Volume 14, Issue 2
Summer 2005
From the Editorial Team
Labor at the Crossroads
Labor Pains: Eight Simple Rules
By Jonathan Tasini
A score card for the upcoming AFL-CIO convention.
Is This the Second Coming of the CIO?
By Jack Metzgar
The analogy may be a false one, but it has stirred up a crucial debate within labor.
What Is Labor’s True Purpose? The Implications of SEIU’s Unite to Win Proposals for Organizing
By Kate Bronfenbrenner
How useful are the Unite to Win proposals on the key organizing questions?
Labor’s Future in the Imperial Age
By Juan Gonzalez
Will labor’s reformers confront the empire?
Airborne Distress: How Can Labor Recover in the Airline Industry?
By Thomas Kochan, Andrew von Nordenflycht, Robert McKersie, and Jody Hoffer Gittel
Options for rebuilding airline-labor relations.
A Response to “Airborne Distress” from the International Association of Machinists
By Robert Roach, Jr. and Beth Almeida
A Response to “Airborne Distress” from the Association of Flight Attendants, CWA, AFL-CIO
By Patricia A. Friend
Taking on Wal-Mart
Leveraging Labor’s Revival: A Proposal to Organize Wal-Mart By Wade Rathke
Why organizing Wal-Mart should be priority number one.
Hoisted By Its Own Petard: Organizing Wal-Mart’s Logistics Workers
By Edna Bonacich
Wal-Mart’s Achilles heel is its global logistics chain.
The Working-Class Voices of Contemporary America
Cotton Clouds: Working-Class Life in Williamsburg, Brooklyn
By Nelly Rosario
Women’s Power Is Union Power: Banana Worker Unions in Latin America
By Dana Frank
The new gender politics of Latin America’s banana unions.
Conservative Mythology: The Axis of Good
By Ira Chernus
Bush’s success lies in knowing how to repackage the frontier myth.
Caught in the Web
By Kim Phillips-Fein
Labor news, views, and resources online.
Books and the Arts
The Comic Primer on Global Capitalism
How to Succeed at Globalization: A Primer for the Roadside Vendor
By El Fisgon et al.
Reviewed by Kent Worcester
Monsters, Inc.
The Corporation
Directed by Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott
Reviewed by Jefferson Cowie
AlieNation
Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America
By Mae Ngai
Reviewed by Ruth Milkman
The Promise of the Living Wage Campaign
Fighting for a Living Wage
By Stephanie Luce
Reviewed by Heather Boushey
Black Political Thought: A Lens on Liberalism
Black is a Country
By Nikhil Singh
Reviewed by Phil Thompson
Autobiography of a Union Democrat
Rebels, Reformers, and Racketeers: How Insurgents Transformed the Labor Movement
By Herman Benson
Reviewed by Paul Buhle
Poetry
Letters
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