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  1. Against the Tide
    The Story of the Canadian Seaman's Union
    Resource Type: Book
  2. All That Our Hands Have Done
    A Pictorial History of Hamilton Workers
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1981
  3. The American Working Class in Historical Persepctive
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1973
    A review of Jeremy Brecher's Strike! (See CX6590)
  4. Canadian Books on Labour
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
  5. Canadian Labour in Politics
    Resource Type: Book
  6. The Canadian Labour Movement
    A Short History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  7. The Canso Strait Fisherman's Strike, 1970-71
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
    An account of the 1970-71 strike of Nova Scotia fishermen, after two large fisheries refused to recognize their newly formed union.
  8. Das Capital, Vol. 1
    A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1890
  9. A Class Act
    An Illustrated History of the Labour Movement in Newfoundland and Labrador
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1946
  10. 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.
  11. Comrade's Socialist Songbook
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Revolutionary and trade union songs, mostly from the The Socialist Songbook.
  12. Engels, Manchester and the Working Class
    Resource Type: Book
  13. Essays in Canadian Working Class History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
  14. Eugene V. Debs Speaks
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
  15. Harlan County USA
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 1976
    A documentary film about the miners' strike in Harlan County, Kentucky in 1973.
  16. Hogtown
    Working Class Toronto at the Turn of the Century
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
  17. Labour in Newfoundland
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  18. Labour Songs
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    1950-1985.
  19. 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.
  20. The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1906
  21. Murdered by Capitalism
    A Memoir of 150 Years of Life & Death on the American Left
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
  22. Nationalism, Communism and Canadian Labour
    The CIO, The Communist Party, and the Canadian Congress of Labour 1935-1956
    Resource Type: Book
  23. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
  24. 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.
  25. No Power Greater
    A Century of Labour in British Columbia
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
  26. Notebook of an Agitator
    Resource Type: Book
  27. Pain on Their Faces
    Testimonies on the Paper Mill Strike, Jay, Manie, 1987-1988
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
  28. Pocket History of the British Working Class
    Resource Type: Book
  29. Rank and File
    Personal Histories of Working Class Organizers
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
  30. The Rise and Fall of the Toronto Typographical Union 1832 - 1972
    A Case Study of Foreign Domination
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
  31. Spontaneity and Organization: Some Comments
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1973
    A contribution to a symposium on Jeremy Brecher's book Strike!
  32. Strike!
    The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
  33. Sweat and Struggle
    Working Class Struggles In Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
  34. Traces of Magma
    An Annotated Bibliography of Left Literature
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
  35. The Trade Union Movement of Canada, 1827-1959
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
  36. Winnipeg 1919
    The strikers' own history of the Winnipeg General Strike
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
  37. Working Class Experience
    Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992

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