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Attempts to predict the timing of job changes by Canadian workers who had already chosen to change their job. The job market of the 1970's-80's proved too precarious due to economic fluctuations, and individual decisions too arbitrary, to formulate an accurate predictive model of when job transitions would occur.

WHO IS AN ORGANIZED worker today in Québec? After a review of the main changes in the labour market since 1975 in three main areas: feminization, precarisation and tertiarisation, this article portrays the internal characteristics of the organized population. The authors then go on to compare organized and unorganized workers with the potential labour force regarding their age, sex, education, work status and average wage. They conclude that the organized population is relatively older, that men are over-represented, that it enjoys better job security, relatively high wages, and sectorial concentration. Finally, the article attempts to throw some light on the impact of new demographic parameters on the difficult strategic repositioning being crystalised in the Québec labour movement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An abstract of the article "Sixty Years on the Margin: The Evolution of Ontario's Tree Planting Industry and Labour Force: 1945-2007," by Brendan Sweeney is presented.