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Resources from the School of Labour include:
- Rights and Wrongs: Workplace Rights
and Responsibilities (facilitators'
manual for Employment Standards in Ontario,
1999)
- Proceedings: Prior Learning and Assessment Centres:
Who Needs Them? A Symposium on Community Models for
PLAR. Held at George Brown College, Toronto,
April 1999
- Never Too
Late: Interview
Strategies for Older Workers (video, 1996)
- Getting
the Credit You Deserve: Portfolio
Development for ESL Speakers (facilitators'
manual, 1995)
OUR FAVOURITE LINKS
1. The School of Labour’s partners and closely-linked community-based organizations
- Toronto and York Region Labour Council http://www.labourcouncil.ca/ Toronto’s central umbrella organization, with plenty of regularly updated info about labour issues and campaigns in the city
- Labour Education Centre http://www.laboureducation.org/ Labour Council’s educational project; courses and workshops and campaigns
- Centre for the Study of Education and Work, OISE/UT http://www.learningwork.ca/csew A progressive centre that researches work and working people, poverty, labour union issues and culture, and education
- Toronto Training Board http://ttb.on.ca/e/index.php An organization that monitors employment and training/education/apprenticeship
issues and needs in the city
- Office Workers Career Centre http://www.officeworkers.org/office/ A not-for-profit agency offering job search training and resources for laid-off office workers
- Advocates for Community-based Training and Education for Women (ACTEW) http://www.actew.org/
- Centre for Research on Work and Society, York University http://www.yorku.ca/crws/
- Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts Once a year, in May, the city explodes in artistic celebration of work and working people – and Mayworks organizes it!
- Our Times http://www.ourtimes.ca/ – Canada’s Independent Labour Magazine
- Times Change Employment Services for Women http://www.timeschange.org/ An agency offering assistance to women searching for work, career direction and strategies
- Workers Action Centre http://www.workersactioncentre.org/ An activist organization that helps workers get their workplace rights – contact them for assistance re unpaid wages, discrimination on the job, and other violations of workplace law
2. National and Provincial Federations of Labour
3. Unions in Canada
4. Labour Studies / Labour History Journals
(and magazines that sometimes carry Labour Studies content)
6. Labour Studies / Labour History Sites
7. Up-to-the-minute labour news
8. International labour sites
9. Labour Studies Programs
10. Progessive Media, E-zines and journals
- Dissent magazine
- Labor Notes US organization working on restoring democracy to unions since 1979, connected to Labor News Wire, which is updated every 15 minutes
- Mojo Wire, Mother Jones, US investigative magazine since 1976, named after the feisty pioneer labour organizer
- New Internationalist http://www.newint.org/ -- a gorgeous site from the magazine, packed with global info and links to action sites for teachers, students and the community
- Our Times http://www.ourtimes.ca/ – Canada’s Independent Labour Magazine
- Rabble.ca http://rabble.ca/ A huge Canadian site with articles, columns, podcasts and even an etiquette column!
- Red Pepper http://www.redpepper.org.uk/ – a very cool and smart British based e-journal “spicing up politics”
- Seven Oaks http://www.sevenoaksmag.com/ A Vancouver magazine of “politics, culture and resistance”(takes its name from the Manitoba battle of Seven Oaks in 1816 between the Metis and the British colonialists)
- Spacing -- http://www.spacing.ca/ A wise and thoughtful Toronto site devoted to improving public spaces – in the political, social and cultural environment
- The Straight Goods -- Canadians informing Canadians
- This Magazine – Canadian pop culture, politics and the arts: a savvy site from the magazine that’s been going for over 40 years
11. Globalization
Corporate monitoring:
- Corporate Watch: monitors corporations actions, labour conditions and policies http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/
- McSpotlight: critical of McDonalds and its clones http://www.mcspotlight.org/
Philosophy behind Corporate Globalization:
Canadian Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO’s)
Global Financial Institutions and Agreements pushing neoliberalism:
Alternatives to Corporate Globalization:
- Alliance for Responsible Trade: information on A People’s Trade Agreement http://www.art-us.org/Peoples_Trade
- Common Frontiers: A Canadian organization that brings together people from many sectors to fight against globalization and deep economic integration in the Americas; lots of valuable info http://www.commonfrontiers.ca/
- Re: the Trilateral Commission (international business interests): a bit extreme, but with good links http://www.trilateral.org/about.htm
12. LGBTQQ and Positive Space sites
13. Activism! Community and Social Justice Organizations
- Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives http://www.policyalternatives.ca/ An independent, non-partisan research institute concerned with issues of social and economic justice
- No One is Illegal – works against immigration policies that restrict access to services and citizenship and that increase poverty globally and locally http://toronto.nooneisillegal.org/
- Centre for Social Justice A progressive think tank that aims to narrow the gap between rich and poor, and to reduce corporate domination.
- Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO) a community legal clinic dedicated to giving legal info to low-income and disadvantaged people in Ontario
- The Council of Canadians - http://www.apc.org/ Canada’s largest citizens’ organization; valuable info re anti-globalization campaigns and issues
- Institute for Work and Health
- Justice for Migrant Workers www.justicia4migrantworkers.com
- The Growing Gap http://www.growinggap.ca/
- The Polaris Institute http://www.polarisinstitute.org/ A Canadian think tank founded in 1996 to give community groups and individuals the tools to re-skill themselves in the fight for social justice
- Web Networks Community 3500+ Canadian activists, artists and non-profit organizations, and non-profit internet provider http://community.web.net/
- Sweatgear-- making the links between our clothes and sweatshops here and abroad
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