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  1. Canadian mining firm Pacific Rim and El Salvador's struggle against corporate impunity
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The controversial legal case that Canadian mining firm Pacific Rim has launched against El Salvador has added fuel to the growing international debate on the balance of corporate rights and responsibilities and the need for new legal international frameworks to address corporate impunity.
  2. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
  3. Cracked Houses in San Miguel Ixtahuacan: The Marlin Mine Influence
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Today in Guatemala City, COPAE and UUSC present the results of an investigation, after two years of monitoring by a team of engineers: 'Cracked Houses Around the Marlin Mine: Preliminary Investig
  4. EnvironmentSources.com
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2017
    Web portal with information about environmental issues and resources, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
  5. Minetown, Milltown, Railtown
    Life in Canadian Communities of Single Industry

    Resource Type: Book
    A sociological description of life in company towns.
  6. Mineworkers of Guyana
    The Making of a Working Class

    Resource Type: Book
    Written by a former worker who himself grew up on Alcan's Plantation Mackenzie bauxite mine in Guyana, this is a readable account of the life and history of a Third World working class. It throws new light on the constantly recurring themes of company exploitation, trade union democracy, and the limits of nationalization in transforming management-worker relations.
  7. Mining Town Crisis
    Globalization, Labour and Resistance in Sudbury

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
  8. Where Heaven Meets Hell
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2011
    Drawing strength from their families and their Muslim faith, Indonesian sulfur miners face gruelling labour and treacherous conditions on an active volcano, while struggling to overcome the desperate poverty and illiteracy that plague their community.


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