Canadian Labour Education and History: Information and Resources

Athabasca University Digital Reference Centre
This site has been designed specifically for Athabasca University students. It provides access to a wide variety of online resources including e-journals, e-books, historical documents, and much more.

Canadian Committee on Labour History
This site provides information about the Canadian Committee on Labour History and its various publications including the journal Labour/Le Travail.

Canadian Labour History Bibliography
This site provides a comprehensive bibliography of materials related to Canadian labour and working-class history.

Canadian Labour History, Canadian Museum of Civilization
This site traces the history of Canadian labour. Its aim is to show how labour unions have served their members while forcing broader reforms in Canada.

Guide to Canadian Labour History Resources, Library and Archives of Canada
This selective guide focuses on the major reference works and collections housed in the National Library of Canada as well as on the major resources in the National Archives of Canada and in Human Resources Development Canada’s Library.

Union Learning
An online supplement to the book Union Learning: Canadian Labour Education in the Twentieth Century. This site offers video clips, audio clips, and photographs that illustrate the history of Canadian labour education.

Workers Arts and Heritage Centre
The Workers Arts and Heritage Centre preserves and celebrates the arts, culture, and heritage of working people in Canada. It is located in the historic Customs House in Hamilton, Ontario, and its travelling exhibits and research projects help to inform all Canadians.

American Labour Education and History: Information and Resources

American Labour History: An Online Study Guide
This is a useful portal to various sources of information on American labour history.

International Labour Education and History: Information and Resources

International Association of Labour History Institutions
The International Association of Labour History Institutions. Web site provides access to the archives, libraries, document centres, and various research institutions from organizations around the world that specialize in the history and theory of labour movements. The site contains a Web museum that highlights material contained in the visual collections of various labour history museums.

International Institute of Social History
The International Institute of Social History (IISH) was founded in 1935. It is one of the world’s largest documentary and research institutions in the field of social history in general, and in the history of the labour movement in particular.

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