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From the Editorial Team
Open Borders? A Debate
If Not Now, When?
By Dan La Botz
How an open borders initiative will lead to increased worker power and a more just world.
Not in Our Generation
By Ana Avendaño
An open borders policy may sound good in theory, but economic and political realities make it infeasible now.
Keep On Truckin’: The Supply Chain Motors Down the Low Road
By David Bensman
Destructive competition, deregulation, and de-unionization burdens port truckers, coastal communities, and the environment. I there hope on the horizon?
Strategies for Revitalizing the Labor Movement
Neutrality Agreements: Innovative, Controversial, and Labor’s Hope for the Future
By Richard Hurd
Employer neutrality agreements offer hope for more effective organizing, but are they always good for workers and unions?
Labor’s New Regional Strategy: The Rebirth of Central Labor Councils
By Amy Dean and David A. Reynolds
How a renewed focus on regional power building can re-energize the labor movement.
Adding Insult to Injury: Wal-Mart’s Workers Compensation Scam
By Ellen Rosen
An inside look at what happens when you get hurt working in Sam’s World.
Return to the Jungle: The Rise and Fall of Meatpacking Work
By Daniel Calamuci
How one of the best manufacturing jobs has become one of the worst.
Welfare to Work: A Debate
Welfare Reform: The Untold Story
By Robert Cherry
Welfare reform has provided the necessary push towards improving the lives of the poor.
Playing With Numbers: How to Make Welfare Reform Look Good
By Sanford Schram
Robert Cherry’s rosy view of welfare reform is based on selective evidence.
Wall Street vs. the Labor Movement
By Özgür Orhangazi
The financialization of the economy has hurt workers and created a dilemma for the labor movement.
From Baghdad to the Bayou: Neoliberalism and Democracy by Command
By Gordon Lafer
Bayonets and boondoggles leave Baghdad and New Orleans in ruins.
The Drive for Decent Work: A Big Step Toward Shared Prosperity
By Gertrude Goldberg and Helen Ginsburg
A proposal for eliminating the double deficits in decent jobs and public investments.
Economic Prospects
By Robert Pollin
Caught in the Web
By Kim Phillips-Fein
Labor news, views, and resources online.
Books and the Arts:
Politics and Religion
Reviewed by Brian Corbin
Rediscovering Abundance: Interdisciplinary Essays on Wealth, Income and Their Distribution in Catholic Social Tradition
HELEN ALFORD, OP, CHARLES M.A. CLARKE, S.A. CORTRIGHT, AND MICHAEL J. NAUGHTON, EDS.
Politics as Religion
BY EMILIO GENTILE
The Left Hand of God: Taking Back our Country from the Religious Right
BY MICHAEL LERNER
American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century
BY KEVIN PHILIPS
God's Politics, Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It: A New Vision for Faith and Politics in America
BY JIM WALLIS
Working Hard to Entertain You: The Discovery Channel Looks at Labor
Reviewed by Pepi Leistyna
Dirtiest Jobs, Miami Ink, American Chopper, Deadliest Catch
DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS
Hitting All the Wrong Notes
Reviewed by Rachel Rubin
Work Songs
By Ted Gioia
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2006
Out of the Mainstream: Books and Films You May Have Missed
By Matt Witt
Poetry
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