1. Adventures in Marxism 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1999
   Marshall Berman explores and rejoices in the emancipatory potential of Marxism.
   
2. Against All Odds
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First 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.
3. All That Our Hands Have Done
   A Pictorial History of Hamilton Workers
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1981
   The story of working people in Hamilton's steel industry.
4. The American Socialist Movement: 1897-1912
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1952
   
5. The American Worker
   Resource Type: Book
   
6. The American Working Class in Historical Persepctive 
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1973
   A review of Jeremy Brecher's Strike! (See CX6590)
7. Autonomous Struggles and the Capitalist Crisis
   A Workers' Autonomy Pamphlet
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1974
   
8. Back To The Future 
   The Continuing Relevance of Marx
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2000
   Does anyone seriously believe that the Russian workers who invented soviets in 1905 or overthrew the Tsar in 1917 were free of bigotry, of anti-semitism, of sexism, of national chauvinism? Or the Hungarian workers of 1966? Or the French workers of 1968? (In France there had been considerable display of racism toward African immigrants, a racism that was significantly reduced for a while during the events of May 1968.) Were the Polish workers who created Solidarity in 1980 free of anti-semitism, sexism, the influence of the Catholic Church? What is missing in most of these empirical studies is the theory of Marx. They are based on the depths the working class has reached under capitalism, not the peaks. As a result, they are inherently conservative.
9. “Be his payment high or low”
   The American Working Class in the Sixties
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 1965
   Whether workers win a particular struggle or are forced to retreat or manage to hold their own varies considerably with time and place and the particular relationship of forces in each factory. What remains constant throughout, however, is the struggle itself and the search for new social forms.
10. Black Cats, White Cats, Wildcats
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1969
    Direct, shop-floor organization have emerged that are willing and able to call strikes in its own name and fight against both the union and the management in a struggle to assert the power of the working class in production.
11. Break Their Haughty Power 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles on capitalism, socialism, and revolution, from a left-Marxist perspective.
    
12. Build It Now
    Socialism for the Twenty-First Century
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2006
    Influenced by the dramatic proeesses unfolding in Venezuela, Lebowitz re-imagines a socialism for the twenty-first century that places workers and popular communities at the centre of the project.
13. Bureau of Public Secrets 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Articles from a Situationist perspective.
14. The Canadian Jewish Outlook Anthology
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    A broad range of articles about secular Jewish life and socialist values.
    
15. The Canadian Labour Movement
    A Short History
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    
16. Das Capital, Volume 1 
    A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1867   Published: 1890
    Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations.
17. Das Capital, Volume 2
    The Process of Circulation of Capital
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1893   Published: 1956
    
18. Das Capital, Volume 3
    The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1894   Published: 1971
    
19. Class Composition and the Theory of the Party at the Origin of the Workers-Councils Movement
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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.
20. The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters Volume 1: An Age Like This
    Resource Type: Book
    
21. Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters Volume 2: My Country Right or Left
    Resource Type: Book
    
22. The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters Volume 3: As I Please
    Resource Type: Book
    
23. The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters Volume 4: 1945-1950
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1968
    
24. Combatting Racism in the Workplace
    A Course for Workers
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    
25. 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.
    
26. The Communist Manifesto 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1848
    Written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as the theoretical and practical platform of the Communist League, a workers' association.
    
27. The Condition of the Working Class in England
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1845
    
28. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
    
29. Connexions Library: Labour and Unions Focus 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on labour and unions.
30. Connexions Library: Work Focus Page
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on work.
31. A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1859
    
32. Critique of Nonviolent Politics 
    From Mahatma Gandhi to the Anti-Nuclear Movement
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984   Published: 2002
    Ryan accepts that sometimes nonviolence can be effective, but says that sometimes it is not: "a principled insistence on nonviolence can in some circumstances be dangerous to progressive social movements." He says that nonviolence theory "is troubled by moral dogma and mechanical logic."
33. Critique of Syndicalist Methods
    Resource Type: Book
    
34. Democracy for the Few
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988   Published: 1995
    How does the U.S. political system work and for what purpose? What are the major forces shaping political life and how do they operate? Who governs in the United States? Who gets what, when, how, and why? Who pays and in what ways. These are the central questions investigated in this book.
    
35. The Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1969
    DRUM was formed in May 1968 during the course of a wildcat strike that protested against an increase in production without an increase in man-power. Most of the plant porkchoppers were off in Atlantic City at a union convention and the plant was shut down by a joint effort of older Polish women from the Trim Shop and young black workers.
36. Down To Earth People 
    Beyond Class Reductionism and Postmodernism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999
    Working class women and men offer their analysis of the world today and its multi-dimensional inequalities.
    
37. Economic Power Struggle In The USSR
    Soviet Workers Press For Self-Management
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    
38. Educate, agitate, occupy!
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    An account of the occupation Visteon factory in Enfield, London.
39. The Emergence of the Canadian Working Class Movement
    1845-1875
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
    
40. Engels, Manchester and the Working Class
    Resource Type: Book
    
41. Essays in Canadian Working Class History
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
    
42. Facing Reality 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1958   Published: 1974
    Inspired by the October 1956 Hungarian workers' revolution against Stalinist oppression, as well as the U.S. workers' "wild-cat" strikes (against capital and the union bureaucracies), the authors looked ahead to the rise of new mass emancipatory movements by African Americans as well as anti-colonialist/anti-imperialist currents in Africa and Asia. Virtually alone among the radical texts of the time, Facing Reality also rejected modern society's mania for "conquering nature," and welcomed women's struggles "for new relations between the sexes."
    
43. Facing Reality 45 Years Later 
    Critical Dialogue with James/Lee/Chaulieu
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
    According to Goldner, "In 1958, Facing Reality was an important book, uncannily anticipatory of the historical period which would unfold over the following 15 years. Its main assertions are still being debated.... What I find most interesting in Facing Reality is not so much the answers it offers as the questions it asks. Those questions revolve around the role of the revolutionary Marxist party today.
    
44. The Failure of the Working Class
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1946
    Capitalism cannot be annihilated by a change in the commanding persons; but only by the abolition of commanding. The real freedom of the workers consists in their direct mastery over the means of production. The essence of the future free world community is not that the working masses get enough food, but they direct their work themselves, collectively.
45. Falling Behind
    The State of Working Canada, 2000
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
    
46. False Promises 
    The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
    
47. False Promises: A Review
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1974
    False Promises is a strange book. Despite a certain carelessness of presentation, I recommend it to all concerned with the working class for its extensive documentation of the working-class experience, at work, in the larger society, and in the unions. It is imbued with the conception that freedom is the fundamental quality of revolutionary change and it rejects the strangling doctrines and structures of the union movement and of the vanguard parties. Yet it cannot overcome a conception of working-class consciousness which reduces workers to victims and consciousness to verbalizations.
48. Falsifying History and Ourselves: Anti-Democratic Propaganda in the Classroom
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2001
    Contrary to the views promoted by FHAO, the true facts about Germany during the Holocaust show that 1) working class Germans fought the Nazis; 2) anti-Semitism did not come from ordinary people; and 3) anti-Semitism was a weapon used by Germany's industrial and aristocratic elite to attack not only the Jewish minority but the entire working class.
49. Farewell to the Working Class
    An Essay on Post-Industrial Socialism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    
50. For Communism: Propositions on a Strategy for Revolution in the Advanced Capitalist Countries
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1970
    A series of 100 propositions addressing the strategic vacuum on the Italian and European left at the end of the 1960s.
    
51. The Ghost of Anarcho-Syndicalism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1992
    The danger of modern anarchists of falling into the trap of anarcho-syndicalism.
52. A Guide to Working Class History
    Second Edition
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    
53. Hamburg at the Barricades
    Resource Type: Book
    
54. Harlan County USA
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 1976
    A documentary film about the miners' strike in Harlan County, Kentucky in 1973.
    
55. 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.
56. The History of Costa Rica
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998   Published: 2007
    An overview of Costa Rican history with an emphasis on how Costa Ricans have been able to make their own history, "though they do not make it just as they choose."
57. Hogtown
    Working Class Toronto at the Turn of the Century
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    
58. How the Unions Killed the Working Class Movement
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    Unions are vertically organized to minimize relationships and solidarity between union members in different locals, maximize the power of national union staff and officials over local unions, and fractionalize the working class. Away from the workplace the role of the unions is no less destructive. Unions train workers not to rely on themselves as agents of change with direct action, whether on the job or in society. Instead they steer their members into the arms of the capitalist political parties and encourage workers to rely on politicians and courts. The central myth on which contemporary unions depend is that workers’ power comes not from their friendships and solidarity but from union structures. The most destructive effects of the unions have been on the self-concept of the working class. Workers have been led to think of themselves as helpless, to believe that their strength comes from institutions outside themselves, and to lose sight of their revolutionary mission.
59. Hungary 56
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1964   Published: 1968
    The Hungarian Revolution was far more than a national uprising or than an attempt to change one set of rulers for another. It was a social revolution in the fullest sense of the term.
60. The Idea of May Day on the March
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1913
    The brilliant basic idea of May Day is the autonomous, immediate stepping forward of the proletarian masses, the political mass action of the millions of workers who otherwise are atomized by the barriers of the state in the day-to-day parliamentary affairs, who mostly can give expression to their own will only through the ballot, through the election of their representatives.
    
61. Ideas and Action
    Periodical profile published 1981
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
    Archive of some articles published in Ideas and Action, a radical paper published by the Workers Solidarity Alliance from 1981 to 1997.
62. International Workingmen's Association (The First International)
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Was an international socialist organization which aimed at uniting a variety of different left-wing political groups and trade union organizations that were based on the working class and class struggle.
63. The Invading Socialist Society
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1947
    History has shown that in moments of great social crisis, its farthest flights fall short of the reality of the proletarian revolution. Never was the proletariat so ready for the revolutionary struggle, never was the need for it so great, never was it more certain that the proletarian upheaval, however long delayed, will only the more certainly take humanity forward in the greatest leap forward it has hitherto made. The periods of retreat, of quiescence, of inevitable defeats are mere episodes in the face of the absolute nature of the crisis.
    
64. Ireland and the Irish Question
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    Brings together all of Marx's and Engels' writing on Ireland in one volume.
65. It's Our Own Knowledge
    Labour, Public Education, and Skills Training
    Resource Type: Book
    
66. Jews, Marxism and the Worker’s Movement
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A subject index of texts from Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Leon and Luxemburg; texts from the Jewish Socialist & Labor Movement and the impact of the Russian Revolution on Jews.
67. Karl Marx: Essential Writings
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    A selection of Marx's writings ranging from his early works on philosophy, religion, alienation, and Hegelianism, through the materialist conception of history, the theoretical analysis of capitalism, and the politics of revolution. Bender provides informatative introductions setting the context for each set of materials.
68. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution 
    Volume III: The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    Hal Draper examines how Marx and Marxism dealt with the issue of dictatorship in relation to the revolutionary use of force and repression, particularly as this debate has centered on the use of the term "dictatorship of the proletariat." Draper strips away the layers of misinterpretation and misinformation that have accumulated over the years to show what Marx and Engels themselves meant by the term.
    
69. LabourStart
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A major site with information about labour activities throughout the world.
70. Liberty Against the Law
    Some Seventeenth-century Controversies
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    
71. The Making of E.P. Thompson
    Marxism, Humanism, and History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1981
    
72. The Making of the English Working Class 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1963   Published: 1968
    Discusses the development of a working class consciousness from the 1790s to the Great Reform Bill
73. Manifestos, Programs, Visions 
    Selected Manifestos - Political Statements - Programs
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    First Published: 1649   Published: 2009
    A selection of left manifestos, programs, poltical statements and visions from the 1600s to today.
74. Marxism and the Trade Unions
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1970
    Draper argues that essentially, no Marxist group has ever carried on any systematic revolutionary work in trade unions.
    
75. Marxism and Workers’ Organisation
    Writings of Marxists on Trade Unions, the General Strike, Soviets and Working Class Organisation
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    
76. 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.
77. The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1906
    Luxemburg writes that "the mass strike in Russia [in 1905] has been realised not as means of evading the political struggle of the working-class, and especially of parliamentarism, not as a means of jumping suddenly into the social revolution by means of a theatrical coup, but as a means, firstly, of creating for the proletariat the conditions of the daily political struggle and especially of parliamentarism. The revolutionary struggle in Russia, in which mass strikes are the most important weapon, is, by the working people, and above all by the proletariat, conducted for those political rights and conditions whose necessity and importance in the struggle for the emancipation of the working-class Marx and Engels first pointed out, and in opposition to anarchism fought for with all their might in the International."
    
78. The Meaning of Socialism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1961   Published: 1969
    Paul Cardan's 1961 discussion of modern conceptions of socialism, and the future of socialist movements.
79. Modern Capitalism and Revolution 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1959   Published: 1975
    For revolutionaries one central point must be grasped to understand how the system works: the struggle of human beings against their alientation, and the ensuing conflict and split in all spheres, aspects and moments of socia life. As long as this struggle is there there ruling strata will continue to be unable to organise their system in a coherent way, and society will lurch from one accident to another. These are the conditions for revolutionary activity in the present epoch -- and they are amply sufficient.
    
80. Modern Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    
81. Monographs on the Portuguese
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1975
    A collection of analytical essays on the Portugese immigrant community in Toronto.
82. 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.
83. New Hogtown Press
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2010
    New Hogtown Press was a Canadian left-wing publisher active during the 1970s and 1980s.
84. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
85. 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.
    
86. Nickel and Dimed
    On (Not) Getting By In America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    
87. The No-Nonsense Guide to Class, Caste & Hierarchies 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
    Concentrates mainly on the history of social hierarchy in Western civilization, and particularly the struggles of the working class.
    
88. No Power Greater
    A Century of Labour in British Columbia
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
    
89. Notebook of an Agitator
    Resource Type: Book
    
90. On the First International
    Resource Type: Book
    
91. On The Non-Formation of a Working-Class Political Party in the U.S., 1900-1945
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1983   Published: 2002
    Thus the basic thesis presented here is that no major working-class political party developed in the U.S. in the 20th century because in the U.S., in contrast to all other major capitalist countries, capitalism made the transition to the intensive (“Taylorist” or “Fordist”) phase of accumulation without requiring the participation of a working-class political party in the state.
92. On to Ottawa Trek
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    
    In 1935, 1500 residents of federal unemployment relief camps in BC went on strike and moved by train and truck to Vancouver, spurred by angry concern for improved conditions and benefits in the camps. 2-month sojourn included occupation of the Hudson's Bay store and the city museum and library, and a May Day parade to Stanley Park of some 20 000 strikers and supporters.
93. 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.
    
94. Ontological "Difference" and the Neo-Liberal War on the Social 
    Deconstruction and Deindustrialization
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2001
    We have today legions of people with a smattering of knowledge turning out reams of books filled with buzz words that could be (and have been) produced by a computer program, and could be (and are) picked up in peer-group shop talk in a few months at the nearest humanities program or academic conference. Everyone these people don't like is trapped in a "gaze"; everyone "constitutes" their "identity" by "discourse"; to the fuddy-duddy "master narratives" that talk about such indelicate subjects as world accumulation these people counterpose "pastiche" and "bricolage", the very idea of being in any way systematic smacking of "totalitarianism"; it is blithely assumed that everyone except heterosexual white males now and for all time have been "subversives" (one wonders why we are still living under capitalism); a crippling relativism makes it somehow "imperial" to criticize public beheadings in Saudi Arabia or cliterodectomy practiced on five-year old girls in the Sudan.
    
95. Ordinary People
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2001
    When we talk about revolution, we aren't talking about pie in the sky or something that's never existed. We're talking about reshaping the world with the very best values that we practice now, today, in our families, with our friends and co-workers, with our students and patients. We believe that the smallest acts of kindness and the most public, collective acts of revolution are on a continuum of struggle to make the world the way we believe it should be.
96. Organizing for Worker's Power
    Beyond Trade Unionism & Vanguardism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First 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.
    
97. Organizing "The Poor" - Against The Working Class
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1971
    
98. Pain on Their Faces
    Testimonies on the Paper Mill Strike, Jay, Manie, 1987-1988
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    
99. Pannekoek and Gorter's Marxism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    
100. Pannekoek’s “The Party and the Working Class”
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 1941
     
101. Party and Working Class
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 1936
     We are only at the very earliest stages of a new workers' movement. The old movement was embodied in parties, and today belief in the party constitutes the most powerful check on the working class' capacity for action. That is why we are not trying to create a new party.
102. A People's History of the World
     From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1999
     Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative or ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
103. Plunderbund and Proletariat
     A History of the IWW in B.C.
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1975
     A history of working class struggle from the workers' perspective.
104. Pocket History of the British Working Class
     Resource Type: Book
     
105. The Politics of Urban Liberation
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1978
     
106. Portugal: The Impossible Revolution?
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1977
     
107. 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.
108. Promoting Unity and Solidarity
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 1996
     I think that the current situation calls instead for a strategy that emphasizes working-class solidarity among a plurality of working-class organizations. This solidarity must bridge the divide between industrial and other workers, union and non-union workers, white and non-white workers, public and private sector workers, and so on.
109. Rank and File 
     Personal Histories of Working Class Organizers
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1973   Published: 1974
     A collection of stories and recollections from labour movement organizers
110. Red City, Blue Period
     Social Movements in Picasso's Barcelona
     Resource Type: Book
     
111. 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.
     
112. The Remaking of the American Working Class
     The Restructuring of Global Capital and the Recomposition of Class Terrain
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 1981   Published: 1999
     Today, one can only be practical by posing contemporary problems where they have, in fact, always been located: not in the "factory", the material condensation of the capitalist juridical entity par excellence the enterprise, but at the level of the total worker (Gesamtarbeiter) and his alienated phantom, the total capital.
113. The Road to Wigan Pier
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1937
     George Orwell's investigation of an English working class community in the 1930s.
114. Rosa Luxemburg 
     Selected Political Writings
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1972
     A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
     
115. Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1981   Published: 1982
     Part I - Rosa Luxemburg as Theoretician, as Activist, as Internationalist. Part II - The Women's Liberation Movement as Revolutionary Force and Reason. Part III - Karl Marx—From Critic of Hegel to Author of Capital and Theorist of "Revolution in Permanence."
     
116. A Seventh Man
     A book of images and work about the experience of migrant workers in Europe
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1975
     Images, poetry, quotes and short written pieces that portray the experiences of male migrant workers in Europe.
117. Short History of the World Working-Class Movement from Lassalle to Neo-Liberalism
     The Distorting Hegemony of the Unproductive Middle Classes
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 1988
     This essay is a kind of "thought experiment", attempting to trace the career and impact of the "man of negation", ultimately theorized by Hegel as the "Prussian monarch" who "universally labors" in the realm of the state (and hence art, philosophy and religion) but whose "labor" does not transform nature, does not engage in what the Theses on Feuerbach call "sensuous transformative activity".
118. The Socialist Register 1985/1986
     Social Democracy and After
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1986
     
119. Sociology Misconstrues the Working Class
     Part II: Class conflict outside the workplace
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 1972
     
120. Sociology Misconstrues the Working Class
     Part I: Class conflict in the workplace
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 1971
     
121. Soviets in Italy
     Resource Type: Book
     
122. Spontaneity and Organization: Some Comments
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 1973
     A contribution to a symposium on Jeremy Brecher's book Strike!
     
123. Steel Strike
     Hamilton 1946
     Resource Type: Book
     
124. Strata in the Working Class
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 1947
     Many of the lowest union officials have been separated from the ranks to some extent and try to keep their jobs to keep the protection and favors which the job gives them. The lowest layers of the union leadership also develop a legitimate organizational loyalty to their union. They are the conscious union propagandists. But while this is a necessity in the building and maintenance of any organization, in times of crisis this loyalty can temporarily retard good union militants from striking out on a new road.
125. 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.
126. Strikes, List of
     Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     The following is a list of deliberate absence from work related to specific working conditions (strikes) or due to general unhappiness with the political order (general strikes).
127. Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2007
     Jennifer Gordon discusses her years spent working with the organization she founded, the Long Island-based Workplace Project.
128. Sweat and Struggle
     Working Class Struggles In Canada
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1974
     
129. 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.
130. Theses On The Fight Of The Working Class Against Capitalism
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 1947
     Extension of the strike to ever larger masses, the only tactics appropriate to wrench concessions from capital, is fundamentally opposed to the Trade Union tactics to restrict the fight and to put an end to it as soon as possible. Such wild strikes in the present times are the only real class fights of the workers against capital. Here they assert their freedom, themselves choosing and directing their actions, not directed by other powers for other interests.
131. 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.
132. The Trade Union Movement of Canada, 1827-1959
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1967   Published: 1968
     
133. A Troublemaker's Handbook 
     How to Fight Back Where You Work -- And Win!
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1991
     An organising manual for workers dealing with both major issues and everyday problems in the workplace.
134. Uncommon People
     Resistance, Rebellion and Jazz
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1998
     Essays on the history of working men and women from the late 18th to the late twentieth century discussing British working class traditions, political radicalism of 19th century shoemakers, peasants and politics, revolution, sex and jazz.
135. Unions vs. Workers in the Seventies
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 1972
     The tightly knit structures of the big industrial unions leave no room for maneuvering. There is no reasonable way in which young workers can use the union constitution to overturn and overhaul the union structure. The constitution is against them; the money and jobs available to union bureaucrats are against them. And if these fail, the forces of law and order of city, state and federal governments are against them. If that were not enough, the young workers in the factories today are expressing the instinctive knowledge that even if they gained control of the unions and reformed them completely, they would still end up with unions – organizations which owe their existence to capitalist relations of productions.
136. Unity Begins Somewhere
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 1996
     Though the industrial workers can be as paralyzed as any group of workers in the face of restructuring, though they can lose any particular strike, and though genuine class consciousness is never automatic; whenever there is a major working class upheaval industrial workers play a leading role.
137. Unity brings strength
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 1989
     The NDP puts too much emphasis on electioneering and not enough on economic action.
138. The Unknown Dimension 
     European Marxism Since Lenin
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1972
     The radical intellectual tradition of European post-Leninist Marxism, so different from the dogma of the orthodox leftist parties, is an unknowwn dimension. This anthology sets out to recover this Marxist tradition and to restore the centrality of Marxist revolutionary thought and practice.
139. The Uses of Literacy
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1957
     
140. What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade 
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First 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.
141. What is Class Consciousness?
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1934   Published: 1971
     Critical of what he saw as Marxism's overly materialistic explanations, Reich proposes the perspectives of psychology and psychotherapy could revitalise radical political thought and the socialist movement.
     
142. 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.
143. Who Advocates Spontaneity? 
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 1973
     The working class can come to understand its power to act only by acting.
     
144. Why the Industrial Working Class Still Matters
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 1995
     It is evident today that the vast majority of the population (perhaps 80% of the workforce) live and reproduce themselves only through wage-labor that produces surplus value, regardless of the nature of the commodity (good or service) they produce. Whatever the changing weight of the industrial sector of this enormous, working majority, it is clear that the working class as a whole is proportionately far larger today than at the time of classical Marxist writers.
145. William Morris
     From Romantic to Revolutionary
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1955   Published: 1977
     
146. 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.
     
147. Wobblies & Zapatistas 
     Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical Theory
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2008
     Wobblies and Zapatistas offers readers an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that 'my country is the world'.
148. Women at Work - Ontario, 1850- 1930
     Resource Type: Book
     
149. Worker-Student Action Committees France May '68 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1969
     An account of the May-June 1968 events in Paris. The authors state that "our intention is not to 'clarify' the sequence of events which took place in France in order to make possible a ritual repetition of these events, but rather to contrast the limited views we had of the events at the time we were engaged in them, with the views we have gained from further action in different contexts."
150. Workers Against the Monolith
     Resource Type: Book
     
151. Workers have to deal with their own reality and that transforms them
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 1997
     I think self-activity is the response of working people to the nature of their lives and work. Sometimes it’s good, sometimes it’s bad, sometimes it’s quiet. Part of the reality is that we’re going through a considerable technological revolution, which means that experiences, even jobs, that people depended on and know about, begin to disappear. To expect workers to say, “Yesterday, they automated my factory; today, I know exactly what to do about it,” is Utopian. It takes a while. It takes a generation. Workers will learn.
152. A Workers' Inquiry
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 1880
     
153. The Working Class and Social Change
     Four Essays on the Working Class
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First 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.
154. Working Class Experience 
     Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1983   Published: 1992
     From nineteenth-century tavern life to late twentieth-century cinema, from rough canallers and the first stirrings of craft unionism to contemporary public-sector strikes, this books provides a sweeping interpretive study of the history of the Canadian working class since 1800.
155. Working Class Hero
     A New Strategy for Labor
     Resource Type: Book
     
156. Working Class Toronto at the Turn of the Century
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1973
     
157. Working For Wages
     The Roots Of Insurgency
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 1999
     one of the crucial elements of our subject is contradiction. It is the element that is most difficult for traditional social science to comprehend and deal with. As a result, the conclusions and findings of academic research tend to be tentative and conservative.... The ordinary understanding of working-class activity is based on the idea that consciousness leads to, or causes, action. It would seem more valid to say that action leads to consciousness or, more precisely, that activity and consciousness interact in ways that are rarely predictable.
158. 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.
159. Working People
     An Illustrated History of Canadian Labour
     Resource Type: Book
     
160. The Writings of David Roediger
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     First Published: 1997
     Roediger criticizes Marxists for too often reducing racial discrimination to conflicts over resources, such as jobs or housing, that are manipulated by a society's upper classes in order to divert attention from the real sources of inequality. Such a focus, he argues, ignores the manner in which race and racial consciousness is integrally tied to class formation and working-class consciousness.

Experts on Working Class in the Sources Directory

1. Connexions Library/Archive
2. International Labor Rights Forum
3. Marxists Internet Archive