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Winter 2012 Table of Contents

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From the Editorial Team

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

On the Contrary
Earth to Labor: Economic Growth Is No Salvation
By Sean Sweeney

The Assault from the Right
Tea Party America and the Born-Again Politics of the Populist Right
By Darren Dochuk
The unholy marriage of economic and Christian fundamentalism.

The Right-to-Work Offensive: Tracking the Spread of the Anti-Union Virus
By Peter Rachleff
What used to be a peculiar Southern institution is threatening to go national.

The Feminization of Austerity
By Mimi Abramovitz
Women are the frontline casualties in the war against the public sector.

Europe’s Political Nightmare: Why the Christian and Social Democratic Parties Have Surrendered to the Bond Market
By Jordan Stancil
Europe’s political establishment turns a deaf ear to mass street protests against austerity.

What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Jobs: The Continuing Scandal of African-American Joblessness
By Andy Kroll
In good times and bad, black unemployment has remained disproportionately high.

Let’s Talk About the Jobs Gap: A Response to Andy Kroll
By Arlene Holt Baker

Mobilizing the Unorganized: Is "Working America" the Way Forward?
By Amy Dean
Exploring alternative strategies for rebuilding the House of Labor.

Florence Kelley: Pioneer of Labor Reform
By Peter Dreier
Working-Class Voices of Contemporary America
Working on the Railroad, Walking in Beauty: The Voices of Navajo Railroad Workers
By Jay Youngdahl

Economic Prospects
By Robert Pollin

Roots of Rebellion
By Peter Dreier and Chuck Collins
A guide to insurgencies from coast to coast.

In the Rearview Mirror
By Steve Fraser and Joshua B. Freeman
Revisiting the past to illuminate the present.

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

Books and the Arts
The Future Doesn’t Work
Someplace Like America:Tales from the New Great Depression
By Dale Maharidge (photographs by Michael S. Williamson)
Reviewed by Connie Schultz

Inside the Black Box
A Shameful Business: The Case for Human Rights in the American Workplace
By James A. Gross
Reviewed by Ellen Dannin

What Happens When Care Workers Enter the Marketplace?
Intimate Labors: Cultures, Technologies, and the Politics of Care
Edited by Eileen Boris and Rhacel Salazar Parreñas
Reviewed by Geraldine Gorman

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

Poetry

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