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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. Results38 Connexions Library1 Connexions Directory of Groups & Websites 1 From the Connexions Archives Connexions LibraryCommon 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: Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises Serial Publication (Periodical) 1981 Connexions Library: Labour and Unions Focus Website 2009 Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on labour and unions. Connexions Library: Organizing Focus Page Website Selected articles from the Connexions Online Library. Connexions Library: Work Focus Page Website 2009 Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on work. Fast food rights: organising the unorganised Sherry, Julie Article 2017 The experience from the examples of organising the unorganised both in the US and UK demonstrate that it is possible to develop union organisation; significant examples are discussed in this article, ... Go-slow guide: Instead of striking, workers with demands that the bosses are unwilling to meet can collectively decide to start a go-slow Article 2006 By deliberately slowing the rate of work, all together, the bosses' profits are hit, without workers losing wages. If everyone sticks together in solidarity victimisation of individuals can also be pr... Good work strike: Advice and tips on taking good work strikes Article 2006 Instead of a conventional strike, workers with demands that the bosses are unwilling to meet can collectively decide to have a good work strike. One of the biggest problems for service industry worke... Guide to sick-outs: Rather than call a conventional strike, the sick-in is a good way to strike without striking. Sick-ins involve organising workers to call in Article 2006 The idea is to cripple your workplace by having all or most of the workers call in sick on the same day or days. Unlike the formal walkout, it can be used effectively by single departments and work ar... The "Labor Aristocracy" and Working-Class Struggles: Consciousness in Flux, Part 2: Against The Current vol. 124 Post, Charles Article 2006 Whatever the theoretical and empirical problems with the economics of the labor aristocracy thesis, its defenders still claim that well paid workers have generally been more reformist and conservative... Lessons from small shop organizing Rinaldi, Lou Article 2013 A significant amount of organizing experience in the IWW comes from working in relatively small workplaces such as stand-alone single shops or franchises of multiple smaller shops. These places presen... Life After Death for Labor? Cohen, David Book 2015 A review of Stanley Aronowitz's book "The Death and Life of American Labor: Toward a New Workers’ Movement." Live Working or Die Fighting: How the Working Class Went Global Mason, Paul Book 2010 Mason realtes a series of struggles for worker and human rights over the past two hundred years and compares them to current struggles. Making the most of spontaneous rebellions at work: Advice on how to react when a big issue immediately angers a large number of people at your workplace Article 2006 It would be nice if we always had tested and trusted structures in place able to respond to unexpected situations at work. Unfortunately this doesn’t describe many workplaces where structures tend to ... Marx and Makhno Meet McDonald's Goldner, Loren Article 2005 Over the last several years, a revolving network of militants in Paris, France, have developed a strategy and tactics for winning strikes by marginal, low-paid, outsourced and immigrant workers agains... The New Worker Organizing Garvey, John Article 2013 Many, perhaps most, worker center–based organizing projects focused on workers in low-wage jobs, are conducted with the active support and, often enough, leadership provided by a variety of community-... Notes from the class struggle: small group workplace organising Steven Article 2009 This pamphlet aims to show what small groups and unions can achieve in workplace disputes. These examples and analyses of successful small-scale actions should prove instructive to workers in a variet... Organising at work - some basic principles: A list of what successful organisers say are the most important principles to remember Article 2006 Organising begins when people question authority. Someone asks, "What are they doing to us? Why are they doing it? Is it right?" Encourage people to ask, "Who is making the decisions, who is being for... Organising at work - the basics: A basic introduction on why we should organise at work, and a few tips on how to get started. Article 2006 Almost everyone in this society is underpaid and over-worked. Many temps, contract and casual workers have very few rights, and permanent workers are still always under the threat of redundancy. Many ... Organising your workplace - getting started: You're working, or just started work somewhere where there is no active collective workers' organisation. What can you do to get organised? Article 2006 Nowadays many workplaces have no active workers' organisation. Depending on whereabouts you are in the world and what sector you work in there may or may not be much of a trade union presence. And eve... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 12, 2015: Organizing Diemer, Ulli (editor); Khan, Tahmid (production) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2015 The focus of this issue is organizing. How can we challenge and overcome entrenched structures of economic and political power? Our own source of power is our latent ability to join together and work ... Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter June 26, 2017: Public Safety Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2017 The June 26, 2017 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter is about public safety. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 17, 2018: Hearts and Minds: How do People Change? Diemer, Ulli (ed.) Serial Publication (Periodical) 2018 How can we reach the millions we need to reach and engage if fundamental change is to happen? How can we accomplish the essential task of persuading a majority of the population that a fundamental soc... Out of the Driver's Seat: Marxism in North America Today Article 1974 Outlines the political perspective of the Windsor-based Labour Centre in the wake of divisions in the Centre in 1974. Issues explored include the nature of the working class, women in the working clas... Proletarian management: Informal workplace organization - Kämpa Tillsammans Article 2005 Interesting article about informal workplace organising, management tactics and suggestions for workers to build power on the job. Spanish Dock Workers Build Union Without Bureaucrats Fitz, Don Article 1989 Containerization has devastated port labor throughout the world. Spanish struggles over containerization have been unique becausea "socialist" government has spearheaded port reorganization and it has... Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights Gordon, Jennifer Book 2007 Jennifer Gordon discusses her years spent working with the organization she founded, the Long Island-based Workplace Project. A Troublemaker's Handbook: How to Fight Back Where You Work -- And Win! La Botz, Dan Book 1991 An organizing manual for workers dealing with both major issues and everyday problems in the workplace. A Troublemaker's Handbook 2 Slaughter, Jane (ed.) Book A manual for workers who want to take control over their lives at work. In hundreds of first-person accounts, workers tell in their own words how they organized and struggled to do that. Turning an issue into a campaign Friedman, Ellen David Article 2015 As an organizer, your goal is not just to help members solve their workplace problems but to help them build collective self-confidence and power. A campaign is just a series of steps that help people... What Would it Mean to Win? Turbulence collective Book 2010 Where is the movement today? Where is it going? Are we winning? The authors of the essays in this volume pose these and other momentous questions. The Whistle-Blower as Deep Mole: Spying on Malfeasance Macaray, David Article 2014 There’s an intriguing idea based loosely on the turn-of-the-century union practice of "salting" a workplace. Salting consists of union activists secretly hiring into an anti-union shop in order to pro... Work-to-rule: a guide: Taking industrial action without losing pay by following your work's rules so strictly that nothing gets done Article 2006 Instead of striking, workers with demands that the bosses are unwilling to meet can collectively decide to start a "work-to-rule". Almost every job is covered by a maze of rules, regulations, standing... Worker-Student Action Committees France May '68 Gregoire, R.; Perlman, F. Book 1969 An account of the May-June 1968 events in Paris. The authors state that "our intention is not to 'clarify' the sequence of events which took place in France in order to make possible a ritual repetiti... Working in Steel: The Early Years in Canada, 1883-1935 Heron, Craig Book 1988 Examines the huge steel plants that were built at the turn of the twentieth century in Sydney and New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, and Trenton, Hamilton, and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Emphasizes the importa... Workplace organising: A set of tips and advice guides for organising in your workplace Article 2006 A set of tips and advice guides for organising in your workplace. From basic principles and getting started, to making demands, taking action such as strikes, and winning them. Connexions Directory of Groups & WebsitesLibcom.org Resource for all people who wish to improve their lives, their communities and their working conditions. We want to discuss with one another, learn from experiences of the past and develop strategies ... From the Connexions ArchivesCleaners' Action Newsletter Periodical profile published 1979 Serial Publication (Periodical) 1979 Cleaner's Action is a monthly newspaper published in Portuguese, English and Spanish. |
