1. African odysseys turn to the south
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2012
   Fewer than 5% of African migrants now want to reach Europe or America. They’re looking instead to neighbouring countries, or the continent’s dreamland, South Africa. It’s a long, hard way there, and they may be no better off if they reach it.
2. 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.
3. Building a Solidarity City
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2013
   A Solidarity City is the creation of a community that rejects a system that engenders poverty and anguish, not solely for immigrants and refugees, but also for other Montrealers confronting these same realities.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. Connexions
   Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1981
   
7. Connexions Library: Labour and Unions Focus
   Resource Type: Website
   Published: 2009
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on labour and unions.
8. 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.
9. Migration
   Changing the World
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2011
   The author discusses the increasing trend of migration in the modern world, its causes and effects, and peoples and governments responses.
10. Saudi Arabia's foreign labour crackdown drives out 2m migrants
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Ethiopian workers face hostility amid 'Saudisation' campaign to control foreign labour and get more Saudi citizens into work.
11. Scattered Sand
    The Story of China's Rural Migrants
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2012
    Each year, 200 million workers from China’s vast rural interior travel between cities and provinces in search of employment: the largest human migration in history. This indispensable army of labour accounts for half of China’s GDP, but is an unorganized workforce — “scattered sand,” in Chinese parlance — and the most marginalized and impoverished group of workers in the country.
12. A Seventh Man
    A book of images and work about the experience of migrant workers in Europe
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
    Images, poetry, quotes and short written pieces that portray the experiences of male migrant workers in Europe.
13. The Warmth of Other Suns
    The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2010
    Wilkerson chronicles the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of the United States.
14. What's Left of Queer?: Immigration, Sexuality, and Affect in a Neoliberal World
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    We need to refuse the narratives of abjection that are routinely forced upon us. They only render us immobile creatures, begging for help. We are all neoliberals now. We're all selling our bodies, our lives, our stories to the media and to provide comfort to ourselves. Those stories have to be challenged and reworked or we lose sight of the larger story of economic exploitation, at our peril.
15. Why I Represent the New Orleans Immigrant Workers Who Committed Civil Disobedience
    An Honor to Defend Them
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    In the thirty six-years I have been a lawyer, I have seen many people take brave moral actions. I have represented hundreds in Louisiana and across our country who have been arrested for protesting for peace, civil rights, economic justice, and human rights for all. It is amazing to see people put their freedom on the line when they risk jail for justice.

Experts on Labour Migration in the Sources Directory

1. International Centre for Migration Policy Development
2. International Labour Organization
3. World Bank