- The AT Reader
Theory and Practice in Appropriate Technology Resource Type: Book Published: 1985 An introduction to appropriate technology, both as an explanation of the concerpt and extensive examples and applications.
- Australian Mining Companies Digging A Deadly Footprint in Africa
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Schilis-Gallego discusses Australian mining companies' involvement in violence and human rights violations in Africa.
- Bennett Jones LLP
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- The Big Nickel
Inco at home and abroad Resource Type: Book Published: 1977 An account of the economic power of the world's largest producer of nickel, how it operates in Canada and the Third World, and its human consequences. The Big Nickel also looks at the resistance to the corporation, and the union-busting, attacks by company goons, and successful organizing drives.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 5 - January 1977 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 3 - September 1977 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 3, Number 4 - August 1978 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1978
- Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America
Historical Studies of Chile and Brazil Resource Type: Book Published: 1969 The four essays in this book offer a sweeping reinterpretation of Latin American history as an aspect of the world-wide spread of capitalism in its commercial and industrial phases.
- The City in History
Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects Resource Type: Book Published: 1961 Beginning with an interpretation of the origin and nature of the city, Mumford follows the city's development from Egypt and Mesopotamia through Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages to the modern world.
- 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.
- 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 3 - May 1979 - Immigration 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 5 - January 1981 - Militarism/Militarisme 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 7, Number 2 - May 1982 - Canada-Latin America/Le Canada-L'Amerique Latine Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1982
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1988
- 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 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1991
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1992
- Connexions Library: Africa Focus
Resource Type: Website Published: 2009 Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Africa.
- The Coral Battleground
Resource Type: Book Published: 2014 A fight for the preservation of the Great Barrier Reef, located in the coast of Queensland. In the late 1960s the reef began to be threatened with limestone mining and oil drilling.
- Cracked Houses in San Miguel Ixtahuacan: The Marlin Mine Influence
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Today in Guatemala City, COPAE and UUSC present the results of an investigation, after two years of monitoring by a team of engineers: 'Cracked Houses Around the Marlin Mine: Preliminary Investig
- Greg Crowe, Mining and Commodities Expert
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- The Devil Operation
Resource Type: Film/Video A tale of corporate espionage unfolds in this exposé of torture, intimidation, and murder of Peruvian eco-activists and indigenous farmers. Shocking video footage, horrifying photos, and meticulous reports compiled by private security firms working for U.S. and British-owned gold mines are co-opted by the filmmakers to reveal the truth.
- Ecologist Special Report: Why mining and violence are inextricably linked
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 The South African government is currently embarking on streamlining decision-making processes in mining. To many this sounds like more top-down decision-making at the expense of those communities that will have to host mines and paves the way for more violent conflict, warns Jasper Finkeldey.
- Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences
Resource Type: Book
- EnvironmentSources.com
Resource Type: Website Published: 2017 Web portal with information about environmental issues and resources, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Fatal Extraction
Australian Mining's Damaging Push Into Africa Resource Type: Unclassified Published: 2015 Australian-listed mining companies are linked to hundreds of deaths and alleged injustices which wouldnt be tolerated in better-regulated nations. The stories are from people across Africa, and are rarely heard outside their communities.
- Australian Mining Companies Digging A Deadly Footprint in Africa
Fatal Extraction: Australian Mining's Damaging Push Into Africa Resource Type: Unclassified Published: 2015 A pattern of links between mining activities and deaths, disfigurement, environmental destruction and displacement suggests a troubling track record for Australian companies seeking wealth from Africa's minerals.
- Don Fenton
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Fresh Water Seas
Saving the Great Lakes Resource Type: Book Published: 1990 Weller takes readers on a tour of the Great Lakes region, tracing its natural history from the time before human habitation. He describes how the region has been affected by uncontrolled development to the point where it now contains one of the planet's most intensive concentrations of industrial and agricultural activity.
- The Gaia Atlas of First Peoples
Resource Type: Book Published: 1990 Entries on indigenous peoples from around the globe, focusing on three main areas: their way of life, the present crisis, and the future.
- Goodmans LLP
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- The Hillcrest Mine Disaster
Resource Type: Article The worst coal mining disaster in Canada occurred in Hillcrest, Alberta, on Friday June 19, 1914. A total of 189 men died. 130 women were widowed and 400 children left fatherless.
- Intag's Recurrent Nightmare: Adding Up The Costs Of Ecuador's Mineral Wars
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Intag is situated in Northwestern Ecuador. In the 1990s Bishimetal, a subsidiary of Mitsubishi, found evidence of a large copper deposit lying in the bowels of the biodiverse Toisan Range. In 1997 it was forced to abandon the project. In 2012 CODELCO, Ecuadors state-owned mining company moved to revive the project as part of a government to government agreement. The nightmare returns.
- Investigation Reveals 'Environmental Ruin' And Workers Rights Abuses
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Broken promises to impoverished communities, serious environmental concerns and poor health and safety records linked to Australian mining companies have all been revealed by Africas largest ever collaborative journalistic investigation.
- The Labor Wars
Resource Type: Book Published: 1974 A survey of landmark events in the U.S. labour movement.
- Looting Africa: Canadian Company Eyes Gold in Democratic Republic of Congo
Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 A Canadian mining company is prepared to bring hundreds of millions of dollars in gold out of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one of Africa's most embattled and poorest countries. One expert says that to extract gold, the company will have to cut a deal with a violent African militia.
- Mapoon - Book Three
The Cape York Aluminum Companies (Alcan, Comalco, R.T.Z., Kaiser, C.R.A., Billiton, Pechiney, Tipperary) and the Native Peoples Resource Type: Book Published: 1976 Chronicle of the policies and actions of the Aluminium Companies with respect to the native peoples and their land claims.
- Miners and Steelworkers
Labour in Cape Breton Resource Type: Book Published: 1976
- Minetown, Milltown, Railtown
Life in Canadian Communities of Single Industry Resource Type: Book A sociological description of life in company towns.
- The Mining Association of Canada
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Mining History Written in Blood
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 Domestic coal mining history above and below ground lives on the pages of Written in Blood: Courage and Corruption in the Appalachian War of Extraction edited by Wess Harris (PM Press, 2017). The anthology unpacks the industry, people and communities of a coal-rich region, amplifying relevant class and gender issues over a century.
- Mining Peru
Canada's New Territory? Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 In Peru, 40 percent of conflicts involving local communities are over mining. The majority of the mining sector in Peru is owned by Canadian corporations.
- Mining & Petroleum 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 mining and petroleum in the Sources directory for the media.
- Mining Town Crisis
Globalization, Labour and Resistance in Sudbury Resource Type: Book Published: 2008
- MiningWatch Canada
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- More Incredible than Fiction
Resource Type: Book Published: 1981 The story of the St. Lawrence community recounts the working past of a small Newfoundland coastal town.
- Mortgaging the Earth
The World Bank, Environmental Impoverishment and the Crisis of Development Resource Type: Book Published: 1994 Rich provides a history of the bank particularly between 1968 and 1981 with respect to a lack of accountability and increased pressure to lend.
- My Past is Now
Further Memoirs of a Labour Lawyer Resource Type: Book This account begins with Stanton's childhood, leading to cases such as his defence of Fergus McKean, and a Cold War libel suit in BC.
- On the hunt for illegal miners as a new gold rush hits New Zealand
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 A look at the black market in gold in New Zealand and the efforts to thwart opportunists who sneak onto private farm land and national parks without permits to mine illegally.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 21, 2015
Canadian federal election, mining and the environment Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2015 Featuring the Canadian federal election, mining and the environment, failure of Syriza in Greece, refugees, veterans of India's struggle for independence.
- Peace Out
Resource Type: Film/Video Published: 2011 Charles Wilkinson explores the costs of damming, fracking, and extracting, and how they implicate every gas tank and light switch in this country.
- A People's History of the United States
1492 - Present Resource Type: Book Published: 2003 Zinn's history includes those most ignored by typical American textbook history, including Indians, blacks, women and workers.
- Police in Tunisia's Gafsa mining region harass reporter for banned newspaper
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Reporters Without Borders is concerned about the way the police in Tunisia have been harassing political activist Ammar Amroussia in recent days. Amroussia writes for El Badil (Alternative), a banned newspaper.
- Polish farmers threaten uprising over opencast coalmine
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Heinz unites with farmers in rebellion against plan to build a vast lignite mine and power plant on farming land in western Poland.
- Price of Gold
Resource Type: Film/Video Published: 2012 Mongolia is known for its original Nomad culture as well as the spectacular natural landscape. Since gold deposits have been discovered however, both are threatened.
- A Report on Noranda Mines Limited
Resource Type: Article Published: 1981 A Report on Noranda Mines Limited for the Counseil Regional d'Amenagement du Nord de Noveau Brunswick (C.R.A.N.) traces the history of Noranda Mines in Canada and particularly in the province of New Brunswick.
- A Report On Noranda Mines Limited.
Resource Type: Article Published: 1982
- Rescue Capsule used at the San Jose Chilean mine
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 The Canada Science and Technology Museum invites members of the media to a preview of the Rescue Capsule used at the rescue of thirty-three miners at the San Jose Mine in Copiap, Chile.
- Rio Tinto's 'sustainable mining' claims exposed
Rio Tinto uses its sustainability reporting to bolster the argument that it is a responsible company and therefore entitled to a license to Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Global mining giant Rio Tinto markets itself as a 'sustainable company'. But serious failures in its reporting, and its attempt to hold an Australian indigenous group to ransom, reveal a very different truth: the company is driven by a reckless pursuit of profit at any cost.
- The Road to Wigan Pier
Resource Type: Book Published: 1937 George Orwell's investigation of an English working class community in the 1930s.
- SNC-Lavalin Group Inc.
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- The Socialist Register 1985/1986
Volume 22: Social Democracy and After Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1986
- Sources welcomes Michael Riordon
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2010 Sources welcomes a new member: Michael Riordon. Canadian writer and documentary-maker Michael Riordon writes/directs/produces books and articles, audio, video and film documentaries, plays for radio and stage.
- Sources welcomes Wildeboer Dellelce LLP
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 Canada's leading boutique Corporate Finance firm, Wildeboer Dellelce strives to be the premiere transactional law firm in Canada for emerging companies and deal makers
- 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.
- Sweat and Struggle
Working Class Struggles In Canada 1789 - 1899 Resource Type: Book Published: 1974
- Technics and Civilization
Resource Type: Book Published: 1963 A history of the machine and a critical study of its effects on civilization.
- Two Miners
Resource Type: Article Published: 1971
- An Unauthorized Biography of the World
Oral History on the Front Lines Resource Type: Book Published: 2004 This book uses oral history to discuss oral history. It is in memoir style, and delves into how oral history is done in such places as First Nations (Canada), Turkey, Chicago, Newfoundland, Peru, New York City, Cleveland, Israel, and other places. Riordon's concept is about telling stories, celebrating diversity, and making connections between people.
- A Very Ordinary Life
Resource Type: Book Published: 1974 The story of one woman's life in the context of a dazzling and brutal century, encompassing the rise of fascism, the great depression, emigration, war, and above all, a likfe of work -- in mining and logging camps, in factories, on the farm.
- Where Heaven Meets Hell
Resource Type: Film/Video Published: 2011 Drawing strength from their families and their Muslim faith, Indonesian sulfur miners face gruelling labour and treacherous conditions on an active volcano, while struggling to overcome the desperate poverty and illiteracy that plague their community.
- Wildeboer Dellelce LLP
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Women Organizing for Change
Confronting the Crisis in Latin America Resource Type: Book Published: 1988 A series of articles which seek to examine the effects of recent profound economic, social and political crises of the part several years, particularly the effects of the crisis on the lives of women in the region.
Experts on Mining in the Sources Directory
- World Bank
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