- 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.
- The Age of Aquiescenence
The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
A groundbreaking investigation of how and why, from the 18th century to the present day, American resistance to our ruling elites has vanished. From the American Revolution through the Civil Rights movement, Americans have long mobilized against political, social, and economic privilege. Hierarchies based on inheritance, wealth, and political preferment were treated as obnoxious and a threat to democracy. Mass movements envisioned a new world supplanting dog-eat-dog capitalism. But over the last half-century that political will and cultural imagination have vanished. Why? Fraser sets out to solve that mystery.
- The American Working Class in Historical Persepctive
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
A review of Jeremy Brecher's Strike! (See CX6590)
- The Anarchist Collectives
Workers' Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution 1936-1939
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
Examines the experiments in workers' self-management, both urban and rural, which took place in Spain during the revolution and Civil War.
- Anarcho-syndicalism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
- Die "andere" Arbeiterbewegung und die Entwicklung der kapitalistischen Repression von 1880 bis zur Gegenwart
Ein Beitrag zum Neuverständnis d. Klassengeschichte in Deutschland. Mit ausführl. Dokumentation zu Aufstandsbekämpfung, Werkschutz u.a.
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
- Arizona Copper Mine Strike of 1983
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1983
Dispute between the Phelps Dodge Corporation and a unionized copper miners.
- Arvida Strike
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Began July 24, 1941 when some 700 workers in the Aluminium Co. of Canada (Alcan) in Arvida, Québec, spontaneously walked off the job.
- Australian waterfront dispute of 1998
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Severe and protracted industrial relations dispute, primarily between the Maritime Union of Australia (MUA) and Patrick Corporation, a stevedoring and transportation company.
- Battle of Blair Mountain
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
In 1921 between 10,000 and 15,000 coal miners confronted company-paid private detectives in an effort to unionize the southwestern West Virginia mine counties.
- Beyond the Fields
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
There is a strong historical link between the United Farm Workers in its heyday and myriad forms of progressive activism today. UFW alumni, ideas, and strategies have influenced Latino political empowerment, the immigrant rights movement, union membership growth, and on-going coalitions between labor, community, campus, and religious groups.
- Bracero History Archive
Resource Type: Database
The Bracero History Archive collects and makes available the oral histories and artifacts pertaining to the Bracero program, a guest worker initiative that spanned the years 1942-1964. Millions of Mexican agricultural workers crossed the border under the program to work in more than half of the states in America.
- British Columbia Woodworkers' Strike
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
15 May - 20 June 1946. Twenty-seven thousand workers in both the coast and interior regions, led by district president Harold Pritchett, struck when demands for a 25-cent hourly increase, a 40-hour week, union shop and mandatory dues check-off were refused by Stuart Research Service, the bargaining agent for 145 coast operators.
- Building Identify Through Struggle - Book Review
Against The Current vol. 158
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Socialists seeking to win support among working people in the United States today face twin obstacles. A conservative, pro-business officialdom, tied to the capitalist Democratic Party and opposed to any manifestation of working class militancy, dominates the labor movement.
- Bunkhouse Men
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
The term "bunkhouse men" is typically applied to some 50 000 workers who constituted a labour pool for the booming Canadian economy in the first 3 decades of the 20th century. They lived in frontier work camps and provided unskilled labour in logging, harvesting, mining and construction. Mainly single and "foreign," they experienced brutal exploitation.
- The Canadian Jewish Outlook Anthology
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
A broad range of articles about secular Jewish life and socialist values.
- Cape Breton Strikes, 1920s
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
The Cape Breton labour wars of the early 1920s represented an intense local episode of class conflict. In such conflicts militant unions, often led by radical leaders, were attempting to change the balance of power in Canadian industry by insisting on union recognition and improved living standards for the workers.
- The Case for Grassroots Archives
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called "the battle of memory". People's history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions.
- The Case of Occupy and the Longshoremen's Union
Who's Speaking for Whom?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Occupy Oakland should not be pretending to speak on behalf of Oakland's dockworkers, and should not be telling the dockworkers when and how they should strike. Occupy Oakland's actions are the opposite of democratic, and an affront to the basic notiions of worker's self-activity, workers' empowerment, and workers' control.
- La Causa
The California Grape Strike
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
A documentary of the California grape workers' strike.
- A Century of Meatpacking Unionism - Book Reviews
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1998
- Chávez, César
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Mexican American farm worker, labour leader, and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW). (1927-1993).
- Class Composition and the Theory of the Party at the Origin of the Workers-Councils Movement
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1972
Re-examines a crucial segment of labour history, the German workers' council experience, which bridges the classical socialist phase of the Second and Third Internationals, and the post-Keynesian period.
- Colorado Labor Wars
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Colorado's most significant battles between labor and capital which occurred primarily between miners and mine operators.
- Common Front Strikes
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Cartel of Québec public- and para-public-sector trade unions formed in 1972 to negotiate with the provincial government.
- The Condition of the Working Class in England
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1845
- Connexions Archive seeks a new home
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.
- Connexions Library: Labour and Unions Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on labour and unions.
- Connexions Library: Radical and Left History Focus Page
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2012
- Connolly, James - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of James Connolly.
- A Contest of Ideas: Capital, Politics and Labor
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Compilation and updates of many of Lichtenstein's most provocative and controversial essays and reviews. The author offers perspectives on the relationship of labour and the state, the tensions that sometimes exist between a culture of rights and the idea of solidarity, and the rise of conservatism in politics, law, and intellectual life.
- Critique of Nonviolent Politics
From Mahatma Gandhi to the Anti-Nuclear Movement
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
Ryan accepts that sometimes nonviolence can be effective, but says that sometimes it is not: "a principled insistence on nonviolence can in some circumstances be dangerous to progressive social movements." He says that nonviolence theory "is troubled by moral dogma and mechanical logic."
- Crowsnest Pass Strike, 1932
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
A strike that began in January 1932 with demands that companies divide available work in the depressed coal-mining industry equally among miners rather than playing favourites. Coal companies refused to deal with the workers' union, the Mine Workers' Union of Canada.
- A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
- Dodge Revolutionary Union Movement
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An organization of African-American workers formed in May 1968 in the Chrysler Corporation's Hamtramck Assembly plant, formerly Dodge Main, Detroit, Michigan.
- Drumheller Strike
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Drumheller miners, rejecting wage cuts negotiated by the United Mine Workers, struck in June 1925.
- Dying to Better Themselves: West Indians and the Building of the Panama Canal
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2014
Senior draws on diverse sources such as journals, books, songs, sayings, literature and testimonies to answer questions surrounding those who went to Panama.
- 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.
- East York Workers' Association
Connexipedia article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
The East York Workers' Association (EYWA) was an unemployment movement that developed during the Great Depression in the township of East York, Ontario.
- The Emergence of the Canadian Working Class Movement
1845-1875
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
- Essays in Canadian Working Class History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
- Estevan Coal Miners' Strike, 1931
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
A strike which led to the murder of three miners by the RCMP.
- Failure of a Dream?
Essays in the History of American Socialism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
Examines the reasons for the relative weakness of American socialism.
- False Promises
The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- The First International Conference of Socialist Women - Stuttgart. 1907
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1918
First Published in International Socialist Conferences of Women Workers in 1918.
- Flint Sit-Down Strike
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Changed the United Automobile Workers from a collection of isolated locals on the fringes of the industry into a major union and led to the unionization of the United States automobile industry.
- 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.
- For Canadian Workers: Lessons From Italy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- Fort William Freight Handlers Strike
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
A strike by 700 non-unionized immigrants in August 1909 that was defeated by the use of militia and the RCMP and resulted in the firing of hundreds of workers.
- France Spring 1968
Masses in motion Ideas in free flow
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
- Fraser River Fishermen's Strikes
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
A strikes by whites, natives and Japanese fishermen against salmon canneries that lined the lower Fraser River.
- Fraser River Railway Strikes
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Strikes which started in March 1912 when railway workers organized by the Industrial Workers of the World walked out of construction camps on the Canadian Northern line to protest conditions.
- 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.
- General Strike of 1842
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The strike started among the Staffordshire miners and soon spread through the country affecting factories, mills and coal mines from Dundee to South Wales and Cornwall.
- Glaberman, Martin
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An influential American Marxist, teacher, and autoworker. (1918-2001).
- Martin and Jessie Glaberman Collection
Papers, 1939-2001
Resource Type: Unclassified
The papers of the Marxist radicals Martin Glaberman and Jessie Glaberman, now housed at Wayne State University.
- Glaberman, Martin - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Martin Glaberman (1918-2001).
- Great Strike of 1913
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A near general strike that took place in New Zealand in 1913.
- The Great Transformation
The political and economic origins of our time
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
Polanyi analyzes the social and political upheavals that took place in England during the rise of the market economy. Polanyi contends that the modern market economy and the modern nation-state should be understood not as discrete elements, but as a single human invention he calls the "Market Society".
- A Guide to Working Class History
Second Edition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
A guide to resources about the history of working people in North America. The bulk of it is about the United States; the final section is on Canada.
- Haywood, Bill (Big Bill Haywood)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
American unionist and communist, one of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) (1869-1928).
- Hill, Joe
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Swedish-American labour activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World. (1879-1915).
- A History of International Women's Day in words and images
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
An online history of International Women's Day, which includes visual materials and numerous photographs from each decade.
- History of union busting in the United States
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Union Busting is a term used by labor organizations and trade unions to describe the activities that may be undertaken by employers, their proxies, workers and in certain instances states and governments usually triggered by events such as picketing, card check, organizing, and strike actions.
- The History of Working People in the South
A Draft Study Guide
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- Huerta, Dolores
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO, and prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America. (Born 1930).
- Hungary 1956: A workers' revolt crushed by the "workers' state"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
The Hungarian revolution, brief though it was, did as much as a century of socialist theorizing to show what a united and determined people could do to transform their society.
- The Idea of May Day on the March
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1913
The brilliant basic idea of May Day is the autonomous, immediate stepping forward of the proletarian masses, the political mass action of the millions of workers who otherwise are atomized by the barriers of the state in the day-to-day parliamentary affairs, who mostly can give expression to their own will only through the ballot, through the election of their representatives.
- 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.
- An Illustrated History of Canadian Labour 1800-1945
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
- Indians at Work: An Informal History of Native Indian Labour in B.C.
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1979
- Industrial Workers of the World
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
A revolutionary industrial union founded in 1905. Wobblies were mostly unskilled, low-status migrant workers. The IWW advocated the organization of all workers into one body and supported direct action as the only form of protest open to immigrant workers, who were excluded from the electoral process.
- Industrial Workers of the World
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The IWW contends that all workers should be united as a class and that the wage system should be abolished. They may be best known for the Wobbly Shop model of workplace democracy, in which workers elect recallable delegates, and other norms of grassroots democracy (self-management) are implemented.
- The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
Now in its second edition, this landmark book provides an intellectual history of the British working classes from the preindustrial era to the twentieth century.
- International Women's Day
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2018
The annual day for recognition of and struggle for women's economic, social and political rights.
- International Women's Day and Working Class History
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1986
In this concise essay Beaton looks at the Socialist roots of International Women's Day.
- International Women's Day. A Militant Celebration
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1920
Written by Alexandra Kollontai and first published in Mezhdunarodnyi den' rabotnitz, Moscow, 1920.
- International Women's Day. Defend the Gains of October
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1987
Beaton calls for the defence of the gains made in the emancipation of women by the October revolution.
- International Women's Day Centenary sees largest ever activity
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
March 8 sees the highest level of global women's activity ever witnessed as groups celebrate the International Women's Day centenary.
- International Working Women's Day
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1921
First published on March 8, 1921 in a Supplement to Pravda No. 51.
- International Workingmen's Association (The First International)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An international socialist organization which aimed at uniting a variety of different left-wing political groups and trade union organizations that were based on the working class and class struggle.
- 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.
- James P. Cannon on the Legacy of the IWW
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Formed in direct opposition to the craft unionism of the American Federation of Labor, the IWW drew its membership largely from young workers who took to the road to find work where they could -- as railroad construction workers, lumberjacks, metal miners and seamen. Taught by harsh experience that the bosses could not be overpowered at the ballot box, those who formed the IWW called for "One Big Union" that would serve as the instrument to seize the means of production from the capitalist class.
- Jews, Marxism and the Worker's Movement
Resource Type: Website
A subject index of texts from Marx, Engels, Lenin, Trotsky, Leon and Luxemburg; texts from the Jewish Socialist & Labor Movement and the impact of the Russian Revolution on Jews.
- Karl Marx: Essential Writings
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
A selection of Marx's writings ranging from his early works on philosophy, religion, alienation, and Hegelianism, through the materialist conception of history, the theoretical analysis of capitalism, and the politics of revolution. Bender provides informatative introductions setting the context for each set of materials.
- 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.
- Labor Film Archive
Films, videos and film festivals that focus on work, workers and worker’s issues
Resource Type: Website
The Labor Film Archive's goal is to present films and documentaries from around the world depicting aspects of work marginalized or absent in most commercial theatres. The Labor Film Database is an excellent resource for searching for union and labor related movies. The site also features a "Streaming Online" category which includes titles like Union Maids, America's Victory: The 1997 UPS Strike, and Real Union Busting. Cost: Free streaming (no registration required). Over 1,700 films and videos are listed here, searchable by title, director, actors and/or keywords.
- The Labor Wars
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
A survey of landmark events in the U.S. labour movement.
- Labor's Giant Step
The First Twenty Years of the CIO: 1936–55
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
The story of the explosive labor struggles and political battles in the 1930s that built the industrial unions.
- Leadville Colorado, Miners' Strike
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Occurred as a result of rapid industrialization and consolidation of the mining industry.
- Luddites
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A social movement of British textile artisans in the early nineteenth century who protested - often by destroying mechanized looms - against the changes produced by the Industrial Revolution, which were leaving them without work.
- Magnificent FIght: the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2019
In Magnificent Fight, Dennis Lewycky lays out the history of this iconic event, which remains the biggest and longest strike in Canadian history. He analyzes the social, political and economic conditions leading up to the strike.
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 4
Marx and Engels 1844 - 1845
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1845
Includes The Holy Family, or Critique of Critical Criticism, and The Condition of the Working-Class in England.
- Marxism and the Trade Unions
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1970
Draper argues that essentially, no Marxist group has ever carried on any systematic revolutionary work in trade unions.
- A Marxist History of the World part 51: The origins of the Labour Movement
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Capitalism's industrial revolution gave birth to its own gravediggers, argues Neil Faulkner as he examines the rise and fall of Chartism.
- A Marxist History of the World part 55: The Making of the Working Class
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
The development of capitalism entails two complementary processes. The first, explored in MHW 54, is competitive capital accumulation. The second, explored here, is the making – and continual re-making – of the working class.
- A Marxist History of the World part 65: The 1905 Revolution: Russia's great dress rehearsal
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Neil Faulkner looks at how the Russian Revolution of 1905 helped Leon Trotsky formulate an answer to the century-old riddle of Russian history: what form must the revolution take in order to be victorious.
- A Marxist History of the World part 70: 1917: the February Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
As WWI turned into a protracted, bloody struggle the initial enthusiasm gave way to growing class tensions which exploded first in Russia's February Revolution.
- A Marxist History of the World part 73: 1917: the October Insurrection
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
- A Marxist History of the World part 75: The German Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
At the end of the First World War, the epicentre of revolution moved from Petrograd to Berlin. Why did the German communists fail where the Bolsheviks had succeded?
- A Marxist History of the World part 76: Italy's 'Two Red Years'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Like Germany, Italy was on the brink of revolution in the summer of 1920, after the strains of imperialist war had levered open deep fractures in an unstable social order.
- A Marxist History of the World part 78: The First Chinese Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
In 1927, the Chinese nationalists smashed the country's first working-class revolutionary movement – a defeat that would shape the whole subsequent history of China.Counterfire
- A Marxist History of the World part 86: The Spanish Civil War
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
In 1936, after General Franco had led an unsuccessful coup against a democratically elected government, revolution swept across Spain. Neil Faulkner explains why the workers were ultimately defeated.
- Marxists Internet Archive
Resource Type: Website
Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
- The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1906
Luxemburg writes that "the mass strike in Russia [in 1905] has been realised not as means of evading the political struggle of the working-class, and especially of parliamentarism, not as a means of jumping suddenly into the social revolution by means of a theatrical coup, but as a means, firstly, of creating for the proletariat the conditions of the daily political struggle and especially of parliamentarism. The revolutionary struggle in Russia, in which mass strikes are the most important weapon, is, by the working people, and above all by the proletariat, conducted for those political rights and conditions whose necessity and importance in the struggle for the emancipation of the working-class Marx and Engels first pointed out, and in opposition to anarchism fought for with all their might in the International."
- Mine Wars Museum Opens, Revives Lost Labour History
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Mine Wars museum opens in Matewan to revive West Virginia’s labour history.
- Miramichi Lumber Strike
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
The Miramichi Lumber Strike began 20 August 1937 when 1500 millworkers and longshoremen along the Miramichi River in northern New Brunswick struck 14 lumber firms for increased wages, shorter working hours and union recognition.
- Murdochville Strike
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
On 10 March 1957 the 1000 workers of Gaspé Copper Mines, Murdochville, Qué, struck for the right to unionize. The conflict lasted 7 months and ended in defeat for the miners.
- New Hogtown Press
After Retrenchment, A Few Steps Forward
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1975
A profile of New Hogtown Press, a radical book and pamphlet publisher and distributor.
- New Hogtown Press
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
New Hogtown Press was a Canadian left-wing publisher active during the 1970s and 1980s.
- New Hogtown Press - Spanish Wikipedia Article
Wikipedia article - Spanish
Resource Type: Article
- Newfoundland Loggers' Strike
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
The Newfoundland Loggers' Strike began 31 December 1958 when hundreds of loggers employed by Anglo-Newfoundland Development Co at Grand Falls struck for wage increases and for improvements in living conditions at wood camps.
- 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.
- News and Letters
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
- Nine-Hour Movement
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Was an international workers' attempt to secure shorter working days.
- 1905
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
For a number of years, when the reaction was triumphant, the year 1905 appeared to us as a completed whole, as the Russian revolution.
- The occupation of the factories: Italy 1920 - Paolo Spriano
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
The story of the mass wave of strikes and factory occupations which swept Italy 1920-21 told from the documents and accounts of the time. Written in 1964 and translated into English in 1975 by Gwyn A Williams, who also wrote the introduction.
- On E.P. Thompson's Legacy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
In a tribute to E.P. Thompson, Cohen gives insights into his work "The Making of the English Working Class" regarding its valuable focus on the self-activity and self-organization of the people.
- On International Women's Day
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1920
Written by Lenin in Pravda, March 4, 1920.
- On Roediger's Wages of Whiteness
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2002
An extended discussion and critique of David Roediger's book Wages of Whiteness. Allen writes: "David Roediger's Wages of Whiteness, because of its almost universal acceptance for use in colleges and universities, has served as the single most effective instrument in the socially necessary consciousness-raising function of objectifying 'whiteness,' and in popularizing the 'race-as-a-social-construct' thesis. As one who has been the beneficiary of kind supportive comments from him for my own efforts in this field of historical investigation, I undertake this critical essay with no other purpose than furthering the our common aim of the disestablishment of white identity, and the overthrow of white supremacism in general."
- On to Ottawa Trek
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
In 1935, 1500 residents of federal unemployment relief camps in BC went on strike and moved by train and truck to Vancouver, spurred by angry concern for improved conditions and benefits in the camps. They then began a trek to Ottawa, but were stopped by police in Regina.
- On-to-Ottawa Trek
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A 1935 social movement of unemployed men protesting the dismal conditions in federal relief camps scattered in remote areas across Western Canada.
- One Big Union
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
In 1919 delegates from most union locals in western Canada met at the Western Labour Conference in Calgary and proclaimed support for the Bolshevik and other left-wing revolutions. They decided to conduct a referendum among Canadian union members on whether to secede from the American Federation of Labor and the trades and labour congress of Canada, and form a revolutionary industrial revolution to be called the One Big Union.
- Organizing Immigrant Labour
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Barriers to unionizing the smelter workers of Trail, British Columbia, during the Second World War.
- Oshawa Strike 1937
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
In 1937, more than 4000 workers if General Motors plant in Oshawa, Ontario, went on strike to fight for better wages and working conditions.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 26, 2015
Ukraine
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
Ukraine is spotlighted in this issue of Other Voices, with several articles on the events of the past year, from the overthrow of the government, to the rise of the far right, the armed conflict in the east, and aggressive US/NATO moves setting the stage for a possible nuclear war between the US and Russia. Also in this issue, #DomesticExtremists ridicule police state legislation in the UK, world inequality in one simple graphic, and people's history items about mass strikes in the First World War, and the new People's Archive of Rural India.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 10, 2015
Labour Day issue
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
Labour Day issue, with articles examining the relentless pressure put on workers to work ever longer hours, at the cost of their health and family life; anti-worker legislation, Zapatista popular education, and the Greek crisis.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 5, 2015
Ecosocialism, environment, and urban gardening
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
This issue of Other Voices covers a wide range of issues, from the climate crisis and the ecosocialist response, to terrorism and the struggle against religious fundamentalism, as well as items on urban gardening, the destruction of olive trees, and how the police are able to use Google's timeline feature to track you every move, now and years into the past.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 17, 2017
Collective Memory and Cultural Amnesia
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2017
Our society is obsessed with the short-term present. It devalues memory and the past. But there are those who do remember, and who work to preserve and share our collective memory. But they have to contend with those of us who see historical memory as a way of contributing to the struggle for a different world. For us, knowledge of history is subversive, and remembering can be a form of resistance.
- The People's Point of View: The Toronto Workers' History Project
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2020
- Pig Iron Bob
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2015
On the 75th anniversary of the Dalfram Dispute in Australia, reenactments capture the waterside dispute where 180 men prevented pig iron being loaded onto ships bound for the Japanese war machine.
- Plunderbund and Proletariat
A History of the IWW in B.C.
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
A history of working class struggle from the workers' perspective.
- 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.
- Preface to Martin Glaberman's Four Essays on the Working Class
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1975
Glaberman insists that the working class is not merely a victim of capitalism. Working people are active participants in creating their own consciousness, their methods of struggle and their own history.
- La Presse Strike
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Two days later, the 3 main Union Centrals defied a municipal ban to organize a huge march in solidarity with the newspaper workers. More than 12 000 people clashed with 100 Montréal policemen. The outcome was some 50 arrests, several dozen injuries and one death from natural causes.
- Primitive Rebels
Studies in Archaic Forms of Social Movement in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1965
A study of 'primitive' or 'archaic' forms of social agitation.
- Pullman Strike
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A nationwide conflict between labour unions and railroads that occurred in the United States in 1894.
- Québec Shoe Workers' Lockout
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
A lockout of Quebec shoe workers in 1900.
- Radical America - Volume 7, Number 4-5
Volume 7, Numbers 4 & 5 - Women's Labor
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1973
- Raising the Workers' Flag
The Workers' Unity League of Canada, 1930-1936
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
A history of the Workers' Unity League, the Canadian affiliate of the Communist Red International of Labour 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.
- Rebel Rank and File
Labor Militancy and Revolt from Below During the Long 1970s
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2010
A collection of essays that concentrate on struggles by American workers at the workplace and the political and economic context in which they took place.
- Red Clydeside
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A term used to describe the era of political radicalism that characterised the city of Glasgow in Scotland, and urban areas around the city on the banks of the River Clyde such as Clydebank, Greenock and Paisley.
- Reflections on the Revolution in France: 1968
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
In May 1968 France was on the threshold of something entirely new. In this 'pre-revolutionary situation' nothing went unquestioned. The writers, trade unionists and students who contribute to this volume all believe our future is foreshadowed in the events of May. And they explain why, after this shock to a regime of seemingly impregnable strength, things can never be the same again.
- Remembering Another Occupy
Anniversary of the 1937 Sit-Down Strike Wave
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
- Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2014
A book on the Teamster's strike of 1934.
- The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
- 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."
- Scargill, Arthur
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
British trade unionist and political party leader. (Born 1938).
- Seeds of Fire
A People's Chronology
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Recalling events that happened on this day in history. Memories of struggle, resistance and persistence.
- Seeds of Fire - January 2
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Silvertown
The Lost Story of a Strike That Shook London and Helped Launch the Modern Labor Movement
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2014
In 1889, Samuel Winkworth Silver's rubber and electrical factory was the site of a massive worker revolt. The factory was notorious for oppressive working conditions and its largely unorganized, unskilled workers. Eventually they aligned themselves with the socialist-led "New Unionism" movement. This book narrates those events.
- Slaughterhouse Fight: A Look at the Hormel Strike
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1986
- Spontaneity and Organization: Some Comments
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
A contribution to a symposium on Jeremy Brecher's book Strike!
- Stayin' Alive
The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2009
A social and cultural history of the 1970s in the United States.
- Steel strike of 1952
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A strike by the United Steelworkers of America against U.S. Steel and nine other steelmakers.
- 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.
- The strike that led to Tahir Square
An act of courage that launched a revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Labour struggles at Egypt's largest cotton mill, starting in 2006, laid the groundwork for the revolution of 2011.
- Strikes and Lockouts
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
A strike is the withholding of labour by workers in order to obtain better working conditions; such withholding of labour is generally accompanied by demonstrations, such as picketing, parades, meetings. A lockout is the opposite, being the temporary shutdown of a business by an employer to compel employees to accept certain conditions.
- 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).
- Sweat and Struggle
Working Class Struggles In Canada 1789 - 1899
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
- Syndicalism
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
- The Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives
Resource Type: Website
The Tamiment Library contains some of the most important collections in the United States relating to labor and social history [labor collections], the history of the Left, the place of the worker in American society, the evolution of labor law, women's history, immigrant history, and much more.
- Thompson, E. P.
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
English historian, writer, socialist and peace campaigner (1924-1993).
- Thompson, E.P. - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of E.P. Thompson (1924-1993).
- Toronto's Poor
A Rebellious History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2916
Toronto’s Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people’s resistance. It details how the homeless, the unemployed, and the destitute have struggled to survive and secure food and shelter in the wake of the many panics, downturns, recessions, and depressions that punctuate the years from the 1830s to the present.
- Union busting
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A wide range of activities undertaken by employers, their proxies, and governments, which hinder workers from freely organizing, joining and maintaining trade unions.
- UK miners' strike (1984 - 1985)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1985
A major industrial action affecting the British coal industry.
- Uprising of 1953 in East Germany
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A widespread uprising against the Stalinist German Democratic Republic government.
- Vancouver Island Coal Strike
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
A strike that began in September 1912 when miners at declared a holiday to protest the firing of a worker.
- The Wages of Whiteness is Early Death
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The white working class has never had it easy in American history. It's been viciously exploited, disrespected, deceived, divided, repressed, and otherwise and generally abused from the United States' colonial origins through the present day.
- We're Going to Run This City
Winnipeg's Political left after the General Strike
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
Explores the dynamic municipal politics thqt came out of the largest labour protest in Canadian history and the ramifications for Winnipeg throughout the 1920s and 1930s.
- West Coast Longshore Strikes, 1923 and 1935
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Strikes by members of the International Longshoremen's Association.
- Western Federation of Miners
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Radical labor union that gained a reputation for militancy in the mines of the western United States and British Columbia.
- Who's Afraid of the White Working Class?: On Joan C. Williams's 'White Working Class: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America'
Book Review
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
A book review on White Working Class Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America (Written By Joan C. Williams).
- Windsor Strike 1945
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Windsor Strike, 12 Sept-20 Dec 1945, at the WINDSOR, Ont, plant of Ford Motor Co. There was really only one strike issue at Ford: union recognition. The united automobile workers demanded it; the company refused to grant it.
- Winnipeg General Strike
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 was one of the most influential strikes in Canadian history, and became the platform for future labour reforms. In March 1919 labour delegates from across Western Canada convened in Calgary to form a branch of the "One Big Union", with the intention of earning rights for Canadian workers through a series of strikes.
- Winnipeg General Strike
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
In Winnipeg on May 15, when negotiations broke down between management and labour in the building and metal trades, the Winnipeg Trades and Labor Council called a general strike.
- Winnipeg's Red Scare
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2007
An account of the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919.
- Wobblies!: A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
The stories of the hard-rock miners’ shooting wars, Elizabeth Gurly Flynn (the “Rebel Girl”), the first sit-down strikes and Free Speech fights, Emma Goldman and the struggle for birth control access, bohemian radicals John Reed and Louise Bryant, field-hand revolts and lumber workers’ strikes, wartime witch hunts, government prosecutions and mob lynching, Mexican-American uprisings in Baja, and Mexican peasant revolts led by Wobblies, hilarious and sentimental songs created and later revived—all are here, and much more.
- Women at Work - Ontario, 1850- 1930
Resource Type: Book
- 'Women's Day' February 1913
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1917
The article by Alexandra Kollontai was first published in the newspaper Pravda one week before the first-ever celebration in Russia of the Day of International Solidarity among the Female Proletariat on 23 February (8 March), 1913.
- Women's Labour Leagues (Canada)
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
Women's Labour Leagues emerged in Canada prior to WWI. Their purpose was to defend the struggles of women workers and support the labour movement.
- 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 Power and the Spanish Revolution
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
- Workers Unity League
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
A national trade union federation that was formed in 1929 on the initiative of the Communist Party of Canada in line with the decision of the Communist International (Comintern) in 1928 that communists break with their previous policy of working inside existing labour parties and labour unions to push for more militant stances.
- Working Class Communism
A Review of the Literature
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1971
- Working Class Experience
Rethinking the History of Canadian Labour, 1800-1991
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
From nineteenth-century tavern life to late twentieth-century cinema, from rough canallers and the first stirrings of craft unionism to contemporary public-sector strikes, this books provides a sweeping interpretive study of the history of the Canadian working class since 1800.
- 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 Class Toronto at the Turn of the Century
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- Working People
An Illustrated History of Canadian Labour
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1980
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