Class Unconsciousness: Stop Using “Middle Class” to Depict the Labor Movement
George Orwell thought the precise and purposeful deployment of our language was the key to the kind of politics we
Read MoreGeorge Orwell thought the precise and purposeful deployment of our language was the key to the kind of politics we
Read MoreAs unions gear up for the election of 2012, they should take a lesson from the electoral contests of 2008 and 2010.
Read MoreFour nights before the first tent went up in Zuccotti Park, an election official in New Haven, Connecticut began to
Read MoreThe current economic crisis has brought three decades of labor’s weaknesses to a head. What should have been a turning
Read MoreAfter years of laboring in relative obscurity, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has recently become the target of frenzied
Read MoreBy Clare L. Stacey Cornell University Press, 2011 Reviewed by Jeanne Bryner The Obama administration is negotiating a new trade
Read MoreBy Ross Perlin Verso Books, 2011 Reviewed by Joe Berry Of all the literature produced on the casualization of the workforce
Read MoreFor more than two years, the rates of long-term unemployment have been historically high. Even as the overall unemployment rate
Read MoreBy Joseph A. McCartin Oxford University Press, 2011 Reviewed by Wade Rathke When we started an independent union with the
Read MoreEdited by Anita Chan ILR Press, 2011 Reviewed by Scott N. Paul Americans have well-developed views about Walmart, which has changed the
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