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On Friday, December 28, 1979 an Act to Amend Chapter 19 of the Nova Scotia Acts of 1972, The Trade Union Act, received Royal assent. This piece of legislation is commonly (and much more conveniently) referred to as the Michelin Bill, the Michelin Act or the Michelin Amendment.' Its namesake is Michelin Tires (Canada) Limited, the Canadian subsidiary of the large French multinational radial tire manufacturer. It must, and indeed it should, seem odd that a bill amending in general terms an act of general application (the Trade Union Act of Nova Scotia)2 should bear the name of a manufacturing company located in the province. But as seems to be admitted by all concerned, there is a direct link between Michelin and the amendment. Because the link has been openly admitted or alluded to by the government which passed the amendment, much of what is contained in this comment is not new or at all extraordinary. Also, because it seems generally conceded that the handle "The Michelin Amendment" fits, in large measure the issues surrounding the Michelin Amendment are not labour law issues at all. The central issue is one of fundamental economic, philosophical, and political principle. To put it simply, the amendment has a great deal to do with the basic political dilemma of trading fundamental, and in a sense intangible, rights or freedoms for economic gains or increases in the general economic welfare of an economically depressed area. This is so much more important a question than any problem of tinkering with technical labour law concepts such as "appropriate bargaining units" and "community of interest" that it overwhelms any attempted labour law analysis.

The short papers in this book review symposium are based on the authors' contributions to a workshop held in Montreal in May 2014, where they were invited to comment on Francis Maupain's (2013) book The future of the International Labour Organization in the global economy. The workshop took place within the framework of the International Conference "New frontiers for citizenship at work" organized by the Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work (CRIMT).At the heart of this book is a daunting question: how can an organisation whose structure, mandate and resources were developed almost a century ago pretend to retain relevance and effectiveness in the face of realities that have virtually nothing in common with those of its origins?

Los artículos breves de este simposio de reseñas están basados en las ponencias que los autores presentaron en un seminario celebrado en Montreal en mayo de 2014 al que fueron invitados para comentar el libro de Francis Maupain (2013) The future of the International Labour Organization in the global economy. El seminario tuvo lugar en el marco de la Conferencia Internacional sobre Nuevas Fronteras para la Ciudadanía Laboral, organizada por el Centro Interuniversitario de Investigación sobre la Globalización y el Trabajo (CRIMT).Una de las ideas centrales del libro se plantea como una pregunta ineludible: ¿cómo una organización cuya estructura, mandato y recursos se concibieron hace casi un siglo puede pretender mantener su relevancia y eficacia en una realidad que no tiene prácticamente nada que ver con la de sus orígenes?

Les contributions rassemblées ici ont été présentées par leurs auteurs lors d'un atelier qui a eu lieu à Montréal en mai 2014, à l'occasion duquel ils étaient invités à commenter le livre publié par Francis Maupain en 2012: L'OIT à l'épreuve de la mondialisation financière: peut‐on réguler sans contraindre? Cet atelier se situait dans le cadre du Colloque international intitulé «Les nouvelles frontières de la citoyenneté au travail», organisé par le Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la mondialisation et le travail (CRIMT).Cet ouvrage porte sur une question qu'il est presque impossible à un juriste de ne pas se poser à l'approche d'une telle échéance: comment une organisation dont la structure, le mandat et les moyens ont été conçus il y a bientôt un siècle peut‐elle prétendre rester pertinente et efficace face à des réalités qui n'ont pratiquement plus rien de commun avec celles de ses origines?