- Against the Current
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1986
Bi-monthly magazine oriented toward movements for social and economic justice; radical, socialist and feminist in orientation.
- Against the Tide
The Story of the Canadian Seaman's Union
Resource Type: Book
- 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.
- Alternative Press Annual 1983, The
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
- 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.
- The American Worker
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
A description and analysis of the lives of American factory workrers after the Second World War, written by a young autoworker.
- The American Working Class in Historical Persepctive
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
A review of Jeremy Brecher's Strike! (See CX6590)
- The Anarchist Collectives
Workers' Self-Management in the Spanish Revolution 1936-1939
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
Examines the experiments in workers' self-management, both urban and rural, which took place in Spain during the revolution and Civil War.
- An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
An extended argument about what the anti-capitalist movement should stand for.
- At the Lenin Shipyards
Poland and the Rise of the Solidarity Trade Union
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
A first-hand account of the rise of the Solidarity trade union in Poland.
- 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.
- BC Nurses' Union
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Business Page
How To Read It and Understand the Economy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1980
- Canada After Harper
His Ideology-fuelled Attack on Canadian Society and Values, and How We Can Resist and Create the Country We Want
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
Essays documenting the breadth and depth of the Harper government's attack on institutions, policies, and programs that embody values and principles shared by most Canadians: education, health care, women's rights, science and research, the economy, labour unions, water and natural resources, and Aboriginal affairs.
- Canada Since 1960: A People's History
A Left Perspective on 50 Years of Politics, Economics and Culture
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2016
An account of the most important developments in Canadian history from the 1960s to today, seen through the eyes of Canadian Dimension magazine.
- Canadian Books on Labour
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 1, Number 6 - March 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 3 - June 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 4 - August 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- 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.
- 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.
- A Century of Meatpacking Unionism - Book Reviews
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1998
- Challenging Unions
Feminist Process and Democracy in the Labour Movement
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
- The Changing Workplace
Reshaping Canada's Industrial Relations System
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
Describes how business, labour and government have organized the production of goods and services in Canada since 1945. Focusing on the industrial relations system and how it works, the authors call for fresh thinking on the economy and offer proposals for the reorganization of production.
- A Chinese alternative
Social democracy by the union route
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Dongfang discusses how changing undemocratic Chinese business enterprises, through active labour unions, would also change the social structure of the country.
- 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.
- 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.
- Close the 49th Parallel Etc
The Americanization of Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
The increasing Americanization of Canada is now evident to all, and it is also becoming evident that the elites in Canada have been anxious to avoid any confrontation of this fact or any examination of its consequences. This collection of essays attempts to display some of the effects of US corporate imperialism and the permissive policy of its Canadian supporters, to analyse the the ideologies involved, to explain the social, economic and political costs of the process, and to suggest how it might be reversed.
- Combatting Racism in the Workplace
A Course for Workers
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
With the ultimate aim of combatting racism within the labour movement, the Cross Cultural Communication Centre, under the auspices of the Humber Collage for Labour Studies, ran a ten-week, 30 hour pilot course entitled 'Work Racism and Labour.'
- Combatting Racism in the Workplace Readings Kit
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
Readings and case studies on fighting racism.
- The Company Store: J.B. McLachlan and the Cape Breton Coal Miners 1900-1925
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1984
- Confederation of Canadian Unions
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Connexions
Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Connexions
Volume 3, Number 6 - December 1978 - Unemployment/Chomage
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1978
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 1 - February 1979 - National Security/Securite Nationale
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 2 - March 1979 - Native Rights/Les Droits des Autochtones
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 4 - September 1979 - Food/La Nourriture
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 5 - October 1979 - Nuclear Energy\Energie Nucleaire
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 3 - September 1980 - Racism/Racisme
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
- Connexions
Volume 5, Number 5 - January 1981 - Militarism/Militarisme
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 1 - February 1981 - Lesbians/Gay Men/Lesbiennes/Hommes Gais
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 2 - May 1982 - Canada-Latin America/Le Canada-L'Amerique Latine
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 3 - July 1982 - Prairie Region/Region des Prairies
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1982
- Connexions
Volume 8, Number 2 - Summer 1983 - Toward a New Economy
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1983
- Connexions
Volume 8, Number 3-4 - Winter 1983/84 - Native Issues - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1984
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1987
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1994
This Annual is dedicated to the idea that change is both necessary and possible. Its main intent is practical: to provide information about groups across Canada who are working at society's grassroots to create positive solutions to social, environmental, economic, and international problems.
- Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1994
A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1988
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1992
- Connexions Library: Labour and Unions Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on labour and unions.
- 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.
- Cracking the Canadian Formula
The Making of the Energy and Chemical Workers Union
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
- 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.
- Dakota Access Pipeline and the Future of American Labor
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
As United States Energy Transfers Partners began building the Dakota Access Pipeline through territory sacred to the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, the tribe began an escalating campaign against the pipeline.
- Death in the Haymarket
A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement, and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
The story of the anarchosyndicalist militants accused of perpetrating the throwing of a bomb that killed police at a workers' rally at the Haymarket in Chicago on May 4, 1886.
- Democracy for the Few
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
How does the U.S. political system work and for what purpose? What are the major forces shaping political life and how do they operate? Who governs in the United States? Who gets what, when, how, and why? Who pays and in what ways. These are the central questions investigated in this book.
- A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1983
- The Emergence of the Canadian Working Class Movement
1845-1875
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1975
- Equality Program
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1989
- 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.
- The Exploitation Explosion
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1991
Female workers in developing countries are undervalued and underpaid.
- Facing Reality
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
Inspired by the October 1956 Hungarian workers' revolution against Stalinist oppression, as well as the U.S. workers' "wild-cat" strikes (against capital and the union bureaucracies), the authors looked ahead to the rise of new mass emancipatory movements by African Americans as well as anti-colonialist/anti-imperialist currents in Africa and Asia. Virtually alone among the radical texts of the time, Facing Reality also rejected modern society's mania for "conquering nature," and welcomed women's struggles "for new relations between the sexes."
- 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
- Finding Answers
The Essential Guide to Gathering Information in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
Outlines the essentials of how to find and use information.
- First and Foremost in Community Health Centres
The Centre in Sault Ste Marie and the CHC Alternative
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1985
The story of Canada's first community health centre, an initiative of the United Steelworkers of America, which opened its doors in 1958.
- First Contract
Women and the Fight to Unionize
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1986
Looks at the "personal side" of the struggle of working women to organize themselves into unions and win first contracts.
- Geo Tech Shows that Cola Can Pay!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Cost of Living Allowance keeps Machinists pay rates healthy at Geo Tech Industries
- Martin and Jessie Glaberman Collection
Papers, 1939-2001
Resource Type: Unclassified
The papers of the Marxist radicals Martin Glaberman and Jessie Glaberman, now housed at Wayne State University.
- Glaberman, Martin - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Martin Glaberman (1918-2001).
- Globalizing the Left
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1991
The Canadian trade union movement has to put greater emphasis on using its global ties to prevent multinational companies from shifting their operations to low wage countries.
- 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".
- Harper's Rule Breaking Rush to Crush Unions
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Is there anything more undemocratic than Canada's most tainted organization -- the Conservative-controlled Senate -- breaking its rules and then overturning its own Conservative Speaker's ruling, all to hurriedly impose anti-union legislation before the federal election? That's what happened last week with Bill C-377, an odious private members' bill shepherded from beginning to end by Prime Minister Stephen Harper's own office, passed by Parliament's Conservative majority and sent to the Senate for approval.
- Higgins, Jim - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Jim Higgins (1930 – 2002).
- Historic convention to create largest private-sector union gets underway this weekend
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The founding convention to create a new union — Unifor — uniting more than 300,000 members from two of Canada’s largest unions will be held Aug. 31st and Sept. 1st at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
- How to Jump-Start Your Union
Lessons from the Chicago Teachers
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2014
How to Jump-Start Your Union tells how activists transformed their union and gave members hope. Readers will learn how to run for office, work with their communities, build stewards' networks, train new leaders, run a contract campaign, and strike.
- How to Keep Union Records
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
- Ideas and Action
Periodical profile published 1981
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1981
Archive of some articles published in Ideas and Action, a radical paper published by the Workers Solidarity Alliance from 1981 to 1997.
- IFJ and EFJ launch a conference to tackle press freedom and labour rights in Turkey
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), the Journalists Union of Turkey (TGS) and the Journalists Association of Turkey (TGC) jointly host the two-day international conference in Istanbul
- 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.
- 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.
- Industry and Labour
Class Struggle at Work and Monopoly Capitalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
- An Injury to All
The Decline of American Unionism
Resource Type: Book
The author, a union organizer and activist, details the decline of the American union movement.
- The Junk Food Economy
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1992
Young people entering the workforce face a junk food economy.
- 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.
- 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.
- Labour - Canada Web Directory: Labour
Resource Type: Website
List of labour organizations.
- Labour Gains, Labour Pains
50 Years of PC 1003
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
This book is comprised of 4 parts: Historical Context, Origins and Evolution of the Fordist Accord, Case Studies, International Comparisons.
- Labour in Newfoundland
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- Labour Left Out
Canada's Failure to Protect and Promote Collective Bargaining as a Human Right
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
- Labour WebRing: hub
Resource Type: Website
Featuring trade unions/trade unionists, labour/labor organizations and union activists worldwide.
- "Left-Wing" Communism
An Infantile Disorder
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1918
Lenin's repsonse to ultraleftists who advocate 'no compromises' and refuse to work in 'reactionary' trade unions and parliamentary elections.
- Life After Death for Labor?
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2015
A review of Stanley Aronowitz's book "The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Workers’ Movement."
- Life Support for Labor?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The Debate Over how to save the labour movement suffers from a serious deficit of books written by organizers. Rarely do we get an entire book by someone who has been organizing for four decades, and is still actively engaged with union members, staff and leaders.
- Luxemburg, Rosa - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919).
- Machinist at Three Point Motors have New Deal!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
New agreement signed by Machinists with expanding auto dealership on Vancouver Island
- Machinists Build on Past Agreements to Improve Wages!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Machinists build on past agreements to become the highest paid tradesmen on Vancouver Island
- Machinists Expand at Calgary Airport!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
IAMAW wins CLRB certification bid for ramp workers at Calgary airport.
- Machinists Expand in Hospitality Sector Again!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Machinists Union organize another Ontario hotel, the sixth hotel in the past two years
- Machinists Ink New Deal with Finning!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
After several months of tough bargaining, the IAMAW has new agreement with Finning International.
- Machinists Ratify with City Motors
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
IAMAW Members in Corner Brook Newfoundland ratify new 3 year agreement by a margin of 91 per cent.
- Machinists sign new Agreement with Cullen Diesel!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Machinists sign new agreement with Cullen Diesel service locations throughout BC
- Maple Ridge Chrysler Inks Deal with Machinists!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Machinists sign new agreement with Maple Ridge Chrysler which includes implementation of IAM-Labour Management Pension Plan
- Marxism and the Trade Unions
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1970
Draper argues that essentially, no Marxist group has ever carried on any systematic revolutionary work in trade unions.
- 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.
- Marxists Internet Archive
Resource Type: Website
Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
- 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."
- Miners and Steelworkers
Labour in Cape Breton
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1976
- 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.
- Monographs on the Portuguese
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1975
A collection of analytical essays on the Portugese immigrant community in Toronto.
- News and Letters
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
- 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.
- 1998 Directory of Labour Organizations in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
- 1997 Directory of Labour Organizations in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
A compilation of unions, union memberships, congresses and other labour organizations.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Class, Caste & Hierarchies
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2002
Concentrates mainly on the history of social hierarchy in Western civilization, and particularly the struggles of the working class.
- On the Trade Unions
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
- On Unions and the Class Struggle
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
Written during the wave of workers' struggles known as the Italian hot autumn of 1969, when the autonomous struggles of the working class reached an unprecedented level, laying bare the character and function of the unions.
- One Big Union
Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
Resource Type: Article
In 1919 delegates from most union locals in western Canada met at the Western Labour Conference in Calgary and proclaimed support for the Bolshevik and other left-wing revolutions. They decided to conduct a referendum among Canadian union members on whether to secede from the American Federation of Labor and the trades and labour congress of Canada, and form a revolutionary industrial revolution to be called the One Big Union.
- Ontario Nurses' Association
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Organize! My Life as a Union Man
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1971
- The Other Israel
The Radical Case Against Zionism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
A collective effort by a small group of Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel to penetrate the dense net of illusion and myth that dominates the thinking and feeling of most Israelis and, at the same time, determines the prevailing image of Israel in the Western world. According to the Zionist fairy tale, the state of Israel is an outpost of democracy, social justice, and enlightenment, and a homeland and haven for the persecuted Jews of the world. The reality, as this book demonstrates, is utterly different.
- 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.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 16, 2016
Working class organizing
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
Working to change things for the better, fighting to prevent things from getting worse, remembering the past to illuminate possibilities for the future: as always, that is the focus of Other Voices. In this issue, we pay special attention to working class organizing. There can be no meaningful change without the active participation of the majority of the population: working people. Yet much activism ignores this obvious reality, while the organized labour union movement has put much of its reliance on 'professionals' who see organizing as a top-down technique rather than a grassroots movement. Several articles in this issue look at aspects of these issues. We also delve into the relationship between feminism and socialism, and look at the so-called 'sharing economy,' which produces increasingly exploited and precarious work, and immense profits for super-rich corporate owners.
- Out in the Union: A Labor History of Queer America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2014
- 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.
- Pannekoek, Anton - Writings - Index
Resource Type: Article
Writings of Anton Pannekoek (1873-1960).
- Pay Cheques & Picket Lines
All About Unions in Canada
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
A children's book which explains what unions are, how they came to be, and why they exist.
- The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 2: From the French Revolution to the Present
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1978
- 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.
- 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.
- Politische Schriften 1
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1966
- Politische Schriften 2
Resource Type: Book
- Preface to Martin Glaberman's Four Essays on the Working Class
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1975
Glaberman insists that the working class is not merely a victim of capitalism. Working people are active participants in creating their own consciousness, their methods of struggle and their own history.
- Promoting your union
Six strategies to get more organizing leads and union members
Resource Type: Book
Promoting Your Union is a book to help union organizers get more organizing leads, create outreach plans to bring in new members and build the power of their unions. The ideas in this book are based on actual best practices from union organizers who are using these tactics in the field.
- A Proposal to American Labor
'Open source unionism' could reinvigorate American labor in the age of the Internet
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2002
The authors posit that union membership is too restricted by the requirement that unions have majority support in the workplace. They believe that pro-union workers who are a minority in their workplace should be mobilized by the labor movement if it wants to grow.
- Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC)
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Quotes about Labour and Unions
Resource Type: Unclassified
- Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2014
Today, fewer than 7% of American private-sector workers belong to a union and public employee collective bargaining has been dealt devastating blows in Wisconsin and elsewhere. This book argues that labour can be revived with social movement unionism that involves raising worker's expectations.
- Rank and File
Personal Histories of Working Class Organizers
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
A collection of stories and recollections from labour movement organizers.
- 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.
- Regulating Labour
The State, Neo-Conservatism and Industrial Relations (Volume 6)
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
A collection of essays on industrial-labour relations in Canada, the United States, Britain, and Sweden.
- Relentless Persistence
Nonviolent Action in Latin America
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
There is in Latin America a tradition of "firmeza permanente," relentless persistence, which has enabled the people to preserve parts of their culture during five centuries of conquest and oppression.
- Rosa Luxemburg
Abridged Edition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
A biography of Luxemburg by a British academic.
- Rosa Luxemburg
Selected Political Writings
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
A selection of Rosa Luxemburg's writings which highlight her outstanding contributions to the theory and practice of revolutionary socialism.
- The Rosa Luxemburg Reader
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
A definitive one-volume collection of Luxemburg's writings.
- Rosa Luxemburg Speaks
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1970
A selection of speeches and writings by Rosa Luxemburg.
- Saskatchewan Federation of Labour
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
A paper on government spending, wealth distribution, inflation and a variety of other related topics.
- Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
Gramsci's Notebooks cover a wide range of subjects including history, culture, politics, and philosophy.
- Seven News
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1970
Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in the area of Toronto east of downtown which at the time was known as Ward 7. Seven News was published from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but all issues of the paper have been scanned and are available on the Connexions website.
Ward 7 covered the area of Toronto east of downtown, from Sherbourne Street to Logan Avenue, south of Bloor-Danforth, including Don Vale, Cabbagetown, Regent Park, Riverdale, St. Jamestown.
- Seymour Workers Ratify First Agreement!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Less than six months after their certification, IAMAW members at Seymour Windows & Doors have ratified their first collective agreement.
- A Short History of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party
Challenging the Two Parties of Capital
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Minnesota’s Farmer-Labor Party was the most successful labor party in United States history. The Minnesota Farmer-Labor Association, a grouping of associated unions and farmers, provided the organic connection between labor and the party.
- Simon Fraser University
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- The Sixties
Years of Hope, Days of Rage
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
One of the best books on the Sixties in the U.S., bringing to life the political and cultural currents, including especially the music, which raged during that decade, and setting them in historical context.
- The Social Passion
Religion and Social Reform in Canada 1914-28
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
An account of the movement within Canadian protestantism which sought to revive the neglected social dimensions of Christianity and to involve the church in social action.
- Socialism and Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
Representative democracy in every industrially advanced country is in a state of profound crisis. But we have been accustomed for so long to accept democracy in the form of its outward appearances and parliamentary institutions that its decay often does not become apparent to us until those institutions have been either brushed aside or reduced to a purely decorative role.
- A socialist program for Canadian trade unionists
For an Independent, Socialist Canada
Resource Type: Article
- The Socialist Register 1964
Volume 1: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1964
- The Socialist Register 1966
Volume 3: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1966
- The Socialist Register 1968
Volume 5: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1968
- The Socialist Register 1976
Volume 13: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1976
- The Socialist Register 1980
Volume 17: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1980
- The Socialist Register 1984
Volume 21: The Uses of Anti-Communism
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1984
- Socialist Register 1996
Volume 32: Are There Alternatives?
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1996
- Socialist Register 2013
Volume 49: The Question of Strategy
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2013
This, the 49th volume of the Socialist Register examines the choices faced by the left today, the models of strategy available to it, and the innovations that are being made by groups as they organize in diverse settings.
- Society of Energy Professionals
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Soft Sell
Quality of Working Life Programs and the Productivity Race
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
Quality of Working Life is a grab-bag of programs that promise workplace improvements and greater job satisfaction in exchange for increased productivity on the part of Canadian workers. But, says Don Wells, the promise of a new way to satisfy workers' needs has been proven false. Wells shows that QWL programs can present a direct, though carefully hidden, threat to the union movement.
- Solidarnosc (Solidarity)
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Polish trade union.
- Sources welcomes Christian Labour Association of Canada
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2011
Sources welcomes a new member: Christian Labour Association of Canada. CLAC is an independent Canadian labour union representing thousands of workers in a wide range of industry sectors.
- South African trade union congress supports CUPE boycott of apartheid Israel
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
South African workers will never forget the support given by the Israeli state to the apartheid South African regime. In the same way we will never forget the thousands of acts of solidarity of ordinary citizens around the world who sustained our struggle through the boycott weapon.
- Spontaneity and Organization: Some Comments
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
A contribution to a symposium on Jeremy Brecher's book Strike!
- The State of the World Atlas
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
- Steel Strike
Hamilton 1946
Resource Type: Book
- Strategy for Labour
A Radical Proposal
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1967
- 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.
- The Strike and Its Enemies
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Like the progressive labour bureaucrats, today’s generation of young radicals have spent all of their formative years living in the era of capitalist realism — the era of There is No Alternative. And it’s perhaps for this reason that each tenet of the union bureaucrat philosophy finds its distorted mirror-image in the views of the young anti-union radicals. They tend to believe that middle-class intellectuals and full-time activists should take the lead role in strategy and that these groups do not have different material interests than rank-and-file workers. That building “communes,” rather than confronting capital, should be the movement’s main mission.
- Strike Narrowly Avoided at Wexxar Packaging!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Long and Short Term Disability are seldom strike issues but it took a compromise on both before a strike by the Machinists was avoided at Wexxar Packaging
- The Struggle at Peugeot in France
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
When the management of the PSA Peugeot Citroën group announced, in early July 2012, that it was eliminating 8,000 jobs and closing the Aulnay plant near Paris (3,000 employees) in 2014, it caused a shock wave, well beyond the workers in the automotive sector.
- 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.
- They Are Still Killing Trade Union Leaders
Global Capital's Death Squads and Night-Riders
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Question: So what happens these days in developing countries when a prominent, charismatic union activist - with the courage to stand up to sinister, government-supported business groups who have, on more than one occasion, already threatened his life - attempts to get the country’s underpaid, under-benefited workers to join a labor union? Answer: They kill him.
- 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.
- Timken Machinists Accept Three-year Deal!
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Machinists ratify new agreement with Timken
- Tony Mazzocchi Lives: Blue-Green Organizer Takes Up 'Just Transition' Mantle
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Union and environmental activist Alex Lotorto believes environmentalists should be working more closely with organized labour and following the advice of some of labour's more enlightened leaders.
- Toronto's Poor
A Rebellious History
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2916
Toronto’s Poor reveals the long and too often forgotten history of poor people’s resistance. It details how the homeless, the unemployed, and the destitute have struggled to survive and secure food and shelter in the wake of the many panics, downturns, recessions, and depressions that punctuate the years from the 1830s to the present.
- Tracking Harper's 9-year-long assault on unions
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Stephen Harper has been Prime Minister of Canada for almost a decade. In that time, the system of protections that were put in place by decades of advocacy by labour organizations and unions has been partly dismantled. The attacks have been extremely strategic. Ground Zero for these attacks has been the House of Commons, where piece after piece of legislation has taken aim at unions and collective bargaining.
- Trade Union
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
- 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.
- Trade Unions: International Solidarity in Action
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
International solidarity can be understood as cooperation between trade-union organisations that, by their nature, share the same objectives because they represent the workers of their countries. It takes on a special importance when the workers are employed by the same multinational company or in the same worldwide type of industry.
- A Troublemaker's Handbook
How to Fight Back Where You Work -- And Win!
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
An organizing manual for workers dealing with both major issues and everyday problems in the workplace.
- A Troublemaker's Handbook 2
Resource Type: Book
A manual for workers who want to take control over their lives at work. In hundreds of first-person accounts, workers tell in their own words how they organized and struggled to do that.
- UFCW: Strategy of Appeasement
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1986
- Union has right to be in mall
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1990
- Union Security
UAW Statement to Ontario Government
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1978
A statement by the United Auto Workers union to the Conservative government.
- Union Woman
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1979
Organized Working Women (OWW) provides resources and information for women in the labour movement.
- Unions Against Revolution
Resource Type: Book
Unions -- as well as employers -- stand in the way of workers' political freedom. Labour militants who become union leaders enforce industrial discipline just as Lenin and Stalin advocated. In the pamphlet's second essay, John Zerzan documents "The Revolt Against Work."
- Unions and Free Trade
Solidarity vs. Competition
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
This handbook details the effects of free trade on workers in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. It argues that solidarity, not competition, is the only long-term strategy for unions. It includes case studies of unions that are creating cross-border ties.
- Unions Attack Quebec Law
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1989
- Unions plan cross-border links
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1990
- Unions and the Road to Socialism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The familiar model of union struggle has been ineffective in attempts to change capitalism. I will try to explain why unions have not shaken capitalism's foundations. The explanation will point to the failure to challenge inequalities in returns to labour and capital from production.
- Unions with Leaders Who Stay on the Job (a.k.a. Class War Lessons)
Resource Type: Article
Stan Weir writes about direct action and on-the-job union leadership as a merchant marine in the 1940s.
- Us and Them
Building a just workplace community
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
- U.S. Strikes Drop Dramatically
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1992
A decade of Reaganism has left employers in a position to destroy unions without fear of significant political and public retribution.
- What's the Matter With That Union Boss?
The Real Yes Men
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Why do the most right-wing politicians and corporate news outlets always use the term “union boss”? Because the worst thing they can think of is to say the leader of a labour organization acts like a capitalist? Or the capitalist’s lackey?
- Who Advocates Spontaneity?
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
The working class can come to understand its power to act only by acting.
- Why Bosses Hate Unions
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Unions vastly improve the wages and working conditions of their members. No wonder they're still under attack.
- The Winter of our Discontent
Experiences Organizing Nursing Homes
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1973
An account by two nursing home workers describing their jobs and their successful efforts to organize unions at their workplaces.
Published in Issue #2 (1973) on the New Tendency newsletter.
- Wisconsin Uprising
Labor Fights Back
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2012
A collection of essays describing the working class uprising that occurred in Wisconsin, in February and early March of 2011.
- Wobblies & Zapatistas
Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical Theory
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
Wobblies and Zapatistas offers readers an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that 'my country is the world'.
- Women's Trade Union League
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A U.S. organization of both working class and more well-off women formed in 1903 to support the efforts of women to organize labour unions and eliminate sweatshop conditions.
- Workers of America, Unite! Racism is a Trade Union Issue
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
The American working class is the most powerful in the world, is the most productive in the world and we operate the largest and most profitable economy in the world. American workers are also represented by national unions that have the most resources, the biggest staffs and the largest bank accounts, greater than any other trade unions in the world. Yet, without question, American labour is politically the weakest in the world among the large economies, largely because we remain so violently divided.
- The working class, trade unions and the left: the contours of resistance
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Vernell talks about the attacks of the British government to stabilise capitalism, as well as the response of the working class.
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