- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Cheap Clothing - At Whose Expense?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
- 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.
- Commemorating France's Worst Mining Tragedy: 1099 Workers Perished to Profit the Bosses
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
A mining catastrophe in northern France on March 10, 1906, is remembered with a number of commemorative ceremonies.
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Courrieres Mine Disaster 1906
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
The devastating mine disaster in 1906 that killed over 1,000 workers in Courrieres, France, is remembered.
- Day of Mourning
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1990
- 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?
- Fire in the dark: the astonishing story of the Courrieres mine disaster
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
One hundred and eight years ago today, on March 10, 1906, an explosion and fire occurred deep underground in a coal mine owned by the Courrières mining company underneath the village of Billy-Montigny in northern France. A total of 1,099 miners died, including many children.
- 5,000 Canadians walk to honour and support families of workplace tragedy
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Beginning May 4, more than 5000 Canadians will walk in support of families affected by workplace fatalities, life-altering injuries and occupational disease, as part of the annual Steps for Life - Walking for Families of Workplace Tragedy.
- E.K. Gillin & Associates
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Hazards of Work: How to Fight Them
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- 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.
- Ideas and Action
Periodical profile published 1981
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
Archive of some articles published in Ideas and Action, a radical paper published by the Workers Solidarity Alliance from 1981 to 1997.
- Industrial accident claims three lives in Leduc, Alberta
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
A look at the troubling indifference to the alarming statistics on worker fatalities, and the lax occupational health and safety regulations that are designed to protect employers and permit the further expansion of company profits.
- Leadville Colorado, Miners' Strike
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Occurred as a result of rapid industrialization and consolidation of the mining industry.
- Logger's death
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1989
- Mine Accidents and Disasters
Resource Type: Website
An Australian website documenting mine accidents and disasters.
- 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.
- Muscle & Blood
The Massive, Hidden Agony of Industrial Slaughter in America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
- 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.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 4, 2014
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Information about the Connexions Alternative Media List and the Labor Film Archive. Articles on corporations spying on non-profits, workplace deaths, Monsanto and Ukraine, and liberal environmentalism. Topic of the week is Violence Against Journalists. Book of the week is Bold Scientists.
- 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.
- 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.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 22, 2017
Secrecy and Power
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2017
Secrecy is a weapon the powerful use against their enemies: us. This issue of Other Voices explores the relationship of secrecy and power.
- 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.
- Staff at 'Grinch' KPMG well looked after while advocating 'workers' comp' cuts
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
KPMG – which operates across Canada and internationally – performs “hatchet jobs” for governments – often governments that don’t have the nerve to take the lead themselves when they want cutbacks.
- 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.
- Threads of Life
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- 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.
- 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.
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