1. Against All Odds
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1985
   The shadow haunting the power structure is the danger that those who are controlled will realize they are powerless only so long as they think they are. Once people stop believing they are powerless the whole edifice is in danger of collapse.
2. All That Our Hands Have Done
   A Pictorial History of Hamilton Workers
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1981
   
3. The American Worker
   Resource Type: Book
   
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. Autonomous Struggles and the Capitalist Crisis
   A Workers' Autonomy Pamphlet
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1974
   
6. Bureau of Public Secrets
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   Articles from a Situationist perspective.
7. The Canadian Jewish Outlook Anthology
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1988
   A broad range of articles about secular Jewish life and socialist values.
   
8. The Canadian Labour Movement
   A Short History
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1989
   
9. Das Capital, Vol. 1
   A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1890
   
10. Das Capital, Vol. 2
    The Process of Circulation of Capital
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1956
    
11. Das Capital, Vol. 3
    The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    
12. 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.
13. The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters Volume 1: An Age Like This
    Resource Type: Book
    
14. Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters Volume 2: My Country Right or Left
    Resource Type: Book
    
15. The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters Volume 3: As I Please
    Resource Type: Book
    
16. The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters Volume 4: 1945-1950
    Resource Type: Book
    
17. Combatting Racism in the Workplace
    A Course for Workers
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    
18. The Communist Manifesto
    Resource Type: Book
    
19. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
    
20. A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
    Resource Type: Book
    
21. Critique of Syndicalist Methods
    Resource Type: Book
    
22. Economic Power Struggle In The USSR
    Soviet Workers Press For Self-Management
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    
23. Engels, Manchester and the Working Class
    Resource Type: Book
    
24. Essays in Canadian Working Class History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    
25. Facing Reality
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    
26. False Promises
    The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    
27. Farewell to the Working Class
    An Essay on Post-Industrial Socialism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    
28. For Communism: Propositions on a Strategy for Revolution in the Advanced Capitalist Countries
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1970
    A series of 100 propositions addressing the strategic vacuum on the Italian and European left at the end of the 1960s.
    
29. The Ghost of Anarcho-Syndicalism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1992
    The danger of modern anarchists of falling into the trap of anarcho-syndicalism.
30. A Guide to Working Class History
    Second Edition
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    
31. Hamburg at the Barricades
    Resource Type: Book
    
32. Harlan County USA
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 1976
    A documentary film about the miners' strike in Harlan County, Kentucky in 1973.
    
33. Hogtown
    Working Class Toronto at the Turn of the Century
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    
34. Hungary 56
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    
35. Ideas and Action
    Periodical profile published 1981
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
    Archive of some articles published in Ideas and Action, a radical paper published by the Workers Solidarity Alliance from 1981 to 1997.
36. An interview with Karl Marx
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1979
    An interview with Karl Marx in which he discusses the organization of the First International.
37. The Invading Socialist Society
    Resource Type: Book
    
38. It's Our Own Knowledge
    Labour, Public Education, and Skills Training
    Resource Type: Book
    
39. LabourStart
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A major site with information about labour activities throughout the world.
40. Liberty Against the Law
    Some Seventeenth-century Controversies
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    
41. The Making of E.P. Thompson
    Marxism, Humanism, and History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1981
    
42. The Making of the English Working Class
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    
43. 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.
    
44. 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.
45. The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1906
    
46. The Meaning of Socialism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1969
    Paul Cardan's 1961 discussion of modern conceptions of socialism, and the future of socialist movements.
47. Modern Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    
48. New Democracy Internet site
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Supports a democratic revolution to overthrow corporate capitalism, but opposes socialism. Features short articles on labour issues, the deficit, education.
49. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
50. 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.
    
51. 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.
    
52. No Power Greater
    A Century of Labour in British Columbia
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
    
53. Notebook of an Agitator
    Resource Type: Book
    
54. On the First International
    Resource Type: Book
    
55. 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.
    
56. Organizing for Worker's Power
    Beyond Trade Unionism & Vanguardism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1969
    A discussion of the problem of "vanguardism," and the role of leadership in revolutionary organization, and its evolution through different stages of class struggle, by Adriano Sofr of the Italian socialist group Lotta Continua.
    
57. Pain on Their Faces
    Testimonies on the Paper Mill Strike, Jay, Manie, 1987-1988
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
    
58. Pannekoek and Gorter's Marxism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    
59. Pocket History of the British Working Class
    Resource Type: Book
    
60. Portugal: The Impossible Revolution?
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
    
61. 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.
62. Rank and File
    Personal Histories of Working Class Organizers
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    
63. Red City, Blue Period
    Social Movements in Picasso's Barcelona
    Resource Type: Book
    
64. 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.
    
65. The Road to Wigan Pier
    Resource Type: Book
    
66. Soviets in Italy
    Resource Type: Book
    
67. Spontaneity and Organization: Some Comments
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1973
    A contribution to a symposium on Jeremy Brecher's book Strike!
    
68. Strike!
    The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    
69. Sweat and Struggle
    Working Class Struggles In Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    
70. 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.
71. Traces of Magma
    An Annotated Bibliography of Left Literature
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    
72. The Trade Union Movement of Canada, 1827-1959
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    
73. A Troublemaker's Handbook
    How to Fight Back Where You Work -- And Win!
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    
74. Unity brings strength
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1989
    The NDP puts too much emphasis on electioneering and not enough on economic action.
75. What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1989
    We have the potential to create a social movement in this country that goes beyond single-issue organizing to work toward an integrated vision of a more just and caring society.
76. What is Class Conciousness?
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    
77. 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.
78. 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."
    
79. 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.
    
80. Workers Against the Monolith
    Resource Type: Book
    
81. The Working Class and Social Change
    Four Essays on the Working Class
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1975
    A study of "The Working Class," and the complexities of its definition as economic categories diffused from profound bases of social demarcation during the 1960's.
82. Working Class Experience
    Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    
83. 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.

Experts on Working Class in the Sources Directory

1. Ontario Coalition Against Poverty