From the Editorial Team
The Health of the Nation: Labor, Business, and Health Care Reform
By Marie Gottschalk
While labor divides over health care policy, employers unite to pass the burden on to workers.
Global Unions: A Solution to Labor’s Worldwide Decline
By Stephen Lerner
A strategy for building global unions and why property services is a place to start.
Bad Jobs: The Overlooked Crisis in the Black Community
By Steven Pitts
Everyone talks about black unemployment, but it's time to do something about low wage jobs
The 2006 Immigrant Uprising: Origins and Future
By Kent Wong, Victor Narro, and Janna Shadduck-Hernández
Labor faces a historic opportunity to support an allied movement.
Steel Magnolias: Labor Allies with the Environmental Movement
By David Foster
The steel workers union and the Sierra Club decide economic prosperity and a healthy environment are inseparable.
Small Numbers, Big Power: The Paradox of the French Labor Movement
By Hélène Bouneaud
Despite the low density of the French labor movement, it remains a powerful force for social and political change. Here's why.
Color Blind: The French Labor Movement’s Occupational Disability
By Mark Kesselman
A response to Hélène Bouneaud.
An Emerging Chinese Labor Movement
By Brendan Smith, Jeremy Brecher, and Tim Costello
The pre-union phase of an independent labor movement is visible in China. Will it survive?
Subverting the Public Interest: Deregulation in the Telecommunications Industry
By Kenneth Peres
The fight to restore government regulation is vital to consumers as well as workers.
In the Hotels, Si Se Puede!
By David Bacon
Hotel workers prove their mettle and the hotel industry learns some lessons in hospitality.
Liar, Liar: The New Propaganda War Against Unions
By Esther Kaplan
The Center for Union Facts’ smear campaign is part of a broader assault on unions by private interests and the government. Why now?
Marching to a Distant Drum: Music is Universal, but Playing It Isn't
By Jay Schaffner
Globalization has hit the U.S. recording industry. How can the AFM reverse the resulting loss of jobs?
Economic Prospects
By Robert Pollin
Caught in the Web
By Kim Phillips-Fein
Labor news, views, and resources online.
Books and the Arts:
Serious Fun: Comics, Graphic Novels, and "The Labor Question"
Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels by Roger Sabin
Graphic Novels: Stories to Change Your Life by Paul Gravett
Masters of American Comics, edited by John Carlin, Paul Karasik, and Brian Walker
Reviewed by Kent Worcester
China: Way Station for Global Capital
Fast Boat to China: Corporate Flight and the Consequences of Free Trade—Lessons from Shanghai By Andrew Ross
Reviewed by Davis Davies
Shipwrecked: The Plight of Indian Salvage Workers
Shipbreakers
Directed by Michael Kot
Reviewed by Anita Palathingal
Out of the Mainstream: Books and Films You May Have Missed
By Matt Witt
Poetry
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