- Against the Tide
The Story of the Canadian Seaman's Union
Resource Type: Book
- All That Our Hands Have Done
A Pictorial History of Hamilton Workers
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
The story of working people in Hamilton's steel industry.
- Alternative Press Annual 1983, The
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
- The American Socialist Movement: 1897-1912
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1952
- The American Worker
Resource Type: Book
- The American Working Class in Historical Persepctive
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
A review of Jeremy Brecher's Strike! (See CX6590)
- The Anarchist Collectives
Workers' Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution 1936-1939
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
Examines the experiments in workers' self-management, both urban and rural, which took place in Spain during the revolution and Civil War.
- Canadian Books on Labour
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
- Das Capital, Volume 1
A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1890
Marx's great work sets out to grasp and portray the totality of the capitalist mode of production, and the bourgeois society that emerges from it. He describes and connects all its economic features, together with its legal, political, religious, artistic, philosophical and ideological manifestations.
- Challenging Unions
Feminist Process and Democracy in the Labour Movement
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
- The Changing Workplace
Reshaping Canada's Industrial Relations System
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
Describes how business, labour and government have organized the production of goods and services in Canada since 1945. Focusing on the industrial relations system and how it works, the authors call for fresh thinking on the economy and offer proposals for the reorganization of production.
- A Class Act
An Illustrated History of the Labour Movement in Newfoundland and Labrador
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1946
- Class Composition and the Theory of the Party at the Origin of the Workers-Councils Movement
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Close the 49th Parallel Etc
The Americanization of Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
The increasing Americanization of Canada is now evident to all, and it is also becoming evident that the elites in Canada have been anxious to avoid any confrontation of this fact or any examination of its consequences. This collection of essays attempts to display some of the effects of US corporate imperialism and the permissive policy of its Canadian supporters, to analyse the the ideologies involved, to explain the social, economic and political costs of the process, and to suggest how it might be reversed.
- Combatting Racism in the Workplace
A Course for Workers
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
- Combatting Racism in the Workplace Readings Kit
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
Readings and case studies on fighting racism.
- Confederation of Canadian Unions
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1994
- Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
Resource Type: Article
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.
- Cracking the Canadian Formula
The Making of the Energy and Chemical Workers Union
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
- Critique of Syndicalist Methods
Trade-Unionism to Anarcho-Syndicalism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1998
Bonanno's 1975 meditation on the means to be used in pursuit of the anarchist project. Emphasizes the utility of unions in propagating capitalist control of industry and agriculture.
- A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
- The Emergence of the Canadian Working Class Movement
1845-1875
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
- Equality Program
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1989
- The Exploitation Explosion
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1991
Female workers in developing countries are undervalued and underpaid.
- Facing Reality
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
Inspired by the October 1956 Hungarian workers' revolution against Stalinist oppression, as well as the U.S. workers' "wild-cat" strikes (against capital and the union bureaucracies), the authors looked ahead to the rise of new mass emancipatory movements by African Americans as well as anti-colonialist/anti-imperialist currents in Africa and Asia. Virtually alone among the radical texts of the time, Facing Reality also rejected modern society's mania for "conquering nature," and welcomed women's struggles "for new relations between the sexes."
- Falling Behind
The State of Working Canada, 2000
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
An accessible collation of data and analysis, analyzed from a progressive perspective, about the social and economic realities of working people in Canada.
- False Promises
The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- First Contract
Women and the Fight to Unionize
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1986
Looks at the "personal side" of the struggle of working women to organize themselves into unions and win first contracts.
- Globalizing the Left
Resource Type: Article
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.
- The Great Transformation
The political and economic origins of our time
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
Polanyi analyzes the social and political upheavals that took place in England during the rise of the market economy. Polanyi contends that the modern market economy and the modern nation-state should be understood not as discrete elements, but as a single human invention he calls the "Market Society".
- Imperialism, Nationalism, and Canada.
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
Interpretations of Canada's status in the system of world imperialism and the internal dynamics of class, race, and region within the Canadian national state.
- Industrial Workers of the World
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The IWW contends that all workers should be united as a class and that the wage system should be abolished. They may be best known for the Wobbly Shop model of workplace democracy, in which workers elect recallable delegates, and other norms of grassroots democracy (self-management) are implemented.
- The Junk Food Economy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1992
Young people entering the workforce face a junk food economy.
- Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
- Knights of Labor
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
The major labour reform organization of the late 19th century in the United States.
- Labour Gains, Labour Pains
50 Years of PC 1003
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
This book is comprised of 4 parts: Historical Context, Origins and Evolution of the Fordist Accord, Case Studies, International Comparisons.
- Labour in Newfoundland
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- Labour Left Out
Canada's Failure to Protect and Promote Collective Bargaining as a Human Right
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
- Marxism and the Trade Unions
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1970
Draper argues that essentially, no Marxist group has ever carried on any systematic revolutionary work in trade unions.
- The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1906
Luxemburg writes that "the mass strike in Russia [in 1905] has been realised not as means of evading the political struggle of the working-class, and especially of parliamentarism, not as a means of jumping suddenly into the social revolution by means of a theatrical coup, but as a means, firstly, of creating for the proletariat the conditions of the daily political struggle and especially of parliamentarism. The revolutionary struggle in Russia, in which mass strikes are the most important weapon, is, by the working people, and above all by the proletariat, conducted for those political rights and conditions whose necessity and importance in the struggle for the emancipation of the working-class Marx and Engels first pointed out, and in opposition to anarchism fought for with all their might in the International."
- Monographs on the Portuguese
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1975
A collection of analytical essays on the Portugese immigrant community in Toronto.
- On Unions and the Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article
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.
- One Big Union
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
In 1919 delegates from most union locals in western Canada met at the Western Labour Conference in Calgary and proclaimed support for the Bolshevik and other left-wing revolutions. They decided to conduct a referendum among Canadian union members on whether to secede from the American Federation of Labor and the trades and labour congress of Canada, and form a revolutionary industrial revolution to be called the One Big Union.
- Pay Cheques & Picket Lines
All About Unions in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
A children's book which explains what unions are, how they came to be, and why they exist.
- Politische Schriften 2
Resource Type: Book
- Preface to Martin Glaberman's Four Essays on the Working Class
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1975
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.
- Rank and File
Personal Histories of Working Class Organizers
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
A collection of stories and recollections from labour movement organizers.
- 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.
- Relentless Persistence
Nonviolent Action in Latin America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
There is in Latin America a tradition of "firmeza permanente," relentless persistence, which has enabled the people to preserve parts of their culture during five centuries of conquest and oppression.
- Rosa Luxemburg
Abridged Edition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
A biography of Luxemburg by a British academic.
- Rosa Luxemburg
Selected Political Writings
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
- The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
- Rosa Luxemburg Speaks
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
A selection of speeches and writings by Rosa Luxemburg.
- Saskatchewan Federation of Labour
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
- Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
Gramsci's Notebooks cover a wide range of subjects including history, culture, politics, and philosophy.
- The Sixties
Years of Hope, Days of Rage
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
One of the best books on the Sixties in the U.S., bringing to life the political and cultural currents, including especially the music, which raged during that decade, and setting them in historical context.
- Socialism and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
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.
- Soft Sell
Quality of Working Life Programs and the Productivity Race
Resource Type: Book
Published: 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 Wells, the promise of a new way to satisfy workers' needs has been proven false. Wells shows that QWL programs can present a direct, though carefully hidden, threat to the union movement.
- Solidarnosc (Solidarity)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Polish trade union.
- South African trade union congress supports CUPE boycott of apartheid Israel
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
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.
- Spontaneity and Organization: Some Comments
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
A contribution to a symposium on Jeremy Brecher's book Strike!
- Steel Strike
Hamilton 1946
Resource Type: Book
- Strategy for Labour
A Radical Proposal
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1967
- Strike!
The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
A history-from-below that brings to light strikes as authentic revolutionary movements against the establishments of state, capital, and trade unionism.
- Thinking Union
Activism and Education in Canada's Labour Movement
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Examining activism and education in Canadian labour, it's both a personal memoir and a guide to labour education. Martin explores and explains union culture, mergers and internal splits, the mechanics and dynamics of grassroots campaigns and the changes in Canadian unions over two turbulent decades.
- Trade Union
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
- Union has right to be in mall
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1990
- Union Security - UAW Statement to Ontario Government
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
- Union Woman
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1979
- Unions Attack Quebec Law
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1989
- Unions plan cross-border links
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1990
- U.S. Strikes Drop Dramatically
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1992
A decade of Reaganism has left employers in a position to destroy unions without fear of significant political and public retribution.
- Who Advocates Spontaneity?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
The working class can come to understand its power to act only by acting.
- Wobblies & Zapatistas
Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical Theory
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
Wobblies and Zapatistas offers readers an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that 'my country is the world'.
- Women's Trade Union League
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A U.S. organization of both working class and more well-off women formed in 1903 to support the efforts of women to organize labour unions and eliminate sweatshop conditions.
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