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From the Editorial Team
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An Immodest Proposal: A New Architecture for the House of Labor
By Stephen Lerner
Is it time to dismantle the AFL-CIO as we know it?
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Advantage Labor: Global Logistics and Worker Power
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On the Waterfront: An Analysis of the ILWU Lockout
By Peter Olney
How the longshore workers’ union managed to hold the fort against Bush and his crony capitalists.
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Pulling the Plug: Labor and the Global Supply Chain
By Edna Bonacich
Globalized distribution systems give labor a strategic edge.
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Main Street versus Wall Street: Labor Confronts Corporate Fraud
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Knocking Down the Boardroom Door: Labor Takes on Enronization
By Ron Blackwell and Bill Patterson
The labor movement is pushing for corporate accountability.
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Chasing Corporate Badboys: California Labor to the Rescue
By Kirsten Spalding
How labor in California seized the moment to take on corporate fraud.
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Tales of a Worldcom Worker
Cara Alcantar interviewed by Kimberly Pfeifer
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Whom Do You Trust? Protecting Social Security from Wall Street
By Elliott Sclar
The stock market is about risk, not security.
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Features:
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Labor In a Time of War
By JoAnn Wypijewski
Excluded from power, the labor movement moves into opposition.
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Poem: Bushmaster Rap
By Michael Honey
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Is the Strike Dead? An Historical Look at the Future
By Peter Rachleff
No longer labor’s principle means of self-defense, is the strike still a potent weapon?
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Refugees from Utopia: No-Collar Workers and the Electronic Sweatshop
By Andrew Ross
The Internet industry was the ideal alternative workplace—or so its hi-tech employees thought.
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New Strategies:
Vive La France! Lessons from the French Healthcare System
By Frank Goldsmith
French citizens enjoy universal health coverage thanks to the labor movement.
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Books and the Arts
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Humanizing the Marketplace
The Elusive Quest for Growth: Economists’ Adventures and Misadventures in the Tropics By William Easterly
Globalization and Its Discontents By Joseph Stiglitz Reviewed by Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers
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Potholes on the Information Superhighway
No-Collar By Andrew Ross
Reviewed by Michael Bernstein
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A Cultural Impressario for the Working Class
Not For Bread Alone by Moe Foner
Reviewed by Carol Quirke-Radja
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Poets on Broadway
Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry Jam on Broadway
Directed by Stan Lathan
Reviewed by Dara Young
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