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- ARETE safety and protection inc.
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Asleep In The Fast Lane
The Impact of Sleep on Work
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
Dotto focuses on sleep problems in industrialized societies, as well as on the nature of sleep itself.
- Auto worker says automation creates worker alienation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1974
It is only struggle, says Martin Glaberman, that creates an awareness of collective strength.
- Connexions Library: Work Focus Page
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on work.
- Degraded Work: The Struggle at the Bottom of the Labor Market
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Doussard demonstrates that the decline in wages and working conditions is anything but the unavoidable result of competitive economic forces. Rather, he makes the case that service sector and other local-serving employers have boosted profit with innovative practices to exploit workers that go far beyond wage cuts.
- Forced to Love the Grind
Passion is the new workplace requirement - and one that should be resisted
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
In this world, legendary figures are the ones who remain in the office for one hundred hours straight, working through their children's musical recitals and 104-degree fevers. The idea is that workers become superhuman through the refusal of self-care. This phenomenon isn't merely depressing; it's outright dangerous.
- The Hidden Injuries of Class
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
Sennett and Cobb look at human relations between people of different classes and analyze everyday life and ordinary situations to identify class signals that make people feel inadequate.
- Judging workers for control and profit
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The computer with its air of objectivity has come to dominate human beings. The usurping of human judgment pervades all of society, from healthcare and education to manufacturing and the judicial sphere. Human empathy and understanding have been replaced by automated thinking that mimics the computer. Reclaiming our own minds is a step towards human freedom.
- "A kind of super-stress": The Experiences of a Temporary Agency Worker in Montreal
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Immigrant's experiences reflect the difficulties faced by temporary agency workers in Montreal.
- Oil Sands Workers Don't Cry
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Toughing it out in the cold, isolated, male world of mobile workers in Alberta's oil patch.
- Stephen Schettini, Quiet Mind Seminars
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Sources welcomes ARETE safety and protection inc.
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
ARETE safety and protection Inc. ia a leading Canadian firm specializing in the prevention and management of workplace violence and conflict for over 15 years.
- 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.
- Work Overload: Time for a Union Strategy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Talk to workers in any sector, in any workplace and sooner or later they’ll get to their frustrations with their ever-increasing workloads: ‘I’m struggling’, they’ll lament to fellow workers or anyone ready to listen, ‘to just do the job, never mind do it well’. And yet even though few work-related issues seem to generate more passion, the relentless intensification of every-day work life rarely surfaces as a union priority. Why?
- Workshop Talks: Reclaim our labor
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Lin discusses the precarious conditions under which healthcare labourers work.
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