- African Journalists leaders summit outlines strategies to roll back impunity and defend journalists' rights
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Leaders of the Federation of African Journalists have condemned at their biannual meeting in Djibouti on June 23rd, the unsafe and precarious working conditions of journalists in Africa.
- Alternative Press Annual 1983, The
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
- The Anxious Worker
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The author looks at the contemporary conditions of work and examines how these give rise to anxiety and depression.
- AMCTO - Association of Municipal Managers, Clerks and Treasurers of Ontario
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 2 - July 1976
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1976
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 3 - September 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- 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.
- 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.
- Collective Bargaining Course Book
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
- 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.
- 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.
- Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Emergence of the Canadian Working Class Movement
1845-1875
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
- 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.
- False Promises
The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
- Fishers and Plunderers
Theft, Slavery and Violence at Sea
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
Fishers and Plunderers focuses on the exploitation of fish and fishers alike in a global industry that gives little consideration to either conservation or human rights. In a business characterized by overprovisioned vessels and shortages of fish, young men are routinely trafficked from poor areas onto fishing boats to work under conditions of virtual slavery. Poverty and debt push many towards piracy and drugs -- although the criminality linked to the industry extends far beyond any individual worker, vessel, or fleet. Fishers and Plunderers provides strong evidence of industry-wide crimes and injustices and argues for regulations that protect the rights of fishers across the board.
- Focus Shifts to Trafficking of Men in Europe
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The public perception is that human trafficking victims are all vulnerable females forced into prostitution and sexual slavery. But this is not the case. It does not occur to many people that trafficking is much broader on its scale, and that it affects a sizeable amount of men.
- 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.
- India : The United Tea Workers Front (UTWF) launched to break a vicious circle of poverty
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The United Tea Workers Front (UTWF) has been launched, primarily to raise the issue of a living wages and related matters in the forthcoming wage negotiations in North Bengal.
- Informal Labour, Another Wall Faced by Migrants in Latin America
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
A large proportion of the 4.3 million migrant workers in Latin America and the Caribbean survive by working in the informal economy or in irregular conditions. An invisible wall that is necessary to bring down, together with discrimination and xenophobia.
- Just a Matter of Gloves
Resource Type: Article
An account of a work stoppage over the issue of gloves being supplied in a factory.
- The Making of Jericho Road
Against The Current vol. 132
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
An interview with Michael Honey. The paperback edition of Michael Honey’s Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign is released this January 2008.
- The Meaning of Socialism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1969
Paul Cardan's 1961 discussion of modern conceptions of socialism, and the future of socialist movements.
- Migrant Workers Fight Exploitation in New Zealand
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Unite Union has dealt with several cases of extreme exploitation of migrant workers. It seems that some of the liquor shops around Auckland have been employing students from India and paying a pittance four or five dollars an hour, well below the legal minimum of $13.75 an hour.
- Mineworkers of Guyana
The Making of a Working Class
Resource Type: Book
Written by a former worker who himself grew up on Alcan's Plantation Mackenzie bauxite mine in Guyana, this is a readable account of the life and history of a Third World working class. It throws new light on the constantly recurring themes of company exploitation, trade union democracy, and the limits of nationalization in transforming management-worker relations.
- The Newsletter #4
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1974
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
Ransom suggests that fair, environmentally-conscious trade is not only a viable alternative to unfair free trade, but that it is the way of the future.
- 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.
- 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.
- PBS's Red Metal: The Copper Country Strike of 1913 commemorates Michigan's bitter labor past
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
One hundred years ago, a major strike by copper miners was continuing in the Keweenaw Peninsula, which protrudes into Lake Superior in northern Michigan. In the middle of the months-long battle against intransigent mine owners, at least 73 people, mostly children, were killed in a horrific incident at a celebration on Christmas Eve in 1913.
- Pilbara strike of 1946
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A strike by Indigenous Australian pastoral workers in the Pilbara region of Western Australia for human rights recognition and payment of fair wages and working conditions.
- Playing Chicken: Discovering a Diverse Working Class in Trump Country
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Since the election of 2016, much has been written about rural working-class voters who helped elect Donald J. Trump to the presidency. Most of those stories have assumed that the rural working class is overwhelmingly white. But if we look at one of the most significant parts of the rural economy – the poultry industry – we get a different picture. Not only do we see more workers of color, we also see more exploitation and greater potential for resistance.
- The Politics of Food and Poverty
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The global food crisis is tightly connected to global poverty, climate change, ecological destruction, migrant workers, imperialism, health and the super-exploitation of workers.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- The Road to Wigan Pier
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1937
George Orwell's investigation of an English working class community in the 1930s.
- Tomato pickers win higher pay. Can other workers use their strategy?
Florida's tomato pickers took on some of the country's biggest retailers and fast-food chains - and won, transforming working conditions in
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Tactics like this protest outside Wendy's, repeated in cities across the country, have helped make the Coalition of Immokalee Workers one of the most successful worker organizations in the country. By applying pressure to corporations at the top of the supply chain, the big retailers and fast-food chains that buy tomatoes, the CIW has helped tens of thousands of mostly Hispanic immigrant workers who pick the bulk of the nation’s winter tomato crop.
- The Trade Union Movement of Canada, 1827-1959
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1968
An account of trade union evolution as a whole for the period 1827-1959, as well as an ouline of continuing sphere's of Labour's effort, such as organization of the unorganized, the fight for better conditions, legislative and political action, peace and Canadian independence.
- 'We are not from another planet': Justice 4 Cleaners campaign and the struggle for recognition
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The ongoing struggle of the SOAS Cleaners for acceptable working conditions and equality in the workplace.
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