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  1. All the Livelong Day
    The Meaning and Demeaning of Routine Work, Revised and Updated Edition
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
  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. Auto worker says automation creates worker alienation
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1974
    It is only struggle, says Martin Glaberman, that creates an awareness of collective strength.
  4. Connexions
    Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
  5. Cultures of Solidarity
    Consciousness, Action, and Contemporary American Workers
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    In three vivid case studies Fantasia explores the complicated, multi-faceted dynamics of American working-class consciousness and collective action.
  6. False Promises 
    The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973
  7. Glaberman, Martin - Writings - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings of Martin Glaberman (1918-2001).
  8. Idiot Bosses and Valiant Women
    Labor and Capital in Actual Practice
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    "No matter what the enterprise, most employees know who the hard workers are, even though it's not their job to know. They know who hustles, pitches in and lends a hand, who goofs off and avoids work, and who strives to keep the operation going by performing those thankless little tasks that don't necessarily get noticed by management." This piece looks at a specific case of a boss benifting from the hard work of their employees who gained nothing.
  9. "A kind of super-stress": The Experiences of a Temporary Agency Worker in Montreal
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Immigrant's experiences reflect the difficulties faced by temporary agency workers in Montreal.
  10. The Life and Resistance of a Chinese Worker
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Under China's labour management system, independent unionism is strictly banned, and the state's official trade union body monopolizes worker representation. That means that all of China’s 806,498,521 workers are barred from forming independent organizations to agitate for their interests -- in an economy where the poorest 25 percent of households own just 1 percent of the country’s total wealth, and where long hours, safety hazards, and authoritarian management define life in the factories. This official antagonism has not stopped the emergence of workers' resistance. The number of strikes has been increasing over the past two decades, and as Eli Friedman wrote last year, "on a typical day anywhere from half a dozen to several dozen strikes are likely taking place."
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Monographs on the Portuguese
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1975
    A collection of analytical essays on the Portugese immigrant community in Toronto.
  14. My Years at Wal-Mart
    Making One Do the Work of Three
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Wal-Mart is but the largest wave in a rising tide, and, unless we stand together, united and with dignity, as a great levy for justice to hold and push it back, this tide threatens to drown us all.
  15. The Newsletter #2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1973
  16. The Newsletter #3
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1973
  17. Poles 'n holes: Working in the porn biz
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1986
    Pornography worker Chaz Bufe on work, sexuality and censorship in America.
  18. 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.
  19. Red Menace #2
    Volume 2, Number 1 - Summer 1977
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
    A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
  20. Red Menace #3
    Volume 2, Number 2 - Spring 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
    A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
  21. Red Menace #4
    Volume 3, Number 1 - Winter 1979
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
    A Libertarian Socialist Newsletter
  22. Rediscovering Two Labor Intellectuals
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2004
    Steve Early reviews collections of writings by Martin Glaberman and Stain Weir.
  23. Soft Sell
    Quality of Working Life Programs and the Productivity Race
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
  24. A Tale of Two Offices
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1977
    Daily life and offices politics viewed through the experience of working in two libraries with very different management styles.
  25. What Is Important?
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
  26. The Winter of our Discontent
    Experiences Organizing Nursing Homes
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1973
    An account by two nursing home workers describing their jobs and their successful efforts to organize unions at their workplaces.
    Published in Issue #2 (1973) on the New Tendency newsletter.
  27. A Workers' Inquiry
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1880
  28. 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.
  29. Working in a supermarket
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1979
    Observations on working as a carry-out in a supermarket.
  30. Working in an office -- for a while
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1978
    The first thing that strikes one about working in this particular office is how little actual work ever gets done.
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