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• Canada, a Working History

  Russell, Jason, 1968-

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  A history of all the types of work in the territory we call Canada.

• Working People in Alberta

  a History

  Finkel, Alvin, 1949-

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  This illustrated history of the varieties of workers in Alberta is ten years old, but still useful, especially in its visualizations.

• A New Kind of Union :

  Unifor and the Birth of the Modern Canadian Union /

  Wilson, Fred

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  Unifor is Canada’s largest private sector union with over 315,000 members. It’s also a very young union. This is a history of its first five years.

• Common Sense & a Little Fire

  Women and Working-class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965

  Orleck, Annelise,

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  Women have been a very important part of the labour movement in North America, as this history illustrates.

• Work

  the Last 1,000 Years

  Komlosy, Andrea,

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  This popular history account is a light overview of the ways people have done work over the past few centuries.

• Temp

  How American Work, American Business, and the American Dream Became Temporary

  Hyman, Louis, 1977-

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  Labour has become harder in America as good secure jobs have been eliminated in the name of "flexibility."

• From the Folks Who Brought You the Weekend

  An Illustrated History of Labor in the United States

  Murolo, Priscilla, 1949-

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  This history has pictures from the heyday of the American labour movement.

• A Collective Bargain

  Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy

  McAlevey, Jane

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  We spend most of our lives at work, and organizing those workplaces is one of our best paths towards a democracy that extends beyond the ballot-box.

• Cracked

  How Telephone Operators Took on Canada's Largest Corporation...and Won

  Roberts, Joan M.

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  This is a great story of the underdog winning against massive competition.

• Selling Sex

  Experience, Advocacy, and Research on Sex Work in Canada

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  Often discussion of workers leaves out sex workers, but this industry is a part of life for many people in Canada.

• Heavy Burdens on Small Shoulders

  The Labour of Pioneer Children on the Canadian Prairies

  Rollings-Magnusson, Sandra, 1960-

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  Child labour is a part of Canadian history, which we do well to remember.

• Decolonizing Employment

  Aboriginal Inclusion in Canada's Labour Market

  MacKinnon, Shauna, 1961-

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  Indigenous people have been working in what is now Canada for a very long time. This book investigates how settler society includes and excludes them in late-stage capitalism.

• Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell)

  My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement

  McAlevey, Jane

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  A memoir of a labour activist in the twenty-first century.

• No Labour, No Battle

  Military Labour During the First World War

  Starling, John, 1957-

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  War requires labour beyond killing, and this book examines how that support work happened a century ago.

• Masters and Servants

  The Hudson's Bay Company and Its North American Workforce, 1668-1786

  Stephen, Scott P., 1972-

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  The Hudson's Bay Company is one of the oldest companies in the world, and this book examines who worked for it in North America 300 years ago.

• Bullshit Jobs /

  Graeber, David

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  So many jobs are pointless and tedious and soul-sucking. Graeber examines the phenomenon through case histories and tries to figure out why work is this way.

• Woody Guthrie Songbook

  Guthrie, Woody, 1912-1967

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  Woody Guthrie songs champion workers and the little people fighting against bosses.

• Farmer Duck

  Waddell, Martin,

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  When the human farmer is lazy and exploitative of the labour of duck, the farm animals support her and they have a revolution. This is probably the best most hopeful story on this list.