- 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.
- Ah-Hah!
A New Approach to Popular Education
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
AH-HAH seminars are designed to organize groups of comman interests, especially workers, to come to a common understanding.
- All the Livelong Day
The Meaning and Demeaning of Routine Work, Revised and Updated Edition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
- The American Socialist Movement: 1897-1912
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1952
A history of the American Socialist Party, which at its height had over 150,000 dues-paying members, published hundreds of newspapers, and won almost a million votes for its presidential candidate.
- The American Working Class in Historical Persepctive
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
A review of Jeremy Brecher's Strike! (See CX6590)
- At the Lenin Shipyards
Poland and the Rise of the Solidarity Trade Union
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
A first-hand account of the rise of the Solidarity trade union in Poland.
- Auto worker says automation creates worker alienation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1974
It is only struggle, says Martin Glaberman, that creates an awareness of collective strength.
- The Blue-Collar Hellscape of the Startup Industry
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The tactics and work environments at tech companies, including Amazon, show a disregard for the fundamental health, safety and humanity of low-tier workers, demonstrating what laissez-faire startup-styled late capitalism really looks like.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 5 - January 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- 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.
- Coal in Our Blood
200 Years of coal mining in Nova Scotia's Pictou County
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
An account of the coal mining community of Pictou County, Nova Scotia.
- 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
Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 2 - May 1982 - Canada-Latin America/Le Canada-L'Amerique Latine
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- Connexions Library: Labour and Unions Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on labour and unions.
- Connexions Library: Work Focus Page
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on work.
- 'Consumers are not aware we are slaves inside the greenhouses'
Exploitation plagues Spain's farming province, with migrant workers paid below minimum wage and living in squalor.
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
What is referred to as Almeria's "economic miracle" among Spanish economists is almost exclusively dependant on an invisible, expendable and often illegally employed migrant workers like Maruf, toiling under 40-degree heat and extreme humidity.
- Cooperation at Work
The Mondragon Experience
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
A guide to work co-operatives, based on the experience of the Mondragon group of co-operatives in Spain.
- 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.
- Cultures of Solidarity
Consciousness, Action, and Contemporary American Workers
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
In three vivid case studies Fantasia explores the complicated, multi-faceted dynamics of American working-class consciousness and collective action.
- Down To Earth People
Beyond Class Reductionism and Postmodernism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Working class women and men offer their analysis of the world today and its multi-dimensional inequalities.
- The East York Workers' Association
A Response to the Great Depression
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
An account of the activity of relief recipients in the township of East York, an eastern suburb of Toronto, in the 1930s.
- False Promises
The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- General Strike France 1968
A factory-by-factory account
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
Andre Hoyles analyses the development, organisation and end of the mass strike in France, 1968, with reference to case studies of particular factories.
- Getting There
Producing Photostories With Immigrant Women
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
Photostories about immigrant women surviving in and adapting to a new culture.
- The Ghost of Anarcho-Syndicalism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1992
The danger of modern anarchists of falling into the trap of anarcho-syndicalism.
- Glaberman, Martin - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Martin Glaberman (1918-2001).
- Global Labor: Socialist Register 2001
Book review
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2001
For all intents and purposes, I discovered the Socialist Register during the early '90s. When I say "discovered" I, of course, do not mean that I was the first to come across it. Rather, having heard of it for years, I actually read it.
- The Greater Toronto Workers Assembly: A Hopeful Experiment
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
We are living in a kind of transitional era, where the old forms of working class organization and politics are sorely in need of a replacement, and the theoretical and practical bases of those replacements are still in the process of being born. The Greater Toronto Workers Assembly is one attempt to create a working class institution that tries to address this crisis within the class and on the left on the level of a city, in this case, Toronto.
- The Hand That Feeds
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2015
A documentary portraying 12 undocumented immigrants who face an uphill battle and the threat of deportation when they take on the popular restaurant in New York City where they work.
- The Hidden Injuries of Class
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
Sennett and Cobb look at human relations between people of different classes and analyze everyday life and ordinary situations to identify class signals that make people feel inadequate.
- 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.
- Just a Matter of Gloves
Resource Type: Article
An account of a work stoppage over the issue of gloves being supplied in a factory.
- Just Another Car Factory?
Lean Production and Its Discontents
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
- Just Around the Corner
The Paradox of the Jobless Recovery
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
Aronowitz details how U.S. capitalism has achieved higher profits at the expense of the quality and quantity of jobs, and contradicts the ideological justifications that seek to justify deteriorating jobs, showing how they are neither a mark of efficiency nor a merely temporary problem.
- The Labor Wars
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
A survey of landmark events in the U.S. labour movement.
- Life After Death for Labor?
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
A review of Stanley Aronowitz's book "The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Workers’ Movement."
- The Life and Resistance of a Chinese Worker
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Under China's labour management system, independent unionism is strictly banned, and the state's official trade union body monopolizes worker representation. That means that all of China’s 806,498,521 workers are barred from forming independent organizations to agitate for their interests -- in an economy where the poorest 25 percent of households own just 1 percent of the country’s total wealth, and where long hours, safety hazards, and authoritarian management define life in the factories. This official antagonism has not stopped the emergence of workers' resistance. The number of strikes has been increasing over the past two decades, and as Eli Friedman wrote last year, "on a typical day anywhere from half a dozen to several dozen strikes are likely taking place."
- Marx and the Working Class
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1999
Francis Wheen's 1999 biography of Marx, from which this is extracted, painted a warts-and-all portrait which shatters all the romantic and orthodox-Marxist idealisations of the founder of modern communism, while leaving intact and perhaps clearer than ever, Marx’s essential humanist and critical insights into the trajectory of modernity.
- A Marxist History of the World part 77 World Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
In the five years after the First World War, revolutionary contagion spread around the world. It showed the extraordinary possibilities that arise when the masses become active in making their own history.
- Marxists Internet Archive
Resource Type: Website
Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
- The Maximum Wage
A Common-Sense Prescription for Revitalizing America---by Taxing the Very Rich
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
The author traces the history of attempts to limit incomes and proposes the adoption of a maximum wage to revitalize American economy.
- Migration
Changing the World
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
The author discusses the increasing trend of migration in the modern world, its causes and effects, and peoples and governments responses.
- Militant as Hell on the Waterfront
The Political Thought of Stan Weir
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2007
New Beginnings looks at the life of workplace militant and writer, Stan Weir.
- Miners and Steelworkers
Labour in Cape Breton
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
- Monographs on the Portuguese
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1975
A collection of analytical essays on the Portugese immigrant community in Toronto.
- The New Left in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
A book of essays on the 1960s New Left in Canada, by members of the New Left.
- 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 #2
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1973
- The Newsletter #3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1973
- The Newsletter #4
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1974
- On Unions and the Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
Written during the wave of workers' struggles known as the Italian hot autumn of 1969, when the autonomous struggles of the working class reached an unprecedented level, laying bare the character and function of the unions.
- On Workers in A Lean World
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1999
IN HIS GENERALLY positive review of my Workers in a Lean World (ATC 78, January-February 1999), Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval accuses me of "too many broad generalizations," of dismissing globalization as "nothing more than `globaloney'," and arguing that all labor needs to address internationalized production is "rank-and-file democracy."
- On workplace organisation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1997
A look at the exchange between Stan Weir and Sam Friedman on workplace organisation.
- 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.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 23, 2015
Eduardo Galeano, Latin America, the Vietnam War
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
In this issue of Other Voices, we mark the death of Eduardo Galeano by featuring two of his books, as well as an article about his life and work. Galeano once wrote that he was "obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia." In his writing, especially Open Veins of Latin America and the mesmerizing Memory of Fire trilogy, Galeano contributed enormously to bringing alive, and keeping alive, the memories of Latin America, and especially of those whom he called the "nobodies" -- the people "who do not appear in the history of the world." Next week also marks the 40th anniversary of the final victory of the Vietnamese war of resistance against the American invasion and occupation.
- Our Generation
Volume 10 Number 1
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1974
- Out of the Driver's Seat
Marxism in North America Today
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1974
Outlines the political perspective of the Windsor-based Labour Centre in the wake of divisions in the Centre in 1974. Issues explored include the nature of the working class, women in the working class, gay rights, and students rights.
- The Politics of Urban Liberation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
A broad-ranging study which covers the political economy of the urban question and the importance of the city in the history of social revolution. Schechter's evaluation of libertarian insurgency highlights the importance of movements from below dealing with housing, transportation and other issues of daily life.
- Portugal: The Impossible Revolution?
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1977
The story of what happened in Portugal between April 25, 1974 and November 25, 1975, as seen and felt by a deeply committed participant.
- Poverty in Wealth
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1976
A critique of existing poverty research in Canada.
- Rank and File Networks: A Way to Fight Concessions
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1983
Suggests rank and file networks to fight workplace closings and to circumvent the official unions.
- Rank and File
Personal Histories of Working Class Organizers
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
A collection of stories and recollections from labour movement organizers.
- 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.
- Red Menace #4
Volume 3, Number 1 - Winter 1979
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1979
A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
- Rediscovering Two Labor Intellectuals
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2004
Steve Early reviews collections of writings by Martin Glaberman and Stain Weir.
- 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.
- The Rise of the Fast Food Worker
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
- The Role of the Individual and the Group in the Creation of Work Cultures
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1980
Stan Weir compares wildcat strikes in Poland and San Diego and their basis in the 'informal work group'.
- Rosa Luxemburg, Women's Liberation, and Marx's Philosophy of Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1982
Part I - Rosa Luxemburg as Theoretician, as Activist, as Internationalist. Part II - The Women's Liberation Movement as Revolutionary Force and Reason. Part III - Karl Marx: From Critic of Hegel to Author of Capital and Theorist of "Revolution in Permanence."
- Slavery still shackles Mauritania, 31 years after its abolition
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Rigid caste system and ruling elite have enabled a centuries-old practice to continue into the 21st century.
- Socialism and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
Representative democracy in every industrially advanced country is in a state of profound crisis. But we have been accustomed for so long to accept democracy in the form of its outward appearances and parliamentary institutions that its decay often does not become apparent to us until those institutions have been either brushed aside or reduced to a purely decorative role.
- The Socialist Register 1975
Volume 12: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1975
- Socialist Register 1991
Volume 27: Communist Regimes the Aftermath
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- Spontaneity and Organization: Some Comments
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
A contribution to a symposium on Jeremy Brecher's book Strike!
- Strategies for Canadian Economic Self-Reliance
Resource Type: Book
- 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.
- 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).
- 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.
- Towards a Canadian Economy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
- 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.
- Two Miners
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1971
An interview with two miners, one in Sudbury, Canada, and one in Sweden.
- Unions and Free Trade
Solidarity vs. Competition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
This handbook details the effects of free trade on workers in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. It argues that solidarity, not competition, is the only long-term strategy for unions. It includes case studies of unions that are creating cross-border ties.
- Unions with Leaders Who Stay on the Job (a.k.a. Class War Lessons)
Resource Type: Article
Stan Weir writes about direct action and on-the-job union leadership as a merchant marine in the 1940s.
- Voices of Experience
Five Tales of Community Economic Development in Toronto
Resource Type: Book
- The War after the War
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- 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.
- Women at Work - Ontario, 1850- 1930
Resource Type: Book
- Worker activism is now the new normal as strikes and protests erupt across China
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
China Labour Bulletin’s Strike Map logged record numbers of strikes and worker protests in the first quarter of 2015.
- Worker-Student Action Committees France May '68
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
An account of the May-June 1968 events in Paris. The authors state that "our intention is not to 'clarify' the sequence of events which took place in France in order to make possible a ritual repetition of these events, but rather to contrast the limited views we had of the events at the time we were engaged in them, with the views we have gained from further action in different contexts."
- Workers Hold the Keys
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
An interview with Vivek Chibber.
- Workers in Industrial America
Essays on the Twentieth Century Struggle
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
- 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 -- and Not-Working -- at the Post Office
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1974
An essay written by a young postal worker in Toronto, Canada.
- Working-Class History
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
The story of the changing conditions and actions of all working people.
- Working in a supermarket
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1979
Observations on working as a carry-out in a supermarket.
- Working in an office -- for a while
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
The first thing that strikes one about working in this particular office is how little actual work ever gets done.
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