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  1. At Work In the Fields of the Bomb
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    A collection of photographs, interviews and comments aimed at making the secretive nuclear arms industry visible to the general public.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. The City in History
    Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1961
    Beginning with an interpretation of the origin and nature of the city, Mumford follows the city's development from Egypt and Mesopotamia through Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages to the modern world.
  5. Communitas
    Means of Livelihood and Ways of Life

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1960
    Visions of urban life.
  6. The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg, Volume I
    Economic Writings 1

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2013
    This first volume in Rosa Luxemburg's Complete Works, entitled Economic Writings 1, contains some of Luxemburg's most important statements on the globalization of capital, wage labour, imperialism, and pre-capitalist economic formations.
  7. European Labour History Network - working group on Factory History
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The founding meeting of the ELHN took place at the International Institute of Social History (IISH) on 12 October 2013. The forty scholars who gathered in Amsterdam, belonging to research institutions, archives and journals based in various European countries, felt the need to increase the cooperation among labour history scholars, share knowledge and (digital) material, create a platform for future collective research, and organize conferences and seminars.
  8. 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.
  9. Just Another Car Factory?
    Lean Production and Its Discontents

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
  10. Life in the Factory
    Resource Type: Article
    This pamphlet concerns itself with the life of the working class in the process of production. and seeks to understand what the workers are thinking and doing while actually at work on the bench or on the line. Romano, himself a factory worker, has contributed greatly to such an understanding by his description, based upon years of study and observation, of the life of workers in modern mass production.
  11. Man's Worldly Goods
    The Story of the Wealth of Nations

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    Huberman sets out to explain history using economic theory, and to explain economic theory using history. He tries to explain, in terms of the development of economic thought, why certain doctrines arose when they did, how they originated in the very fabric of social life, and how they were developed, modified, and overthrown when the pattern of that fabric was changed.
  12. Mastering the Machine
    Poverty, Aid and Technology

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
  13. The Newsletter #4
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1974
  14. 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.
  15. Schule und Fabrik
    Internationale Marxistische Discussion 30

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
  16. The Socialist Register 1989
    Volume 25: Revolution Today. Aspirations and Realities

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
  17. Sweat and Struggle
    Working Class Struggles In Canada 1789 - 1899

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
  18. Technics and Civilization
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1963
    A history of the machine and a critical study of its effects on civilization.


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