Feminist research reveals that many unions remain dominated by men and are still characterised by highly masculine policies, structures, cultures and practices. Trade unions were originally established as a collective response by working people...

The labour movement or labor movement is a broad term for the development of a collective organization of working people, to campaign in their own interest for better treatment from their employers and political governments, in particular through the...

For many years unions affiliated to the Canadian Labour Congress have played a central role in supporting struggles across the spectrum of the progressive Left. On a wide variety of issues, including free trade, the WTO, choice, disarmament, gay rights and public pensions,...

You don't have to look far to see signs of a labour movement that is floundering. Numerically unions are holding their own, but they remain unable to make significant inroads into most parts of the service sector. Electorally unions are all over the...

Explores the history of the American Labor movement. Compares the status of American workers past and present.

A look at the successes and shortcomings of organized labor in regard to improving worker conditions during the last quarter of the nineteenth century.