1. Angels of the Workplace
   Women and the Construction of Gender Relations in the Canadian Clothing Industry, 1890-1940
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1997
   Examines how the intricate weaving together of the meanings of class, gender, ethnicity, family, and the workplace created a job ghetto for women. Detailing the disparities between men and women in terms of wages and representation, this book is the definitive history of discrimination against women in Canada's clothing industry.
2. Combatting Racism in the Workplace
   A Course for Workers
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1983
   With the ultimate aim of combatting racism within the labour movement, the Cross Cultural Communication Centre, under the auspices of the Humber Collage for Labour Studies, ran a ten-week, 30 hour pilot course entitled 'Work Racism and Labour.'
3. 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.
   
4. Connexions Annual Overview: Economy, Poverty, Work
   Resource Type: Article
   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'.
5. Connexions Library: Work Focus Page
   Resource Type: Website
   First Published: 2009
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on work.
6. The Corrosion of Character
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2000
   Richard Sennett explores the myth of efficiency in the new business order. This is a book about people who went through being downsized in their work. This is the New Capitalism- All Human Character has been abondoned and in its place an owner and demographer who downsize the workers of companies.
7. 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.
8. Free The Children
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1998
   An account of children's rights activist Craig Kielburger's work with and on behalf of exploited child labourers.
9. Goodbye Welfare, Hello Workfare
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2012
   The world’s richest countries are coercing their citizens to ‘donate’ their labour to big businesses and other organizations in return for welfare payments.
10. The Informal Work Group
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1973
    Stan Weir on some of his life experiences at work and what he saw as the "the only organizational form opposed to formal bureaucracies which cannot be captured by them", the informal work group.
11. LabourStart
    Resource Type: Website
    A major site with information about labour activities throughout the world.
12. Marxists Internet Archive 
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
13. The Newsletter
    Periodical profile
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1974
    Inactive/Defunct Periodical
    Newsletter published in 1973 and 1974 by the New Tendency, a loose collaboration of independent leftists primarily 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. Copies of the newsletters are available in the Connexions Archive and online on the Connexions website.
14. The Newsletter #3
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1973
    
15. The Newsletter #4
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1974
    
16. Nickel and Dimed
    On (Not) Getting By In America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them, inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that any job equals a better life. But how can anyone survive, let alone prosper, on six to seven dollars an hour?
17. Online Rights for Online Workers - Privacy at Work
    Resource Type: Website
    Deals with workers' right to privacy in the face of online surveillance by employers.
18. 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.
    
19. Real Utopia 
    Participatory Society for the twenty-first century
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Real Utopia identifies and obliterates the barriers to an egalitarian, bottom-up society, while convincingly outlining how to build it.
20. 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.
    
21. Rediscovering Two Labor Intellectuals
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    Steve Early reviews collections of writings by Martin Glaberman and Stain Weir.
22. Report from Dubai
    Against The Current vol. 131
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    Dubai — This gulf emirate is shaping up into a key tourist destination. For golf, luxury hotels and high-end shopping, it is firmly established as a key player in the Middle East region. Dubai’s geographical location means it can position itself as a meeting point between east and west, a global business hub for the 21st century.
23. Subsidizing Contractor Misconduct: Alma's Story
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Story of Alma Aranda, employee at the customer call center operated by Verizon Communications, where she works an eight-hour shift fielding questions about billing statements or complaints about Internet service from the company.
24. A Tale of Two Offices
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1977
    Daily life and offices politics viewed through the experience of working in two libraries with very different management styles.
25. A Troublemaker's Handbook 
    How to Fight Back Where You Work -- And Win!
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991   Published: 2005
    An organizing manual for workers dealing with both major issues and everyday problems in the workplace.
26. A Troublemaker's Handbook 2 
    Resource Type: Book
    A manual for workers who want to take control over their lives at work. In hundreds of first-person accounts, workers tell in their own words how they organized and struggled to do that.
27. We Are Wisconsin
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2012
    When a Republican Governor’s bill threatens to wipe away worker rights and lock out public debate, six (extra)ordinary citizens join the growing protest at the Wisconsin State Capitol, and spend the next twenty-six days building a movement that not only challenges the bill, but the soul of a nation.
28. Work
    Capitalism. Economics. Resistance
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    About work in capitalist society.
29. A Workers' Inquiry
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1880
    
30. Workers Profiles: Below the Minimum Wage
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    An endless supply of alcohol, good music, pool tables, and friendly strangers -- these elements seem like a recipe for a fun time. For those of us who frequent bars and pubs, this kind of environment is exactly what we look forward to at the end of a long day or work week. Imagine working at a bar. It seems natural that bartenders would enjoy their upbeat surroundings at work as much as their customers. Now, imagine being the only worker at a bar. You alone are responsible for cleaning the bar, controlling drunk customers, serving food, buying supplies -- everything all alone during an overnight shift.
31. Working Hours
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
32. Working in a supermarket
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1979
    Observations on working as a carry-out in a supermarket.

Experts on ProblŠmes professionnels in the Sources Directory

1. International Labour Organization
2. International Labor Rights Forum
3. Marxists Internet Archive