1. Against the Tide
   The Story of the Canadian Seaman's Union
   Resource Type: Book
   
2. Alternative Press Annual 1983, The
   Resource Type: Book
   
3. The American Socialist Movement: 1897-1912
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1952
   
4. The American Worker
   Resource Type: Book
   
5. The American Working Class in Historical Persepctive
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 1973
   A review of Jeremy Brecher's Strike! (See CX6590)
6. At the Lenin Shipyards
   Poland and the Rise of the Solidarity Trade Union
   Resource Type: Book
   
7. BC Nurses' Union
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
8. The Business Page
   How To Read It and Understand the Economy
   Resource Type: Book
   
9. Canadian Books on Labour
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1988
   
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. A Class Act
    An Illustrated History of the Labour Movement in Newfoundland and Labrador
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1946
    
13. 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.
14. Close the 49th Parallel Etc
    The Americanization of Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    
15. Combatting Racism in the Workplace
    A Course for Workers
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    
16. Confederation of Canadian Unions
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
17. The Connexions Annual: Introductions to the directory & its sections
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1994
    
18. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
19. Cracking the Canadian Formula
    The Making of the Energy and Chemical Workers Union
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    
20. 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.
21. 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.
    
22. A Dictionary of Marxist Thought
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1983
    
23. The Emergence of the Canadian Working Class Movement
    1845-1875
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1975
    
24. The Exploitation Explosion
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1991
    Female workers in developing countries are undervalued and underpaid.
25. 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."
    
26. 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.
27. False Promises
    The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
    
28. 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.
    
29. 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.
30. Geo Tech Shows that Cola Can Pay!
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Cost of Living Allowance keeps Machinists pay rates healthy at Geo Tech Industries
31. Globalizing the Left
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
32. Industry and Labour
    Class Struggle at Work and Monopoly Capitalism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    
33. 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.
34. The Junk Food Economy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1992
    Young people entering the workforce face a junk food economy.
35. 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.
36. 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.
37. Labour in Newfoundland
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    
38. Labour Left Out
    Canada's Failure to Protect and Promote Collective Bargaining as a Human Right
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    
39. Machinist at Three Point Motors have New Deal!
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    New agreement signed by Machinists with expanding auto dealership on Vancouver Island
40. Machinists Build on Past Agreements to Improve Wages!
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Machinists build on past agreements to become the highest paid tradesmen on Vancouver Island
41. Machinists Expand at Calgary Airport!
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    IAMAW wins CLRB certification bid for ramp workers at Calgary airport.
42. Machinists Ratify with City Motors
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    IAMAW Members in Corner Brook Newfoundland ratify new 3 year agreement by a margin of 91 per cent.
43. Machinists sign new Agreement with Cullen Diesel!
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Machinists sign new agreement with Cullen Diesel service locations throughout BC
44. Maple Ridge Chrysler Inks Deal with Machinists!
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Machinists sign new agreement with Maple Ridge Chrysler which includes implementation of IAM-Labour Management Pension Plan
45. 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.
    
46. 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."
    
47. Miners and Steelworkers
    Labour in Cape Breton
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    
48. Monographs on the Portuguese
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1975
    A collection of analytical essays on the Portugese immigrant community in Toronto.
49. 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.
    
50. On the Trade Unions
    Resource Type: Book
    
51. 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.
    
52. Ontario Nurses' Association
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
53. 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.
54. The Penguin Atlas of World History - Vol. 2: From the French Revolution to the Present
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
    
55. Politische Schriften 1
    Resource Type: Book
    
56. Politische Schriften 2
    Resource Type: Book
    
57. 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.
58. Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC)
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
59. Rank and File
    Personal Histories of Working Class Organizers
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1974
    A collection of stories and recollections from labour movement organizers
60. 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.
61. 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.
    
62. Saskatchewan Federation of Labour
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1978
    
63. 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.
64. Seymour Workers Ratify First Agreement!
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Less than six months after their certification, IAMAW members at Seymour Windows & Doors have ratified their first collective agreement.
65. Simon Fraser University
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
66. 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.
    
67. 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.
68. Society of Energy Professionals
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
69. 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.
70. South African trade union congress supports CUPE boycott of apartheid Israel
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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.
71. Spontaneity and Organization: Some Comments
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1973
    A contribution to a symposium on Jeremy Brecher's book Strike!
    
72. Steel Strike
    Hamilton 1946
    Resource Type: Book
    
73. Strategy for Labour
    A Radical Proposal
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1967
    
74. 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.
75. Strike Narrowly Avoided at Wexxar Packaging!
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    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
76. 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.
    
77. Timken Machinists Accept Three-year Deal!
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    Machinists ratify new agreement with Timken
78. The Trade Union Movement of Canada, 1827-1959
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1968
    
79. 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.
80. Union has right to be in mall
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1990
    
81. Union Security - UAW Statement to Ontario Government
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1978
    
82. Union Woman
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1979
    
83. 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.
84. Unions Attack Quebec Law
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1989
    
85. Unions plan cross-border links
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1990
    
86. Us and Them
    Building a just workplace community
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    
87. U.S. Strikes Drop Dramatically
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1992
    A decade of Reaganism has left employers in a position to destroy unions without fear of significant political and public retribution.
88. Who Advocates Spontaneity?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1973
    The working class can come to understand its power to act only by acting.
    
89. 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'.

Experts on Labour Unions in the Sources Directory

1. BC Nurses' Union
2. Confederation of Canadian Unions
3. History & Policy
4. International Labour Organization
5. International Labor Rights Forum
6. Ontario Nurses' Association
7. Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC)
8. Simon Fraser University
9. Society of Energy Professionals