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Below are groups and resources (books, articles, websites, etc.) related to this topic. Click on an item’s title to go its resource page with author, publisher, description/abstract and other details, a link to the full text if available, as well as links to related topics in the Subject Index. You can also browse the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, LoC, and Format indexes, or use the Search box. Results22 Connexions Library2 Connexions Directory of Groups & Websites 2 Sources Experts & Spokespersons 1 From the Connexions Archives Connexions LibraryDas Capital, Volume 1: A Critical Analysis of Capitalist Production  Marx, Karl Book 1867 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, ... Common Sense for Hard Times: The Power of the Powerless to Cope with Everyday life and Transform Society in The Nineteen Seventies Brecher, Jeremy; Costello, Tim Book 1976 Presents a vision of society as it is and as it could be. Putting the problems of contemporary daily life in historical perspective, it reveals that they have their roots in the way our society is org... Connexions Library: Work Focus Page Website 2009 Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on work. Eight-Hour Day at the Party Congress Luxemburg, Rosa Article 1899 The legal eight-hour day is one of the demands on our minimal program. i.e., it is the very least minimum of social reform which we, as representatives of the workers’ interests, must demand and expec... Falling Behind: The State of Working Canada, 2000 Jackson, Andrew, Robinson, David, Baldwin,Bob, Wiggins, Cindy Book 2000 An accessible collation of data and analysis, analyzed from a progressive perspective, about the social and economic realities of working people in Canada. Forced to Love the Grind: Passion is the new workplace requirement - and one that should be resisted Tokumitsu, Miya Article 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... Get a Life!: How to make a good buck dance around the dinosaurs and save the world while you're at it Roberts, Wayne; Brandum, Susan Book 1995 Simultaneoulsy a textbook on new careers and lifestyles for aspiring entrepreneurs and a strategy for social, economic and environmental renewal. Glaberman, Martin - Writings - Index Glaberman, Martin Article Writings of Martin Glaberman (1918-2001). In Praise of Idleness Russell, Bertrand Book 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.
Nine-Hour Movement: Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia Article Was an international workers' attempt to secure shorter working days. Part-time Paradox: Connecting Gender, Work and Family Duffy, Ann; Pupo, Norene Book 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 w... Pay Cheques & Picket Lines: All About Unions in Canada MacKay, Claire; Illustrated by Peters, Eric Book 1987 A children's book which explains what unions are, how they came to be, and why they exist. The Road to Wigan Pier Orwell, George Book 1937 George Orwell's investigation of an English working class community in the 1930s. Strike!: The True History of Mass Insurgence from 1877 to the Present Brecher, Jeremy Book 1972 A history-from-below that brings to light strikes as authentic revolutionary movements against the establishments of state, capital, and trade unionism. When workers' own time begins Lin, Htun Article 2015 Marx took a long view of realizing freedom in a positive sense. Capitalism, in Marx’s day, used up three generations of workers in a single generation of working days without time limits. The struggle... Work Overload: Time for a Union Strategy Hurley, Michael; Gindin, Sam Article 2015 Talk to workers in any sector, in any workplace and sooner or later they’ll get to their frustrations with their ever-increasing workloads: ‘I’m struggling’, they’ll lament to fellow workers or anyone... Working Hours Viale, Guido 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. Connexions Directory of Groups & WebsitesBreak Their Haughty Power Articles on capitalism, socialism, and revolution, from a left-Marxist perspective. Marxists Internet Archive Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
Sources Experts & SpokespersonsFrom the Connexions ArchivesMarxists Internet Archive Website Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable. |
