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  1. Against the Current
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1986
    Bi-monthly magazine oriented toward movements for social and economic justice; radical, socialist and feminist in orientation.
  2. Art and Sexual Politics
    Why Have There No Great Women Artists?

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    Examines cultural and ideological biases about female artists
  3. BBM Human Resource Consultants Inc.
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  4. BC Nurses' Union
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  5. The Canadian Federation of Business and Professional Women
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  6. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 5 - January 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  7. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 6 - March 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  8. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 1 - May 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  9. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 3 - September 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  10. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 3 - June 1978

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  11. Canadian Union of Public Employees
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  12. Canadian Women at Work
    Their Situation, Their Union Status, and the Influence of the Public Sector

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  13. The Canadian Women's Health Network
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  14. The Captive Labour Force on Non-English Speaking Immigrant Women
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1980
    An article focusing on the 'invisible work' that non-English speaking immigrant women, in particular, have done and continue to do.
  15. The casual sexism of being a female journalist
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    One or two prejudicial remarks might not mean much but add several hundred together and it can weigh down your confidence. Women in journalism can attest to this fact.
  16. 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.
  17. The Communistic Societies of the United States
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
    Describes a dozen Utopian societies.
  18. Connexions
    Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  19. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 2 - March 1979 - Native Rights/Les Droits des Autochtones

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
  20. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
  21. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 2 - April 1981 - Urban Core/Milieu Urbain

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
  22. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
  23. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 5 - January 1982 - Children/Enfants

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  24. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  25. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 1 - Spring 1983 - Women and Men

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1983
  26. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 2 - Summer 1983 - Toward a New Economy

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1983
  27. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 1 - Spring 1984 - Energy - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
  28. Connexions
    Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1986
  29. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1987
  30. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
  31. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
  32. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
  33. Connexions Library: Women's Issues Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on women.
  34. Cutbacks to Training Allowances & Outreach Programs: Their Impact on Women
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1979
  35. Anne Day -- Company of Women
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  36. Ethics and Gender: Equality in the newsroom, Brussels Declaration
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Brussels Declaraton on Ethics and Gender: Equality in the newsroom.
  37. European Labour History Network - Working Group on Feminist Labour History
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The founding meeting of the ELHN took place at the International Institute of Social History (IISH) on 12 October 2013. The forty scholars who gathered in Amsterdam, belonging to research institutions, archives and journals based in various European countries, felt the need to increase the cooperation among labour history scholars, share knowledge and (digital) material, create a platform for future collective research, and organize conferences and seminars.
  38. The Exploitation Explosion
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1991
    Female workers in developing countries are undervalued and underpaid.
  39. False Promises
    The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  40. An Injury to All
    The Decline of American Unionism

    Resource Type: Book
    The author, a union organizer and activist, details the decline of the American union movement.
  41. International Women's Day Centenary sees largest ever activity
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    March 8 sees the highest level of global women's activity ever witnessed as groups celebrate the International Women's Day centenary.
  42. Shirin Khamisa, B.A. (Hons), B.Ed., Certified Career Coach, Careers By Design - Coaching and Counselling
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  43. Launch of Middle East Gender Study Marks International Women's Day
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Women journalists representing 15 journalists# unions of the International Federation of Journalists from across the Arab World and Middle East gathered in Al Manama-Bahrain to mark International Women#s Day.
  44. Momentum Learning Inc.
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  45. 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.
  46. Norway lets fathers do their share
    Paternity leave law has helped to create a quiet revolution in childcare

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    In Norway, twelve weeks of the forty six weeks of paid parental leave is reserved for the father. If he chooses not to take the leave the time and money is forfeit. The legislation is designed to promote equality in the household as well as the job market and has been adopted in Iceland, Germany and Portugal.
  47. Ontario Nurses' Association
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  48. Part-time Paradox: Connecting Gender, Work and Family
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    Tthe authors discuss whether the over-representation of women in part-time labour is exploitive or liberating. They present interviews and original research to describe the ways in which alternative work forms simultaneously challenge and reinforce traditional gender roles.
  49. A People's History of the World
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
  50. Poverty in Wealth
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1976
    A critique of existing poverty research in Canada.
  51. 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.
  52. Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  53. Report on Conference on Equality of Opportunity and Treatment for Women Workers
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1978
  54. Review: Memoirs of An Underground Woman
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1999
    UNDERGROUND WOMAN. My Four Years as a New York City Subway Conductor, by Marian Swerdlow. Temple University Press, 1998; $18.95 paper.
  55. Root & Branch: A Libertarian Socialist Journal, #2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1971
  56. 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.
  57. Sisters and Solidarity
    Women and Unions in Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  58. The Socialist Register 1966
    Volume 3: A Survey of Movements & Ideas

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1966
  59. Solidaire No. 6
    April 1974

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1974
    On women and the class struggel in Quebec, with articles on Perspectives on the Women's Movement, and Women in the Workplace.
  60. Sources welcomes Anne Day -- Company of Women
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Anne Day is the Founder of Company of Women, an organization that supports, connects and promotes women in business through monthly events, online and print directory, an extensive website, annual conference and quarterly magazine, Company.
  61. The State of the World Atlas
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1981
  62. Still ain't satisfied
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
  63. Technological Change and Working Women
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1983
  64. The Triple Oppression Of Immigrant Working Women
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
  65. A Troublemaker's Handbook
    How to Fight Back Where You Work -- And Win!

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    An organizing manual for workers dealing with both major issues and everyday problems in the workplace.
  66. Union Woman
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1979
    Organized Working Women (OWW) provides resources and information for women in the labour movement.
  67. PJ Wade--The Catalyst
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  68. The Winter of our Discontent
    Experiences Organizing Nursing Homes

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1973
    An account by two nursing home workers describing their jobs and their successful efforts to organize unions at their workplaces.
    Published in Issue #2 (1973) on the New Tendency newsletter.
  69. Woman's Consciousness, Man's World
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    The cultural and economic liberation of women is inseparable from the creation of a society in which all people no longer have their lives stolen from them, and in which the conditions of their production and reproduction will no longer be distorted or held back by the subordination of sex, race, or class.
  70. Women at Work
    Ontario 1850-1930

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    Wmen at Work attempts to explore the realities of Canadian women's experiences, and proposes a framework which begins to answer why the double exploitation of women as mothers and workers has persisted to the present day.
  71. Women at Work in Nova Scotia
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1977
    A pamphlet that examines the struggles and realities of working women in Nova Scotia.
  72. Women at Work - Ontario, 1850- 1930
    Resource Type: Book
  73. Women On the Global Assembly Line
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
  74. Women on the Global Assembly Line
    Resource Type: Book
  75. Women Workers In The Home
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1981
    The Vancouver Status of Women has put together a special "speaking package."
  76. Women Working
    Issue #6

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1976
    Examination of many of the issues facing women in the working world.
  77. Women's Labour Leagues (Canada)
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia

    Resource Type: Article
    Women's Labour Leagues emerged in Canada prior to WWI. Their purpose was to defend the struggles of women workers and support the labour movement.
  78. Women's work devalued
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1991
    An examination of the global failure to recognize the value of women's work.
  79. Work-Life Harmony Enterprises
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  80. Working for The Man
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The author describes her brief experience at a now infamous language school in London, where she encountered blatant sexism.

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