- Canadian Policy Research Networks (CPRN)
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- CanMediate International, Ruth Sirman
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- 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.'
- 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.
- Connexions Annual Overview: Economy, Poverty, Work
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1994
To effect desired change, it is necessary to have the power to set a different agenda, and therefore to challenge the current concentration of economic and political power. One of the keys to building an effective movement is mutual acts of solidarity, inspired by the principle that `an injury to one is an injury to all'.
- Connexions Library: Work Focus Page
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on work.
- The Corrosion of Character
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
Richard Sennett explores the myth of efficiency in the new business order. This is a book about people who went through being downsized in their work. This is the New Capitalism- All Human Character has been abondoned and in its place an owner and demographer who downsize the workers of companies.
- Food, Shelter and the American Dream
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
Discusses the state of the American economy, the consequences for politics and culture that might arise from the new situation, and possible solutions.
- Free The Children
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
An account of children's rights activist Craig Kielburger's work with and on behalf of exploited child labourers.
- Goodbye Welfare, Hello Workfare
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The world’s richest countries are coercing their citizens to ‘donate’ their labour to big businesses and other organizations in return for welfare payments.
- Human Resources Guide to Workplace Investigations
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
A comprehensive "how-to" manual for planning and executing a proper and fair workplace investigation.
- Institute for Work & Health
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Marxists Internet Archive
Resource Type: Website
Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
- News and Letters
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
- 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.
- The Newsletter #3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1973
- The Newsletter #4
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1974
- 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.
- Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC)
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Real Utopia
Participatory Society for the twenty-first century
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
Real Utopia identifies and obliterates the barriers to an egalitarian, bottom-up society, while convincingly outlining how to build it.
- 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.
- Rediscovering Two Labor Intellectuals
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2004
Steve Early reviews collections of writings by Martin Glaberman and Stain Weir.
- Research Shows Employers Need to Focus on Ways to Make the Generations Happy at Work
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Generations at work are showing increased job dissatisfaction, employers need to be focused on keeping the generations happy at work. The biggest threat to companies over the next decade will be the erosion and loss of their talent.
- Subsidizing Contractor Misconduct: Alma's Story
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Story of Alma Aranda, employee at the customer call center operated by Verizon Communications, where she works an eight-hour shift fielding questions about billing statements or complaints about Internet service from the company.
- A Tale of Two Offices
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1977
Daily life and offices politics viewed through the experience of working in two libraries with very different management styles.
- 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.
- A Troublemaker's Handbook 2
Resource Type: Book
A manual for workers who want to take control over their lives at work. In hundreds of first-person accounts, workers tell in their own words how they organized and struggled to do that.
- We Are Wisconsin
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2012
When a Republican Governor’s bill threatens to wipe away worker rights and lock out public debate, six (extra)ordinary citizens join the growing protest at the Wisconsin State Capitol, and spend the next twenty-six days building a movement that not only challenges the bill, but the soul of a nation.
- Work
Capitalism. Economics. Resistance
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
About work in capitalist society.
- Workers Profiles: Below the Minimum Wage
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
An endless supply of alcohol, good music, pool tables, and friendly strangers -- these elements seem like a recipe for a fun time. For those of us who frequent bars and pubs, this kind of environment is exactly what we look forward to at the end of a long day or work week. Imagine working at a bar. It seems natural that bartenders would enjoy their upbeat surroundings at work as much as their customers. Now, imagine being the only worker at a bar. You alone are responsible for cleaning the bar, controlling drunk customers, serving food, buying supplies -- everything all alone during an overnight shift.
- 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.
- Working in a supermarket
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1979
Observations on working as a carry-out in a supermarket.
- Workplace Bullying
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Where do workplace bullies come from? Is it possible that school yard bullies become workplace bullies? In my experience as a mediator, there are some scarily similar realities to what happens on the playground and in the corporate boardroom!
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