1. The American Working Class in Historical Persepctive 
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1973
   A review of Jeremy Brecher's Strike! (See CX6590)
2. Art and Labour
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First 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
   First 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)
   First Published: 2001
   Discusses a brief history of slavery in different parts of the world, and its existence in the presence. Outlines ways for people and the government can contribute to end slavery.
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. Common Sense for Hard Times 
   The Power of the Powerless to Cope with Everyday life and Transform Society in The Nineteen Seventies
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1976
   Presents a vision of society as it is and as it could be. Putting the problems of contemporary daily life in historical perspective, it reveals that they have their roots in the way our society is organized, and thereby enables us to re-examine our own situation and experience.
   
8. Connexions Annual 1989
   A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1989
   
9. Connexions Annual 1994
   A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First 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.
   
10. Connexions Annual Overview: Economy, Poverty, Work
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    To effect desired change, it is necessary to have the power to set a different agenda, and therefore to challenge the current concentration of economic and political power. One of the keys to building an effective movement is mutual acts of solidarity, inspired by the principle that `an injury to one is an injury to all'.
11. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989   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.
12. Connexions Library: Economy, Poverty, Work Focus 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the economy and economics.
13. Connexions Library: Work Focus Page
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on work.
14. The Crisis of Modern Society
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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.
15. The Economy of Cities
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    
16. Falling Behind
    The State of Working Canada, 2000
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    
17. Food, Shelter and the American Dream
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    Discusses the state of the American economy, the consequences for politics and culture that might arise from the new situation, and possible solutions.
18. Getting There
    Producing Photostories With Immigrant Women
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    Photostories about immigrant women surviving in and adapting to a new culture.
    
19. The Hidden Injuries of Class
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1966   Published: 1972
    Sennett and Cobb look at human relations between people of different classes and analyze everyday life and ordinary situations to identify class signals that make people feel inadequate.
20. In Praise of Idleness 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1932
    More leisure, not work, will benefit civilization. Modern organization and technology makes a four hour work day possible for leisure to be distributed to everyone.
    
21. LabourStart
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A major site with information about labour activities throughout the world.
22. Life on the Line
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1971
    
23. 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.
24. Meatpackers
    An Oral History of Black Packinghouse Workers and Their Struggle for Racial and Economic Equality
    Resource Type: Book
    Provides an important window into race and racism in the American workplace. In their own words, male and female packinghouse workers in the Midwest — mostly African-American — talk of their experiences on the shop floor and picket lines.
25. Miners and Steelworkers
    Labour in Cape Breton
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    
26. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
27. The Newsletter
    Periodical profile
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1973   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.
    
28. Nickel and Dimed
    On (Not) Getting By In America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    
29. No Bosses Here!
    A Manual on Working Collectively and Cooperatively
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1981
    A perceptive and practical guide to working in a collective.
30. On Unions and the Class Struggle
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1969   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.
    
31. Part-time Paradox: Connecting Gender, Work and Family
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
    
32. The Red Menace 
    A libertarian socialist newsletter
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1975   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.
    
33. The Right To Be Lazy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1883
    Our epoch has been called the century of work. It is in fact the century of pain, misery and corruption.
    
34. Small Is Not Beautiful: Life at the Bay Guardian
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1987
    
35. Social Determinants of Health
    Canadian Perspectives
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    The social determinants of health are summarized and analyzed by over 30 medical and social academics.
36. Socialism and Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1967   Published: 1973
    Representative democracy in every industrially advanced country is in a state of profound crisis. But we have been accustomed for so long to accept democracy in the form of its outward appearances and parliamentary institutions that its decay often does not become apparent to us until those institutions have been either brushed aside or reduced to a purely decorative role.
    
37. Socialist Humanism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1965   Published: 1966
    An international symposium whose contributors explore the humanist essence of socialism. Among the contributors are Herbert Marcuse, Maximilien Rubel, Norman Thomas, T.B. Bottomore, Raya Dunayevskaya, Ernst Bloch, and Bertrand Russell.
38. The Socialist Register 1985/1986
    Social Democracy and After
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1986
    
39. Strike! 
    The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972   Published: 1997
    A history-from-below that brings to light strikes as authentic revolutionary movements against the establishments of state, capital, and trade unionism.
40. A Tale of Two Offices
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1977
    Daily life and offices politics viewed through the experience of working in two libraries with very different management styles.
41. Traces of Magma
    An Annotated Bibliography of Left Literature
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    An annotated bibliography of left wing novels which deal with the lives of working people during the twentieth century.
42. Two Miners
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1971
    
43. Useful Work versus Useless Toil
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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."
    
44. What Is Important?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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.
45. Why Work?
    Arguments for the Leisure Society
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    Essays on useless work, useful work, and alternatives to work.
46. 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.
    
47. Windows on the Workplace
    Technology, Jobs, and the Organization of Office Work
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    Takes us behind the news stories of the highly efficient, high-tech workplace and shows us the ways in which technologies have been adapted by management to reshape the way work is done.
48. Women at Work
    Ontario 1850-1930
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    
49. Women at Work - Ontario, 1850- 1930
    Resource Type: Book
    
50. Women on the Global Assembly Line
    Resource Type: Book
    
51. Work and New Technologies
    Other Perspectives (Volume 3)
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    Essays covering health hazards, labour concerns, and issues of deskilling related to new technologies in the workplace.
52. Worked to the Bone
    Race, Class, Power, and Privilege in Kentucky
    Resource Type: Book
    A provocative examination of race, class and the mechanics of inequality in the United States.
53. A Workers' Inquiry
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1880
    
54. Working
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972   Published: 1974
    People talk a bout what they do all day and how they feel about what they do.
55. Working at Inglis
    The Life and Death of a Canadian Company
    Resource Type: Book
    David Sobel and Susan Meurer look at 108 years of history at the John Inglis plant in west Toronto. With archival and contemprary photos, interviews with workers, the history of gendered work segregation during WW2 and union struggles to organize the plant, the authors tell the story of the rise and fall of one of the city's oldest companies.
56. Working Harder Isn't Working
    A Detailed Plan for Implementing a Four-day Workweek in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
    O'Hara details how the overworked can job share with the unemployed for economic, social, and psychological benefits for all.
57. 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.
58. Working in a supermarket
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1979
    Observations on working as a carry-out in a supermarket.
59. Working in an office -- for a while
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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. Connexions Library/Archive
3. Marxists Internet Archive