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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

Winter 2011 Table of Contents

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Under the Radar
By Ben Becker
Unreported and under-reported news and views that matter.

On the Contrary

We Can't Go Home Again: Why the New Deal Won't Be Renewed
By Jefferson Cowie

Out of the Smoke and the Flame: The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and Its Legacy

Why No Fire This Time?: From the Mass Strike to No Strike
By Stephen Pimpare
Exploring the limits of resistance since the days of the Triangle Fire.

From the Triangle Fire to the BP Explosion: A Short History of the Century-Long Movement for Safety and Health
By Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner
Is the glass half empty or half full?

Feminism and the Labor Movement: A Century of Collaboration and Conflict 
By Eileen Boris and Annelise Orleck
Is the feminization of the labor movement an indicator of its decline or a harbinger of its renewal?

The Rag Trade as the Canary in the Coal Mine: The Global Sweatshop, 1980-2010  
By Robert J.S. Ross
Garment manufacturing as the vanguard of the rearguard.

A Twenty-First Century Organizing Model: Lessons from the New York Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Campaign
By Ai-jen Poo
What does the triumph of Domestic Workers United mean for the future of the labor movement?

Immigration Reform: Two Proposals

Citizens of the Global Economy: A Proposal to Universalize the Rights of Transnational Labor
By Jennifer Gordon

Neither Walls Nor Open Borders: A New Approach to Immigration Reform  
By Rodolfo O. de la Garza

Land of the Open Shop:  The Long Struggle to Organize Silicon Valley
By David Bacon
Why the organizing drives and victories of the 1980s and 1990s proved so abortive.

Working-Class Voices of Contemporary America

Survival in the Shadows
By Neure Clarke

Economic Prospects
By Robert Pollin

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

Caught in the Web
By Liza Featherstone
Labor news, views, and resources online.

Books and the Arts  

Homeless in Academe
A Carpenter’s Daughter: A Working-Class Woman in Higher Education
By Renny Christopher
Reviewed by Nicholas Coles

Demythologizing Mexican Immigration
Clandestine Crossings: Migrants and Coyotes on the Texas-Mexico Border
By David Spener
Reviewed by Mary Romero

The Celluloid Economy
The American Ruling Class
Directed by John Kirby
The People Speak
Co-directed by Chris Moore, Anthony Arnove, and Howard Zinn
What’s the Economy for, Anyway?
Directed by David Batker and John de Graaf
Reviewed by Kathy M. Newman

To Work Is to Pray: Faith and Working-Class Resilience

Justified by Work: Identity and the Meaning of Faith in Chicago’s Working-Class Churches
By Robert Anthony Bruno
Charity in Truth (Caritas In Veritate)
By Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger)
Reviewed by Brian R. Corbin

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

Poetry

Letter to the Editors

About Our Contributors


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