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  1. The Captive Labour Force on Non-English Speaking Immigrant Women
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1980
    An article focusing on the 'invisible work' that non-English speaking immigrant women, in particular, have done and continue to do.
  2. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 4 - September 1979 - Food/La Nourriture

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
  3. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
  4. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
  5. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 1 - Spring 1984 - Energy - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
  6. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
  7. Connexions
    Volume 10, Number 1 - Spring 1986 - The Arts and Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1986
  8. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
  9. Filipino Maids for Export
    'Always be Punctual and Don't Count the Work You are Doing'

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Twelve percent of the Philippines’ GDP comes as remittances from nationals abroad. Many of those are maids, sent all over the world into domestic service to support their children back home. The Philippines government is even training them in servitude.
  10. Organizing with Love: Lessons from the New York Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Campaign
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Great organizing campaigns are like great love affairs. You begin to see life through a different lens. You change in unexpected ways. You lose sleep, but you also feel boundless energy. You develop new relationships and new interests. Your skin becomes more open to the world around you. Life feels different, and it’s almost like you’ve been reborn. And, most importantly, you begin to feel things that you previously couldn’t have even imagined are possible.
  11. 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.
  12. The Socialist Register 1983
    Volume 20: A Survey of Movements & Ideas

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1983
  13. The Triple Oppression Of Immigrant Working Women
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
  14. Victimizing Domestic Workers
    The Last Post, vol. 6, no. 6

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1978
    This article chronicles the struggle of domestic immigrant women to Montreal.
  15. Wages for Housework
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1988
    'If women were paid for all they do, there'd be a lot of wages due', sang women campaigners in the 1970s. But demanding money for unpaid domestic work is a sad indictment of the Women's Movement, argues Zoë Fairbairns - because it demonstrates that feminists have lost the battle to force men to do their share of the cleaning.
  16. Women at Work - Ontario, 1850- 1930
    Resource Type: Book
  17. Women Workers In The Home
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1981
    The Vancouver Status of Women has put together a special "speaking package."
  18. 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.

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