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  1. The Autobiography of Mother Jones
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1925
    In spite of oppressors, in spite of false leaders, in spite of labor's own lack of understanding of its needs, the cause of the worker continues onward.
  2. Besant, Annie
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator, and supporter of Irish and Indian self rule. (1847-1933).
  3. Bridges, Harry
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Australian-American union leader in the ILWU, a longshore (dock) and warehouse workers' union on the West Coast, Hawai'i and Alaska. (1901-1990).
  4. Buck, Tim
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Machinist, trade unionists, and a long-time leader of the Communist Party of Canada. (1891-1973).
  5. Buller, Annie
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Union organizer and manager of various Communist Party of Canada (CPC) publications. (1895-1973).
  6. Ron Carey, Militant Union Reformer
    Against The Current vol. 138
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    “Ron Carey was the nation’s most charismatic and successful labor leader as the twentieth century was coming to an end. He will be remembered as a major figure in American labor history on the basis of just two of his accomplishments: In 1991, running as a reformer with the backing of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU), he was elected general president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. In 1997, he led the successful 15-day strike against the giant United Parcel Service, the biggest victory organized labor had experienced in at least three decades.”
  7. Carr, Shirley
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian union leader who was the first woman president of the Canadian Labour Congress.
  8. Chartrand, Michel
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Quebec union leader and activist. (1913-2010).
  9. Chartrand, Michel
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Quebec union leader and activist. (1913-2010).
  10. Chávez, César
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Mexican American farm worker, labour leader, and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW). (1927-1993).
  11. Clarke, Tony
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian social justice advocate. (Born 1944).
  12. Coaker, William Ford
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Newfoundland union leader and politician and founder of the Fisherman's Protective Union and the Fishermen's Union Trading Co. (1871-1938).
  13. Darcy, Judy
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian trade unionist and president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees from 1991 until 2003. (Born 1950).
  14. Davidson, Joe
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Trade unionist and self describe evolutionary socialist "with the proviso that evolution needed a shove at every opportunity." (1915-1985).
  15. De Leon, Daniel
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American socialist newspaper editor, politician, Marxist theoretician, and trade union organizer. (1852-1914).
  16. De Leon, Daniel
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
    Resource Type: Article
    American socialist newspaper editor, politician, Marxist theoretician, and trade union organizer. (1852-1914).
  17. Epifanio Camacho: a Militant Farmworker Brushed Out of History
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Biographical info on Epifanio Camacho, a labor activist who fought alongside the less militant Cesar Chavez. He has been largely forgotten by history.
  18. Evans, Arthur
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Socialist, trade unionist. (1890-1944).
  19. Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Labour leader, activist, and feminist who played a leading role in the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). (1890-1964).
  20. Glaberman, Martin
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    An influential American Marxist, teacher, and autoworker. (1918-2001).
  21. Goodwin, Albert (Ginger)
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Labour leader, and socialist who inspired the first General Strike in Canada on August 2, 1918 in Vancouver, British Columbia. (1887-1918).
  22. Goodwin, Albert (Ginger)
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Canadian labour leader. (1887-1918)
  23. Hartman, Grace
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian labour union activist. (1918-1993).
  24. Haywood, Bill (Big Bill Haywood)
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American unionist and communist, one of the founders of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) (1869-1928).
  25. Hill, Joe
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Swedish-American labour activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World. (1879-1915).
  26. Huerta, Dolores
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    The co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO, and prominent member of the Democratic Socialists of America. (Born 1930).
  27. In Memory of Tim Costello
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Remembering Tim Costello.
  28. Jackson, Clarence Shirley
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    (1906-1993). Was a trade union leader.
  29. Jones, Mary Harris (Mother Jones)
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American labour and community organizer, a Wobbly, and a Socialist. (1837-1930).
  30. Larkin, James
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Irish trade union leader and socialist activist. (1876-1947).
  31. Lawson, James
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Theoretician and tactician of nonviolence within the American Civil Rights Movement. (Born 1928).
  32. Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich
    Connexipedia: Entry in Encyclopedia of Marxism Glossary of People
    Resource Type: Article
    Russian revolutionary. (1870-1924).
  33. Little, Frank
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American labour leader who organized miners, lumberjacks and oil field workers. (1879-1917).
  34. Living principles: In memory of Ed Finn
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2020
    Born in Spaniard’s Bay, Newfoundland, in 1926, Ed Finn grew up in Corner Brook, where he later became first a printer’s apprentice, then a reporter, columnist, and editor of that city’s daily newspaper, the Western Star. His long career as a journalist later included two years at the Montreal Gazette and 14 years at the Toronto Star. During his four-year fling in politics in Newfoundland (1959-1962), he served as the first provincial leader of the NDP. He worked closely with Tommy Douglas and helped defend and promote his pioneering Medicare legislation in Saskatchewan. And throughout the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s, he did communications work for several labour unions, and served on the board of directors of the Bank of Canada. From 1994 to 2014 he was Senior Editor at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and Editor of the CCPA Monitor. On November 27, 2020, Ed was appointed to the Order of Canada.
  35. Mann, Tom
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    British trade unionist. (1856-1941).
  36. McLachlan, James Bryson
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Labour leader. (1869-1937).
  37. Muste, A. J.
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A socialist active in the pacifist movement, the labour movement, and the US civil rights movement. (1885-1967).
  38. Obituary: Flint Sitdowner: Olen Ham (1917-2012)
    Against The Current vol. 161
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Obituary for Olen Ham.
  39. Parent, Madeleine
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Trade unionist. (Born 1918).
  40. Parent, Madeleine
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Trade unionist. (Born 1918).
  41. Parrot, Jean-Claude
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Trade unionist. (Born 1936).
  42. Revolutionary Optimist 
    An interview with Martin Glaberman
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
  43. Rowley, Robert Kent
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Trade unionist. (1917-1978).
  44. Saint John, Vincent
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    American labour leader and prominent Wobbly. (1876-1929).
  45. Scargill, Arthur
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    British trade unionist and political party leader. (Born 1938).
  46. Thompson, E. P.
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    English historian, writer, socialist and peace campaigner (1924-1993).
  47. Walter Reuther, 'Social Unionist'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1996
    The book is full of self-serving quotations from Reuther and others that are accepted at face value. There is a very superficial understanding of the auto industry, of life in the union and on the shop floor, and of the left. The huge number of quotations and citations tends to conceal a high degree of inaccuracy and misunderstanding.
  48. White, Bob
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian trade unionist. (Born 1935).
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