1. Adventures in Marxism
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1999
   Marshall Berman explores and rejoices in the emancipatory potential of Marxism.
   
2. Against All Odds
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1985
   The shadow haunting the power structure is the danger that those who are controlled will realize they are powerless only so long as they think they are. Once people stop believing they are powerless the whole edifice is in danger of collapse.
3. Against Capitalism
   The European Left on the March
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2007
   
4. The American Class System
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1998
   
5. The American Socialist Movement: 1897-1912
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1952
   
6. The American Worker
   Resource Type: Book
   
7. The American Working Class in Historical Persepctive
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1973
   A review of Jeremy Brecher's Strike! (See CX6590)
8. Autonomous Struggles and the Capitalist Crisis
   A Workers' Autonomy Pamphlet
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1974
   
9. The British Labour Movement
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1940
   
10. Build a Base in the Working Class
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1969
    
11. Build It Now
    Socialism for the Twenty-First Century
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    Influenced by the dramatic proeesses unfolding in Venezuela, Lebowitz re-imagines a socialism for the twenty-first century that places workers and popular communities at the centre of the project.
12. The Canadian Jewish Outlook Anthology
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    A broad range of articles about secular Jewish life and socialist values.
    
13. The Canadian Labour Movement
    A Short History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    
14. 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.
15. Das Capital, Volume 2
    The Process of Circulation of Capital
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1956
    
16. Das Capital, Volume 3
    The Process of Capitalist Production as a Whole
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    
17. Class and Colour in South Africa 1850-1950
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1969
    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.
18. Class Composition and the Theory of the Party at the Origin of the Workers-Councils Movement
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
19. The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters Volume 1: An Age Like This
    Resource Type: Book
    
20. Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters Volume 2: My Country Right or Left
    Resource Type: Book
    
21. The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters Volume 3: As I Please
    Resource Type: Book
    
22. The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters Volume 4: 1945-1950
    Resource Type: Book
    
23. The Color of Politics
    Race and the Mainsprings of American Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    
24. Combatting Racism in the Workplace
    A Course for Workers
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    
25. Common Sense for Hard Times
    The Power of the Powerless to Cope with Everyday life and Transform Society in The Nineteen Seventies
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    Presents a vision of society as it is and as it could be. Putting the problems of contemporary daily life in historical perspective, it reveals that they have their roots in the way our society is organized, and thereby enables us to re-examine our own situation and experience.
    
26. The Communist Manifesto
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1848
    Written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as the theoretical and practical platform of the Communist League, a workers' association.
    
27. A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1859
    
28. 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.
    
29. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    
30. Down To Earth People
    Beyond Class Reductionism and Postmodernism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Working class women and men offer their analysis of the world today and its multi-dimensional inequalities.
    
31. Dying for Growth
    Global Inequality and the Health of the Poor
    Resource Type: Book
    
32. Economic Power Struggle In The USSR
    Soviet Workers Press For Self-Management
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    
33. The Emergence of the Canadian Working Class Movement
    1845-1875
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
    
34. Engels, Manchester and the Working Class
    Resource Type: Book
    
35. Essays in Canadian Working Class History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    
36. Eurocentrism
    Resource Type: Book
    Amin argues that Eurocentrism is an ideological distortion, a myth and historical fallacy and argues for a new social, economic, cultural and political system based on socialist universalism.
37. 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."
    
38. Facing Reality 45 Years Later
    Critical Dialogue with James/Lee/Chaulieu
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2003
    According to Goldner, "In 1958, Facing Reality was an important book, uncannily anticipatory of the historical period which would unfold over the following 15 years. Its main assertions are still being debated.... What I find most interesting in Facing Reality is not so much the answers it offers as the questions it asks. Those questions revolve around the role of the revolutionary Marxist party today.
    
39. 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.
40. False Promises
    The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    
41. Farewell to the Working Class
    An Essay on Post-Industrial Socialism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    
42. For Communism: Propositions on a Strategy for Revolution in the Advanced Capitalist Countries
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1970
    A series of 100 propositions addressing the strategic vacuum on the Italian and European left at the end of the 1960s.
    
43. George Orwell: A Life
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1980
    A biography of George Orwell.
44. The Ghost of Anarcho-Syndicalism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1992
    The danger of modern anarchists of falling into the trap of anarcho-syndicalism.
45. A Guide to Working Class History
    Second Edition
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    
46. Hamburg at the Barricades
    Resource Type: Book
    
47. Her Head a Village
    and Other Stories
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    In her second book of short fiction, Silvera speaks of what it means to be Black, a woman and a lesbian.
48. The Hidden Injuries of Class
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    Sennett and Cobb look at human relations between people of different classes and analyze everyday life and ordinary situations to identify class signals that make people feel inadequate.
49. The History of Costa Rica
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    An overview of Costa Rican history with an emphasis on how Costa Ricans have been able to make their own history, "though they do not make it just as they choose."
50. Hogtown
    Working Class Toronto at the Turn of the Century
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    
51. Hungary 56
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    The Hungarian Revolution was far more than a national uprising or than an attempt to change one set of rulers for another. It was a social revolution in the fullest sense of the term.
52. The Idea of May Day on the March
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1913
    The brilliant basic idea of May Day is the autonomous, immediate stepping forward of the proletarian masses, the political mass action of the millions of workers who otherwise are atomized by the barriers of the state in the day-to-day parliamentary affairs, who mostly can give expression to their own will only through the ballot, through the election of their representatives.
    
53. The Invading Socialist Society
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1947
    History has shown that in moments of great social crisis, its farthest flights fall short of the reality of the proletarian revolution. Never was the proletariat so ready for the revolutionary struggle, never was the need for it so great, never was it more certain that the proletarian upheaval, however long delayed, will only the more certainly take humanity forward in the greatest leap forward it has hitherto made. The periods of retreat, of quiescence, of inevitable defeats are mere episodes in the face of the absolute nature of the crisis.
    
54. It's Our Own Knowledge
    Labour, Public Education, and Skills Training
    Resource Type: Book
    
55. Karl Marx: Essential Writings
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    A selection of Marx's writings ranging from his early works on philosophy, religion, alienation, and Hegelianism, through the materialist conception of history, the theoretical analysis of capitalism, and the politics of revolution. Bender provides informatative introductions setting the context for each set of materials.
56. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
    Volume III: The Dictatorship of the Proletariat
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
    Hal Draper examines how Marx and Marxism dealt with the issue of dictatorship in relation to the revolutionary use of force and repression, particularly as this debate has centered on the use of the term "dictatorship of the proletariat." Draper strips away the layers of misinterpretation and misinformation that have accumulated over the years to show what Marx and Engels themselves meant by the term.
    
57. Lectures in Canadian Labour and Working-Class History
    Resource Type: Book
    This volume presents lectures in 1983 and 1984 on the history of the Canadian working class.
58. Liberty Against the Law
    Some Seventeenth-century Controversies
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    
59. The Making of E.P. Thompson
    Marxism, Humanism, and History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1981
    
60. The Making of the English Working Class
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    Discusses the development of a working class consciousness from the 1790s to the Great Reform Bill
61. Manifestos, Programs, Visions
    Selected Manifestos - Political Statements - Programs
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Published: 2009
    A selection of left manifestos, programs, poltical statements and visions from the 1600s to today.
62. Marxism and the Trade Unions
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1970
    Draper argues that essentially, no Marxist group has ever carried on any systematic revolutionary work in trade unions.
    
63. 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."
    
64. The Meaning of Socialism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1969
    Paul Cardan's 1961 discussion of modern conceptions of socialism, and the future of socialist movements.
65. Miners and Steelworkers
    Labour in Cape Breton
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    
66. Mining Town Crisis
    Globalization, Labour and Resistance in Sudbury
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    
67. Modern Capitalism and Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
    For revolutionaries one central point must be grasped to understand how the system works: the struggle of human beings against their alientation, and the ensuing conflict and split in all spheres, aspects and moments of socia life. As long as this struggle is there there ruling strata will continue to be unable to organise their system in a coherent way, and society will lurch from one accident to another. These are the conditions for revolutionary activity in the present epoch -- and they are amply sufficient.
    
68. Modern Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    
69. Monographs on the Portuguese
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1975
    A collection of analytical essays on the Portugese immigrant community in Toronto.
70. More Unequal
    Aspects of Class in the United States
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    Looks at class from a global vantage point integrating discussions of race, gender, and class, and the emergence of an international capitalist class.
71. 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.
    
72. No Power Greater
    A Century of Labour in British Columbia
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
    
73. Notebook of an Agitator
    Resource Type: Book
    
74. On the First International
    Resource Type: Book
    
75. On Unions and the Class Struggle
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
    
76. Ontological "Difference" and the Neo-Liberal War on the Social
    Deconstruction and Deindustrialization
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2001
    We have today legions of people with a smattering of knowledge turning out reams of books filled with buzz words that could be (and have been) produced by a computer program, and could be (and are) picked up in peer-group shop talk in a few months at the nearest humanities program or academic conference. Everyone these people don't like is trapped in a "gaze"; everyone "constitutes" their "identity" by "discourse"; to the fuddy-duddy "master narratives" that talk about such indelicate subjects as world accumulation these people counterpose "pastiche" and "bricolage", the very idea of being in any way systematic smacking of "totalitarianism"; it is blithely assumed that everyone except heterosexual white males now and for all time have been "subversives" (one wonders why we are still living under capitalism); a crippling relativism makes it somehow "imperial" to criticize public beheadings in Saudi Arabia or cliterodectomy practiced on five-year old girls in the Sudan.
    
77. Organizing for Worker's Power
    Beyond Trade Unionism & Vanguardism
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1969
    A discussion of the problem of "vanguardism," and the role of leadership in revolutionary organization, and its evolution through different stages of class struggle, by Adriano Sofr of the Italian socialist group Lotta Continua.
    
78. Organizing "The Poor" - Against The Working Class
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1971
    
79. Pain on Their Faces
    Testimonies on the Paper Mill Strike, Jay, Manie, 1987-1988
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
    
80. Pannekoek and Gorter's Marxism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    
81. Pannekoek#s #The Party and the Working Class#
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1941
    
82. 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 or ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
83. Pocket History of the British Working Class
    Resource Type: Book
    
84. Politics of Communication
    A Study in the Political Sociology of Language, Socialization, and Legitimation
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    
85. The Politics of Urban Liberation
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    
86. Portugal: The Impossible Revolution?
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
    
87. Preface to Martin Glaberman's Four Essays on the Working Class
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
88. Rank and File
    Personal Histories of Working Class Organizers
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    A collection of stories and recollections from labour movement organizers
89. Recast Dreams
    Class and Gender Consciousness in Steeltown
    Resource Type: Book
    
90. Red City, Blue Period
    Social Movements in Picasso's Barcelona
    Resource Type: Book
    
91. The Road to Wigan Pier
    Resource Type: Book
    George Orwell's investigation of an English working class community in the 1930s.
92. 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.
    
93. 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."
94. 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.
95. Sociology Misconstrues the Working Class
    Part I: Class conflict in the workplace
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1971
    
96. Sociology Misconstrues the Working Class
    Part II: Class conflict outside the workplace
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1972
    
97. Soviets in Italy
    Resource Type: Book
    
98. Spontaneity and Organization: Some Comments
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1973
    A contribution to a symposium on Jeremy Brecher's book Strike!
    
99. Steel Strike
    Hamilton 1946
    Resource Type: Book
    
100. 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.
101. Sweat and Struggle
     Working Class Struggles In Canada
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1974
     
102. A Tale of Two Offices
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     Published: 1977
     Daily life and offices politics viewed through the experience of working in two libraries with very different management styles.
103. Targeting Iran
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 2007
     A critical analysis of the Bush administration's policies towards Iran.
104. The Trade Union Movement of Canada, 1827-1959
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1968
     
105. A Troublemaker's Handbook
     How to Fight Back Where You Work -- And Win!
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1991
     An organising manual for workers dealing with both major issues and everyday problems in the workplace.
106. 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.
107. Unity brings strength
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     Published: 1989
     The NDP puts too much emphasis on electioneering and not enough on economic action.
108. The Unknown Dimension
     European Marxism Since Lenin
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1972
     The radical intellectual tradition of European post-Leninist Marxism, so different from the dogma of the orthodox leftist parties, is an unknowwn dimension. This anthology sets out to recover this Marxist tradition and to restore the centrality of Marxist revolutionary thought and practice.
109. The Uses of Literacy
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1957
     In this partly autobiographical book Hoggart observes the loss of an authentic popular culture and denounces the imposition of mass culture by the culture industries.
110. What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     Published: 1989
     We have the potential to create a social movement in this country that goes beyond single-issue organizing to work toward an integrated vision of a more just and caring society.
111. What is Class Consciousness?
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1971
     Critical of what he saw as Marxism's overly materialistic explanations, Reich proposes the perspectives of psychology and psychotherapy could revitalise radical political thought and the socialist movement.
     
112. What Is Important?
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     Published: 1979
     It is necessary to demolish the monstrously false idea that the problems that workers see are not important, that there are more important ones which only "theorists" and politicians can speak about.
113. Who Advocates Spontaneity?
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     Published: 1973
     The working class can come to understand its power to act only by acting.
     
114. William Morris
     From Romantic to Revolutionary
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1977
     A biography of the nineteenth-century socialist, designer, artist, and intellectual William Morris.
115. 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'.
116. Women at Work - Ontario, 1850- 1930
     Resource Type: Book
     
117. Workers Against the Monolith
     Resource Type: Book
     
118. The Working Class and Social Change
     Four Essays on the Working Class
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     Published: 1975
     A study of "The Working Class," and the complexities of its definition as economic categories diffused from profound bases of social demarcation during the 1960's.
119. Working Class Communism
     A Review of the Literature
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1971
     
120. 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.
121. Working Class Toronto at the Turn of the Century
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1973
     
122. Working Hours
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     In this article written around 1972, Guido Viale, a member of the Italian socialist group Lotta Continua, discusses the struggle for less work and shorter hours.

Experts on Working Class in the Sources Directory

1. International Labour Organization
2. International Labor Rights Forum