1. The Abolition of Work and Other Myths
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1995
   
2. Angels of the Workplace
   Women and the Construction of Gender Relations in the Canadian Clothing Industry, 1890-1940
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1997
   Examines how the intricate weaving together of the meanings of class, gender, ethnicity, family, and the workplace created a job ghetto for women. Detailing the disparities between men and women in terms of wages and representation, this book is the definitive history of discrimination against women in Canada's clothing industry.
3. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 1, Number 5 - January 1977
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   First Published: 1977
   
4. Connexions Library: Work Focus Page
   Resource Type: Website
   First Published: 2009
   Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on work.
5. Down To Earth People
   Beyond Class Reductionism and Postmodernism
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1999
   Working class women and men offer their analysis of the world today and its multi-dimensional inequalities.
   
6. Environmental and Occupational Health: A View from STOP
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 1980
   
7. False Promises 
   The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1973
   
8. Forced to Love the Grind 
   Passion is the new workplace requirement - and one that should be resisted
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2015
   In this world, legendary figures are the ones who remain in the office for one hundred hours straight, working through their children's musical recitals and 104-degree fevers. The idea is that workers become superhuman through the refusal of self-care. This phenomenon isn't merely depressing; it's outright dangerous.
9. The Hidden Injuries of Class
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1966   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.
10. In Praise of Idleness 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1932
    More leisure, not work, will benefit civilization. Modern organization and technology makes a four hour work day possible for leisure to be distributed to everyone.
    
11. Is that an archive in your basement... or are you just hoarding?
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Are you an 'accidental archivist'? Have you been saving the publications and documents produced by the social justice projects you've been involved in? Then Connexions would like to hear from you.
12. Judging workers for control and profit
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    The computer with its air of objectivity has come to dominate human beings. The usurping of human judgment pervades all of society, from healthcare and education to manufacturing and the judicial sphere. Human empathy and understanding have been replaced by automated thinking that mimics the computer. Reclaiming our own minds is a step towards human freedom.
13. Live Working or Die Fighting 
    How the Working Class Went Global
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2010
    Mason relates a series of struggles for worker and human rights over the past two hundred years and compares them to current struggles.
14. Marxists Internet Archive 
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
15. The Mass Psychology of Fascism 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1933   Published: 1970
    Wilhelm Reich's class study, written during the years of the German crisis. Reich repudiates the concept that fascism is the ideology or action of a single individual or nationality, or any ethnic or political group. He understands fascism as the expression of the irrational character structure of human beings whose needs and impulses have been suppressed.
16. Monographs on the Portuguese
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1975
    A collection of analytical essays on the Portugese immigrant community in Toronto.
17. New Catholic Bishops Report says workers in crisis
    Resource Type: Article
    
18. The Newsletter #2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1973
    
19. The Newsletter #3
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1973
    
20. Nickel and Dimed
    On (Not) Getting By In America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    Millions of Americans work full-time, year-round, for poverty-level wages. Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them, inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that any job equals a better life. But how can anyone survive, let alone prosper, on six to seven dollars an hour?
21. On Unions and the Class Struggle
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1969   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.
    
22. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - July 23, 2016
    Workers and Climate Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2016
    Working people -- and most of us are workers -- are affected by climate change in every aspect of our lives. As climate change worsens, our lives will worsen. If we are successful in bringing about the needed rapid change away from a fossil fuel based economy, working people are the ones who stand to bear most of the costs, including the cost, for millions of workers and their families, of losing their jobs.
    Many elements of the environmental movement have been guilty of ignoring working people, while others actually blame ordinary working people for climate change and the injustices associated with it. Yet it is working people who are dying, in many places, even now, from excessive heat in factories, fields, construction sites, and homes. And million of working people stand to lose their jobs, homes, and communities in the transition to a low-carbon or no-carbon economy.
23. Out of Africa: A Migrant's Story
    New Internationalist June 2005 - #379
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2005
    An issue on the story of a nurse's return back to Kenya and the reason why she has worked so far away from home. Also, a discussion on a widespread crisis in international healthcare and the human costs of our global free-market economy.
24. Part-time Paradox: Connecting Gender, Work and Family
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    Tthe authors discuss whether the over-representation of women in part-time labour is exploitive or liberating. They present interviews and original research to describe the ways in which alternative work forms simultaneously challenge and reinforce traditional gender roles.
    
25. Real Utopia 
    Participatory Society for the twenty-first century
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Real Utopia identifies and obliterates the barriers to an egalitarian, bottom-up society, while convincingly outlining how to build it.
26. The Red Menace 
    A libertarian socialist newsletter
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1975   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.
    
27. Report from Dubai
    Against The Current vol. 131
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2007
    Dubai — This gulf emirate is shaping up into a key tourist destination. For golf, luxury hotels and high-end shopping, it is firmly established as a key player in the Middle East region. Dubai’s geographical location means it can position itself as a meeting point between east and west, a global business hub for the 21st century.
28. Seven News
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First 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.
29. Social Determinants of Health
    Canadian Perspectives
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2004
    The social determinants of health are summarized and analyzed by over 30 medical and social academics.
30. Traces of Magma 
    An Annotated Bibliography of Left Literature
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1983
    An annotated bibliography of left wing novels which deal with the lives of working people during the twentieth century.
31. Working Hours
    Resource Type: Article
    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 Travail & soci‚t‚ in the Sources Directory

1. International Labor Rights Forum
2. Marxists Internet Archive