Spring 2010 Contents
From the Editorial
Team
Under the Radar
By Ben Becker
Unreported and
under-reported news and views that matter.
On the Contrary
Identity Politics:
A Zero-Sum Game
By Walter Benn
Michaels
Identity Politics:
Part of a Reinvigorated Class Politics
By Alethia Jones
Reindustrializing America: A Proposal for
Reviving U.S. Manufacturing and Creating Millions of Good Jobs
By Robert Pollin and Dean Baker
Economic planning with public-private
investment in infrastructure and renewable energy is the road to recovery.
Exploring the Inland
Empire: Life, Work, and Injustice in Southern California’s Retail Fortress
By Nicholas Allen
Is it possible to
break the global supply chain’s strongest link?
Is Conventional Trade
Unionism Obsolete?
An Injury to All:
Going Beyond Collective
Bargaining as We Have Known It
By Stephen
Lerner
A
strategy for seizing labor’s historic opportunity.
Why the Labor Movement Is Not a Movement
By Richard Sullivan
Trade
unionism is not a synonym for the labor movement.
Strike!: Why Mothballing
Labor’s Key Weapon Is Wrong
By Joe Burns
Labor’s numerical
weakness does not mean it can’t shut down the shop.
Vietnam at the
Crossroads: Labor in Transition
By Gregory Mantsios
Will Vietnam’s embrace
of market capitalism force its labor movement to reinvent itself?
In the Rearview
Mirror
By Steve Fraser and
Joshua B. Freeman
Caught in the Web
By Liza Featherstone
Books and the Arts
Paradise Lost
Nice Work If
You Can Get It: Life and Labor in Precarious Times
By Andrew Ross
Reviewed by John Russo
Picture This!
Agitate!
Educate! Organize!: American Labor Posters
By Lincoln
Cushing and Timothy W. Drescher
Reviewed by Peter Rachleff
Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise
Blue-Green
Coalitions: Fighting for Safe Workplaces and Healthy Communities
By Brian Mayer
Never Good
Enough: Health Care Workers and the False Promise of Job Training
By Ariel Ducey
Reviewed by Charley Richardson
Lessons in Labor Solidarity
Condensed
Capitalism: Campbell Soup and the Pursuit of Cheap Production in the Twentieth
Century
By Daniel Sidorick
Forced to Be
Good: Why Trade Agreements Boost Human Rights
By Emilie M. Hafner-Burton
Reviewed by Tim Beaty
Out of the
Mainstream: Books and Films You May Have Missed
By Matt Witt
Poetry
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