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. The Birth of a Holiday
   The late Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm recounts the origins of International Workers' Day.
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2017
   The history of the fight, by the working class, for a holiday for the working class.
3. BC Nurses' Union
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
4. Canada-wide migrant worker coalition calls on Trudeau to MoVE for Real Change
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   Canada-wide migrant worker coalition calls on Trudeau to MoVE for Real Change. Newly launched Coalition for Migrant Worker Rights - Canada calls for end to discrimination against migrant workers.
5. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 1, Number 4 - November 1976
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1976
   
6. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1977
   
7. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 3, Number 3 - June 1978
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1978
   
8. Canadian Union of Public Employees
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
9. 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.
10. Chinese Workers' Resistance
    Against The Current vol. 111
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2004
    Norm Diamond interviews Tim Pringle, who lives in Hong Kong, where he participates as an observer and also as a member of the editorial board of the Chinese-language magazine Globalization Monitor.
11. Collective Bargaining Course Book
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1979
    
12. Combatting Racism in the Workplace
    A Course for Workers
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    With the ultimate aim of combatting racism within the labour movement, the Cross Cultural Communication Centre, under the auspices of the Humber Collage for Labour Studies, ran a ten-week, 30 hour pilot course entitled 'Work Racism and Labour.'
13. 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.
    
14. Connexions
    Volume 3, Number 6 - December 1978 - Unemployment/Chomage
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
    
15. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
    
16. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 2 - May 1982 - Canada-Latin America/Le Canada-L'Amerique Latine
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
    
17. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
    
18. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
    
19. Connexions Library: Labour and Unions Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on labour and unions.
20. 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.
21. The Exploitation Explosion
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1991
    Female workers in developing countries are undervalued and underpaid.
22. Fair Trade gold mining in the highlands of Peru
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Most gold mining in Peru causes serious environmental damage, but there is one exception - a Fair Trade certified mine close to the world-famous Nazca Lines. Now it's up to us to demand Fair Trade gold from the jewellery trade, rewarding responsible producers and expanding the market for new Fair Trade gold miners.
23. Fernandez, Irene
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Malaysian advocate for the right of women, migrants, and poor workers. (Born 1946).
24. Fightback in Korea
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    In a climate of increasing repression, the Park Geun-hye government in South Korea is launching the latest in its series of attacks on working people. A retrograde labour reform plan is being set in motion that promises to drive down wages and undermine job security. There is broad and determined resistance to the plan, and workers and farmers are taking the battle to the streets.
25. Fighting Back on the Job
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
    
26. Fighting the Flexible Firm
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2000
    The shift towards the short term is a result of changes within the operation of capitalism. Let us be clear about this: it is not about technology, it is not about innovation, it is about capitalism and how capitalism operates to achieve profit. Capital is now driven by short-term return. This results in organisations having to quickly change what they are doing and where they are going, and adjust their personnel accordingly.
27. The Flint sit-down strike, 1936-1937
    Jeremy Brecher
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    210,000 auto workers joined the American Federation of Labor (A.F.L.) to take part in the strike but the A.F.L leadership however wanted no part in a strike, and managed to postpone it again and again. The workers won control over the rate of production, despite a union contract that conceded this authority to management.
28. Getting the Balance Right
    Gender Equality in Journalism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Gender equality in journalism.
29. Hospital Employees' Union
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
30. How People Get Power
    Organizing Oppressed Communities for Action
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    A book about community organizing, written for organizers.
31. Is that an archive in your basement... or are you just hoarding?
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Are you an 'accidental archivist'? Have you been saving the publications and documents produced by the social justice projects you've been involved in? Then Connexions would like to hear from you.
32. Justice for All: the Struggle for Worker Rights in Egypt
    A Report by the Solidarity Center
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2010
    A report on recent workers' struggles in Egypt, against falling wages, oppressive working conditions, and violations of workers' rights, in the face of an authoritarian and repressive government.
33. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
    Volume II: The Politics of Social Classes
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    Draper ranges through the development of the thought of Marx and Engels on the role of classes in society.
34. The Labor Wars
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    A survey of landmark events in the U.S. labour movement.
35. Howard A. Levitt (Lang Michener LLP, Lawyers)
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
36. 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."
37. Manifestos, Programs, Visions
    Selected Manifestos - Political Statements - Programs
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2016
    A selection of left manifestos, programs, poltical statements and visions from the 1600s to today.
38. Marxists Internet Archive
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
39. The Miners' Hymns
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2010
    The ill-fated coal mining communities in North East England are the subject of this inspired documentary by multi-media artist Bill Morrison.
40. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
41. The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    Ransom suggests that fair, environmentally-conscious trade is not only a viable alternative to unfair free trade, but that it is the way of the future.
42. The North-South Institute
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
43. Ontario Nurses' Association
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
44. Organizing Unions
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    How to form or build a union. Shows how to strength organizing drives by responding to the concerns of all workers, including women, immigrant workers, people of colour, workers with disabilities, lebians and gay men, and part-time and casual workers.
45. Organizing with Love: Lessons from the New York Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Campaign
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Great organizing campaigns are like great love affairs. You begin to see life through a different lens. You change in unexpected ways. You lose sleep, but you also feel boundless energy. You develop new relationships and new interests. Your skin becomes more open to the world around you. Life feels different, and it’s almost like you’ve been reborn. And, most importantly, you begin to feel things that you previously couldn’t have even imagined are possible.
46. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 12, 2015
    Organizing
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    The focus of this issue is organizing. How can we challenge and overcome entrenched structures of economic and political power? Our own source of power is our latent ability to join together and work toward common goals, collectively. That requires organizing. Power gives way only when it is challenged by powerful movements for change, and movements grow out of organizing. In this newsletter, we feature a number of articles, books, and other organizing resources.
47. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2015
    Urban agriculture and local food production
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    This issue of Other Voices ranges widely, from increasing worker activism and strikes in China, to advances in battery technology that make it much easier and cheaper to store solar and wind energy for future use, to testimonies from Israeli soldiers about the war crimes they committed routinely and as a matter of policy in last summer's attack on Gaza.
48. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 27, 2017
    Official Enemies
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2017
    Why and how do some countries become 'enemies'? How and why do governments and media work in tandem to demonize official enemies? Who are the people who live in those countries, what are their lives like, and why should we consider them our enemies?
49. Our Generation
    Volume 10 Number 1
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1974
    
50. Our Generation
    Volume 10 Number 3
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1974
    
51. Press Release: United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1978
    A report on United Electrics concern with the use of SIN numbers on identification tags at the General Electric plant in Peterborough, Ontario.
52. Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC)
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
53. Racism, capitalism and contradictions
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Workers under capitalism have a dual existence: both as collective producers struggling against capital for control of the workplace, for hours and wages, but also workers compete as each other.
54. 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.
55. The Red Menace
    A libertarian socialist newsletter
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
    Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
    
56. 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.
57. Respect, not restraints, for workers in Thailand's seafood industry
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    A report on a year-long investigation into forced labour in the global seafood supply chain in Thailand.
58. The Road to Wigan Pier
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1937
    George Orwell's investigation of an English working class community in the 1930s.
59. Strategies for Canadian Economic Self-Reliance
    Resource Type: Book
    
60. Strikes, List of
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The following is a list of deliberate absence from work related to specific working conditions (strikes) or due to general unhappiness with the political order (general strikes).
61. Sweat and Struggle
    Working Class Struggles In Canada 1789 - 1899
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    
62. 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.
63. United Nurses of Alberta
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
64. Workers' Councils
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1947
    Now the goal becomes distinct; opposite to the stronger domination by state-directed planned economy of the new capitalism stands what Marx called the association of free and equal producers. So the call for unity must be supplemented by indication of the goal: take the factories and machines; assert your mastery over the productive apparatus; organize production by means of workers' councils.
65. Workers Hold the Keys
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    In a discussion of the history and practice of socialist ideas, Chibber and Farbman discuss precarity and the changing composition of the working class, how socialists should think about unions, and how the Left can get off the college campuses and into the workplaces and streets.
66. Workers and Revolution in Iran
    The Third World Experience of Workers' Control
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    Industrial workers in Iran played a major role in the overthrow of the Shah. This account of the shuras, or factory councils, they set up throws new light on the Shah's defeat, and the consequent revolutionary impulses Ayatollah Khomeini subsequently crushed so ruthlessly. This and other Third World examples show how uneven capitalist development can create conditions conducive to struggles for workers' control in advanced as well as in backward economies.

Experts on Workers' Rights in the Sources Directory

1. Hospital Employees' Union
2. International Labour Organization
3. International Labor Rights Forum
4. Marxists Internet Archive
5. Ontario Nurses' Association