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  1. ARETE safety and protection inc.
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
  2. As Temperatures Climb Across the Country, Workers Will Suffer
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    The summer of 2016 is barely two weeks old, but this year is already on track to break high temperature records in the United States. On June 20, cities across the Southwest and into Nevada reached all-time triple-digit highs. Meanwhile, every single state experienced spring temperatures above average, with some in the Northwest reaching record highs. These temperatures have already proved deadly, killing five hikers in Arizona earlier this month. Triple-digit heat earlier that same week is also being blamed for the deaths of two construction workers, 49-year old Dale Heitman in St. Louis, Missouri, on June 15 and 55-year old Thomas F. “Tommy” Barnes on June 14 at the Monsanto campus in nearby Chesterfield, Missouri.
  3. Asbestos revealed as Canada's top cause of workplace death
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Asbestos exposure is the single largest on-the-job killer in Canada. Since 1996, almost 5,000 approved death claims stem from asbestos exposure, making it by far the top source of workplace death in Canada.
  4. Bangladesh factory fire: brands accused of criminal negligence
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Clean Clothes Campaign, along with trade unions & labour rights organisation, is calling for immediate action from international brands following the fire in Dhaka Bangladesh which killed over 100 workers.
  5. Bangladesh's exploitation economy
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Before the collapse of Rana Plaza, which killed over a thousand people, most of them textile workers, there was the fire that killed a hundred at the Tazreen factory. A major cause is western companies' greed for profits.
  6. Bill 168: Workplace violence and harassment: Ontario government proposes new legislation to Ontario's Health and Saftey Act
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    If the amendments to Ontarios Health and Safety Action, Bill 168, become law, a range of new obligations will be placed on employers, including assessing the level of risk of violence in a workplace, providing written policies to deal with the risk
  7. Boiling Point: Why Do We Let Big Oil Send Workers to Their Deaths?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Refinery workers endure precarious labour conditions, yet the current system protects the companies economic interests. Recently, workers have started to mobilize.
  8. BP oil spill: Concerns for long-term health of workers 4 years later
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    33,000 involved in study examining oil spill related health effects.
  9. The Canadian Initiative on Workplace Violence
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
  10. 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.
  11. Ceridian Canada Ltd.
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
  12. Cheap Clothing - At Whose Expense?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1978
  13. Cheap clothing proves far too dear
    The death of workers in Bangladesh are just the latest tragedy that springs from the west's addiction to fashion
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    In Bangladesh one hundred workers died in a garment fire, a common occurence plaguing a workforce that already has the distinction of being the "most poorly paid in the world". The author investigates the market forces that drive the terrible conditions and compensation for workers in this export industry.
  14. The Citizen's Guide to Lead: Uncovering a Health Hazard
    Resource Type: Book
  15. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 4 - October 1980 - Health/Sante
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
  16. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
  17. Connexions Library: Health Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on health.
  18. Connexions Library: Work Focus Page
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on work.
  19. Day of Mourning
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1990
  20. Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2012
    The searing account of Chris Hedges' and Joe Sacco's travels to sacrifice zones, those areas in the United States where human beings and the natural world are used and then discarded to maximize profit, places that have been offered up for maximum exploitation in the name of profit and progress.
  21. Death on the Bakken shale
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2015
    North Dakota's fracking industry has the highest worker fatality rates in the US. Why are so many dying and who should be held responsible?
  22. Denying health coverage to injured migrant workers is shameful
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Imagine getting injured at work, and instead of going to a hospital or seeing your health-care provider, you are deported from Canada.
  23. Environmental and Occupational Health: A View from STOP
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1980
  24. Four years later, still a graveyard of Chinese youth
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    In 2014, on the eve of China's national day celebrations, scenes recalling those of four years ago appeared in Chinese headlines. Foxconn became known to the world four years ago when thirteen of its young workers jumped to their deaths in quick succession.
  25. Genocide by Prescription: The "Natural History" of the Declining White Working Class in America
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    The white working class in the US has been decimated through an epidemic of 'premature deaths' -- a bland term to cover-up the drop in life expectancy in this historically important demographic. This is the first time in the country's 'peacetime' history that its traditional core productive sector has experienced such a dramatic demographic decline -- and the epicenter is in the small towns and rural communities of the United States.
  26. E.K. Gillin & Associates
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
  27. The Hazards of Uranium Mining
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1979
    This leaflet summarizes Britich Columbia opposition to uranium mining.
  28. Hazards of Work: How to Fight Them
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  29. HealthSources.ca
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2017
    A web portal featuring information and resources about health, 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.
  30. Industrial Accident Prevention Association (IAPA)
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
  31. Institute for Work & Health
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
  32. The Magic and Deadly Dust: Asbestos and Your Health
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1979
  33. Marx as a Food Theorist
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Marx developed a detailed and sophisticated critique of the industrial food system in Britain in the mid-nineteenth century, in the period that historians have called "the Second Agricultural Revolution." Not only did he study the production, distribution, and consumption of food; he was the first to conceive of these as constituting a problem of changing food "regimes" -- an idea that has since become central to discussions of the capitalist food system.
  34. Mine Accidents and Disasters
    Resource Type: Website
    An Australian website documenting mine accidents and disasters.
  35. More chance of dying from work than going to war
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Going to war may seem one of the most hazardous ordeals on the planet, but perhaps not. The International Labor Organization (ILO) says there is more chance of dying from work than fighting for your country on the battlefield.
  36. Muscle & Blood
    The Massive, Hidden Agony of Industrial Slaughter in America
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
  37. Newfoundland Sealing Disaster
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    SS Newfoundland was a sealing ship which lost 78 sealers on the ice during extreme weather conditions in March 1914 which claimed lives from three sealing ships in an event known as the 1914 Newfoundland Sealing Disaster.
  38. 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.
  39. Ontario's health workers call for improved sick leave policies
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
  40. 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.
  41. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 23, 2016
    Science and its enemies
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2016
    Our society and its institutions, public and private, regularly tell us that science, and education in the sciences, are crucial to our future. These public declarations are strangely reminiscent of the equally sincere lip service they pay to the ideals of democracy. And, in the same way that governments and private corporations devote considerable efforts to undermining the reality of democracy, so too they are frequently found trying to block and subvert science when the evidence it produces runs counter to their interests. Real live scientists doing real live science, it seems, are not nearly as loveable as Science in the abstract.
  42. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 23, 2016
    Workers and Climate Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2016
    Working people -- and most of us are workers -- are affected by climate change in every aspect of our lives. As climate change worsens, our lives will worsen. If we are successful in bringing about the needed rapid change away from a fossil fuel based economy, working people are the ones who stand to bear most of the costs, including the cost, for millions of workers and their families, of losing their jobs.
    Many elements of the environmental movement have been guilty of ignoring working people, while others actually blame ordinary working people for climate change and the injustices associated with it. Yet it is working people who are dying, in many places, even now, from excessive heat in factories, fields, construction sites, and homes. And million of working people stand to lose their jobs, homes, and communities in the transition to a low-carbon or no-carbon economy.
  43. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter June 26, 2017
    Public Safety
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2017
    The June 26, 2017 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter is about public safety.
  44. 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.
  45. Playing Chicken: Discovering a Diverse Working Class in Trump Country
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Since the election of 2016, much has been written about rural working-class voters who helped elect Donald J. Trump to the presidency. Most of those stories have assumed that the rural working class is overwhelmingly white. But if we look at one of the most significant parts of the rural economy – the poultry industry – we get a different picture. Not only do we see more workers of color, we also see more exploitation and greater potential for resistance.
  46. Playing with our Health
    Hazards in the Automated Office
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
  47. A Range of Abuses
    The Invisible Deaths of Lebanon's Migrant Domestic Workers
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Migrant domestic workers generally get very little protection from the Lebanese government and remain under-reported in the media, while the deaths of these workers are rarely discussed in the news. Despite the high incidence, domestic workers’ deaths are not investigated or documented by the Lebanese authorities.
  48. A Rubber Worker's Guide to Occupational Health
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
  49. Scattered Sand
    The Story of China's Rural Migrants
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2012
    Each year, 200 million workers from China’s vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migration in history. This indispensable army of labour accounts for half of China’s GDP, but is an unorganized workforce — “scattered sand,” in Chinese parlance — and the most marginalized and impoverished group of workers in the country.
  50. 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.
  51. Silkwood
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 1983
    A film inspired by the life of Karen Silkwood. Silkwood was a nuclear whistleblower and a labour union activist who died in a suspicious car accident while investigating alleged wrongdoing at the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant where she worked.
  52. 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.
  53. Submission to the Hon. Dr. Bette Stephenson, Minister of Labour, Concerning Proposed Occupational Safety and Health
    Legislation for the Province of Ontario.
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1977
    A letter regarding workplace safety in Canada. The letter discusses Canada's relative lack of legilsation that promote preventative safety measures in the workplace.
  54. Sugar and Sugarworkers: A Popular Report of the International Sugarworkers Conference
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1978
  55. 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.
  56. Uranium Mine and Mill Workers are Dying, and Nobody Will Take Responsibility
    In the Southwest, poisoned uranium workers are still seeking justice
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    To talk to former uranium miners and their families is to talk about the dead and the dying. Brothers and sisters, coworkers and friends: a litany of names and diseases. Many were, as one worker put it, "ate up with cancer," while others died from various lung and kidney diseases.
  57. US farm fatalities: An unpublicized epidemic
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Hundreds of agricultural workers, including many child labourers, die in farming accidents across the US each year. With an official workplace fatality rate of more than 21 per 100,000, farming is the most dangerous occupation in America. It is also among the lowest paid and least regulated.
  58. Why White Working Class Americans Are Dying "Deaths of Despair"
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Franklin examines the reasons behind the steadily growing mortality rates for working-class white Americans, which he attributes to both workplace hazards and mental illness resulting from joblessness, poverty, and despair.
  59. Why Workplace "Accidents" Happen
    Safety Costs Money
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Many industrial and manufacturing companies resort to almost any means (some of them not entirely legal) to dissuade employees from joining a union because besides having to offer higher wages and improved benefits (and giving employees a voice in how they’re treated by management), they are required to provide a safe work environment. Safety costs money and every company is interested in saving money.
  60. Work and New Technologies
    Other Perspectives (Volume 3)
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    Essays covering health hazards, labour concerns, and issues of deskilling related to new technologies in the workplace.

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