1. Against the Tide
   The Story of the Canadian Seaman's Union
   Resource Type: Book
   
2. All for One
   Arguments from the Labour Trial of the Century on the Real Meaning of Unionism
   Resource Type: Book
   
3. All That Our Hands Have Done
   A Pictorial History of Hamilton Workers
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1981
   
4. The American Working Class in Historical Persepctive
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1973
   A review of Jeremy Brecher's Strike! (See CX6590)
5. Class Composition and the Theory of the Party at the Origin of the Workers-Councils Movement
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1972
   Re-examines a crucial segment of labour history, the German workers' council experience, which bridges the classical socialist phase of the Second and Third Internationals, and the post-Keynesian period.
6. Close the 49th Parallel Etc
   The Americanization of Canada
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1970
   
7. Combatting Racism in the Workplace
   A Course for Workers
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1983
   
8. Eugene V. Debs Speaks
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1983
   
9. The Exploitation Explosion
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Female workers in developing countries are undervalued and underpaid.
10. Global Labour Calendar
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Inactive/Defunct Periodical
    Calendar of trade union and labour-related events.
11. Globalizing the Left
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1991
    The Canadian trade union movement has to put greater emphasis on using its global ties to prevent multinational companies from shifting their operations to low wage countries.
12. Harlan County USA
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 1976
    A documentary film about the miners' strike in Harlan County, Kentucky in 1973.
    
13. International Labor Rights Fund
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    An advocacy organization dedicated to achieving just and humane treatment for workers worldwide.
14. International Trade Union Summit on Privatization Proceedings
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    
15. LaborNet
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    
16. LabourStart
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A major site with information about labour activities throughout the world.
17. Marxism and the Trade Unions
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1970
    Draper argues that essentially, no Marxist group has ever carried on any systematic revolutionary work in trade unions.
    
18. Marxists Internet Archive
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
19. New Internationalist Online
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles from the New Internationalist, chat forum, ethical shopping, more.
20. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
21. The Newsletter
    Periodical profile
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1974
    Newsletter published in 1973 and 1974 by the New Tendency, a loose collaboration of indepedent leftists based in Toronto, Windsor, Winnipeg, and Kitchener-Waterloo. Articles dealt with workplace issues, labour unions, workers autonomy and related topics. A total of five-and-a-half issues were published.
    
22. The No-Nonsense Guide to Class, Caste & Hierarchies
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2002
    Concentrates mainly on the history of social hierarchy in Western civilization, and particularly the struggles of the working class.
    
23. On Unions and the Class Struggle
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1973
    Written during the wave of workers' struggles known as the Italian hot autumn of 1969, when the autonomous struggles of the working class reached an unprecedented level, laying bare the character and function of the unions.
    
24. Portugal: The Impossible Revolution?
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
    
25. Preface to Martin Glaberman's Four Essays on the Working Class
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Glaberman insists that the working class is not merely a victim of capitalism — working people are active participants in creating their own consciousness, their methods of struggle and their own history.
26. Rank and File
    Personal Histories of Working Class Organizers
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    
27. The Rise and Fall of the Toronto Typographical Union 1832 - 1972
    A Case Study of Foreign Domination
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    
28. South African trade union congress supports CUPE boycott of apartheid Israel
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    South African workers will never forget the support given by the Israeli state to the apartheid South African regime. In the same way we will never forget the thousands of acts of solidarity of ordinary citizens around the world who sustained our struggle through the boycott weapon.
29. Spontaneity and Organization: Some Comments
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1973
    A contribution to a symposium on Jeremy Brecher's book Strike!
    
30. Trade Unions Bread & Roses The trade union revival
    New Internationalist December 2001
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2001
    
31. A Troublemaker's Handbook
    How to Fight Back Where You Work -- And Win!
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    
32. U.S. Strikes Drop Dramatically
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1992
    
33. Who Advocates Spontaneity?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1973
    Brecher argues that "the 'consciousness' necessary for socialist revolution consists in workers' shared understanding that they can collectively initiate and control their own action to meet their own needs. Such an understanding does not flow directly and automatically from the position of workers in production, although that position is what makes workers potentially powerful. Nor does it arise primarily from the speeches, manifestos, and other "consciousness raising" activities of the Left, though they may make some contribution to it. The working class can come to understand its power to act only by acting."
    He also states that "The working class is potentially revolutionary, and socialism would be the natural result if one tendency of its development were carried to its logical conclusion. But if this were the only tendency in effect, the workers would all be revolutionaries and socialism would have been achieved long ago. To ignore the factors which currently lead workers to adapt to existing society instead of trying to abolish it is to give up the ability to understand "the real, existing American working class with all its limitations." To ignore those limitations is to lose the power to grasp the process that will be necessary to overcome them."
    

Experts on Unions in the Sources Directory

1. The Alberta Teachers' Association
2. Brock University
3. Canadian Labour Congress
4. Canadian Union of Public Employees
5. Confederation of Canadian Unions
6. Hospital Employees' Union
7. International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (CLC)
8. National Farmers Union
9. National Union of Public and General Employees
10. Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association
11. Ontario Nurses' Association
12. Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC)
13. Society of Energy Professionals