Parental Rights and Day Care: A Bargaining Guide for Unions This publication examines parental rights and daycare as equality issues. It includes background information and statistics as well as sample contract clauses on the following: Maternity Leave, Paid Maternity Leave, Adoption Leave, Paternity Leave, Time Off Illness in the Family, Transfer to Safe Work During Pregnancy, Family Raising Leave, and other issues. This is an extremely useful and practical guide published by the Ontario Federation of Labour, 15 Gervais Drive, Suite 202, Don Mills, Ontario, M3C 1Y8. It was researched and written by Shelley Acheson and Catherine Macleod with assistance from the OFL Women's Committee.

The Seam Allowance: Industrial Home Sewing in Canada This is a case study analysis of the situation of women home workers -- women who do piecework in their own homes while caring for their children and house- holds. It examines their working conditions, employer expectations, their lives in general. By Laura Johnson and Robert Johnson, this book is a stunning expose of the conditions faced by many immigrant women in this country. Published by Women's Press, 16 Baldwin St., Toronto, Ontario, M5T 1L2. Cost: $7.95.

The new Canadian Code of Advertising Standards is available from the Advertising Standards Council at 1240 Bay St., Suite 302, Toronto, Ontario, M5R 2A7. It is particularly useful in outlining procedures for complaint and appeal to regional councils if you are dismayed by advertising being displayed in your community.

On Prison Education Consisting nineteen essays, this book offers new ideas on the meaning and objectives of prison education as something other than the pragmatic, functionalist, system-oriented correction of human behaviour. It challenges many present day assumptions and affirms that education is at the heart of the prison's function and is virtually its only hope of ever being more than a secure and efficient warehouse for society's legal outcasts. There are no articles specifically about women's education in prison. It may be still be of interest to those working with women inmates or in aftercare. Compiled by Lucien Morin, for the Ministry of the Solicitor General. Cost $12.95 from Canadian Government Publishing Centre, Ottawa, K1A OS9.



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