PROMISES, PROMISES: Assessing the Obama Administration’s Record on Labor Reform
The 2008 election cemented a Democratic congressional majority. Having helped elect Obama, labor had high expectations for the administration and
Read MoreThe 2008 election cemented a Democratic congressional majority. Having helped elect Obama, labor had high expectations for the administration and
Read MoreAs an academic beginning to engage with the labor movement, if there was one point on which everyone was clear, it was this: you absolutely, positively cannot get involved in the internal politics of the labor movement.
I disagree. If we are to study and work with labor at all, we almost inevitably are involved in its internal politics. Even if it were possible to avoid doing so, I don’t think it would be desirable.
Read MoreChina’s increasing presence in Africa has been the topic of many studies and publications in recent years. How Chinese businesses and investments on the continent impact African labor movements has, however, received little attention. Drawing on the findings of a ten-country study.
Read MoreWere You Born on the Wrong Continent?: How the European Model Can Help You Get a Life By Thomas Geoghegan New Press,
Read MoreThe Lost Tiki Palaces of Detroit By Michael Zadoorian Wayne State University Press, 2009 American Salvage By Bonnie Jo Campbell
Read MoreThe working-class movement in India can be traced to the late nineteenth century, when the country was still a British
Read MoreSubhashini Ali joined the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in 1969 and is now one of its Central Committee members. She
Read MoreIn the mad race to the bottom that has gripped American politics, no sector has been more targeted and maligned than the government and its employees. Buffeted by the shellacking the Democrats sustained in 2010—largely because of their failure to make a serious dent in the appalling jobs picture—in January 2011, President Obama announced a two-year federal-employee salary freeze.
Read MoreVolume 20 Issue 2 Table of Contents From the Editorial Team Under the Radar By Ben Becker Unreported and under-reported news
Read MoreMilton Rogovin photographed the people of the neighborhoods and workplaces most of us never enter. He didn’t use the language
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