Perspectives on César Chávez and the Farm Workers Movement
Trampling Out the Vintage: César Chávez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers By Frank Bardacke Verso, 2011
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Fall 2012
ECONOMIC PROSPECTS
Getting Real on Jobs and the Environment: Pipelines, Fracking, or Clean Energy? President Obama’s 2009 economic stimulus program—the American Recovery
Read MoreThe Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: A Labor Day Assessment of the Past Year
On Labor Day 2011, things looked bleak for the U.S. labor movement. More than forty-five thousand Verizon workers had gone
Read MoreThree Poems by Natasha Trethewey
Kitchen Maid with Supper at Emmaus, or The Mulata —after the painting by Diego Velàzquez, ca. 1619 She is the
Read MoreTo Be Young and Unemployed
Millions of workers are struggling with joblessness, economic inequality has been rising over the past thirty years, and large swaths
Read MoreIN THE REARVIEW MIRROR
Barbarism and Progress: The Story of Convict Labor Sweatshop labor is back with a vengeance. It ranges across broad stretches
Read MoreLessons from The Right’s Attacks on Acorn And Planned Parenthood
In recent years, ACORN and Planned Parenthood faced relentless attacks by Republicans, Tea Partiers, and the Religious Right. ACORN disappeared.
Read MoreFood Fight: The Politics of the Food Industry
The food movement has garnered much attention in the past decade and has been both lauded and derided for its
Read MoreThe Sigh of The Oppressed? Marxism and Religion in America Today
A 2008 survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that more than half of Americans rank
Read MoreUnder The Radar
Anti-War Soldier Wins Conscientious Objector Status, Honorable Discharge on Moral Grounds U.S. Army Specialist and Iraq war veteran Daniel Birmingham
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