1. Bad news: Unemployment is down and wages are up
   Resource Type: Article
   Normally, the corporate media are violently allergic to any suggestion that class conflict exists at all, let alone that it is fundamental to our capitalist economic system. However, in the business news one is more likely to encounter plain speaking. A case in point is the Globe and Mail’s report on the fears and upset that October's economic data have sparked among economic forecasters and currency traders. The reasons for their worries? A fall in the unemployment rate, and an increase in real wages.
2. Behind the Numbers
   A blog from the CCPA
   Resource Type: Website
   Commentary on issues that affect Canadians, including the economy, poverty, inequality, climate change, budgets, taxes, public services, and employment.
3. Break Their Haughty Power
   Resource Type: Website
   Articles on capitalism, socialism, and revolution, from a left-Marxist perspective.
   
4. A Brief Presented to the Commission of Inquiry on Redundancies and Lay-Offs
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 1978
   A brief regarding management's power to lay off employees with little warning.
5. Brock University
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
6. Burdened with Debt Reloaded: The Politics ofr Devaluation
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2012
   A series of defensive and sectional struggles at workplaces in the private sector reveal that the Greek industrial capital has already taken advantage of the new institutional framework of the “state of emergency” now ruling in Greece to prop up its profitability or just transfer its own debts and losses onto the workers.
7. The Business Page
   How To Read It and Understand the Economy
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1980
   
8. Canada's Great Divide
   The politics of the growing gap between rich and poor in the 1990s
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2000
   Over the course of the 1990s, Canada's growing gap has become a slippery slope for a growing number of middle income familes sliding towards the bottom of the income ladder.
9. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 1, Number 2 - July 1976
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1976
   
10. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 3
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1976
    
11. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 1 - May 1977
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
    
12. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
    
13. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 3 - September 1977
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
    
14. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
    
15. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 5 - December 1977
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
    
16. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 1 - February 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
    
17. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 2 - April 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
    
18. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 3 - June 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
    
19. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 4 - August 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
    
20. Canadian Policy Research Networks (CPRN)
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
21. 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.
22. Das Capital, Volume 2
    The Process of Circulation of Capital
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1956
    
23. Class Warfare
    The Assault on Canada's School
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    The authors show that the attack on schools has been mounted by representatives of big business who stand to make a fortune by privatizing education, aided by the religious right, who want to control what is taught -- and not taught -- in our schools.
24. 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.
    
25. A Communist Life
    Jack Scott and the Canadian Workers Movement, 1927-1985
    Resource Type: Book
    Jack Scott's experiences from joining the Communist Party of Canada to founding the Canada-China Friendship Association in the early 1960s.
26. Connexions
    Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
    
27. Connexions
    Volume 3, Number 6 - December 1978 - Unemployment/Chomage
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
    
28. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 1 - February 1979 - National Security/Securite Nationale
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
    
29. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 2 - March 1979 - Native Rights/Les Droits des Autochtones
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
    
30. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 3 - May 1979 - Immigration
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
    
31. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 5 - October 1979 - Nuclear Energy\Energie Nucleaire
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
    
32. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 1 - January 1980 - Literacy/Alphabetisation
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
    
33. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
    
34. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 3 - September 1980 - Racism/Racisme
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
    
35. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 5 - January 1981 - Militarism/Militarisme
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
    
36. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
    
37. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
    
38. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 2 - May 1982 - Canada-Latin America/Le Canada-L'Amerique Latine
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
    
39. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
    
40. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 2 - Summer 1983 - Toward a New Economy
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1983
    
41. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 1 - Spring 1984 - Energy - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
    
42. Connexions
    Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1986
    
43. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1987
    
44. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
    
45. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
    
46. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
    
47. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
    
48. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
    
49. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1991
    
50. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
    
51. The Control of the Canadian Economy and the Human Problem of Unemployment:
    A Christian Perspective
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1979
    This statement is printed as a fold-out on one sheet with an insert.
52. Croatia's entry fee
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The country has a long coastline and history of sailors, fishermen and shipbuilders, but EU membership will probably put an end to one of its oldest industries. The yards had to be completely privatised before Croatia officially joined the EU on 1 July, 2013.
53. Debt Bondage Or Self-Reliance
    A Popular Perspective on the Global Debt Crisis
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
    Describes the effects of international debt on workers, the unemployed, and peasants who neither asked for or benefit from such debt. It describes the growing number of people's movements in Canada and developing nations who are struggling against austerity measures.
54. Detroit's Foreclosure Disaster
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    In early 2015 the Wayne County Treasurer's office announced that 62,000 Detroit properties were slated for foreclosure, with probably 38,000 occupied. This could result in the displacement of as many as 100,000 Detroiters, or about one seventh of the city's population.
55. Detropia
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2012
    A documentary on the city of Detroit and its woes, which are emblematic of the collapse of the U.S. manufacturing base.
56. Dignity Denied
    Unemployment in Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1977
    This pamphlet examines current opinions about the causes and solutions proposed for unemployment which is at its highest recorded level in Canada.
57. Downeast
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2012
    A foreign entrepreneur's plan to rehire employees from a closed down factory and reopen the plant for local lobster processing is met with resistance by obstinate fishermen, suspiscious of outsiders.
58. The East York Workers' Association
    A Response to the Great Depression
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
    An account of the activity of relief recipients in the township of East York, an eastern suburb of Toronto, in the 1930s.
59. East York Workers' Association
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The East York Workers' Association (EYWA) was an unemployment movement that developed during the Great Depression in the township of East York, Ontario.
60. Eluta.ca
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
61. Employment and the Single Displaced Person
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1979
    A project aimed at providing single dispalced persons with work.
62. Europe's Leaders Visit Athens to Celebrate Their Failure
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The start of Greece's six-month presidency of the EU was marked by a ceremony in the Greek capital attended by the EU commissioners. But protests were banned and there was no in-depth talk about the raging controversy over the bloc's handling of the Greek debt crisis and the renewed concerns about the vitality of the Eurozone.
63. 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.
64. The Faltering Economy
    The Problem of Accumulation Under Monopoly Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
    The essays in this volume are part of a radical attempt to grapple with the problems of advanced capitalist development without discarding the real theoretical breakthroughs made by Keynes.
65. The Fight for Canada
    Four Centuries of Resistance to American Expansionism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    In an effort to realize their grand dream of one nation from Panama to the Arctic, Americans have attempted to conquer Canada using war, trade sanctions, and political interventions of all kinds. "That fight for Canada continues to this day," says David Orchard.
66. Flying Without A Net
    The "Economic Freedom" of Working Canadians in 2000
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2000
    Reports on a project to construct a quantitative index summarizing the multi-dimensional economic status of working people in Canada, based on variations in 14 different component indicators of economic and social well-being.
    
67. For Our Common Future
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1989
    Most Canadians seem brainwashed by two myths: (1) Work is scarce; not enough work for everyone; and (2) Money is scarce; Canada cannot afford full employment.
68. Gaza's women of steel
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Gadzo interviews three different women in Gaza who have taken on difficult, yet culturally progressive, employment in the wake of the region's economic devastation.
69. Getting Serious About Keeping Fossil Fuels in the Ground Means Getting Serious About a Just Transition
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    If the climate movement is going to get serious about keeping fossil fuels in the ground, the movement needs to get serious about cultivating a real vision for a just transition. If we’re going to see coal-fired power plants and oil refineries and chemical plants shut down we need to have a real vision about what the future looks like for those workers, their families and their communities.
70. Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada
    Third Edition
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    See also CX2933.
    
71. The Global Gang Thang
    A World of Change: Armed Young Men and Gansta Culture (Globalization and Community)
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    
72. Goodbye Welfare, Hello Workfare
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The world’s richest countries are coercing their citizens to ‘donate’ their labour to big businesses and other organizations in return for welfare payments.
73. Greek Debt and the New Financial Imperialism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Describes how the Greek goverment is forced to extract income and wealth from its workers and small businesses resulting in a new form of financial imperialism that smaller states and economies, planning to join larger free trade zones and 'currency unions' should avoid at all cost.
74. The Growth Illusion
    How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many and endangered the planet
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Douthwaite argues that strategies used by governments to raise national income often increase poverty and unemployment. Moreover, in the USA, Britiain, Germany and Australia, each increase in national income consumes more resources than it creates on a sustainable basis. In other words, these economies are running backwards and making their citizens worse off.
75. How People Get Power
    Organizing Oppressed Communities for Action
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    A book about community organizing, written for organizers.
76. I, Daniel Blake
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2016
    I, Daniel Blake is a 2016 drama film directed by Ken Loach and written by Loach's frequent collaborator Paul Laverty. It stars Dave Johns as Daniel Blake, who is denied employment and support allowance despite his doctor finding him unfit to work. Hayley Squires co-stars as Katie, a struggling single mother whom Daniel befriends.
77. In Spain they are all indignados nowadays
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The indignado protests that flared up two years ago have become a Spanish state of mind.
78. Independent Co-operative Enterprizes
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1975
    Report on an economic strategy to help marginalised men and women.
79. Issues & Actions
    March 1985
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1985
    A newspaper linking people for social change. Articles on the 1985 federal budget, International Women's Day, housing, and unemployment.
80. It's War on the Poor
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Miah analyzes the increase in numbers within the working poor class and the economic structures that keep them poor.
81. The Junk Food Economy
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1992
    Young people entering the workforce face a junk food economy.
82. Keystone XL opponents need a jobs program
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The victorious Keystone campaign also exposed the perennial Achilles' heel of those who are fighting against climate change: We are often painted by our opponents and perceived by the public as caring more about the environment than about jobs. The neglected half of the job for environmental advocates is to ourselves become the voice for job creation. We need to develop robust programs to put unemployed pipefitters, teamsters, and others back to work. Indeed, the prerequisite for every environmental campaign should be a plausible and detailed jobs program. The sustainability movement must be a voice for workers, students, and others who want to both save the earth and promote appropriate economic development.
83. Manual For The Jobless Worker
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1978
    A manual that describes the rights of unemployed and the unemployment insurance process.
84. A Marxist History of the World part 101: The Long Recession
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    By the early 1970s, the levers of state economic management had stopped working and the world economy entered a long period of stagnation.
85. A Marxist History of the World part 82: The Hungry Thirties
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Beginning with the Wall Street Crash in 1929, the world economy entered the Great Depression. The misguided policies that world leaders pursued ensured that millions of lives were torn apart.
86. Memories of the Depression
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1979
    Daily life experiences during the Great Depression.
87. Monopoly Capital
    An essay on American economic and social order
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    An analysis of American capitalism.
88. The Need for Alternative Employment
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1989
    An alternative economy would enable movement people to integrate their bread labour with their social change work.
89. New Catholic Bishops Report says workers in crisis
    Resource Type: Article
    
90. On the Edge
    A Journey into the Heart of Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    
91. 150,000 Jobs lost to Free Trade
    Resource Type: Article
    
92. 105,000 jobs lost to free trade
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1991
    
93. 165,000 factory jobs lost
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1990
    
94. One in five Israelis lives in poverty
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    With just over 8 million people, Israel has over 1.7 million, more than 20 percent of the population, living below the poverty line, according to the latest report issued by the National Insurance Institute (NII) and the Central Bureau of Statistics. Issued in December, the figures relate to 2012 and will have worsened since then.
95. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 25, 2018
    Looking for Answers, Creating Alternatives
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2018
    This issue of Other Voices features people who are questioning and challenging the way the world works and trying to create better alternatives.
96. Past Contributors on Unemployment 1976 - 1978
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1978
    A list of organizations abstracted in past issues of Connexions from 1976 through 1978.
97. Poverty in Wealth
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1976
    A critique of existing poverty research in Canada.
98. Progress Without People
    In Defense of Luddhism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
    This book describes how jobs and skills will be lost through new technologies as they were in the 19th century industrial revolution.
99. Radical Digressions 4
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2008
    
100. Radical Perspectives on the Economic Crisis of Monopoly Capitalism
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1975
     A popular education pamphlet on the economic crises of monopoly capitalism.
101. Raising the Workers' Flag
     The Workers' Unity League of Canada, 1930-1936
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 2012
     A history of the Workers' Unity League, the Canadian affiliate of the Communist Red International of Labour Unions.
102. The Red Menace Interviews Prime Minister Trudeau
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 1977
     An exclusive interview with Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, published in The Red Menace and nowhere else.
103. 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.
104. The Road to Wigan Pier
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1937
     George Orwell's investigation of an English working class community in the 1930s.
105. Seven LEAN Years
     America's New High-Tech Underclass
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1999
     
106. Seven News
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     Published: 1970
     Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in the area of Toronto east of downtown which at the time was known as Ward 7. Seven News was published from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but all issues of the paper have been scanned and are available on the Connexions website.
     Ward 7 covered the area of Toronto east of downtown, from Sherbourne Street to Logan Avenue, south of Bloor-Danforth, including Don Vale, Cabbagetown, Regent Park, Riverdale, St. Jamestown.
107. 72,000 jobs said lost
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 1990
     
108. Small is Beautiful
     A Study of Economics as if People Mattered
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1973
     Schumacher argues that mainstream economics is incompatible with the long-term ends of humanity.
109. The Socialist Register 1980
     Volume 17: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     Published: 1980
     
110. The Socialist Register 1981
     Volume 18: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     Published: 1981
     
111. The Socialist Register 1982
     Volume 19: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     Published: 1982
     
112. The Socialist Register 1984
     Volume 21: The Uses of Anti-Communism
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     Published: 1984
     
113. The Socialist Register 1989
     Volume 25: Revolution Today. Aspirations and Realities
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     Published: 1989
     
114. Sources welcomes Eluta.ca
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2009
     Eluta.ca is a search engine for full-time jobs from direct Canadian employers.
115. The State of the World Atlas
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1981
     
116. Take Back the Nation
     Revised Edition
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1993
     A passionate and thoughtful assessment of Canada in crisis. Analyses the dangers posed by NAFTA to Canada's economy and independence. Proposes economic, political and cultural solutions to Canada's problems.
117. A Time to Stand Together...A Time for Social Solidarity
     A Declaration on Social and Economic Policy Directions for Canada by Members of Popular Sector Groups
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1988
     
118. The Toronto Board of Trade
     Media Profile in Sources
     Resource Type: Organization
     
119. Toronto's Poor
     A Rebellious History
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 2916
     Toronto’s Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people’s resistance. It details how the homeless, the unemployed, and the destitute have struggled to survive and secure food and shelter in the wake of the many panics, downturns, recessions, and depressions that punctuate the years from the 1830s to the present.
120. Towards a Canadian Economy
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1995
     
121. Towards Understanding Rural Social Change
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 1977
     A review of Ralph Matthews' "There's No Place Better Than Here: Social Change in Three Newfoundland Communities." Martin argues that, while this study is undoubtedly a useful contribution to the resettlement debate, its value is severely limited by the inadequate theoretical perspective within which it is framed.
122. The Training Trap
     Ideology, Training and the Labour Market
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1995
     A collection of essays examines changes in the Canadian labour market with respect to education, training, and unemployment.
123. Unemployment
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 1977
     This broadsheet examines the crucial unemployment situation in Nova Scotia and outlines attempts by the unemployed in union with working people to confront this problem.
124. Unemployment and Youth
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 1979
     A group that dispells myths about youth and unemployment and promotes government cooperation in creating skilled jobs for youth.
125. Unemployment Manifesto in Briar Patch
     Vol, 6, No. 7, PP.23-27
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 1977
     An analysis of the unemployment manifesto in Briar Patch.
126. Unemployment rise deliberate, CLC says
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 1990
     
127. The Unemployment Survival Handbook
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1987
     
128. What is Stephen Harper doing to Canada? How can we stop him?
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2015
     The Harper regime has had a toxic effect on Canada. The wealthy are better off, but most Canadians are worse off, and rights and freedoms, democracy, access to information, and science have suffered. How can we stop him? Here is a factsheet which can be downloaded, printed, and distributed as a two-sided flyer.
129. What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Rural Poverty
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2017
     Gurly analyzes the institutional reasons behind widespread poverty, depopulation, and unemployment in Jefferson County, Mississippi.
130. What's the True Unemployment Rate in the US?
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2019
     The real unemployment rate is probably somewhere between 10%-12%. The 3.7% is the U-3 rate, per the labor dept. But that’s the rate only for full time employed. What the labour depatment calls the U-6 includes what it calls discouraged workers (those who haven’t looked for work in the past 4 weeks). Then there's what's called the 'missing labour force' - i.e. those who have'’t looked in the past year. They're not calculated in the 3.7% U-3 unemployment rate number either. Why? Because you have to be 'out of work and actively looking for work' to be counted as unemployed and therefore part of the 3.7% rate.
131. Wheel of Fortune
     Work and Life in the Age of Falling Expectations
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1995
     Jamie Swift combines sharp-eyed journalism that brings out the nuances of daily life with a penetrating analysis of jobless recovery. He describes the emerging world of work through the eyes and experiences of people in Kingston and Windsor -- two Ontario cities with roots in the pre-industrial past, places poised for the post-industrial information age.
132. When Freedom Was Lost
     The Unemployed, the Agitator, and the State
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1987
     The struggles of unemployed workers against the Canadian state in the 1930s.
133. Why Are So Many People Out of Work?
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 1978
     
134. Winter of Discontent
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 1991
     Whole communities are being plunged into a poverty culture that is very difficult to escape.
135. Women and Unemployment
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 1980
     
136. Worker Cooperatives in America
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1984
     A historical background of worker cooperatives as well as a contemporary discussion of small and large co-ops.
137. Worker's Newsreel Unemployment Special, 1931
     Resource Type: Film
     Published: 1982
     WFPL footage of the first mass demonstration against unemployment and hunger in Union Square, New York City on March 6, 1930.
138. Working Class Experience
     Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1992
     From nineteenth-century tavern life to late twentieth-century cinema, from rough canallers and the first stirrings of craft unionism to contemporary public-sector strikes, this books provides a sweeping interpretive study of the history of the Canadian working class since 1800.
139. Working Harder Isn't Working
     A Detailed Plan for Implementing a Four-day Workweek in Canada
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1993
     O'Hara details how the overworked can job share with the unemployed for economic, social, and psychological benefits for all.
140. Youth & Unemployment
     A Source Book
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1977
     A document prepared by Kevin Collins, Program Director of Income Security for the Canadian Council for Social Development (CCSD), for a 1976 CCSD consultation on "Youth Development: The Need for Integrated Policies."

Experts on Unemployment in the Sources Directory

1. The Preservation Institute