1. Against the Tide
   The Story of the Canadian Seaman's Union
   Resource Type: Book
   
2. All for One
   Arguments from the Labour Trial of the Century on the Real Meaning of Unionism
   Resource Type: Book
   
3. All That Our Hands Have Done
   A Pictorial History of Hamilton Workers
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1981
   
4. The American Worker
   Resource Type: Book
   
5. The American Working Class in Historical Persepctive
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1973
   A review of Jeremy Brecher's Strike! (See CX6590)
6. At the Lenin Shipyards
   Poland and the Rise of the Solidarity Trade Union
   Resource Type: Book
   
7. Canadian Books on Labour
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1988
   
8. Canadian Union News Vol. 7, #1.
   Periodical profile published 1979
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1979
   
9. Das Capital, Vol. 1
   A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1890
   
10. A Class Act
    An Illustrated History of the Labour Movement in Newfoundland and Labrador
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1946
    
11. 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.
12. Close the 49th Parallel Etc
    The Americanization of Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    
13. Combatting Racism in the Workplace
    A Course for Workers
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    
14. The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
    
15. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
    A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
16. Cracking the Canadian Formula
    The Making of the Energy and Chemical Workers Union
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    
17. The Exploitation Explosion
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Female workers in developing countries are undervalued and underpaid.
18. False Promises
    The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    
19. First Contract
    Women and the Fight to Unionize
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
    
20. Global Labour Calendar
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Inactive/Defunct Periodical
    Calendar of trade union and labour-related events.
21. Globalizing the Left
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1991
    The Canadian trade union movement has to put greater emphasis on using its global ties to prevent multinational companies from shifting their operations to low wage countries.
22. Harlan County USA
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 1976
    A documentary film about the miners' strike in Harlan County, Kentucky in 1973.
    
23. Ideas and Action
    Periodical profile published 1981
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
    Archive of some articles published in Ideas and Action, a radical paper published by the Workers Solidarity Alliance from 1981 to 1997.
24. International Labor Rights Fund
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    An advocacy organization dedicated to achieving just and humane treatment for workers worldwide.
25. The Junk Food Economy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    
26. LaborNet
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    
27. Labour in Newfoundland
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    
28. Labour WebRing: hub
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    
29. LabourStart
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A major site with information about labour activities throughout the world.
30. Marxism and the Trade Unions
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1970
    Draper argues that essentially, no Marxist group has ever carried on any systematic revolutionary work in trade unions.
    
31. 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.
32. The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1906
    
33. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
34. 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.
    
35. The No-Nonsense Guide to Class, Caste & Hierarchies
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2002
    Concentrates mainly on the history of social hierarchy in Western civilization, and particularly the struggles of the working class.
    
36. On Unions and the Class Struggle
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
    
37. 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.
38. Rank and File
    Personal Histories of Working Class Organizers
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    
39. 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.
    
40. South African trade union congress supports CUPE boycott of apartheid Israel
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    South African workers will never forget the support given by the Israeli state to the apartheid South African regime. In the same way we will never forget the thousands of acts of solidarity of ordinary citizens around the world who sustained our struggle through the boycott weapon.
41. Spontaneity and Organization: Some Comments
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1973
    A contribution to a symposium on Jeremy Brecher's book Strike!
    
42. Strategy for Labour
    A Radical Proposal
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
    
43. The Trade Union Movement of Canada, 1827-1959
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    
44. Trade Unions Bread & Roses The trade union revival
    New Internationalist December 2001
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2001
    
45. A Troublemaker's Handbook
    How to Fight Back Where You Work -- And Win!
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    
46. Union Woman
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1979
    
47. Us and Them
    Building a just workplace community
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    
48. U.S. Strikes Drop Dramatically
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1992
    
49. Who Advocates Spontaneity?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1973
    Brecher argues that "the 'consciousness' necessary for socialist revolution consists in workers' shared understanding that they can collectively initiate and control their own action to meet their own needs. Such an understanding does not flow directly and automatically from the position of workers in production, although that position is what makes workers potentially powerful. Nor does it arise primarily from the speeches, manifestos, and other "consciousness raising" activities of the Left, though they may make some contribution to it. The working class can come to understand its power to act only by acting."
    He also states that "The working class is potentially revolutionary, and socialism would be the natural result if one tendency of its development were carried to its logical conclusion. But if this were the only tendency in effect, the workers would all be revolutionaries and socialism would have been achieved long ago. To ignore the factors which currently lead workers to adapt to existing society instead of trying to abolish it is to give up the ability to understand "the real, existing American working class with all its limitations." To ignore those limitations is to lose the power to grasp the process that will be necessary to overcome them."
    

Experts on Labour Unions in the Sources Directory

1. BC Nurses' Union
2. Confederation of Canadian Unions
3. Ontario Nurses' Association
4. Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC)
5. Simon Fraser University
6. Society of Energy Professionals