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  1. The Accumulation of Capital
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1913
    Rosa Luxemburg's analysis of the inherent contradictions of capitalist accumulation.
  2. Against the Tide
    The Story of the Canadian Seaman's Union

    Resource Type: Book
  3. 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.
  4. All That Our Hands Have Done
    A Pictorial History of Hamilton Workers

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1981
    The story of working people in Hamilton's steel industry.
  5. American Communism and Soviet Russia
    The Formative Period

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
    A history of the formative peirod of the American Communist Party.
  6. 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.
  7. The American Working Class in Historical Persepctive
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1973
    A review of Jeremy Brecher's Strike! (See CX6590)
  8. 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
  9. Arizona Copper Mine Strike of 1983
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1983
    Dispute between the Phelps Dodge Corporation and a unionized copper miners.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. Brother Max
    Labour Organizer and Educator

    Resource Type: Book
    Max Swerdlow outlines his work beginning in Depression-era Winnipeg, leading to his involvement with the International Labour Organization.
  13. The Bund (General Jewish Labour Bund)
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    A secular Jewish socialist party in Central and Eastern Europe operating predominantly between the 1890s and the 1930s.
  14. Bureaucratic mass strikes: A response to Mark O'Brien
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The mass strike of 30 November 2011 (N30) was the broadest and biggest ever British public sector strike and involved the largest number of women workers in any British strike. Dave Lyddon comments.
  15. Can the Working Class Change the World?
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2018
    A look at how the working class and its allies can oppose capitalism to bring radical change.
  16. Canada: The Communist Viewpoint
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1948
    Tim Buck, the national leader of the Labor-Progressive Party, sets out the Communist position on the big questions of Canada's destiny.
  17. Canadian Books on Labour
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
  18. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 2 - July 1976

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1976
  19. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 1 - February 1978

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  20. Canadian Labour in Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    A historical study of the relationship between the labour movement and the social democratic party in Canada, as that relationship developed since the birth of modern industrial unionism.
  21. The Canadian Labour Movement
    A Short History

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  22. The Canadian Left
    A Critical Analysis

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
    The main focus of the book is the emergence and development of Canadian socialist thought. Penner examines the origins of the Communist Party of Canada and its ideological base and the beginings and development of the CCF-NDP.
  23. The Canso Strait Fisherman's Strike, 1970-71
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
    An account of the 1970-71 strike of Nova Scotia fishermen, after two large fisheries refused to recognize their newly formed union.
  24. 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.
  25. 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.
  26. 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.
  27. La Causa
    The California Grape Strike

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    A documentary of the California grape workers' strike.
  28. Le Centre d'histoire et d'archives du travail
    Resource Type: Organization
    Le Centre d'histoire et d'archives du travail (CHAT) se consacre à la préservation de la mémoire des syndicats québécois, menacée en l'absence d'une intervention concertée. Il a pour mission de sensibiliser et de soutenir les syndicats dans la conservation et le traitement de leurs archives.
    Le CHAT veut sauvegarder les témoignages documentaires portant sur les luttes livrées par les syndicats pour bonifier les conditions de travail. Il vise à intéresser les chercheurs au monde du travail et au syndicalisme et à rendre l'histoire disponible pour la relève syndicale.
    En opération depuis janvier 2014, le CHAT s'active à collecter, traiter, conserver et mettre à la disposition du public des fonds d'archives de syndicats, d'organismes et d'individus concernés par le monde du travail.
    Le CHAT est composé d'un rassemblement de militants-es représentatifs des organisations québécoises du monde du travail et de chercheurs-es engagés-es dans l'histoire des travailleurs-ses.
  29. A Century of Meatpacking Unionism - Book Reviews
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1998
  30. Cesar Chavez, the United Farm Workers, and the Question of Unions in Contemporary Capitalism
    Review of Frank Bardacke, Trampling Out The Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Bardacke tells the story of one movement’s evolution from grassroots obscurity to such (relatively little-known) successes as the Salinas Valley (California) general strike of lettuce pickers in 1979—a veritable mass strike in Rosa Luxemburg’s sense—and from there to the collapsed shell of a union nonetheless administering fourteen non-profits with millions in assets.
  31. 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).
  32. 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.
  33. A Class Act
    An Illustrated History of the Labour Movement in Newfoundland and Labrador

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
    Gillespie records the men and women who struggled within an economic system they did not control to improve the lives of their families and their class.
  34. Class and Colour in South Africa 1850-1950
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    A historical and sociological overview which provides a critical analysis of the Labour and National movements in South Africa and explores how and why the white working class traded its socialist principles for a share of white power. Also examines the interactions between the two wings of the resistance against white domination.
  35. 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.
  36. 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.
  37. The Common Front and Quebec Teachers
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1972
    This article follows up Jules LeBlanc's piece in the last issue - "Becoming Political: The Growth of the Quebec Teachers' Union".
    Published in This Magazine is about Schools, Volume 6, Number 2, Summer 1972.
  38. A Communist Life
    Jack Scott and the Canadian Workers Movement, 1927-1985

    Resource Type: Book
    Jack Scott's experiences from joining the Communist Party of Canada to founding the Canada-China Friendship Association in the early 1960s.
  39. Confederation of Canadian Unions
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  40. Connexions
    Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  41. 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.
  42. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
  43. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
  44. Connexions Library: Labour and Unions Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on labour and unions.
  45. Connexions Library: Radical and Left History Focus Page
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2012
  46. 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.
  47. Critique of Syndicalist Methods
    Trade-Unionism to Anarcho-Syndicalism

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1998
    Bonanno's 1975 meditation on the means to be used in pursuit of the anarchist project. Emphasizes the utility of unions in propagating capitalist control of industry and agriculture.
  48. Destruction of Labor History Archives at Ruskin College, Oxford
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The archives of Ruskin College, pioneer institution of working-class education, have been partly destroyed, on the instructions of the college principal and despite protests and an offer from the Bishopsgate Institute to take everything.
  49. Docs Populi
    Documents for the public

    Resource Type: Website
    Dedicated to documenting and publishing oppositional artwork of the late 20th century.
  50. 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.
  51. Dreaming of What Might Be
    The Knights of Labor in Ontario, 1880-1900

    Resource Type: Book
    The Holy Order of Knights of Labour, based in Ontario, pressed for a more egalitarian society by unifying industrial workers.
  52. The Emergence of the Canadian Working Class Movement
    1845-1875

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
  53. Engels, Manchester and the Working Class
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    An account and interpretation of the writing of Friedrich Engels' first major work, The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844.
  54. Essays in Canadian Working Class History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
  55. Eugene V. Debs Speaks
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
  56. 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.
  57. European Labour History Network - Working Group on Feminist Labour 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.
  58. An Experiment in Democracy - Book Review
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1999
    Organizing Dissent: Unions, the State, and the Democratic Teachers' Movement in Mexico by Maria Lorena Cook. (University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996). Photographs, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. 359 pages. Hardback: $55, paperback $19.95.
  59. 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.
  60. False Promises
    The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  61. 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.
  62. 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.
  63. Frank & Ella Hatheway Labour Exhibit Centre
    Resource Type: Organization
    The Labour Exhibit Centre was opened in 2007 with the purpose of displaying workers memorabilia and preserving, promoting and honoring the rich and long history of workers in Saint John. The Centre is more than a museum; its mission is to educate the public on the important role unions have played in the building of our city and the contribution that unions continue to make to the quality of the life we enjoy.
  64. Goodwin, Albert (Ginger)
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Canadian labour leader. (1887-1918)
  65. The Great Flint Sit-Down Strike Against G.M. 1936-37
    How Industrial Unionism was Won

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1967
    A history of the Flint strike (1936-1937).
  66. 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".
  67. 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).
  68. 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.
  69. Hogtown
    Working Class Toronto at the Turn of the Century

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
  70. Homestead Steel Mill - the Final Ten Years
    USWA Local 1397 and the Fight for Union Democracy

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2020
  71. How British Labor Declined: Cowley from the Inside - Book Review
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1998
    Inside Cowley: Trade Union Struggle in the 1970s by Alan Thornett (London: Porcupine Press, 1998) 407 pages, $20 paperback.*
  72. How Greens and Labor can Win ... Together
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    A review of Green Bans, Red Union: Environmental Activists and the New South Wales Labourers Federation by Meredith and Verity Burgmann (UNSW Press, 1998).
  73. 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).
  74. 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).
  75. An Illustrated History of Canadian Labour 1800-1945
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1978
  76. Imperialism, Nationalism, and Canada.
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
    Interpretations of Canada's status in the system of world imperialism and the internal dynamics of class, race, and region within the Canadian national state.
  77. 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.
  78. An Injury to One Is An Injury to All: The History of Trade Unionism in South Africa
    The History of Trade Unionism in South Africa

    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 1978
  79. 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.
  80. The Italian Factory Occupations of 1920
    When 600,000 workers seized control of their workplaces

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1988
    During the month of September, 1920, a widespread occupation of Italian factories by their workforces took place, which originated in the auto factories, steel mills and machine tool plants of the metal sector but spread out into many other industries: cotton mills and hosiery firms, lignite mines, tire factories, breweries and distilleries, and steamships and warehouses in the port towns. But this was not a sit-down strike; the workers continued production with their own in-plant organization. And railway workers, in open defiance of the management of the state-owned railways, shunted freight cars between the factories to enable production to continue. At its height about 600,000 workers were involved.
  81. 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.
  82. Jewish Labour Committee
    Connexipedia: Article on HistoryofRights.com

    Resource Type: Article
    Formed in 1936, the JLC was a front runner in the push for anti-discrimination legislation in Ontario.
  83. 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.
  84. Knights of Labor
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia

    Resource Type: Article
    The major labour reform organization of the late 19th century in the United States.
  85. 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.
  86. Labour in Newfoundland
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  87. Labour Left Out
    Canada's Failure to Protect and Promote Collective Bargaining as a Human Right

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
  88. Labour Martyr: Joe Hill
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    The story of the rebel songwriter and union activst Joe Hill, who was murdered by the state of Utah in 1915.
  89. Labour Songs
    Resource Type: Audio
    Published: 1991
    1950-1985.
  90. Labour Spies
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Labor spies are persons recruited or employed for the purpose of gathering intelligence, committing sabotage, sowing dissent, or engaging in other similar activities, typically within the context of an employer/labor organization relationship. Labor spying is most typically used by companies or their agents, and such activity often complements union busting.
  91. Labour Studies Index
    Resource Type: Database
    The Labour Studies Index is a searchable open-access index of recent publications in Canadian labour studies. It covers books, book chapters, journal articles, reviews, commissioned reports, and theses. As of October 2016, the Index offers 6534 citations of journal articles, books, book chapters, theses, and other literature.
  92. The Labor Wars
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    A survey of landmark events in the U.S. labour movement.
  93. 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.
  94. Leadville Colorado, Miners' Strike
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Occurred as a result of rapid industrialization and consolidation of the mining industry.
  95. League of Revolutionary Black Workers
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
  96. Lectures in Canadian Labour and Working-Class History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
    This volume presents lectures in 1983 and 1984 on the history of the Canadian working class.
  97. Manoir Richelieu Dispute
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia

    Resource Type: Article
    Few labour disputes have included such dramatic developments as the eventful Manoir Richelieu conflict, which shook Quebec in December 1985 when the Parti Québécois government sold the property, a renowned tourism heritage site, to businessman Raymond Malenfant for $555 555.55.The new owner maintained that he had purchased only a building and was not bound through the transaction by any obligation to the union or the existing collective bargaining agreement.
  98. 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.
  99. Marxism vs. Anarchism Part 5
    From 1848 to the Bolshevik Revolution

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1996
    Seymour analyzes the syndicalist movements - which emphasized that the main obstacle to social revolution lay in the organizational weakness of the anarchist movement and the disorganization of the working class in general - that preceded World War I.
  100. 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.
  101. Marxists Internet Archive
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
  102. 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."
  103. Memory as Resistance: Grassroots Archives and the Battle of Memory
    Preservation as subversion: Do grassroots archives have a future?

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    CONNEXIONS and Beit Zatoun are spotlighting grassroots archives this November with an open house and networking event November 24, a talk and discussion November 27, and an exhibit (November 16-27). Grassroots archives play a valuable role in what has been called “the battle of memory”. Mainstream media and institutions of power consign inconvenient histories, struggles, and alternative visions to what George Orwell called “the memory hole.” People’s history projects such as grassroots archives preserve and share stories of resistance, hidden histories, and alternative visions. Their role is particularly important as official archives are forced to restrict acquisitions, limit access and discard materials as funding is slashed.
  104. 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.
  105. Mining History Written in Blood
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Domestic coal mining history above and below ground lives on the pages of Written in Blood: Courage and Corruption in the Appalachian War of Extraction edited by Wess Harris (PM Press, 2017). The anthology unpacks the industry, people and communities of a coal-rich region, amplifying relevant class and gender issues over a century.
  106. Murdered by Capitalism
    A Memoir of 150 Years of Life & Death on the American Left

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    Much of this book is in the form of a fictional dialogue between two radicals discussing the political events of both of their lifetimes.
  107. My Past is Now
    Further Memoirs of a Labour Lawyer

    Resource Type: Book
    This account begins with Stanton's childhood, leading to cases such as his defence of Fergus McKean, and a Cold War libel suit in BC.
  108. Nationalism, Communism and Canadian Labour
    The CIO, The Communist Party, and the Canadian Congress of Labour 1935-1956

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    A history of the Canadian Congress of Labour and of the CIO in Canada from the 1930s to the 1950s. The author raises many significant questions concerning the presence of American unions in Canada and the crucial role played by the Communist party in the history of the Canadian labour movement.
  109. Never Neutral
    On Labour History/Radical History

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
  110. 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.
  111. 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.
  112. New Hogtown Press - Spanish Wikipedia Article
    Wikipedia article - Spanish

    Resource Type: Article
  113. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
  114. 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.
  115. Nine-Hour Movement
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia

    Resource Type: Article
    Was an international workers' attempt to secure shorter working days.
  116. The Nine-Hour Movement
    How civil disobedience made unions legal

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    From today’s strike-first strategy of fast food workers in America, to the 1965 postal workers wildcat which ushered in public sector collective bargaining, civil disobedience has long been essential to breaking through legal barriers imposed on workers. The birth of Canada's labour movement was during a movement of mass civil disobedience in attempt to secure the nine hour workday.
  117. Ninety-Nine Days
    The Ford Strike in Windsor, 1945

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
  118. No Power Greater
    A Century of Labour in British Columbia

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
  119. Notebook of an Agitator
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    Over 100 articles from the pen of an active participant in the events of thirty years of labor history. Cannon covers the campaigns to save Sacco and Vanzetti, the historic strikes of the 1930s, the Korean War, mcCarthyism, and prize fighting, movies, and the Catholic Church.
  120. The Oakland General Strike of 1946
    Resource Type: Article
    An account of the General Strike in Oakland, California.
  121. Organizing Immigrant Labour
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Barriers to unionizing the smelter workers of Trail, British Columbia, during the Second World War.
  122. The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
  123. The Origins of the Union Shop
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1989
    Though the typical union contract nowadays contains some sort of union shop provision, union membership was voluntary under almost all CIO contracts prior to 1942. The dues "check off" was virtually unknown in the late '30s and dues were collected on the shop floor by shop stewards and committeemen.
  124. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 5, 2015
    Residential schools

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    This issue of Other Voices focuses on residential schools. As documented by the just-released report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, residential schools were set up to forcibly 'assimilate' Native children by taking them away from their parents and communities, and depriving them of their language, culture, history, and emotional supports. Based as they were on a system of arbitrary power and cruelty, it is not surprising that they also fostered physical and sexual abuse of the children forced into the schools. We spotlight the report and the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, as well as films, books, and survivor stories. Also in this issue: the Orwellian language and tactics being used to sell 'anti-terrorist' legislation, mind-boggling subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, and, on the other side of the ledger, stories of courage and resistance.
  125. 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.
  126. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 21, 2015
    Climate Change and Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2015
    This issue of Other Voices spotlights climate change, the escalating crisis that the upcoming Paris climate conference is supposed to address. But climate change is not a single problem: it is a product of an economic system whose driving force is the need to grow and accumulate. Nor does it affect everyone equally: those with wealth and power can buy themselves what they need to continue living comfortably for years to come - everything from air conditioning to food to police and soldiers to protect their secure bubbles - while those who are poor and powerless find their lives increasingly impossible. A serious effort to address climate change therefore means social change and economic change.
  127. Otto Rühle and the German Labour Movement
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1935
  128. Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2014
  129. Pain on Their Faces
    Testimonies on the Paper Mill Strike, Jay, Manie, 1987-1988

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
    An accourt of an epic struggle by workers and their community against a powerful and aggressive corporation -- a strike by 1,250 workers against the International Paper Company in Jay, Maine, in 1987-88. Over 40- testimonies by strikers and their supporters explain in their own words the significance of this struggle for themselves, their families, their community and future generations.
  130. Parent, Madeleine
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada

    Resource Type: Article
    Trade unionist. (Born 1918).
  131. A People's History of the United States
    1492 - Present

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    Zinn's history includes those most ignored by typical American textbook history, including Indians, blacks, women and workers.
  132. A People's History of the World
    From the Stone Age to the New Millennium

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
  133. 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.
  134. Pocket History of the British Working Class
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1964
    A brief history of the British working class.
  135. Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    A United States trade union which operated from 1968 until its decertification in 1981 following a strike which was broken by the Reagan Administration.
  136. Pullman Strike
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    A nationwide conflict between labour unions and railroads that occurred in the United States in 1894.
  137. The Quebec general strike 1972
    Resource Type: Article
    The story of one of the largest working class rebellions in American history. 300,000 workers participated in North America's largest general strike to that date, radio stations were seized, factories were occupied, and entire towns were brought under workers' control, and it won important gains.
  138. Queer Activism in the Labor Movement
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Smith's review of a book published on the history of LGBT activisim within the labour movement.
  139. Radical America - Volume 6 Number 5
    Special Issue: Quebec

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1972
    An analysis of the Quebec general strike of 1972 and its roots in Quebec history.
  140. Radical America - Volume 7, Number 4-5
    Volume 7, Numbers 4 & 5 - Women's Labor

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1973
  141. Radical Rag
    The pioneer labour press in Canada

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
  142. 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.
  143. Rank and File
    Personal Histories of Working Class Organizers

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    A collection of stories and recollections from labour movement organizers.
  144. R.C.M.P. Security Bulletins
    The War Series, Part II, 1942-1945

    Resource Type: Book
    This volume completes the series of Security Bulletins for World War II, discussing security concerns and underlying ideology of the Secret Service.
  145. R.C.M.P. Security Bulletins
    The Depression Years, Part I, 1933-1934

    Resource Type: Book
    This volume begins a series on the Depression years, discussing security concerns and the underlying ideology of the Secret Service.
  146. R.C.M.P. Security Bulletins
    The Early Years, 1919-1929

    Resource Type: Book
    This volume contains materials received through the Canadian Access to Information legislation, providing an overview of the genesis of the RCMP.
  147. R.C.M.P. Security Bulletins
    The War Series, 1939-1941

    Resource Type: Book
    It contains reports the RCMP issued to government of "subversive" activity, now held by CSIS. It covers a time when the CPC was illegal.
  148. R.C.M.P. Security Bulletins
    The Depression Years, Part II, 1935

    Resource Type: Book
    This fully-indexed volume documents the RCMP's surveillance of the CPC, unions, and unemployed organizations, with coverage of the 1935 election.
  149. Rebels, Reds, Radicals
    Rethinking Canada's Left History

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    McKay looks at the history of the left in Canada as a series of experiments in "living otherwise" -- efforts to work out ways of life and thought strategically opposed to the prevailing liberal-capitalist order.
  150. 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.
  151. Rediscovering Radical History
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    This essay studies the early days of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour History Society (ASSLH).
  152. Rediscovering Two Labor Intellectuals
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2004
    Steve Early reviews collections of writings by Martin Glaberman and Stain Weir.
  153. Remembering Another Occupy
    Anniversary of the 1937 Sit-Down Strike Wave

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
  154. Revolutionary Politics and the Cuban Working Class
    Torchbook Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    A study of Cuban workers after consolidation of the Castro regime.
  155. Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2014
    A book on the Teamster's strike of 1934.
  156. The Rise and Fall of the Toronto Typographical Union 1832 - 1972
    A Case Study of Foreign Domination

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
  157. The Road to Wigan Pier
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1937
    George Orwell's investigation of an English working class community in the 1930s.
  158. 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."
  159. Scargill, Arthur
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    British trade unionist and political party leader. (Born 1938).
  160. 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.
  161. Seeds of Fire - January 2
    Resource Type: Unclassified
  162. A Short History of Liberal Myths and Anti-Labor Politics
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    A history of how labour and working-class groups have been alienated or disserviced by the major US political parties, particularly by liberal policies which are primarily aligned with business interests.
  163. 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.
  164. Slaughterhouse Fight: A Look at the Hormel Strike
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1986
  165. Social History Portal
    Resource Type: Website
    Search and browse digital collections on social history and the history of the labour movement from the late 18th to the beginning of the 21st century. More than 900,000 digitised objects (archives, books, brochures, leaflets, photographs, posters, prints, cartoons, sound, films and videos) from 15 specialized archives and libraries in Europe.
  166. Social and Labour History News
    Resource Type: Website
    Recent new from the field of social and labour history.
  167. Socialist and Labor Songs
    An International Revolutionary Songbook

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2014
    Seventy-seven songs -- with words and sheet music -- of solidarity, revolt, humor, and revolution.
  168. Spontaneity and Organization: Some Comments
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1973
    A contribution to a symposium on Jeremy Brecher's book Strike!
  169. Steel Strike
    Hamilton 1946

    Resource Type: Book
  170. 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.
  171. 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.
  172. 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).
  173. Studies in the Development of Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    A Marxist interpretation of economic development in the period of modern capitalism. Starting with the decline of serfdom, the book deals with the beginnings of the bourgeoisie in the rising urban communities of Europe, with the growth of industrial investment, and with monopoloy in its various forms as a crucial instrument in the growth of capitalism.
  174. Sweat and Struggle
    Working Class Struggles In Canada 1789 - 1899

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
  175. 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.
  176. Teamsters and Cops
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Minneapolis teamsters in 1934 knew something we should remember -- police enforce the ruling class's unjust order.
  177. Ten of the best union songs of all time
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    From Woodie Guthrie to Buce Springsteen, ten great songs written about workers or the union movement.

  178. Textile workers strike (1934)
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    A strike involving 400,000 textile workers from New England, the Mid-Atlantic states and the U.S. Southern states.
  179. Thinking Union
    Activism and Education in Canada's Labour Movement

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Examining activism and education in Canadian labour, it's both a personal memoir and a guide to labour education. Martin explores and explains union culture, mergers and internal splits, the mechanics and dynamics of grassroots campaigns and the changes in Canadian unions over two turbulent decades.
  180. 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.
  181. A "Trot of the milder persuasion": Raymond Challinor's Marxism
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    This essay aims to give a sense of Challinor's creativity as a Marxist historian and political activist. It suggests that The Origins of British Bolshevism perhaps reveals some of the limitations of Challinor's own slightly abstract and propagandist model of what "Bolshevism" represented. But it also signifies his distinctive and outstanding contribution.
  182. UFCW: Strategy of Appeasement
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1986
  183. Uncommon People
    Resistance, Rebellion and Jazz

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
    Essays on the history of working men and women from the late 18th to the late twentieth century discussing British working class traditions, political radicalism of 19th century shoemakers, peasants and politics, revolution, sex and jazz.
  184. 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.
  185. UK miners' strike (1984 - 1985)
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1985
    A major industrial action affecting the British coal industry.
  186. Uprising of 1953 in East Germany
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    A widespread uprising against the Stalinist German Democratic Republic government.
  187. Want to Stop Trump? Take a Page From These Dockworkers, and Stop Work
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    On the day of Donald Trump's inauguration, many Americans wrung their hands. Some took to social media to express their discontent while others protested. But, perhaps, the most dramatic and important action was taken by dockworkers in Oakland, California: They stopped working. Their strike demonstrated the potential power ordinary people have on the job, when organized.
  188. 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.
  189. 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.
  190. What Are the Origins of May Day?
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1894
    As long as the struggle of the workers against the bourgeoisie and the ruling class continues, as long as all demands are not met, May Day will be the yearly expression of these demands. And, when better days dawn, when the working class of the world has won its deliverance then too humanity will probably celebrate May Day in honour of the bitter struggles and the many sufferings of the past.
  191. Whose side are you on? The mundane decline of labour history
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    The following polemical intervention by Humphrey McQueen is published as a contribution to understanding the nature, and practice, of radical history.
  192. Winnipeg 1919
    The strikers' own history of the Winnipeg General Strike

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
    The Winnipeg General Strike was a landmark in Canadian political and labour history. This book, with the lively and clearly-written strikers' account of the strike and more than 40 photos of major strike events, offers the perspective on the strike of the people who organized it. Second edition.
  193. Winter of Discontent
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    A term used to describe the British winter of 1978-1979, during which there were widespread strikes by local authority trade unions demanding larger pay raises for their members.
  194. 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.
  195. Work and New Technologies
    Other Perspectives (Volume 3)

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    Essays covering health hazards, labour concerns, and issues of deskilling related to new technologies in the workplace.
  196. Working Class Communism
    A Review of the Literature

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
  197. 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.
  198. Working Class Toronto at the Turn of the Century
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  199. Working Lives
    Vancouver 1886-1986

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
  200. Working People
    An Illustrated History of Canadian Labour

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1980

Experts on Labour History in the Sources Directory

  1. Canadian Encyclopedia
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