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  1. Ah-Hah! 
    A New Approach to Popular Education
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    AH-HAH seminars are designed to organize groups of comman interests, especially workers, to come to a common understanding.
  2. The American Socialist Movement: 1897-1912
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1952
  3. The American Working Class in Historical Persepctive 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1973
    A review of Jeremy Brecher's Strike! (See CX6590)
  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. Cleaners's Action Newsletter
    Periodical profile published 1979
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
  6. Combatting Racism in the Workplace
    A Course for Workers
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
  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
    Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
  9. Connexions Library: Labour and Unions Focus 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on labour and unions.
  10. Connexions Library: Work Focus Page
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on work.
  11. Cooperation at Work
    The Mondragon Experience
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    A guide to work co-operatives.
  12. 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.
  13. The East York Workers' Association
    A Response to the Great Depression
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1975
  14. General Strike France 1968
    A factory-by-factory account
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    Andre Hoyles analyses the development, organisation and end of the mass strike in France, 1968, with reference to case studies of particular factories.
  15. 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.
  16. 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.
  17. HERstory: Jeritan
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2009
    A story of Indonesian female migrant workers who left their homes to work as domestic helpers in Macao, China, a community consisting of mainly Chinese as well as a city of casinos and entertainment parlours.
  18. 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.
  19. 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.
  20. Invisible Force: Women Workers in Pakistan
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2007
    Millions of women workers in Pakistan remain unaccounted for in official figures. Even those who are in the formal workforce face problems like lower wages for the same work as men and sexual harrasment.
  21. Israel's Arab Women Workers Need Not Apply
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Israel’s private sector is almost entirely closed to Arab women because of discriminatory practices by employers.
  22. The Labor Wars
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1974
    A survey of landmark events in the U.S. labour movement.
  23. Locked Out! One Wife's Story of the Staley Struggle
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1997
  24. 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.
  25. Miners and Steelworkers
    Labour in Cape Breton
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1976
  26. Monographs on the Portuguese
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1975
    A collection of analytical essays on the Portugese immigrant community in Toronto.
  27. The New Left in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
  28. New York's Latino Workers Center
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1996
    By organizing around both "labor" and "social" issues-and seeking to transcend this distinction-workers' centers can integrate a variety of unifying issues into their efforts to build an organization that can fight for their members' varied social, political and economic interests.
  29. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
  30. 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.
  31. Nickel and Dimed
    On (Not) Getting By In America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
  32. 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.
  33. Organizing Unions
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    How to form or build a union. Shows how to strength organizing drives by responding to the concerns of all workers, including women, immigrant workers, people of colour, workers with disabilities, lebians and gay men, and part-time and casual workers.
  34. Out of the Driver's Seat
    Marxism in North America Today
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1974
    Outlines the political perspective of the Windsor-based Labour Centre in the wake of divisions in the Centre in 1974. Issues explored include the nature of the working class, women in the working class, gay rights, and students rights.
  35. The Politics of Urban Liberation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
  36. Portugal: The Impossible Revolution?
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977
  37. Poverty in Wealth
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1976
    A critique of existing poverty research in Canada.
  38. 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
  39. 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.
  40. 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."
  41. 6 Floors to Hell
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2008
    On the outskirts of Tel Aviv, in an underground world, live hundreds of Palestinian workers sleep in this hell in order to find a day's work in Israel and bring money home to their families in the West Bank.
  42. 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.
  43. Spontaneity and Organization: Some Comments
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1973
    A contribution to a symposium on Jeremy Brecher's book Strike!
  44. 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.
  45. 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).
  46. 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.
  47. 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.
  48. 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.
  49. Two Miners
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1971
  50. Vincenzo Pietropaolo: Witness to the Harvest Pilgrims
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2009
    Vincenzo Pietropaolo has documented the story of Mexican migrant workers over a number of years. This is a brief look into that story.
  51. The War after the War
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1918   Published: 1973
  52. Women at Work - Ontario, 1850- 1930
    Resource Type: Book
  53. 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."
  54. A Workers' Inquiry
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1880
  55. Working in a supermarket
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1979
    Observations on working as a carry-out in a supermarket.
  56. 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 Workers in the Sources Directory

  1. International Labor Rights Forum
  2. Marxists Internet Archive


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