Archives Catalogue

Photograph of Charlie Murray at the First Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic

MS-10-10, PB Box 2, Folder 39, Item 29
Item
July 1978

Part of Roscoe A. Fillmore Memorial Picnic Organizing Committee fonds

Item consists of a photograph taken by Susan Perly, of Charlie Murray standing and smiling at the First Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic, Sackville, Nova Scotia, July 1978.

Guest book from the inaugural Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic

MS-10-10, SF Box 6, Folder 5
Item
1978

Part of Roscoe A. Fillmore Memorial Picnic Organizing Committee fonds

Item is a three-page photocopy of a guestbook from the inaugural Roscoe Fillmore Memorial Picnic, held 8 July 1978.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

The marginal work world : variations in political attitudes and behaviour / Richard Apostle in collaboration with Don Clairmont

MS-2-681, Box 3, Folder 9
Item
[ca. 1979]

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Item is a manuscript of a later version of a paper presented at the Conference on Blue Collar Workers and their Communities held at the University of Windsor in May 1979.

The marginal work world : variations in political attitudes and behaviour / Richard Apostle and Martha MacDonald in collaboration with Don Clairmont

MS-2-681, Box 3, Folder 8
File
1979

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

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.

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).

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.

Variable means and standard deviations by segment tables

MS-2-681, Box 4, Folder 21
File
[ca. 1980]

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File contains tables and lists.

Strikes in the Maritimes, 1901-1914

MS-9-16, SF Box 52, Folder 28
File
November 1980

Part of Ian McKay fonds

File contains a copy of Ian McKay's paper titled Strikes in the Maritimes, 1901-1914. The paper was delivered in the North American History Seminar coordinated by Bruce Tucker.

McKay, Ian

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

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

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

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

MS-2-681, Box 7, Folder 1
File
1980

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File also includes two pages of handwritten code for "workers not engaged + selected establishment."

The morphology study : a brief report to participants / Richard Apostle, Don Clairmont and Martha MacDonald

MS-2-681, Box 6, Folder 3
Item
1980

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Item includes a cover letter to participants.

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.

Ian McKay fonds

MS-9-16
Fonds
1975 - 1980

Fonds contains research material and manuscripts created by historian Ian McKay when he resided in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Materials include a student essay on strikes in the Maritimes (1901-1914), a manuscript of McKay's undergraduate honours thesis, "The Working Class of Metropolitan Halifax," and 55 audio cassettes and accompanying notes from interviews with workers in the Springhill and Joggins coal mines.

McKay, Ian

Questionnaire : final follow-up survey 1981

MS-2-681, Box 5, Folder 8
Item
1981

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Item is a blank copy of the questionnaire dealing with employment and related conditions designed as a follow-up survey on those employees interviewed in 1977, 1978 and 1979 for the Work World Project.

Of dead ends and futures : a simple model of labour market segmentation / Lars Osberg

MS-2-681, Box 7, Folder 5
File
1981

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File also includes several pages of notes by Don Clairmont.

Income dynamics in the marginal work world / Richard Apostle and Don Clairmont

MS-2-681, Box 3, Folder 6
File
[c. 1981]

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File includes a manuscript and a photocopied galley corrections.

Follow-up letters to participants in the general segmentation survey

MS-2-681, Box 6, Folder 8
File
1981

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Morphology project bibliography

MS-2-681, Box 3, Folder 12
Item
[ca. 1981]

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Item is a bibliography for Richard Apostle's Morphology project.

Morphology Project follow-up

MS-2-681, Box 5, Folder 6
File
1981

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

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)."

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.

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.

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

MS-2-681, Box 2, Folder 8
File
1980 - 1981

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File includes two draft manuscripts and a copy of Footnotes, a publication of the American Sociological Assoication

Trends in the Maritime economy : a 1981 Maritime-wide study of business and service establishments

MS-2-681, Box 5, Folder 9
Item
1981

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Item is a blank pamphlet-style printed survey.

Marginality, political culture and attitudes towards the centre / Richard Apostle and Paul Pross in collaboration with Don Clairmont

MS-2-681, Box 3, Folder 7
File
1981

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

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.

What this research is all about

MS-2-681, Box 6, Folder 5
File
1981

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File contains a report directed towards participating businesses and services.

Trends in the Maritime economy : a 1981 Maritime-wide survey of business and service establishments

MS-2-681, Box 5, Folder 11
Item
1981

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Item is a blank manuscript copy of the questionnaire that followed up the 1978 survey.

How many segments? / Richard Apostle

MS-2-681, Box 7, Folder 4
File
1981

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File includes a manuscript; notes on the impact of weighting on causal analysis; and a dataset printed for Ronald Smith, Institute of Public Affairs.

Some notes on Beck's and Tobert's segmentation variable / Ron Smith

MS-2-681, Box 7, Folder 6
File
1981

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

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.

Notes on an an analysis of variance for regression of political indices on economic segments, class and the sociodemographic variables

MS-2-681, Box 7, Folder 12
File
1980 - 1981

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File also includes a manuscript for a final follow-up survey questionnaire and a printed pamphlet-format survey of Trends in the Maritime Economy.

Segmentation and wage determination : the cluster solution / Richard Apostle, Don Clairmont and Lars Osberg

MS-2-681, Box 7, Folder 7
File
1981-1982

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

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.

November 1982 list of working papers, conference research reports and publications of the Marginal Work World Research Program

MS-2-681, Box 5, Folder 13
File
1982

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

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.

Correspondence and notes from the American Journal of Sociology regarding the submission of "Segmentation and Wage Determination"

MS-2-681, Box 7, Folder 9
File
1982

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File also includes two manuscripts of the paper dated June 1982 and January 1983 and pages of handwritten graphs and data.

The determinants of occupational status and mobility in the marginal work world / Richard Apostle and Don Clairmont

MS-2-681, Box 3, Folder 4
File
1982

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

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).

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.

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

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.

Segmentation and labour force strategies / Richard Apostle, Don Clairmont and Lars Osberg

MS-2-681, Box 7, Folder 3
File
1984

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File contains a manuscript draft, an annotated page proof, and a page of authors' biographical statements.

Objective and subjective determinants of job satisfaction / Richard Apostle, Don Clairmont and Lars Osberg

MS-2-681, Box 8, Folder 4
File
1981, 1983-1984

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File also contains notes and a rejection letter from the Industrial & Labor Relations Review.

MS-9-51, Box 1, Folder 2
File
1982-1985

Part of Norman Hebert fonds

File documents Norman Hebert’s time as a representative of the Nova Scotia Government Employee Union in the Dalhousie Labour University Committee from 1982 to 1985. Meetings took place at the Henson Centre, Dalhousie University. Records include meeting minutes by Donald Maclean, a list of labour courses offered by Dalhousie University, and memoranda notifying committee members of meeting dates.

Current list of working papers, conference research reports and publications

MS-2-681, Box 2, Folder 6
Item
May 1985

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

Item is a paper describing and listing the research outputs of the Marginal Work World Research Program at the Institute of Public Affairs, Dalhousie University.

Economic segmentation and politics / Richard Apostle, Don Clairmont and Lars Osberg

MS-2-681, Box 8, Folder 2
File
1985

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

File includes two drafts, one with interfiled notes and annotations; readers' comments; and correspondence.

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.

Work : a segmented perspective / Don Clairmont and Richard Apostle

MS-2-681, Box 3, Folder 2
File
1984, 1986

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

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.

Narrow your results by:

Part of

Creator

Name

Place

Subject

Genre

Level of description

Media Type

Showing 177 results