1. Asleep In The Fast Lane
   The Impact of Sleep on Work
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1990
   Dotto focuses on sleep problems in industrialized societies, as well as on the nature of sleep itself.
2. 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.
3. Das Capital, Volume 2
   The Process of Circulation of Capital
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1956
   
4. Das Capital, Volume 3
   The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1971
   
5. 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.
   
6. Connexions
   Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1978
   
7. Connexions Library: Work Focus Page
   Resource Type: Website
   Published: 2009
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on work.
8. Eight-Hour Day at the Party Congress
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 1899
   The legal eight-hour day is one of the demands on our minimal program. i.e., it is the very least minimum of social reform which we, as representatives of the workers’ interests, must demand and expect from the present state. The fragmentation of even these minimal demands into still smaller morsels goes against all our tactics.
9. 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.
10. Forced to Love the Grind
    Passion is the new workplace requirement - and one that should be resisted
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    In this world, legendary figures are the ones who remain in the office for one hundred hours straight, working through their children's musical recitals and 104-degree fevers. The idea is that workers become superhuman through the refusal of self-care. This phenomenon isn't merely depressing; it's outright dangerous.
11. Get a Life!
    How to make a good buck dance around the dinosaurs and save the world while you're at it
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
    Simultaneoulsy a textbook on new careers and lifestyles for aspiring entrepreneurs and a strategy for social, economic and environmental renewal.
12. Glaberman, Martin - Writings - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings of Martin Glaberman (1918-2001).
13. In Praise of Idleness
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1932
    More leisure, not work, will benefit civilization. Modern organization and technology makes a four hour work day possible for leisure to be distributed to everyone.
    
14. Marxists Internet Archive
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
15. The Newsletter #2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1973
    
16. The Newsletter #3
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1973
    
17. Nine-Hour Movement
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Was an international workers' attempt to secure shorter working days.
18. 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.
    
19. Pay Cheques & Picket Lines
    All About Unions in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    A children's book which explains what unions are, how they came to be, and why they exist.
20. The Road to Wigan Pier
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1937
    George Orwell's investigation of an English working class community in the 1930s.
21. Strike!
    The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    A history-from-below that brings to light strikes as authentic revolutionary movements against the establishments of state, capital, and trade unionism.
22. The 4 Hour Workweek Escape 9-5 - Live Anywhere And Join The New Rich Book Review
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    So this week I am going to share my review of one of the books that caught my eye and Wall Street Journal as well...The 4 Hour Workweek Escape 9-5, Live anywhere and Join the New Rich by Timothy Ferriss. I loved this book and I could not put it down.
23. When workers' own time begins
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Marx took a long view of realizing freedom in a positive sense. Capitalism, in Marx’s day, used up three generations of workers in a single generation of working days without time limits. The struggle for the eight-hour day spread across the U.S. after the victory over slavery in the Civil War. Marx then traced the generations-long struggle for a normal working day.
24. Work Overload: Time for a Union Strategy
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Talk to workers in any sector, in any workplace and sooner or later they’ll get to their frustrations with their ever-increasing workloads: ‘I’m struggling’, they’ll lament to fellow workers or anyone ready to listen, ‘to just do the job, never mind do it well’. And yet even though few work-related issues seem to generate more passion, the relentless intensification of every-day work life rarely surfaces as a union priority. Why?
25. Working Hours
    Resource Type: Article
    In this article written around 1972, Guido Viale, a member of the Italian socialist group Lotta Continua, discusses the struggle for less work and shorter hours.

Experts on Work Hours in the Sources Directory

1. Marxists Internet Archive
2. The Preservation Institute