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  1. New!   Wounded Workers: The Politics of Musculoskeletal Injuries by Penney Kome. Paperback. $19.95. Published November 1998. Visit Penney Kome's website for more information on this book.

  2. Forging Business-Labour Partnerships : The Emergence of Sector Councils in Canada by Morley Gunderson, Andrew Sharpe. $65.00. Hardcover. Published. March 1998.

  3. The Workers' Revolt in Canada, 1917-1925 by Craig Heron. $65.00. Hardcover. Published December 1997.

  4. Employment and Wages in the Canadian Furniture Industry by Thomas W. McCormack. List Price: currently unknown. Hardcover. Published June 1997.

  5. North American Auto Unions in Crisis : Lean Production As Contested Terrain (Suny Series in the Sociology of Work) by William C. Green (Editor), Ernest J. Yanarella. $15.96. 20% off. Paperback. Published March 1996.

  6. Workers and Canadian History; Gregory S. Kealey; Paperback; $27.95. Published February 1996.

  7. Hard Lessons: The Mine Mill Union in the Canadian Labour Movement; by Mercedes Steedman (Editor), Peter Suschnigg (Editor), Kieter K. Buse; Paperback; $17.50. Published May 1995.

  8. For a Working Class Culture in Canada
    A Selection of Colin McKay's Writings on Sociology and Political Economy, 1897-1939

    Edited and Annotated by Ian McKay, with the assistance of Lewis Jackson

    Seafarer, poet, labour activist, short story writer, Christian, philosopher, journalist, political economist, cultural critic, and socialist -- Colin McKay (1876-1939) was all of these. From his boyhood on the South Shore of Nova Scotia, McKay went on to follow a restless, inquiring intellectual life in the North Atlantic world. Living at variuos times in Montreal, Saint John, Toronto, Glasgow, London, Paris, Halifax and Ottawa, he wrote hundreds of contributions for the literary, political and labour publications of his time, 125 of which are excerpted in this volume. This volume rediscovers a major Canadian working-class intellectual with significant insights into a broad range of 20th century social, economic and cultural issues.

    Canadian Committee on Labour History, 1996
    Paperback; 617 pages; C$29.95 [click on title for US price].

  9. Labour's Dilemma: The Gender Politics of Auto Workers in Canada, 1937-79 by Pamela Sugiman. Paperback. $13.50. Published November 1994.

  10. Women Challenging Unions : Feminism, Democracy, and Militancy by Linda Briskin, Patricia McDermott (Editor) Paperback. $20.95. Published November 1993.

  11. Toronto Workers Respond to Industrial Capitalism 1867-1892 by Gregory S. Kealey. Paperback. $24.95. Published August 1991.

  12. Union Management Relations in Canada by John C. Anderson, Morley Gunderson, Allen Ponak (Editor). Hardcover. $42.50. Published October 1989.

  13. Union Mergers and Small Unions in Canada Since 1967 Michele Mawhinney. Paperback. $20.00. Published September 1989.

  14. The Canadian Farmworkers' Union: Accomplishments, Strengths, Problems and Possibilities of an Organisation of Wage-Earning Rural Workers; E.M. Colbert; Paperback; $12.00. Published February 1988.

  15. Everything That Floats: Pat Sullivan, Hal Banks, and the Seamen's Unions of Canada by William Kaplan. Paperback. $14.95. Published May 1987.

  16. Union Sisters: Women in the Labour Movement by Linda Briskin (Editor). Paperback. $12.95. Published January 1984.

  17. Public Service Alliance of Canada: A Look at a Union in the Public Sector by Maurice Lemelin. Paperback. $8.35. Published June 1978.

  18. Cracking the Canadian formula: the making of the Energy and Chemical Workers Union by Wayne Roberts. Hardcover. Price information unavailable.