From the Editorial Team
Wal-Mart’s Tale of Two Cities: from Bentonville to Shenzen
By Nelson Lichtenstein
Following the footprints of global capitalism’s signature corporation.
Immigration: The No-Man’s Land of American Politics
Immigration Reform: Too Hot to Handle
By Roger Waldinger
Republicans fight among themselves while some unions bed down with the Chamber of Commerce.
The War on Immigrants FULL TEXT
By Harold Meyerson
Get ready for a Republican assault, their opportunity for election year demagogy.
Young Workers are the Future of Organized Labor
By Kristen Kuriga
The workforce gets younger while union leadership ages.
Is the House of Labor Holding Firm on the Ground Floor
Pulling Together in North Carolina
By James Andrews
Local Ties Hold Strong in Oregon
By Tim Nesbitt
Organizing Takes a Hit in Cleveland
By John Ryan
Manufacturing Discontent
Is Deindustrialization Inevitable?
By Bob Baugh and Joel Yudken
What will it take to rebuild American manufacturing in the era of globalization?
The Uncertain Future of the American Auto Industry
By Jeffrey Rothstein
Outsourcing is only part of the reason for the decline of the Big Three.
A Corporation with a Conscience?
By Fred Block
A strategy for a socially responsible and labor-friendly corporation.
Working-Class Voices of Contemporary America
The View from Building 99
By Robert Andersen
The New Face of the Antiwar Movement
By Tod Ensign
Veterans, soldiers, and their working-class families confront the empire.
Caught in the Web FULL TEXT
By Kim Phillips-Fein
Labor news, views, and resources online.
Books and the Arts:
The Sweatshop Epidemic: Is There a Cure?
Slaves to Fashion: Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops
By Robert J.R. Ross
Monitoring Sweatshops: Workers, Consumers, and the Global Apparel Industry
By Jill Esbenshade
Globalization and Cross-Border Labor Solidarity in the Americas
By Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval
Reviewed by Richard Appelbaum
The Rise of Progressivism in L.A.
The Next Los Angeles: The Struggle for a Livable City
By Robert Gottlieb, Mark Vallianatos, Regina M. Freer, and Peter Dreier
Reviewed by David Halle
Can Worker Centers Fill the Union Void?
Suburban Sweatshops: The Fight for Immigrant Rights
By Jennifer Gordon
Worker Centers: Organizing Communities at the Edge of the Dream
By Janice Fine
Reviewed by Steve Early
“Wal” of Shame
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
Directed by Robert Greenwald
Reviewed by Gordon Lafer
China’s New Female Proletariat
Made in China: Women Factory Workers in a Global Workplace
By Pun Ngai
Reviewed by Eileen Boris, with an interview with Pun Ngai.
Making the Poor Visible
Poor Workers’ Unions: Rebuilding Labor From Below
By Vanessa Tait
Reviewed by Beth Shulman
Blue-Collar Joke
Blue Collar TV
Bahr/Small Productions and Parallel Entertainment with Riverside Productions
Reviewed by Anna McCarthy
Poetry
Letters
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