Student research resources
Organizations, videos and more
BC labour organizations
BC labour history
- BC Labour Heritage Centre
Offers summer walking tours in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside - Pacific Northwest Labor History Association
Child labour
Corporate crime
- Corporate Watch - Holding Corporations Accountable
- Plunder: The Crime of our Time: Watch the trailer
Directed by Danny Schecter, USA, 2010, 100 minutes
Plunder: The Crime of Our Time explores how the financial crisis was built on a foundation of criminal activity, uncovering the connection between the collapse of the housing market and the economic catastrophe that followed. It argues that the wrong doing committed by a few individuals distracts from the real story, implicating the institutions that financed and profited from fraudulent sub prime lending. These firms recklessly put trillions of dollars and the world economy at risk.
Health & safety
International
- International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC):2010 survey of trade union rights violations around the world.
Survey in full
Video on the Survey: Press release on Africa / Asia and Pacific / Europe / Middle East / Americas - International Banana Trade
The site explores the injustices of the international banana trade and broader issues surrounding free trade. Use the following link to access several short leaflets on a variety of topics including women in the banana trade and the environmental impact of bananas.
- Labour Solidarity Centre
- Slavery and Forced Labour:
Human Rights Education and Training Centre
Global Slave Trade - International Labour Organization
Labour & the green economy
- Toronto and York Labour Council - Environment and the Green Economy
Social movements
Unions in Canada
- Canadian Labour Congress (CLC)
- Ontario Federation of Labour - Young Workers' Assembly
The site contains links to documents, resources and websites on young workers’ rights and organizing a union.
Wages
- B.C. Fair Wages Commission Web Library (2017)
- Government of BC, Ministry of Labour, Employment Standards, Minimum Wage Fact Sheet
- Saskatchewan Union of Nurses: Fact Sheet on Minimum Wage
- The Living Wage for Families Campaign
The Living Wage for Families Campaign is guided by an Advisory Committee of representatives from community organizations and other partners and supporters in Metro Vancouver.
Women & gender issues
- Ontario Federation of Labour Library
This virtual library of OFL materials deals with the labour movement and women.
- Equality once and for all! A Campaign for Women’s Economic Equality (English/French)
Workshop materials, a series of catchy short fact sheets, and background research documents from the Canadian Labour Congress campaign are posted on this website. Topics include child care, pensions, young women, the role of unions and more.
Special topics
SFU library resource guide for Labour Studies
SFU Liaison Librarian, Moninder Lalli
moninder_lalli@sfu.ca