New Labor Forum, Vol. 17 #2,

  Summer 2008 issue

FROM THE EDITORIAL TEAM

Women, The Working Poor, and the New Labor Movement:

The Wages of Exclusion: Low-Wage Work and Inequality

By Heather Boushey and Shawn Fremstad

How a new measure of low wages can generate pressure to raise living standards.

Low-Wage Women Workers: A Profile

By Stephanie Luce and Eve Weinbaum

Who are they? Where do they work? Are they the labor movement’s future?

Labor on the Home Front: Unionizing Home-Based Care Workers

By Eileen Boris and Jennifer Klein

Home-based health and child care workers are the pioneers of the new labor movement.

Will the Followers Be Led? Where Union Members Stand on Immigration

By Roger Waldinger

When it comes to immigration, union members don’t buy the party line.

The Perfect Storm of Campaign 2008

By Steve Fraser

Will war, depression, and the implosion of the Republican Party make 2008 a year to remember?

Lean Times: The UAW Contract and the Crisis of Industrial Unionism in the Auto Industry

By Jeffrey S. Rothstein

A two-tier workforce underscores the weakness of the UAW. Is the union out of options?

Global Labor Organizing

Mapping the Future: Cross-Border Unionizing Strategies

By Jay Youngdahl                     

A global survey of transnational labor organizing.

 

The Steelworkers Union Goes Global

By Ruth Needleman

American steelworkers are forming international alliances to confront global conglomerates.

 

No Sweat? Corporate Social Responsibility and the Dilemma of Anti-Sweatshop Activism

By Jeff Ballinger

How the mechanisms created to eliminate sweatshops have backfired.

The Sound of One Hand Clapping: Labor’s Silence on Union Media Democracy

By Martin Fishgold

Why is the labor press so closed off to dissenting views?

Working-Class Voices of Contemporary America:

Agencia de Empleos: Three Days in the Life of a Temporary Worker

By David Van Arsdale

A personal journey through the tough realities of temp work.

Economic Prospects

By Robert Pollin

Caught in the Web

By Kim Phillips-Fein

Labor news, views, and online resources.

Books and the Arts

(Mis)Understanding the White Working-Class

Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War

By Joe Bageant

Reviewed by Jack Metzgar

The Reel Watts

Killer of Sheep

Directed by Charles Burnett

Reviewed by Peter Rachleff

Leave the Driving to Us

Taxi! Cabs and Capitalism in New York City

By Biju Mathew

Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization, and the UPS Strike

By Deepa Kumar

Reviewed by Steve Early

Out of the Mainstream: Books and

Films You May Have Missed

By Matt Witt

Poetry

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