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Angels of the Workplace: Women and the Construction of Gender Relations in the Canadian Clothing Industry, 1890-1940
Steedman, Mercedes
Book
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 te...
Auto worker says automation creates worker alienation
Diemer, Ulli
Article
1974
It is only struggle, says Martin Glaberman, that creates an awareness of collective strength.
Connexions: Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1978
Cultures of Solidarity: Consciousness, Action, and Contemporary American Workers
Fantasia, Rick
Book
1989
In three vivid case studies Fantasia explores the complicated, multi-faceted dynamics of American working-class consciousness and collective action.
Glaberman, Martin - Writings - Index
Glaberman, Martin
Article
Writings of Martin Glaberman (1918-2001).
Idiot Bosses and Valiant Women: Labor and Capital in Actual Practice
Macaray, David
Article
2010
"No matter what the enterprise, most employees know who the hard workers are, even though it's not their job to know. They know who hustles, pitches in and lends a hand, who goofs off and avoids work...
"A kind of super-stress": The Experiences of a Temporary Agency Worker in Montreal
Siddiqi,Yumna
Article
2014
Immigrant's experiences reflect the difficulties faced by temporary agency workers in Montreal.
The Life and Resistance of a Chinese Worker
Ren, Hao; Li, Zhongjin; Friedman, Eli
Article
2016
Under China's labour management system, independent unionism is strictly banned, and the state's official trade union body monopolizes worker representation. That means that all of China’s 806,498,521...
Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global
Mason, Paul
Book
2010
Mason realtes a series of struggles for worker and human rights over the past two hundred years and compares them to current struggles.
The Mass Psychology of Fascism
Reich, Wilhelm
Book
1933
Wilhelm Reich's class study, written during the years of the German crisis. Reich repudiates the concept that fascism is the ideology or action of a single individual or nationality, or any ethnic or ...
Monographs on the Portuguese
Article
1975
A collection of analytical essays on the Portugese immigrant community in Toronto.
My Years at Wal-Mart: Making One Do the Work of Three
Snipes, Patrick
Article
2013
Wal-Mart is but the largest wave in a rising tide, and, unless we stand together, united and with dignity, as a great levy for justice to hold and push it back, this tide threatens to drown us all.
The Newsletter #2
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1973
The Newsletter #3
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1973
Poles 'n holes: Working in the porn biz
Bufe, Chaz
Article
1986
Pornography worker Chaz Bufe on work, sexuality and censorship in America.
Red Menace #2: Volume 2, Number 1 - Summer 1977
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1977
A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
Red Menace #3: Volume 2, Number 2 - Spring 1978
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1978
A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
Red Menace #4: Volume 3, Number 1 - Winter 1979
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1979
A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
Rediscovering Two Labor Intellectuals
Early, Steve
Article
2004
Steve Early reviews collections of writings by Martin Glaberman and Stain Weir.
Soft Sell: Quality of Working Life Programs and the Productivity Race
Wells, Don
Book
1987
Quality of Working Life is a grab-bag of programs that promise workplace improvements and greater job satisfaction in exchange for increased productivity on the part of Canadian workers. But, says Don...
A Tale of Two Offices
Farragher, Elaine
Article
1977
Daily life and offices politics viewed through the experience of working in two libraries with very different management styles.
What Is Important?
Castoriadis, Cornelius
Article
1979
It is necessary to demolish the monstrously false idea that the problems that workers see are not important, that there are more important ones which only "theorists" and politicians can speak about.
The Winter of our Discontent: Experiences Organizing Nursing Homes
Burcher, Betty; Donner, Lissa
Article
1973
An account by two nursing home workers describing their jobs and their successful efforts to organize unions at their workplaces. Published in Issue #2 (1973) on the New Tendency newsletter.
A Workers' Inquiry
Marx, Karl
Article
1880
Working Hours
Viale, Guido
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.
Working in a supermarket
Anonymous
Article
1979
Observations on working as a carry-out in a supermarket.
Working in an office -- for a while
Article
1978
The first thing that strikes one about working in this particular office is how little actual work ever gets done.

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An organization of Marxist-Humanists standing for the abolition of capitalism, both in its private property form and ins its state property form. We stand for the deveopment of new human relations; wh...

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Review: Memoirs of An Underground Woman
White, Rachel
1999
UNDERGROUND WOMAN. My Four Years as a New York City Subway Conductor, by Marian Swerdlow. Temple University Press, 1998; $18.95 paper.

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The Red Menace
A libertarian socialist newsletter
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1975
Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, ...