Archives Catalogue

Worker attitude survey : Morphology Project / Institute of Public Affairs

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

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

Work : a segmented perspective / Don Clairmont and Richard Apostle

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

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.

Women Willing To Work : An Exploratory Investigation of the Economic Integration of Women with Disabilities in Nova Scotia / researched and written by Elizabeth Doull

MS-2-801, Box 3, Folder 3, Item 1
Item
May 1993

Part of Joan Elizabeth Cummings fonds

Item consists of a copy of the May 1993 report "Women Willing To Work : An Exploratory Investigation of the Economic Integration of Women with Disabilities in Nova Scotia", researched and written by Elizabeth Doull and edited by Brenda L. Beagan.

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.

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.

United Textile Workers of America Local 159 fonds

MS-9-19
Fonds
1946-1973

This fonds contains minute books of meetings from 1946-1972, three filed employee grievances ( Janette Roy, Thelma Burgess, and Helen Haskem), conciliation board submissions and papers, arbitration board submissions and papers, reference material including newspaper clippings and miscellaneous reference material. The miscellaneous reference file contains receipts, an application for membership with the United Textile Workers of America, an efficiency report for 1969, and a record of proceedings and decision of board referees. As well this fonds includes collective agreements from 1948-1973, and miscellaneous correspondence.

United Textile Workers of America. Local 159.

United Textile Workers of America Local 152 fonds

MS-9-2
Fonds
1950-1952

Fonds includes correspondence, contract documents, district council documents, annual conference proceedings/documents, information about the conference on trade union rights in 1951-1952, press releases issued by the United Textile Workers of America, and miscellaneous reference material including, a sheet outlining the, "commonplace precaution against war" with a diagram about the potential damages of an atom bomb blast. The reference material contains blank due deduction slips for the United Textile Workers of America Local 152, newsletters issued by the Canadian Textile Council, a pamphlet issued by the Trade Union Research Bureau titled, "Wages and the Cost of Living", and amendments submitted by the "Local 100 United Textile Workers of America for negotiations with the Montreal Cottons Limited."

Files are listed alphabetically by title.

United Textile Workers of America. Local 152.

Unidentified convention

MS-9-17, PB Box 1, Folder 91
File
1954

Part of Marine Workers Federation fonds

Two handwritten sheets with description.

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.

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.

The working class of metropolitan Halifax, 1850-1889

MS-9-16, Reel 1
File
1975

Part of Ian McKay fonds

File contains a manuscript of Ian McKay's honours thesis "The working class of metropolitan Halifax, 1850-1889." The thesis was completed as part of McKay's Bachelor of Arts (History) studies at Dalhousie University.

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).

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

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.

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).

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 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).

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

Statement of employee losses after the Halifax Explosion

MS-4-180, Box 94, Folder 1
File
1917-1918

Part of Maritime Telegraph and Telephone Company fonds

File contains forms detailing MT&T employees' name, position, address, and damages sustained from the Halifax Explosion. Forms document personal injury and loss of life as well as damage to personal property.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Roscoe A. Fillmore Memorial Picnic Organizing Committee fonds

MS-10-10
Fonds
1978-1994

Fonds contains materials related to the early picnics organized by the committee, including invitations, announcements and mailing lists, guest books, receipts and recipes, and photographs taken at the picnics.

Roscoe A. Fillmore Memorial Picnic Organizing Committee

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.

Richard Apostle and Boris Raymond fonds

MS-2-712
Fonds
1994 - 1997

Fonds comprises employment trends questionnaires created by Richard Apostle and Boris Raymond to generate research data for their book Librarianship and the Information Paradigm (1997).

Apostle, Richard A.

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.

Rejected employment trends surveys

MS-2-681, Box 9, Folder 5
File
[1989?]

Part of Richard Apostle fonds

MS-9-51, Box 1, Folder 5
File
1974-1976

Part of Norman Hebert fonds

File includes meeting minutes and correspondence between the United Steelworkers of America Local 4883 and the Plant Safety Committee of the Amherst Plant No. 4 operated by Enamel and Heating Products Limited. Correspondence describes efforts to establish safety protocols after a workplace accident in 1975.

MS-9-51, Box 1, Folder 4
File
1973-1974

Part of Norman Hebert fonds

File documents negotiations between United Steelworkers of America Local 4883 and Enamel and Heating Products Limited, a heating equipment manufacturing company that operated a factory in Amherst, Nova Scotia. Records include meeting minutes, pension plan proposals, and wage negotiations.

MS-9-51, Box 1, Folder 6
File
1971-1977

Part of Norman Hebert fonds

File contains records related to Norman Hebert’s time as a committee member of the United Steelworkers of America Local 4883, Aircraft Division located in Amherst, Nova Scotia. Records include correspondence, grievance reports, and meeting minutes.

MS-9-51, Box 1, Folder 3
File
1982-1984, 1988

Part of Norman Hebert fonds

File includes meeting notices and minutes of the Dalhousie Labour University Committee. Norman Hebert served as a representative of the Nova Scotia Government Employee Union. Meetings took place at the Henson Centre, Dalhousie University.

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.

MS-9-51, Box 1, Folder 1
File
1975-1977

Part of Norman Hebert fonds

File documents Norman Hebert’s time as President of the Amherst and District Labour Council between 1975 and 1977. Records include notices of meetings and protest actions, correspondence between members of the council and executive officers, and annual reports.

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.

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.

Press release for Women Willing To Work report

MS-2-801, Box 3, Folder 3, Item 2
Item
1993

Part of Joan Elizabeth Cummings fonds

Item consists of a press release from The Task Force On The Economic Integration of Women With Disabilities in Nova Scotia for the publication of the "Women Willing To Work" report from May 1993.

Poster for Workers Sold Out, an event featuring video art by Nancy Nicol

MS-3-46, OS Box 3, Folder 35
Item
[ca. 1984]

Part of Centre for Art Tapes fonds

Item is a poster for Workers Sold Out a screening of video works by Nancy Nicol. The event featured Nicol's works, Mini Skool Pays Mini Wages and Selling Out.

Photographs of workers at the Kuzbas Autonomous Industrial Colony in Kuzbas, Russia

MS-10-1, Box 2, Folder 12
File
1923

Part of Roscoe Alfred Fillmore fonds

File contains three photographs taken by Roscoe Fillmore during his 1923 visit.

Photographs of Sydney, Nova Scotia in 1963

MS-9-11, PB Box 1, folder 71
File
1963

Part of Nova Scotia Federation of Labour fonds

The majority of photographs are labelled on the back with names, date year, and the location.

Photographic still from video Selling Out by Nancy Nicol

MS-3-46, Box 54, Folder 13, Item 1
Item
1980

Part of Centre for Art Tapes fonds

Item is a photographic still from video Selling Out. Image is of a person demonstrating at a Public Service Alliance rally.

Photographic still from video Selling Out by Nancy Nicol

MS-3-46, Box 54, Folder 13, Item 2
Item
1980

Part of Centre for Art Tapes fonds

Item is a photographic still from video Selling Out. Image shows Public Service Alliance of Canada clerical staff picketing at the Halifax Post office.