1. The Accumulation of Capital
   Resource Type: Book
   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 American Socialist Movement: 1897-1912
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1952
   
4. The American Working Class in Historical Persepctive
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1973
   A review of Jeremy Brecher's Strike! (See CX6590)
5. 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.
6. Canada: The Communist Viewpoint
   Resource Type: Book
   
7. Canadian Books on Labour
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1988
   
8. Canadian Labour in Politics
   Resource Type: Book
   
9. The Canadian Labour Movement
   A Short History
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1989
   
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. A Class Act
    An Illustrated History of the Labour Movement in Newfoundland and Labrador
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1946
    
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. Confederation of Canadian Unions
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
17. Connexions Archive seeks a new home
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.
18. 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.
19. The Emergence of the Canadian Working Class Movement
    1845-1875
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
    
20. Engels, Manchester and the Working Class
    Resource Type: Book
    
21. Essays in Canadian Working Class History
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    
22. Eugene V. Debs Speaks
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    
23. 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.
24. Hogtown
    Working Class Toronto at the Turn of the Century
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    
25. 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.
26. The Labor Wars
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    A survey of landmark events in the U.S. labour movement.
27. Labour in Newfoundland
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    
28. Labour Left Out
    Canada's Failure to Protect and Promote Collective Bargaining as a Human Right
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    
29. 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.
30. Labour Songs
    Resource Type: Audio
    Published: 1991
    1950-1985.
    
31. 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.
32. Man's Worldly Goods
    The Story of the Wealth of Nations
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    
33. 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."
    
34. 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.
35. 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.
36. Nationalism, Communism and Canadian Labour
    The CIO, The Communist Party, and the Canadian Congress of Labour 1935-1956
    Resource Type: Book
    
37. New Hogtown Press
    After Retrenchment, A Few Steps Forward
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1975
    A profile of New Hogtown Press, a radical book and pamphlet publisher and distributor.
38. Ninety-Nine Days
    The Ford Strike in Windsor, 1945
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
    
39. No Power Greater
    A Century of Labour in British Columbia
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
    
40. Notebook of an Agitator
    Resource Type: Book
    
41. The Origin of Racial Oppression in Anglo-America
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    
42. Otto Rühle and the German Labour Movement
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1935
    
43. Pain on Their Faces
    Testimonies on the Paper Mill Strike, Jay, Manie, 1987-1988
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1998
    
44. 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.
45. Pocket History of the British Working Class
    Resource Type: Book
    
46. Radical Rag
    The pioneer labour press in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    
47. Rank and File
    Personal Histories of Working Class Organizers
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    A collection of stories and recollections from labour movement organizers
48. 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.
49. 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.
50. 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.
51. 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.
52. 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.
53. The Rise and Fall of the Toronto Typographical Union 1832 - 1972
    A Case Study of Foreign Domination
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1982
    
54. The Road to Wigan Pier
    Resource Type: Book
    George Orwell's investigation of an English working class community in the 1930s.
55. 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."
56. Spontaneity and Organization: Some Comments
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1973
    A contribution to a symposium on Jeremy Brecher's book Strike!
    
57. Steel Strike
    Hamilton 1946
    Resource Type: Book
    
58. 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.
59. Studies in the Development of Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    
60. Sweat and Struggle
    Working Class Struggles In Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    
61. 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.
    
62. The Trade Union Movement of Canada, 1827-1959
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    
63. 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.
64. What Are the Origins of May Day?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1894
    
65. Winnipeg 1919
    The strikers' own history of the Winnipeg General Strike
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
    
66. 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.
67. Working Class Communism
    A Review of the Literature
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    
68. 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.
69. Working Class Toronto at the Turn of the Century
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    
70. Working Lives
    Vancouver 1886-1986
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
    

Experts on Labour History in the Sources Directory

1. Confederation of Canadian Unions