- 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.
- Association of Canadian Pension Management
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- BC Human Resources Management Association
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Can the Lockout and the Labour Conflicts at the Port of Montreal be Resolved? - A Mediator's Perspective
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Do the leaders of the longshoremen and the Maritime Employers Association have the courage to resolve this conflict or will they take the easy way out and keep fighting? From a mediator's perspective they have choices but solid leadership is needed!
- Canadian Books on Labour
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Pilot Copy, February 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1976
The first issue of the Canadian Information Sharing Service publication. The name of the publication was later changed to Connexions and then to Connexions Digest.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 2 - July 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1976
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 5 - December 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 2 - April 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 3 - June 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Canadian Labour in Politics
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
A historical study of the relationship between the labour movement and the social democratic party in Canada, as that relationship developed since the birth of modern industrial unionism.
- 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.
- Das Capital, Volume 2
The Process of Circulation of Capital
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1956
- Das Capital, Volume 3
The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
- 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.
- The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor
Birth of a New Workers' Movement or Death Throes of the Old?
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
Steve Early explains why and how the 2008-2010 battles within the progressive wing of the U.S. labour movement occurred.
- Class and Colour in South Africa 1850-1950
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
A historical and sociological overview which provides a critical analysis of the Labour and National movements in South Africa and explores how and why the white working class traded its socialist principles for a share of white power. Also examines the interactions between the two wings of the resistance against white domination.
- 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
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.
- Confederation of Canadian Unions
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Connexions
Volume 3, Number 6 - December 1978 - Unemployment/Chomage
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 1 - February 1979 - National Security/Securite Nationale
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 2 - March 1979 - Native Rights/Les Droits des Autochtones
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 3 - May 1979 - Immigration
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 4 - September 1979 - Food/La Nourriture
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 5 - October 1979 - Nuclear Energy\Energie Nucleaire
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 1 - January 1980 - Literacy/Alphabetisation
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 3 - September 1980 - Racism/Racisme
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 4 - October 1980 - Health/Sante
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 5 - January 1981 - Militarism/Militarisme
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 1 - February 1981 - Lesbians/Gay Men/Lesbiennes/Hommes Gais
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 2 - April 1981 - Urban Core/Milieu Urbain
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 5 - January 1982 - Children/Enfants
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 8, Number 1 - Spring 1983 - Women and Men
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1983
- Connexions
Volume 8, Number 2 - Summer 1983 - Toward a New Economy
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1983
- Connexions
Volume 8, Number 3-4 - Winter 1983/84 - Native Issues - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1984
- Connexions
Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1984
- Connexions
Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1986
- Connexions Annual 1989
A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
The Connexions Annual is simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives.
- Connexions Annual 1994
A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1994
Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series of introductory articles surveying a wide range of social and environmental issues and possibile alternatives.
- The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1994
This Annual is dedicated to the idea that change is both necessary and possible. Its main intent is practical: to provide information about groups across Canada who are working at society's grassroots to create positive solutions to social, environmental, economic, and international problems.
- 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.
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- Connexions Library: China Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on China.
- Connexions Library: Labour and Unions Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on labour and unions.
- A Contest of Ideas: Capital, Politics and Labor
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Compilation and updates of many of Lichtenstein's most provocative and controversial essays and reviews. The author offers perspectives on the relationship of labour and the state, the tensions that sometimes exist between a culture of rights and the idea of solidarity, and the rise of conservatism in politics, law, and intellectual life.
- Corporate America Unmasked
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
While US public views seem generally favourable about American corporations, an extensive study by psychologist Dr. Gary Brumback concludes that leadership, particularly in large corporations, is found to be morally depraved and their organizations often dysfunctional.
- The Exploitation Explosion
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1991
Female workers in developing countries are undervalued and underpaid.
- Fighting Back on the Job
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
- 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.
- Focus Shifts to Trafficking of Men in Europe
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The public perception is that human trafficking victims are all vulnerable females forced into prostitution and sexual slavery. But this is not the case. It does not occur to many people that trafficking is much broader on its scale, and that it affects a sizeable amount of men.
- Golden Veneer: How McDonald's Empty CSR Promises Failed Workers at Taylor Farms
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The report documents systematic and serious violations of workers' fundamental rights protected under international labor standards and McDonald's own Supplier Code of Conduct to freely associate and bargain collectively at Taylor Farms. Further, it finds that McDonald's approach not only failed to prevent or remediate grave violations of workers' rights, it helped undermine workers' free exercise of their rights.
- HR Trends Report 2009 - Tough Times Ahead
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Vancouver, B.C. - The BC Human Resources Management Association (BC HRMA) released its annual report on HR trends. HR functions are set to handle significant change and will face a tough year restructuring their organizations on reduced budgets.
- In Praise of Idleness
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1932
More leisure, not work, will benefit civilization. Modern organization and technology makes a four hour work day possible for leisure to be distributed to everyone.
- Independent Co-operative Enterprizes
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1975
Report on an economic strategy to help marginalised men and women.
- InnoVisions Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- International Trade Union Summit on Privatization Proceedings
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
- It's Our Own Knowledge
Labour, Public Education, and Skills Training
Resource Type: Book
- Labour
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
- Labour Left Out
Canada's Failure to Protect and Promote Collective Bargaining as a Human Right
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
- Labour Spies
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Labor spies are persons recruited or employed for the purpose of gathering intelligence, committing sabotage, sowing dissent, or engaging in other similar activities, typically within the context of an employer/labor organization relationship. Labor spying is most typically used by companies or their agents, and such activity often complements union busting.
- Labour Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources
Resource Type: Website
A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to labour in the Sources directory for the media.
- The Labor Wars
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
A survey of landmark events in the U.S. labour movement.
- Labour's Day of Protest -- The Issues and the Press
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1976
An issue sheet examining the biases of the Canadian Press in its coverage of the Oct 14th national Day of Protest against wage and price control policies.
- Labour's lost leader
The legacy of Tony Benn
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
From an interview to Tony Benn - sometime in the mid-1990s - his point of view about how broad and profound was the defeat of both trade unionism and the democratic socialist left over the previous decade.
- Life After Death for Labor?
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
A review of Stanley Aronowitz's book "The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Workers’ Movement."
- Life After Death for Labor?
The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Workers' Movement (Book Review)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
In his new book, veteran labour activist/academic Stanley Aronowitz offers a critique of what is wrong with the labour movement in the United States, as well as a 10-point manifesto for the steps "Toward a New Workers Movement."
- Man's Worldly Goods
The Story of the Wealth of Nations
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
Huberman sets out to explain history using economic theory, and to explain economic theory using history. He tries to explain, in terms of the development of economic thought, why certain doctrines arose when they did, how they originated in the very fabric of social life, and how they were developed, modified, and overthrown when the pattern of that fabric was changed.
- Marxism, Feminism, the State
Volume 1
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
Includes essays on the sexual division of labour, and socialist organizing in the 80s, referring to Engels, Ryerson, and MacPherson.
- Mining Town Crisis
Globalization, Labour and Resistance in Sudbury
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
- The Missing News
Filters and Blind Spots in Canada's Press
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
Asks a number of questions, including: How well do the news media filter reality, for what purposes, through what processes and in whose interests? How do newspapers and TV stations choose what news is printed or aired, which letters will be published, or who will be accorded credibility?
- National Anti-Racism Council of Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- New Forms of Worker Organization: The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration of Class-Struggle Unionism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2014
A book that compiles workers struggles on a global basis, examining the formation and expansion of radical unions in the Global South and Global North.
- News and Letters
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
- 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 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.
- The North-South Institute
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 15, 2015
Workers' Health and Safety
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
The topic of the week is Workers' Health and Safety. Articles on why environmentalists should support working class struggles; whistleblowers; the appalling death rate from U.S. drone strikes; the murderous attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris; and what humanity could learn from Bonobos. The feature from the archives is Traces of Magma. The International Labor Rights Forum is the group of the week, and Silkwood is the film of the week.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 10, 2015
Labour Day issue
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
Labour Day issue, with articles examining the relentless pressure put on workers to work ever longer hours, at the cost of their health and family life; anti-worker legislation, Zapatista popular education, and the Greek crisis.
- Our Generation
Volume 13 Number 12
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
- Profit over People
Neoliberalism and Global Order
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Chomsky confronts neoliberalsim: the pro-corporate system of economic and political policies presently waging a form of class war worldwide.
- RankandFile.ca
Resource Type: Website
Canadian labour news and analysis from a critical perspective.
- Resistance in China Today
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Cases of Resistance in China continue to grow. Protests both large and small are extremely frequent. These range from workers’ protests against unpaid wages and demands for labor rights to protests against corrupt officials and environmental abuses. While these struggles have often been brought to a swift end through repression, they have also frequently led to protestors being granted concessions.
- Saudi Arabia's foreign labour crackdown drives out 2m migrants
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Ethiopian workers face hostility amid 'Saudisation' campaign to control foreign labour and get more Saudi citizens into work.
- Semantic Warfare: Words as Guided Missiles
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Over half a century ago, the South Korean government banned the word "labour" from the Korean language. This is the back story.
- Seven LEAN Years
America's New High-Tech Underclass
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
- Socialist Register 1994
Volume 30: Between Globalism and Nationalism
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1994
- Tax Facts, Nos. 1-9
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
- 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.
- Tracking Harper's 9-year-long assault on unions
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Stephen Harper has been Prime Minister of Canada for almost a decade. In that time, the system of protections that were put in place by decades of advocacy by labour organizations and unions has been partly dismantled. The attacks have been extremely strategic. Ground Zero for these attacks has been the House of Commons, where piece after piece of legislation has taken aim at unions and collective bargaining.
- Trade Unions: The Difficult Path to Solidarity in One's Own Interest
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
In both the ideals and the rhetoric of trade unions international solidarity plays a major role. Trade union practice, however, is first and foremost focused on the context of those nation-states, in which they were able to achieve their most important victories in the 20th century. It is those achievements within the national framework which are being undermined with the help of the EU and its institutions.
- Transnational Corporations and Labor
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
- 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.
- Union busting
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A wide range of activities undertaken by employers, their proxies, and governments, which hinder workers from freely organizing, joining and maintaining trade unions.
- Us and Them
Building a just workplace community
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
- Year 501
The Conquest Continues
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
An examination of the U.S. role in the world placed in the long historical perspective of the 500 years that followed the voyages of Columbus.
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