New Labor Forum, Vol. 17 #3,  Fall 2008 issue

TABLE OF CONTENTS

FROM THE EDITORIAL TEAM

Seizing the Moment: Labor at the Dawn of a New Political Order

A Legislative Agenda for the First 100 Days

By Bill Fletcher, Jr.

Eight priorities for emergency legislative action in the new year.

Foreclosing on the Free Market: How to Remedy the Subprime

Catastrophe

By John Atlas, Peter Dreier, and Gregory D. Squires

How high finance looted the poor, produced a recession, and expects working people to bail them out.

            Green-Collar Jobs, Industrial Policy, and a Society with a Future
By Bernard Marszalek

            Green-collar jobs may become the driving force behind a new and improved industrial economy.

The Latino Vote in 2008

By Rodolpho O. de la Garza

Latinos tend to vote as workers, not as an ethnic bloc.

Beyond the Mutual Backscratch: A New Model for Labor-Community Coalitions

By Amy Dean and Wade Rathke

The labor movement should re-commit to CIO-style coalition-building to transform regional political economies.

How Foreign-Owned Auto Plants Remain Union-Free

By Laurie A. Graham

Why is unionization such a foreign concept at foreign-owned auto transplants?

Working Alone: The Erosion of Solidarity in Today’s Workplace

By Charley Richardson

Modern management and technology undermine the collective experience.

Responses to Martin Fishgold’s “The Sound of One Hand Clapping: Labor’s Silence on Union Media Democracy”

By Fred Glass, Peter Hogness, and Esther Kaplan

Reply by Martin Fishgold

Is labor media dead? The debate continues.

Working-Class Voices of Contemporary America

Working-Class Soldier

By Perry O’Brien

An American paramedic weathers the Afghan war.

Economic Prospects

By Robert Pollin

Caught in the Web

By Kim Phillips-Fein

Labor news, views and resources online.

BOOKS AND THE ARTS

American Politics X: Polarization and Its Discontents

Reviewed by Robert Andersen

The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America

By Ronald Brownstein

            Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches

By Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole, and Howard Rosenthal

Red and Blue Nation?

Volume 1: Characteristics and Causes of America`s Polarized Politics

Volume 2: Consequences and Correction of America`s Polarized Politics

Edited by Pietro S. Nivola and David W. Brady

Reforming Global Sweatshop Reform

Reviewed by Jane Collins

Beyond the Boycott: Labor Rights, Human Rights, and Transnational Activism

By Gay W. Seidman

Unraveling the Garment Industry: Transnational Activism and Women’s Work

By Ethel Brooks

Textures of Struggle: The Emergence of Resistance among Garment Workers in Thailand

By Piya Pangsapa

Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone: Gender and Politics in Sri Lanka

By Sandya Hewamanne

Nursing the Wounds of Corporatization

Reviewed by Eileen Boris

Daring to Care: American Nursing and Second-Wave Feminism

By Susan Gelfand Malka

Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines

By Suzanne Gordon

Safety in Numbers: Nurse-to-Patient Ratios and the Future of Health Care

By Suzanne Gordon, John Buchanan, and Tanya Bretherton

Democratizing Labor from Within

Reviewed by Thomas Greven

U.S. Labor in Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform from Above, the Promise of Revival from Below

By Kim Moody

Out of the Mainstream: Books and Films You May Have Missed

By Matt Witt

Poetry

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