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Clicking on the title of an item takes you to the bibliographic page for the resource, which typically also contains an abstract, a link to the full text if it is available online, and links to related topics in the subject index. You can find items through the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, Library of Congress, and Format indexes.
Particularly recommended items are flagged with a red Connexions logo:

  1. Combatting Racism in the Workplace
    A Course for Workers
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  2. 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.
  3. 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'.
  4. Connexions Library: Work Focus Page
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on work.
  5. Fighting Back on the Job
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
  6. 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.
  7. LabourStart
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A major site with information about labour activities throughout the world.
  8. 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.
  9. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
  10. 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.
  11. Nickel and Dimed
    On (Not) Getting By In America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. A Workers' Inquiry
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1880
  18. 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.
  19. Working in a supermarket
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1979
    Observations on working as a carry-out in a supermarket.

Experts on Work Issues in the Sources Directory

  1. International Labor Rights Forum
  2. Marxists Internet Archive
  3. Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC)


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