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  1. Combatting Racism in the Workplace
    A Course for Workers
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
  2. Fighting Back on the Job
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
  3. LabourStart
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A major site with information about labour activities throughout the world.
  4. 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.
  5. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
  6. 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.
  7. Online Rights for Online Workers - Privacy at Work
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Deals with workers' right to privacy in the face of online surveillance by employers.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. A Troublemaker's Handbook
    How to Fight Back Where You Work -- And Win!
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  12. 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.
  13. Working in a supermarket
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1979
    Observations on working as a carry-out in a supermarket.

Experts on Work Issues in the Sources Directory

  1. Institute for Work & Health
  2. Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC)

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