Injured Workers Community Legal Clinic (IWC) has developed its library collection over 40 years’ of community work. These resources support and record the Clinic’s activities to improve Ontario’s workers’ compensation system and address injured worker poverty through casework, law reform, research and education.
Our collection
Submissions, research papers, and publications document changes to compensation legislation, policy and services. The effect of these changes on the injured worker, often in the worker’s own words, is gathered from many sources: workshops and conferences, public consultations and hearings, injured worker groups, media investigations and coverage, participatory action projects, lobbying and advocacy activities, oral histories & personal accounts recorded in photos, poems and song. This material, in a wide range of formats (printed, online, graphic, audiovisual and artefact), is a valuable part of the historical record of Ontario’s injured worker movement.
Search our collection in the IWC Library online catalogue; use the thesaurus to help find your topic by subject term.
Archival material on the injured workers’ movement and workers’ compensation, as well as new material, is continually being added. A digitization project, also funded by the Foundation, lets us make many of these publications available in full-text through the catalogue.
The library is open to external users by appointment:
Injured Workers Community Legal Clinic
815 Danforth Ave, Suite 411
Toronto, ON M4J 1L2
phone: 416-461 2411
lib.iwcclinic@gmail.com