1. The American Working Class in Historical Persepctive
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1973
   A review of Jeremy Brecher's Strike! (See CX6590)
2. Art and Labour
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1884
   Says Morris: "By art, I do not mean only pictures and sculpture, nor only these and architecture, that is beautiful building properly ornamented; these are only a portion of art, which comprises, as I understand the word a great deal more; beauty produced by the labour of man both mental and bodily, the expression of the interest man takes in the life of man upon the earth with all its surroundings, in other words the human pleasure of life is what I mean by art."
   
3. Bowling Alone
   The Collapse and Revival of American Community
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2000
   Bowling Alone documents the rise and fall of community activity in the twentieth century in the United States and the social changes this reflects. It offers all the evidence, the confirmatory and the contradictory, to give a complete look at trends of community involvement and how increased social capital can benefit everybody.
   
4. The burden of slavery
   New Internationalist, August 2001 - #337
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 2001
   
5. Bureau of Public Secrets
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   Articles from a Situationist perspective.
6. Centre for Research on Work and Society
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   University-union-community research centre doing activist research on work and labour.
7. Connexions Annual 1989
   A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1989
   
8. Connexions Annual 1994
   A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1994
   Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series of introductory articles surveying a wide range of social and environmental issues and possibile alternatives.
   
9. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1994
   A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
10. Connexions Library: Economy, Poverty, Work
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Selected articles from the Connexions Online Library.
11. The Crisis of Modern Society
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1967
    Based on a talk given by Paul Cardan at Kent in 1965, "Crisis" elucidates upon the several endemic problems of modern societies, touching on the sciences, education, and the organization of work.
12. Falling Behind
    The State of Working Canada, 2000
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    
13. In Praise of Idleness
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1932
    
14. LabourStart
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A major site with information about labour activities throughout the world.
15. 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.
16. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
17. 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.
    
18. No Bosses Here!
    A Manual on Working Collectively and Cooperatively
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1981
    
19. 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.
    
20. Part-time Paradox: Connecting Gender, Work and Family
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    Tthe authors discuss whether the over-representation of women in part-time labour is exploitive or liberating. They present interviews and original research to describe the ways in which alternative work forms simultaneously challenge and reinforce traditional gender roles.
    
21. The Red Menace
    A libertarian socialist newsletter
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
    Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
    
22. Strike!
    The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    
23. A Tale of Two Offices
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1977
    Daily life and offices politics viewed through the experience of working in two libraries with very different management styles.
24. Useful Work versus Useless Toil
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1883
    Morris proposes that while work is essential for our survival, nevertheless "there is some labour which is so far from being a blessing that it is a curse; that it would be better for the community and for the worker if the latter were to fold his hands and refuse to work."
    
25. What Is Important?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1979
    It is necessary to demolish the monstrously false idea that the problems that workers see are not important, that there are more important ones which only "theorists" and politicians can speak about.
26. Why Work?
    Arguments for the Leisure Society
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    
27. The William Morris Internet Archive
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A subarchive of the Marxists Internet Archive, featuring the works of the English socialist, writer, and artist William Morris.
    
28. Women at Work - Ontario, 1850- 1930
    Resource Type: Book
    
29. Women on the Global Assembly Line
    Resource Type: Book
    
30. Working
    Resource Type: Book
    
31. Working Hours
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    In this article written around 1972, Guido Viale, a member of the Italian socialist group Lotta Continua, discusses the struggle for less work and shorter hours.
32. Working in a supermarket
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1979
    Observations on working as a carry-out in a supermarket.
33. Working in an office -- for a while
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1978
    The first thing that strikes one about working in this particular office is how little actual work ever gets done.

Experts on Work in the Sources Directory

1. The Canadian Initiative on Workplace Violence
2. Canadian Labour Congress
3. Mandie Crawford
4. Institute for Work & Health
5. Safe Communities Canada