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Winter 2012 Edition

A Sneak Peek into New Labor Forum’s Spring 2012 issue:
Labor and Occupy Wall Street: An Appraisal of the First Six Months

David Montgomery, labor historian (1927-2011) Please click here to read David’s 1999 New Labor Forum article

Spring 2010 Contents

PDF Click here for PDF version of this Article


From the Editorial Team

Under the Radar
By Ben Becker

Unreported and under-reported news and views that matter.

On the Contrary
    Identity Politics: A Zero-Sum Game
    By Walter Benn Michaels

    Identity Politics: Part of a Reinvigorated Class Politics
    By Alethia Jones

Reindustrializing America: A Proposal for Reviving U.S. Manufacturing and Creating Millions of Good Jobs
By Robert Pollin and Dean Baker

Economic planning with public-private investment in infrastructure and renewable energy is the road to recovery.

Exploring the Inland Empire: Life, Work, and Injustice in Southern California’s Retail Fortress
By Nicholas Allen

Is it possible to break the global supply chain’s strongest link?

Is Conventional Trade Unionism Obsolete?
An Injury to All: Going Beyond Collective Bargaining as We Have Known It
By Stephen Lerner

A strategy for seizing labor’s historic opportunity.

Why the Labor Movement Is Not a Movement
By Richard Sullivan

Trade unionism is not a synonym for the labor movement.

Strike!: Why Mothballing Labor’s Key Weapon Is Wrong
By Joe Burns

Labor’s numerical weakness does not mean it can’t shut down the shop.

Vietnam at the Crossroads: Labor in Transition
By Gregory Mantsios

Will Vietnam’s embrace of market capitalism force its labor movement to reinvent itself?

In the Rearview Mirror
By Steve Fraser and Joshua B. Freeman

Caught in the Web
By Liza Featherstone

Books and the Arts

Paradise Lost
Nice Work If You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times
By Andrew Ross

Reviewed by John Russo

Picture This!
Agitate! Educate! Organize!: American Labor Posters
By Lincoln Cushing and Timothy W. Drescher

Reviewed by Peter Rachleff

Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise
Blue-Green Coalitions: Fighting for Safe Workplaces and Healthy Communities
By Brian Mayer

Never Good Enough: Health Care Workers and the False Promise of Job Training
By Ariel Ducey

Reviewed by Charley Richardson

Lessons in Labor Solidarity
Condensed Capitalism: Campbell Soup and the Pursuit of Cheap Production in the Twentieth Century
By Daniel Sidorick

Forced to Be Good: Why Trade Agreements Boost Human Rights
By Emilie M. Hafner-Burton

Reviewed by Tim Beaty

Out of the Mainstream: Books and Films You May Have Missed
By Matt Witt

Poetry

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