a photocopy of George W. Bohrnstedt, "Observations on the Measurement of Change," in Edward Borgatta, ed., Sociological Methodology (San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 1969).
File includes a paper presented at a conference in Kingston, Ontario, on July 29, 1981, and notes on the comparison of the marginal and central work worlds.
File contains a paper presented at the Conference on Blue Collar Workers and their Communities held at the University of Windsor, as well as correspondence, notes and photocopied secondary readings.
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.
File contains photocopied pages of handwritten notecards containing business and individuals' names, addresses, communication dates and whether surveys were refused or completed.
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).
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.
File includes an overview of the survey data within the Social Policy Research Program at the Institute of Public Affairs, Dalhousie University, and a December 1982 MWW newsletter.
File includes Lars Osberg, "The Aims and Costs of a Follow-up Survey to the General Segmentation Survey or, The Costs and Benefits of Even More Data"; "Morphology Establishment Follow up"; handwritten notes; and a memorandum from Don Clairmont to members of the MWW Research Group with the subject line: "Follow-up Survey (big bang)."
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.
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.
File also includes a handwritten list of cases that were classified as central by their labour force strategy but predicted as marginal by their establishment characteristics.
File also includes L. Osberg, D. Clairmont and R. Apostle, "A Segmentation Approach to Low Wage Work in the Maritimes: An Interim Report" and pages of handwritten data.
